Originally Posted by
Harry Hollywood
Snow White could not have been released at a worse time.
It honestly represented all of the abhorrent and off-putting attributes of today's impractical, social leftism.
They felt that casting a white lead in a remake would somehow be bigoted or regressive, so they chose a dark-skinned Colombian woman to play Snow White, a character literally named after her pale, light complexion.
They let Peter Dinklage, of all people, shame them into believing that featuring dwarves was furthering a negative stereotype of those with dwarfism, even though Dinklage's entire career exists because he's 4'5". They responded by firing all of the dwarf actors, and replacing them with unsettling CGI characters living right in the uncanny valley.
They bizarrely cast a beautiful woman, Gal Gadot, to play the role of the Evil Queen, who was supposed to be jealous of Snow White's beauty. That's the equivalent of making a 1990s film where Brad Pitt plays a guy jealous of Cheech Marin's good looks. You aren't supposed to notice that Gal Gadot, even when made up as the Evil Queen, is more attractive than Rachel Zegler. If you even think this, you're a racist, and therefore must banish such considerations from your head.
Worst yet, they gave Rachel Zegler the freedom to shoot her mouth off for years, doing irreparable damage to the film in ways I've never seen a star even consider. She expressed a complete hatred of the original story, where she called Snow White's love interest a "stalker", and bragged that the modern film would anger those who were expecting anything like the original. She didn't just criticize Trump, but said terrible things about the half of the country who voted for him. She overtly supported Palestine after the 10/7 attacks, and infamously clashed with Gadot, an Israeli, about them. How did Disney not have language in the contract prohibiting Zegler from badmouthing anything related to the movie, its characters, or its original source material? They need to fire the lawyers who drew up that contract. The studio should have had a muzzle on Zegler, who was not otherwise a huge star, and did not have the clout to refuse to sign a speech-restricting contract.
But that's where we get our problem. Disney did not muzzle Zegler for the same reason that they didn't refuse the employee demands to get involved in the DeSantis matter. For a long time, Disney let the inmates run the asylum, to where it became the norm, and the executives had corporate Stockholm Syndrome.
It's not like Disney did not know what was coming. They didn't screen a normal early premiere for critics, but instead handpicked longtime sycophants to attend. They backed away from having Zegler promote the movie. They were relatively certain it would flop, and too much damage had been done.
Disney wishes they could go back and do things differently, but it was too late. Zegler's involvement itself was toxic enough, so the only way to reverse Snow White's fortunes would be trashing the entire film and starting over, which they clearly weren't going to do. They're in hangover mode right now, and I'm not referring to the charming 2000s film about shenanigans in Vegas. Basically the studio got drunk with wokeness, and now they just have to endure the hangover and wait for it to lift.
There will not be another Disney mistake like Snow White. They are going to learn from this. They already have learned, but they couldn't bring this train back into the station.
Does this mean the right's current gloating tour is correct? Is this going to be an epic disaster, and a flop of unimaginable proportions? Were those theater seatmap pics from opening night, showing 3 out of 150 seats filled, accurate? Is literally no one attending this film? I will answer that in my conclusion post next.
