Disney’s remaking Animal House?
“Dinglehopper?”
“Forget it, he’s rolling.”
They are using a stand-in for Rachel Zegler because she “completed filming on the project in July 2022”.
So they have her performance in the can and now they are filming the rest of the cast with a stand-in actress to composite over later.
I think you are completely missing Dinklage’s point. It’s not about whether the character is good or evil. It’s about whether the character is a human being that the audience can empathize with. The dwarf in the game of thrones was a major point-of-view character. Like other human beings, he had good points and bad points. But you, the audience, identified with him, felt empathy for his plight, hoped he would succeed.
The dwarves in “snow white” are background. In the Disney cartoon version, they are comic relief. Just look at the names (sneezy, sleepy, grumpy, etc.) They are “it”, not people that you might identify with. They are good, sure, but they are also easy to ridicule. Funny little men who serve others with no apparent goals of their own.
Are the dwarfs/dwarves in Snow White supposed to be short humans, or are they supposed to be a different species? I’m not sure if that is clear.
Snow White calls them “little men.”
Maybe one of those references the stand in Snow?
Dinklage’s point is relevant if he somehow knew that the movie was going to be a note for note redo of the ancient classic Disney cartoon. Clearly this movie, to the dismay of some apparently, has no intention of being such. Could ANY movie with a dwarf character have potential to be dehumanizing? Yes. Assuming it will be and preemptive condemnation is however dumb.
This movie may be crap. Time will tell if they make money off it or it flops. But what it won’t be is something that treats the Disney cartoon as sacred text, as anything more than a marketing tool.
So…the Dwarves in The Hobbitt?
Snow White has the education of a scullery maid.
IMHO they’re too central to the plot to call them “background” or “comic relief.” True, they’re not realistic people, but neither is anybody else in the movie. It’s a fairy tale.
What Thudlow just said. If it’s a bad representation then it will be a bad movie, not a smear on the reputation of those hard working dwarves.
I think you’re confusing Snow White with Cinderella.
Yup. A scullery maid would perhaps be familiar with the world outside the castle. Snow was protected from knowledge of such things by a doting albeit lonely father.
Didn’t the Queen send her to work in the kitchens after her father died?
Also, why was she the regent, anyway? Oh yeah - witch.
I don’t remember it that well, but I thought she was kicked out of the castle fairly soon after daddy died. But I could definitely be confused.
I don’t remember Snow White actually being a Princess, but I am getting old. I do remember her being kissed without her consent while she was asleep. Perhaps Disney has not come to the realization yet, despite a few failed attempts, that not every classic tale needs to be made into a live action film. Is Fantasia next? The Fox and the Hound? The Love Bug? Oh wait, that last one was live action.
I presume you are referencing Little Mermaid as a failed attempt? Opening week end was disappointing.
Except that like Ariel it found its legs.
A home run it was not but the studio likely is happy to have a solid stand up double.
Exploiting the name recognition of a classic property does not make for a risk free play but it likely makes for a less risky gamble.
My impression is that these live action remakes have a pretty decent track record of making profits.
Checks. Yup.
That’s why they keep doing it. They are, relatively, safe bets.
What, you don’t want to see the dancing hippos sequence with photorealistic CGI hippos?
When I was a kid I had a Fisher-Price movie viewer with one (and only one) cartridge: a condensed version of Lonesome Ghosts. So I’ll hold out for a live-action version of that.
To beat the dead horse (water based or other) here’s the list of ‘23’s top grossers to date.
What’s not there? Almost anything not based off (exploiting/leveraging) nostalgia, a remake, or a sequel. Next to join the list? Leveraging the Barbie brand. Okay Elemental, a somewhat new thing (although it seems inspired by Adventure Time to me) is there, but with disappointing numbers.