Yes, those are “the Seven Dwarfs” of “Snow White and” fame, according to our national steward of childhood fantasy and iconic fables, the Disney Corporation. That photo is smoking gun evidence of insanity, a production shot from the upcoming live action version of the 1937 movie that made Walt Disney’s artistic vision a cultural force, now retitled “Snow White.” Of course Snow White is going to be Snow Of Color, as the actress playing the German fairy tale princess is Latina Rachel Zegler, who has already embraced the company’s current “screw tradition, common sense and legacy” attitude by tweeting, “Yes I am Snow White; no, I am not bleaching my skin for the role.”
You do recall why Snow White was called Snow White, right?
This is the most throbbing evidence yet that Disney doesn’t know what the hell it is doing any more, or understand why it became an American cultural behemoth, or why it even exists. Churning out lame live-remakes of animated classics is, by itself, a symptom of creative bankruptcy, and allowing progressive fads and political correctness to dictate plots and artistic choices shows severe disorientation.
The question Disney should be asking and used to ask is “What will make the most entertaining film while thrilling the largest number of kids?” not “What will make Peter Dinklage happy?” Yet that is exactly what Disney did, as discussed in this post last year. A dwarf actor of some note objected to casting dwarfs as dwarfs, (but not to casting dwarfs as non-dwarfs, which is crucial to his career), and that was all Disney needed to abandon the only aspect of “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” that made the story unique and memorable. As I wrote at the time, when Disney’s integrity crumbled and it babbled, “To avoid reinforcing stereotypes from the original animated film, we are taking a different approach with these seven characters,”
Is it a “stereotype” for dwarfs to be small, like Dinklage? Is it the term “dwarf” that he’s bitching about? The story is hundreds of years old: is Disney supposed to call it “Snow White and the Seven Little People”? It already has a movie in the vault called “Darby O’Gill and the Little People,” but those little people are leprechauns. In fact, at last report, Dinklage is going to star in the American comedy “O Lucky Day” playing a con-man who pretends to be a leprechaun. I assume he’ll be saying things like “Begosh and begorrah!” and “I see ye’ve come to steal me gold! Catch me if you can!” No stereotypes there! Or will Disney really cave, and call the thing “Snow White and the Seven Variably-Sized Miners”?
I thought I was joking, but there they are in the flesh: the Seven Variably-Sized Miners.
Look, I don’t care about what kind of hash Disney makes out of “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.” I get why the original film was groundbreaking, but I wasn’t particularly fond of it as a kid, as it seemed awfully girly to me, and I wouldn’t pay money to see a faithful live action version of the movie anyway. I do care that Disney, which has played a major and overwhelmingly positive role in U.S. art and culture, has been taken over by ideologically-driven dolts who are abusing the company’s influence and seeding societal division without any compensating benefits to the nation, unless woke indoctrination is considered a benefit.
How’s this for a startling concept? If you decide that it’s politically incorrect and not sufficiently diverse to cast a fairy tale character whose skin was white as snow and named Snow White with a white actress, and insensitive to cast seven dwarfs (aka dwarves, little people..) as the “Seven Dwarfs,” then don’t remake “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs”! Come up with something new and original.
Too radical?
If some disability activists had objected to showing a mermaid as a half-fish girl who would just flop around on land, or objected to Ariel’s desire to have legs as “ableist,” would Disney’s current gang of idiots gone ahead and made their live-action “The Little Mermaid” without a mermaid character? It probably would have. These are foolish, radical, lazy and incompetent people. It is irresponsible to entrust one’s children to the influence of foolish, radical, lazy and incompetent people, and reckless to trust them with the nation’s culture.
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Pointer and source: The Daily Mail
Ethics Alarms 
And what are the characters names: Shorty, Brownie, Whitey, Pudgey, Blackie, Tranny & Stilts.
Golly, the love of money has been surpassed by the compelling unrelenting need to virtue signal.
Signature significant?
The morons making these decisions are not only pathetic invertebrates but also a-dime-a-dozen really shitty artists.
Interesting times.
I wrote that post before checking what others had written: four hours earlier, it seems, this longer attack on the upcoming movie had been posted. I was struck that it came to the same conclusion, with an interesting wrinkle:
…everybody is focused on the wokeness; fine, whatever. Just as important is that Disney can’t come up with anything but a remake of a movie of which they are apparently ASHAMED. They declare Snow White to be toxic but are too creatively bankrupt to come up with anything but a race-swapped Snow White with an empowerment message that Princes are unnecessary appendages to a strong Latina woman.
Geez. If you dislike Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, make a different movie. You have billions of dollars, after all. But instead, Disney wants to live off the legacy of “white supremacy” while decrying it.
That was an excellent observation. Movies like this (or the recent Indiana Jones or any recent Star Wars movie) show that Disney and its woke staff are creatively bankrupt, which makes sense because (most likely) most of them didn’t get where they are on their merits and were constantly pushed ahead based on their checkbox credentials.
Three words to emphasize the person above’s point about creative bankruptcy in Hollywood: Comic book movies.
Pathetic.
I’m guessing here, but I bet the Disney Company was staffed by heterosexual guys who were most likely family men “back in the day.” They had children, lived with them, and watched them and were familiar with their tastes. They even liked children. I suspect the creative departments and the marketing departments (see e.g., Bud Light’s erstwhile VP of marketing) at the Disney Company are now staffed by angry gay guys and lesbians who have issues with heterosexuals and children generally. They’re pissed at heteronormativity and “white supremacy.” And the idiots in finance and senior management (mostly all heterosexual Jewish guys [see e.g., Harvey Weinstein]), far removed from the creative and marketing departments at the Disney Company, are letting the people in the creative and marketing departments run wild, perhaps for ESG points from Blackstone. At some point, there will be a reckoning. An entertainment company can’t keep budgeting and spending large amounts of money producing and promoting movies that don’t make a substantial profit.
OB,
Some analysts contend that the individuals running these behemoth corps do not care about losing money because the end goal is to implement a social credit score system into our society. The media arms of these giant corps are using acculturation to further that goal. Gradually softening people up to that idea as another way to increase control of the commoners. This shit isn’t conspiratorial anymore but instead occurring real time in our faces on nearly every level of our society. Another end goal of indoctrination within the educational system.
You may very well be correct, Caped Crusader. I was reading about George Soros recently. I assumed he was underwriting all these non-prosecutors to destroy society and usher in something new after the chaos. But he evidently truly believes that not prosecuting crimes will make society safer. Go figure. There are times (not many) I think these people are deluded rather than malign. But you may be right.
If nobody goes to the movies, though, or they are widely reviled, that indoctrination will fail. Don’t they teach the Cognitive Dissonance Scale at woke colleges?
Jack,
You are not thinking like a religious zealot. Still, you raise a good point but fanatics take longer to recognize the error of their ways. Those in charge may comfort themselves later by falling back on the notion of planting seeds…Even bad publicity is good publicity.
Oh, that is very interesting and sobering perspective. Truly scary, and what’s most scary about it is that cannot be dismissed—the fact that such hypothesis is plausible shows how bad things are nowadays.
The worst part about what is unfolding at Disney is that the responsible parties will escape without any accountability: BlackRock and its ilk will not have to pay for the economic losses they caused to shareholders and society at large by forcing ESG based changes on behalf of the “stakeholders”, and the parasitic executives who oversee the destruction of these once proud and profitable corporations and brands will simply leave with huge golden parachute severances and payouts and never pay a penny back after running the companies to the ground (and often resurface at other corporations). Truly sickening
Once again, the Commenters have covered all the bases, I think. But not enough to stop Poor Walt from turning over in his grave. (I think I should review my timeline for reading EA.