Sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo ummm who is your core audience, Disney?
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[The Playlist] Disney Exec Reportedly Concerned Taika Waititi’s WWII Satire ‘Jojo Rabbit’ Might Alienate Studio’s Core Fans
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Sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo ummm who is your core audience, Disney?
to be fair to disney, we just had the trailer thread devolve into a bunch of people not understanding that the entire film is supposed to be SATIRE
and this is a site that prides itself on a base level of education and understanding of comedy.
Disney is right to be concerned that the general public may not appreciate what the story is.
and this is a site that prides itself on a base level of education and understanding of comedy.
Disney is right to be concerned that the general public may not appreciate what the story is.
Core fan of Walt Disney Studios here; JoJo Rabbit will not alienate me. Heavily looking forward to it. Hope they slap the Cinderella Castle logo before it.
Don't release it under the Disney branding and you don't have anything to worry about. Christ, Disney.
I think it's easy to see how making light of Hitler could make people uncomfortable. The original Variety article does not get into details, so articles like this are maybe padding the facts.
This is a special level of delusion that shows a basic misunderstanding of what a monopoly is.
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I am sure a lot of actual children and manchildren who only see megablockbusters and fuck all else probably hadn't heard of it let alone would bother to see it.
Based on the Era thread about the trailer, they might have good reason to worry.
It seems a not insignificant number of people are actually idiots.
It seems a not insignificant number of people are actually idiots.
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The fucking teaser trailer had ANTI HATE SATIRE in huge fucking letters
so does the poster, but still...
not entirely true. people love digging stuff up nowadays. release it under a subsidiary but then someone digs through the layers of companies and finds Disney's stamp on it. outrage!
Ah yes a satire about Nazis. Let's make sure we don't alienate our fan base. I can't believe we have to literally put SATIRE in a trailer to get the point across.
One (1) individual made a comment during a screening has now evolved into "The entire Walt Disney Company is concerned about Jojo Rabbit and might not release it."
It's likely the dumbass exec wasn't aware Jojo Rabbit is being marketed and released under the Fox banner and not Disney.
It's likely the dumbass exec wasn't aware Jojo Rabbit is being marketed and released under the Fox banner and not Disney.
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Thats whats so fucking terrible creatively about the merger.
I hope you like more like your films safe and sanitized of ANYTHING that might challenge your beliefs or make you the audience uncomfortable.
I'd love to meet the kid that makes the connection between this film with Thor Ragnarok and feels alienated.
Never said it was a monopoly. Just the fact that Disney now owns many multi billion dollar movie franchises including Star Wars, Marvel, Avatar , hell they also now own the Alien movie franchise. Their 20th century fox acquisition should have never been allowed to happen and people on this forum mostly defend it because "it brings the marvel movie rights back home". Now that to me is delusional.
You can see the board meetings in your head.
"Hmm... This "Xenomorph" seems a bit... Phallic looking, don't you think? Not really something we want associated with our brand. And is that spider thing sticking something down a guys throat? Ooh no, China won't like that..."
Your average person doesn't give two fucks if Fox Searchlight releases a Hitler movie lmao. Some soccer mom won't even know it's Disney.
Googles Fox Searchlight......I'm horrified......burn the DIsney DVDs.
We live in a world where conspiracy theory websites are alarmingly taken as "truth." Where there's been a sizable "Flat Earth" movement. Regardless of how anyone feels about what "should" or "shouldn't" be obvious, I don't find it strange at all that a mega corporation that makes it's money on safe, non-statement making entertainment might possibly be concerned about something like this film. Especially given the social climate in the US currently. It doesn't mean that Disney Execs don't get it. It means that they want to protect their image.
Oh, fuck off Disney. No one is a fan of a fucking studio. Slap Fox Searchlight on it and collect the money.
No bias detected here...
No bias detected here...
Honestly, I think there are real concerns that the movie might downplay how much of a threat fascists/nazis actually still are. I love Taika Waititi and I could see him handling this well but I am honestly kinda concerned. Surely that's what people in that thread were talking about...
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Anyway not sure what anyone at Disney was thinking if they bought Fox assuming everything they do fits with their family friendly brand that's PG-13 at most.
Do people here really think that Disney is referring to Nazis when they talk about their core audience?
Also this, but some on Era has trouble detecting the satire in the trailer according to the thread even when it literally said satire so maybe the guy is on to something.
Can't say I'm surprised by the reaction though. It's Disney so people feel obligated to hate them.
Also this, but some on Era has trouble detecting the satire in the trailer according to the thread even when it literally said satire so maybe the guy is on to something.
Can't say I'm surprised by the reaction though. It's Disney so people feel obligated to hate them.
No one thinks the film is gonna be cancelled cus it's already done. The issue is that with all the fox movies that were just scrapped recently it's a taste of things to come for future Fox movies.