Disney's Snow White | Official Trailer

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• Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Do they at least explain how she got the name? I don’t have a problem with representation, but that’s a head turner.

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• inb4_FoundTheVegan@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I am not looking forward to hearing how Snow White isn’t “white enough”.

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  • agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?

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    • inb4_FoundTheVegan@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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. 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.

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    • Nalivai@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Counterpoint: it doesn’t matter as long as the movie is good. Literally who cares, take whatever parts of whatever old story, name whoever whatever, if the movie is good then great, if it isn’t, it wouldn’t be because it’s not a faithful adaptation of half-remembered hudnreds years old story that was in turn half-remembered adaptation of a folk horror

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  • phoenixz@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I don’t care about her color but can we then just change the name? The entire point was that her skin was white.

    Also, if skin color was the only thing then only a few racists would balk. This movie, however, is just a shit show. So yeah, you’ll have a lotmor ooeope complaining, including about her skin color which is just dumb

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    • inb4_FoundTheVegan@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      The entire point was that her skin was white.

      I could not disagree more, truly at my maximum. The point was a fairy tale with magic poison apple, nature friendly dwarves taking a runaway in and then true love breaking a spell with a kiss.

      Like, srsly. Her skin color could not matter less, y’all too hung up on the name and ignoring the actual plot.

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    • angrystego@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      It doesn’t have to be skin in rhis versiob. How about teeth - and you can leave the name.

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  • themeatbridge@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The problem is the story was written by shitheads. Her name is a reference to how “fair” her skin was, being white as snow with lips as red as blood and hair as black as ebony. This was a standard of beauty in 19th century Germany. That characterization is problematic in a global market with various standards of beauty.

    So the racist shitheads have a quasi-valid point that the modern reimagining of a racist (and misogynist) source fairy tale isn’t quite as racist as the previous reimagining.

    But the real question is why we’re reimagining old, racist fairy tales?

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    • EfreetSK@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I think I’m lost, can you elaborate on how is Snowwhite a racist fairytale?

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  • realcaseyrollins@thelemmy.club ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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  • Gerudo@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Already has been since the first casting notes.

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  • Kaboom@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I think it’s a marketing thing. They want to provoke culture war bullshit. It’s a bold strategy cotton, let’s see how it works out for them.

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• hactar42@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The whole thing looks like it was designed by Stable Diffusion

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• THB@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Just, yikes.

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• realcaseyrollins@thelemmy.club ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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• EfreetSK@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  At this point I know this is just fan-baiting

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• Blaze@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Damn…

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• 3aqn5k6ryk@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  kek. someone commented farquad is in this? i cant unsee it

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• reddig33@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  So is this another musical where they hide that fact from the trailer?

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