The live action of “Snow White” Premiere in theaters on Thursday (20) and brings back the story presented in 1937. Despite rescuing and being faithful to the plot, the feature film made some adaptations in the new version. Shortly before the movie reaches the public, the CNN He had a chance to watch him. Check out the differences between animation and live action in the text below.
In the plot, Disney’s first princess is chased by her stepmother, the bad queen, who decides to get rid of her stepdaughter after the magic mirror reveals that the princess was more beautiful than her. As he escaped, Snow White finds a house in the forest and befriends seven dwarfs.
When it is bewitched by the queen, disguised as an elderly woman, snow white falls into a deep sleep, can only be awakened with a kiss of true love.
Check out the differences between animation and live-action of “Snow White”
Spoiler alert: The following text contains spoilers from the movie Live-Action of “Snow White”
The iconic song in the water well
In the animation, Snow White chants the song “Desire/A Song” while taking water in the well and cleans the stairs. Already in live action, the princess releases her voice in a new version of the song, called “a desire in me.”
In addition, it is at this moment that Snow White meets the prince for the first time in the 1937 movie and scared, runs out. In live action, this meeting does not happen.
The first meeting between Snow White and His Love
As mentioned, in the animation, Snow White meets the prince in the water well, where they sing together. Already in the 2025 movie, the protagonist starring Rachel Zegler will not know a prince. This is because this version of the story does not have an enchanted prince.
The romantic interest of the princess will be Jonathan which guarantees not to be a gentleman with armor. Interpreted by Andrew Burnap he is presented in the plot as a thief who defends the survival of others in the midst of an unfair kingdom and meets her soon after the song mentioned.

Stepmother asks for the heart of the princess
After finding out that Snow White is more beautiful than her, Queen Má orders a hunter to kill the princess and bring her heart into a box as proof of her act. The classic scene is repeated in live action, however, with a different element.
In both versions, the hunter pretends to fulfill his promised, but ends up losing his courage and sends the princess to the forest. In the animation, the queen is surprised with a pork heart inside the container, already in the new feature, the villain, lived by Gal Gadot, comes across an apple inside the box.

Snow White Cleans The House of Dwarfs
After being received by the seven dwarfs at her house, the princess decides to find a way in the mess, which is messy. In “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs,” she has the help of the forest animals to the task.
Already in live action, the princess distributes chores to each of the dwarfs, while singing “learn a song.”
Also, in the princess drawing prepares a dinner for the hosts and still asks them to wash before the meal, in live action, however, the scene is not repeated.
Ball with the dwarfs get new guests in the new version
Another iconic moment of the classic is when the princess dances with the seven dwarfs. In the 1937 animation, they play musical instruments while she dances with some of them, like Dunga.
In live action, the same song is sung at a ball outside the dwarf house. However, in this version, new guests are part of the party. This is the case of Jonathan and other members of his group of “thieves.”
Just a kiss of true love can break the spell…
Of course in the new version of the movie, Snow White is also deceived by an elderly woman and ends up falling into a deep sleep after biting the poisoned apple. Despite the speech of the lady, who received some adaptations, the scene in which she is already fainted was also performed more simplified, less romanticized in the 2025 film.
While the protagonist was placed in a glass bell jar in the animation, in the new feature, Snow White was backed by a forest stone, while the seven dwarfs cried for his “death.”
After being awakened with a kiss of true love, the Live-action princess is not content to just run away with the prince, as in the drawing, but reveals her desire to face the queen and recover her kingdom.

To date, the specialized international media acclaims the new film, extending the compliments to Rachel Zegler, which was characterized as “Bright Supernova” in “Snow White.”
The work was also highlighted as “Pure Disney Magic”, “Visual Banquet”, “A Great Surprise” and one of Disney’s “Best Live-Actions in years.” Check out the first impressions of CNN .
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