Discussing the last Ethics Alarms post about the totally botched live -remake of “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs,” one of the most influential and ground-breaking (and popular, and profitable) films in Hollywood history, I told my wife, “If I were in charge of Disney, I’d just re-release the original in a restored version.”
And that’s exactly what the company is doing.
The best part about the move is that it implicitly rebukes Rachael Zeigler, the current Snow Of Color who foolishly trashed her own vehicle by calling the original dated and “weird.” It also commits the company to the ultimate version of the live-action rip-off emerging as an homage to its predecessor, not a rejection of it: all those kids who see Walt’s movie and love it are not going to like a live-version that defames Snow and her friends. Even Disney’s not that stupid. (Are they?)
Anyway, there is hope: the profit motive and the instinct to survive may have overwhelmed toxic wokism. Disney may have rediscovered the ethical virtues of competence, responsibility, and respect.
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I’ve wondered if the live-action remakes were never meant to make a profit all by themselves, but to drive more sales of the originals. Does anyone know if sales of an original Disney animation spiked after the release of a remake?
Do they get the message though? They aren’t going to suddenly stop making uninspiring woke dreck.
The message is: if they keep going in the direction they’re going, they will lose their jobs, their profits, and the company’s power. Yes, I think there will be a course correction. No ore drag queens dressed as fairies at the Princess Shop, for example.
It’s a head fake. They are hoping a (tech) refresh of the original will repair a lot of damage and make a lot of money, and offset the loss they expect from the new self sabotaged version. As far as a bearded princess again, they’re a super large corp, I wouldn’t be surprised to see it again simply due to the size of the organization and span of control issues.
Having spent a couple decades in a large corporation that has gone through mergers, company culture and direction takes several years to change, they aren’t going “non-woke” overnight.
And that’s not including redirecting a religious issue like the Alphabet Mafia has (LGB et al. is well beyond a lifestyle acceptance movement at this point).
Also, as far as one can tell, a number of Disney management are fully made members of the alphabet Mafia. They aren’t giving up, they aren’t going away, and without a purge from the ranks – which will never happen – the woke content continues, just with new and clever marketing.
Bingo
I think that it’s fundamentally sad that we’re looking at the remaster and re-release of an almost 100 year old property as a sign of progress.
Ten years ago, I would have said “How lazy, that’re going back to the vault to try to inject some easy cash flow.” and now we’re saying “Well, at least it wasn’t that other thing they threatened to release.”
The measure of successful rehabilitation is longevity. This is a good first step but I will wait until time passes and their rehabilitation continues on a positive trajectory. The first meeting at AA does not give you are token,
The before and after image at the top looks like the before and after of my cataract surgery! Un miracle!