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I found this interview and... oh, my goodness. Walt must be doing flip-flops in his grave.
Oh yeah, the live action Snow White situation. They really picked the wrong person for the role of that sweet princess (even though I still find them making a live action remake for this pointless). She may have a good voice, but she has such a wretched personality. And we’re supposed to believe that she’s prettier than Gal Gadot, who’s playing the Evil Queen?
I don't know, I don't know Rachel Zegler's personality and I'm sure they'll take beauty completely out as any consideration in the movie. As per usual, they'll humanize the Evil Queen, or make her lust for power instead of being plan jealous. But they can't have their Snow White character be "beautiful," as a characteristic that causes change in the movie, because they're probably operating on the infantile idea that "women are more than just their looks and should never be associated with their looks."
Of course women are more than their looks. But in fairy tales, beauty without is meant to symbolize beauty within. What makes Snow White's beauty powerful in the real fairy tale is the fact that it is genuine: it reflects what her heart is like. That's the edge her beauty has on the Queen's false beauty. It's symbolic--and it shows how shallow the Evil Queen is, making Snow White an even better heroine by comparison.
But they won't do all that. Because they don't remember how to tell stories that are true and faithful, instead of stories that are simply pandering to whatever opinion the culture has moment-to-moment.
Anyway.
All that to say, it really never mattered if the actress they got was "prettier" than the actress they got to play the Evil Queen. You could easily look at the animated version and say that the cartoon Snow White isn't prettier than the cartoon Evul Queen. Because actual aesthetic beauty is, in most cases, in the eye of the beholder 🤷♀️ You might think Zegler isn't as pretty as Gadot, but the next person in line could completely disagree with you, and the next person in line might not have noticed either of them to be especially pretty at all.
That was never the point. They could get any two actresses and say "this is the Evil Queen, who is beautiful, and this is Snow White, who is more beautiful, and that's why the Evil Queen hates her," and what either of the actresses looked like wouldn't matter to the story. But again. The concept of "beauty" as a storytelling tool isn't going to be used in this retelling, I bet you money.
Gal Gadot and Rachel Zegler are good actresses. But they clearly don't understand the original story. And Zegler, at least, lacks respect for the movie her retelling is supposed to be based on. And even the very best actresses can't make up for that sort of thing, because good acting comes from understanding.
To Knuckles : Whenever you leave angel island how do you keep the master emerald safe ? do you have someone else guard it or keep it with you for example?
im pretty sure ive mentioned this before, but i am actually SO convinced that Rouge has a scrooge mcduck style money vault where she swims in comically large piles of gems and money. Like cmon, theres no fucking way she uses a bank