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- Peter Dinklage Whines & Disney Throws their Classic Under the Woke Bus
- Reddit’s Censorship & Smearing of Conservative Creators Makes them Useless
- Batgirl Snags “First Trans Actor in a DC Comics Film” Participation Trophy
| Peter Dinklage Whines & Disney Throws their Classic Under the Woke Bus Posted: 27 Jan 2022 08:19 AM PST Game of Thrones star Peter Dinklage must have been provoked by the classic fairy tale Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Dinkalge recently objected to the news that Disney had planned a live-action rendition of their 1937 classic cartoon, which is being pre-emptively praised as “progressive” for casting Rachel Zegler of West Side Story as the titular Disney princess.
Dinklage revealed his hurt feelings with the Disney remake on Marc Maron’s “WTF” podcast on Monday, explaining that he takes issue with how some fans have praised Disney’s decision to recruit a Latina actress while ignoring how the Snow White story presents its namesake dwarfs. Apparently, if Disney plans to go with the established caricatures of the world famous dwarfs, which depicted them as friendly, hard working, and playful, the diminutive thespian doesn’t think Disney deserves credit for being “progressive” at all.
From the podcast: "There's a lot of hypocrisy going on," Dinklage told Maron. "Literally no offense to anyone, but I was a little taken aback by — they were very proud to cast a Latina actress as Snow White, but you're still telling the story of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Take a step back and look at what you're doing there. It makes no sense to me, because you're progressive in one way and you're still making that f–king backwards story about seven dwarfs living in a cave together, what the f–k are you doing man? Have I done nothing to advance the cause from my soapbox? I guess I'm not loud enough."
Dinklage must not be TOO familiar with the original tale, because the dwarfs may have worked in a diamond mine, but lived in a quaint little cottage.
Victimhood is the new elitism apparently, but as expected, Disney quickly responded, bending over backwards to acquiesce to Dinklage’s umbrage, according to reporting by David Ng of Breitbart. The Walt Disney Co. has jumped into damage-control mode after actor Peter Dinklage criticized the studio's planned live-action remake of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. The actor called the project a "fucking backwards story" for its depiction of midgets who live together in a cave. Disney responded to Dinklage's comments on Tuesday, and in so doing, threw its original 1937 animated classic under the woke bus. "To avoid reinforcing stereotypes from the original animated film, we are taking a different approach with these seven characters and have been consulting with members of the dwarfism community," the studio said in a statement sent to multiple news outlets. "We look forward to sharing more as the film heads into production after a lengthy development period."
But as Kay Smythe of the Daily Caller points out, what does Dinklage want exactly?
Should Disney have paired race-swapping with sex swapping? Snow White and The Seven Transgender Acapella Singers? Maybe more race-swapping? Black dudes pretending to be black ladies? Snow White And The Seven Madeas? Hire Tyler Perry, it'll be a smash! It's almost like Dinklage doesn't understand the term "hypocritical" when applied to progressive Hollywood. What would be hypocritical and "anti-woke" is if Disney used their usual lineup of SNL box office stars and turned them into dwarves using CGI. Then we might have a Dinklage tantrum about how Hollywood took away seven of the most notable roles available for real, actual members of the dwarf community.
Hopefully Dinklage will feel better now that the biggest entertainment company in the world is responding to his loud voice. But it that isn’t enough, maybe learning that Snow White actress Rachel Zegler is clearly simpatico with him will satisfy his victimhood itch. After all, she’s one of the most easily triggered progressives in Hollywood at the moment, nearly to the point of demonstrating racism.
Disney’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs live-action remake does not yet have an official release date. Marc Webb is directing the feature with Marc Platt producing. The script comes from Benj Pasek and Justin Paul who previously worked on the musicals La La Land and The Greatest Showman. Production is slated to start in the spring in the U.K. More casting announcements are likely to come in the near future.
As Smythe also points out, Dinklage's comments could potentially slam the door shut on the opportunity for struggling actors to play the most famous fictional dwarf characters in fantasy history. Not only has Dinklage written himself out of the most iconic role of all time, he's ostracized himself from the so-called dwarf community that he admits he does not affiliate with. The post Peter Dinklage Whines & Disney Throws their Classic Under the Woke Bus appeared first on Bleeding Fool. |
| Reddit’s Censorship & Smearing of Conservative Creators Makes them Useless Posted: 27 Jan 2022 06:15 AM PST
Reddit has a political problem. As reported by Bounding Into Comics, Critical Blast, and here at Bleeding Fool, further confirmation of what we know about Reddit, that’s led to Mike Baron’s Thin Blue Line graphic novel being banned for supposed “misinformation and racism”:
I guess somebody doesn’t like the police. When pressed for a response by “Even-Sympathy-657,” the anonymous moderator failed to make their case by quoting Baron from the Federalist article, in a weak attempt to back up their decision. It’s the final phrase in their response that’s “the tell” though.
This isn’t even the first time a Baron book experienced censorship shunning on Reddit forums. As noted almost a year earlier, they banned a campaign for crowdfunding his Florida Man graphic novel too. This is the second time I know of where some unseen leftist on Reddit censored citation of a Baron story, and it indicates something is terribly wrong. Especially if no other creators in the industry are willing to come to his defense.
What good is a site like Reddit, really, if this kind of activist employment is allowed unquestioned by the main staff? Thank goodness I don’t have an account on their site to date. All they’re doing is proving another example of what happens when leftists increasingly deal in blacklisting.
Originally published here. The post Reddit’s Censorship & Smearing of Conservative Creators Makes them Useless appeared first on Bleeding Fool. |
| Batgirl Snags “First Trans Actor in a DC Comics Film” Participation Trophy Posted: 27 Jan 2022 04:45 AM PST
HBO Max’s Batgirl has cast, Ivory Aquino to play Alysia Yeoh, Barbara Gordon’s best friend and roommate. While word of Aquino’s casting had leaked earlier this month due to a set photo, the news has finally been confirmed. Because both Aquino and her character Yeoh are both transgender, Warner Bros. was very proud to announce that this makes Batgirl the “first live-action film based on a DC Comics character to include an openly trans character”.
Alysia first appeared on the printed page in DC Comics’ Batgirl in 2011, created by writer Gail Simone and penciler Ardian Syaf. How long before Simone virtue signals with a humble bragging pat herself on the back for this character?
As Breitbart points out, this is a thin nuance because they already had a trans actor in their Supergirl TV series on The CW, trans actor Nicole Maines was the comic book giant's first onscreen trans character Dreamer back in 2018. So this really feels like an effort to tick an “inclusion” checkbox.
Is that gonna sell more HBO Max subs? Or is the marketing department out of ideas at this point?
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