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wpot posted...

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.

I mean, like I said, they shouldnt force it into everything. But I do understand trying to add more diversity to some older stuff. Lots of older stuff were made in different times with less diversity, so I see what theyre trying to do.

As for letting movies die, they probably wont happen. The classics are classics for a reason. And people will buy it pretty much every time the vault opens. Not only that, but the story itself wont die, anyway. Its not a Disney story. Disney has their own version, but the original came from somewhere else, IIRC It was a darker story, as well

Jen0125 posted...

Well it's also that maybe every other little person actor doesn't think the same as Dinklage. What if they LIKE the representation of having dwarves in fantasy settings? And would be happy to take those roles?

I'd be interested to see as well.

I agree