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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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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago (2 children)

What is she trying to communicate anyway? She has the plainest, most boring face of all time, just staring at the camera with the eyes of a dead fish. There is no communication going on.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I think she's trying to communicate her skincare routine.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Maybe it's a PR thing.

Can't tell who it is on the edited version.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

I prefer the original poster. The new poster still looks like Wicked to me, and I would be disappointed if it recreated the original exactly. The fan edit is fun, I like it, but I understand artists from current year who made the modern poster would want to make a statement different than artists from when the original came out.

Everyone is making art, why do we have to be mad about that?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

Without words we communicate with our eyes

True, but this actress ain't doing that. She's completely dissociated in the pic, her expression so blank and emotionless, screaming that she's dead inside. While a dissociated character could make a good villain, it's not hard to see that the character in the poster for the musical isn't a dissociated villian who is unaware of her cruelty but someone who is fully conscious of and revels in it. It's only natural that people who are fans of the original work notice just how out of character this is and try to fix it.

Don't like it? Stop making stupid remakes of ancient stuff and make something original for once! Maybe try putting some emotion into it!

But you know, that'd require Hollywood actually put in effort and they've probably forgotten how to do that by now. Seriously, is anyone watching the new shit that they fart out over there these days? Most everyone I know either rewatches old shit or watches anime. Hey, maybe we'll see the rise of Bollywood over the next couple decades, who knows?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

I'm just here to downvote Varyk into oblivion 😂

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

...when the actual wounded party (if any could really be found) would be the photographer and/or the graphic artist who produced the image. The model had no idea or say in how their image would ultimately be used. No doubt dozens of images were taken probably some with brim down. It's not up to the model to decide how the images are used.

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