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Posted on 03/18/2025 8:10:34 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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I have been watching the drama over Disney's reboot of "Snow White" with both fascination and dismay. It's not the good kind of fascination either. It's more like viewing a train derailment from a high rise building a couple of blocks away — you don't want to see it, but you can't stop looking.
"If it ain't broke, don't fix it," is one of the most famous adages that we all seem to learn very early in adulthood, if not earlier. It's not universally applicable, of course. A misapplication of that idea could lead to stagnation or — the rapid demise of Blockbuster Video comes to mind here — complete destruction.
It's a good rule to follow in most cases though. A recent example would be my St. Patrick's Day dinner this week. I told everyone that I had perfected my corned beef and cabbage in the Crockpot, but wanted to experiment this year. I did the corned beef on the smoker and it was not at all a good mix with the cabbage and carrots. In modern culinary parlance, it didn't pair well. When describing my disappointment to my sister, I said, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it."
The Walt Disney Corporation has been horribly infected with wokeness, and this has put them in the "fix it" mood. If it had just been the corporate suits or the creatives who caught the woke sickness things might not have gotten this far. There probably would have been some friction, then a compromise that didn't yield anything too awful. Unfortunately, everybody but the people who clean up the theme parks was hit with it, and the rush to swirl down the toilet was on.
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The first problem is that Disney hired a big-mouthed wokester to play Snow White and then failed to keep her on a publicity leash. Say what you will about the long-dead Hollywood studio system, but they knew how to groom actors for stardom.
You never heard Cary Grant or Katharine Hepburn bad-mouthing beloved cultural icons during the production or publicity of a picture they were making.
Like all 20-something woke leftists, “Snow White” star Rachel Zegler mistakenly thinks she knows things and is virtually incapable of keeping her ignorant mouth shut.
Disney is hell-bent on riding that DEI train over the cliff.
I’ll never knowingly give them another nickel.
I am proud to virtue signal that I have never taken my family to Disney World or Land. The only videos we have of theirs are on VCR. Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast and before. We don’t have a VCR player anymore.
They ran their income stats and found out they weren’t losing enough money .....
Instead of changing the story-line to fit their image.. why didn’t they just make their own named, “Snow Brown and her 7 fake retards”?
Why is Kathleen Kennedy still there?
You lose Man Club points for that.
Disney doesn’t entertain, it propagandizes
In general, “race swapping” is irrelevant if the character is not defined by their race.
But with this story and this film, you have two problems. One, this is supposed to be a live-action remake of their animated classic...therefore, the actress should be cast to look like the animated character...that character was not Latina. Secondly, this specific character is called “Snow White” because “her skin was white as snow.” This actress simply does not look the part. It has nothing to do with racism that she does not look the part. Coupled with all of the woke nonsense and attacks on the animated movie by the lead actress, this movie was doomed.
In Cinderella, they cast the fairy godmother as some young ditzy blonde, not the grandmotherly figure of the animated classic...if this was supposed to be a live-action remake of the original, that just doesn’t work. Who thought that would be a good idea? Angela Lansbury would have been an excellent person to cast in that role (she was very much still alive and healthy then). In Aladdin, they cast a young guy instead of a middle aged guy to play Jaffar...totally different demeanor and appearance. Again, if this was supposed to be a live action remake of the animated original, who thought that was a good idea? Ariel in The Little Mermaid...if this had been a fully original depiction of the classic story, the race swap of Ariel would be irrelevant. But this was not a fully original work - it was supposed to be a live action remake, and that actress did not look the part to resemble the animated Ariel she was supposed to be reflecting. The dislike of that had nothing to do with the actress herself - she simply did not look the part. These movies were doomed to not be as successful as they could have been.
Here is a movie that sucks so bad that Disney has kept it on the shelf for 3 years.
They tried a lipstick on a pig approach last year, but so what? It still sucks.
https://www.perplexity.ai/search/when-did-filming-end-on-the-la-WCqN4p3_T6.wvRYGYvzQeA
Thankfully, it was the last time I ever went there, and I don’t ever plan on going back.
We love going to the Disney world parks. I went in 1981, 1989, 2003 with my husband and 4 kids, again in 2007 and 2016 and 2021 with an added 2 sons in law. Also went for volleyball comps our kids participated in and a few times as a couple. We moved to southwest Florida in 2021 and went again with a daughter and son in law in 2022. Again in 2024 to visit friends and last week with another daughter and son in law. The parks are fun. Expensive but fun.
I haven’t watched a Disney movie since they made The Little Mermaid black in the live action version. Plus, my kids are all adults so no need to watch those movies anymore. I saw the controversy regarding the live action Snow White. No interest in seeing that movie! Disney movies and shows haven’t been decent since the 90s or earlier. Everything I’ve read about this movie is negative.
Find the old stuff at thrift stores or used off ebay, etc.
Don’t give them another dime.
If you go back and watch the full video, Gal Gadot was in agreement with Rachel Ziegler. It was only after that first video that Gal Gadot shut up.
What is most apparent is that nobody in the creative chain at Disney had the faintest idea of what the original meant both to the audiences of the time (what was happening in Europe in 1937/8 was really most disturbing) or to audiences since. It had to be changed - why? - because certain people - who? - thought they could do better. That has to register as the apotheosis of bloated egos and enshrined ignorance that typifies the degeneration of Western culture through which we are currently suffering. Keep your old DVD's of the original is my advice, before they are made a crime to possess.
Just when I moved out of Florida (after 35 years). I'm sorry you missed the real Florida, it was a wonderful place.
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