The actor Peter Dinklage has not hesitated to charge against the next Disney film, a adaptation of the Snow White story. The American does not seem to agree with the approach they have given to the new production. Dinklage’s accusations, however, have had quite a bit of repercussion, and Disney He has already replied saying that has started work side by side with people with dwarfism to prevent those affected by this condition from being stereotyped on the big screen.
Disney throws roses and Dinklage does not share the same definition of “progressiveness”
Disney seemed very proud when she announced that her new Snow White would be played by latin actress. However, Peter Dinklage has not celebrated at all. The one who played Tyrion Lannister took advantage of a interview they did on the WTF podcast to express your opinion on the matter:
“They are very proud to hire a Latina actress to play Snow White. They think they’re doing the right thing, but they don’t realize they’re still telling the same story as Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. To me, that doesn’t make sense.”
Dinklage criticized the disney double yardstickwhich he considers is not as progressive as it seems «You may be progressive in a way, but you’re still doing the same fucking story about seven dwarfs living in a cave.”. The actor took advantage of the interview, where he was initially promoting Cyranothe musicalto show their rejection of this Disney production.
Reinterpret, nothing to censor
Of course, don’t think it should be censored, but reconsider. The American even dropped that it seemed that everything he has done from his position to defend the group from him seems to have fallen on deaf ears, since all the noise he has made during these years since his role the Game of Thrones seems not to have curdled in a society that he still sees dwarves from the same pejorative perspective.
Peter Dinklage ended his presentation by simply asking for a more progressive turn. Eliminate the typical scenes and controversial plots and take a turn for the dwarfs to be treated with the I respect that it deserves from the audiovisual field. Fortunately, Disney has not been slow to respond to Dinklage, in a statement which says the following:
We want to avoid reinforcing the stereotypes of the original Snow White animated film. We have decided to take a different approach with these seven characters. We will share more information as the film heads into production after a long period of development, but we have been consulting with members of the dwarfism community to avoid stereotypes that may hurt the feelings of people affected by the condition.
Dinklage’s complaint once again shows that it is not enough to take a work from the past and put people of other races to give a modern touch. To open up means to redo and break with the established. If Disney wants to work in this direction, it will have to face the problems as a whole, even at the risk of obtaining a result that has nothing to do with the original. will we see a snow white without dwarfs movie? Possibly.
