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cross-posted from: https://poptalk.scrubbles.tech/post/1559544
Fans customized the Wicked movie poster to more closely match the original Broadway poster.
Original Broadway Poster:
Movie poster:
Some fans, disappointed by the poster, altered it to be closer to the original, moving Grande’s hand and lowering the brim of Erivo’s hat to cover her eyes. The edits prompted Erivo to respond. “This is the wildest, most offensive thing I have seen
“None of this is funny. None of it is cute. It degrades me. It degrades us,” Erivo continued. “The original poster is an ILLUSTRATION. I am a real life human being, who chose to look right down the barrel of the camera to you, the viewer… because, without words we communicate with our eyes.”
So, this seems like a completely reasonable reaction to fans making fan content.
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Who?
Yea, still don’t know who she is, other than someone behaving like a child.
“Most offensive”? Oh give me a break. Her behaviour here is the only offensive element in this story.
Thanks for letting me know I don’t want anything to do with you, and what show to not see.
Actors really do have majorly inflated sense of their importance in the world. You’re nobody, sunshine.
Grow up.
That’s a really dumb thing to get upset over. They also changed her mouth and the lip color. Like the original. I could understand if they edited her nose or some other features to be more “European,” but they changed only what they needed.
And it looks better.
So basically she’s upset that she made a bad decision and people have corrected it for her? Also that’s the most offensive thing she’s ever seen? Really? What a fucking child.
“You changed something that I’d already told myself is part of my identity. This is YOUR fault.”
Lol this is a Nintendo-level response to your own fan(s)
I’d always assumed photographers and directors and producers made the kinds of decisions around “will the subjects eyes be visible or obscured”. I didn’t realize the actors made those kinds of calls.
It really sounds like this was a sticking point to her. I said elsewhere, but it really sounds like she’s the one who forced her full face to be seen on the poster, or at least that’s the impression she leaves us with after reading this.
Which makes me think that the original design was closer to the original, and sounds like she made a stink about it.
Feels a bit like the Masterchief portrayal in mostly never wearing the helmet during the show and fans have wondered if it was because the actor had a caveat “I want to make sure I’m known to be the actor behind this iconic character.”
I mean, I understand, but at the same time, you’re taking on a role as a character who has been portrayed in a certain way by the existing fanbase for decades.
Your appearance you bring is supposed to mirror what has been established, not who you personally are.
I don’t know if it just needs more jpeg but the original looks way better than the posted edit. Although I can see how a movie star would take offense to having their face edited out, I doubt the intent was to dehumanize. It does look like a bad version of the Broadway picture.
Yeah I’m confused here. It’s almost a direct edit to match the original (broadway) poster. Eyes hidden, lips red and becomes a smirk, those are the only changes.
Honestly comes across like a bit of an ego-trip by the actress.
That’s exactly what it sounds like. I had to look up who the actress was and it sounds like she is upset about that. The unspoken communication she is trying to demonstrate with eye contact isn’t even well executed. She doesn’t look witchy at all, just like she’s holding in a fart.
They moved the other actresses hand up to cover more of her face too (in an attempt to match the original poster)
I never was very good at those “how many differences” games 🙈
Also, in the broadway poster and the fan edit of the movie poster, the position of the hand communicates “I am telling this person a secret.” In the original movie poster the position of the hand communicates “I’m hiding a zit” or maybe “I have a toothache.”
Sorry it was a screenshot of a screenshot I’m pretty sure. Yeah I mean, I’m not going to go and say the fan edit is a masterpiece or anything, but it’s fan content. They obviously love wicked and wanted to match the original poster.
Getting upset at fan content is a weird take. On one hand you could see that they’re excited for your work and just ignore it, or you could do… This.
The best part is that this is pure Steisand effect. No it would have seen the fan edit if she had just ignored it
Yeah, be happy people are doing free adverts for the movie your in and keep your (I think understandably) bruised feelings private.
Saw the musical, though off Broadway. Didn’t like the musical… maybe two songs, but that’s it.
This will likely not be great, but probably will make money. Both performers seem like annoying narcissists to me.
