Flying Squid@lemmy.world to Movies@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 days agoPeople shouldn't be complaining about the new live action Snow White not being "white" enough, they should be complaining about the dwarves.lemmy.worldimagemessage-square58fedilinkarrow-up1102arrow-down120file-text
arrow-up182arrow-down1imagePeople shouldn't be complaining about the new live action Snow White not being "white" enough, they should be complaining about the dwarves.lemmy.worldFlying Squid@lemmy.world to Movies@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 days agomessage-square58fedilinkfile-text
minus-squaresnooggums@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17·6 days agoWhen they went CGI they also took 6 roles from any actors because they are having one person do all the motion capture. This is entirely Disney’s fault for missing the point about steretypes and making it about casting so they could hire fewer actors.
minus-squareproudblond@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down1·6 days agoSee Defunctland’s recent video addressing why Disney was so obsessed with animatronics…
minus-squareP03 Locke@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down2·5 days agoI would, but Defunctland has a habit of making videos twice as long as they should be.
minus-squareproudblond@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·5 days agoThe Cliffs Notes version is that Walt thought actors were too unreliable and inconsistent. With perfected animatronics, who needed actors? Obviously it’s more nuanced than that but that’s the gist.
When they went CGI they also took 6 roles from any actors because they are having one person do all the motion capture.
This is entirely Disney’s fault for missing the point about steretypes and making it about casting so they could hire fewer actors.
See Defunctland’s recent video addressing why Disney was so obsessed with animatronics…
I would, but Defunctland has a habit of making videos twice as long as they should be.
The Cliffs Notes version is that Walt thought actors were too unreliable and inconsistent. With perfected animatronics, who needed actors? Obviously it’s more nuanced than that but that’s the gist.