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Jen0125 posted...

It's kind of a double edged sword here because I get his POV but also in doing so he just took 7 jobs from actors that are little people too if Disney was going to cast it that way.

It should be principles before money, right? Although, granted, it's much easier for a successful actor who already has a bunch of money to put principles first. In either case I'd be interested in hearing a broader opinion from little people as opposed to just Dinklage.

LinkPizza posted...

I think diversity is good. But at the same time, doesnt need to be in everything. But having no diversity would definitely set back the world into a worse way of thinking

I think Disney is on the right track when they make new stories that highlight different cultures (thinking of Moana and Encanto and etc). I think they're on the wrong track when they squeeze diversity into stories where it doesn't make sense (i.e. Beauty in the Beast set in medieval France) and try to shoehorn people from different cultures into French cultural norms.

In the big picture, though, it should be viewed as an 'overcorrection' in an area where correction is needed, so fair enough. Hopefully we'll get past the stage where we need only Chinese people in movies set in China and full diversity in movies set in European locations. Either way we have bigger things to worry about.

As for Snow White...it is more fantasy than it is European so I don't mind seeing them mix things up a little there, but it does seem to me that Snow White should be Caucasian if you're going to remake it. Better still, given the many questionable associations and the fact that it's not really that a great of a story to begin with...just let it die. Does every Disney movie really need to live forever? Not even SE is dumb enough to remake, say, Final Fantasy 2...and that's more or less what's going on here.