So, I Watched The Live Action Snow White And Here Are My Takeaways:

So, I watched the live action Snow White and here are my takeaways:

1) Modern Disney Hates Fairytale Logic

Every change that was made to Prince Florian (a bandit named Jonathan in this version) makes his character worse. Of course, it was done so that he had more screen time and she "didn't fall in love with a man she just met" but the thing is, she still did. They have virtually no time together and in a fairytale that would work. In a fairytale, we suspend our disbelief and remember how fairytales operate---stock characters, formulas, tropes, and symbols. It's okay if there is love at first sight, because we know love at first sight represents something deeper than instalove or lust. But here's the problem: by trying so hard to subvert this trope, but still not creating a well-developed romance that takes place over a reasonable period of time, the live action feels more instalovey than the original.

2) Modern Disney also hates animation

There was no reason to make a Snow White live action in the first place. There are so many Snow White retellings that are live action. Just because something is animated, it doesn't mean it is inferior to live action. The OG Snow White was so ground breaking because of what it did with the medium of animation. We don't need to remake that bad cgi and people in hideous costumes.

3) and has a weird vendetta against motherhood

Okay, so at the beginning of the movie we learn about Snow White's parents. Both are very loving and instill her with morals. Her mother dies, and then shortly after, her father dies. So Snow White would have clear memories of both of them, and have been pretty close to both of them. However, the only person she mentions the entire movie is her father. She always talks about wanting to be her "father's daughter" or live up to what her father wanted her to be. Which is wild, considering the wayyyyyy too long narrative exposition at the beginning of the movie highlighted the importance of both of her parents.

This becomes even more interesting when you think about the "girlbossification" of Snow White. All of the original character's motherly traits have been nixed, in favor of making her a "leader" (as if she wasn't in the original. Motherly people lead too). When she thinks about being a ruler, she talks about living up to her father (so much for an egalatarian marriage and ruling style, I guess). I suppose this means we are left to assume that her mother wasn't a very noteworthy person because she wasn't a girlboss.

4) and hates princesses

Look, the song "Princess Problems" simply does not belong in a Disney Princess movie. Full stop. Absolutely not. Put it in High School Musical as a diss against Sharpay Evans. Not a Disney Princess movie. And certainly not a Disney Princess movie in which the princess in question has been viciously abused for years and treated like a slave. Not to mention that his entire premise doesn't make sense. He is trying to diss Snow White for having "princess problems" which are what, exactly? Well, according to him, wanting the world to be a better place is a princess problem? Only the rich want the world to be a better place because the poor are so focused on survival that they don't care? W h a t? How can you be simultaneously mad at your sovereign for trying to help the poor and also mad at your sovereign for being rich and calling it a "rich people problem" to want to help???? What the heck is that? (Oh and also, it's not like he doesn't know Snow White was abused. He does. When he met her he didn't realize she was a princess. She was in rags sweeping the kitchen. He knows she was forced to be a maid. He's just classist).

The moral of all of the above points is simple: Disney is trying so hard not to be offensive that they are actually more offensive. The issue is modern Disney seems to believe that all fairytales are inherently sexist and classist, so they change important plot points so drastically that the end result is not only more sexist and more classist than the source material, but also, not even a good story.