As lockdowns lift, media firms brace for an “attention recession”

Re:As lockdowns lift, media firms brace for an “attention re... by kelnos on Saturday July 31, 2021 @08:58PM (#28022801)

I'm not sure why you're so offended by remakes of things where the race of a main character has changed (on the grounds that writers should be able to come up with some new stories), but for some reason are ok with remakes where the race of a main character is kept white.

> Or are the beancounters stopping any risks, so they feed us 200+ year old fairytales, that we've seen before?

I mean, yes, I think this should be pretty obviously the case, given all the remakes and reboots we've seen in the past decade or two. This has nothing to do with some diversity conspiracy, though.

To be fair, though, I do think there is at least some creativity in animated movies recently (that don't specifically target a white audience), for example (IMO fantastic) movies like Coco and Soul.

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Re:As lockdowns lift, media firms brace for an “attention re... by ajsnigrutin on Saturday July 31, 2021 @09:20PM (#28022923)

Snow White is white in the story itself - "skin as white as snow". It's a "historic" fairytale set in northern europe, where people are white. It has many adaptations, where they keep to the canon, and she's... well, white as snow. It's literally in the title.

Snow white has "skin as white as snow, lips as red as blood and hair as black as ebony". Even if she stays white, if the actress was blonde, that would bother me... she's not Snow White anymore.

I know this page is very american-centric, but snow white was one of the stories most of us here in europe read (or listened to our parents read) as kids, and we all remember the story, and the image of Snow White, we've all built in our heads.

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