The ‘Snow White’ case or Rachel Zegler vs. Gal Gadot: Hollywood perpetuates female stereotypes of women at each other’s throats
The remake of the 1937 classic has caused controversy due to its high cost, its motion capture seven dwarfs and, above all, the confrontation driven by the tabloid press between its two stars
At the end of 1937, Roy and Walt Disney placed their entire bet on one card, just one. After setting up a tiny studio in Silverlake, east of Los Angeles, and realizing that more than just funny cartoons worked, they gambled on going a step further and creating an animated feature film that told a real story. On December 21 of that year, the brothers premiered Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. The film’s success was overwhelming, unprecedented. So much so that it gave the Disneys the money to buy the enormous plot of land in Burbank (north of the city) where their imposing studios still stand. Almost a century later, Disney is still standing, and is once again betting on Snow White, from which they expected further success. But, with the movie barely in theaters yet, more than expectation, it has been preceded by controversy the likes of which hadn’t been seen in Hollywood for months.
