Why the new Snow White doesn’t convince TikTok (and has yet to come out)

snow-whitethe live-action remake of the classic Disney, will arrive in cinemas in 2024 (at a later date) but the film already causes quite a bit of controversy on TikTok.

The protagonist will be Rachel Zeglerbeautiful actress with skin not sufficiently pale as snow according to many comments (here we go again), there will be no shortage of the seven dwarfs but… forget the usual ones Brontolo, Cucciolo and Co…they seem rather magical creatures.

However, these are not (and thank goodness) the factors mainly “criticised” by Generation Z, it is not the presumed political correctness at all costs and even less the “forced inclusiveness”. Those controversies had already been reserved for months for the remake of The little Mermaid and they have already bored us a lot.

Rather It is the statements of Rachel Zegler and co-star Gal Gadot (who will play the witch) that have made several TikTok users turn up their noses.

In fact, the two actresses underline in an interview that: «It’s no longer 1937 and snow-white she will not be saved by a prince, she will not dream of great love but of becoming a leader.”

Here is the wrong message that is being conveyed according to Gen Z: if you do not decide to give yourself totally to your career or to yourself, as a woman, then you are not sufficiently feminist or a leader. Thinking about great love in 2023 is a waste of time and a defeat for the entire genre.

Spoilers: there is nothing more feminist than giving women choice, whatever that choice may be.

If a woman’s dream is to realize herself professionally, good for her, but if it is to find a partner and/or become a mother, equally good for her. And then who said that a woman necessarily has to decide whether to take one path or another and cannot make them match? Have you ever seen someone question the leadership of a prince because he is too busy making eyes at his better half?

That scene comes to mind Little Womenfilm directed by Greta Gerwigin which Meg (the most romantic and traditional of the sisters) says to Jo (the most independent and combative): “Just because my dreams are different from yours doesn’t mean they’re any less important.”

And I, who have always seen myself more in Jo, in that moment, strongly empathized with Meg and thought that she was right and that it is nice to support everyone’s dreams, even those light years away from ours.

Here’s why according to TikTok de-romanticize snow-white it is not at all the key to female empowerment but rather the passport to making them feel “not enough” part of the category, as if their stories were not worthy of being represented.

The icing on the cake of the story… indeed, the poisoned apple (provided it is not replaced by an avocado because it is more in step with the times), would be the blatant contempt that according to many users Rachel Zegler would feel for the original cartoon and which he would not attempt to disguise in interviews. The antithesis of Margot Robbie with Barbie practically.

A reverse strategic marketing move that will bring the curious into the room to evaluate the validity or otherwise of the adaptation or is it a pre-announced flop?