pop culture overload!
Jan. 31st, 2007 08:08 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hollybrookeOkay, I don't know who of whoever reads this LiveJournal has seen or heard about the new Disney advertisements that Annie Leibowitz has photographed. Here's a link to the article:
http://www.thedisneyblog.com/tdb/2007/01/annie_leibovitz.html#more
And here are (small-ish) versions of the ads:
Scarlet Johanssen as Cinderella. (Gorgeous! But I love Scarlet; she can do no wrong in my eyes.)
David Beckham as Prince Phillip from "Sleeping Beauty." (Which is the coolest of the ads, in my opinion.)
This is the one that will make you go "WTF?": "Alice in Wonderland" with Oliver Platt as the Mad Hatter, Lyle Lovett as the March Hare, and Beyoncé as Alice. Yeah. A black Alice. I'm not racist by any means, and maybe it's because I'm Beyoncé'd out at this point, but A--really unconventional casting when Alice is traditionally known to be a blonde (go back and read the origin of the name "Alice" and how it fits in with Lewis Carroll's world), and B--Beyoncé looks like she just doesn't fit in with her "deer in the headlights" expression.
I guess there are plans for Annie Leibowitz to do more of these sorts of ads. (YAY!) And here are my suggestions for other big names for these ads:
--The Rock as Tarzan
--Alexis Bledel as Snow White (and now that I've said it...I really want to see her do it!)
--Natalie Portman as Belle
--Kate Beckinsale as Mary Poppins
--and if you want to go for really unconventional casting...Jessica Alba as Ariel. Only because she looks good in a bikini. It would piss people off, but I bet she could pull it off.
http://www.thedisneyblog.com/tdb/2007/01/annie_leibovitz.html#more
And here are (small-ish) versions of the ads:
Scarlet Johanssen as Cinderella. (Gorgeous! But I love Scarlet; she can do no wrong in my eyes.)
David Beckham as Prince Phillip from "Sleeping Beauty." (Which is the coolest of the ads, in my opinion.)
This is the one that will make you go "WTF?": "Alice in Wonderland" with Oliver Platt as the Mad Hatter, Lyle Lovett as the March Hare, and Beyoncé as Alice. Yeah. A black Alice. I'm not racist by any means, and maybe it's because I'm Beyoncé'd out at this point, but A--really unconventional casting when Alice is traditionally known to be a blonde (go back and read the origin of the name "Alice" and how it fits in with Lewis Carroll's world), and B--Beyoncé looks like she just doesn't fit in with her "deer in the headlights" expression.
I guess there are plans for Annie Leibowitz to do more of these sorts of ads. (YAY!) And here are my suggestions for other big names for these ads:
--The Rock as Tarzan
--Alexis Bledel as Snow White (and now that I've said it...I really want to see her do it!)
--Natalie Portman as Belle
--Kate Beckinsale as Mary Poppins
--and if you want to go for really unconventional casting...Jessica Alba as Ariel. Only because she looks good in a bikini. It would piss people off, but I bet she could pull it off.
