As the video says, make a good product and it can be as diverse as anyone could like.
I'll never understand the concept of to elevate one, another must be put down. I get the feeling thats one of those knee jerk over corrections humans are known for. The good intentions that lead straight to hell. Before the internet, people typically had to sit with their opinions for a few minutes before they could just jabber them out to everyone in the world as soon as they had them. So now everything is an argument. a conversation is a thing with a winner and losers now, and its, costing us in innumerable ways. I think there is a part of hollywood, who has latched onto the marketing is war philosophy that turns interviews from promotional snippets, to slaps in the face before throwing down the gauntlet. Daring would be audiences to 'go on, pick it up mother fucker, I dare you, I double dare you, I triple double dog dare you to see this movie, and I dont give a shit if you like it or not, because if you dont like it your small and weak and fucking stupid and nobody wants to fuck you and you'll die alone and unmourned and un loved, but if you're not a scummy loser, you'll love this movie, and I cant wait for you to be excited or else.' ^_^
The idea that people will feel challenged to see it, and when they do and dont really like it, they have to deal with the show runners putting out more marketing saying that only fiends and terrorists are trash talking the movie, and if they dont knock it off, well they may just have to stop releasing any content all together, and they "cancel" a bunch of shit that was never going to get made, because it was all an over promise they cant afford because they've forgotten what makes a movie or a show work, and are trying to put all the money that should be going to writing into marketing. So here we all are, just wanting some good stories on our screens, and what we're getting is antagonizing lectures lacquered over shoddy story telling, sub optimal fx, wooden performances from actors because the characters that they're portraying are still essentially just flat cardboard cut outs of one dimensional inserts into an intellectual property that isnt being managed only milked.
My theory is they know they don't know what they're doing when it comes to storytelling, and to try to cover that up, they're purposely trying to generate negative buzz for their own products, so that when they fail, they can claim its not their fault the mob is just fickle. They take their money and run onto the next property to milk and the cycle repeats. They know that they're in a "family industry" so they're constantly going to get an influx of audience who doesnt know any better, and most working families are too busy to educate their children on entertainment media throughout the ages, they assume, for the most part correctly, that they're gonna be able to repeat the cycle forever if people don't make a big enough stink.
But man there was a long enough time, where quality movies and shows got made, and many of them were diverse, inclusive, and carried a profound and challenging message, but the point was to entertain and enlighten, not outrage to cover their poor creative choices.
And also wth this "Live action" movie for not casting real little people. dont piss down our necks and try to tell us its rainin. You're telling me Warwick Davis wouldnt make an excellent Doc? You're expecting me to believe that no one thought Peter Dinklidge would make a charismatic twist on Grumpy? Tony Cox would make a fantastic happy, always cracking jokes in the mine, Danny Woodburn cant be Sneezy? Jordan Prentice can't be sleepy for an hour and a half? Martin Klebba not bald and blue eyed enough to play dopey? Come on. I mean you could even make Bashful Merideth Eaton, why do all the dwarves gotta be men, right? >_>
Write good stories, stop using antagonizing marketing, and don't put anyone down but rather lift everyone up. Then you'll get your box office returns. then youll get your good fan reviews. It's not rocket science.
