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[Jelenafan]

In this day and age, the premise of Snow White ie a woman keeping house for seven dwarves is just too creepy. CGI or using real actors IMO it wasn’t going to work regardless.

FWIW , I also thought the original evil queen in the 1937 movie was way hotter than Snow White herself, LOL.

 

[Moxie]

In this day and age, the premise of Snow White ie a woman keeping house for seven dwarves is just too creepy. CGI or using real actors IMO it wasn’t going to work regardless.

FWIW , I also thought the original evil queen in the 1937 movie was way hotter than Snow White herself, LOL.

So, you and @Kieran actually saw it?!

 

[Jelenafan]

So, you and @Kieran actually saw it?!

LOL, no I havent.

IMO The premise of the movie regarding the Dwarves was going to be hard to execute regardless, so to me it isn't a matter of woke or anti- woke. They work in the original film because they ARE cartoons, with exaggerated features & characteristics. Making them CGI interacting with real actors makes no sense to me, what is the point?

So many movies are of their particular time and culture, so you just cant expect them to be redone with no updating or changes for a new audience. Again thats not woke or anti- woke, that’s just common sense. Does anyone really expect every film made nearly 90 years ago would stand the test of time to be redone exactly the same?

Its hilarious to me how Rachel Zegler was skewered when some of the remarks she made about the original film were obviously made in jest or tongue in cheek. Now Her views on Palestine or how modern women don't beed a prince to rescue them, or on Trump, etc are her individual opinions , so I think others have latched on to that to blanket the film itself as some sort of “WOKE” propaganda. But again I haven’t seen the film yet.

Most likely I will see the movie, though all the real life adaptations of animated Disney movies so far haven't impressed me , most I have watched seem a bit lazy & uninventive in their approach.

Wasn't a huge fan of the original Snow White film anyways, found it OK but much preferred other Disney animated films such as Dumbo, Pinocchio & say, Bambi of that classic traditional era.

The film may be badly done or just not that good, which is one major reason why it’s struggling in the box office.

 

[Kieran]

So, you and @Kieran actually saw it?!

I think I made it clear that my whole satisfaction regarding this film was seeing a dumb woke child derail the movie? It was a perfect woke-storm: idiotic activist causes panic among the execs because there scared shitless of these con artists.

The Dinklage intrusion was just icing…

 

[Moxie]

I think I made it clear that my whole satisfaction regarding this film was seeing a dumb woke child derail the movie? It was a perfect woke-storm: idiotic activist causes panic among the execs because there scared shitless of these con artists.

The Dinklage intrusion was just icing…

I thought this was a thread for movies you saw and liked, or hated, not for "woke" BS. There's a thread for that. So, I guess you haven't seen it?

 

[Kieran]

I thought this was a thread for movies you saw and liked, or hated, not for "woke" BS. There's a thread for that. So, I guess you haven't seen it?

This one’s a blockbuster crossover

Anyway, it’s a thread for films and this film is a warning for anyone who’s creative - don’t change a thing because “activists..”

 

[Moxie]

This one’s a blockbuster crossover

That's a good one.

Anyway, it’s a thread for films and this film is a warning for anyone who’s creative - don’t change a thing because “activists..”

But here's where I think you got it wrong, or too narrow. You're only reading what other people say, and you like recounting it because the story is that they were thinking too much about who they might offend by the various pitfalls inherent in the story for the 21st C., presumably. That's the story they're telling us, but we haven't seen it, so we don't know if it's bad, how bad it is, or why it's bad. I'll tell you one thing about Hollywood movies these days, and for some while now, and that is that they make terrible films because they make them by committee, and those committees are not made up of artists. The agenda is not "activist" so much as it's consumed by formula. Take what works, and use it again. They abdicated from making interesting films ages ago and have left that to more indie studios and the streaming ones, who still consider making films for grown-ups and working with filmmakers with a point of view. The problem is not having some kind of political or "activist" POV, the problem is not really having a POV at all. None of their choices are brave, or interesting, because they're trying to second-guess what will appeal to the most people and offend the least. They recycle and rehash too much, too.

I'm not sure if you ever saw "Barbie," but that film did give Barbie a certain feminist spin. But it worked, and it was pretty hilarious, and wildly appealing, because it was basically one person's strong vision, not watered down even by Mattel, which shocked me personally, having worked for them. That film works because it has a strong POV. It's smart AND goofy.