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<blockquote data-quote="Willie Oleson" data-source="post: 423518" data-attributes="member: 8"><p>SNOW WHITE (2025)</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]56357[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>I think the beauty of fairy tales is the creepy wackiness used to convey the message or warning, and no matter how nonsensical it is somehow it just works (if three or four centuries of popular literature is anything to go by).</p><p>There have been various modern retellings of the classic fairy tales desperately trying to mould it into something logical and "worthy" of our attention.</p><p>Characters are fleshed out with origin and motivation to make them more relatable, and while that usually works fine in any other type of film I think it undermines the otherworldliness of the fairy tale.</p><p></p><p>This is very much the case with this umpteenth presentation of Snow White And The (Uncredited) Seven Dwarfs.</p><p>Right from the very beginning it becomes clear that the selfishly romantic daydream of Snow White '37 is replaced with fairness and righteousness and the global happiness that goes with it.</p><p>The King, his new wife and his daughter are all ambitious politicians and despite my previous comments I can understand why they did it.</p><p>It makes the story bigger and perhaps they thought it would give the story more raison d'être.</p><p>To be perfectly honest, that's exactly what Disney has done with the animated films.</p><p>Nobody believed in his Snow White movie adventure but he expanded the universe with all sorts of details to support a feature-length narrative.</p><p>From Snow White L to Snow White XXL, as it were.</p><p>One thing I really liked about this new interpretation is the constant wordplay on "fair" as in "the fairest one of all". It's quite clever how it underscores the political theme without dismissing its place in the fairy tale.</p><p></p><p>Rachel Zegler is adorable as Snow White, she's skinny and all mouth and teeth, and I think she's my favourite of the live-action Disney princesses.</p><p>(Not Prince) Jonathan - also known as Not Jonathan Princess - is cute and funny and he's basically Flynn Rider. And if it's good enough for Princess Rapunzel....</p><p>Gal Gadot's Queen character...oh boy...she's Joan Crawford in <em>Queen Bee</em> (1955).</p><p>She's got exactly the same attitude: be a bitch, take everything and never apologise.</p><p>I often found her unintentionally hilarious because of all the unconvincing sneering and gloating, and her musical number sucks. BIG time.</p><p>She simply doesn't have the vocal talent or diva gravitas to make it look like iconic Disney Villainy.</p><p>Jonathan's rebel camp looks particularly uninspired and uncomfortably shoehorned in, what were they thinking.</p><p>The dwarfs animation takes some getting used to but when all is said and done, the best musical act is the fantastic update of <em>Whistle While You Work</em> that takes place inside the dwarfs cottage.</p><p>The Snow White/Jonathan duet <em>Princess Problems</em> is also entertaining but the rest of the soundtrack is mediocre imo.</p><p>IMDB also credits the classic <em>Someday My Prince Will Come</em> but somehow I must have missed that one.</p><p></p><p>It's very unlikely that I'm going to revisit this much talked-about version of Snow White, but I feel the same about the other Disney live-action remakes (except Jungle Book, that's awesome).</p><p></p><p>6/10</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Willie Oleson, post: 423518, member: 8"] SNOW WHITE (2025) [ATTACH type="full"]56357[/ATTACH] I think the beauty of fairy tales is the creepy wackiness used to convey the message or warning, and no matter how nonsensical it is somehow it just works (if three or four centuries of popular literature is anything to go by). There have been various modern retellings of the classic fairy tales desperately trying to mould it into something logical and "worthy" of our attention. Characters are fleshed out with origin and motivation to make them more relatable, and while that usually works fine in any other type of film I think it undermines the otherworldliness of the fairy tale. This is very much the case with this umpteenth presentation of Snow White And The (Uncredited) Seven Dwarfs. Right from the very beginning it becomes clear that the selfishly romantic daydream of Snow White '37 is replaced with fairness and righteousness and the global happiness that goes with it. The King, his new wife and his daughter are all ambitious politicians and despite my previous comments I can understand why they did it. It makes the story bigger and perhaps they thought it would give the story more raison d'être. To be perfectly honest, that's exactly what Disney has done with the animated films. Nobody believed in his Snow White movie adventure but he expanded the universe with all sorts of details to support a feature-length narrative. From Snow White L to Snow White XXL, as it were. One thing I really liked about this new interpretation is the constant wordplay on "fair" as in "the fairest one of all". It's quite clever how it underscores the political theme without dismissing its place in the fairy tale. Rachel Zegler is adorable as Snow White, she's skinny and all mouth and teeth, and I think she's my favourite of the live-action Disney princesses. (Not Prince) Jonathan - also known as Not Jonathan Princess - is cute and funny and he's basically Flynn Rider. And if it's good enough for Princess Rapunzel.... Gal Gadot's Queen character...oh boy...she's Joan Crawford in [I]Queen Bee[/I] (1955). She's got exactly the same attitude: be a bitch, take everything and never apologise. I often found her unintentionally hilarious because of all the unconvincing sneering and gloating, and her musical number sucks. BIG time. She simply doesn't have the vocal talent or diva gravitas to make it look like iconic Disney Villainy. Jonathan's rebel camp looks particularly uninspired and uncomfortably shoehorned in, what were they thinking. The dwarfs animation takes some getting used to but when all is said and done, the best musical act is the fantastic update of [I]Whistle While You Work[/I] that takes place inside the dwarfs cottage. The Snow White/Jonathan duet [I]Princess Problems[/I] is also entertaining but the rest of the soundtrack is mediocre imo. IMDB also credits the classic [I]Someday My Prince Will Come[/I] but somehow I must have missed that one. It's very unlikely that I'm going to revisit this much talked-about version of Snow White, but I feel the same about the other Disney live-action remakes (except Jungle Book, that's awesome). 6/10 [/QUOTE]
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