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What's going on with the wicked movie being a PR disaster (lemm.ee)

submitted 4 days ago by x4740N@lemm.ee to c/outoftheloop@lemmy.world

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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

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[–] SARGE@startrek.website 5 points 4 days ago (2 children)

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...

[–] LifeOfChance@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago

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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