So Annie Leibowitz has a new photography project where she is recreating images from Disney movies with famous actors and athletes. Rachel Weisz is featured in a story in the Daily Mail about the project and discussed how happy she was to be featured at Snow White, because, “it is every little girls dream.”
Really?! I thought that each girl had different dreams uncontrolled by the Disney Corporation. I certainly don’t know many little girls who dream of being rejected by their new step mother based solely on their appearance, clearly ignored by their father and needing to flee to an isolated location to escape certain death at the hands of the stepmother’s henchmen. And while children, including some girls, do enjoy playing in the kitchen I don’t think they often dream of making a move down from princess to cook and housekeeper stuck with a limited social group, none of whom can relate to you only to be put to sleep by a poison apple and then placed in a glass box. All this, just to be awakened by a man you never knew and being unable to go back to your own home, you need to leave with him for his kingdom with the hope that his family will accept you.
Yeah, wow. That just sounds ideal. I mean if I was required to choose a Disney princess to emulate Snow White would not be it. At least Belle has an intellectual life and fights back. My favorite, of course, is Mulan who was a real woman that saved a freaking kingdom. Now there’s a Disney character I would want to be.
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