By Michael Ashcraft –
Disney continues to die with its latest shove-down-your-throat woke self-righteousness in Snow White. Meanwhile, Angel Studios/ Charles Dickens’ adapted re-telling of the life of Jesus, King of Kings, showed that families want heart-warming, faith-stirring movies.
As of last weekend, King of Kings made $19 million compared to Snow White’s $2.8 million in box office tickets.
Angel Studios showed Disney who is king.
Snow White will have a hard time recovering production and marketing costs of $370 million. Rachel Zegler (who plays Snow White) alienated audiences by preaching against traditional power roles for women.
Furthermore, Disney annoyed fans who seek nostalgia by using computer generated dwarves, which are called “magical creatures.” Not wanting to offend actual dwarves, they cut dwarf actors out of a job.
By contrast, King of Kings, a computer generated animation, portrays a rambunctious son who upstages his father’s theater production of A Christmas Carol. The kid is acting out King Arthur. To calm him, the father begins to tell him the story of Jesus. The little one is not impressed until he finds out that Jesus is the King of Kings.
King of Kings assembled an impressive list of voice actors: Pierce Brosnan, Uma Thurman, Kenneth Branagh, Mark Hamill, Ben Kingsley, Forest Whitaker and Oscar Isaac..
“There is an enormous yearning in the audience for this kind of content that is both faith-inflected — doesn’t mean that it has to be evangelical, or it has be, you know, beating you over the head with a religious message — but just that it acknowledges that faith is an element in human life and history,” says Fox contributor Raymond Arroyo.
