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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] 127 points 3 months ago (33 children)

If it was her decision that her full face should be on display, the backlash should be evidence enough that someone else gets paid to make those decisions, not her.

The original looks boring. She has absolutely no emotions on her face. There's no mystique, no 'wickedness'. Even the composition looks like something a high schooler in Photoshop class would make.

The edit isn't perfect either. But at least it pays homage to the original in more than just image. It adds that mystique back, and makes her look more menacing.

What it truly boils down to is ego. Although the edit is better, and so many people agree on it, it doesn't show her full face. And she can't let that go.

[–] [email protected] 55 points 3 months ago

Guaranteed this whole thing came up before that it didn't match the style. She showed her cards and now makes it sound like she was the one who pushed against matching the original. Now that the fans see it and dislike it (probably like they warned that fans would), she's mad about it. It really sounds like she pushed for this design so it wouldn't hide her face and now she's furious that fans reacted in the exact way that was predicted.

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[–] [email protected] 100 points 3 months ago (3 children)

The ego and vanity is astounding. And the movie poster sucks because she's looking straight at the camera.

[–] sheogorath 17 points 3 months ago

And I'm 90% sure that originally they wanted to make it matches the original styling but she fought to keep her face fully visible. So that's why she's so irked that there's a fan who made that edit and proved the people who suggested that in the first place right.

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[–] [email protected] 90 points 3 months ago

Imo the fan one is better. They should have done the red lipstick with a smirk rather than green and looking bored.

[–] kshade 81 points 3 months ago (2 children)

This is the wildest, most offensive thing I have seen

Congratulations I guess?

[–] Mango 26 points 3 months ago

It's nice to know her problems are absolutely miniscule.

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[–] TheBat 74 points 3 months ago

Stolen from reddit

[–] [email protected] 69 points 3 months ago (1 children)

If that’s the most offensive thing they have seen they live a charmed life.

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[–] [email protected] 67 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Bit of an overreaction if you ask me

[–] TheBat 28 points 3 months ago

Theatre kids gonna theatre

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[–] aeronmelon 60 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Nerve status: Struck

As we all know snapping at the fans, especially over matters of source material accuracy, always works out well for everyone involved in the making of the adaptation.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Yeah. Metallica sued their fans 20 years ago and I still won’t listen to them on purpose and shit talk them when I hear them.

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[–] [email protected] 55 points 3 months ago (1 children)

because, without words we communicate with our eyes

IDK, the original and the edit both communicate way more mystique and mischievousness than the one with her eyes visible

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago

You know, like how the wicked witch would

[–] TheBat 54 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Huh. This is why you need a PR team.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 months ago

Yeah maybe not calling out your fans on making things that build excitement for your upcoming project is the best course of action as an actor. It's like Daisy Ridley calling out Star Wars fans for having the wrong body shape in cosplay or something else equally stupid. They're fans. They're having fun. You don't get to tell your fans how they're supposed to enjoy your work.

[–] GraniteM 34 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

In matters of taste, the customer is always right.

Nobody but the audience gets to decide what the audience wants. Not writers, not actors, not directors, not graphic designers. If you can give the audience something they didn't know that they wanted until they got it, so much the better for you. But if the audience just plain wants something else, then there's no amount of cajoling or negotiation that will make them feel otherwise.

That said, I have no idea what the collective response is to either of these posters, and this does feel a bit like a tempest in a teapot.

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 3 months ago

What an utterly ridiculous and inconsequential thing to get upset about. Someone should tell her to re-read what she just wrote and think about how stupid it sounds.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 3 months ago

Fans did a service on that one

[–] [email protected] 30 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Totally proportionate reaction.

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[–] glimse 28 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I read the text before the post title and thought it was some witchymemes joke rant about people stereotyping witches which would have been kinda funny. A shame that she's serious.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 months ago

Yea lady, that's totally just as bad as people asking if your ***** is green.

[–] AgentGrimstone 22 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The original composition with her eyes covered is just better and way more interesting.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 months ago

One thing I've noticed over time is that people in Hollywood are pretty normal.

/s

[–] finitebanjo 21 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I was on the fence about giving any time to viewing Wicked but I think it's gonna be a hard pass now.

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[–] FatherGascown 18 points 3 months ago (5 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.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months 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?

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