Since the originals were themselves remakes of old stories told in a new medium and made them a crapton of money, it seems pretty on-brand.
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Snow White is a work of fantasy fiction, so who cares what the characters look like
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At this point I think Disney is just driving trollies
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This would be the only Disney casting where skin-color has any relevance at all (and only because of the use of this particular version of the story, with that particular name), but it’s pretty damn silly (whispers: racist) to actually get upset about it. Given that it’s going to be the same people getting upset about this as got upset about the skin color of a mermaid, they already gave up any pretense of being taken seriously.
There’s been some suggestion the original story referenced some actual mine workers whose growth was stunted by their work - it would be an interesting (and political) take on the story, rather than mythological dwarves.
Currently is there a difference in the US?
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I wish more companies would follow Disney in utterly ignoring conservatives. So many companies wimp out and immediately cave to their demands like Target did, not realizing that they’ll never be satisfied. Conservatives aren’t going to be happy if Target doesn’t have rainbow merch or Disney only hires white actors for everything they make. They’ll only be satisfied when everyone who looks or thinks differently than they do is dead or enslaved- and even then, they’d turn on each other.
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Child labor, perhaps?
Hard to make it anything other than a horror story when the miners are minors (as far too many were, and far too many still are).
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Yeah, there were specific child laborers working in copper mines in (Bavaria?) in the 16th and 17th centuries whose growth was stunted by malnutrition and working conditions, so they were famously short-statured even as adults. There’s a double horror there that makes it politically interesting, especially with Snow White’s family owning the mines…
Shoot - it occurs that a story about child labor and capitalism, and the impact of dangerous working conditions, pollution and poverty… you could do a version set in the contemporary US… maybe set 20 minutes in the future.
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My first thought was that casting a POC actor with albinism could be both an interesting choice and one that led racists into paroxysms as they tried to figure out how to legitimize their tantrums.
But if that choice where taken, I think the actor and other creatives with albinism should definitely play a role in shaping the narrative and themes.
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And because their older animated films are starting to enter the public domain along the original stories, and Disney is a hypocritical ladder-puller who has pulled out all the stops to loco down their IP indefinitely, creating new, visually distinct, and freshly copyrighted versions of all their IP is very on-brand.
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She’s not a virgin?
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How about a LOTR setting with Snow White as an elven princess and the dwarves the axe-wielding kind? It would end with an epic battle where an army of dwarves overthrows those prissy elves’ kingdom and installs Snow and her human prince as puppet rulers.
My remake idea: a palace geisha (which covers the white skin/red lips/black hair part) has to flee the wrath of a jealous empress and appeals to a band of ronin for protection.
Snow White and the Seven Samurai.
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Conservatives furious
at actress chosen to play Snow White in Disney remake, and you’ll easily guess why
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Except that making a new movie doesn’t legally impact the copyright status of their earlier work in any way. It just means you can’t make any work that infringes specifically on this new version of Snow White.
One sneaky way Disney has been trying to get around copyright limits is to use their classic characters as trademarks, because unlike copyright trademarks don’t automatically expire. For example, for years Walt Disney Animation Studios has been using an old clip from “Steamboat Willie” as an animated logo in their movies, so you can bet that when that film enters public domain next January they’ll probably try to argue that anyone using it will be violating a trademark.
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vaguely curious if the seven non-little people are still named by adjectives…? (always seemed to be a rudely limiting practice particularly if one was ‘dopey’ (as a non-recreational drug user))
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Maybe they’ll replace him with a hirsute character that wears green?
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Miles Morales is my son’s favorite Spidermen. I’m just annoyed because Spiderman is from Queens, not Brooklyn, Harlem, or wherever they’ve currently decided Miles Morales lives. Also hilarious that in the PS5 video game he lives in “micro Harlem” - the game designers had everything north of 125 st disappear. “They’re ruining my son’s sense of geography that he’s learning from a video game”.
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Hmm what about a pale Chinese lady. Korean maybe? That white enough or is that the wrong kind of white for this story’s colorism? The thing is honestly snow white isn’t about how white the girl is because it is about a woman trying to murder a girl because of the insecurity introduced by ranking women by skin color and beauty.
It’s also a fucking disgusting story that I think can only be salvaged by radically changing it. And even then it’s probably a fool’s errand.
This chick looks plenty white to me to be valued by her skin tone and abused by her mother as a result of it before getting sexually assaulted out of death or whatever.
God what a shitty story. I kind of wish people would just let some cultural artifacts stay in their glass coffins.
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What do you mean? Mile Morales was always from Brooklyn even since his character was introduced in the comics, just as Peter Parker was always from Queens.
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I didn’t know. That’s Gráinne from Diarmuid and Gráinne (Tristan and Isolde). *There are so many places in Ireland named their bed etc. where they did some of their legendary riding as they fled all around the country. When I heard this I noted immediately it was the same story.
1* frisch mit der wind mein Irisch kind etc in the Wasteland from Goethe. All the old Irish manuscripts were translated into German in the 19th century. I think they might have just snuck in before 2000 on the English translations. Which is kind of interesting in the history of researching culture.
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