The same news cycle ensues with every Disney remake announcement, and now that an action-packed Snow White is being shot, the levers of the little culture war have been turned on again. It turns out that in the film, which will be released in 2024, the dwarfs will no longer be dwarfs, but seven companions with different bodies (among them an actor with achondroplasia and a woman) and that Snow White, according to the actress who plays her, Rachel Zegler , she no longer dreams of a prince, but of being "the leader she has always wanted to be."
It would be necessary to reply to Zegler that, in the most popular version of the tale, dreaming doesn't dream much either, but the prince is found there, kissing her without consent after she suffered chemical submission induced by her stepmother. The detractors of the so-called Disney woke are a bit like the angry voters of the PP and Vox, who, when they denounce what they believe Sanchismo is going to do, paint a PSOE that is much redder and more radical than it really is.
The truth is that the Disney remakes are a rather dim thing: the last Little Mermaid, which also generated controversy for giving the main role to a black actress and moving the action to a tropical kingdom, kept the song that encourages the prince to "kiss the the girl” and with her normative wedding and everything else.
The Telegraph has found the son of the 1937 Snow White director, aged 91, and has collected his statements saying that his father and Walt Disney would turn in their graves. Bearing in mind that Disney, a known racist and anti-Semite, referred to the dwarves in his film as "a mountain of blacks", using the worst possible word, it would still not be a good idea to ask him for opinions via Ouija board. If the kiss that brings Snow White back to life disappears in the new version, it would actually be a more faithful version to those collected by the Grimm brothers from German popular folklore, since, in some of the seven versions they wrote, the princess is resurrected when the dwarves drop his body and spit out the piece of poisoned apple. Old Walt must have thought it unpretty.
