Dom Lucre | Breaker of Narratives on X - "🔥🚨BREAKING: Disney just got exposed for removing the scenes of Snow White praying to Christ from the remake."
Meme - samanthaaraselygarcia: "nothing makes me more salty then them making a big deal about her not being saved by a prince and then being saved by a bandit? like is the lesson lowering our standards orr???"
Delicious Snow White behind-the-scenes fights and drama revealed as woke star Rachel Zegler tanks movie - "Panicked Disney bosses jetted across the US in a bid to silence Snow White remake star Rachel Zegler after her woke pronouncements infuriated co-star Gal Gadot. Enthralling new details from behind the scenes of the troubled remake have emerged on the eve of its theatrical release, amid mixed reviews and poor box office predictions. The New York Times reported that Disney bosses went nuclear in August 2024 after Zegler, 23, shared a trailer for the movie on X and captioned it 'And always remember, free Palestine.' That sparked a 'severe rift' with Israeli co-star Gadot, 40, who plays the evil queen, the Times reported, confirming a rumor that the two actresses hate each other. It also forced Snow White producer Marc Platt to fly from Los Angeles to New York for crisis talks with the young actress. He is said to have reminded Zegler how much was at stake with the movie and her career before asking her to 'post heedfully', the Times reported. Platt headed home to LA confident he'd gotten through to Zegler - only for the progressive starlet to unleash another stream of social media invective after Donald Trump won his second presidential election in November. That outburst was being shared among Disney executives within seconds. It laid the groundwork for a heavily-curtailed publicity campaign which saw red carpet interviews with journalists dumped... Disney bosses were desperately hoping for liberal stars to come forward and defend Zegler, only to be faced with a tumbleweed... After the reshoots and extensive visual effects, the Times said that confidence started brewing amongst the powers that be that the movie was starting to come together. Part of those visual effects had been to work on Zegler's wig she wore in the movie, after it was likened to Shrek villain Lord Farquaad and rightfully ridiculed... Disney live action chief David Greenbaum gathered a lucky dozen of studio heads into a screening room on their lot in Los Angeles. Two days later they emerged after watching the film over and over, scrutinizing the whole movie frame by frame, looking to improve it further... Zegler previously revealed she refused to sing the beloved song Some Day My Prince Will Come from the 1937 classic, stating it was 'weird' that the movie focused on Snow White's 'love story with a guy who literally stalks her'. She has also criticized David Hand's 1937 original animated film as 'extremely dated when it comes to the ideas of women being in roles of power' and admitted she has only seen it once."
Hopefully this tanks her career
"It's one of my favorite bad movies": Dragon Ball Fans Are in Awe That Even Justin Chatwin’s Live-Action Is Deemed Better Than Rachel Zegler’s Snow White on IMDB - "Snow White is based on the 19th-century German fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm and has multiple animated renditions that have been a global success. Thus, when the live-action project was announced, it grabbed the attention of a lot of Disney fans, who were hoping to relive the fantastical adventure of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. However, the movie got such bad reviews that it even broke the record of arguably the worst live-action adaptation in history, Dragonball Evolution, based on Akira Toriyama’s Dragon Ball. The reviews and ratings of Snow White on IMDb are much worse than Dragonball Evolution, and Dragon Ball fans are in awe because of it. There has been a tradition for quite some time that involves converting animated programs and novels into live-action films and series. However, this trend has been followed by a curse (especially for Japanese anime and manga) that has resulted in the failure of practically every live-action work. The same curse has followed Snow White and has resulted in its failure... When the movie was first released, it had a rating of 2.2/10 and as the days went by, it went further down and is currently at 1.7/10. It is one of the worst-rated movies as of now, even following below Justin Chatwin’s Dragonball Evolution, which is deemed by many as the worst live-action adaptation in history, tarnishing the legacy of Akira Toriyama."
Son of Snow White producer furiously blames 'immature' Rachel Zegler for flop - "no one appears to be as angry as Jonah Platt, son of Snow White's producer, Marc Platt. On social media, one person wrote: "Oh the Platt family is *livid*" on top of a screenshot of Jonah's comments, which blamed Zegler for the flop and came as a response to another online comment. The person wrote: "Your dad flew to NYC to reprimand a young actress? Any words on this? Cuz that's creepy as hell and uncalled for. People have the right to free speech, no? Shame on your father." Jonah replied: "You really want to do this? Yeah, my dad, the producer of enormous piece of Disney IP with hundreds of millions of dollars on the line, had to leave his family to to fly across the country to reprimand his 20 year old employee for dragging her personal politics into the middle of promoting the movie for which she signed a multi-million dollar contract to get paid and do publicity for. "This is called adult responsibility and accountability. And her actions clearly hurt the film's box office. Free speech does not mean you're allowed to say whatever you want in your private employment without repercussions. "Tens of thousands of people worked on that film and she hijacked the conversation for her own immature desires at the risk of all the colleagues and crew and blue collar workers who depend on that movie to be successful. Narcissism is not something to be coddled or encouraged."... Many inside the studio expressed their shock that Zegler mixed the promotion of the film with any kind of political statement. According to Variety, a Disney executive raised the studio’s concerns with Zegler’s team, while Marc Platt flew to New York to speak directly with her. Zegler's relationship with the studio had already began to crumble in 2022 during a contentious West Side Story awards season campaign and continued as she trashed the original Snow White. After talking to Marc Platt, she stood her ground, and the post remained... death threats toward Zegler’s co-star Gal Gadot, who is Israeli, spiked, prompting Disney to pay for additional security for the actress. “She didn’t understand the repercussions of her actions as far as what that meant for the film, for Gal, for anyone,” said one insider... To put Snow White’s global box office haul into perspective, it’s about $34 million less than Warner Bros.’ “Joker: Folie à Deux” in October but with a bigger budget by $70 million. “You can’t say that a live-action remake of the most iconic film in the vault that cost [$270] million and has been reshot multiple times opening to $50 million is OK. The math does not work. That movie should be a billion-dollar movie,” said an executive at a rival studio when the film was tracking for a $45 million-$55 million domestic opening."
Disney Reportedly Hired Social Media Watchdog for Rachel Zegler After Controversial Posts - "Since her statements could alienate half the film’s potential audience, producer Marc Platt spoke with her again. Eventually, Disney hired a social media expert to approve Zegler’s posts before the movie’s release... Despite all the attention, “Snow White” performed poorly... Box office analyst Jeff Bock explained, “They say all press is good press, but in ‘Snow White’s’ case, they were unabashedly wrong.” The film also suffered from a delayed production due to COVID, a fire on set, and reshoots disrupted by an actors’ strike. Despite rumors, sources say Zegler and Gadot got along well during filming. However, things became tense before the movie’s release. Zegler called Gadot “a professional pageant queen” in an Instagram reply, which some saw as dismissive. Disney may have fueled the perception of a feud by keeping the actresses separate at promotional events. At the March 15 premiere, there were no red-carpet interviews, and inside the theater, Zegler sat two rows ahead of Gadot and her family. By that point, Disney had lost hope that the movie could overcome the backlash. The controversies surrounding “Snow White” had been building for years, and in the end, they played a role in its box office struggles."
Meme - "They didn't even spare the damn bird *Blue and white bird in Snow White cartoon* *Black bird in Snow White live action*"
'Snow White' Star Rachel Zegler Does Complete 180, Now Says Backlash Against Her Casting Was The Result Of Fan "Passion" Rather Than Misogyny: "What An Honor To Be Able To Be A Part Of Something That People Are So Passionate About" - "Whether due to her own genuine development or a stern talking to from the House of Mouse, star Rachel Zegler has completely reversed course on her previous assertion that the backlash against her casting as the titular lead of Disney’s upcoming live-action Snow White was based wholly on ‘misogyny’, with the actress now claiming that the disappointed fans she wrote off were actually just “passionate” about something a piece of art they truly loved."
End Wokeness on X - "Disney's Snow White says she got her name because she "survived a bitter snowstorm" HAHAHAHAHAHA"a>
Jack Poso 🇺🇸 on X - "In the new Disney Snow White, there is no prince. Instead, Snow White falls in love with a dirtbag leftist thief who urges her to lead a people's rebellion against the white fascist queen. This is the actual plot of the film"
Inside Disney's ‘Snow White' Troubles: "They Need to Get This Over With" - "Disney is taking next-level measures to stage manage the film's world premiere in Los Angles on March 15. While the event won't be scaled back, as some headlines claimed, the studio isn't allowing regular red-carpet press to attend in order to prevent Zegler and Gal Gadot, who plays the Evil Queen, from answering questions on the spot. (The studio's position is that they opted for "a more celebratory, family-friendly afternoon event to match the tone and target audience for the film.") Snow White isn't the first major film to manage a red carpet in such a restricted way. Warner Bros. did much the same for the world premiere of The Flash, starring the embattled Ezra Miller. But Miller had been accused of several criminal acts, whereas Zegler has simply generated social media blowback for comments ranging from criticizing the original film to slamming Donald Trump. While Gadot is a divisive figure on social media due to the Israeli actress speaking out in support of Israel since the Oct. 7 terror attack by Hamas. After her appearance at the Oscars, a baseless rumor circulated online that the Wonder Woman star refused to present Best Documentary to the Palestinian film No Other Land (her reps say she was never asked). The film (trailer below) also isn't getting a traditional U.K. premiere. Instead, Zegler - who won an open casting call to portray Maria in Steven Spielberg's West Side Story - will perform in front of the castle in Segovia that inspired the castle in Walt Disney's original Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Even before the L.A. premiere news, however, there was a sense that Disney was being a bit Bashful about Snow White. One theater owner and a rival studio source says Disney's massive marketing machine has been uncharacteristically quiet until quite recently, noting advance ticket sales didn't commence until Monday - less than two weeks before the film's release. Many of the studio's live-action family tentpoles in recent years have typically become available to book least one month before the film opens, including last year's Christmas Mufasa: The Lion King and 2023's summer tentpole The Little Mermaid. Snow White, however, is a spring title coming out during a particularly quiet year, meaning it has little competition of rival films for girls and older females. "They've been going through the motions on Snow White, all but saying, ‘we need to get this thing over with,'" an exhibition source tells THR. "An advance sales cycle of less than two weeks just screams ‘we have zero faith in this thing.' And it couldn't come at a worse point, when the industry is just trying to limp along to May.'"... How we got here in the first place is a long and tangled tale. Snow White came under fire in an ugly fashion almost immediately in 2021 after the casting of Zegler, who is of Colombian descent, for playing the famously "skin as white as snow" character. The production likewise originally cast a diverse group of actors of various sizes and genders to play the Seven Dwarfs, which was met with uproar and mockery from purists when set photos leaked. The characters were then reworked with CGI to appear like the dwarfs in the original film. Two years ago, Zegler strongly suggested she didn't like the original film. Across a trio of interviews with different outlets, Zegler called the original "extremely dated when it comes to the ideas of women being in roles of power," said Snow White's prince "literally stalks her" and noted, "People are making these jokes about ours being the PC Snow White, where it's like, yeah, it is - because it needed that." After Trump was elected in November, Zegler took to Instagram to vent: "May Trump supporters and Trump voters and Trump himself never know peace," and added, "There is a deep deep sickness in this country." She quickly apologized for her comments. Five years ago, Disney could have hardly imaged that its two leading ladies would end up both drawing fire for their political views while on the opposite ends of the ideological spectrum. But like it or not, this week its heigh-ho, heigh-ho, and off the the premiere and press junkets they go."
Frank J. Fleming on X - "Rachel Zegler controversies: Trashed the original film, trashed half the country’s politics, other woke nonsense
Gal Gadot controversies: Is a Jew"
Rachel Zegler breaks down after South Park mocks Disney’s Woke Snow White & Her!
Damage Control: Disney's 'Snow White' Star Rachel Zegler Apologizes for Wishing Harm on Trump Voters
Zeek Arkham 🇺🇸 on X - "Nope, you said what you said and you meant it. This movie is going to bomb so hard because this chick thinks she’s this social justice, woke, feminist mouthpiece. She’s been nothing but divisive, condescending, and obnoxious ever since the movie went into production. It’s clear she doesn’t want MAGA folks seeing her movie, so we’re going to respect and obey her wishes. Keep staying woke, Disney… you’re losing money over it and it’s glorious to watch."
Meme - Prince Charming: "Greetings, fair maiden. I am Prince Char-"
Rachel Zegler Snow White: "Fair? MAIDEN!? Are you seriously using that language in this day and age? What kind of archaic, oppressive drivel is this? It's not just a word; it's a loaded gun pointed at women's autonomy, a relic from times when we were nothing more than chattel, prizes in some barbaric game of conquest. This isn't"
"Prince Charming to wed Evil Queen in quiet ceremony this Saturday..."
Snow White review — Disney has trashed its crown jewel and its reputation - "Believe the anti-hype. It’s that bad. This latest Disney adaptation was yanked from prerelease marketing duties — the London premiere was axed — for good reason. It represents a new low for cultural desecration and for a venerable 102-year-old entertainment company that now looks at its source material with a pinched nose of disgust. When the Snow White star Rachel Zegler, during a now notorious Vanity Fair interview, dismissed the Disney original as a politically retrograde “85-year-old cartoon”, she was merely echoing the same clueless company vandals who had, in previous reboots, made Cruella soppy, Mulan sexless and Maleficent misunderstood. Tangling with the 1937 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is different, though. The movie was the pre-eminent Disney property, the first animated American feature, and the one that set the tone. Its dismissal has thus oddly mythic implications, like a line crossed, or the end of an era. And so this Snow White, cooked up by The Amazing Spider-Man director Marc Webb and umpteen screenwriters (including Greta Gerwig and Jez Butterworth) through a near decade’s development, emerges as the epitome of Disney’s Pravda-like approach to contemporary adaptation — prescriptive politics first, followed by “inspirational” messaging, followed by more politics. And drama? And story? And character? Nope. These are, it seems, decadent tools of the oppressor... We soon discover that Snow White, alone in the castle, will not sing the repellent heteronormative ballad Someday My Prince Will Come. In its place? A new ditty, written by the folks behind The Greatest Showman (Benj Pasek and Justin Paul), called Waiting on a Wish. It’s about how Snow White, more than anything else, just wants “to start speaking with a fearless heart’’. Sick bags are not supplied with each ticket. When Snow White flees to the forest to escape the Evil Queen (Gal Gadot) she encounters our “Seven Dwarfs”. These are photorealistic computer-generated versions of the animated characters, only no one here deploys the potentially problematic “D” word. Equally problematic, we learn, is calling Dopey (voice by Andrew Barth Feldman) by his name. “Just because his name is Dopey doesn’t mean he’s a dope!” we are warned, like especially slow children. We are told not to laugh at Sleepy (Andy Grotelueschen) because he suffers from the chronic neurological disorder narcolepsy. And then, of course, there’s the standout home improvement sequence, where Snow White and the animals clean the D-words’ filthy cottage while singing Whistle While You Work. This time around, thankfully, the D-words are forced to do the cleaning while Snow White orders them about like a gurning martinet who’s dreaming up different ways to speak with a fearless heart. It continues like this, including a desultory almost-romance with a limp bandit (Andrew Burnap) and his hyper-bland posse of seven multiethnic noncharacters — talk about marginalising minorities! — who seem to have limped in from an earlier iteration of the script. Gadot attempts to vamp it up as the Queen, but she has none of the alienated eroticism that Angelina Jolie brought to Maleficent, or even the vocal fury that Lucille La Verne applied to the original role, 88 years ago. The new tunes, much like Zegler’s performance, are watery and ineffectual, while the dramatic jeopardy is non-existent. It’s hard not to see this as anything other than a crisis point for Disney, a studio that used to make flawless cinematic stories but now infantilises global audiences with sanctimonious life lessons culled from the corpses of their own murdered movies. Still, who doesn’t love to speak with a fearless heart?"
Snow White review – Disney’s exhaustingly awful reboot axes the prince and makes the dwarves mo-cap | Film | The Guardian - "Here is a pointless new live-action musical version of the Snow White myth, a kind of un-Wicked approach to the story and a merch-enabling money machine. Where other movies are playfully reimagining the backstories of famous villains, this one plays it straight, but with carefully curated revisionist tweaks. These are all too obviously agonising and backlash-second-guessing, but knowing that at some basic level the brand identity has to be kept pristine. This is particularly evident in the costume design, with which the wicked witch gets a pointy dark crown and skull-hugging black balaclava and Snow White is lumbered with a supermarket-retail tweenie outfit with puffy-sleeved shoulders. Those otherwise estimable performers Rachel Zegler and Gal Gadot are now forced to go through the motions, and they give the dullest performances of their lives."
When both The Times and the Guardian hate it...
Film review: Disney's Snow White has a major 'identity crisis' - "It's not the worst of the studio's live-action remakes (that's Robert Zemeckis's straight-to-streaming dud, Pinocchio), and while it's not the best, either, it's undoubtedly the most fascinating. What's so unique about Disney's Snow White is that it seems as if some of the producers wanted to make an old-fashioned tribute to a feudal fairy tale, and the others wanted to make a revisionist, Marxist call-to-arms. Rather than settling on one option or the other, the producers apparently compromised by making both versions at once, so the results are like a mind-boggling mash-up of two different films... considering she could have been called Drizzle or Gusty Wind, she should probably count herself lucky. The exposition continues with speeches and songs about the days when Snow White's benign parents ruled "a kingdom for the free and the fair", where "the bounty of the land belonged to all who tended it". This has to be the closest a Disney princess film has got to paraphrasing The Communist Manifesto. There are more of these radical ideas when Snow White's mother dies, and the King marries a woman who becomes the Evil Queen (Gadot). She warns her subjects of "a terrible threat beyond the southern kingdom", and then exploits their fears to nab the realm's riches for herself. With that, Disney's Snow White becomes one of the year's most bluntly political films – Disney or otherwise. And this is all before Snow White meets her handsome love interest, Jonathan (Andrew Burnap), who is no longer a prince, but the Robin Hood-like leader of a gang of thieves. After he tells Snow White to "stop thinking and start doing", she sings Waiting on a Wish, a song about taking action rather than hoping that things will change for the better. It's a forceful riposte to Disney's earliest fairy-tale cartoons, and leaves you startled by the boldness of the director, Marc Webb, and the writer, Erin Cressida Wilson. As for those people who complained that the trailer felt a bit "woke"? Well, just wait until they see the film. Once Snow White flees from her homicidal stepmother and hides in the forest, though, her story suddenly turns into a faithful if robotic recreation of the 1937 cartoon... the CGI dwarfs look like creepy animatronic puppets of the classic characters. Choosing to use these weirdly photorealistic digital avatars, rather than putting real actors on the screen, was Webb's worst misjudgement... while Disney's Snow White never matches the airy, twinkling charm of the original, the same could be said of every other Disney remake. But then it switches back into a revolutionary drama again. Snow White bumps into Jonathan's gang of rebels, and the two of them develop a sparky Princess Leia / Han Solo dynamic as they duet on the catchiest of the film's new songs, Princess Problems. What this means is that Disney's Snow White now has not one but two merry bands of forest-dwellers. You can only assume that one draft of the screenplay had the human outlaws, and another draft had the time-honoured, cottage-sharing dwarfs, and the producers just shrugged and decided to keep both of them. This was a bizarre mistake. Why introduce seven dwarfs if they then have nothing significant to do? Why introduce a magical mine of precious stones if it's not used in the story? Webb would have been better off keeping Jonathan's gang, and cutting the dwarfs – and not just because they look so grotesque. The film's split personality problems don't go away. Half of it is set in a grimy, gloomy land where Snow White wants to foment a peasants' revolt and restore a socialist utopia, but half of it is set in a chirpy, brightly-coloured fantasy realm of benign and beautiful aristocrats. Half the time, the characters are belting out overwrought, self-empowerment anthems by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, the songsmiths behind The Greatest Showman. But half the time they're trilling the jaunty 1937 ditties by Frank Churchill and Larry Morey."
Disney’s New Snow White Movie Is Good Enough for TV | Vanity Fair
‘Snow White’ review: Rachel Zegler and Gal Gadot fail to lift listless Disney remake | Reviews | Screen - "Snow White escapes into the enchanted forest, where she meets The Seven Dwarfs. (Although, in a nod to modern sensitivity around the proper terminology for little people, this new Snow White never refers to the diminutive group as such.)... the crucial element missing is the sweetness seen in abundance in the 1937 animation, still among Disney’s most cherished films. This lack of sparkle can be felt throughout the remake which, like so many of the studio’s recent redos, feels stiff and reverential — a cynical reproduction suffused with deadening CGI."
'Snow White' Review: Disney's Live-Action Remake Is A Hot Mess | HuffPost Entertainment - "the inconsistencies among the costuming, mix of CGI and live actors make it feel like you’re watching three different movies at the same time."
Disney Snow White review: Rachel Zegler deserves far better than this lazy, visually repellent remake | The Independent - "At this point, Disney’s live-action princesses should be able to sue for damages. Snow White, like The Little Mermaid before it, has thrust a promising new star into the centre of a lazily conceived, visually repellent remake, depending entirely on her talents to drive its machine. But it’s offered her nothing in return – not on screen nor support behind the scenes... “Waiting on a Wish”, while the catchiest of the new tracks provided by The Greatest Showman’s Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, is also a perfect case study of Disney’s increasingly procedural attitude towards its live-action remakes. It’s a highly produced, machine-like approximation of a Disney song, created to fill the gap left by the 1937 original’s “I’m Wishing”, banished in fear of the implication that this princess is still waiting around for a man to give her purpose. Out, too, goes the majority of the narrative, replaced by a few buzzwords about bravery and being a father’s daughter. They never amount to anything beyond the lesson that good leaders always remember people’s names... At times, Zegler’s bob leans dangerously close to “little Dutch boy”. What’s most disheartening about it all is how predictable Disney’s choices have become. With Snow White, they’ve finessed their formula – do the bare minimum to make a film, then simply slap a bunch of cutesy CGI animals all over it and hope no one notices."
Box-Office: ‘Snow White’ A Total Bust With $43M Opening - "When all is said and done, “Snow White” could give “The Marvels” a run for its money — that film had losses exceeding $300M. In fact, according to Variety, the break-even point for “Snow White” is at $700M. This is going to be a brutal money loser for Disney."
