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‘It’s controversial and polarising’: is Disney’s new Snow White a poisoned apple?
The studio’s latest remake may need more than a magic kiss to survive its entanglements with politics, sexism and CGI dwarf trouble
“It’s a complete quagmire but, realistically, what did they expect?” says Stephen Galloway, dean of Chapman University’s Dodge College of Film and Media Arts in California and former executive editor of the Hollywood Reporter. Gadot, who served in the Israel Defense Forces, spoke at an Anti-Defamation League summit on antisemitism, and her stance on the Israel-Hamas war triggered calls by Palestinian groups for a boycott of the film. “From the beginning Snow White had red flags waving – a whiter-than-white heroine at a time when Hollywood is moving away from that, rescued by Prince Charming, when that’s a chauvinist trope, and seven dwarves, when the word dwarf is a negative.
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