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Pseudo-Intellectual with Lauren Chen

Snow White's Latinx Makeover | 7/21/23

Pseudo-Intellectual with Lauren Chen

Lauren Chen

News Commentary, Society & Culture, News

4.31.1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 July 2023

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Head to genucel.com/LAUREN and get a free summer spa gift box with your subscription! Disney continues to retcon its classic stories, as the newest retelling of Snow White has its character's race swapped and even rewritten for modern audiences. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

gentle viewers, ladies and gentlemen, this might sound harsh, but I honestly feel like

0:05.3

the Walt Disney Corporation hasn't actually had a good and original idea for a film in about

0:10.9

a decade. And I know that might sound like hyperbole, but honestly, you look through their catalog,

0:15.2

look through their filmography, and I think you will find that I am actually right. If you take

0:19.2

away all the remakes, all of the sequels and all of the prequels, you will see that creativity really

0:24.2

hasn't been Disney's strong suit lately. Instead, what they have relied upon is just milking their

0:29.9

existing franchises and intellectual property in order to make a quick buck no matter how

0:35.2

frankly disappointing the final product that customers get is. And this brings us to the topic of

0:41.1

today's video, Snow White. Because you probably know Snow White as the German fairy tale for

0:45.8

children or the Disney animated classic film that was based upon that story. Well, guess what?

0:51.7

Snow White is just the latest and a very long line of movies that Disney is remaking live action

0:57.7

in order to suit modern audiences. I, he, they're making it more diverse, adding some feminism in

1:04.0

there in the hopes that they make some money. And I know a lot of you watching this are probably fans

1:08.2

of the original Snow White movie that Disney put out, or at least you were when you were kids. And

1:12.1

trust me, I am right there with you. I used to love that film. It's not the issue that I and a lot

1:16.3

of other people have is that Snow White as a character is not, is not Hispanic. Like I mentioned,

1:22.0

she's based on a German fairy tale in the Disney animated film. She is certainly not Hispanic.

1:28.8

In fact, her name is Snow White indicating pale skin if nothing else. And I mean, we are at a point

1:35.0

we know enough about the diversity initiatives over at Disney where we can be basically 100% sure

1:40.1

that casting Rachel Ziegler as Snow White was deliberate. It wasn't just that she was the best actress

1:45.5

who happened to apply for the role. No, no. The people behind this film, I think, were actively going

1:50.4

out of their way to make sure that this was a diverse production. They wanted someone who

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