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by Randall » March 16th, 2025, 7:11 pm
It doesn't sound like you're really talking about plot, though, only appearances at best. I'm not convinced many changes were made to the actual story, and certainly not because of Dinklage's bizarre and uninformed comments. Perhaps there were story changes during production (as is often the case in these big tentpole releases), but it seems like a lot of assumptions have been made, perhaps by those crowing about how "they" supposedly forced Disney to make changes. Didn't we still end up with CGI dwarfs in the end anyway, regardless of what we're calling them (more like Hobbits, perhaps, but really still dwarfs)? I certainly wouldn't say that was at all a "win" for any dwarf advocates. In fact, dwarf actors lost out the chance for work they may have even appreciated. (Not Dinklage, though, obviously.) Regardless, what was really changed, then?
I still don't understand Dinjklage's concerns, either, which I think have themselves been misrepresented. He found the actual original story "backwards", finding it somehow offensive that seven dwarfs would be portrayed as living in a cave together - which, of course, they certainly didn't/don't. (Never mind the fact that it's a fairy tale set hundreds of years ago, not a modern story of realistic persons.) By the sounds of it, he's never even seen Snow White, he just likes to be horribly offended. (Zegler falls into the same camp.) Notably, though, it wasn't that he didn't think dwarfs should be cast as dwarfs, per se, but rather that the story should not be re-told at all, without overhauling it altogether to rid itself of dwarfs. Dinklage doesn't want to be seen as a fairy tale creature, basically. That's his hang-up. One doubts he will approve of the final product.
