I posted the thread because I hear conflicting stuff about this remake, it seems on the one hand an potential ethical disaster, but done 'properly' could be a triumph. Also one should make some distance between the Disney animation (Hitler's favourite film apparently, even though good overcomes evil) and the original story - which I confess to have never read except in resume. At a time where cultural appropriation is much in debate as well as the portray of minorities and those with 'disabilities' on stage/screen it seems that Disney are either incredibly brave and knowing, or foolhardy.
At the beginning of the story, a queen sits sewing at an open window during a winter snowfall when she pricks her finger with her needle, causing three drops of red blood to drip onto the freshly fallen white snow on the black windowsill. Then, she says to herself, "How I wish that I had a daughter that had skin as white as snow, lips as red as blood and hair as black as ebony." Sometime later, the queen gives birth to a baby daughter whom she names Snow White, but the queen dies in childbirth....
Disney have cast a Latino woman in the lead role, odd seeing that the whiteness of Snow White seems a bit intrinsic to the story (one might argue that white is also interpreted as a sign of purity). But then, does that matter if the story is fictional?
The 7 Dwarves are the good guys, they take SW into their house and protect her (ok in return for housekeeping duties). They have a house, they are not 'Cave Dwellers' as I heard depicted by an interview on the radio. So surely, played straight and sensitively by dwarf actors, this could send very positive signals about equality and 'disability' for want of a better word.
It could also be a train-wreck....