For me, it's not necessarily that she's black in the movie that I hate (although, spoiler alert - that, in itself, doesn't fit with the story at all), but how fucking ugly she is. Elphaba is meant to be sort of "nebbish" or geeky, initially, and then get "glammed up" by Glinda. Otherwise it makes no damn sense for Fiyero to be attracted to her at any point...
She was never supposed to be ugly as a shoe, which Erivo is, lol.
And also, if they were determined to go with a black actress, why not one who was actually born and grew up in a Western country, and so actually understood the context (if you read any of Erivo's tweets, or watch the interviews, she pretty clearly does not)..? Or, for that matter, why not choose someone younger than their late 30s..??
Nothing about that casting makes sense, and her very personality makes her a liability. Either this is an elaborate "gotcha", or she sucked a fair bit of dick to get to where she is... Or both. Both makes sense.
Edit: Why didn't they just cast the other chick featured in that article? She is literally orders of magnitude more attractive, had already played the roleand is very possibly less insane than the woman they chose... I mean, come on now.
Also, apparently she won something called the WhatsOnStage Award for Best Supporting Performer in a Female Identifying Role in a Musical...
I just... This isn't even worth parodying at this point. These people are completely nuts.
I just hate that the discussion in buzzfeed, which is far left but normies think it's neutral, that any identity outside of a white culture has more value, or more soulful.
Ervio isn't a particularly good looking person in my opinion either.
Wicked is the original "the 'Evil Witch'/Villainess was misunderstood!" trope. A stage musical origin story to the Good Witch of the North and the Wicked Witch of the West. Where they're classmates in high school.
Elphaba/the Wicked Witch has been famously performed by Idina Menzel on stage.
I think McGuire, who wrote the original book, also wrote revisionist stories in the worlds of Alice in Wonderland and Cinderella. But he specifically also intended Wicked as an Iraq War analogy...
Paraphrasing, but he said something like, "I originally wanted to write a novel about Hitler, but decided not to do that, so I thought I would write a novel about the second-most hated character in American popular culture: the Wicked Witch of the West". Which is... Interesting, to say the least.
OG book is considerably darker in tone than the musical (and with less romance), too...
I took my ex-wife to it. It's about the Wicked Witch of the West before the events of The Wizard of Oz. It makes the Wicked Witch central to every character in Oz, and makes her the true hero of Oz.
For me, it's not necessarily that she's black in the movie that I hate (although, spoiler alert - that, in itself, doesn't fit with the story at all), but how fucking ugly she is. Elphaba is meant to be sort of "nebbish" or geeky, initially, and then get "glammed up" by Glinda. Otherwise it makes no damn sense for Fiyero to be attracted to her at any point...
She was never supposed to be ugly as a shoe, which Erivo is, lol.
And also, if they were determined to go with a black actress, why not one who was actually born and grew up in a Western country, and so actually understood the context (if you read any of Erivo's tweets, or watch the interviews, she pretty clearly does not)..? Or, for that matter, why not choose someone younger than their late 30s..??
Nothing about that casting makes sense, and her very personality makes her a liability. Either this is an elaborate "gotcha", or she sucked a fair bit of dick to get to where she is... Or both. Both makes sense.
Edit: Why didn't they just cast the other chick featured in that article? She is literally orders of magnitude more attractive, had already played the role and is very possibly less insane than the woman they chose... I mean, come on now.
Also, apparently she won something called the WhatsOnStage Award for Best Supporting Performer in a Female Identifying Role in a Musical...
I just... This isn't even worth parodying at this point. These people are completely nuts.
They picked an ugly foreign nigger to humiliate you
Me specifically?
I ain't paying to go see this movie, bruh.
I saw Wicked when I was like, 13. With my family.
"Musical theatre" was briefly my thing, to some extent, but I am definitely not some Wicked fanatic, lol...
"you" as in whites and white culture/beauty standards
I just hate that the discussion in buzzfeed, which is far left but normies think it's neutral, that any identity outside of a white culture has more value, or more soulful.
Ervio isn't a particularly good looking person in my opinion either.
I keep thinking that there's gotta be a point where this ends. But it keeps going on and on and on.
I've never seen this bizarre show.
Wicked is the original "the 'Evil Witch'/Villainess was misunderstood!" trope. A stage musical origin story to the Good Witch of the North and the Wicked Witch of the West. Where they're classmates in high school.
Elphaba/the Wicked Witch has been famously performed by Idina Menzel on stage.
I think McGuire, who wrote the original book, also wrote revisionist stories in the worlds of Alice in Wonderland and Cinderella. But he specifically also intended Wicked as an Iraq War analogy...
Paraphrasing, but he said something like, "I originally wanted to write a novel about Hitler, but decided not to do that, so I thought I would write a novel about the second-most hated character in American popular culture: the Wicked Witch of the West". Which is... Interesting, to say the least.
OG book is considerably darker in tone than the musical (and with less romance), too...
like who cares though, they're fan fictions
I agree. As far as I'm concerned, The Wizard of Oz is the only piece of that story.
Well you can tell everybody. This is your song. (Unda da sea) (witches)
I took my ex-wife to it. It's about the Wicked Witch of the West before the events of The Wizard of Oz. It makes the Wicked Witch central to every character in Oz, and makes her the true hero of Oz.
Oh, I don't have any ex-wives. But I had a girlfriend that liked Rocky Horror.