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Gal Gadot suggested that political pressure on celebrities to speak out against Israel contributed to Disney’s Snow White underperforming at the box office, though she acknowledged other factors played a role.
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The film, starring Gadot and Rachel Zegler, earned $87 million domestically compared to higher-performing Disney remakes; Zegler faced criticism for her pro-Palestine stance during promotion.
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Gadot emphasized she enjoyed working with Zegler, said her “conscience is clean” regarding support for Israel, and expressed hope for peace and safety for all people.
Disney fans don’t give a fuck about Palestine, sometimes there is just such a thing as a bad movie. People are tired of dumb live action remakes, and in general Snow White as a story just did not age well and was never going to be a success in modern cinema.
The hero has a good voice, and movie had a couple of good songs. Usually a good Disney formula. That and a popular, somewhat good plot, fairy tale remake, is part of the formula.
That formula doesn’t work anymore. Doing the exact same thing over and over and over and over and over and over and over again will eventually show diminishing returns, and the overt racism and sexism of snow white just simply doesn’t have staying power. People don’t want that anymore. Even the blind consumers of disney.
I think it’s the fact that people have seen Gal Gadot’s acting skill before.
Snow White failed because it’s a bad movie.
And any celebrity not volunteering their disgust at Israel over the Gazan genocide should be boycotted.
I heard she is an ex IDF soldier. If true she can fuck off. Movie sucked because of CGI dwarves that could of been played by little people. Also fact we didn’t need a live action Snow White.
Isn’t serving in the military mandatory in Israel?
Yes
She did a lot more than the mandatory minimum, she cheerled them and praises them every chance she gets.
That would definitely warrant the negative statements.
You get sent to prison if you dodge the draft. Fuck every single Israeli who chooses participating in genocide over a prison sentence
there more I live the more I respect the friends I met who preferred jail to the army.
lost contact with them, but I hold more respect for them the longer I live.
But, they are only following orders.
And how did that go for the last group of fascists that used that as an excuse?
Bad for the plebs that had to die for it.
The industrials, rich, politicians, etc, who got them to do it got immediately rehabilitated and stayed in power everywhere.
With exception from the handful symbolically sacrificed at the Nuremberg media trialsMy point exactly. History is a wheel et al.
We’ll see what happens when Trump is out of office.
Nothing, the Blue MAGA fascist-lite half of that shithole will call for reconciliation.
As they already have.
And as happened with the original WW2 fascists
Most of them are very proud of being part of the occupation force . Many even film themselves mocking Gazans or committing war crimes
Doesn’t matter fuck her she a shit actress.
I don’t have an issue with that opinion. It’s the condemning her for serving in the military when it seems like she had no choice that I have a problem with.
Not that I know her opinion on the current state of Isreal.
There are Israelis who chose prison time over serving in their colonial occupation army.
She did more than serve the mandatory amount, she chose to promote them and publicly supports them.
Which is important to note, but that’s not what the comment above said. It said serving alone is grounds for hate. Israel fucking sucks, but I’m fine working with people who served in the IDF if they’re against Israel’s actions. We all should be, or our list of allies will be incredibly small, as what nation or group hasn’t contributed to horrific actions?
Hard disagree.
“I may have helped an army commit war crimes and I may have shot at people myself but I’m against the war” sounds like an insane excuse. “I was just following orders” has been conclusively debunked. I feel some pity for genuine objectors (the head of the Taylor swift fan club spent a few months in jail rather than serve) but they aren’t in the group you describe.
She had a choice though, some Israelis choose prison instead of participating in occupation and genocide. Had she done that she’d be worthy of respect. She chose to serve.
That’s not much of a choice.
I know right? Why would you choose to have that blood on your hands?
For the most part, yes.
Service is mandatory
She didn’t have the obligation to express her proudness of doing the "service " though
The comment above needs to say that then. They had issue with her serving at all.
Everybody should have an issue with people serving in an occupation force
These people are just turning 18 and probably reluctant to leave their home and family/friends and probably don’t want to be in jail either. They’ve spent their entire life with propoganda shoved down their throats and with tons of pressure to just get it done. No, I won’t hold that against them.
I’ll hold it against them if they choose to take other actions, but not that. They didn’t choose where they were born.
Wherever you are living, you’ve done far less than it would take for these people to avoid serving. You’re comfortably sitting at home with relatively few worries.
Just replace israelis with russians and you should see how dumb is your comment is. The least she could do is just to shut her mouth and don’t be proud about serving in that genocidal terrorist army
She is a meh actor who looks good. Her support of istaels government makes her a shit person. Will never watch her movies again
Shi, always tried avoiding. When I seen her as ww I thought “Man whose d did you suck?” She came out of nowhere, a model, tone deaf, and bad at her job.
Genocide Barbie, whose job is to repeat lines that are given to her, repeats line that was given to her
More like the movie sucked and her genocidal views didn’t help the matter. Get your head out of your ass.
Or the movie “snow white” hurt the movie “snow white” at the box office
It always has to be some outside factor with these idiots. Good forbid they look inward and ask some tough questions to themselves, i.e. “why do all MY movies bomb so bad?”
It was so effing bad.
Or…or, it sucked and she’s actually a terrible actress.
I don’t think she’s a terrible actress. More like middling. She really struggles with bad directors and poor scripts. She doesn’t have that geniality to inject original interpretation into her characters. I mean, I’ve seen analysis by body language acting specialists that say that all actors in snow white shared the same bad body language mistakes, and that’s a direction error. They were told to act that way, and they did. As is half of their job. The other half is saying “great, that was fun. But would you give me two or more takes to try something different?”
Nah, she’s terrible. I’ve yet to see a scene in any movie that is better because she’s in it. Even Mark Walhberg can act better than her and he can’t act.
She doesn’t have that geniality to inject original interpretation into her characters.
That’s like the definition of a bad actor.
I’ve seen analysis by body language acting specialists
What, why?
Why?
Ms gal gadot, nepo her way into hollywood and cant act . no the movie was terribly written, plus adding insult to injury you have to be the LEAD in it, which are not a very good actor in. angeline was a better Maleficient anyways.
This is the argument with my friend. Jolie is a good person, macklemoore is virtue signaling. She sacrificed a lot to change them little kids lives. Real change even if it’s only 3-4 people. Mackle moore just sings about it.
apparently she was in the IDF, that makes alot of sense of her nepotism.
This is complete bullshit. Zegler’s one or two pro-Palestine comments made barely any difference to how the movie was received. And Gadot saying this smacks of of deflection and Israel persecution complex. By far the bigger factors were: nobody wanted to see it (and it was clearly a shallow money-grab by Disney), the whole dwarf portrayal fiasco, and Zegler being generally mouthy and unlikeable.
Gal Gadot is probably mostly talking about herself. She’s Israeli and has been pro-Israel for a long time.
I’m American and I’m anti-american.
See, it’s easy.
Was there not a backlash to Snow White being portrayed by a person of color? Prior to everyone knowing it was also a bad movie, I have to think that would have had an impact. Especially because a major part of Disney’s market is appealing to families in flyover states.
Good point. That was another factor. There were a lot of scandals (some legit, some silly) the with that movie. But Disney supposedly pushing some sort of anti-Israel agenda was not one of them.
There’s always a backlash when there’s someone non-white (and often non-male) in a leading role in a movie these days. Often they really only get traction when the movie sucks, though.
I agree that typically that backlash is stupid and just racist, but even in the original folktale the entire reason she is called “Snow White” was because she was supposed to have “skin as white as snow”. It is weird that they chose a non-white actress in this case.
She also had a sister named Rose Red.
I feel like there’s already been significant changes from the source material, so changing such a minor factor as her skin color is probably not the faux pas racists think it is.
seems like they were all railing on rachel zelger for some reason.
Zegler insulted the target audience lol
Well, Zionists gonna zionist
Zionize?
the movie was pretty bad…
i described it to my friend like this, and had to double verify that i was not joking; this actually happened in the movie:
the movie didnt know what it wanted to be. it flipped back and forth between a mediocre comedy and an ultra-serious drama so quickly that when someone gets shot, goes into surgery and the tone changes to somber the audience is left to believe an important character just died… “GuESs wHAt TiME iT iS?!” and happy breakout into song and dance.
i just couldnt after that and left.
I mean, my favourite TV show does that all the time! Scrubs can swap on a dime. Then again it’s made by the masterful Bill Lawrence.
I would say it works in Scrubs because it breaks the rules of how you should handle it. They knew what they were doing well enough to make it work anyway. Most of the time it’ll probably not work, but if you’re a master then you can take the rules and break them to your advantage.
Disney making live action remakes (cheaper than animation) so they don’t lose ownership of the IP is the worst reason a human being has ever made a movie for.
Anything produced for that goal will be shit
Counterpoint: I’ve read that this is the primary reason that Spider-Man: Into the Spiderverse was produced - so that Sony could keep control over the Spider-man IP - and that was a fantastic movie.
Sure, but Sony actually gave artists free reign to have fun and take risks with it. With the explicit intention of rejuvenating the IP. Unlike Disney which demand total risk aversion, formulaic and nostalgia based production, and no new creative thought whatsoever.
This is true. Sony’s Spiderman contract is one of the last ones left from when Marvel was part of a hostile takeover in the 80s. There have been other examples of this behavior over the years for the same reason.
Kalel nooooo!
