Disney's Snow White 2025 — Page 2

The trailer looks magical and enchanting! I’m pretty excited for the movie!


Not sure what people want from these Disney remakes. On one hand, if it strays too far from the animated version, people get mad. If it’s too close to the animated version, people still get mad. Can’t make everyone happy.


Rachel Zegler was going to be hated by a certain group no matter what she did or said simply because she is half Hispanic. Just like Halle got so much hate.


I hope this will end up like Cinderella. There’s so much room for plot expansion and character development. Plus, it’ll be a musical, so I’m excited to see how the new songs will mesh with the ones from 1937.

Eric, I don't disagree about the brilliant moments in the original like the ones you cited!! But then there are also multiple sequences that stop the action of the story and let the Dwarves do cleverly-animated antics. A remake doesn't erase what was good before, it just offers an alternative: one that can flesh out more of the story, which I'm sure this will do regardless of whether it's good or bad.

The score is definitely in the Jerome Kern/Victor Herbert mode, and Harry Stockwell (a Broadway operetta star of the 30s-40s and a replacement Curly in the original OK!) voices the prince.

For me, SLEEPING BEAUTY is the one that gets it the most right, from the delicious villain to the jawdropping animation to the adaptation of the score, and a leading lady with a little bit more agency.

TaffyDavenport said: "rosscoe(au) said: "I can live with Gal, but Rachel is sadly not very talented. She’s bland and that’s a crime worst than being bad."

I thought her debut in West Side Storywas stunning, and she was also great in the Hunger Gamesfilm. She’s already been better than Gal has ever been, in my opinion."

Agreed. She also won the Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Comedy/Musical for her first film ever. Also, remember she was cast in Snow White before West Side Story was even released. I think I remember reading that filmmakers saw scenes of Rachel in the yet-to-be-released West Side Story and cast her as Snow White, similar to how Robert Wise had cast Julie Andrews in The Sound of Music after watching rushes from the yet-to-be-released Mary Poppins (which she eventually won the Golden Globe for Best Actresss as well).

ErmengardeStopSniveling said: "Eric,I don't disagree about the brilliant moments in the original like the ones you cited!! But then there are also multiple sequences that stop the action of the story and let the Dwarves do cleverly-animated antics. A remake doesn't erase what was good before, it just offers an alternative: one that can flesh out more of the story, which I'm sure this will do regardless of whether it's good or bad.

The score is definitely in the Jerome Kern/Victor Herbert mode, and Harry Stockwell (a Broadway operetta star of the 30s-40s and a replacement Curly in the original OK!) voices the prince.

For me, SLEEPING BEAUTY is the one that gets it the most right, from the delicious villain to the jawdropping animation to the adaptation of the score, and a leading lady with a littlebit more agency."

And I absolutely agree with your points as well. The Dwarves' comic scenes remind you that Disney was testing out how to do a feature with their Silly Symphony shorts which I love but often, despite mega hits like Three Little Pigs, would amount to something like 7 minutes of Easter bunnies doing cute gags involving painting Easter eggs, etc.Still, I think they more or less work (and smartly Disney did cut two additional Dwarf segments--one involving eating soup and the other involving building a large bed for Snow White, so even he must have realized they were becoming just filler.)

I also think Sleeping Beauty is the best of the older Princess films (interestingly, the stuff where Malificent has captured the prince was very closely taken from a sequence in Snow White that was storyboarded but cut early in the making.) And yeah, Tchaikovsky's music (even if now it throws me to hear Puss in Boots music from the ballet used for the villain) and especially Eyvind Earle's gorgeous designs are a big part of it (and yeah both the princess and the prince seem to have more agency and just more to do than in the Snow White or even Cinderella even if they also sometimes feel like they escaped from a 1950s teen romance movie.) Of course it went way over budget, took years to make partly because Walt was distracted by DIsneyland and moving more into live action, and was a big box office bomb (and critical bomb--critics at the time found it distanced and cold) but I think its legacy has more than made up for that.

And wow, never made the connection with Stockwell as Snow White's prince (who I don't think even HAS any dialogue really--he basically just seems to sing.)

It’s easy to forget that Snow White was the first American animated feature film (and the most influential and widespread animated feature film of those very early ones). It has wonkiness because it had no template or precedent to follow- it was setting the rules as it went. The fact it holds up so well almost 90 years later is kind of remarkable.

Fair enough, but how much agency does she have if a man violates her with a KISS when he thinks she's dead (a plot point of course borrowed from Sleeping Beauty by Disney.)? ;) (I'm kidding of course--I think the argument that started some years back that you had to make sure your kids knew that kisses needed consent was completely idiotic in this context.)

Variety at the time listed it as a box office bomb, but you're right of course that it actually did healthy enough business, it was just so expensive (due to the production time, using 70mm--Lady and the Tramp had been in CinemaScope but that was a cheaper process,) stereo, etc...

I'm gonna be that dude and ask why a thread for a movie is on the main board and not the off-topic board.

CarlosAlberto said: "I'm gonna be that dude and ask why a thread for a movie is on the main board and not the off-topic board."

It's a movie musical.

MagicalMusical, I saw a video once where Walt compared Cinderella to Snow White, and he said, “She [Cinderella] believed in dreams, all right, but she also believed in doing something about them. When Prince Charming didn't come along, she went right over to the palace and got him.”

Youtube recommended a good (if long) video on the dosney princesses and how ridiculous a lot of the criticism is against them. I agreed with most of it.

It never stops surprising me how people don't understand simple fairytales. Even the creators of Bad Cinderella and CHF went on about how the original was about wanting a man etc and it clearly isn't.

https://youtu.be/pbzxv_J6QzM?si=oD6LZYyZm8ZWOP4p

degrassifan said: "CarlosAlberto said: "I'm gonna be that dude and ask why a thread for a movie is on the main board and not the off-topic board."

It's a movie musical.

You'd think at my age I would have gotten the memo. Never mind us old folks. Carry on, youngins...