cynthia erivo and the 'offensive' movie poster debate 🧙‍♀️

talking a bit about cynthia erivo and the fan-made wicked movie poster
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[teriyaki_chick]

“this is the wildest, most offensive thing I have seen…” kim, there’s people that are dying.

[delana]

“we communicate with our eyes” yes and shrouding them in darkness creates a secretive/deceptive vibe which if im not mistaken is THE POINT

[crazyratlady]

The face Cynthia's making in that poster is the exact face I make when I drive 30 minutes to a restaurant just to find that it's closed, even though the facebook page AND google said it was open.

[awkwardmonkee]

The smirk in the “ILLUSTRATION” poster communicates more than her eyes in the movie poster

[Magikmantv]

Her reaction is the reason movie posters suck now. Actors demand to have their face on the posters and because the edit has her face covered, she sees it as her being told she’s not important enough to have her face on the poster. It’s an ego thing and she’s hardly the only celeb guilty of this

[boojersey]

What this tells me is she values having her entire face in the poster more than having an artistically interesting and well made, EFFECTIVE poster. I hear nothing else from her tweets

[amanda-]

It’s giving won an extended fight with the producers who actually wanted to pull the hat down in the photo and then a fan came along and proved she was wrong all along and now she is livid.

[tamaravsthevoid]

‘I’ve been erased’ Ma’am, you’re on a ten foot high poster for a multi million dollar movie you’re staring in.

[lizabee]

Fun fact: Universal almost made a Wicked movie that would’ve been released in 2019, but shelved the idea in favor of making Cats because they believed Cats would be the more profitable movie musical…I’m pretty sure who ever made that decision was fired

[mayaxo]

she’s entitled to her feelings for sure, but “one of the most offensive things i’ve ever seen” is so crazy and out of touch 😭 like have you seen the state of twitter rn???

[princessxxramo]

The smirk, especially with the hat covering her eyes, was communicating a whole lot more than that bland expression :|

[d]

As a Black woman, all I have to say is…

… I would have never seen that poster if she hadn’t thrown this stupid tantrum 🤦🏿‍♀️

[mothlarvas]

"covering someones eyes is to erase them" is literally what babies think is happening in peekaboo

[ultraviolettas]

What is her face even trying to say?!? It’s looks like a hundred yard expressionless blank stare. That conveys nothing of the story or character. THAT’S what she’s defending with her life??

[mim_mimm]

i don't think she understands just how iconic of a poster for the original broadway wicked really was.
i honest to god know NOTHING about what wicked is about (i'm not even from the us) but the image of obscured elphaba and glinda has remained in my brain since forever and you immediately know it's wicked. like the original artists and designers ATE with such a simple concept but a great use of color and composition.

evidently the movie poster was trying to replicate that but ig because of pushback from cynthia we got a poster that just doesn't work imo, because we already know what it's emulating, but it doesn't compromise to do it fully and it feels empty. what did you accomplish by looking at the camera with a blank face, that makes it so much better?

if you don't agree with the same artistic vision just don't make a poster that takes from the actually iconic one 😭

this time it's not a matter of racism or black women erasure... it's literally just paying homage to an insanely popular illustration from the show your movie is based on

[triciad]

Conspiracy theory: I'd bet money that the movie poster designers started off with something that looked a lot like the edit, but Cynthia fought for the current version, and that's why she's so pissed off at everyone agreeing the edit is better.

[AA-dryi]

"To hide my eyes is to erase me" GIRL YOURE THE MOVIE PROTAGONIST

[censoreverything]

Her version is the embodiment of “go on girl, give us nothing.”

People don’t care about her lifeless eyes - they want Elphaba and proper respect of the source material. If she thinks she’s bigger than the Wicked Witch, she’ really is delusional.

[whoahanant]

The red lip is a nice pop of color that definitely should've stayed

[rpv]

This is like if Robert Pattinson claimed to be erased because he had to spend the majority of The Batman’s runtime in a mask.