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[-] Rhaedas@fedia.io 44 points 1 month ago

Before looking I remembered when this happened and thought, yeah, they shouldn't have caved and cut Finn out. Then I looked. Those bastards dropped Chewie from the poster???

[-] riskable@programming.dev 26 points 1 month ago

Too much like Winnie the Pooh 🤷

[-] copd@lemmy.world 18 points 1 month ago

Finn is in both posters, yeah they made him smaller but hes definitely in both

[-] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 43 points 1 month ago

I wish the West had some perspective on how much better they are handling social norms than the world is when it comes to matters of humanity. Most of Asia is racist as fuck and will eagerly punish people who are different.

[-] gerbler@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)
[-] EddoWagt@feddit.nl 5 points 1 month ago

What the hell, I recently saw one of a black man being turned into toothpaste or something, which was weird and racist, but this is just racist

[-] bblkargonaut@lemmy.world 42 points 1 month ago

Disney's treatment of Finn was the second most painful part of the echoes of the force trilogy

[-] TheMightyCanuck@sh.itjust.works 39 points 1 month ago

The fact that it's Finn AND the wookie says WAAAAAAAAAY more than anything actually spoken.

[-] ChronosTriggerWarning@lemmy.world 35 points 1 month ago
[-] echodot@feddit.uk 8 points 1 month ago

Yeah but presumably they watch the film, so what's the point in changing the poster

[-] OldChicoAle@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago

Once they bought the tickets, Disney doesn't care if they hate the characters. They got the money. They don't need people to enjoy the film or the characters. They just need tickets sold.

[-] lud@lemm.ee -3 points 1 month ago

There are a bunch of English posters without his face as well.

The west prioritises showing the faces of actors and China apparently doesn't or they do with stars that are known in China.

If he was a nobody in the USA it's much more likely that he would have a mask.

[-] ChronosTriggerWarning@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

OR, they hide black people on the posters to make China happy.

[-] lud@lemm.ee -3 points 1 month ago

Yes that's possible but there is no evidence of that being the case. So why jump to conclusions?

[-] _____@lemm.ee 31 points 1 month ago

Companies don't get enough flak for pandering whoever lines their pockets.

It happens to be popular today in North America to appear inclusive and progressive and they feign it and it somehow works.

These companies don't give a shit about you or your issues. They just want to cash out on you thinking that they do (and you thinking that they deserve your support).

(And yes, I get it, any support is good support) just keep in mind that these companies care more about the money and will always pander to their audience.

[-] Gaspar@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 month ago

The boys at Red Letter Media coined a term for this: "Passive Progressive". Hits the nail on the head for me!

[-] accideath@lemmy.world 21 points 1 month ago

Besides that being a racist change, sm I the only one who despises movie posters with dozens of people looking in random directions? Can we just have nice artistic posters, please?

[-] Reddfugee42@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

What would you say if I told you they are artistic, it's just not a style you like

[-] accideath@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago

I mean, sure, they are. But they’re formulaic and uncreative corporate art

[-] Reddfugee42@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Wait til you see the movie they represent

[-] _____@lemm.ee 3 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

They do make the kind of posters you like you just don't see them outside of promotional material.

The reason being is that the many faces orange blue posters literally are gaming (most people's) brains into engaging with the poster.

Humans like faces and are drawn to them.

That being said, I've seen some really nice dune posters where it's like a backdrop of the desert with the mc and lots of negative space

[-] accideath@lemmy.world 1 points 4 weeks ago

Yes, love those posters. And with dune, for example, they’re much more prominent. You’ll really find that one. For Disney stuff? No chance.

[-] Swarfega@lemm.ee 17 points 1 month ago
[-] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 2 points 1 month ago

At least he got that posthumous nostalgia medal!

soypoint-1 🎖️ soypoint-2

[-] CubitOom@infosec.pub 15 points 1 month ago

To be fair, Finn is a throwaway character despite decent acting. Not important to the plot really at all. The same can be said for most of the characters in the movie.

Moreover, the whole movie is something that should be thrown away, but not forgotten. It needs to be archived as an entry in the museum of the failures of Disney.

[-] gerbler@lemmy.world 24 points 1 month ago

John Boyega was robbed. He was excellent in TFA and his character was actually interesting. Then Disney fucked him over.

[-] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 weeks ago

Ehhhh.... He goes from being shellshocked about his fellow soldier dying to whooping and cheering about murdering his former friends so fast it made my head spin.

Boyega was robbed, but they didn't use him very well even in TFA, in my opinion.

[-] MotoAsh@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago

He wasn't such a background character in The Force Awakens, but ohhhhh boy did he get shafted in the next two!

[-] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 11 points 1 month ago

He could have mattered but the directors decided to make him comic relief and otherwise sideline him for... reasons. us-foreign-policy

[-] GlendatheGayWitch@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

The plot isn't that important to the plot of the sequel trilogy.

[-] mriormro@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

It was an alright to very mediocre set of movies that people feel way too many emotions about.

[-] TC_209@hexbear.net 9 points 1 month ago

Both versions exist.

[-] MindTraveller@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 month ago
[-] recentSloth43@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

Hairy brown people are also frowned upon.

Source: my life

[-] HEXN3T@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 1 month ago

I don't know why, but both of these posters look oddly proportioned. The balance is just off.

[-] ThePantser@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

Disney is racist but so is China, it's always strange how much screaming about racism in the USA but China is 1000x worse. But we keep buying their products and sending production jobs over there. If you wanna stop racism then stop buying from racist countries. But money talks.

[-] krashmo@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

If you wanna stop racism then stop buying from racist countries

OK, but which ones aren't racist?

[-] MotoAsh@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago
[-] ThePantser@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

But they release movies over there and do racist things to their posters. Hence the image of this OP.

[-] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 5 points 1 month ago

At least this one is phrasing it in terms of the company being racist instead of the perfidious Chinese, though iirc the comparison is still based on cherrypicking

[-] Tenthrow@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago
[-] turtlepower@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago

Yeah, because Chinese cultural censors are Disney's fault.

[-] DaGeek247@fedia.io 16 points 1 month ago

Government mandated racism is still racism. Worse than normal racism, even.

[-] turtlepower@lemm.ee 3 points 1 month ago

No shit. But op is trying to pass it off as Disney being the sole problem here. These fucking wumao try to gloss over the fact that it is because of China's racist government that the poster was altered, and try to pass it off as the west being racist.

[-] DaGeek247@fedia.io 6 points 1 month ago

You're overthinking this and ascribing way too much intent for a basic complaint about disney being complicit with racist policies.

How does the saying go? If you have 9 Nazis in a room and one regular dude, you actually have ten Nazis in a room? Disney is that tenth dude in this picture.

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