Once upon a time there was a girl who liked her opinion. She liked it so much that she spoke and she spoke and she spoke until she finally spoke in an international commotion.
“Mark my words, there are problems with a brew,” Grumpy once said. And he was right.
When Walt Disney Pictures Rachel Zegler throw like Snow White in his £ 215 million live promotional remake of the original Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs cartoon, they didn't know much that she would prove to be a different problem for a troubled production that seems to be doomed.
Working in Los Angeles, I went to the film on an XD screen of 70 feet in the Cinemark Playa Vista. There were six customers in the caverneous auditorium with 450 seats. Two walked away after about 40 minutes, during the scene when Zegler's Lutinous Snow White Dope learns how to whistle.
It was not difficult to understand why they could not stand torture for another second. I can also empathize with the online reviewer who posted: “If this film was shown in a plane, I would still run away.”
No wonder. To begin with, the prince has been replaced by a drop called Jonathan (Andrew Burnap), who is a kind of Gary Lineker-Lite-Robin Hood character; The kind of man who would get sympathy period and drink a traditional beer on a first date.
“You keep impressing me,” he says Snow White, hardly the language of love.
The humorless girl-power plot is difficult, the new songs are sub-take that draws and then there are the dwarf-generated dwarfs. From the moment they first trennen on the screen in their red onesies, fear begins.
Walt Disney Cast Rachel Zegler (photo) as Snow White in his £ 215 million live remake of the original
The new Snow White has been criticized on a large scale since the release, even 'exhaustively terribly' branded
Jan Moir went to watch the film in an auditorium with 450 seats with six customers – two walked away after 40 minutes
Their spherical movement-neute characteristics and squelchy bodies are the stuff of nightmares, because they emphasize that they are non-human, only takes away their humanity.
Disney was criticized for the first time because he had suggested using actors with dwarf -like roles in the iconic small human roles and then hit real dwarf actors for refusing work.
“I was born to play Dopey,” one recently grumbled about the lack of acting options that came on his way. Now a group of small people are planning to sue Disney for discrimination.
Which means that the latter that the film company and the snow -white producer Marc Platt needed further controversy.
Especially from a sterret who likes to broadcast on social media about how much she hates Donald Trump, supports Palestine and thinks the original Snow White was an outdated exercise in women's hatred. But that's exactly what they got.
It has become painfully clear that the 23-year-old Zegler, although a talented artist and singer is also a typical gene Z-know-all.
A young actress who is heady with the first blush of fame seems to continue with the kind of radiant moral superiority that makes her qualified to judge the past through the morals of the present.
In interviews to promote Sneeuwwitje, she managed to make a one-woman Anti-Buzz, talk about how she thought the original 'hated', the 'scary', it only looked once and was disappointed about sexual politics and the lack of feminist ambition.
'Wake' Snow -White Star Rachel Zegler (photo) said that her representation of the character 'would not be saved by the prince'
The actress, 23, who plays the lead role in the remake of $ 215 million of the classic of 1937 was hit by several controversies
'The original cartoon came out in 1937 and apparently so. There is a big focus on the love story of Snow White with the man who literally stalks her. Strange, weird! “She said, Guffawing from the Self -drawer. “So we didn't do that this time.”
Speaking alongside co-star Gal Gadot-de Israeli actress who took the Cape-Stringable role of the angry queen on herself said that her Snow White would “not be saved by the prince” and is not someone who “is going to dream about true love.”
It's so tiring.
In the modern world of Wakker, every woman of Eva must be a girlboss or a mumperur or a cross between Oprah Winfrey and Emmeline Pankhurst, or else they are considered worthless.
But if Zegler's banal revisionism is bad enough, it is with her politics that she may have done the most damage, which means that half is alienated from those who otherwise see her film.
After President Trump was re-elected last year, Zegler posted messages on her Instagram account with the text 'F *** Donald Trump' and 'May Trump supporters never know the peace'.
In August she thanked Snow White fans when a clip was released from the film. “Thanks for love and for 120 million views on our trailer in just 24 hours,” she wrote “and always remembers, free Palestine.”
Given that her co-star Gadot is a controversial Israeli actress whose very involvement in the film had encouraged to have encouraged a boycott of the usual Nutter Factions, wasn't it a bit insensitive?
In the modern world of Wakker, every woman from Eva must be a girlboss or a mumpress or a cross between Oprah Winfrey and Emmeline Pankhurst, writes Jan Moir
To date, the new Snow White worldwide has delivered only $ 94.7 million (£ 73.2 million), in a certain way of the $ 500 million (£ 386 million) of which the Hollywood reporter says it should reach its cash register net
The film is branded 'disastrous', but Jan Moir states that Zegler 'somehow' succeeds in keeping
Walt Disney Studios expected Snow White to earn between $ 45 million $ 55 million from 4,200 North American theaters and around $ 50 million internationally in the opening weekend
That tweet led to a peak in death threats aimed at Gadot, giving Disney her private security.
Producer Marc Platt was so worried, he flew from Los Angeles to New York to personally talk to Zegler about her presence on social media. She later apologized for her comments in a carefully formulated statement. “I let my emotions get the best of me,” she said. But the damage has been done.
This week Fumed Jonah Platt, the son of the producer of the film: 'She hijacked the conversation for her own immature desires with the risk of all colleagues who depend on that film to be successful. Narcissism is not something to be coded. '
Is Zegler really the fault for the moderate cash register performance of Snow White? To date, it has only yielded $ 94.7 million (£ 73.2 million) worldwide, in a certain way of the $ 500 million (£ 386 million) of which the Hollywood reporter says it should reach its cash register – but is that her mistake?
During a disastrous film, the poor Zegler succeeds in keeping her own in one way or another. She came fresh to this mess of her stars as Maria in Steven Spielberg's beautiful remake of West Side Story, so we all know that she can act and sing.
But she doesn't get a song worthy of her talents.
One day my prince will come, dumped – too needy – and replaced by the immediately forgetful waiting for a wish. Other Wakker Tweaks include replacing the original reason for the name of Snow White – she had 'skin as white as snow' – by saying that it was born in a snowstorm instead.
Some dwarfs see well-known from dopey is a deadringer for a post-ozempic wayne roooney but do I have to be offended that they all seem to be Celtic? One of them even seems to have a Scottish accent (as a Glaswegian could say: “No, he Disney”).
Zegler and Gadot seemed tense on stage at the Oscars earlier this month when they awarded a prize – but did not appear as a duo on the Perestour for Snow White
The couple depicted on the Los Angeles Premiere next to (left-right) producer Marc Platt and Mark Webb, songwriters Benj Pasek and Justin Paul and producer Jared Leboff
And the dwarfs do not return to their house, as they did in the original of 1937, to discover that Snow White has cleared the place. Instead, they play with her.
She delegates the tasks like a Marie Kondo in a puffball skirt because God forbids that a Neanderthal should think that household tasks are pure women's work.
No matter how annoying she is, this is Disney's shame, not Rachel's foolishness. By trying not to make anyone up, it has insulted everyone.
She is young and stupid and maybe she will be a bit more tactive in the future. Her pronounced progressive politics is one thing, broadening the original film is unforgivable!
She not only appreciates the past, but also the pure beauty of the cartoon and the lively imagination behind one of the very first full-length animation films.
It was revolutionary, it was brave, it was an amazing masterpiece of stories. If they put that on the Playa Vista instead of this gloomy new version, people around the block would stand in line.
Instead, after this Snow White has ended, the remaining four of us shuffle outside the cinema that have experienced the longest 109 minutes of our lives. Heigh ho.
