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Snow White and the [sound of crickets]

‘Lips as red as roses… hair as black as ebon…AND TWO OUT OF THREE AIN’T BAD.’

Well, the once-magnificent Walt Disney company has done it again: turned an animated classic (actually, THE animated classic) into a live-action monstrosity with seven individuals who do not appear to be dwarves and a Latina actress playing Snow White, who was described as having ‘Lips as red as roses… hair as black as ebon…AND TWO OUT OF THREE AIN’T BAD.’

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42 replies on “Snow White and the [sound of crickets]”

Meanwhile, Jonathan Pageau at thesymbolicworld.com is publishing a beautifully illustrated, wisely written Snow White, the first in a series of traditional fairy tales intended honor enchanting and profound narratives that have sustained the courage and imaginative health of countless generations. Hallelujah!

“Short people got no body, ….” So happy to see somebody pushed into ‘victim status’ stand up and tell people “I AM NOT A VICTIM!!”

Seems sad that Peter Dinklage has forgotten the chutzpah of his character in Game of Thrones, with lines like “You’re not a cripple? Then I’m not a dwarf.” or “I’m a dwarf, you’re a bastard. People will never let you forget it, so wear it like a suit if armor. That way they can never hurt you.”

I used to admire Dinklage as one of the most amazing actors I’d ever watched. Especially in the roles that COMPLETELY IGNORED the fact that he was short!
Threshold; the short-lived sci-fi TV series was the first time I went “Dam! That actor is BRILLIANT!” Dinklage.
Other roles that impressed me: 30 Rock, Knights of BadAssdom (a cheesy little movie, but fun), Ice Age: Continental Drift (Okay, animated, but the acting Shines!)
Every one, even the cheese-fest, he just blows the role away. Rock solid.
But now, he’s a H-wood Lib douchebag. Shame.

My favorite Dinklage role is in Thor Ragnarok–as a giant creator of Thor’s Hammer..

I’m past getting angry about anything Disney does anymore. It was as big a part of my childhood as any other Gen-Xer / very young Boomer. Now when I see a dude in a dress in the parks, them ruining my childhood icons from Star Wars & Indiana Jones, etc. I just shrug. It’s actually now expected and it’s become boring.
Sad but true: I was having an exchange with a buddy and told him these days I’m less worried about Little Bob seeing something bad on YouTube than I am with him watching Disney or Nickelodeon. Yes, YT can be much worse, but with the other two some Marxist messaging is guaranteed and usually with more subtlety to their Climastrology / LGBQWERTY / BLAMtifa agendas seem normal

Because the grooming softly creeping
Left its seeds while we were sleeping
And the vision that you’ve planted in my brain still remains
I’ll leave the box office…in Silence.

I have no interest in seeing Snow Brown and the Seven Diversity Hires. I haven’t seen a Disney movie since Saving Mr. Banks (which I enjoyed a lot), and the last animated movie (not counting The Incredibles, which was only distributed by Disney) was Fantasia 2000. I don’t think I’ve missed much.

There was a Snow White tale with Kirsten Stewart and Chris Hemsworth called Snow White and the Huntsman in 2012 that managed to portray Snow as a strong.. well becoming strong woman though it focused more on the Huntsman character instead. There were dwarves in that movie though and they had good, strong roles as well.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1735898/

As Scott (I think) mentioned, if you don’t like the White part of the story just tell a different story. There are so many other variants of the story of Snow White, Beauty and the Beast and all of the other tales from Grimms that there should be no shortage of material for Disney to corrupt.

I’m speculating here but I can’t help but think, observing what Disney is doing as a whole, that the goal is to “correct” past “woke mistakes”. Probably to “atone” for their historical lack of wokeism.

That is the only thing I can think of that would account for this phenomena of re-telling classic, beloved tales from a woke viewpoint. Even though this corrupted, vile retelling is detrimental to their corporate existence.

On some level it’s possible, or even likely, that they fear a Leftist cancellation campaign as we have seen mounted against other notable and admirable historical figures. George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, Christopher Columbus, etc. are prime examples of such campaigns.

Though there can be no doubt that there are corrupt, vile minds of fanatical wokenistas behind this trend, I have to wonder if the top corporate guidance at Disney doesn’t see this as a battle for corporate survival.

I’m in no way excusing Disney for what they’re doing. I think it’s a gross mistake that will manifest the very thing they fear. I’m just expanding on some of my thoughts on this topic.

I suspect some of the action is enemy and some might be appeasing the ESG umpires. While it isn’t their money, I don’t know if they would spend a lot to lose a lot just to pacify people who might complain when they can make lots of promised, fly flags and cynically pacify people with 15 second attention spans.

The historical figures that are being “cancelled” might fall more under that Year Zero concept Bill brings up. Remove the old heroes and replace them with new, woke ones. Creating copies of old movies I don’t know works for that, since they have the same names and referring to the “correct” movie reminds everyone that there was another, better, incorrect one.

They could just all be nihilists wanting to burn down the world.

“They could just all be nihilists wanting to burn down the world.”

There’s that too.

The only issue I had with that movie was the block of wood carved into the shape of an actress that they had in the title role.

Yup. Her character’s name was in the title but it was far more about the huntsman, and him dealing with the tragedy of his hinted at backstory.. which they made into a second movie.

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The outrage at calling someone a dwarf comes from the twisted belief that there’s something wrong with a dwarf to begin with. They aren’t a diseased human, they’re perfectly healthy individuals.
More to the point, back when those small persons were depicted on the screen for the first time, dwarves weren’t just little people, they were one of the deep-rock dwelling races of vanished mankind, small because their race was small, not because they “suffered” from “dwarfism”. Suomic tales such as the Kalevala are full of references to “duergar”, persons of smaller stature who live underground, digging and fashioning metal in a cunning, even magical fashion. The god-smiths Hephaestus and Vulcan were dwarves. But they were worshipped as the gods of metal-lore they were. “Dwerf” was a word in Middle English as culturally significant as “Sidhe” or “Tuatha de Dannan”. Tolkien had dwarves in his books, not because they were humans of damaged genetics, but because they were an ancient people of great power and greater lore, beloved of the Gods, so much loved that they were to be entrusted with five Rings of Power of their own. “Five rings to the Dwarven-Lords, in their halls of stone…”
For centuries, dwarves were a mythical, powerful, and respected race on their own merits. It’s only mouthy liberal white busybodies who insist on seeing them as diseased or broken tall people, and insist on taking the last vestiges of glory from their history.

Thank you for such an interesting and informative post. The Dwarf-lore was especially good. LOTR is one of my all-time favorites. Can you even imagine Tolkiens’ Dwarves in a tug of war with the new Disney “dwarves?” LOL!

Disney has swallowed the DIE– (Diversity, Inclusion and Equity) meme hook line and sinker. They are destroying themselves.

There _was_ a “Wonderful Life” remake with a gender switch with Marlo Thomas. Yuck.

Bill, that was a white _homosexual_ liberal. Extra credibility there. 8>)

“People with dwarfism” reminds me a lot of how they try to replace “Jew” with “Jewish people.” Don’t you DARE treat their demonym like it’s a slur!

There are people who think someone at Disney is trying to scuttle the company for some nefarious reason. I’m not sure what that reason would be, but I can no longer view that allegation as unlikely. Hell, by this point, it’s teetering into the “more likely than not.”

Hanlon’s Razor: “Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.”

I’d say that was viable three years ago. Now, it’s not longer adequately explained.

This is so. I use a lot of adages and axioms because the truth of them is obvious were they are correctly applied but …

An axiom is not immutable dogma either. Just because it could apply to a situation does not demand that it does apply universally in all instances.

When malice becomes more plausible than stupidity, “Hanlon’s Razor” no longer obtains. If malice more adequately describes the situation then that axiom becomes just a cool sounding saying and nothing more.

We on the Right are particularly guilty of latching onto that sort of saying as though it were some sort of unshakeable fact. The world is not that black-and-white.

As Steve Green is so fond of saying … “Embrace the healing power of ‘and'”.

You vou could be right, but it might also be that both things are true. That someone is purposely sabotaging the Disney corporation AND that very stupid people are involved.

It would be ridiculously easy for Disney corporate to say something along the lines of …

“Look, we don’t want to discriminate against anyone. We also will not be bullied and coerced into a political fight we can’t win and will cost many employees their jobs. Moving forward we pledge that no minority group in our properties will be overrepresented or over-promoted. Characters, actors, roles and park employees will be given the same ratio of representation as occurs in the general population of the United States. No more, no less. We will determine where those positions will be applied according to the actual number of that group and where it is either appropriate or benign to do so.”

… and all of a sudden things are back to being proportionate and realistic again.

Of course, if you’re right then that cannot be allowed to happen. That would mean that gay people would be relegated to between 3 and 6 % of every venue and all the rest of the gender bending alphabet being significantly less numerous than gay people would rarely appear at all.

Cinema and TV are the venues where people with dwarfism can really shine. In any other occupation they’re just handicapped people trying to overcome their disability just like any other handicapped person.

Peter Dinklage knows this and he played his role as Tyrion Lannister, the despised dwarf outcast of his family, well. He himself capitalized hugely on his own dwarfism.

That role made Dinklage wealthy and famous. I don’t follow the cinematic world so I had never heard of Peter Dinklage before Game of Thrones. I’m probably not significantly unique in that.

So I can’t help but think his nonsense about casting actual dwarves in Snow White and the Seven Dwarves is sour grapes over not being offered the role of Grumpy. Even though the role of Dopey would have fit him better.

There is another area where people with dwarfism can find a useful niche as well – inspection teams. My dad worked at a place that had regular inspections and often a 2 man team would come. One guy was a little taller than average and the other was a dwarf. The shorter guy could far more easily inspect the lower cabinets, baseboards and various places for cleanliness because he did not have to bend down as far.

It is very ironic that Peter Dinky-heart would disparage a role that should provide work for people he would represent, as Hollywood is full of “you have to be a this to play a this” especially in the homo actor playing homo character. Dwarves playing the roles of actual dwarves should have been an easy call for him to make, especially as the other commenters have pointed out – these are the “good guys” in the story… though maybe that’s part of the problem: we cannot have good or guys anymore.

Cool example, I’m sure there are others.

Tunnel Rats come immediately to mind for me. If Peter Dinklage was around during Viet Nam he would have insisted that the soldiers that cleared Viet Cong tunnels all be over six feet tall because anyone shorter was being victimized for their stature.

Some of the best stories and best characters in the realm of fable are in “Uncle Remus”. These stories had their origins in Africa, brought over to the United States along with the slaves. If you want to create movies with an excellent chance of being entertaining, they are waiting here, an almost untapped resource.
But you’ll notice they have been mostly ignored. And the reason is because, traditionally, the narrator is black with a manner of speech the powers that be consider backwards and offensive.
A creative mind could figure out a way to still tell these stories.
And they wouldn’t have to do cultural appropriation to get the requisite minority participation.

Disney actually released a movie based on Uncle Remus – The Song of the South in 1946. It can’t be shown in the U.S., of course, because some morons consider it to be problematic. Luckily, I have a copy that was released in Europe.

“Song of the South” is a sweet movie with a good soundtrack. I think there could be an expanded take on “Brer Rabbit” and his adventures. The tar baby story is such a great metaphor, where you just touch something and eventually get entirely enveloped where you don’t want to be.

Maybe the whole, carefully planned, in your face idea is the mockery. They’re hoping it will get a cult following of people making fun of the movie at midnight reruns like “Rocky Horror Picture Show.”

Though I don’t know if the idea is to create a “cult classic movie” I have no doubt whatsoever that there’s something cultish going on here.

My comment to this is type of BS is always the same. If you want to tell this story, write a new fairy tale. Don’t bastardize an old one from someone else’s culture.

I thought I remembered that. Thanks for finding it. Notice that it does not get played every year.

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