The live-action Snow White hits theaters, but instead of magic, viewers get a soulless construction set of nostalgia and corporate templates. Why is a studio that once risked everything for the sake of art now churning out empty shells of legendary plots?
The original Snow White from 1937 was a revolution: Walt Disney mortgaged his house to make the first full-length animated film in history. 250,000 drawings, the invention of multi-layered animation, a standing ovation at the premiere — every detail here exuded obsession.
What has become of Snow White now?
The dark-skinned Zegler is a great Snow White, Gadot is a spectacular queen, but their efforts are drowned in a flat script and wretched CGI dwarves. The film is not terrible — no one needs it.
VFX crisis and dead souls
The dwarves in the remake are as creepy as the nightmares from The Hills Have Eyes. Paradox: 1937 cartoons look more alive than their "modern" digital copies. Disney saves on special effects, but spends millions on reshoots — logic is dead.
A Marketer's Nightmare
The studio forgot that nostalgia for Snow White remained in the 20th century. Millennials grew up on The Little Mermaid, zoomers on Moana. In the remake of Snow White, Disney bet on a non-existent audience, and therefore failed, writes daily.afisha.
Conclusions? What conclusions?
The failure in the ratings (2/10 on IMDb!), devastating reviews have not taught Disney anything — the studio is already filming a live-action Lilo and Stitch. The corporation, like an evil queen, does not see the truth in the mirror: art cannot be replaced by a conveyor belt.
The original Snow White was a madness of genius, when passion gave birth to success. The remake of the film is just madness, which is simply incapable of giving something good.
