I’m aware of the url mishap with the dolls and vaguely aware of the poster controversy but I’ve also seen people online call it a PR disaster and I’m entirely out of the loop on that
I’m aware of the url mishap with the dolls and vaguely aware of the poster controversy but I’ve also seen people online call it a PR disaster and I’m entirely out of the loop on that
What’s the poster controversy? I guess I’m more out of the loop than you are. I’m still looking forward to the movie though, I love the musical.
a fan edited the official movie poster that erased half of the star’s face and added lipstick and tweaked a bunch of stuff, the star got really upset and tweeted that the poster was offensive and her erasure hurt her and she wanted people to know that it hurt her.
so a bunch of people attacked her.
she wrote more than necessary, maybe, but she didn’t attack the fan or ask the fan to take the poster down or anything like that, she was just letting people know that she felt hurt, and she was rabidly attacked for expressing herself.
I can understand where she’s coming from, but it isn’t about her. It wasn’t edited to eliminate her. It was edited to reflect the original 2003 poster, which it nailed.
https://www.today.com/popculture/cynthia-erivo-wicked-poster-controversy-rcna175772
I thought the fan edited poster looked terrible myself, but I’m apparently in the minority there and it’s a fan at it, so who cares.
" it isn’t about her"
it is literally about erasing and replacing her image with a different image.
that’s fine if you or other people like the new image better, and it’s fine for Cynthia to express her upset at her image being erased and replaced.
both of your feelings are valid, especially since neither of you are making demands of anyone else.
That doesn’t sound like the movie studio dropping the ball or anything. If it was a fan edited poster, that’s completely out of their hands.
The problem was not the fan, it was how the actress reacted.
the row had nothing to do with the movie studio, or the movie, really.
a fan edited the poster, the star said her feelings were hurt in too many words and too dramatic a fashion, and the internet en masse told her to shut the fuck up and she was so selfish for sharing her feelings, she should stop attacking people (she didn’t) and she should silently accept whatever was coming to her since she was a public figure (she shouldn’t) but as a public figure she wasn’t allowed to express herself(she is).