As I said many times, Disney should have listened. I wasn’t planning to discuss the new Snow White film, but there is just too much to discuss to ignore. The Disney stock is never coming back, guys. Bad decisions lead to failed companies, and Disney has made numerous poor decisions, which it can’t afford. Sure, out of all the movies released last year, they were the only studio to get a few movies in the billion-dollar club. But for them these days, as opposed to just a few years ago, their business approach was reckless, and they lost respect for their audience and instead put them in an abusive relationship. And that is the only thing that can be determined about the horrible decision to cast Rachel Zegler into a live-action remake of the Disney classic, Snow White. And it pains me to say all this, because I have liked Disney, as a company. As a vacation destination. I enjoyed Disney as a company and as a family. I have wanted nothing more than to see Disney succeed, and my intentions in that direction can be traced back for decades. I have put it in writing. However, as a large company and an easy target for left-wing politics, they have adopted an extreme political stance, becoming increasingly arrogant, and have inadvertently made people like Rachel Zegler possible. Zegler is essentially the Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of Hollywood actresses, and she has sunk herself with this one before the Snow White remake could even get out of the box with feminist diatribes and anti-Israel messaging in support of Palestinian terrorism. She is one of the worst members of the radical left, and she didn’t do anything to keep it off people’s minds. Instead, like an entitled brat, she thought for some reason that she could use her platform to advance her personal beliefs, which at her young age of 23 years old, nobody wants to hear. What could she possibly know?
Disney spent well more than $300 million on a remake of Snow White that nobody wanted. It’s a beloved classic that, if you were to remake it, audiences would likely want to see how a cartoon looks in live-action, rather than using live-action to reinterpret classic themes as modern social commentary. And then to write a script and put it on the screen by committee, the way many studios do these days. Someone should have pulled Disney aside as a company well before they cast Zegler in the film to play the pure, white Snow White. There were numerous mistakes made well before the cameras started rolling. However, Disney, like Zegler, started this process by targeting Rosanne Barr for her political beliefs, and most notably, the actress Gina Carano, who appeared in the Star Wars: The Mandalorian show. Of course, Rachel Zegler thought she should discuss her radical left-wing politics while doing press for Snow White, as the company itself was promoting that kind of activism. She’s just a dumb, inexperienced kid, copying the adults around her. What did she know? Or what could she be expected to know? Disney attempted to part ways with Johnny Depp regarding the Pirates of the Caribbean movies, which was a terrible mistake. Not that Johnny Depp is a good person. He did call for the killing of President Trump by assassination. But when it comes to the Hollywood community, most people can agree that he is the character people want to see in any Pirates of the Caribbean movie, and Disney tried to push him out because of the anti-white male stereotypes. Now that they are in deep financial trouble, they are trying to repair that relationship. But it’s too late.
The math is obvious: movies like Snow White need to be in the billion-dollar range for box office viability. However, Snow White only grossed around $43 million in its opening weekend, projecting the film to be a massive loss. But Rachel Zegler is only part of the problem. She’s the face of it, and she opened her mouth way too much even a year before the film came out. Disney re-shot the movie and attempted to address some seriously problematic plot points. For lots of ridiculous reasons, Disney thinks it needs to reprogram what little girls want to see in a movie, anti-romance stories, and feminist power where the evil witches are made sympathetic, rather than hated. And that is because these goofy feminists are now running these studios, and they bring their broken politics to these projects and hire a cast that represents their radicalism as if these career movies will hide what’s ruined inside them. But that’s not what people want to see. People go to the movies to see hope and a positive reflection of their concerns. They want to leave a movie feeling good about things, not being lectured to about how they need to change their minds. Little girls hope that someday they will have a prince who comes and sweeps them off their feet, and that they can produce a nice family and live happily ever after. The original Snow White was all about love’s first kiss and defeating the evil queen. Not coming to terms with evil which is ultimately where Disney has fallen short.
There are properties that Disney still owns that are generating a little money, such as the Marvel films, Star Wars, and Avatar, with a few projects on the horizon. There will still be a few movies here and there that do somewhat well, relative to the rest of the Hollywood industry. But that is only a shadow of its former self, and once that trust is broken with audiences, it will be lost forever. There is no way to repair it now. Disney has made itself an anti-Trump, anti-family entertainment company, and I can say that after just visiting there with my family recently. I wanted to love the Disney experience. I had just returned from a week-long trip to Japan and then spent a week with my whole family at Disney World, staying at the wonderful Fort Wilderness resort. I wanted to like it. But it was like being in love with a ghost. The magic had gone from the park; it was obvious to me. All my kids enjoyed themselves, but to be honest, their favorite part of the entire trip and all the fantastic things we did was the swimming pool at the resort. I spent a small fortune to give my granddaughter a Disney princess experience, complete with a dress and opportunities at the famous castle, and she thoroughly enjoyed it. She still talks about it all the time and I spent the money because I wanted her to have a taste of an elevated female experience, as a little girl, of what life might be for her, as opposed to the doubts that are so persistent in little girls worried that they might not be pretty enough, or smart enough to get what they want in life. Disney’s answer to that is to attack the expectations so that nobody fails. And that is not what people want, which is why the parks are not as full as they used to be, and why people have stopped seeing Disney movies, are canceling their Disney+ memberships, and are turning to other entertainment options. Rachel Zegler is a creation of Disney, and their support of people like her is precisely why they are failing now. And why their stock will never bounce back, which I hate to say.
Rich Hoffman
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