I’m tired of reading that Rachel doesn’t look like the character she’s playing. If people didn’t know her ethnic background, they’d naturally (and correctly) assume she was a person of European descent. Her proudly stating she was a Latina is what invited all this ire and media lynching, and the movie itself being nitpicked beyond any legitimate reason.
Reshoots are normal. Script changes are normal.
“Snow White is named after snow.” Have people seen snow before? I’d like someone to point me to a living human being whose skin is the exact color of snow. Short of casting a person with albinism, there was never going to be anyone of even remotely similar skin complexion in the movie.
And when you take “skin as white as snow” literally, this is what you get:
If you lay screencaps form
Snow White,
Cinderella,
Sleeping Beauty, and
Beauty and the Beast next to each other, Snow White’s skin color is very much comparable to that of Cinderella, Belle and Aurora, aka any other Caucasian character.
Additionally, and I can’t believe I’m actually writing this, Snow White got her name when she was a newborn. Babies’ skin, particularly that of babies whose parents have darker skin, tends to be several shades lighter in their first few months before the actual pigment sets in. So even if in this version Snow White is meant to be an (God forbid!) olive-skinned Spaniard, there’s no reason she couldn’t have been named that way.
General audiences are made of more than Disney fanboys and right wing media consumers. Most people don’t know (or care!) about what Rachel said or didn’t say. Her comments will have no bearing on the financial success of the movie.
Even if she did show some egregious disrespect to the movie and the character, does it really matter? I’m sure nobody here, myself included, talks only nice things about their jobs and their bosses. What she says behind the camera and to the press is technically irrelevant, she’s obviously very opinionated and not media-trained. What ultimately matters is her performance in the actual movie and nobody here has seen any footage to declare it an absolute disaster. If looks and paying lip service to the original movie were crucial, Emma Watson would have killed it as Belle, and yet…
I’ve only seen Rachel in
Shazam 2 and the
Hunger Games prequel. I barely remember her from the former but she was pretty good in the latter, albeit a tiny bit too theatrical and hammy for my liking given the rest of the cast and the movie’s themes. I haven’t read the book so I don’t know if the character was supposed to be like that, but if she brings that same level of theatricality to Snow White as a role more suitable for it, she’ll do great.
This movie is never going to do BatB or TLK numbers, or even TLM numbers. Never. Come next year, people will try to blame it on the casting and “controversies” and how it would have made bank if only they had cast an undead vampiress with pearly white skin who kept her opinions to herself, but the simple fact is that
Snow White is just not as popular property as we may think it is. It’s a historically and aesthetically significant piece of cinema and I love it to death, but not everyone is an animation enthusiast. Even on here among Disney fans, Snow White, her voice and her mannerisms were butts of many, many, MANY jokes (and there’s nothing wrong with that, she’s a fictional character. Even Jodi Benson imitates her voice in
Enchanted!), so to insinuate Rachel is committing some sort of blasphemy against the movie by basically just existing is both inane and insane. If there’s anyone people should be angry with it’s Disney Corp. for even entertaining the idea of a
Snow White remake, let alone actually greenlighting it.
Finally, people can always choose not to financially support the movie because it offends them oh so much, but we all know most of them will still have their butts in those theater seats.
).
(eternal eyeroll)
yeah Strange World and Lightyear having small gay scenes had nothing to do with their flop Performances...its because those movies were boring af
(Sabrina Carpenter)
