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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.
it’s not like they didn’t know the original poster existed when they made the official poster. they made it a particular way on purpose and the edit doesn’t respect that
But who cares. It’s a fan edit. It’s not like they’re ripping down the poster wherever they see it and replacing it
Even if they were who cares it’s a fucking poster. It’s giving buzz to your project. This lady has lost the plot.
Actor: I was doing my own thing.
Fans: We literally never asked for that.
That’s my big thing. If an actor wants to be serious and do their own thing - awesome, do an arthouse film, or theater. Jumping into an existing franchise that is already known and beloved by fans is a completely different thing. It’s not for you, an actor, to make it your own, your job is to uphold the character we already know and love.
Robert Downey Jr came in and learned about Iron Man, and did his own little flairs to it, but never at the expense of who or what Iron Man was, and over time he became Iron Man, to the point where pop culture doesn’t recognize anyone but RDJ as Iron Man. He didn’t get that by jumping in and saying “My face is more important than Iron Man”. (In fact, his face was literally covered a good chunk of the first movie now that I think about it)
So?
What’s the harm of the fan edit? Why get upset that someone edited a movie poster to more closely match the original poster?
Fans didn’t do it to demean or belittle the actors in the movie. They did it because they’re excited for the movie.
What a silly thing to get mad over.