
Screenwriter Erin Cressida Wilson had an unenviable task ahead of her when she signed on to adapt 1937's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs into a live-action re-imaging that'd appeal to contemporary audiences. After all, the eponymous heroine has little in common with the more modern, spirited Disney princesses who have fought for love, legs, freedom, or the whole of China. Snow White was less a self-rescuing princess and more a pretty damsel in distress who ran away from home, died by a poisoned apple, and was revived by a kiss from a prince she barely knew. But in Disney's Snow White, Wilson smartly translates the classic iconography of the original film while rejiggering its flimsy framework into a solid and charming coming-of-age story.
In Disney's Snow White, the princess (Rachel Zegler) is less fragile, named ...

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