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Why Are People Mad About 'Snow White'? The Controversy Explained
AOL ^ | 7/18/23 | Eliza Thompson

Posted on 07/19/2023 5:11:16 AM PDT by DallasBiff

After the success of 2023’s The Little Mermaid, Disney’s next live-action project is a remake of Snow White — but not everyone is excited about the new movie.

A live-action version of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs has been in development since at least 2016, but production didn’t kick off in earnest until 2021. In June of that year, Deadline reported that Rachel Zegler had landed the role of the titular princess, who made her Disney debut in 1937. (Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was Disney’s first full-length animated film.)

After the success of 2023’s The Little Mermaid, Disney’s next live-action project is a remake of Snow White — but not everyone is excited about the new movie.

A live-action version of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs has been in development since at least 2016, but production didn’t kick off in earnest until 2021. In June of that year, Deadline reported that Rachel Zegler had landed the role of the titular princess, who made her Disney debut in 1937. (Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was Disney’s first full-length animated film.)

“People are making these jokes about ours being the PC Snow White, where it’s like, yeah, it is — because it needed that,” Zegler, who is of Colombian and Polish descent, told Vanity Fair in October 2022. “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.’”

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Music/Entertainment
KEYWORDS: 00001appropreation; disney; snowwgite; wokeness
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To: Ikeon
the only people mad at disney for the snow white remake are a bunch of karens, who are putting their noses in somebody elses business.

I dont care if disney makes a full black version. Its none of anyone's business how disney spends their money unless it is immoral.

So it is ok for Disney to allow this,

You probably work in Hollywood.

21 posted on 07/19/2023 5:43:28 AM PDT by DallasBiff (Apology not accepted.la is not the sharpest knife in the drawer)
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To: telescope115

“as ridiculous as remaking movies like “The Color Purple” with an all-white cast.”
Or “Roots” with an all-white cast. Steve Martin as Kunta Kinte?


22 posted on 07/19/2023 5:45:01 AM PDT by brookwood (To acheive equity, the percentage of whites in prison must equal the percentage of blacks in prison)
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To: DallasBiff

Suggest that in addition to the woke garbage that is fundamentally racist, perhaps a supplemental reason for these flops is a lack of original thought. Remakes of the fairy tales, remakes of the comic book heroes, remakes of cartoons to live action, remakes of live action to cartoons.... Yeah, I’m really looking forward to the 37th remake of Batman, pass the $40 popcorn.


23 posted on 07/19/2023 5:48:13 AM PDT by Made In The USA (Ellen Ate Dynamite Good By Ellen)
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To: Boogieman

Maybe success to them is angering white people and losing money?…


24 posted on 07/19/2023 5:48:47 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: Boogieman

I know what liberals are driving at, but that’s not what I’m saying. No story is necessarily so sacred that it can’t be told in other interpretations, as long as the elements are there.


25 posted on 07/19/2023 5:49:19 AM PDT by Jonty30 (If liberals were truth tellers, they'd call themselves literals. )
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To: DallasBiff

For libs tolerance is a one way street.


26 posted on 07/19/2023 5:50:48 AM PDT by bray (You can tell who the Commies fear.)
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To: FLNittany

Indeed. After eight weeks, Mermaid has just barely crept into the black. Hardly a smash hit. Finally breaking even is not much of a “success.”


27 posted on 07/19/2023 5:51:21 AM PDT by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the narrative.)
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To: Boogieman
“It would not be offensive to me if the studios did a Snow White that was Latino, if it was a Latino interpretation of the story.”

The could have just come up with an original story and called it "Columbian Chick and Her Sever Regular Sized Stalkers"

28 posted on 07/19/2023 5:51:51 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
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To: DallasBiff
titular princess.............
29 posted on 07/19/2023 5:52:01 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Bayard

They can’t just make up their own story. They have to put down Snow White. That’s evil. That’s all.


30 posted on 07/19/2023 5:52:45 AM PDT by stanne
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To: hinckley buzzard

When you lose $8 Billion on a string of bad movies, breaking even is a success.................


31 posted on 07/19/2023 5:53:01 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: DallasBiff

AOL is still a ‘thing’?......................


32 posted on 07/19/2023 5:53:42 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Bayard

Be thankful they didn’t have Snow white say, Some day my princess will come.


33 posted on 07/19/2023 5:54:48 AM PDT by Leep (What skill or service did the biden family have that netted them tens of millions of dollars?)
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To: EEGator

Yes! They are destroying anything traditional American culture. From Boy Scouts to Sports to Super Hero’s to Families. While the goal is not to necessarily go broke ..its to substitute what was with whatever they make up.


34 posted on 07/19/2023 6:01:48 AM PDT by Leep (What skill or service did the biden family have that netted them tens of millions of dollars?)
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To: Leep

Profits are just a means to achieve power. Once power is achieved, profits no longer matter as much. And Disney and its parent still are as powerful as ever, they don’t have to make as much profit.


35 posted on 07/19/2023 6:04:40 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Red Badger
When you lose $8 Billion on a string of bad movies, breaking even is a success.................

Sounds like a story line coming to Bud soon ...

36 posted on 07/19/2023 6:05:05 AM PDT by CatOwner (Don't expect anyone, even conservatives, to have your back when the SHTF in 2021 and beyond.)
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To: brookwood

“Roots” came out, what, 50 or so years ago? IT’S TIME FOR A REMAKE!


37 posted on 07/19/2023 6:06:07 AM PDT by telescope115 (I NEED MY SPACE!!! 🔭)
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To: Jonty30
"It would not be offensive to me if the studios did a Snow White that was Latino, if it was a Latino interpretation of the story."

I'm pretty sure audiences would be turned off when Snow White is sold into sex slavery by her parents or impregnated by her mother's boyfriend.

38 posted on 07/19/2023 6:08:41 AM PDT by nitzy (I wonder if the telescreens in 1984 were first called "free Obamascreens")
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To: DallasBiff

“After the success of 2023’s The Little Mermaid...”
When an article starts off with misinformation about a disappointment’s “success,” why trust the rest?


39 posted on 07/19/2023 6:10:35 AM PDT by Demiurge2 (Define your terms!)
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To: Bayard

“How is this actually called Snow White again?”

Maybe it will center on Columbian cocaine?

Sounds like Disney is using some.


40 posted on 07/19/2023 6:11:54 AM PDT by Mr Rogers (We're a nation of feelings, not thoughts.)
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