The son of the original director of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, which was released in 1937 as a cartoon, criticizes the new adaptation as “awake” and without “respect for the work of Disney and the cartoon.” [seu] father”.
“It doesn’t feel like origin stories anymore. They invent new things and I don’t really like it. I even find it offensive. There is no respect for the work of Disney and my father.” — David Hand, 91 – said in an interview. Telegraph newspaper quote Le Figaro.
This is a readaptation scheduled for release in March 2024, in which the gnomes are replaced by creatures so as not to offend the former, and Snow White becomes a feminist heroine.
For David HandDisney “shouldn’t take a classic and rewrite it.”
“Take something else. Come up with new characters. If you want, that’s fine, but don’t destroy a classic or a work of art,” the son of the first director of “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” emphasized.
“It’s a different concept. I am against her. I know my father and Walt Disney would have been against it,” David Hand opined, filming that both would “roll over in their graves” if they witnessed the “awakening” and “insulting” readaptation.
In January, Game of Thrones actor Peter Dinklage also criticized Disney for adapting the “opposite” of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, saying the film resorted to harmful stereotypes.