Snow White & the Seven Dwarfs
Considered the greatest animation of all time. I won’t doubt that. Before Snow White nobody did what Uncle Walt (Disney) achieved with this movie. They already had short six of so minute animated movies before this, but to do one that’s 90 mins long changed the game, and that game changer makes it GOAT.
I will say this: I felt that 90 mins was too long. Maybe it’s just me I don’t know. Snow white and the Seven Dwarfs always seemed like that type of movie I seen a million times before, but I realize that’s not the case. Before streaming, Disney did this thing where they would release their animated movies every 10 years to make them rarer treasures (you had to spend a lot of cash to buy on VHS, DVD than Blu Ray). That kind of limited service met I was not catching it on broadcast television on a regular basis (like Empire Strikes Back which if anything was shown annually).
Disney would have these animation specials that came on every Sunday I believe where they would show you six-minute-long clips of their animated features in segments that were like best princess or best villain. These segments may have been random, but they were consistent enough for me to put the puzzle together in my head and see the story.
What I’m noting about the story is the part where Snow white actually interacts with the Seven Dwarfs is very irrelevant to the core. It’s a very workable story arch without her coming across them (this must be why they don’t really make much of an appearance in the latest live action adaption: Snow white and the Huntsman)
The Dwarfs fully indicate a certain type of animation in 1937. Over 80 years later this classic is promoted in high regard as an animated motion picture, but back in the day they needed to add the cartoon feel of Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck to assure everyone will watch (I’m guessing). I mean, nothing about the story even justifies why they are dwarfs (except, now that I’m thinking about it Snow White, and the Seven Coal Miners has a great ring to it if you are into porno. The idea that they were Dwarfs is the idea that they would have no interesting in gang banging Snow White (at least that was true in 1937 (maybe…maybe). I watched this movie and became completely bored with Snow White being a house maid to these dudes and teaching them how to clean up after themselves.
The meat of this story is watching that evil bitch queen go to oddly great lengths to assure she’s got the illest na na in all the land (Neither one of these chicks is all that so how big of a land is this (then again, it’s the land of the Dwarfs they did not seem hard to please really).
I wish not to take anything away from the animation classic. I understand we would not have gotten to The Lion King or Toy Story or Akira if it was not for Snow White & the Seven Dwarfs, but I will say this is a movie I could have died without ever watching again.
