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‘Moana’ Could Lose at Least $100 Million in Theaters. Does Disney Need to Rethink Its Live-Action Remakes? Discussion (variety.com)
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[–] 7 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Well, as a "woke" progressive punk from Portland who supports supposedly radical concepts like multiculturalism, LGBTQ rights, equal treatment for women, and I guess the libertarian ideal of uh... dying your hair whatever the fuck color you want to...

I don't know enough about these live action movies to say whether they are truly pandering to people like me or not (I haven't seen them and don't care to). But if they are, they're clearly not doing a very good job of it because the numbers don't lie and people aren't buying tickets.

Without a doubt, these movies are a soulless cash grab and creatively bankrupt, but are they really making this about Culture Wars, or are you?

Personally I think all of this culture warrior shit on both sides is a BIG fucking waste of time and we should just live and let live, ideally while protecting people's human, civil and conditional rights. But maybe I'm the weird one.

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  • [–] 0 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    but are they really making this about Culture Wars, or are you?

    They're the ones spending hundreds of millions of dollars to depict The Patriarchy oppressing Belle, not me.

    Here's a video by Lindsay Ellis analyzing the remake of Beauty and the Beast, including a fairly large section criticizing the added feminist talking points and their effect on the overall story.

    Then there's Snow White and the whole scandal with the dwarfs. See, they initially planned to use live action little people to play the dwarfs, but Peter Dinklage of all people went on a podcast talking about how typecasting little people in that role and calling them 'dwarfs' was offensive. So Disney erased the word 'dwarf' from the movie, canned the actors and replaced them with awful CGI. Because that's the bleeding heart liberal method to avoid offending marginalized groups: Erase them.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago

    The Disney live-action movies are a prime example of taking the wrong lesson from critiques. Changes to pre-existing stories need to be done with a plot-driven purpose; the changes to Beauty and the Beast did not, the changes to Snow White would honestly have been served better with a Lord of the Rings-style treatment of dwarves what with the beards and mining obsession and all rather than just forgetting that they're dwarves, and so when they tried to avoid changing anything at all for Moana, they made something that had no artistic purpose at all. In essence, the people behind the live-action remakes don't know how to make a story, and when the most obvious change is gender politics, that's what it gets blamed on. The solution is to hire good writers, not ditch the politics - because there is no such thing as art without politics.

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