Snow White: How 1 Trailer Destroyed a Movie

The more they try to avoid offending anyone, the more they keep offending someone.

7 physically disabled guys just spent an entire day doing one of the physically toughest jobs in the world, find a woman who invaded their home and she intructs them to clean their house while she dances and sings.

Zegler doesn't seem to understand Snow White at all and nor do Disney. Snow White doesn't clean the dwarves' home in the original because she has to, because that's what women do, or because she looks down on them. At that point? She had no idea who even lived there. She found the dwarves' cottage and assumed, because she had no idea of the existence of magical beings, that the size of the furniture meant seven children lived there. As it was so dirty, she assumed they must be orphans with no one to take care of them properly or teach them how to clean, she decided then that she would clean it in the hopes they would let her stay and, if they didn't, at least it would be a nice surprise for them with the animals helping her because she was such a kind, gentle soul. When she finds out that its adult dwarves who live there? She apologises for intruding and pleads with them to let her stay - offering to cook and clean because those are skills she's familiar with which she knows they aren't good at. Snow White doesn't portray women as weak or incapable. She isn't meant to portray them as fulfilling an assigned gender role, with a big strong Prince and a host of magical beings and animals to save her. She's showing people that kindness is its own strength. Kindness and teamwork. That, even though she has no martial or material skill, she has other qualities that are worth something just by being herself and that those qualities are in their own right something truly special. That people are, by being themselves, special. This is evident in the interactions she has with the dwarves as well - she happily accepts Grumpy as being his Grumpy self. She never once speaks down to him or treats him any differently to anyone else and the same with the other dwarves. Despite being magical beings, which some humans might think made them lesser, she treats them as equals. She might not be the flashy, weapon-wielding, spell-slinging woman of action that other Disney characters are but she's as much a heroine. More so, in some ways, because she shows that little acts of kindness can be worth more than a sorcerer's spells, they're a magic of their own. Magic that Disney has, sadly, forgotten.

I showed the trailer to my 3 year old and he laughed hysterically for 5 minutes straight after seeing the CGI dwarves.

My favorite comment on the Snow White trailer from a few days ago was "Snow White and the 700,000 dislikes."

Literally no one was ever offended by Snow White. Why did they even do this?

As a feminist woman, I absolutely despise how being kind, wanting to get married, caring for others etc is a negative thing now. Feminism is about letting women be whoever they want to be, not making all women "girlbosses".

Let me get this straight.... A woman goes invades someones home, and tell them how to live their life? That's just not right.

Swapping a character’s gender, race, and/or personality doesn’t automatically make the remake better than the original.

There’s something so satisfying about watching multi million dollar studios lose hundreds of millions of dollars on a new release. You can’t help but wonder where it’ll go from here. They obviously can’t keep on releasing flops after flops and continuously lose hundreds of millions of dollars. It’s not sustainable. I wonder if they’ll ever get desperate enough to completely change course.

OH! They could have cast a woman with albinism in snow white! It IS representation AND it fitts the "Skin white as snow" part of the story!

The original Snow White knew how to communicate and be assertive with the dwarves without being bossy, Rachel as Snow White utterly fails at that and comes off as condescending.

Why are typically feminine characteristics like kindness, compassion, caring considered ‘weak’?

Remember when Paramount released the first Sonic trailer and fans were horrified how they changed the design, and instead of doubling down Paramount said "You know, you're right. We DID mess up that design, but don't worry, we will fix it." And then it ended up becoming one of the most beloved video game adaptations of all time? Disney could learn from that.

anyone else notice the hypocrisy of Disney when they take such care to ensure the right ethnic person voices an animated character in movies based on non-European stories but don't extend the courtesy when representing European culture.

As said by my teacher: “Rachel Zegler doesn’t want more women’s rights, she wants less men’s rights.”

She forgot the most basic rules of being an actor. Just act. We don’t care about your opinion.

Disney was a lot more inclusive when they weren't trying to force it...

Zegler trying to act "strongest and inspiring" in front of Gal Gadot, Gal gadot... Wonder woman herself... She is the woman many men want to be.

I felt the backlash against her was a bit uncalled for , but the way she talks speaks for itself literally...