While Walt Disney and his collaborators include fine music coming from classical instruments and from inspired emotional feeling into the legendary Grimm Brothers tale, Warner Bros. turn Snow White into a black Betty Boop surrounded by jazz and blues improvised singers and a modern landscape (well, the '40s at the time).
But that simply doesn't work. It's clear that WB doesn't care about making children cartoons. Or maybe they try to care, but they don't know how to do it the effective way. I can't stand from seeing a Black girlie moving her hips and her buttocks without stopping and the other people around her.
The music is good, however. It's the mood of the '40s and the cartoon owns musical pieces which would make Ray Charles and Al Jolson proud of. But I don't think that this music owns its place here. It should be elsewhere. Maybe in a real musical story, like "The Jazz Singer"... The animation is also good, I have to say. The images are well drawn and the motion is perfectly executed.
But the minor favorable elements are literally foreshadowed by the ridiculous, stupid and insupportable storyline and the images associated with it. I think that seeing this Black girl could have lead to more discrimination and moral harassment towards the American Black community. Maybe that was the goal. Maybe that racists made this movie. We might never know...
But that simply doesn't work. It's clear that WB doesn't care about making children cartoons. Or maybe they try to care, but they don't know how to do it the effective way. I can't stand from seeing a Black girlie moving her hips and her buttocks without stopping and the other people around her.
The music is good, however. It's the mood of the '40s and the cartoon owns musical pieces which would make Ray Charles and Al Jolson proud of. But I don't think that this music owns its place here. It should be elsewhere. Maybe in a real musical story, like "The Jazz Singer"... The animation is also good, I have to say. The images are well drawn and the motion is perfectly executed.
But the minor favorable elements are literally foreshadowed by the ridiculous, stupid and insupportable storyline and the images associated with it. I think that seeing this Black girl could have lead to more discrimination and moral harassment towards the American Black community. Maybe that was the goal. Maybe that racists made this movie. We might never know...