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On 2025-04-12 10:44 a.m., Cindy Hamilton wrote:
> On 2025-04-12, Jill McQuown <j_mcquown@comcast.net> wrote:
>> On 4/12/2025 10:10 AM, Janet wrote:
>>> In article <vtc2bh$2lmvb$1@dont-email.me>, chamilton5280
>>> @invalid.com says...
>>>>
>>>> On 2025-04-11, Bruce <Bruce@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> I'd call that decent or honest, not woke. Woke tends to get hysterical
>>>>> and demand that an actress of colour plays Snow White in a movie.
>>>>
>> Who demands this?
> 
> Oh, I don't know if anybody demanded it.  But the latest live-action
> version featured color-blind casting, ending up with a somewhat dusky
> Snow White of Colombian descent.
> 
>> Considering 'Snow White' was written by The Brothers Grimm published in
>> 1812 in Germany, one would not expect anything other than white people
>> to be featured, not even in the 1960's Disney cartoon film.  No one
>> cares if it's "woke".  It's a classic fairy tale.
> 
> People expected a white Snow White, and howled like monkeys about
> the casting.  The actor didn't help herself any by criticizing
> Donald Trump.  And the movie gained some bad press by casting Gal
> Godot as the wicket queen.  Godot is an Israeli who served in the
> IDF and is a vocal supporter of Israel.
> 

Denzel Washington has starred in Macbeth so perhaps we shouldn't
criticise Laurence Olivier playing Othello in blackface,