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So, there is nothing on this earth that could convince me to watch a live action Disney remake in the theater, I haven’t watched one since the godawful live action Beauty & The Beast. So I haven’t seen the live action Snow White.
That said, I think the biggest reason live action Snow White flopped wasn’t due to its many controversies (not that those helped) but because in the trailers it looked visually cheap and bad.
Like, why does Snow White’s dress look like a Halloween costume? Who put her in that awful wig? Why do the queen’s “jewels” look like acrylic gems from the craft store? And then the dwarves, oh god the CGI dwarves.
This movie had a budget of $270 million. Is it a money laundering scheme?
Do you really think it might be a money laundering scheme?
nah, I just put that for humor’s sake. I think it’s just incompetence.
But I truly don’t understand how they spent that much on this movie. $260 million … For comparison live action Cinderella cost $90 million.
Not that everyone at Disney is talentless, I mean Encanto was fantastic.
My guess…
Bad management leading to constant rewrites and reshoots.
There’s going to always be some changes with scripts and filming because things on paper don’t always work on film -
But this movie had… two? major reshoots only to be pushed back again (it was supposed to come out last year IIRC) to add additional reshoots and tweak some material.
Also the script passed through multiple writers and script doctors including Greta Gerwig (who then fell out and was given only nominal credit). And CGI adds a huge chunk of the bill as well.
Disney (although I’d wager a lot of Hollywood) is in a spiral of “Keep throwing money at it until it works” which ends up not working because creatives are overridden by corporate boardrooms and test screenings and tax adjustments. :|
I watched a video essay once where the Youtuber said something akin to, “At its heart writing is about making decisions.” And I feel like modern Disney struggles with this so much.
First in the sense that they waffle and are reluctant to commit to anything. (imo Frozen 2 is an example of this, it meanders.)
Second in the sense that when the upper management DOES require decisions, they require them to be made on an arbitrary schedule to please the shareholders. For example, the lady who wrote the songs in “Wish” was allegedly given just two weeks to write them, and wasn’t told anything concrete about Asha’s personality and plotline because those hadn’t been solidified yet. An insane order of operations.
I also think it didn’t help how a lot of the live action movies feel like they want to “fix” the criticisms of the earlier films, without considering that they might have been important components to the film.
In Snow white, a common critique was that snow white and the prince did not spend a lot of time with each other, and that snow white behaved in a extremely feminine manner. This ignores the interpretation that the film was about her kindness and how it effects others.
Like she broke into the dwarves home, but she also cleaned up and cooked for them, as well as encouraged them to take better care of themselves and their home. There is kindness, and it was from that kindness that the dwarves grew to love and appreciate their new guest.
idk. Like its hard to want to watch a film that seams to hate its source material.
I know very little about disney remakes ,
But in this case it seems like they suffer from the opposite problem remakes tend to historically suffer : ¿ somehow too much effort ?
Like the usual modus operandi for remakes is to just do a play by play of the movie with some clean up : fix some icky stuff that was there because the past , get better cameras and effects , get in some modern jokes …
But overall just stay relatively conservative in the writing department ,
From what i hear they are basically reinventing the wheel …
Also yeah , i wouldn’t have because i belive in original stories , or at least adaptations of stuff we haven’t seen …
The disney remakes are just the opposite , i am glad it bombed .
Thats a good summery. But for some reason they turn the wheel into a triangle.
like they remove what made the movie charming and memorable . Like not having the donkey part in Pinocchio feels like its missing the entire point of the film. Like pinnocchio cant be flawed so they have a teacher kick him out of school. But then how does he grow as a character, if hes already good?
For the Babmi remake already said that they don’t plan to have Bambi’s mother’s death, which is like the only part of the film anyone remembers, and the entire point! What kind of narrative do you even have at that point?
I would love to see them try and tackle The dalmations sequel, The Starlight Barking. But I am the only audience member for that, and I dont think they have the guts for such a strange and kind of sad tale.
