AndyDursin wrote: ↑Sun Aug 11, 2024 1:06 am Did they shoot all those weirdos then reshoot with CGI standins?

wonderer99

My thoughts from the old thread.

When you bring politics into a subject it muddies the water so much but the problem with this film is very simple. You are cocking around with your own beloved movie......again.

You are not making another version of the Brothers Grimm tale. If you were you not have the iconic blue dress and include your own songs from the 1937 movie. You would not be receiving the backlash either. No you are absolutely remaking your own classic film. OK great. But then you change it because you get scared about what Joe Public will say in 2023. You have to get a person of colour to play the role. You cant have dwarves godforbid.

So, at that point, what are you doing? What is this? is this a remake or something else? It seems like you want the best of both worlds here. To have your cake and eat it.

Miss Zegler said "People are making these jokes about ours being the PC Snow White......yeah, it is - because it needed that. Our version is a refreshing story about a young woman who has a function beyond Someday My Prince Will Come"

OK great, so make something new. Make another version of the story. But no, the cast, crew and Disney want to coast along on the recognition of the original while at the same time sticking their middle finger up at it. And in doing so you are pleasing absolutely nobody. You are not giving fans the live action version of the animation they expect and you are not creating anything that can be classed as original. Changing a persons colour or throwing in some politically lyric alterations does not make it a brand new take!

What would be "refreshing" Miss Zegler, is if a studio didn't piss its pants over everything. It would be refreshing to have a woman of colour given an independent property of their own. Make new classics, tell new stories. Dont don the blue and white dress because you want to leapfrog having to create something new, because that aspect doesn't offend you in some way, because Disney wants to coast on the familiar but not honor it. Its all the same crap that TLM did. So far the two Disney princess remakes that have topped the box office have been Belle and Cinderella, the two that have been the most respectful to not the source material. but Disney's original version of it.


Disney's remakes main issue is simply that they are too scared to respect their own work. But if your classic animations from the 30's and 40's are so problematic for today's audiences and sensibilities then why revisit them at all? Why not let them be forgotten. Because, simply put, outside of your ability to buy up every property available your company still rests upon the magnificence of its classic animation.

In 100 years Disney will still be remembered for True Loves Kiss in Snow White, for Bibbidi Bobbidi Boo in Cinderella. It will be remembered for Steamboat Willie and The Bare Necessities. The 15th Star Wars show and 7 magical beings wont even register on the radar. Honor what made you great, respect what makes you great. Or at least be consistent in your changes to prove it is more than fearful politics at play. Show me a white Tiana wandering around one of your parks and I will at least respect that the pendulum swings both ways. But we all know it doesn't. Just like we all know this film will be remembered not for being a "refreshing new story" but for being a clusterfvck from the get go. Hopefully it will be remembered also as the turning point in Disney's ability to listen to valid criticism but I think their is more chance of Peter Dinklage only speaking for himself.

AndyDursin wrote: ↑Wed Nov 13, 2024 4:49 pm She's such a gem!