Snow White Remake

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DCs always want to see the originals before we go see the re-makes. It makes for excellent conversation about differences. In the end, the OG wins.

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Anonymous wrote:I saw it today. I don’t think it’s as bad as the reviews and all the online negativity suggest it is. It’s just mediocre. The best parts of it is what’s a direct recreation of thr original Disney animation. rachel zegler has an amazing voice and has that sweet ingenue demeanour that makes you believe why the woodland creatures would love her.

I didn’t like the addition of the bandits, that was unnecessary, or the CGI of the Dwarfs. F*** Peter Dinklage for browbeating them into not hiring real little people for those roles. Everyone lost with decision especially the quality of the final product.

Why would he do this? Doesn't he want people with dwarfism to get more roles?

The cynical response is no—because that opens up a whole world of potential competition to newer actors of his physical stature when there are already so few roles.

The benevolent (to his motives) take is that he doesn’t mind fellow little person actors getting roles, but he doesn’t mind them getting roles that perpetuate dehumanizing stereotypes, which he argued that casting little people in the role of “fictional magical dwarves” would do.

Isn’t using cgi dwarves even more insulting? I don’t see how that solves the problem at all, they are even more exaggerated and lampooned.

I think it's worth going back to what Dinklage actually SAID, because "don't use real dwarfs, use CGI" isn't what he said. His comments are quoted here: https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2022/jan/25/peter-dinklage-disney-remake-snow-white-and-the-seven-dwarfs. He thought the entire story was "backwards" because it was about "seven dwarves living in the cave." It's not that he thought using CGI would change that. Some dwarf actors agree with him(https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/jan/27/peter-dinklage-snow-white-and-the-seven-dwarfs-disablist-representation-disney), some don't, so I'm not going to say if he's right or wrong, but this thread hasn't represented his position accurately.

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Anonymous wrote:How is her hair both accurate to the cartoon and also so ugly?

Because the cartoon hair was ugly.

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Dinklage was wrong about his characterisation that Snow White portrayed the Drawfs as living in a cave. They lived in a lovely woodland cottage and worked as miners, digging diamonds from a cave. They were portrayed sympathetic and ultimately as hero’s in the film. Sure, defining them all by a single characteristic is arguably a bit problematic looking back but ultimately generations of children adore them.

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I didn’t have any plans to watch it but I’m not really into any of the modern age princess movies.

I will say the main actress has been getting a lot of bad press. Never heard of her before this movie but wow she is a fan of herself.

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Dinklage was wrong about his characterisation that Snow White portrayed the Drawfs as living in a cave. They lived in a lovely woodland cottage and worked as miners, digging diamonds from a cave. They were portrayed sympathetic and ultimately as hero’s in the film. Sure, defining them all by a single characteristic is arguably a bit problematic looking back but ultimately generations of children adore them.

Did Dinklage even watch the whole movie? Methinks not.

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Anonymous wrote:I didn’t have any plans to watch it but I’m not really into any of the modern age princess movies.

I will say the main actress has been getting a lot of bad press. Never heard of her before this movie but wow she is a fan of herself.

Did you see Steven Spielberg's remake of Westside Story? She was the lead actress, Maria. She was also Lucy Gray in the Hunger Games prequel. Considering how young she was in both movies, 17 and 22, respectively, she held her own.

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Anonymous wrote:How is her hair both accurate to the cartoon and also so ugly?

Because the cartoon hair was ugly.

It wasn't a "cartoon"--it was the first full-length animated movie. The hairstyle was from the 1930s.

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Anonymous wrote:DCs always want to see the originals before we go see the re-makes. It makes for excellent conversation about differences. In the end, the OG wins.

The original Snow White is so charming.
I used to dislike it. Then for a while my younger brother liked it a lot. I watched it over and over with him and started to love it so much.

When you see it through a child’s eyes it has such simple humor, but it’s so funny and sweet.

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Anonymous wrote:I didn’t have any plans to watch it but I’m not really into any of the modern age princess movies.

I will say the main actress has been getting a lot of bad press. Never heard of her before this movie but wow she is a fan of herself.

Did you see Steven Spielberg's remake of Westside Story? She was the lead actress, Maria. She was also Lucy Gray in the Hunger Games prequel. Considering how young she was in both movies, 17 and 22, respectively, she held her own.

I love her in both of those. A lot!
Hunger Games and the prequel and the upcoming book/movie are really special to me and my teen.
And I absolutely loved the West side story remake. She stayed for her HS musical and finished that out even though she was cast in a mega film.

I think she’s a nice person, and the media is filling their tabloid space with a pretty dumb narrative.

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Anonymous wrote:I didn’t have any plans to watch it but I’m not really into any of the modern age princess movies.

I will say the main actress has been getting a lot of bad press. Never heard of her before this movie but wow she is a fan of herself.

Did you see Steven Spielberg's remake of Westside Story? She was the lead actress, Maria. She was also Lucy Gray in the Hunger Games prequel. Considering how young she was in both movies, 17 and 22, respectively, she held her own.

I love her in both of those. A lot!
Hunger Games and the prequel and the upcoming book/movie are really special to me and my teen.
And I absolutely loved the West side story remake. She stayed for her HS musical and finished that out even though she was cast in a mega film.

I think she’s a nice person, and the media is filling their tabloid space with a pretty dumb narrative.

I also think she had to say those things for a certain cred thar has backlash now.
It’s not her fault the executives made the decisions they should.
Only thing is she should have been more quiet, but again she thought she was going to get some woke (sorry) credit for saying it. Problematic because .. Snow White has no creative solutions for the problems she presented. She should have consulted with Disney before speaking up about certain things.

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Anonymous wrote:MAGA won't watch as brown Snow White

Progressives won't watch a midget parade and the Zionist cardboard-cutout actress as Queen

Who is left?

I'm seeing it later this week because my daughter wants to? I disagree with Gal Gadot's politics and her acting is awful, but it won't be the worst movie I've seen with a kid.

Okay I'm back, and I've seen the movie. I liked it. It's not an all time classic or anything, but it's decent enough for a movie for kids. Godot was bad didn't sink the movie. Zegler was great, the new songs were good, and I liked Andrew Burnap. The ending was a little eye rolly, but it's a kid's movie. As the live action remakes go, it wasn't bad.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:MAGA won't watch as brown Snow White

Progressives won't watch a midget parade and the Zionist cardboard-cutout actress as Queen

Who is left?

I'm seeing it later this week because my daughter wants to? I disagree with Gal Gadot's politics and her acting is awful, but it won't be the worst movie I've seen with a kid.

Okay I'm back, and I've seen the movie. I liked it. It's not an all time classic or anything, but it's decent enough for a movie for kids. Godot was bad didn't sink the movie. Zegler was great, the new songs were good, and I liked Andrew Burnap. The ending was a little eye rolly, but it's a kid's movie. As the live action remakes go, it wasn't bad.

Good to know, pp. DD and I will see it this weekend.

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I thought it was garbage. To each their own.

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Dinklage was wrong about his characterisation that Snow White portrayed the Drawfs as living in a cave. They lived in a lovely woodland cottage and worked as miners, digging diamonds from a cave. They were portrayed sympathetic and ultimately as hero’s in the film. Sure, defining them all by a single characteristic is arguably a bit problematic looking back but ultimately generations of children adore them.

All of history is problematic. But that is why we are mandated to deconstruct it and reimagine it through a current lens.