The queen was soooooooo cool and Snow White wasn't a bad heroine per say, but there were lots of things that made me side eye the movie. It could have been a fantastic commentary on sexism and ageism and our society's horrible beauty standards but it ended up reinforcing a lot of problematic shit that Hollywood supports.
It doesn't help that it's an otherwise beautiful film.
You know, I had wondered why fandom expected Hannibal to be feminist. Not to offend anyone but someone made a post saying "Hannibal was about a white dude serially killing people, it was never going to be feminist because it normalises and romanticises white male violence" and while I really sympathise with the Hannibal fandom because no one deserves to have a beloved woc character killed off, I really wondered why they hadn't expected to be disappointed.
However, now that I've read about the show's source material, I am really outraged. Like, why can't someone who actually understands feminism and patriarchy and intersectionality, take these old stories and give the modern adaptations or sequels they deserve. Even Frozen's source material was more feminist and intersectional than the movie, and that novel was written in Victorian times.
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The queen was soooooooo cool and Snow White wasn't a bad heroine per say, but there were lots of things that made me side eye the movie. It could have been a fantastic commentary on sexism and ageism and our society's horrible beauty standards but it ended up reinforcing a lot of problematic shit that Hollywood supports.
It doesn't help that it's an otherwise beautiful film.
You know, I had wondered why fandom expected Hannibal to be feminist. Not to offend anyone but someone made a post saying "Hannibal was about a white dude serially killing people, it was never going to be feminist because it normalises and romanticises white male violence" and while I really sympathise with the Hannibal fandom because no one deserves to have a beloved woc character killed off, I really wondered why they hadn't expected to be disappointed.
However, now that I've read about the show's source material, I am really outraged. Like, why can't someone who actually understands feminism and patriarchy and intersectionality, take these old stories and give the modern adaptations or sequels they deserve. Even Frozen's source material was more feminist and intersectional than the movie, and that novel was written in Victorian times.