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    Tomorrow’s headline in Variety:

    Ben Shapiro rumored to be in high-pitched talks to play all seven dwarfs in anti-woke version of Snow White 90 minute conservative temper tantrum.

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        Yet they’ll still do incredibly well because the movie makers can launder money through churches, tax free, to buy all available tickets to give out for free to the church congregations. This then makes the movie appear to be better and more popular than it really is.

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        You can’t criticize the movie without criticizing the message. If you criticize the message you’re not on their team. Not conforming to the team is a bannable offense.

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          It’s easy, when script writing is worse than a high school play, they’re either over filtered to look cinematic or feel like they just filmed it and cut it together. I’ve seen better acting in b grade porn than anything I’ve seen in one of those movies, the sounds terrible like they’ve used the in camera mics on scenes.

          See I criticized the movie without criticizing the message.

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        We talking Hollywood or daily wire?

        Hollywood has had a 100 years to get good st making movies and around 90 years in they forgot how. Daily wore has only.has a few years. Maybe in 80 years they will start making good movies

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          No they won’t. Because the message in their movies is always racist or bigot shit.

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    I think it’s funny that Ben Shapiro failed as a Hollywood nepo baby. Do you know how much of a failure you have to be to do that?

    OTOH Kudos to Ben for giving Ben in a wig a job

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    Well, Ben, since as an almost forty year old grown man, you seem REALLY upset at a certain recent movie for being too “woke” or whatever, let’s see how well your movie does as a failed screenwriter with a failed actress.

    I’m not going to start throwing tantrums or burn anything, I’m just going to laugh at you in private.

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    Ah yes, Snow White and the Seventh Reich, a beloved children’s story about how a mirror that considered an underage girl to be hot got her roofied and then taken advantage of while sleeping by the dude with the most privilege who instead ends up celebrated for rescuing her from her laborer immigrant household.

    Honestly even without any alterations to the core plot this clearly has all the hallmarks of a conservative hit on their hands.

    A little Triumph of the Will cinematography and some dog whistles thrown in, and they can’t help but get everyone on Parler to buy a few copies each. (Literally, as the people there are suckers waiting to be parted with their bitcoins.)

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    Being so wrong about the reception and mind shattering profits of the Barbie movie done gone made Benny Shaps a might bit parched for some of that movie moolah sizzurp in his real boy diet cola. I would actually watch this if it got pirated and entirely redubbed with Robert Evans doing all the characters voices as Ben.

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    So… a movie featuring a sleeping girl getting woken up for her happy ending is too woke?

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      It’s more a backlash against the Disney ‘remake’…in quotation marks because rather than remaking it, it just sounds like they just did their own thing completely.

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    Let them waste the money. A spite movie is pretty funny though. Straight out of Curb Your Enthusiasm

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      Looking at the trailer, it seems pretty obvious they’re not actually making this movie. It shows a single character for about 10 seconds of footage. My guess is they’re doing this strictly for the headlines.

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      Oh no, I think all of us really want them to make their own movie. I know I can’t wait to see them fuck that up.

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      I just don’t get the joke they’re trying to make, like… Ben in a wig doesn’t seem like a serious attempt at this, but I’m not even sure who it’s supposed to be hitting.

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          I’m not really sure how. Per the story, she has red lips, pale skin, and dark hair. Otherwise, there’s not a huge overlap between this and the classic Disney versions, unless I’m missing something

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          Actual question: would that even be something in court? I would imagine the filmmakers of this Snow White could say her design is “inspired” by Disney’s take on Snow White, but otherwise say it’s “original”.

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            No. I think that anybody can make a spin of Snow White if they want to which is why Disney spent a lot of their 90s in making unique IP that simply “borrowed” plot elements from famous plays. (The Lion King, for example.)

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            Snow White… they can get away with as long as it’s not the same basic outfit. I know they can’t use the names of the dwarfs. Those are Disney created. They would have to come up with new names and identities.

            They probably never read the original story so they may not know that. Could get sued if they have incompetent creators and lawyers who don’t check up on that, then use the same names.

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            Courts definitely make decisions like that. There’s a news story every few years about a court ruling that some big name musician ripped off a more obscure one, usually followed by music experts explaining why it’s not at all unlikely for different musicians to independently come up with the same baseline, chord progression, etc.

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      What would they sue over…?

      It’s a 300-year old story and a ton of Disney movies that come out are accompanied by like 4 dollar bin clones