SNOW WHITE : WARRIOR PRINCESS
Posted on 08/18/2023 10:00:29 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The Brothers Grimm wrote Snow White 200 years ago as a story of love and friendship overcoming vanity and self-regard. Hollywood today has apparently traded the “love” part for some girl-boss “leadership” content.
Promising “a modern edge” to the classic, actress Rachel Zegler said, “It’s no longer 1937. ... She’s not going to be saved by the prince, and she’s not going to be dreaming about true love. She’s dreaming about becoming the leader she knows she can be.”
The modern moviegoer, at this point, is forgiven a sigh or eye roll.
This new Snow White will probably be pretty good. Adapting venerable folk tales is a great American folk tradition. Walt Disney and his writers altered the Brothers Grimm’s original, partly by adopting the twists thrown in by the 1912 Broadway musical version (such as giving each of the seven dwarfs a name).
But not every last movie needs to be given a feminist twist, and not every story needs to be about leadership and individual triumph.
We already have the mermaid Ariel to sing the virtues of expressive individualism. If they wanted a “great woman” leadership story, the filmmakers could have remade Atlas Shrugged.
“She’s not going to be dreaming about true love,” to be sure, is an accurate representative of the modern mindset. Americans, like much of Western Europe, put individual achievement over family formation.
Never before have fewer Americans been married: Only 53% of adults were married in 2019, way down from 67% in 1990. That massive decline is not just about legal nuptials, but it’s about decreased romantic pairings in general.
Never before have more people been alone. An epidemic of loneliness — living alone, having few friends, and being unwed — has even garnered the attention of our surgeon general.
And never before have young people been more accomplishment-oriented and less connection-oriented. A 2018 poll of teenagers found almost all agreed that “having a job or career I enjoy” was important or very important, while only about 40% said the same about getting married or having children.
By definition, not everyone can be or should want to be a leader, but almost anyone can hope to find true love.
Our problem seems to be too much individualistic self-actualization and too little self-giving. In such an atomized culture in which dating apps, sexual predation, and obsession with material success have made love hard to find, why would you turn a love story into a leadership story?
Let Snow White be Snow White. We can only take so many Dagny Taggarts.
Don’t eat the Mestizo Snow...
Snow Dyke and the Seven Perverts.
snow white gets a universal basic income from the govt
uncle sam is her daddy
Coming soon: “ Snow White, the Sequel: It’s Ass Kicking time.”
Because chicks as alphas movies have been so successful
Rewriting fairy tales is the same as taking civil war statues. It’s cultural deconstruction.
” It’s cultural deconstruction.”
Methinks, you are correct.
yep
They ruin everything.
You don’t like Snow White? Write your own Fing story.
There’s never been a movie like this one that doesn’t involve mind control.
They are welcome to make up their ow ridiculous story no one would be interested in but no they have to ruin good things
The Grimm did not write these stories. They took them from folklore and printed them. Which is fine.
Point is these stories were from natural law natural psychological development. Tgey come from dreams of adolescent development. Tgey are coming of age stories
They were ancient, they were worldwide not just in Europe. There are similar stories from tge ancient Chinese
Contemporary Hollywood is tge opposite. They are actively attempting to impose rot and perversion into coming of age stories. They usurp. They prey on silly suburban mothers who continue to trust Disney actively rejecting the value of classics rejecting tradition calling it antiquated. Their kids are not only confused, they are also rejecting these notions seeking truth as all young people have done since the beginning of time
Huff.
The 22 year old snot needs to do a little reading on the genesis of the Brothers Grimm “Fairy Tails”.
The idiot truly does not know what she does not know.
Well the Brothers Grimm wrote down A version of an existing fairy tale. And include the step mother, not queen, being ordered to be tortured with hot iron slippers.
It’s a fairy tale, they’re SUPPOSED to change with time. They always have. It really wasn’t until the Grimms started writing things down, and then Disney started making highly sanitized movies, that suddenly these fairy tales started being set in stone.
I don’t know about these changes, largely because they come from Disney, who ruined them in the first place. But I definitely am pro changes.
And as you sweep the room
Imagine that the broom
Is someone that you love
Whistle while you work
I still have the Disney originals.
So….it’s not Snow White. Because Snow White was written to have a prince and dwarves.
Just make a new movie with a new title. Why get everyone riled up?
With the success of Barbie…expect more tripe coming to a theater near you.
No. It’s Democrats trying to erase their history.
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