Internet Right Outraged That Disney Doesn't Make New Snow White Literally About White Supremacy

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  1. matthunter

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    FF don't want colored folk on his teevee less'n they servants or deliberately one rank lower than they should be until Season 3.
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  2. Fisherman's Worf

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    ...isn't that how it originally was? Also, who cares?
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    That girl on the left is not going to get any racism unless she tries to marry into the english royal family. Maybe if she has an accent or something? If no one told FF and the CHUDS she was not a white woman they would never even know. She might even be whiter than @Steal Your Face . She is whiter than Nick Fuentes.

    That is what he is fucking bitching about? I thought they cast Cardi B in the fucking role FFS.
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  4. Order2Chaos

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    Not a great argument. The animated movie had a budged of 40 million. The live action one, 250 million. That's an ROI of 5.3 vs 2.2.

    Edit: and do I think a whole lot of movies suffer from budget bloat? Hell yes.
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  5. We Are Borg

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    You're forgetting inflation, which puts the 1989 budget at about $84-million. Still substantially cheaper than the 2023 remake, but my point stands. The 2023 film is making bank. :bailey:
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    And while ROI is obviously important for profit margins, revenue is a better indicator of public enthusiasm.
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    It's probably going to be shit, like everything else they make. :lol:
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    Doesn't change the ROI numbers, they're both inflated at the same rate.
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    Which one dictates what gets made?
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    Oh, the ROI dictates what gets made, for sure. But the income is what's relevant to determining if the "NOBODY WANTS TEH WOKE MOVIE" narrative is true. And the expense side of the ledger is determined by things other than the lead actress' ethnicity.
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  11. We Are Borg

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    Not disagreeing about the bloat, but you're still ignoring the larger point and simply focusing on the math.

    Specifically, "Anyone think the Disney bean counters are doing the calculations and realizing that appealing to a broader audience is good for business?"

    EDIT: Nevermind, @tafkats beat me by 40 minutes.
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    Also, don't forget that Disney has more ways to make money off of movies today than they did back our resident 30-year-old-who's-pushing-40, saw the original in the theater.
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    I'll have to look it up!
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    My understanding is that the reason they're doing all these live action remakes now is not just because it's low hanging fruit with a built in audience, but also because those films serve to extend the copyrights on the original properties. So even if they don't make a huge profit at the box office, it's still a long-term investment in their assets.
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    That's certainly a part of it but I think it was the CGI Lion King movie came out that the scriptwriters of the original movie wouldn't be getting any royalties from the new film, even if it used 100% of the script they wrote for the first one. Seems a tad unreasonable to me. Wonder if anyone will attempt to explain why Disney is perfectly ethical in not paying someone for making a movie from their script?
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    The wrong message could be received by the studio. Especially on remakes that may not add much new reason to view it. If the remake flops is it because it is woke, or because the new generation doesn't want the old stories? WB keeps on trying to restart things like animaniacs, but do kids want the old characters?

    Does the snow white story even matter to today's kids, or is it a nostalgic thing that is more for adults who might drag their kids to it?

    If it flops is it because people like FF are whining about a woman with white skin who had some non-white ancestors, or is it because it is not Frozen?

    We all know @Steal Your Face will be doing his tucker carlson dance if the movie does not make a billion dollars. Even then he will claim it could have made a trillion dollars if they only had cast Jenine Piro in the lead because she is white as the driven snow.

    FF isn't going to see the movie anyway because he has to buy some country album where the guy sings around a lynching tree telling all the black people how if they step out of line it is time for some small town justice. Fucking Las Vegas shooter could have done something useful and killed that asshole, but no.
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  17. Diacanu

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    Snow White is noteworthy for being the first full-length animated feature ever.
    And in color to boot!
    The remake should break some other barrier, like being holographic, or something.
    Just saying.
    It needs a bigger gimmick than stunt casting.
    Smell-o-vision?
    Taste-o-vision?
    You get to the poison apple, and it really puts you in a coma?
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    I think it should fill a white republican with melanin whenever someone buys a ticket. I am buying all the fucking tickets I can in that case.
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    Seeing persistent rumor sites claiming Rachel Zegler has become such an insufferable pain in the ass that Disney has removed her from future projects, possibly even from Snow White.

    :sob:

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    Bah. :shakefist:

    Well I stand by my crab rave on principle.
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    Touch grass.
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    You know, the only "debunking" I see in that article is her vague say-so and silence from Disney. Reminds me of Amber Heard and Aquaman. Maybe They'll quietly shove this on Disney+ and forget about it.
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    Touch this. :finger:
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    Seriously, I used to think "Disney Adults" were the saddest thing ever, but at least their creepy obsession is bringing them joy. "Adults" expressing outrage over anything Disney-related are so much sadder.

    And over a remake of a children's movie from 1937? What moderately succesful adult human without kids of their own has thought about Snow White since they were kids themselves? Let alone cared enough to have serious opinions about it.

    Pathetic. :jayzus:
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    Yeah, I doubt it's fap material, unlike the Flintstones.

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    I dunno, a white adult male with inherited wealth kissing an unconscious teenager he finds in the woods? Feels like conservative wank material to me. :bergman:
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    Mild annoyance at the endless, stupid remakes , perpetrated by talentless hacks hoping to ride the accomplishments of actual creative people, cast with the most obnoxious gen z brats they can find.
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    Funny how the title of this thread changed without my consent and with intent to make it about race baiting. Where's @Bailey to call the mod out that did this?
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