I found this guy after anti-woke video. But he is pro AES?
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His day job is working at Shanghai Daily, a Chinese state-owned English language newspaper. Reports on China is his side project.
I don't really see how him commenting on China's lukewarm reception of live-action Snow White counts as anti-woke or whatever (BTW the term 'woke' or 'anti-woke' sounds so fucking stupid, meaningless, and lacking analysis). China has no history of using Africans as slaves, so it has literally no stakes in American interracial conflicts. I also don't think Chinese people have any obligation to watch Disney slop, and would much prefer their ticket money funds Chinese culture and films than Disney.
It's just kind of funny how a character named Snow White for their white skin can somehow be cast as a non-white character. It's sort of fundamental. Ultimately, Disney's live-action princess remakes are just cheap, low-effort moves to try to use non-white faces to capture a broader audience and appear falsely progressive with no actual regard to the art, culture, or fighting actual racism.
This remake has the same issues that casting a black person for Ariel did. Instead of writing or adapting a new story for a Latin American princess, or an African princess, from the original culture, they instead decide to shove them into a white European story as if non-white cultures have nothing of worth to write about.
Also remember that a lot of people, including Chinese, are boycotting this movie because of actress Gal Gadot's pro-Zionist views. That is definitely a good thing.
If I have any criticism to level at Andy's video, it's that he didn't mention this. The rest of his piece I feel in agreement with.
Also the woke word is in quotation in the thumbnail, so probably he didn't mean it literally
It's just to get more views and clicks. Notice how many more views the video got compared to his usual reporting.
I don't think he really cares either way other than to discuss its performance in China.
This is a very important point to make. For me that was by far the bigger reason why i decided i have zero interest in ever watching this, rather than it simply being another faux-progressive corporate cashgrab remake. It's one thing to be unoriginal and cynically appropriate social justice causes for corporate profits, that's just par for the course by now. But it's another level of disgusting entirely to have literal IOF baby killers in your movie.