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 heard that this media campaign directed kids to a porn site and made the star seem insufferable while alienating hardcore fans of the musical before the movie is even out, but what’s the disaster?”
I mean I am sure there is more, OP, but does there even have to be?
Digital Cat Buttholes. It’s not a musical controversy worth discussing if it doesn’t involve digitally animated cat buttholes.
Andrew Lloyd Webber is laughing at this lil dust up.
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).
I loved the Broadway musical, though I never got to see it in person.
Personally I don’t see what the big deal is with the poster. Yeah, it wasn’t the same as the original. It seemed fine to me. And yeah, they changed it to match. Also seemed fine to me.
And guess what? The woman being upset that they changed it? Seems fine to me. If my face were essentially Mike Wazowski’d off the cover of something, I’d be a little upset. Maybe not enough to make a public stir, but I’d privately bitch to people for quite some time.
I can definitely see some people considering it a PR nightmare, and do know some people who were pissed about the poster… But I just don’t get the same feelings. It’s just meh.
I’m sure plenty would say I’m just not an artist/into musical theater/whatever. Maybe that’s true.
Now let’s have this same conversation if they ever redo Fiddler On The Roof (1971), I’ll probably have much stronger opinions since I was in that one multiple times…
I think the fan made poster looks amazing and is superior to the official one. There is a sense of mystery to it. So much more expression. It makes me want to know more about the exchange that is happening.
In the official poster she is just blankly staring at the camera. It makes me feel nothing.
This has nothing to do with “hiding” someone’s face and everything to do with art eliciting emotion.
In my opinion it would be wise to pay the fan to use their poster as the actual poster. It would probably be better PR as well.
I thought the whole issue with the poster was she was claiming it was racist even though people were just wanting something classic looking.
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Fuck off with u.s. politics where it doesn’t belong.
What where they bitching about ?
Got removed before I could see it
I can’t recall exactly, but they mentioned Trump. So, but given the grandparent poster’s “So they did something wicked?” question, I’m sure it was something like “Like Trump, amirite?!”
I hate Trump as much as they next guy, but if I come to this lemmy community, it’s precisely to escape the real life BS.
