Snow White Remake Backlash Over Dwarfs Cleaning Home
For example, at the D23 Expo in 2022, Rachel said: “The original cartoon came out in 1937, and very evidently so. There’s a big focus on her love story with a guy who literally stalks her. Weird! Weird! So, we didn’t do that this time.”
In the face of the backlash, many leaped to the star’s defense as it was repeatedly pointed out that several other stars have said much worse about projects they have been in without facing the same harsh response.
At the D23 Expo earlier this month, Disney shared a sneak peek at the iconic “Whistle While You Work” scene, which ended up leaking online before it was deleted.
In the animated movie, Snow White comes across the house with a host of wild animals from the forest. It is empty, and when she sees the small furniture, she believes that children live there.
Snow White then enlists the help of all of the animals, delegating chores as she says: “Now you wash the dishes, you tidy up the room, you clean the fireplace, and I’ll use the broom,” before bursting into song.
The dwarfs then return from a day of working in the mines, and are confused by — and suspicious of — their clean home and dinner cooking on the stove.
However, in the teased clip from the live-action movie, the animals do not appear to be in the house, and Snow White is instead enlisting the dwarfs as she dishes out the chores.
One viral tweet, which has been liked more than 18,000 times, reads: “In the original Snow White, she cleans for the dwarves to show her appreciation. In the new one, she breaks into their house and forces them to clean for her. Making a feminist version of a character always means turning her into a nagging ungrateful hag.”
