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  • Gal Gadot suggested that political pressure on celebrities to speak out against Israel contributed to Disney’s Snow White underperforming at the box office, though she acknowledged other factors played a role.

  • The film, starring Gadot and Rachel Zegler, earned $87 million domestically compared to higher-performing Disney remakes; Zegler faced criticism for her pro-Palestine stance during promotion.

  • Gadot emphasized she enjoyed working with Zegler, said her “conscience is clean” regarding support for Israel, and expressed hope for peace and safety for all people.

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[–] NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world 2 points 37 minutes ago

Disney fans don’t give a fuck about Palestine, sometimes there is just such a thing as a bad movie. People are tired of dumb live action remakes, and in general Snow White as a story just did not age well and was never going to be a success in modern cinema.

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 7 points 5 hours ago

Zegler insulted the target audience lol

[–] DrDickHandler@lemmy.world 6 points 6 hours ago

Kalel nooooo!

[–] PieMePlenty@lemmy.world 33 points 15 hours ago

More like the movie sucked and her genocidal views didn't help the matter. Get your head out of your ass.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 21 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

Ms gal gadot, nepo her way into hollywood and cant act . no the movie was terribly written, plus adding insult to injury you have to be the LEAD in it, which are not a very good actor in. angeline was a better Maleficient anyways.

[–] npdean@lemmy.today 14 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Well, Zionists gonna zionist

[–] tastetheplague@sh.itjust.works 2 points 59 minutes ago
[–] ur_ONLEY_freind@lemmy.zip 72 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Or the movie "snow white" hurt the movie "snow white" at the box office

[–] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 3 points 14 hours ago

It was so effing bad.

[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 195 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Snow White failed because it’s a bad movie.

And any celebrity not volunteering their disgust at Israel over the Gazan genocide should be boycotted.

[–] Fredselfish@lemmy.world 37 points 1 day ago (7 children)

I heard she is an ex IDF soldier. If true she can fuck off. Movie sucked because of CGI dwarves that could of been played by little people. Also fact we didn't need a live action Snow White.

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 14 hours ago

I heard she is an ex IDF soldier

And proud of it. She's more than earned her nickname Genocide Barbie.

If true she can fuck off

Movie sucked because of CGI dwarves that could of been played by little people. Also fact we didn't need a live action Snow White.

Absolutely true as well

[–] caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 25 points 23 hours ago (1 children)
[–] mrdown@lemmy.world 14 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

She didn't have the obligation to express her proudness of doing the "service " though

[–] Cethin@lemmy.zip 18 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

The comment above needs to say that then. They had issue with her serving at all.

[–] mrdown@lemmy.world 1 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Everybody should have an issue with people serving in an occupation force

[–] Cethin@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 minutes ago* (last edited 1 minute ago)

These people are just turning 18 and probably reluctant to leave their home and family/friends and probably don't want to be in jail either. They've spent their entire life with propoganda shoved down their throats and with tons of pressure to just get it done. No, I won't hold that against them.

I'll hold it against them if they choose to take other actions, but not that. They didn't choose where they were born.

Wherever you are living, you've done far less than it would take for these people to avoid serving. You're comfortably sitting at home with relatively few worries.

[–] Alexstarfire@lemmy.world 80 points 1 day ago (22 children)

Isn't serving in the military mandatory in Israel?

[–] SulaymanF@lemmy.world 24 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

She did a lot more than the mandatory minimum, she cheerled them and praises them every chance she gets.

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[–] lemmylump@lemmy.world 65 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Or...or, it sucked and she's actually a terrible actress.

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[–] MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 16 points 21 hours ago

Gal is a stupid cunt. No one should care.

[–] ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world 43 points 1 day ago (7 children)

This is complete bullshit. Zegler's one or two pro-Palestine comments made barely any difference to how the movie was received. And Gadot saying this smacks of of deflection and Israel persecution complex. By far the bigger factors were: nobody wanted to see it (and it was clearly a shallow money-grab by Disney), the whole dwarf portrayal fiasco, and Zegler being generally mouthy and unlikeable.

[–] ZoteTheMighty@lemmy.zip 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Gal Gadot is probably mostly talking about herself. She's Israeli and has been pro-Israel for a long time.

[–] AlecSadler@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 16 hours ago

I'm American and I'm anti-american.

See, it's easy.

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[–] AmazingAwesomator@lemmy.world 39 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

the movie was pretty bad...

i described it to my friend like this, and had to double verify that i was not joking; this actually happened in the movie:

the movie didnt know what it wanted to be. it flipped back and forth between a mediocre comedy and an ultra-serious drama so quickly that when someone gets shot, goes into surgery and the tone changes to somber the audience is left to believe an important character just died............ "GuESs wHAt TiME iT iS?!" and happy breakout into song and dance.

i just couldnt after that and left.

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[–] orca@orcas.enjoying.yachts 28 points 1 day ago

Zionists are excellent at not taking responsibility. She’s a wooden actor that makes bad films.

[–] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 31 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

Disney making live action remakes (cheaper than animation) so they don't lose ownership of the IP is the worst reason a human being has ever made a movie for.

Anything produced for that goal will be shit

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