Sydney White is not a film that’s hurting anybody. It’s a cute retelling of Snow White and the seven dwarfs in modern times on a College campus where instead of being “dwarfs” – the 7 in question are “dorks”. Get it? Sydney White and the 7 Dorks?
Ahh, good times.
Bottom line – Amanda Bynes has been a star since she was 7 and I’ll be honest I’d watch her in anything. She is a natural talent and the camera loves her. So yeah – this is cute although I’m not sure who the real target for it is. It’s too raunchy for the disney set and I don’t see teenagers running out to rent modern day fairy tales, but I digress. If the target was 38 years old males – they hit it. Good for ‘em.
One giant irritation though. As I stated above, Amanda Bynes has been acting since she was a small child. There must be a thousand pictures of her from every age. There are two scenes in this movie where she looks at a picture of her deceased mother and herself and misses her. The director chooses to use a picture of a kid who is not Amanda Bynes. Clearly NOT Amanda Bynes.
The effect is that the viewer spends a minute saying, “Who is that a picture of and why is she staring at it?” No big deal if the actress was almost anybody else. But we all know exactly what she looked like at 7 . . . we were watching her on TV.
Why not just use a picture of Amanda and preserve the “illusion” of the film?
I demand that the director of this film, explain his decision right here in this forum. I will be waiting.
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