The same news cycle occurs with every Disney remake announcement, and now that a live-action Snow White is in the works, the levers of the 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 various bodies (among them an actor with achondroplasia and a woman) and that Snow White, according to the actress who plays her , Rachel Zegler, 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 is not dreaming much either, but the prince is there, kissing her without consent after she undergoes chemical submission induced by her stepmother disguised as a princess. The detractors of the so-called Disney woke are a bit like the voters of the PP and Vox, who when they denounce what they think Sanchismo will do paint a PSOE much redder and more radical than it actually is.
The truth is that Disney remakes are a pretty rare thing: the last Little Mermaid, which also generated controversy for giving the lead role to a black actress, Halle Bailey, and moving the action to a tropical kingdom, kept the song which encourages the prince to “kiss the girl” and with his normative wedding and all the other things.
The Telegraph has found the 91-year-old son of the director of 1937's Snow White and collected his statements that his father and Walt Disney would be turning in their graves. Considering that Disney, a known racist and anti-Semitic, referred to the dwarves in his film as "a mountain of blacks", using the worst possible word, it might not be a good idea to consult him for opinions via ouija. 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 folk folklore, since, in some of the seven versions they wrote, the princess resurrects when his body falls to the dwarves and he spits out the piece of poisoned apple. Old Walt must have thought it was not pretty.
