Are the people running Disney’s film studios insane? Or are they just so committed to far-left ideology that they want to lose money by alienating their core audience?
In 2024, Disney plans to release its live-action remake of “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.” This 1937 classic is one of the gems upon which Walt Disney built his company. So how could you possibly screw up a story which is already so widely loved?
Easy. You start by casting an actress from South America to play Snow White, a character whose defining characteristic was her, well, snow white skin. Rachel Zegler might be a superb actress, but this Hispanic woman looks nothing like the fair-skinned German woman from the fairy tale.
Then you get rid of the dwarfs and replace them with a “diverse” bunch of people who have nothing to do with the original characters. See the photo above? Those are the actors on set in one of several leaked photos. (The man on the far right is a stand-in for a new character. The Snow White figure is apparently a stand-in, too, not Zegler. The rest are the “dwarfs.” )
There’s one short guy. Several are black or brown. At least one — maybe two — appear to be female. Are some of them non-binary or trans-sexual? We don’t know yet. How exciting.
You now have “Snow White and the Seven Politically Correct Companions.”
We don’t know what all has changed about the story, but we do know there’s no Prince Charming in this one. With no Prince Charming, the new and “stronger” Snow White is instead portrayed as a woman who dreams of being a leader.
Every woman is supposed to dream of being a leader or a scientist, according to current leftist gender ideology. No decent female character ever cares most about love and family anymore. That’s patriarchal. Or something.
Is there anything left of the original story? How do you even consider it a remake after all that?
The actress playing the completely revamped character openly admits that the movie changes the story that most of us loved as children.
“People are making these jokes about ours being the PC Snow White,” Zegler said. “Yeah, it is — because it needed that. It’s an 85-year-old cartoon and our version is a refreshing story about a young woman who has a function beyond ‘Someday My Prince Will Come.’”
It seems as though the people involved in the film can’t even discuss one of the classic’s most popular songs — “Someday My Prince Will Come” — without denigrating the original film.
The new “dwarfs” are not even human. (Activists for “little people” screamed and shouted angrily about the possibility of the dwarf characters being, well, dwarfs. Why would this be bad? Nobody actually says.) They’ve conveniently been transformed into characters more like Tolkein’s hobbits, but it’s hard to say exactly what will be done in post-production in the way of digital effects.
All we know is that Snow White isn’t white. And the seven dwarfs aren’t dwarfs.
I don’t object to the story that the filmmakers and actors apparently want to make. If you think it’s a reasonable story and if there’s an audience for it, go ahead and write it. Make the film. Just don’t pretend that you’re remaking “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.”
I object because all of these changes are politically driven. That’s not art. That’s propaganda.
In Disney’s most recent live-action remake — “The Little Mermaid” — the studio made some similar odd choices in updating the animated version. The Little Mermaid herself became black, even though her father remained a very European-looking white guy.
Why did the mermaid become black? Well, it’s all about “diversity,” you know. These decisions are now made by political considerations, not driven by the story.
Even though there were other changes to the updated Little Mermaid, none were as fundamental to the story and characters as what’s going on with Snow White.
If you hate the 1937 story this badly — and you believe that everything about it tells an evil story — then disown the film. Tell your customers that they’re racist or sexist — or whatever — if they enjoy the original tale.
But what Disney is doing is taking what it considers to be a sure-fire money-maker and it’s ripping out the core of the story and pretending it’s somehow the same. And they’re hoping their customers are too stupid to notice or care.
It’s dishonest. It’s political propaganda.
And I hope audiences will have the good sense next year to watch the 1937 version again — instead of subjecting themselves to this politically driven fraud.
When we don’t feel understood, we feel lonely even in a crowd
What books would you recommend for someone who’s just given up on the state?
If you don’t have a burden in life, you probably won’t achieve much