Revue 'White' ': A more difficult princess in a redesigned story

The Grimm brothers did not write “Snow White”. They compiled it from countless bedtime stories through the European continent. The ongoing princess became friends with seven dwarfs but 13 giants, 17 thieves or 40 dragons when she looked for refuge in Spain, Belgium or Algeria. Walt Disney has taken its own libertiesWriting experimentally beauty with brow hair like a redhead and a blond, and individualize the dwarfs. At one point, he considered the flabby, dirty, deaf, economical, clever, moving and horrible names.

Not my snow white? GOOD. But they are all A Snow White. The same goes for the “Snow White” by director Marc Webb, even if it is the tip of the feet in theaters as they are full of nasty and frightening trees. Ten years ago, when Disney began to publish live adaptations of her animated classics, her executives had to think that remakes were an obvious way to print money and please fans. This one was Assailed in each turn. So much for a pleasure.

It turns out that today's “white-snow” is not even this galvanization. The new songs are forgettable and the animation is congested from each pixel in competition to show itself. There are too many leaves, too many petals and too many pores on the entirely animated dwarfs, which linked in the film with the nose of the pears. As soon as “Snow White” was announced, he was criticized for the slave trade in small people and, in response, replaced the dwarfs with fantastic CG creatures. Now he has been piloring for Take jobs to short actors.

This makes “Snow White” a fascinating case study in the impossible contradictions of today – a magic mirror reflecting the tensions of the current era. Webb and screenwriter Erin Cressida Wilson had two options: imitate the 1937 cartoon with a blow Change anything and deal with fans of fans' anger. They divided the difference. Yes, Snow White always fled with a guy who knins his corpse. But now she gets to know him before going out – and once aware, she kisses her again with confidence.

Of all the snowy whites that I saw, and I saw her do everything sword has Bollywood Dance, This version, played with MINUP MOXIE by Rachel Zeglerraises a question that I have never considered: would the princess make a good monarch? Here, her royal parents (Hadley Fraser and Lorena Andrea) raise the young White-Blanche (Emilia Faucher) to understand the economy of the Kingdom, schooling it in her resources with mineral minerals. The subjects of the castle swirl on the grounds which serve the pies with deep barrel apples. “Happy peasants”, I spoiled myself in the dark. This old -fashioned tone felt bad. Generatively, I crossed it and I wrote: “HAPPY WORKERS”.

The vocabulary of this film is pointed. “Fair” – as in “the most beautiful of all” – was emphasized both to signify beauty and justice. “Everything is just when you wear the crown”, Snipes Gal Gadot's Evil Queen, who carries Balls of Slinky Ball in obsidian who click and click at each stage. She only gave a note to play, a diva plated with armor which does not have the vulnerability to seem unless of her appearance. But Gadot obtains the best number in a lukewarm batch, the anthem of a villain who raises a half-dozen rinsing sites together, coo and a minor touch rhythm. Anyone who made fun of her viral interpretation of “imagine” at the start of the pandemic will have to concede as a result that she stands at least.

The queen of Gadot horrible wealth; Snow White cannot understand why a sovereign would leave people to die of hunger. “I'm sure she knew how desperate things Protested by both sides of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. When this queen sends her rival to be murdered by a hunter, the stakes feel larger than a cat fight – he is closer to a political assassination.

This snow white is pragmatic. Asked what she sees in a magic wishing a well, she answers: “Water”. Later, the songwriters Benj Pastek and Justin Paul Replace the sweet but dripping of the cartoon “for the one I like to find” with a more impatient number, “Waiting on Wish”, which wins with each verse while the wonders of Snow White of Zegler, how long it will drag its feet before grasping its own power of autonomy. The rather bland love interest of the princess, a bandit named Jonathan (winner of Tony Andrew Burnap), advises her to “stop thinking and start to do”.

Zegler has all the qualities of a large star. She sings with her jaw which jumped as if she dared someone to punch, and she has the ability to light an additional light behind her eyes when Snow White is desperate for a favor. At the time of Walt Disney, a studio would have built an entire machine around it, building the personality of Zegler and the potential film by film until it can bear the weight. Nowadays, it is mainly launched in larger machines – “West Side Story” “ “The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes” – by studios hoping that this talented girl can assume their blockbusters.

The young actor gained warmth for suggesting that animated white snow was a bit of a simple. People also groaned that Zegler, whose mother is of Colombian origin, is – horrors! – Too tanned. The script spits a defensive explanation: this snow white has obtained its name because it was born in a blizzard. Never mind. But his other small adjustments will not ruin the childhood of anyone. Now, after entering and entered the dwarf homes, Zegler does not pass this iteration of “whistle while you work” by storing birds, squirrels and rabbits – she has men on their own soils.

The interiors of the cabin are dark and brown, an unwanted commitment to naturalistic lighting which is all the more absurd since other stretching of the film are very expressionist with fireflies who slip into the view each time a night scene needs extra sparkle. Meanwhile, Snow White's signature costume is so brilliant that it is blinding; It seems particularly bizarre when she is going around the woods with a hoodie Jonathan and her troop by Merry Brooklyn Bicycle messengers.

“Things seem dark”, Jonathan belting in a duo between his selfishness against his good on a beating of militarist beat. This number dance just on the line of the quantity of inequalities that this toneally precarious remake can take – especially when its modern silver concerns compete with its reminders of the beloved fantasy of Walt. As Snow White is thinking about an uprising to redistribute the wealth of the kingdom, I found myself dwelling on a previous scene in which the dwarves splash in a jewelry cave like a sparkling ball. Wouldn't some diamonds in Dopey's pockets solve everything?