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Fans customized the Wicked movie poster to more closely match the original Broadway poster.

Original Broadway Poster:

Movie poster:

Some fans, disappointed by the poster, altered it to be closer to the original, moving Grande’s hand and lowering the brim of Erivo’s hat to cover her eyes. The edits prompted Erivo to respond. “This is the wildest, most offensive thing I have seen

“None of this is funny. None of it is cute. It degrades me. It degrades us,” Erivo continued. “The original poster is an ILLUSTRATION. I am a real life human being, who chose to look right down the barrel of the camera to you, the viewer… because, without words we communicate with our eyes.”

So, this seems like a completely reasonable reaction to fans making fan content.

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[-] Anderenortsfalsch@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

https://www.sbs.com.au/voices/article/headless-women-project-highlights-gross-sexism-in-movie-posters/2bhgrghmc

Compare movie posters of women whose eyes or even whole heads you can't see or that are reduced to legs vs. movie posters of male actors to whom this is rarely done and it is clear what is happening.
Top this with the problems people of color face and that the new poster takes away her facial look, the look of a person of color and replaces everything that reminds of her with a bland face that could be anyone and I understand her anger.

She could have explained the issue instead of lashing out, because so many of her fans (and people in ths thread) don't understand the problem and education is necessary and more helpful for everyone.

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Without words we communicate with our eyes

True, but this actress ain't doing that. She's completely dissociated in the pic, her expression so blank and emotionless, screaming that she's dead inside. While a dissociated character could make a good villain, it's not hard to see that the character in the poster for the musical isn't a dissociated villian who is unaware of her cruelty but someone who is fully conscious of and revels in it. It's only natural that people who are fans of the original work notice just how out of character this is and try to fix it.

Don't like it? Stop making stupid remakes of ancient stuff and make something original for once! Maybe try putting some emotion into it!

But you know, that'd require Hollywood actually put in effort and they've probably forgotten how to do that by now. Seriously, is anyone watching the new shit that they fart out over there these days? Most everyone I know either rewatches old shit or watches anime. Hey, maybe we'll see the rise of Bollywood over the next couple decades, who knows?

[-] match@pawb.social 4 points 5 months ago

it's not like they didn't know the original poster existed when they made the official poster. they made it a particular way on purpose and the edit doesn't respect that

[-] MammyWhammy@lemmy.ml 8 points 5 months ago

So?

What's the harm of the fan edit? Why get upset that someone edited a movie poster to more closely match the original poster?

Fans didn't do it to demean or belittle the actors in the movie. They did it because they're excited for the movie.

What a silly thing to get mad over.

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[-] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 4 points 5 months ago

I mean that fan poster looks terrible, so I get why she's pissed.

fans prefer that poster?

weirdos.

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[-] AbsoluteChicagoDog@lemm.ee 3 points 5 months ago
[-] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 months ago

Until this moment, I thought everyone was saying shits.

[-] jerkface@lemmy.ca 3 points 5 months ago

...when the actual wounded party (if any could really be found) would be the photographer and/or the graphic artist who produced the image. The model had no idea or say in how their image would ultimately be used. No doubt dozens of images were taken probably some with brim down. It's not up to the model to decide how the images are used.

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