Rylee Bowen - Disney's Snow White

I really did not like watching Disney's Snow White. I understand that this movie came out a very long time ago, but it was actually painful watching it. I'm not talking about the quality of the animation or even the general storyline either. I'm talking about the characters and how Disney choose to develope them. The titular princess only managed to survive on her beauty and appearence.

Another thing that I found really interesting was the demeaning display that was put on for the dwarves. A teenage girl broke into 7 grown men's, with jobs, house and gave herself the role of their "mother." And the dwarves completely fed into this, with the exceotion of Grumpy. He seemed to be the only character to question the morals of the princess.

Disney added a lot of new ideas that differed from the Grimm Brother's original story. They made the queen magic and made this seem much less realistic. They also took out the part about torture and violent deaths and replaced it with the queen falling off a cliff, because the random event that lightning struck the stone in front of here. They also made the prince a more constant figure in the story by adding him to the beginning. They introduced him to Snow White much earlier to allow her to fall in love with this stranger and not question the prince's intentions. I know Walt Disney made the prince to resemble himself, which is a little freaky, but I don't see how. Even with the added dialogue and the new kiss, the prince only kissed a "dead" girl. I don't see the heroism in this.

Something that I have noticed that Disney does, even in its newer movies is use color to demonstrate traits. White represents purity and all things good. Red represents sex and adulthood. Black represents darkness and cruelty. And green, the neon kind, represents evil. Right when the huntsman was about to stab some white, his eyes glimmered green. Some more examples of this color arise with Maleficent, from Sleeping Beauty, to Tamatoa, the crab from Moana. Disney has personally given these colors meaning. Another common feature of Disney that started here, was the absent/dead parents and the evil step mothers. Snow White's father was nowhere to be found in this story. He just married a beautiful woman, who wanted to kill his daughter, and dipped?

The Disney Version of Snow White completely sends the wrong message to its viewers. It sends a message of dependency and neediness. It also shows that if you're beautiful, all of your dreams can come true. I would love to see Disney remake this to fit a modern view on feminism and consent. Does this story even need a prince with a castle at the end? Until then, don't watch this movie. This movie changed entertainment forever, but now I think it needs to display how people shouldn't act. This is not an ispiring story.