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.
They ran their income stats and found out they weren’t losing enough money .....
Why is Kathleen Kennedy still there?
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
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.
It wasnt just Disney. Rachel Zegler personally did more damage with her attitude and mouth than even Disney did with the woke story and the 7 weirdos did.
“This wasn’t just a bad decision, it was an inevitability once Disney decided to take a hard left turn and confuse politics with entertainment.”
Disney is not attempting to make money anymore, but to jam wokness down our throats, reconfigure the culture. I have long wondered if they are getting reimbursed somehow through all the shady money laundering operations that are taking place in our government.
It’s not just Disney. Amazon is turning Wheel of Time into a woke womens’/lesbians’ soap opera. I’ve been struggling for days to get all of the WoT spam off my X timeline.
And then you have the woke mind virus invading gaming. There’s a huge controversy around Assassins’ Creed Shadows not only over the destruction of a real-world Japanese shrine but the *three* gay relationships in it. And then there’s last month’s controversy over Kingdom Come II and the numerous woke intrusions in it.
I’ve given up. I’ve retreated into my own fiction writing. At least that way I can sure that it will never be woke and 100% of my characters will be straight.
Could it be that audiences are more multicultural now, so the entertainment products need have more appeal to shall we say, not just whites.
Are there any non-white reviewers criticizing the new Snow White?
