I gotta be honest, I don't understand what you're doing here. This sounds really patronizing. I'm sure that's not how you meant it, but come on. I don't need to be told how to watch and evaluate movies. I'm not telling anyone else how to feel. All I did was provide the full quote and interview and say that I understood why it upset people.
I did not intend it to come off as patronizing. I’m sorry I was purposely trying to do the opposite and be as respectful as possible. Have a magical evening.
If you look at it through modern sensibilities though, a Prince showing up in the woods out of nowhere and instead of introducing himself just starts professing his love, yeah that comes across stalkerish and weird in 2022 (when the interview was done after recent events of time) and even today 3 years later. Its not even a hot take, its something that I've seen discussed many times in many circles even before this quote or even this remake was a thing.
People's level of care and concern for a topic is personal. But my guess is that they love the movie and the person who will now be depicting the character doesn't seem to love it like they do.
Thank you. I'm sorry I misread your message.
I mean, by that standard, Ariel too is a stalker, spying on Eric and developing a fixation on him without his knowledge. Only recently have Disney films moved away from a fairytale notion of romance in which the protagonists—often teenagers—basically fall in love at first sight. In that regard, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is consistent with a much longer tradition that continued into the ’90s.
Tell them to grow up and get over it.
I very much appreciate the sentiment. Seriously thank you but let’s be fair to @easyrowrdw
This is a good point. At we point do we really consider something stalking? (Obviously there are something’s that are obviously stalking and wrong I’m merely curious as to where people think something starts to become stalking)
Fairytales have their own logic and are best enjoyed on their own terms. Stalking seems an ill-fitting way to describe the dynamic under discussion here. Still, it’s just an opinion, and nothing worth making a fuss over.
No doubt, which is why again it makes sense why a 20ish year old actress in a post-MeToo/post-Weinstein Hollywood would have this take and would want to clarify that this version is modernized giving Snow more agency. Which again is not even a hot take given how modern critics look back at similar products of the time, especially Disney fairytales, and say they don't age well especially the damsel in distress who needs to be saved by a Prince trope.
I’ve said something along these lines before, but Zegler’s comments are perfectly consistent with what many young women her age would say. I wonder whether some of the posters here who’ve torn her apart would feel quite so strongly if they heard similar words about the film from a cousin, niece, or daughter. I somehow doubt it.
I agree, yet here we are and some are still losing their minds over it.
I feel I should clarify I mean purely in the context of film not in real life it sounds weird that way
It does feel odd…. That most of the people offended by her words are middle age men
