Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs - Tumblr Posts
I'm totally fine with Ariel's skin color in live action, for two main reasons:
Mermaids are not human - it actually makes sense that they don't have the same skin color as the humans around them.
The seven daughters of Triton are each based on one of the seven seas, and the Red Sea, on which Ariel is based, is in Africa. I'm not okay with Snow White's skin color in live action, for one main reason:
Snow White is called Snow White because of the color of her skin.
ok so the artblock is definitely blocking…and im not really sure how much of this i will elaborate on, but i did manage to get this doodle done of aurora and snow from an AU that exists in my head cause im silly :P
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I Hate How She Talks About Snow White
"People are making these jokes about ours being the PC Snow White, where it's like, yeah, it is − because it needed that. It's an 85-year-old cartoon, and our version is a refreshing story about a young woman who has a function beyond 'Someday My Prince Will Come. "
Let me tell you a little something's about that "85-year-old cartoon," miss Zegler.
It was the first-ever cel-animated feature-length full-color film. Ever. Ever. EVER. I'm worried that you're not hearing me. This movie was Disney inventing the modern animated film. Spirited Away, Into the Spider-Verse, Tangled, you don't get to have any of these without Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937.)
Speaking of what you wouldn't get without this movie, it includes anime as a genre. Not just in technique (because again, nobody animated more than shorts before this movie) but in style and story. Anime, as it is now, wouldn't exist without Osamu Tezuka, "The God of Manga," who wouldn't have pioneered anime storytelling in the 1940s without having watched and learned from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs in the 1930s. No "weeb" culture, no Princess Mononoke, no DragonBall Z, no My Hero Academia, no Demonslayer, and no Naruto without this "85-year-old cartoon."
It was praised, not just for its technical marvels, not just for its synchronized craft of sound and action, but primarily and enduringly because people felt like the characters were real. They felt more like they were watching something true to life than they did watching silent, live-action films with real actors and actresses. They couldn't believe that an animated character could make kids wet their pants as she flees, frightened, through the forest, or grown adults cry with grieving Dwarves. Consistently.
Walt Disney Studios was built on this movie. No no; you're not understanding me. Literally, the studio in Burbank, out of which has come legends of this craft of animated filmmaking, was literally built on the incredible, odds-defying, record-breaking profits of just Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, specifically.
Speaking of record-breaking profits, this movie is the highest-grossing animated film in history. Still. TO THIS DAY. And it was made during the Great Depression.
In fact, it made four times as much money than any other film, in any other genre, released during that time period. It was actually THE highest-grossing film of all time, in any genre, until nothing less than Gone With the Wind, herself, came along to take the throne.
It was the first-ever animated movie to be selected for the National Film Registry. Actually, it was one of the first movies, period, to ever go into the registry at all. You know what else is in the NFR? The original West Side Story, the remake of which is responsible for Rachel Ziegler's widespread fame.
Walt Disney sacrificed for this movie to be invented. Literally, he took out a mortgage on his house and screened the movie to banks for loans to finish paying for it, because everyone from the media to his own wife and brother told him he was crazy to make this movie. And you want to tell me it's just an 85-year-old cartoon that needs the most meaningless of updates, with your tender 8 years in the business?
Speaking of sacrifice, this movie employed over 750 people, and they worked immeasurable hours of overtime, and invented--literally invented--so many new techniques that are still used in filmmaking today, that Walt Disney, in a move that NO OTHER STUDIO IN HOLLYWOOD was doing in the 30's, put this in the opening credits: "My sincere appreciation to the members of my staff whose loyalty and creative endeavor made possible this production." Not the end credits, like movies love to do today as a virtue-signal. The opening credits.
It's legacy endures. Your little "85-year-old cartoon" sold more than 1 million DVD copies upon re-release. Just on its first day. The Beatles quoted Snow White in one of their songs. Legacy directors call it "the greatest film ever made." Everything from Rolling Stones to the American Film Institute call this move one of the most influential masterpieces of our culture. This movie doesn't need anything from anybody. This movie is a cultural juggernaut for America. It's a staple in the art of filmmaking--and art, in general. It is the foundation of the Walt Disney Company, of modern children's media in the West, and of modern adaptations of classical fairy tales in the West. When you think only in the base, low, mean terms of "race" and "progressivism" you start taking things that are actually worlds-away from being in your league to judge, and you relegate them to silly ignorant phrases like "85-year-old cartoon" to explain why what you're doing is somehow better.
Sit down and be humble. Who the heck are you?
Really got into disney princesses recently. I'm watching all their movies in chronological order, currently I have to watch Aladdin.
Here are some sketches for the fairest of them all.
I liked the Little Mermaid series as the kid, and the idea of the serial cartoons about the princesses is delightfull to me! Although I haven't yet watched Tangled the series. I've heard there is one in the works about Tiana too?
I like daydreaming about making my own cartoons and adaptations. Like a little series about Snow White, the first season would be about her life with the dwarfs. The second after the marriage with prince Florian, as a queen. And I came up with her daughter Ruby Red, so the third season would be about her, and about Snow being a mother.
This is a ship I randomly thought of, and I was so happy when I saw people knew about it
2A with Evil Queen and Maleficent, please?
“Can I go back to the dungeons once you cease this babyhood?”
“Hmm, let me think about it Hilde...”
People are shocked that Snow White is only fourteen in the 1937 Disney Film and consider the prince a pedo. As if in Grimm Brothers' version she isn't seven whereas the prince was probably a necrophile as well. Kissing a dead girl that you just saw in a forest is already creepy, but asking for her body to be brought to your castle is already another flavor of disturbing.
Also: Now that I'm thinking about it, the fact that she's seven makes sense. It explains why she was naïve enough to be fooled by her stepmother three times in a row, or why people from that time (who were so obssessed with the idea of purity when it came to marriageable ladies, that is) were so chill with the fact that she's living in a house with seven men.
Also also: Apparently the seven dwarves were not inspired by people with dwarfism, but by the little children who were forced to work in mines at that time. Alright, now I'm starting to believe that this story is completely fucked up...
Back when I was very little I used to watch a cartoon titled Mihaela (Michelle in english), which was initially released in the 70's (b/w) and reappeared in the early 2000's (color). None of the characters were talking and the music was supposed to compensate for it.
So imagine my surprise when I saw Disney's Snow White or Cinderella and realized not only that the animation was WAY better, but that the characters can talk as well.
Baking a pie
Snow White: makes it look simple & easy
Me: BITCH YOU LIED TO ME HOW U GOT THE ARM STRENGTH TO ROLL THE DOUGH
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
Concept art for Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs by a Disney studio artist (c. 1936)
Visual development for Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs by Gustaf Tenggren
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) dir. David Hand
Concept art of The Evil Queen by Joe Grant
I watched Snow White for the first time today, so I drew her. :D
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