# Peter Dinklage Rips Disney For ‘Snow White’ Remake: ‘What The F\*\*k Are You Doing?!’ **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** movies\ **Created:** [January 25, 2022, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peter-dinklage-rips-disney-for-snow-white-remake-what-the-f-k-are-you-doing/958359 "2022-01-25T13:44:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 46
**Author:** ![ASL\_v2.0](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asl_v2.0/32/3525_2.png) [@ASL\_v2.0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ASL_v2.0)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2024, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peter-dinklage-rips-disney-for-snow-white-remake-what-the-f-k-are-you-doing/958359/905 "2024-08-10T13:14:59Z")
> [@msmith537](#): > > Also if the Queen can change her appearance, why not make herself even more “fair” instead of disguising herself as an old crone? Because it’s in her soul that the true distortion lies. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2024, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peter-dinklage-rips-disney-for-snow-white-remake-what-the-f-k-are-you-doing/958359/906 "2024-08-10T13:20:49Z")
> [@Biffster](#): > > Maybe it was a story that was not worth remaking as a live action cartoon. This. What a bizarre choice. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2024, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peter-dinklage-rips-disney-for-snow-white-remake-what-the-f-k-are-you-doing/958359/907 "2024-08-10T13:35:58Z")
> [@Biffster](#): > > Maybe it was a story that was not worth remaking as a live action cartoon. I suspect that this one has a particular resonance for Disney. It was their first feature-length cartoon, and they hold onto their legacy TIGHT. For a long time most people thought it was THE first feature-length cartoon, but that requires you to ignore Lotte Reininger’s silhouette animated _ **The Adventures of Prince Achmed** _ ( _Die Abenteuer des Prinzen Achmed_ ) and the two lost cartoons by Argentinian animator Quirino Castiani. I suspect Disney folk still think of theirs as the first “real” feature-length cartoon. ---
**Author:** ![Babale](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/babale/32/15666_2.png) [@Babale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Babale)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2024, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peter-dinklage-rips-disney-for-snow-white-remake-what-the-f-k-are-you-doing/958359/908 "2024-08-10T13:50:21Z")
> [@Biffster](#): > > I think this movie looks bad because they fucked up the story. Maybe it was a story that was not worth remaking as a live action cartoon. They don’t all work. Honestly, I just watched Snow White with my kid the other day, and… It’s not THAT good. It barely has a plot. In many ways, it feels more like a cartoon than a movie. I had that thought during the scene where Dopey is wrestling with the soap, or during the “Dwarfs sing to Snow White” scenes - they hardly move the plot along but they’re nifty to look at. It’s a fun movie for kids to watch - my daughter loved it - but it definitely feels transitional, between cartoon shorts and full length animated movies. I can’t really see it working as a live action movie, at least not without some serious rewriting. ---
**Author:** ![Biffster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biffster/32/339_2.png) [@Biffster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffster)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2024, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peter-dinklage-rips-disney-for-snow-white-remake-what-the-f-k-are-you-doing/958359/909 "2024-08-10T14:00:10Z")
> [@Babale](#): > > It’s a fun movie for kids to watch - my daughter loved it - but it definitely feels transitional, between cartoon shorts and full length animated movies. > > I can’t really see it working as a live action movie, at least not without some serious rewriting. I must concur. Good points. As their first full-length animated feature, clearly they had not worked all the kinks yet. ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2024, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peter-dinklage-rips-disney-for-snow-white-remake-what-the-f-k-are-you-doing/958359/910 "2024-08-10T16:34:27Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > > [@msmith537](#): > > > > I think the Dwarves toss the Queen off a cliff or something. > > Dwarfs, not Dwarves. > > The Queen is struck by lightning in a storm and falls off a cliff. Thus begins the long tradition of Disney villains being offed by a fall, or of their own hubris, rather than by the hero’s or heroine’s direct hand. Ah yes. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. “Dwarves” are what LotR call more than one of the Dwarf folk. Really until The Little Mermaid, the heroine was mostly asleep while the villain got their comeuppance. Belle (Beauty and the Beast) at least got to root for which violent boorish jerk got thrown off a tower fighting for her hand. ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2024, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peter-dinklage-rips-disney-for-snow-white-remake-what-the-f-k-are-you-doing/958359/911 "2024-08-10T16:47:41Z")
> [@Biffster](#): > > > [@msmith537](#): > > > > I also find Rachel Zegler’s casting as Snow White to be an odd choice, given her darker complexion. Sure, ethnicity doesn’t matter if you are casting Arial. But Snow White’s defining characteristic is “skin as white as snow”. > > No one has skin as white as snow. Except maybe clowns. And mimes. > > A better criticism might be that Rachel Zegler just does seem like the character, skin colour aside. The seven magical creatures concept is stupid, and puts a bunch of dwarf actors out of one of the few jobs they could have had. Peter Dinklage is one opinion; he does not speak for the Dwarf Collective. > > I think this movie looks bad because they fucked up the story. Maybe it was a story that was not worth remaking as a live action cartoon. They don’t all work. Albinos maybe. It’s a figure of speech. Snow White is typically portrayed as very pale with black hair and bold red lipstick (like Krysten Ritter or Rose McGowen in Planet Terror for example). ---
**Author:** ![Biffster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biffster/32/339_2.png) [@Biffster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffster)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2024, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peter-dinklage-rips-disney-for-snow-white-remake-what-the-f-k-are-you-doing/958359/912 "2024-08-10T16:56:46Z")
Albinos I could see. ---
**Author:** ![flurb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/51bf81/32.png) [@flurb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flurb)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2024, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peter-dinklage-rips-disney-for-snow-white-remake-what-the-f-k-are-you-doing/958359/913 "2024-08-10T17:47:32Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > Here’s the first trailer for _Live Action Snow White and the Seven Bad CGI Magical Creatures_. Well that was . . . underwhelming. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2024, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peter-dinklage-rips-disney-for-snow-white-remake-what-the-f-k-are-you-doing/958359/914 "2024-08-10T18:20:08Z")
I’m in a weird state in that I’ve effectively forgotten about the controversy. The only one I remembered was people being upset they weren’t all Dwarfs, but actually different sizes and such. So I just approached this on “do I like it?” And I think I kinda do. I like the hyperreal aesthetic, as a stylish thing. I like Snow White’s look. And because of the above, I didn’t remember people were complaining about her skin color. Because she just looked like a white person. I thought the Dwarfs looked fine for the aesthetic. They look like the originals. I’ve seen many adaptations that make them actual dwarfs, so having them look like that and fit into the aesthetic worked. I did wonder what the story could possibly be. They just seemed like they were doing dramatic beats. But it still is visually appealing to me. So not the type I would pay full price for, but enough that I’m interested. And I very much wonder how people would be reacting to this if if was the first they’d heard of this, without all the baggage. I definitely didn’t see any “DEI” in it. If anything, it seemed too white. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2024, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peter-dinklage-rips-disney-for-snow-white-remake-what-the-f-k-are-you-doing/958359/915 "2024-08-10T18:25:31Z")
> [@msmith537](#): > > I also find Rachel Zegler’s casting as Snow White to be an odd choice, given her darker complexion. Sure, ethnicity doesn’t matter if you are casting Arial. But Snow White’s defining characteristic is “skin as white as snow”. She’s also not really prettier than Gal Gadot. But, oh well. The real problem is, guys, come on, make original things. Please. Hire a writer to write something. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2024, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peter-dinklage-rips-disney-for-snow-white-remake-what-the-f-k-are-you-doing/958359/916 "2024-08-10T20:55:01Z")
> [@msmith537](#): > > Someone in another thread asked what I meant when I said DEI (or wokeness) could be taken too far and I kind of think…this. > > I don’t understand why the “dwarves” in Snow White should be any more or less offensive than the dwarves in Lord of the Rings. > > I also find Rachel Zegler’s casting as Snow White to be an odd choice, given her darker complexion. Sure, ethnicity doesn’t matter if you are casting Arial. But Snow White’s defining characteristic is “skin as white as snow”. Yeah, and as the short people actors said- they WANT the work- PLEASE I do not get that skin tone either. It worked for other films as you said. But OTOH she does look pretty good, so IMHO that is a minor quibble. > [@Biffster](#): > > The seven magical creatures concept is stupid, and puts a bunch of dwarf actors out of one of the few jobs they could have had. Peter Dinklage is one opinion; he does not speak for the Dwarf Collective. Yep, they made that clear- “Dinklage is not King Dwarf!” ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2024, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peter-dinklage-rips-disney-for-snow-white-remake-what-the-f-k-are-you-doing/958359/917 "2024-08-11T17:09:54Z")
_Snow White and the Extended Copyright Protection_ doesn’t look appealing to me. I hope they fix her friends before release because they look very out of place in a live action movie. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2024, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peter-dinklage-rips-disney-for-snow-white-remake-what-the-f-k-are-you-doing/958359/918 "2024-08-11T19:46:38Z")
Have you seen what they look like? > ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2024, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peter-dinklage-rips-disney-for-snow-white-remake-what-the-f-k-are-you-doing/958359/919 "2024-08-11T20:00:56Z")
> **[Peter Dinklage Said the Seven Dwarfs Are an Insult, but the Reality Is More...](https://www.indiewire.com/features/general/peter-dinklage-snow-white-and-the-seven-dwarfs-backlash-little-people-1234695983/)** > > Some actors in the little people community are not thrilled to have Peter Dinklage serve as their spokesperson. _“Little Women: LA” star and producer Terra Jolé said that while she appreciates Dinklage speaking out, his power and privilege also create adverse effects. Jolé said that many little people in the entertainment industry don’t necessarily agree with Dinklage’s take; people in her family auditioned for the Disney film. With his condemnation, she said, Disney made Dinklage the sole arbiter on the topic._ _“It boggles my mind that a network, instead of listening to an entire community, [is] listening to one person,” she said. “That’s just how much pull this one person has created in this society because of where he is on the level of popularity.”_ I hope they do this again for Disney- > **[Dwarfs threaten '100-midget march' over Snow White and the Huntsman](https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/dwarfs-threaten-100midget-march-over-snow-white-and-the-huntsman-film-7821156.html)** > >   _Advocates from the pressure group Little People of America issued a statement arguing the film industry should be casting actors with dwarfism as “characters that were written to be played by short people”._ _The movie Snow White and the Huntsman, which opened in the US last week and is currently at the top of the box-office charts, instead used actors such as Ray Winstone, Bob Hoskins Ian McShane and Eddie Marsan in the roles._ _“This is akin to blackface,” complained Danny Woodburn, an actor with dwarfism best known for his role on Seinfeld, in an interview with The New York Post._ _In Los Angeles, a “dwarf theatre group” called Beacher’s Madhouse said yesterday it was organising a “100-midget march” to the offices of Universal Pictures, the producers of the film, in protest against the “injustice and prejudice”._ ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2024, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peter-dinklage-rips-disney-for-snow-white-remake-what-the-f-k-are-you-doing/958359/920 "2024-08-11T20:44:37Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > Have you seen what they look like? > > [x.com](https://x.com/SnowWhiteLi2025/status/1822145356496285847) I saw what they looked like in the teaser. Watching that video doesn’t make me feel better about it. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2024, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peter-dinklage-rips-disney-for-snow-white-remake-what-the-f-k-are-you-doing/958359/921 "2024-08-11T20:52:22Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > Have you seen what they look like? Urk. That looks unwatchable. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2024, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peter-dinklage-rips-disney-for-snow-white-remake-what-the-f-k-are-you-doing/958359/922 "2024-08-11T21:11:05Z")
> [@puzzlegal](#): > > Urk. That looks unwatchable. Well- the dwarf part anyway. The actress can sing and act pretty damn well. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2024, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peter-dinklage-rips-disney-for-snow-white-remake-what-the-f-k-are-you-doing/958359/923 "2024-08-11T21:33:12Z")
> [@puzzlegal](#): > > Urk. That looks unwatchable. I liked Beauty and the Beast live-action. Aside from that, no thank you. If there was a petition that would be taken seriously, I would sign one to stop them from re-doing these cartoons with live action. It’s dumb. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2024, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peter-dinklage-rips-disney-for-snow-white-remake-what-the-f-k-are-you-doing/958359/924 "2024-08-11T21:40:46Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > If there was a petition that would be taken seriously, I would sign one to stop them from re-doing these cartoons with live action. Many of them were good- Cinderella, Aladdin, and others. I have not seen any that were bad. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peter-dinklage-rips-disney-for-snow-white-remake-what-the-f-k-are-you-doing/958359.md?page=45) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peter-dinklage-rips-disney-for-snow-white-remake-what-the-f-k-are-you-doing/958359.md?page=47)