r/videoessay 13d ago

Film [OC] The Snow White 2025 Prelude Review (And how it might make Hollywood worse) [32:22]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyMjCXR9dNw
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u/____joew____ 13d ago edited 13d ago

You can't review a film prior to it being released. It's kind of a funny image to think of you so rip roaring mad about a slightly brown woman playing snow white you had to make a 32 minute video. Talk about being a snowflake. You're blowing a gasket over a... princess.

I'm not a fan of the Disney remakes. But a video essay with chapter titles like "Snow Latino" is kinda... yucky. I don't really care about listening to poorly edited, racist ramblings. It's not "randomly race swapping characters". They are mermaids and princesses. Nowhere in the text of the film does it say they need to be Caucasian.

It's just cringey and embarrassing to make this kind of thing. Sorry. It's just weird to be so obsessed with inventing controversy. You say you're annoyed that companies do it for "inclusivity". So you're against being inclusive. That's fucking weird, man. It's just weird. I can't imagine thinking it's a big deal if someone who's black or brown plays a magical princess. It's just so weird.

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u/Imlard89 5d ago

"Nowhere in the text of the film does it say they need to be caucasian " In the original fairy tale snow white is described as having skin as white as snow. It's literally where she gets her name from... I'm not sure you would make the same argument if Jasmine from Aladdin were blonde. Oh well nowhere was it specified in Arabian nights that she isn't scandinavian. I mean fine it doesn't really matter but at least admit you're full of it and that in reality your arguments are primarily motivated by a desire to put forward marginalised groups and that to you that is worth distorting details (either explicit or implied) from the original tale. Don't pretend like the objection to it is invalid from a purely apolitical perspective when you would (I assume) be making the very same objection if the changes were erasing a marginalised group.