Rachel Zegler and Gal Gadot Starrer 'Snow White' is a Poor Attempt at Promoting Diversity

Snow White is one of the oldest and most popular Disney Princess, with every individual, be it an adult or a kid knowing her story. So, when Disney decided to make a live action film of the old tale, the decision was met with many objections. But Disney went ahead and created the film, even though they should have listened to the audience.

A beautiful princess named Snow White is envied by her wicked stepmother, the Queen, due to her beauty. The Queen orders a huntsman to kill Snow White, but he instead helps her escape into the forest. There, she finds refuge in a cottage belonging to seven dwarfs. The Queen, disguised as an old woman, tricks the princess into eating a poisoned apple, causing her to fall into a deep sleep. Eventually, a prince awakens her with a kiss, breaking the curse, and they live happily ever after.

‘Snow White’ starring Gal Gadot and Rachel Zegler is a modern retelling of ‘Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs’. While the basic plot is the same, Evil Queen being jealous and wanting to kill the princess, there have been some changes in the story to make it into a feminist film. The story which focused on the beauty of Snow White, is modified to talk about the inner beauty of the heart. Besides this, the original story had the prince saving the princess with the true love’s kiss, while the dwarfs kill the queen, but in the modern retelling, there is no prince, but rather a bandit, and even though Snow White is awakened with a kiss, she has a confrontation with the Queen, and defeats her.

The best thing about the movie was it’s CGI and VFX, which made the magical elements feel real, and enhanced the visual effect while displaying different locations. But that’s the only good thing about the movie.

Disney is known for its music and songs, but ‘Snow White’ fails to capture the essence of Disney Music. The songs aren’t necessarily bad, but you don’t really care about them, and once a song is over, it is immediately out of your mind. Even the background music failed to enhance the viewing experience.

The performances by the cast felt forced, but they were still watchable on screen. Gal Gadot does a fantastic job at portraying the evil queen, but even she couldn’t save the film. There was no chemistry between Rachel Zegler and Andrew Burnap, and hence the love story just failed. The film casted Rachel Zegler because they wanted to promote diversity, with a Mexican princess and yet failed to cast real actors for the roles of the seven dwarfs and relied on CGI for that.

All in all, the film was poorly made and failed to entertain the audience, and a bad attempt at promoting diversity. If Disney wants to promote diversity, they need to make newer films with new princesses from diverse groups, rather than force different races and ethnicities in modern retellings of old stories.

Rating- 2/5