Posted on 08/18/2023 10:00:29 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
In sum, Disney is turning a 200 year-old story about overcoming “vanity and self-regard” into a post-modern story about woke vanity and self-regard.
Hollywood re-made and adapted this Grimm Fairy tale. They added a lot of modern violence, and revenge theme, with a lot of campy dialogue and modern gender roles. But they did not change the basic foundational ethic of the story. For that reason, it was successful and made a lot of money.
Times change, language changes, culture changes - but the archetypes can not change.
Disney, being good marxists, are trying to turn human nature and its archetypes on their head. They are guaranteed to fail.
Archetypes absolutely change. All you need to do is look at the history of this story. There’s been VASTLY different versions of this story in various times and regions. Sometimes it’s a stepmother, sometimes queen, sometimes actual mother. Sometimes there’s dwarves, sometimes robbers. Sometime the huntsman refuses to kill her, sometimes he falls for her and they go into hiding.
Before people started mass printing these stories they changed CONSTANTLY. You could go one town over and get a different version, stay in the same town for 20 years and it would change.
Stories change, archetypes change, cultures change.
“its not a passing of the torch but a torching of the past”
Once you know the past you know it torches itself constantly.
Only fags would be interested in such a “plot”. Kids would simply ignore this as something that doesn’t interest them.
How kind
How touching
How feminine
How soft
So in short, more fictional Disney Booschidt. However, if she wants to really be a "leader she can be", she can start by taking back the ladies restrooms from the male perverts and then start by getting all the trophy-stealing, male perverts out of women's sports. I mean, geez. What ever happened to Feminazism anyway. Men are walking all over the women these days and all these Snow Whites just don't seem to care.
That's merely a character. Archetypes are deeper. For example, you could not make the character an evil stepfather. Or you could not make them a caregiving grandmother. The story loses all meaning. Jung would have called this the magician archetype.
But that IS an archetype. The wicked stepmother IS an archetype. Except when the female villain is a queen.
And yes you totally COULD make the character an evil stepfather. It wouldn’t lose meaning it would CHANGE meaning. Which is part of why these stories constantly change. Because they reflect the meaning the society of that time and place WANT TO TELL. You can see it right in how this story has changed. An evil mother is about the jealousy of being surpassed by the next generation. An evil stepmother is about being jealous of the vestiges of the first wife. An evil queen is worrying the peasants getting out of hand. A stepfather would be a very similar story to the stepmother, vestiges of who was there. Which archetype the is in the story changes with what society is trying to express with the story.
These things do and have and always will change constantly. Look up the history of ANY of these stories. There are literally hundreds of versions that managed to get enough traction to be known. Probably many more since so many of these stories come from a time when most people couldn’t write.
Next up:
Phantomess of the Opera....with pansy boy-man with struggles as best supporting act.
A basic principle of conservatism: CONSERVE the good in the past. And no, the past does not “torch itself”. It requires someone else to say it was wrong and that it needs to be destroyed.
You can conserve the past and not be trapped in it. And absolutely the past torches itself. Especially before the printing press. Because things just change, reality ALWAYS changes. And before the printing press, when the current reality couldn’t be recorded well, when things changed that was it, the past was gone. We won’t be losing previous versions of Snow White. We have records of hundreds of renditions. Some good, some not. All reflective of the time.
They already did this with, “Snow White and the Huntsman.”
I could not help but notice that Rachel Zegler and Gal Gadot have small breasts.
Disney needs women in the roles with cleavage.
If Disney wanted to make a movie about a strong female musical, they could just put together “Springtime For Hillary”.
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