Watch Every Disney Movie Ever Made: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Mood
Suprised
It was very interesting watching an old classic as an adult. Apparently there were a lot of things I didn't pick up on or didn't remember from when I used to watch Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs all the time when I was younger.
We're going to put aside the mysoginistic and sexist themes and story line because it was a 1930's movie and a story from way way before that. So it's granted to them.
First off, the poor poor turtle! A small side character that kept wanting to partcipate and follow around Snow White with all the other woodland creatures but just never made it in time. I had forgotten all about him.
Secondly, Snow White's vibrato really started getting to me right away. That style of singing just isn't popular anymore. That being said she had a much more beautiful voice than some of the nasally voiced princesses of my youth.
I also thought it was very interesting that Dopey seemed to exibit a lot of the signs and symptoms nowadays associated with autism. Who would have thought that? He doesn't talk, is considered slow, has problems communicating and judging and interpreting social norms correctly, etc. Not for lack of trying, either. And, the way the other dwarves treated him in that light was pretty horrible.
I was pretty surprised at the rascist jab at asians part way through, wasn't looking for that.
The dwarves used the term "Jimminy Cricket!" on more than one occasion. I thought that was a term that rose out of the movie Pinnochio but apparently it's older than that because that movie didn't come out until 1940.
Finally, true love's first kiss was pretty anti climatic. Especially when compared to how it was in Shrek when it broke the spell, but perhaps it was more realistic as far as kisses go in the end anyway.
I was going to launch into an argument about how true love's first kiss can't happen if the prince never knew her in life to love her in death (you can't truly love someone you don't know) but I guess that isn't true since he did meet her once. Whether or not that is true love is anyone's guess, though obviously it counts as far as Disney's concerned otherwise there would be no happily ever after.
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