• Re: Disney's New Snow White: She'd Be Better Off Staying Dead Than Kiss

    From Lenona@21:1/5 to A Friend on Thu Aug 24 08:06:31 2023
    On Wednesday, August 23, 2023 at 10:07:58 PM UTC-4, A Friend wrote:
    Rhino
    wrote:

    It's going to be absolutely hilarious when this film tanks at the box office because the publicity put out by its star absolutely sours
    everyone on the film. Disney will be out gazillions of dollars and
    Zeglar will be struggling to find work doing bad commercials.
    The film is going to tank because there's no appetite out there for a
    remake of Snow White.

    A re-release of the original might do better.

    If anyone likes...

    "Snow White - any chance of seeing it in theatres again?"

    https://groups.google.com/g/rec.arts.movies.past-films/c/zoGMu0bIzoA/m/sjkRPcjt_GoJ

    It's from 2014. There are eight posters besides myself.

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  • From Lenona@21:1/5 to Ubiquitous on Thu Aug 24 09:34:41 2023
    On Wednesday, August 23, 2023 at 6:55:23 PM UTC-4, Ubiquitous wrote:


    Apparently, even when a woman is in love with a man and even when they
    want to be together, the worst thing that could possibly happen is for
    him to kiss her while she is dead, to wake her up from being dead.
    That’s the worst thing you could do in a myth. The best thing probably would have been for him to come along and just bury her.


    For those who don't know, in the original story, Snow White does NOT meet the prince beforehand.

    I.e., he falls in love with her at first sight - when he thinks she's dead - AND wants to take her with him!

    From an adult reader's point of view, that's...never mind.


    From Goodreads, by Ruth Ann (about the Newbery Honor-winning
    autobiography of children's writer/illustrator Tomie dePaola, "26 Fairmount Avenue," 1999):

    "My favorite parts are when Tomie shares the unique point-of-view of
    a young child. For example, when he arrives at kindergarten and learns
    that they won't learn to read until first grade, he immediately decides
    to leave and come back next year. Another incident, is when Tomie goes
    to the movies with his Mom and brother to see the original Disney
    release of Snow White. He is appalled when the story line of the movie
    does not stick to the book. He even stands up in the movie theatre and
    shouts his disapproval. How could Mr. Disney have left out important
    parts and used the ending of Sleeping Beauty? I found this heart-warming because I too am a reader who never thinks the movie version measures up
    to the book."

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  • From Ubiquitous@21:1/5 to nope@noway.com on Fri Aug 25 04:30:43 2023
    XPost: rec.arts.tv, alt.disney, rec.arts.disney.misc

    In article <230820232207533479%nope@noway.com>, nope@noway.com wrote:
    Rhino <no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:

    It's going to be absolutely hilarious when this film tanks at the box
    office because the publicity put out by its star absolutely sours
    everyone on the film. Disney will be out gazillions of dollars and
    Zeglar will be struggling to find work doing bad commercials.

    The film is going to tank because there's no appetite out there for a
    remake of Snow White.

    A re-release of the original might do better.

    What? Pass up an oportunity to make more work propoganda?

    --
    Let's go Brandon!

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  • From Lenona@21:1/5 to All on Mon Aug 28 10:26:37 2023
    From Goodreads, by Ruth Ann (about the Newbery Honor-winning
    autobiography of children's writer/illustrator Tomie dePaola, "26 Fairmount Avenue," 1999):

    "My favorite parts are when Tomie shares the unique point-of-view of
    a young child. For example, when he arrives at kindergarten and learns
    that they won't learn to read until first grade, he immediately decides
    to leave and come back next year. Another incident, is when Tomie goes
    to the movies with his Mom and brother to see the original Disney
    release of Snow White. He is appalled when the story line of the movie
    does not stick to the book. He even stands up in the movie theatre and
    shouts his disapproval. How could Mr. Disney have left out important
    parts and used the ending of Sleeping Beauty? I found this heart-warming because I too am a reader who never thinks the movie version measures up
    to the book."

    And, for the record, the late dePaola was born in 1934.

    So he COULD have been as young as three at the time - but he could have been a bit older, too.

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