March 20, 2025 • 6 mins
Ben O'Shea was in studio to review the new live action version of Snow White and he certainly didn't mince his words about it.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Great the flick with benohe well, Ben o'che, I feel
like there's we've been talking about this, you know in
the behind the scenes chattermane what a while now?
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Oh absolutely high ho hi ho. The cinema we go
to finally see Snow White, the live action remake from Disney,
and it has been controversial for really a couple of
years now. Firstly and probably least importantly because of the
casting of a Latina actress in Rachel Ziegler from West
Side Story as Snow White. There was some credits of
(00:32):
the Internet who weren't happy with that, just as they
weren't happy when they cast a black actress as the
Little Mermaid, And so that was really always quite ridiculous
because Rachel Ziegler is an amazing actor, Like if you
saw in West Side Story, she has got a set
of pipes. She is incredible.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
What I recall ever hearing where Snow White was from,
all I know is she had black hair and ruby lips.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
So you know, I mean, that's existel And in this case,
it's not that you know, her skin is as pure
and white as snow. It's her character and which is
which is ultimately what snow White was all about right
friends to the birds and the animals and the downtrodden
and the little people, and and then you know, from
then it became even more controversial because Rachel Sigler then
(01:16):
started talking sor sort of some pro Palestine stuff, which
is which is her right, which is her right to
do that in her own private life. It becomes a
bit awkward though, when your main cast mate is in
Israeli in Galgadote, so you know, so then there was
reports of some friction between those two Dot play. So
(01:36):
she shows an evil queen, but the evil queen from Wonder.
She look in the mirror and say, mirror, mirror on
the wall, who's that?
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Oh you?
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Yes, well at the start when the mirror says, oh
it's you. Of course it's you. No, dub don't know.
And then and then when the mirror is like, oh,
you know, maybe there's actually someone else. If they really
have you got eyes? You need to polish this mirror?
(02:06):
Does it blurry on your side? But no, this is
so that's where it does come a bit a bit
unstuck at that point.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
But but and so and so, But it follows kind
of a similar similar storyline to the original cartoon is
now basically one hundred years old, but they had they
had to update it a little bit because you know,
you look at the cartoon now with sort of a
modern lens and you go, okay, this is really an
ode to contract killing and and you know, non consensual affection,
(02:38):
and so.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
There's probably some issues there that we need to update.
He is not to look at it through a modern land,
you can't. It gets a fairy tale. And so so
really the storyline has been changed quite a bit. Instead
of you know, the Prince Charming coming up, now it's
a band of bandits who snow White joins in with
to fight against the queen. And so there's there's a
lot going on, and all of this stuff is honestly
(03:01):
quite average. But the thing that is the most appalling
of all is the seven Dwarfs, who are CG characters,
computer generated characters. And so there was some controversy over this.
Like Peter Dinklish, the Great Peter Diinglish is the great
little person actor from a Game of Thrones. Amazing, amazing.
He's come out, you know, in the past year or
so and said, well, you know, like you made all
(03:22):
this fuss about, you know, sort of a person of
color of snow white. But what about this CG dwarf situation?
Is this really okay? And he's got a great point.
You wonder why they couldn't have actually cast actual little
people in these roles. Would we had to find And
if that's not bad enough, the CG effects that they
use are terrifying, Like you talk about the Uncrowned Valley,
(03:46):
it is like a horror movie watching these dwarfs running around.
They have big heads, huge noses, the grotesque, grotesque, really
very hard to watch. Like it's like there are scenes
some of the some of the musical songs, like the
High Home Musical number, which is one of the classics
of the original, Like I would describe it as visual vomit.
(04:07):
That is hard to watch. It is We've got bashful
and happy and dope. They're all horrible. It's just watchable, scary, creepy,
we got creepy, we got nightmarriage, we got don't go
within two hundred meters of the school, We've got dramatic,
(04:31):
you name it, we've got it. And then also, and
it's also that you know the new songs by Passeck
and Paul who are an amazing songwriting duo who did
the songs in La La Land. They're all forgettable. All
the new songs are so average. Rachel Siegler does her best,
but there's only so good that she can do. When
you've got dialogue that's terrible. You know. At one point
her love interest, the kind of the chief of the bandits,
(04:53):
you know, she's talking to another character about him, and
she goes and she goes to this other character. Well, look,
you know Jonathan is Is. You know, he's nice, but
he only thinks about himself. And you go, hang on
a minute. In the very scene before this, we shore
we saw him take a crossbow dart for you, And
now you're saying he only thinks of himself. He nearly
killed himself to save you. Like, some of it just
(05:13):
makes no sense at all. And poor old Galga dot
Is she is so cheesy trying to be like theatrical.
It's like, even she is terrible. I love her. I
think she's so great, but what the what the heck
are we even doing with this movie. It's you know,
all the reasons that it was controversial, it's not controversial
for those the reasons it is terrible. It is. It
(05:35):
is absolute live and oh you know, I was I
was hoping that there was a poison apple in halfway
through my popcorn breakfast. He's got to be something to
put it, put me out of my misery here. It's
not good. Scary little girl, and most of these Disney
live action movies are not good. The Little Mermaid was
also a stinker. This is the same level it is.
(05:55):
Maybe it's worse. Actually, honestly, maybe it's so if.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
They're if they're this offensive, don't make them, leave them alone.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
It's like they just don't know. It's bizarre. So how
many Mirror Mirror on the Wall? You're broken? Are you
giving it? Yeah? Mirror Mirror on the Wall, which is
the worst movie of them all this year. It's snow
White one and a half sounds general. That's for Rachel Ze.
She doesn't deserve she deserves better bandits. Yeah, Prince Charming,
(06:24):
there's no Prince Charming in here, but Gealgadot is still hot.
Yeah oh yeah, okay, yeah, thanks Ben, Thanks thanks guys.
Great the flick with benohe well, Ben o'che, I feel
like there's we've been talking about this, you know in
the behind the scenes chattermane what a while now?
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Oh absolutely high ho hi ho. The cinema we go
to finally see Snow White, the live action remake from Disney,
and it has been controversial for really a couple of
years now. Firstly and probably least importantly because of the
casting of a Latina actress in Rachel Ziegler from West
Side Story as Snow White. There was some credits of
(00:32):
the Internet who weren't happy with that, just as they
weren't happy when they cast a black actress as the
Little Mermaid, And so that was really always quite ridiculous
because Rachel Ziegler is an amazing actor, Like if you
saw in West Side Story, she has got a set
of pipes. She is incredible.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
What I recall ever hearing where Snow White was from,
all I know is she had black hair and ruby lips.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
So you know, I mean, that's existel And in this case,
it's not that you know, her skin is as pure
and white as snow. It's her character and which is
which is ultimately what snow White was all about right
friends to the birds and the animals and the downtrodden
and the little people, and and then you know, from
then it became even more controversial because Rachel Sigler then
(01:16):
started talking sor sort of some pro Palestine stuff, which
is which is her right, which is her right to
do that in her own private life. It becomes a
bit awkward though, when your main cast mate is in
Israeli in Galgadote, so you know, so then there was
reports of some friction between those two Dot play. So
(01:36):
she shows an evil queen, but the evil queen from Wonder.
She look in the mirror and say, mirror, mirror on
the wall, who's that?
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Oh you?
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Yes, well at the start when the mirror says, oh
it's you. Of course it's you. No, dub don't know.
And then and then when the mirror is like, oh,
you know, maybe there's actually someone else. If they really
have you got eyes? You need to polish this mirror?
(02:06):
Does it blurry on your side? But no, this is
so that's where it does come a bit a bit
unstuck at that point.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
But but and so and so, But it follows kind
of a similar similar storyline to the original cartoon is
now basically one hundred years old, but they had they
had to update it a little bit because you know,
you look at the cartoon now with sort of a
modern lens and you go, okay, this is really an
ode to contract killing and and you know, non consensual affection,
(02:38):
and so.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
There's probably some issues there that we need to update.
He is not to look at it through a modern land,
you can't. It gets a fairy tale. And so so
really the storyline has been changed quite a bit. Instead
of you know, the Prince Charming coming up, now it's
a band of bandits who snow White joins in with
to fight against the queen. And so there's there's a
lot going on, and all of this stuff is honestly
(03:01):
quite average. But the thing that is the most appalling
of all is the seven Dwarfs, who are CG characters,
computer generated characters. And so there was some controversy over this.
Like Peter Dinklish, the Great Peter Diinglish is the great
little person actor from a Game of Thrones. Amazing, amazing.
He's come out, you know, in the past year or
so and said, well, you know, like you made all
(03:22):
this fuss about, you know, sort of a person of
color of snow white. But what about this CG dwarf situation?
Is this really okay? And he's got a great point.
You wonder why they couldn't have actually cast actual little
people in these roles. Would we had to find And
if that's not bad enough, the CG effects that they
use are terrifying, Like you talk about the Uncrowned Valley,
(03:46):
it is like a horror movie watching these dwarfs running around.
They have big heads, huge noses, the grotesque, grotesque, really
very hard to watch. Like it's like there are scenes
some of the some of the musical songs, like the
High Home Musical number, which is one of the classics
of the original, Like I would describe it as visual vomit.
(04:07):
That is hard to watch. It is We've got bashful
and happy and dope. They're all horrible. It's just watchable, scary, creepy,
we got creepy, we got nightmarriage, we got don't go
within two hundred meters of the school, We've got dramatic,
(04:31):
you name it, we've got it. And then also, and
it's also that you know the new songs by Passeck
and Paul who are an amazing songwriting duo who did
the songs in La La Land. They're all forgettable. All
the new songs are so average. Rachel Siegler does her best,
but there's only so good that she can do. When
you've got dialogue that's terrible. You know. At one point
her love interest, the kind of the chief of the bandits,
(04:53):
you know, she's talking to another character about him, and
she goes and she goes to this other character. Well, look,
you know Jonathan is Is. You know, he's nice, but
he only thinks about himself. And you go, hang on
a minute. In the very scene before this, we shore
we saw him take a crossbow dart for you, And
now you're saying he only thinks of himself. He nearly
killed himself to save you. Like, some of it just
(05:13):
makes no sense at all. And poor old Galga dot
Is she is so cheesy trying to be like theatrical.
It's like, even she is terrible. I love her. I
think she's so great, but what the what the heck
are we even doing with this movie. It's you know,
all the reasons that it was controversial, it's not controversial
for those the reasons it is terrible. It is. It
(05:35):
is absolute live and oh you know, I was I
was hoping that there was a poison apple in halfway
through my popcorn breakfast. He's got to be something to
put it, put me out of my misery here. It's
not good. Scary little girl, and most of these Disney
live action movies are not good. The Little Mermaid was
also a stinker. This is the same level it is.
(05:55):
Maybe it's worse. Actually, honestly, maybe it's so if.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
They're if they're this offensive, don't make them, leave them alone.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
It's like they just don't know. It's bizarre. So how
many Mirror Mirror on the Wall? You're broken? Are you
giving it? Yeah? Mirror Mirror on the Wall, which is
the worst movie of them all this year. It's snow
White one and a half sounds general. That's for Rachel Ze.
She doesn't deserve she deserves better bandits. Yeah, Prince Charming,
(06:24):
there's no Prince Charming in here, but Gealgadot is still hot.
Yeah oh yeah, okay, yeah, thanks Ben, Thanks thanks guys.
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