IF Snow White underperforms at the box office, IMV the problem won’t be “between 2023’s The Little Mermaid and 2025’s Snow White audiences turned against leads who aren’t white Americans”, it will be “the other Disney remakes have been for parents of young kids who watched the animated versions”.
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You won’t be seeing any horror films with Grumpy and Dopey getting busy with chainsaws.
I watched the original with mine in a COVID let's-watch-old-films period (also Jason and the Argonauts, Old Yeller, etc), but I've no urge to see the new.
Though it doesn't help that, unlike new-Ariel or new-Jasmine, the lead actress seems to actively despise the original.
Transforming helpful animated animals into helpful rats and pigeons.
It mashed up cinderella and Snow White storylines.
I mean, ok. I guess.
For example you can use the original Mickey Mouse as is public domain but not the new one with gloves
So in theory a Snow White of colour could not be in public domain but a white American one would
Diversity has become a scapegoat for being unoriginal or poor writing because both sides of the online culture war want it to be, the right want to believe "go woke go broke" & the left want to portray conservatives as bigots both ignoring that most things these days good or bad have diverse
They look at the Star Wars sequels & say it was wokeness or racism/sexism as to why they were poorly received ignoring that Rogue One, Andor & The Mandalorian had diverse casts with strong female characters
Dinsey has an originality problem they need less remakes, prequels & sequels, less
There are so many great stories they could be doing instead of this “remember when we made great movies” nonsense.
https://youtu.be/OaO3M-zZR8E?si=FOuZHZ2HbFSVmpNN
* not counting pandemic-era Mulan and Cruella which barely got released
I'm not sure Snow White really has the same cultural impact it once did...
Unless you’re Matt Hancock’s kids.
Also, no matter how poor the princess movies might be, I'm always struck how iconic Mickey and Mini are, yet how truly dreadful all the MM outputs are.