The 2023 live action version of The Little Mermaid opens, visually, very similar to the way the 1989 animated version does: On choppy waves, splashing back and forth over most of the screen. However, unlike the animated version , the 2023 opening has no sound. No gull cries, no cheerful piped opening tune, no dolphins gleefully jumping over the waves, only silence and the crashing of the...