hi everyone I hope you're all well so as we all know Giant entertainment conglomerate
Disney has been going from weakness to weakness over the past few years when it comes to their
content primarily because of their insistence that seemingly everything they produce nowadays
has to be some shade of work from woke Star Wars to depriving Caucasian redheads of unironically
much needed representation by casting a black actress to play Ariel in The Little Mermaid
live action remake to Harry Potter actress and renowned self-righteous ingrained Emma
Watson making feminist adjustments to the character of Belle and Beauty and the Beast
to employ what appears to be a drag queen to greet children at Disneyland's Bibbidi
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for the day all in all Disney is very much into hitting those environmental social and
government AKA ESG targets and I for one am absolutely not here for it so it should come
as no surprise to anyone that Disney's impending live-action remake of the 1937 animation film
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs looks to be equally woke and unbearable now in my opinion
the fact Disney even does these live action remakes of its classic animation movies is
a bit of an issue as it implies that animation is somehow a lesser art form than live action
which it absolutely is not add to that the fact that only one of these has actually been
you know good and that's the 2015 remake of Cinderella which was directed by the absolutely
wonderful Kenneth Branagh and you'd wonder why Disney bothers with these projects in
the first place I mean it's not as if Disney doesn't have any other ways of making money
they've been making money not doing live action remix for about a hundred years now so I can
only conclude they do it for one of two reasons either there are no more original ideas left
under the sun which is a distinct possibility to be fair enough or given how away Disney
is of how it creates and controls culture they see this as an opportunity to impart
work values on new generations of children by restaging their classic and occasionally
archaic films heaped with Bleak cynical progressivism as an over-correction and in the case of Snow
White and the Seven Dwarves Disney appears to have taken this to a whole new level according
to the Daily Mail it leaked photos and footage of the production filming in bedfordshire
last week revealed that Snow White Seven Dwarves the moral center of the story aren't actually
dwarves in this production instead they are seven quote unquote magical creatures only
one of which appears to have dwarfism and despite the original film picturing them as
12 white men as befits the fairy tales Eastern European origin and setting these magical
creatures are a mix of genders and ethnicities of mostly average height as the headline so
aptly reads Snow White and the Seven politically correct companions another hysterical thing
about this is that initially Disney insisted the photos were fake and not from their production
and claimed that they were seeking to have the Daily Mail issue a correction however
mere hours after making this statement Disney came out with another statement which was
reported in The Daily Beast claiming the photos were not fake they were in fact real and from
their production they just weren't official photos what a crap show as the left likes
to say let's unpack this the Erasure of the dwarves in Snow White isn't the first time
the film's casting has caught it controversy the actress playing Snow White a character
whose skin is explicitly stated to be you know white as snow is none other than Rachel
zegler of woke West Side Story remake Fame who is in fact Colombian this is despite the
fact the story is based on a 19th century German fairy tale based in a western European
setting as I mentioned earlier and despite the fact that to quote the original text Once
Upon a Time in mid-winter when the snowflakes were falling like feathers from Heaven a queen
sat sewing at her window which had a frame of black ebony wood as she sewed she looked
up at the snow and pricked her finger with her needle three drops of blood fell into
the snow the red on the white looked so beautiful that she thought of herself if only I had
a child as white as snow as red as blood and as black as the wood in this Frame soon afterwards
she had a little daughter who was as white as snow as red as blood and as black as ebony
would and therefore they called her little Snow White I am all for what is colloquially
termed colorblind casting sometimes an actor of a non-white ethnicity is in fact so talented
that the audience can suspend their disbelief long enough to overlook the mismatch in ethnicity
for the sake of a truly excellent performance but there is a difference between colorblind
casting which is all fine and great and tokenistic casting which is you know condescending and
racist now the examples I like to use to demonstrate this come from retellings of David Copperfield
by Charles Dickens and the story of Anne Boleyn one of King Henry VII's wives the 2019 film
entitled the personal history of David Copperfield cast British actor of Indian descent Dev Patel
in this very anglo-english title role however because one ethnicity is not one of the central
themes of David Copperfield who was also a fictional character and two deaf hotel is
a fabulous actor with all the talent and qualities that could make that role fantastic plus he's
quite famous for the dedicated fanbase which puts proverbial bums on seats it's therefore
totally justified to cast him in that role even though he isn't white Caucasian this
is colorblind casting contrast that with the casting of Anne Boi Lin in the 2021 miniseries
on Netflix Amboy Lin is an actual historical figure who was married to Henry VII and was
most certainly white Caucasian however for this mini-series Anne was played by actress
Jody Turner Smith who was an English actress of Jamaican descent but unlike David Copperfield
there is simply no way to justify casting a black actress to play and boy Lin because
Anne is not a fictional character also unlike Dev Patel Jody Turner Smith is not terribly
famous at least not to the same level as Patel so it's not like the producers are bending
reality for a massive star to help sell the series it is monumentally hard for the audience
to suspend their disbelief in this instance as such this is what I call tokenistic casting
its obnoxious workery of the highest order designed to make a point rather than to tell
a story and does nothing other than devalue the work of Jody Turner Smith by dragging
her into the culture War the casting of colombian-american Rachel Ziegler as Snow White falls into the
category of tokenistic casting rather than colorblind casting it's also obnoxious workery
of the highest order designed to make a point rather than to tell a story as for Snow White's
seven politically correct average size companions well that whole issue came into light when
Game of Thrones actor Peter Dinklage who also has dwarfism had this to say on a podcast
in January 2022. there's a lot of hypocrisy going on I gotta say from being a somebody
who's a little bit unique front row seat to some really like what like what do you see
well you know it's really Progressive to um cast uh literally no offense to anything but
I was a little taken back by the very very very proud to cast a a Latino actress as Snow
White yeah but you're still telling the story of Snow White yeah Seven Dwarfs sure look
take a step back and look at what you're doing there yeah I know it makes no sense to me
well oh so you're Progressive in one way and then but you're still making that backward
oh story about seven dwarfs living in a cave to get what the [ __ ] are you doing man
we you know have I have I done nothing to advance the cause from my soapbox I guess
I'm not loud enough uh let's go I don't know which I don't know what studio that is but
but it was they were so proud of that and all love and respect to the to the actress
and to the people who thought they were doing the right thing but I'm just like you know
what are you doing following this viral moment from the podcast Disney made a statement about
the casting of the dwarves which read to avoid reinforcing stereotypes from the original
animated film we are taking a different approach with these seven characters and have been
Consulting with members of the dwarfism Community we look forward to sharing more as the film
heads into production after a lengthy development period now I want to clear up some some confusion
here because there are a few commentators and articles out there who are saying it was
because of Peter dinklage's complaint that Disney ditched the idea of having Seven Dwarves
but look given the timing of his comments this reconceding of the dwarves would likely
have been in the works way before Peter recorded that podcast I think Peter just gave Disney
a convenient excuse to come forth and flex its work muscles so don't blame Peter Dinklage
for this he is after all entitled to his opinion however what I don't understand is how anyone
including Peter Dinklage could confuse the dwarves in Snow white with actual human beings
with dwarfism Snow White's dwarves aren't human they are mystical fairy tale creatures
who happen to be short like how fairies might look human but are actually not human and
are instead tiny dwarves are just a larger version that can't fly we're not talking about
a literal depiction of human beings with dwarfism here even if they are played by dwarf actors
they're fantasy creatures that is just looking for an issue where there isn't one and in
any case Peter Dinklage isn't the only actor with dwarfism who has an opinion on this check
out this commentary from actor and wrestler Dylan postal on PS Morgan uncensored who had
quite a different take my issue with it is exactly what you said there are actors dwarf
actors that live that dream to be in a major Motion Picture such as this Disney remake
and now because Peter Dinklage said what he said last year now it's taken away and it's
taken away because of quote unquote progression and all that and that's it's not it's not
really it's not right because these are roles made for actors of my stature roles that aren't
ever really given I can't go out for the Harrison Ford or the George Clooney roles because that's
not for me these dwarf roles are for people of my stature right and now it's taken away
it I don't feel that's right and not only that but now think about the additional stunt
actors or body doubles or that now you're talking multiple actors right of my stature
that don't get these major roles and why what's the real what's the reasoning because we're
supposed to be Progressive and we're supposed to just not view them as that well you know
the other zeros are these dwarves all of the of these dwarves took care of Snow White they
all had characteristics separate characteristics they weren't these cave dwelling monsters
that that people speak of it's It's they all had seven different characteristics for seven
different actors that from my community and I don't I don't feel it's right that they
got taken completely and utterly agree with you so arguably Disney had an opportunity
here to promote some really positive representation for people with dwarfism in Hollywood by casting
them to play the dwarves but they totally blew it because well you know I don't even
know so many bad decisions seem to have been made regarding this movie so far that I shuddered
to think what the finished product will be like if you like that video please remember
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