Did Disney ruin ‘Snow White’ by ‘woke-washing’ it?

Michael Beausoleil
6 min readNov 17, 2023

When it comes to Disney classics, no movie is immune from getting a live-action adaptation. The Jungle Book, The Lion King, and The Little Mermaid have already been remade, so it was only a matter of time before Snow White got a modern retelling.

In the modern era, casting and diversity have come into question. When The Lion King was remade, the movie received praise for its casting decisions, especially given the fact that the setting is likely based in Africa. Later, people questioned the casting of Halle Bailey as Ariel in The Little

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Michael Beausoleil

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