Well, those dwarves are certainly…something!

    • agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      10 days ago

      I mean, even all the way back in Grimm, she’s described with “skin as white as snow, lips as red as blood and hair as black as ebony”. Like I get what you’re saying, but having very, very white skin is literally(literally literally) a central detail of the character. Hence the name.

      I feel like maybe the answer isn’t to keep remaking European fairy tales. Maybe the focus should be on, I dunno, folk tales from anywhere else? Or, God forbid, an original story?

      • inb4_FoundTheVegan@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        10 days ago

        I am gonna say this as respectfully as I can.

        having very, very white skin is literally(literally literally) a central detail of the character.

        But nah, fuck all that.

        Skin color is absolutely NOT a central detail to the story, or to even most stories. What Grimm wrote in the original text has no bearing on movie being released today for new audiences. No one needs to beholden to fairytales as some sort of holy text that can’t be altered because they are fiction, and old fiction at that. Death of an author is a concept worth debating about living authors, not ones that died 2 centuries ago. Fictional characters are whatever we say they are. Make her black, make her trans, make her tall, make her Indianian, make her a a him as a gay man, none of it would change the core story about a poison apple and a jealous sorcerer. Disney has already altered countless details from their original text, so to get precious about skin color in a movie with witches, spells and magic kingdom is just ludicrous and highlights your flawed priorities.

        So respectfully, her skin color makes zero difference to the important parts of the story and if that’s a problem for you, then it’s strictly a you problem.

    • realcaseyrollins@thelemmy.clubEnglish
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      9 days ago

      These types of live-action remakes have been failing so I wonder if Disney does race-swapping like this just to grab attention they wouldn’t otherwise get.

      They can’t do that for Mufasa, unfortunately.

  • realcaseyrollins@thelemmy.clubEnglish
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    9 days ago

    Honestly, this trailer isn’t all that bad. Clunky editing in the beginning and the existence of CGI elves is just a reminder of the jobs stolen from real people with dwarfism but all in all it’s not bad. Love the structuring of not even bringing up the poisoned apple until the very end.

    All of that said I don’t care about the movie and won’t be seeing it at all. Just a bit annoyed by people raging over this trailer when it’s really not all that bad.