When Disney makes a new live adaptation on the way, it is often accompanied by live performances in front of Disney Castle, with the latest live princess singing their respective iconic songs for fans’ audiences. This is gorgeous work Little MermaidHalle Bailey, but as release date snow White As it gets closer, at least in the United States, star Rachel Zegler is not getting the same treatment. This is the latest in a series of changes Disney has made through its approach. snow White.
Zegler plays the first fairy tale heroine to help build a company and is being played by Steven Spielberg The story on the west sidewith the voice of Disney Princess – obviously won't get her big Hollywood premiere, either. A report by Variety shows that after the movie’s Japan ceased, the actress and her dubbing were full of magical performances, with the Hollywood premiere locking in journalists and will be more like a cut-off event.
“The afternoon celebrations will include parties and screenings at the El Capitan Theater, with titular stars Rachel Zegler and Gal Gadot who play the Evil Queen expected to attend. However, the red carpet will not include dozens of media that Disney normally invites to interview actors and creatives at its premiere.” “Instead, coverage will be limited to photographers and House staff.”
The theme of people's rise seems to be snow White Adaptation, which also raises another concern about the film. Could Disney hide in the current political climate in the United States, and is it easy for conservatives to be shocked by something that is considered too “awakening”? Regardless of our background, the publicly recognized background is too “negative”. Should we stand up against tyranny through kindness?
It started to feel like Disney has turned back to succumb to conservatives, unlike Pixar. Win or lose Trans storyline erasing. We've seen Disney carefully allow Zegler to participate in the pre-planned interviews she described Those ones Snow White fans – Those who reacted to some of her early, PR-approved conversation points in a very obvious way, unlike the original movie’s different story. She continued to face anger after sharing her effective response to the Trump election, which she later apologized for. For Disney, the zoomed premiere feels like a way to avoid more public censorship, especially given the political controversy surrounding the movie stars, including Gado's support for Israel and Zegler's support for Palestine.
In addition to politics, snow White There is no other controversy, including objections to the film's approach to the Seven Dwarves and Zegler's own actors. The change in CG dwarfs to human actors is partly due to Game of Thrones Actor Peter Dinklage argues that Disney will deviate from stereotypes on a podcast with Marc Maron in 2022. He praised Disney for
And, hair, well, let's say that if a woman directs a movie, that hair doesn't look like Lord Farquaad's – but since it does, the internet has been grabbing Zegler on Zegler. Similarly, if the movie is not good, it is not the protagonist’s fault; she has no creative say, but it is her influenced by this opposition that is itself a racial remark from conservative critics.
Whenever one of their major franchisees says it, this is Disney's silent Disney, like John Boyega Star Wars. I think we add Rachel Zegler to the list along with Boyega and his companions Star Wars Veterans Kelly Marie Tran, Moses Ingram, Ahmed Best and Amandla Stenberg.
However, as her hatred for the “passionate fans” described by Vogue, Zegler is seen as a prop in the PR campaign, where all the brown girls looking up to her should celebrate her voice. The girls around should never be allowed to push to separate the family, while marginalized identities are “passionate.”
The mistake is not only Disney's silence. Even culturally inspiring movies MufasaIt was a box office success, taking heat from the same homogeneous critical gaze from both sides of the spectrum, including those that the movie might not have been produced. So instead of allowing the “middle” films shaped by Intrusive Studio-Exec Hands to take up space to make more diverse sounds produce and criticize their art, just simply roll it out from Zeitgeist. and snow White Feeling that there are more trends and environments for banks internationally snow White In other markets, IP simply doesn't have to reject movies based on the actor's politics or race.
However, the film's performance even if Disney seems to hesitate to show it remains to be seen – its live performance remake, for better or worse, often weathered critical deductions to achieve box office success. But like the reaction to Halle Berry Little Mermaidfor the American audience where Zegler is important at Disney's focus, this concern at Disney feels like a disappointment. Sadly, as a Latino writer with her daughter, our closest representation on screen doesn’t seem to have the moment she deserves. Where is her Disney Park? The movie is only a few days away and has almost no merchandise. evilThe film, starring Black Elphaba, took a huge blow from the months before the release. It is so wild that for Latino Snow White, we suddenly want to accept this effort.
Meanwhile, according to a recent Hollywood diversity report by UCLA Hollywood, Latino audiences form a strong wing of the wider film audience, “Where are color, especially Latino women, among young female moviegoers, are key to driving ticket sales,” but Disney seems too eager to ignore them. But, if snow White Not meeting Disney's financial expectations, that would be those audiences, or talent like Zegler, who are blamed rather than seemingly failed studios. Once opposition to the leader taking office, is Disney also afraid to stand on its own choice? The decline in diversity in the film, or whether it stands up because of actors and creative choices, illustrates a step forward, but two steps at Disney, which is obviously a feature, not a bug.
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