Posted on 07/21/2023 11:39:12 AM PDT by Robwin
ping to post #40
GOOD POINT.....”if your market is skewed toward traditional families
or white males, you are now vulnerable”.....
Yes. The underlying problem is the Board. I don't follow the Disney follies very closely, but it is often reported that the Board is split -- though clearly, at this point, the wokebots have control. Which brings us to the question of a theoretical shareholder revolt, and that takes us to what is wrong with the big banks and investment funds that hold most of the stock.
bwahaha!
No Disney our kids in Kindergarten do NOT need to know if they're really cross dressers.
If I owned Disney stock I’d be tempted to sue the board of Disney. It’s not like some Chinese movie company is blackmailing them into making bad movies on purpose or anything like that. What’s with the groomers?
It’s a shame but then they brought the shame. Good riddance.
It isn’t just wokeness - they’ve just made crap business decisions for a few years.
That, too.
Need new management—New directions. Go back to your roots and not trying to remake ROOTS.
I think the board is moving in that direction but in my opinion too slowly. First they have to find a way to get rid of Kathleen Kennedy then Bob Iger. Evidently according to a report I saw Kennedy has a clause inserted into her contract when Lucasfilm was sold to Disney that she could not fired and the only way they can get her is for Malfeasance, Misfeasance, or the Morals Clause. What a deal.
The really amazing thing is that all of this mess is Iger’s fault from the beginning and the mistake was bringing him back at all. The next Quarter and full year losses for Disney will be the end I think of Iger and many at Disney. If they have to start selling off all they bought then you know they are in big trouble.
humanevents.com
by: Libby Emmons 07/25/2023
Another DEI Disney loser
Brace yourselves: Disney’s new Snow White is poised
to be the worst ‘reimagined’ movie disaster yet
The all new live action Snow White currently in the works from Disney replaces dwarfs, features no true love, and boasts a lead actress who seems to despise the story. In an interview with Variety last fall, dark-skinned latino Rachel Zegler, who plays Snow White, extolled the virtues of bringing a “modern edge” to the classic, northern European fairy tale.
But what she means by “modern edge” is eliminating the feminine hero journey and replacing it with a masculine one. On so many “modern retellings” of classic stories, the female character takes on the role that would have been for the male hero, and the male hero is eliminated entirely. In so doing, partnership is also eliminated. It’s as though the ethos of feminist Hollywood is to allow for only one kind of heroes’ journey: the one that strives for power above all else, that seeks individual affirmation, and sees love as a weakness.
This perspective on success, and what people should look for in life, is not a feminist one but a capitulation to the same patriarchal values it seeks to eschew. Instead of telling women and girls that their impulses toward love and relationship are valued, are not only acceptable but praise-worthy, the new “modern edge” tells women that to be successful they must be more like men. This is anti-feminine, it’s anti-woman, and far from being “modern,” it is steeped in the backwards concept that what is feminine is bad and wrong and what is masculine is glorious and great.
When asked about it in a resurfaced clip, Zegler said “I just mean that it’s no longer 1937. And we absolutely wrote a Snow White that’s not going to be shaped by the prince, and she’s not going to be dreaming about true love, she’s going to be dreaming about becoming the leader she knows she can be, and the leader that her late father told her that she could be if she were fearless, fair, brave, and true.”
“And so it’s just a really incredible story,” Zegler goes on, “for, I think, young people everywhere to see themselves in.” Most likely this is a story of self-actualization, one in which the only thing that matters is personal achievement. But Snow White was not meant to be a story about bucking gender norms and turning the feminine journey into a masculine one. It is, at its core, a story about survival in the most basic way.
For Zegler, Snow White is some kind of uplifting feminist tale about representation, girl power, and assuming the stereotypical male ambition to become a leader. But that concept has absolutely nothing to do with the original Grimm’s Fairy Tale, nor the 1937 Disney version. While Zegler is right that it’s not 1937, she’s wrong to believe that stories from that time need to be updated to contemporary ways of thinking.
It’s surprising that, given how much disdain there appears to be for Snow White among the creators, they continued with the remake instead of coming up with an entirely new story that they could use to propagate their progressive political perspective.
Fairy tales are not meant to be political messages, but moral stories, comprehensive narratives, that contain archetypal characters. One of those key characters in Snow White is the prince, the archetype of the lover, the rescuer, another is the stepmother, the villain who preys on Snow White’s innocence.
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The remaking of fairy stories is serious business, and in this case, it is perpetuating an eternal childhood. These stories lie at the foundation of our civilization, and now we try to change them based on a perverse political perspective that has only to do with current trends and not lasting human nature.
The remaking of classic stories like Snow White is not about updating the stories for a new audience, but about ripping the foundations out of civilization and replacing them with the shifting sand.
The TRump Real Estate Organization has made an offer to the Disney Corporation.(sarc.)
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