"Disney’s first animated feature, Snow White was released in 1937, which means that anyone who saw the film then is either dead or serving in Congress."
There once was a young girl who happened to be a princess. She was a free spirit. Her desires for a normal life constrained by a society who clipped her wings. And she resented her parents and her culture for doing it. While being taught to wear makeup and look pretty and laugh at the jokes of men, her resentment builds. Her opinions do not matter, her desires do not matter, her needs do not matter. Only her looks and ability to secure an alliance matters. She is told this over and over and over again.
One day while riding with attendants, she is briefly separated and meets a truly free woman. One her people call a witch. The witch becomes her friend and visits her at night teaching her about the world and "magic"; chemistry, botany, potions, poisons...
The "witch" encourages her to run away and be free.
But the voices had already wormed their way into subconscious. No. She could not live on her own. She couldn't survive. She couldn't do it. She couldn't do anything, they whispered. Except... be pretty. And the witch's nightly visits had not gone unnoticed. The witch would be killed by the king. Leaving the girl utterly alone except for the voices.
Married off to a stranger, she resents him. She resents her life. She resents her gender. She resents the country. She resents the king's daughter. Rather than seeing a chance to do better for the very pretty girl, she resents her because her father loves her and gives her more freedom than the princess, now queen ever had.
But she is pretty and she plays the wife and stepmother.
The king becomes deathly ill.
Politics is brutal. Her fate now will be to be forcibly married to one of the powerful lords in an effort to lay claim to the throne or... the girl, Snow White, is now potentially of age... if the Lord married her instead, she would be killed or thrust aside into obscurity.
She stares into the mirror... no, they wouldn't choose her. Would they? The girl is beautiful, but the queen is more beautiful, right? Right? She asks the image in the mirror.
The voices answer... no... you aren't good enough. You will never be good enough...
And so the queen acts. She eliminates rivals. She secures her throne. She pays a servant well to kill the princess, Snow White.
They should be natural allies. But the mirror... the mirror... the Queen hates what she sees in the mirror and can never be free of it's whispers.
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It's been done, but there we have motivation, story, a reason for the evil. We have a sympathetic villain that we sort of hope finds her way in the end.
I think people would like that. Give the Queen a dark version of "let it go" as she declares her independence and the whispers undermine all of her declarations.
"Disney’s first animated feature, Snow White was released in 1937, which means that anyone who saw the film then is either dead or serving in Congress." I snorted!
I love seeing this examination of the issue. I have friends who were even panning the film and they usually love remakes. (But they too liked Zegler)
I feel like everyone is also just tired of remakes and they want to see something new and cool. And it's possible to do this right with something relatively new; everyone remembers the smash hit of Detective Pikachu! Or even how well the Sonic the Hedgehog movies did with live action, to the point that a miniseries happened (and I must say, I think the miniseries is good...my friend sat me down to watch that).
But just like in politics, people are dead set on learning the wrong lessons, which is their wont I guess.
I think I saw the original Snow White two or three times in total. Maybe once as a kid, at least once, maybe twice with my own children...
... I only vaguely remember seeing it as a kid, not completely sure I did. More recently, it was bit like looking at a cave painting, or an upper Palaeolithic Venus figurine. Like this is from some other civilisation, a civilisation we really don’t know that much about, a little alien. The film is undeniably pretty, and it’s easy to see it must have been a real technological and artistic triumph for its time, but it’s hard to really get inside it. I am very aware watching it: I’m not really sure what the world was like from which this came.
I haven't seen the remake of Snow White yet, and I don't know if I want to. I'm not a fan of remakes of incredibly successful movies, anyway. Why do it? It's already been done. To perfection.
No, I'm here to ask this one question: Why are almost all computer-generated female characters cross-eyed? Why can't they get their eyes straight? (See your clip of Tangled above as an example.)
Mostly Disney, for sure, but the eyes on the characters in 'Polar Express' were downright creepy. What's the problem?
The cross-eyed thing is probably something similar to how "Moe" works in anime and may be proven to be adorable.
There's an inversion of this in Minecraft where the friendly animals have eyes that look out to the sides, which is supposed to convey that they're harmless.
It seems that in the Disney universe, good mothers die young, but the bad ones live long enough to torture their children and/or stepchildren. The heroines from the Golden Age were stronger and had defined characters, which is a good thing, because the earlier heroines just waited on a man to save them. Sure, they were nice and good looking, but they were incapable of saving themselves or even thinking for themselves. The smart and strong women were all evil.
As I haven't seen the new "Snow White," can't say about the movie, but anyone not liking it will blame wokeness, because it seems to be whatever anyone wants it to be, and there is no need to clarify what they mean.
Snow White’s other big number is “Someday My Prince Will Come,”
Sinead O'Connor's cover is infused with desperation and self-delusion.
https://youtu.be/SQx8r1Ak44g
"Disney’s first animated feature, Snow White was released in 1937, which means that anyone who saw the film then is either dead or serving in Congress."
Sick shade SER!
LOL!!!
There once was a young girl who happened to be a princess. She was a free spirit. Her desires for a normal life constrained by a society who clipped her wings. And she resented her parents and her culture for doing it. While being taught to wear makeup and look pretty and laugh at the jokes of men, her resentment builds. Her opinions do not matter, her desires do not matter, her needs do not matter. Only her looks and ability to secure an alliance matters. She is told this over and over and over again.
One day while riding with attendants, she is briefly separated and meets a truly free woman. One her people call a witch. The witch becomes her friend and visits her at night teaching her about the world and "magic"; chemistry, botany, potions, poisons...
The "witch" encourages her to run away and be free.
But the voices had already wormed their way into subconscious. No. She could not live on her own. She couldn't survive. She couldn't do it. She couldn't do anything, they whispered. Except... be pretty. And the witch's nightly visits had not gone unnoticed. The witch would be killed by the king. Leaving the girl utterly alone except for the voices.
Married off to a stranger, she resents him. She resents her life. She resents her gender. She resents the country. She resents the king's daughter. Rather than seeing a chance to do better for the very pretty girl, she resents her because her father loves her and gives her more freedom than the princess, now queen ever had.
But she is pretty and she plays the wife and stepmother.
The king becomes deathly ill.
Politics is brutal. Her fate now will be to be forcibly married to one of the powerful lords in an effort to lay claim to the throne or... the girl, Snow White, is now potentially of age... if the Lord married her instead, she would be killed or thrust aside into obscurity.
She stares into the mirror... no, they wouldn't choose her. Would they? The girl is beautiful, but the queen is more beautiful, right? Right? She asks the image in the mirror.
The voices answer... no... you aren't good enough. You will never be good enough...
And so the queen acts. She eliminates rivals. She secures her throne. She pays a servant well to kill the princess, Snow White.
They should be natural allies. But the mirror... the mirror... the Queen hates what she sees in the mirror and can never be free of it's whispers.
____
It's been done, but there we have motivation, story, a reason for the evil. We have a sympathetic villain that we sort of hope finds her way in the end.
I think people would like that. Give the Queen a dark version of "let it go" as she declares her independence and the whispers undermine all of her declarations.
"Disney’s first animated feature, Snow White was released in 1937, which means that anyone who saw the film then is either dead or serving in Congress." I snorted!
Thank you for this.
I love seeing this examination of the issue. I have friends who were even panning the film and they usually love remakes. (But they too liked Zegler)
I feel like everyone is also just tired of remakes and they want to see something new and cool. And it's possible to do this right with something relatively new; everyone remembers the smash hit of Detective Pikachu! Or even how well the Sonic the Hedgehog movies did with live action, to the point that a miniseries happened (and I must say, I think the miniseries is good...my friend sat me down to watch that).
But just like in politics, people are dead set on learning the wrong lessons, which is their wont I guess.
I think I saw the original Snow White two or three times in total. Maybe once as a kid, at least once, maybe twice with my own children...
... I only vaguely remember seeing it as a kid, not completely sure I did. More recently, it was bit like looking at a cave painting, or an upper Palaeolithic Venus figurine. Like this is from some other civilisation, a civilisation we really don’t know that much about, a little alien. The film is undeniably pretty, and it’s easy to see it must have been a real technological and artistic triumph for its time, but it’s hard to really get inside it. I am very aware watching it: I’m not really sure what the world was like from which this came.
I haven't seen the remake of Snow White yet, and I don't know if I want to. I'm not a fan of remakes of incredibly successful movies, anyway. Why do it? It's already been done. To perfection.
No, I'm here to ask this one question: Why are almost all computer-generated female characters cross-eyed? Why can't they get their eyes straight? (See your clip of Tangled above as an example.)
Mostly Disney, for sure, but the eyes on the characters in 'Polar Express' were downright creepy. What's the problem?
The cross-eyed thing is probably something similar to how "Moe" works in anime and may be proven to be adorable.
There's an inversion of this in Minecraft where the friendly animals have eyes that look out to the sides, which is supposed to convey that they're harmless.
It's such a distraction for me. It comes close to ruining the movie. The eyes are so important for so many reasons.
Today's post is absolutely superb.
It seems that in the Disney universe, good mothers die young, but the bad ones live long enough to torture their children and/or stepchildren. The heroines from the Golden Age were stronger and had defined characters, which is a good thing, because the earlier heroines just waited on a man to save them. Sure, they were nice and good looking, but they were incapable of saving themselves or even thinking for themselves. The smart and strong women were all evil.
As I haven't seen the new "Snow White," can't say about the movie, but anyone not liking it will blame wokeness, because it seems to be whatever anyone wants it to be, and there is no need to clarify what they mean.