Snow White Destroys the Original, Receives a Million Outrages

The teaser trailer for Disney's live-action film "Snow White" received one million dislikes on YouTube. Most viewers criticized the Mouse House for destroying the original work.

According to The SFF Gazette , live-action movie trailer Snow White Disney's "DISPLAY" received more than a million "dislikes" on YouTube. Worse still, only 84,000 users liked it. The disparity suggests a negative public reaction.

Previously, Disney's other live-action production was The Little Mermaid also received 8 times more dislikes than likes, because the "Mouse House" changed the white-skinned, red-haired mermaid princess to a black-skinned, dreadlocked princess. Fans think Disney is destroying the original, trying to create controversy.

"Snow White" Rachel Zegler (left) and the prince in the teaser trailer for the live-action film.

Trusted by Disney to play the main role of Snow White, Rachel Zegler was criticized for not being like the original because she had dark skin, completely different from the description of "skin as white as snow" in the fairy tale.

The 2001-born actress's statements about her role did not receive consensus from the audience. On her personal page, Rachel Zegler said that playing Snow White did not mean she needed to bleach her skin to get the role. In 2023, Zegler received backlash for calling the classic animated film "strange" and describing the prince as a "stalker".

Actress Gal Gadot, who plays the Evil Queen - Snow White's stepmother - is considered more sharp and attractive than the female lead. Many believe Rachel Zegler will be completely overshadowed if the film is released.

Rachel Zegler was criticized for being overshadowed by Gal Gadot in the villain role.

In addition, replacing the 7 dwarfs with CGI (Computer-generated imagery technology - PV) is considered by the audience to be not progressive and "avoiding prejudice" as Disney announced. Public opinion believes that the film studio's solution has deprived the dwarfs - a group of people who have almost no "stage" in Hollywood.

More than 50,000 comments on YouTube about the trailer of Disney's new movie, most of them expressed disappointment and ridicule of the studio's filmmaking style: "I really admire the courage of Walt Disney Studios to still open the comments section", "The fact that this movie has a budget of more than 200 million USD makes you realize that Disney is wasting money on unnecessary things", "Mirror mirror on the wall, what is Disney's most failed movie?"...

According to Forbes , Disney spent $209 million to produce the live-action Snow White. The newspaper The Daily Mail reported the actual figure to be $330 million.

Snow White is written by Greta Gerwig and directed by Marc Webb (500 Days of Summer). The film stars Zegler, Gal Gadot, Andrew Burnap, Ansu Kabia, Dujonna Gift, and Martin Klebba.

Filming began on March 7, 2022, and was completed after six months of filming. The film's release was postponed to March 21, 2025, due to the Hollywood Actors Guild strike.

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