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[Trogdor1123]

To me the issue is Disney's absurd insistence on live action remakes of all their animated movies.

Live action Snow White is not something that needed to happen. Like seriously you're gonna cast 7 midgets whose qualifying characteristic for the role is that they're a midget? And you thought that'd go well, especially in today's society?

Sure, do it without the dwarves lol let's see how that goes.

They do make like a billion dollars each though so I do kind of get it. I think they have all sucked though, all of them

 

[Kilau]

Life's Too Short to be upset about such things.

 

[AJUMP23]

It's been a while since I've read the "original" snow white story, but Disney probably added most of the dwarven bits people think of when they hear "Snow White" like their names and associated characteristics. The other elements (mirror, huntsman, poisoned apple) I believe are from the old story and are in the public domain. So if Disney does a new version that strips away their specific copywrited traits it's really no different than when Universal did "Snow White and the Huntsman" a few years back. Are they just going to be a multi-cultural multi-gendered band of forest people? Straight up fae or somesuch?

Maybe Disney should adapt fairy tales from other cultures instead of butchering the european ones that made them so famous. How long until Moana, Coco, Encanto, or Mulan are considered cultural appropriation full of problematic stereotypical representation?

What are they gonna do with that HUGE RIDE at WDW with those problematic dwarves?

Hi-HOOOOOO, I'm literally shaking right now

Good ride

 

[InfiniteCombo]

Why choose the Snow White story, then? Disney got the money and talent to make literally every film imaginable. If you can’ make it what it is and always has been, don’t. But as usual, these people want to eat their cake and have it too. It’ll be called “Snow White” so people recognize the name and want to see it, except it’ll be a very different thing and good money goes on that Snow not being white in the slightest.

If you think your story is problematic, you film another story. You don’t make the story something very different and call it the same.

This is exactly it, 100%. Spot on.

The current cultural movement is that all stories should be told with modern sensitivities. Which may be reasonable. But then, instead of trying to come up with NEW stories, they just take well established stories with name/brand recognition, and force-mold it to fit modern sensitivities.

That's a lose-lose approach. On the one hand, you're (not always, but often) lowering the quality of the original source material. On the other hand, you're sending a message that modern artists can't come up with good stories catered to modern audiences with modern sensitivities.

This is why I applaud something like Disney's Encanto. It's... Its own story (as far as I know). It's not "let's take an existing story and just give it a Latino coat of paint." Being its own story should be celebrated.

And even though I know he wasn't designed today, it's a similar concept with Black Panther. It wasn't "let's take a preexisting superhero and make him black." No, Black Panther has his own original story, original world, original characters. And it 100% deserves every bit of success it has gotten so far.

So, creators: stop taking preexisting stories and engaging in this lose-lose business. Yes, celebrate modern life, with all its variety and richness. But use your imagination to come up with NEW stories. If they are good, you'll be rewarded for it.

 

[Potato Chip PRO]

So who are they replacing Willow with in the sequel series?

Its like the Lord of the Rings without the Hobbits.

 

[darrylgorn]

Am I the only one who doesn't really give a shit? I mean, other than to reply to this thread to tell people I don't give a shit?

 

[strange headache]

For f*cks sake, Dwarves are their own race. They are not "small humans" so this makes no frikkin' sense!
I never even considered the Dwarves as a parodical take on people of short stature.

Also, here's the original introduction to Snow White:

Es war einmal eine schöne Königstochter, die hatte eine Haut so weiss wie Schnee, Lippen so rot wie Blut und Haare so schwarz wie Ebenholz. Deshalb wurde sie Schneewittchen genannt.

She is literally described as having pale skin as white as snow, lips as red as blood, and black hair as dark as ebony. It's the whole point why she's even cursed by the queen in the first place.
It's part of German folklore. I'm so sick of this crap, kindly piss off Disney and screw Hollywood for perverting every cultural heritage it can lay its greedy hands on.

 

[pesaddict]

little demon monkey cunt

 

[Fake]

Is Disney alright.

 

[Coolwhhip]

Am I the only one who doesn't really give a shit? I mean, other than to reply to this thread to tell people I don't give a shit?

There is a problem with your attitude though. The woke crowd eventually will get to things you do care about. It's only a matter of time.

 

[dorkimoe]

I mean, it would be kinda hard for him to not play a dwarf in any film he’s in. Man’s not exactly tall.

He didn’t play one in X-men. He’s playing a character literally called “the dwarf” but upset at Disney for using dwarf

 

[Lunarorbit]

Once upon a time has dwarves in it with snow white. It's on disney plus too cause it was an ABC show.

 

[Termite]

Whatever about the dwarves, I don't get the point of casting a Latina to play Snow White. The whole point of Snow White is that she was so pale and beautiful that the evil Queen was jealous. If you're not cool with paleness as a beauty privilege - what the feck are you doing remaking Snow White? Like, literally go remake anything else. Doesn't casting a darker skinned Latina in the role only call more attention to the fact that the main character is quite literally defined by her beautiful fair skin?

I say this as someone who could not give two shits about Snow White or who they cast - it just seems so backwards, so against their own diversity goal.

 

[GymWolf]

Wait, did they really casted a latina for snow white??

 

[plushyp]

I'd have some sympathy for him if it weren't for him being the typical condescending Hollywood clown who has been making out of touch comments for years. Stay in your lane as the court jester, Peter Dumblage.

 

[Amiga]

Guess no more dwarf character builds in RPGs. It's OK, I never liked them anyway(the builds not the dwarfs).

 

[CGiRanger]

So in this new age....

Elves are too White. Orcs are too Black. Dwarves are too.......dwarfish?

 

[Relique]

There is a problem with your attitude though. The woke crowd eventually will get to things you do care about. It's only a matter of time.

I could totally see not being able to have dwarfs or gnomes in fantasy video games in a few years because of people like this.

 

[Javthusiast]

Who even needs this new Disney movie when we have the superior version at home?

 

[darrylgorn]

Who even needs this new Disney movie when we have the superior version at home?

For every woke production, we need to create a porn counterpart.

 

[Coolwhhip]

For every woke production, we need to create a porn counterpart.

When do you think porn will go woke? Diversity hiring for BBC porn will be fun. Casting white dudes with small pps for those, its only fair.

 

[jason10mm]

When do you think porn will go woke? Diversity hiring for BBC porn will be fun. Casting white dudes with small pps for those, its only fair.

Porn, like sports, is about performance. Woke doesn't apply, just the results on the field (in the bed). See anyone complaining that NBA teams are not diverse enough?

Though I could see some ill-fated movement to mix transgender stuff in with cis actors "since they are all girls" or whatnot (this may already be the case, I don't watch porn, allegedly) but I suspect it will be a half-cocked attempt prematurely launched

 

[Javthusiast]

When do you think porn will go woke? Diversity hiring for BBC porn will be fun. Casting white dudes with small pps for those, its only fair.

Sjws actually complain about sites like Blacked etc, because it is stereotyping and selling a product of them being black, having a bbc and piping white women. xD

 

[OmegaSupreme]

Snow latinx and the seven people of small stature.

 

[O-N-E]

Without Snow White as well...

The closest we'll get is proly her being cursed to be in white-face and through the course of the movie she discovers the Latinx inside.

 

[jason10mm]

Eh, I'm less concerned about the ethnicity of the actress than I am about why even use "Snow White" if core concepts of the story will be altered. Will there stil be a wicked stepmom? Is the crux of the conflict their looks (I gotta think not). Does the stepmom assault Snow white? Is a prince the one that breaks the curse (I don't recall if this is specifically the case with the grimm version) or is she "strong gurlz good, don't need no help" [which in and of itself is an odd application of the 'male stoicism is bad' argument] and does it all herself?

Snow-white - Grimm

2025/01/17 Fairy tale: Snow-white - A fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm. It was the middle of winter, and the snow-flakes were falling like feathers from the sky, and a queen sat at her window working, and her embroidery-frame was of ebony. And as she worked, gazing at times out on the snow, she...

www.grimmstories.com

This version at least has the prince shaking White's coffin and dislodging the apple, curing her. Seems pretty clear though that she has 3 relevant physical traits and is HOT AS FUCK. Should have been an easy casting call TBH.

Can't wait to see the next version of the Illiad that had Agamemnon going to war for a hag.

 

[Kraz]

A silent adaptation of Blancanieves featured dwarves not that long ago was well received.



Plenty of references for people that like the source material.

 

[OmegaSupreme]

Isn't the new little mermaid also black or Latina as well? I'm disappointed in Disney's creativity in their silly race swapping. Why not have snow white beplayed by a Chinese woman? Hell, why not a Native American? They don't get nearly enough roles.