Disney operated, and the loach-like "The Little Mermaid" finally received a Douban evaluation of 4.8 points.
Although the global box office exceeded $500 million, most of the box office was contributed by North America, and the film cost a whopping $250 million to make.
For Disney, a new attempt can only be said to be a return to its roots.
But the turmoil of "The Little Mermaid" has not passed, and another classic fairy tale of magic reform has been put on the agenda again.
Disney's latest live-action version of "Snow White" is scheduled to be released in March next year.
It shares the same DNA as The Little Mermaid – not only because they are world-famous fairy tales produced by Disney, but also because the absolute protagonists in the movies are played by minorities.
In "The Little Mermaid", it is the black actress Halle Bailey who plays Ariel.
And the one who plays Snow White in "Snow White" is Latino actress Rachel Ziegler.
The common characteristic of the two of them is that they are not very white and not very beautiful.
Over the years, with the momentum of the feminist movement, Disney has completely fallen into the so-called correctness of American popularity in the production of live-action films.
Not only live-action fairy tale films, but also the vast majority of new Hollywood movies must try to gather all ethnic groups, try to take care of all ethnic groups, and try to maintain casting that meets all the standards of the United States before they can be released carefully.
If anything is wrong after the release, the filmmaker will apologize and public relations in time, which can be described as walking on thin ice.
It's just that other original movie scripts seem to be understandable to change roles in this way, but for global audiences, those classic characters familiar with childhood have become all kinds of strange looks because of these brainless reasons, which is a bit unappreciable.
The white-skinned and beautiful red-haired little mermaid has turned into a little loach with dreadlocks.
肤若凝脂的白雪公主，这回也成了“黑雪公主”。
From the audience's point of view, for us, should films that are "innovative" and "adapted" in this way be accepted, or should they be resisted?
Is this the embodiment of aesthetic diversity, or has the movie become a show commodity that buys people's hearts and grabs chips to harvest leeks?
Combined with the past and present life of this "Snow Black", Mr. Tomato might as well have a good chat with everyone.
Why should we resolutely boycott a movie like the new version of "Snow White".
01, the prince disappears, the dwarf changes sexually, and the various "magic changes" of the new "Snow White"
We've seen quite a few movie adaptations.
The most familiar is the four famous novels, no matter how they are changed, the Tang monks and apprentices will not be erased, and Sun Wukong will be a hairy monkey.
The reason why the adaptation is within the scope of acceptance is because "adaptation" is not a re-creation, at least on the basis of respecting the original characters and story logic.
It is clear that the new "Snow White", both in terms of plot and aesthetics, has not achieved this.
You know, Disney's animated version of "Snow White", which has been released since 1937, is the world's first animated film.
Disney also made its fortune on this cartoon and developed into today's century-old factory, and this version of "Snow White" has had a profound impact on the growth of children around the world.
When children were young, their yearning for love was to find their own "Snow White" or "Prince Charming";
The perception of good, evil, beauty and ugliness comes from the contrast between Snow White and the vicious queen;
The experience of friendship comes from the relationship between Snow White and the small animals around her, and the seven dwarfs.
It is these simplest and most basic fairy tale plots, and the new version of "Snow White" has not been retained.
First of all, in the new version of "Snow White", the scene of "Prince Charming" was completely deleted, the princess does not need a kiss from the prince's true love, and the male protagonist Andrew Bernap plays an ordinary friend of Snow White.
Moreover, this version of Snow White does not need anyone to save her, she no longer yearns for beautiful love, but wants to become a ruler and leader.
Secondly, the new version of "Snow White" has deleted many iconic lines, such as the sentence "Magic mirror, magic mirror, who is the most beautiful woman in the world?"
Disney revealed that this line may be replaced with a new line, but the new line has not been released, and it is not known what it has been replaced with.
The media's explanation is that the original line, which allegedly encourages women to compete, is a sign of objectifying women.
But in fact, if you let the magic mirror choose the most beautiful between Rachel Ziegler's Snow White and Gal Gadot's (Wonder Woman)'s vicious queen, if the magic mirror is not blind, the whole story can end in one sentence.
You can imagine such a scene.
The queen asked the magic mirror: magic mirror, magic mirror, who is the most beautiful woman in the world?
Magic Mirror: It's you, my dear Queen.
(End of the play)
Finally, it is an explosion of various supporting roles in "Snow White".
For example, the seven dwarfs, in the revealed stills, the seven dwarfs have become like this.
Yes, you read that right, the one in front of her in her signature blue and yellow dress and red cape is Snow White.
The last eight are tall, male and female, involving all skin colors, ethnicities, and natures, and are stacked with various buffs, which are the "Seven Dwarfs".
Not only are they not small, they are not short, but they are also colorful and confusing, compared to the seven dwarfs in the original book, they are simply not on the same channel.
Disney's explanation for this is that the seven dwarfs in the original book are suspected of insulting the dwarves and dwarfism community.
But knowing that the dwarfs in the new version of "Snow White" are like this, the most famous "dwarf" in reality, Peter Dinklage, the actor of "Game of Thrones" "Little Devil", is very dissatisfied.
"The original story doesn't offend anyone," Dinklage said. Take a good look at what you're doing, there's no point in doing that!"
Based on these three points alone, it is not difficult to see that this version of the so-called "Snow White" has nothing to do with the original "Snow White".
She tells the story of a Latino woman who succeeds in becoming a politician with the help of eight partners of different skin colors.
What makes people wonder is that if such a story is to be filmed, why should it be named "Snow White" and ruin the childhood of global audiences?
The reason why we resist the new "Snow White" is that we are disgusted with this wanton trampling on the spirit of the original work, making up nonsense without logic to the original characters, and deliberately misleading the core of the original work.
These, not only us, but also foreign netizens can't stand it.
Someone said: "It is certainly not a fairy tale that we grew up with".
Some people also posted pictures to complain that Disney was too correct.
If all classics have to be adapted in this way, what is the significance of the existence of classics?
02, "white snow" becomes "black snow", is it aesthetic diversification, or brainless catering?
In "Grimm's Fairy Tales", there is an extremely clear description of Snow White's appearance - "Her skin is pure white as snow, her lips are red as blood, her hair is black and bright like a black waterfall, and she wears a beautiful red silk hairpin." ”
The biggest controversy in the new version of "Snow White" also comes from Snow White's appearance.
After all, the actor Rachel Ziegler is of pure Latin descent and has dark skin, which does not match "pure white skin as snow" no matter how you look at it.
Can a black person play a movie lead? Absolutely.
Can a black man be born beautiful and have an extraordinary temperament? Absolutely.
But can a black man play Snow White? Of course not!
Without discrimination, black people can do anything that white and yellow people can do, but they really can't play Snow White and the Little Mermaid, because they have nothing to do with black skin since they were born.
If Disney wants to praise black actors and create classic stories for black people, it can organize screenwriters and write other original scripts for black people.
Instead of moral kidnapping, black actors are stuffed into white fairy tales, and then prevaricated with the phrase "black people want to have their own little mermaid too".
You know, Snow White in 1937 looked like this.
The last time "Snow White" starring Lily Collins, it looked like this.
The German version of Snow White is also very beautiful and moving.
Even if you look through the entire live-action history of children's paintings, you can't find a dark-skinned "Snow White".
Having a black man play Snow White is undoubtedly full of great irony. If the Brothers Grimm knew, they would not have lifted the coffin board to file a lawsuit against Disney.
However, what makes Tomato Jun unbelievable is that there are many people who are quite supportive of "Snow Black".
There are the same views at home and abroad, and some netizens on Douban believe that "Snow Black" is well made, and the fairy tale live-action movie has finally gotten rid of the former "male aesthetics", and satirizes the original "Snow White" with three wrong views, women are stupid and sweet in addition to evil, and in the end they can only be rescued by men.
They believe that "Snow Black" is the embodiment of aesthetic pluralism, that there should not be only one standard for beauty, and that we should embrace all forms of beauty.
This point of view is also the most common and most preferred view at the moment, and it is also the main hole card for "Snow Black" to gain popularity.
In fact, the transformation of "white snow" into "black snow" is aesthetic pluralism or aesthetic nihilism?
First of all, aesthetic pluralism does not mean blurring the boundaries between "beauty and ugliness".
The premise of aesthetic pluralism is to recognize the existence of beauty, and to advocate that we should not attack "ugliness", but embrace all kinds of people and all forms of "beauty".
But that doesn't mean there are no boundaries between beauty and ugliness.
In "Snow White", why the skinny Snow White is beautiful and why the evil queen is ugly is not only about good and evil, but also depends on the natural feelings that exist in human DNA as the standard and basis.
This is easy to explain, everyone in the crowd can find beautiful women and handsome guys at a glance.
This is because they have stepped on our definition of "beauty", which is higher than the boundaries of "beauty" in our hearts.
It is precisely because of this that "beauty" is scarce, and everyone yearns for "beauty".
If we deny the existence of "beauty" simply on the basis of "aesthetic pluralism", then we are not falling into aesthetic nihilism?
In fact, in real life, everyone's perception of beauty is extremely clear.
Take a photo must be retouched, the live broadcast must be beautiful, and ugly photos must not be sent out, isn't it also everyone's requirement for "beauty"?
Since everyone has to pursue "beauty" in daily life, why should we deny the requirements for beauty when we watch film and television works?
Isn't this a living double standard and a paradox?
Second, aesthetics are constantly evolving, but standards are rarely changing.
Many people say that aesthetic trends change, so "Black Mermaid" and "Black Snow Princess" are fashion trends.
This is somewhat self-deceptive.
Although aesthetics have changed, the aesthetic standards have basically not changed much in the past few thousand years.
Let's not talk about it abroad, in Chinese history, everyone knows that the Tang Dynasty "took fat as beauty", but have you ever heard of the Tang Dynasty "taking ugliness as beauty"?
Yang Guifei, the representative beauty of the Tang Dynasty, is just plump, and her face is quite in line with current and modern aesthetics.
Her face is like a full moon, her eyebrows are like distant mountains, her teeth are like rhinoceros, and her lips are like grease", and she is also an absolute beauty now.
Therefore, the change of aesthetics does not represent the subversion of the boundary between beauty and ugliness.
Finally, is the aesthetic of fairy tales a male aesthetic?
In fact, countless evidences prove that "beauty" really has nothing to do with men and women.
"Beauty" is not defined by men, let alone led by men, and women have a more natural and profound perception of beauty than men.
Even the reviewer herself - she admits that Snow Black is really not beautiful.
But she supports this unbeautiful black princess to play "Snow White", just to break the male aesthetic monopoly on "beauty".
But she never thought that beauty is determined by human beings, if Snow White's beauty is beauty for men to see, then the ugliness of "Snow Black" is ugly for women to see?
This is completely illogical.
In fact, beauty and ugliness themselves exist objectively, just like IQ, and there will always be only a handful of people represented by Einstein who stand at the top of the pyramid.
In this world, the mediocrity itself accounts for the majority, which makes those who stand out shine even more.
Aesthetic pluralism is not to ask others to say that the ugly is beautiful with their own standards, which is aesthetic kidnapping.
True aesthetic pluralism is when we tolerate what we see, appreciate what we want to appreciate, let go of the plot of helping others, respect the beauty and ugliness of others, and that's it.
Why watch a fairy tale, and be forced to watch "Black Snow", this is the problem with the new version of "Snow White".
03, Rachel Ziegler's quality is worrying, and she is not qualified to play Snow White
Rachel Ziegler, a Latino post-00s who starred in "Snow White", is a special actor.
She was born in an ordinary family, and since her debut at the age of 17, she has been full of star luck, like riding a rocket.
In 2017, at the age of 17, she won the role of "Maria" in the romantic song and dance film "West Side Story" directed by Steven Spielberg, not only won the Golden Globe Award, but also gained a lot of high-quality Hollywood resources.
After that, she went all the way, first participating in the DC movie "Shazam 2", and then participating in the "Hunger Games" prequel "Songbird and Serpent Song".
In addition to "Snow White", she also collaborated with Nicole Kidman on "Spells" and "Paddington Bear 3".
However, Rachel Ziegler is a typical "scheming woman", not only double-faced, but also racist.
In 2020, Ansel, the male protagonist of "West Side Story", was accused of sexual assault, and Rachel took the lead in shutting down his account and frantically boycotted him.
As a result, she was photographed having dinner with Ansel in private, and the media ridiculed her for "taking the customs down is just a superficial show".
When she first became the star of "Snow White", Rachel expressed her excitement after being selected: "Even if it takes a million years, I can't imagine that this could come true."
But on the back foot, in order to set up a character, she immediately stepped on the 1937 "Snow White" on the show, not only saying that she hated the original movie and the story was weird, but also said that Prince Charming was a "stalker".
This kind of inconsistent behavior has been dissatisfied by fans.
When "Shazam 2" was released, a Chinese male blogger was invited to a press conference, and when he saw Rachel come forward to say hello, he was rejected by rolling his eyes.
The male blogger filmed her with his mobile phone, but Rachel instructed his assistant to threaten him and try to blast him out.
This made the male blogger sure that Rachel was a racist and posted a verbal criticism.
Unexpectedly, Rachel didn't care and posted a photo of her middle finger in response.
Later, the fight between her and the male blogger heated up, and Rachel always responded with swearing.
This angered the entire Asian community, and everyone worked together to capture Rachel's ins.
Unexpectedly, Rachel's approach was to be tough and delete the comments directly.
As long as all the Chinese comments are deleted, not a single one is left, and then Chinese netizens continue to post, resulting in the state of only a few dozen comments, and it has rushed to 20,000 at once.
Most of them are accusing her of racism, of course, not only in Chinese, but also in English, Japanese, etc.
"Snow White" is a story about truth, goodness and beauty, but the starring role is given to an arrogant, hypocritical, two-faced person.
It all seems magical and ironic, but it happened in reality.
From the story to the plot, from the starring to the actors, the new version of "Snow White" is not satisfactory.
This is also the reason why Mr. Tomato wrote this long article.
There are not many childhood stories, and if Disney deliberately panders to it again, all the stories will be ruined.
I don't want my child to grow up to see the Black Mermaid, Snow Black, and then ask me: why is the Magic Mirror lying when she is so ugly?
(Movie Rotten Tomatoes Editorial Department: Miao Miao) #MCN首发激励计划#