Thumper_93 wrote: โSun Sep 17, 2023 9:17 am
People are saying that we are taking out of contest what she said about the original film and this is not true.
Did people use that to insult her? Yes. They did it with Halle too but the difference between Halle and this lady is that Halleโa behaviour was amazing and she treated the original classic with respect. Rachel is acting like a crazy teenager and with this behaviour the only thing that sheโs doing is harming the movie
Oh, I definitely agree that outside voices are looking at the reactions from within the Disney fandom and misconstruing why most Disney fans are
actually upset with her, and that's annoying. But I also don't feel like it's really fair for the Disney fandom to use her as a punching bag this way.
This remake was certainly pitched as a "girl boss" Snow White who don't need no man way before Zegler was involved. The creative team was responding to what they thought the internet wanted based on years of bad-faith reactions to the movie. But Zegler alone is the one being held accountable for this trainwreck--not the authors of those lazy princess memes, not Marc Webb, not Bobs Iger or Chapek.
I also don't think it helps that literally every remake has leaned into this brand of princess criticism (some more than others) and from a certain perspective they have been very successful for it. This has been the first remake where the "girl boss-ifying" of the lead princess has been so widely derided. I think Zegler was confident that she could recite the same schtick without people making personal attacks about her as a person.
She's clearly uneducated in the nuances of Disney culture, which makes it seem really weird that she'd sign her name to this film in the first place, but she shouldn't have to answer, at least not exclusively, for nonsense that far predates her.