"Neptunecactus" is a channel I made a long time ago in order to upload some Paper Mario let's play videos of dismal quality. As time went on, I realized how awful the videos were, and decided to find a new purpose for this place. Now I post animations I make, videos of myself drawing, and the occasional "thoughts on" and review video. There's no real upload schedule. Usually things are done when they're done.
37:00 At the première, someone sitting near movie superstar Clark Gable heard him sniffling. The theatre filled with crying viewers changed perceptions of animation potential then & there.
Snow White isnt my favorite character but it'll be a disgrace not to acknowledge the leaps animation took because of it. Yes its simple movie. With so much more potential. But once you consider.... Everything. Its amazing it got made at all. And that it basically started this wave of inspiration to the point we are today. Its not my favorite. But a definite classic that needs to be respected
Hey you said you were new to this type of content creation? Well I listen to a lot of retrospective review videos. A lot from video games. Like LiamTriforce and Zeltik and the like. And I will tell you that this was a great video man. I love how despite snow white having such a vast variety of music you chose classic JRPG music from the SNES era for your background. You picked awesome tracks to back up what you were trying to convey. I loved how your perspective on the movie and it's style and production was informative and full of respect. This movie is highly overlooked yet it's brimming with personality and emotion in every single scene. And you really captured it well. I didn't actually watch this though, I mostly listened to it. But the audio alone was great from start to finish. Good job man I'll subscribe.
Fantastic video with so much history, I can tell you did your research and put a lot of time into this and I’m excited to see more. Also, do you have a list of music from the video?
Super voice! I bet you are (or could be) a fine singer. Snow White's Queen-crushed agency she revives cleaning & cooking for dwarfs not yet met; ordering the hand-wash; etc.
UPDATE: I've created a document with sources to articles, blogs, and videos to topics mentioned in the video via anecdote / briefly touched on in the video itself. Since this piece ended up getting over 20k views under my nose, I figured it'd be best to give the viewer a jumping off point to learn more / have more context for what is mentioned in the video itself! Read further! docs.google.com/document/d/17mzmofr6rYgix-vcgfaetSK6mM-Vr6KF9QON4eAJCUU/edit?usp=sharing
It's very intersting how this intro gives me a more action vibe, because it did come out before the 2017 anime which ended up being more slice of life/coming of age while the first film had quite a lot of witch action.
@@markuseavids5362 That's exactly what happened when I made this! I only had the first two films and the manga tie ins to work with, and the first My Hero Academia opening was relatively new. This was one of my first "big" personal animations, and it's a fun artifact to look back on.
Thank you fir putting respect on snows name. She's not a weak person and her life's meaning doesn't end on the prince like people think She's so kind and gentle that even a man paid to murder her can't do it she meets the dwarves and is selfless She's also a teenage girl. A very young girl Is she supposed to whip out a sword or what
I hate how people say oh Snow White is so weak. No, she’s not physically strong, but she certainly mentally strong. If you if you ask me that’s even better.
I love Snow White I always have, and always will. I honestly I prefer the classic Disney princesses to the modern ones and don’t even get me started on how they’re trying to remake the classics to make them more modern that really irritates me.
It used to be talked about a lot, but it’s barely mentioned today and taken for granted. Snow White as a character is especially underestimated and unappreciated.
you'll be surprised on how many people are dismissive of Walt-era Disney movies because they're "outdated." A lot of people may know about these movies, but they haven't seen them nor appreciated them for artistic merit. in general, a lot of golden age hollywood movies like the wizard of oz are well known, but not a lot has seen them and only known them via pop culture references.
The original voice of SnowWhite was FULLBLOODED Italian!! Adriana Caselotti. I love her. Cause, I'm also Italian!! And, Pinto Colvig. The "original" voice of Goofy, was in it to.
Lots of comments: not one mention of Marjorie Bell or Marjorie Belcher or later known as Marge Champion. There would never have been the Great Snow White movie with out her dance steps. No one had in 1936 1937 the youth and training in dance that Marge had at the time taught by her Dad Ernest Belcher.
"But there's a difference between a film not aging well and an audience refusing to meet it on its own terms, and I feel like the most common complaints lobbied at Snow White tend to be misguided expectations that the film has no business trying to fill." - There Will Be Fudd, Why Snow White Is (Still) The Strongest Disney Princess 2020
Thoughts on the stuff Rachel Zegler, the live action remake actress, has said about this movie? Id love to see you talk sbout it or cover the remake when it comes out!
Snow white is imo the best Princess. When we are first introduced to her she's in rags yet she's pure and optimistic, basically making the best of her circumstances. Then when she flees from the huntsman terrified and the animals greet her, who is she more concerned with? The animals she actually apologises to them, again showing pure kindness and empathy. Then she learns from the animals how to get through a hard time by singing. Teaching us all again no matter how hard life gets you can get through it, if you make the best of it which would have been so pertant during the great depression. Then she thinks the dwarfs are orphans and again she thinks of them first. Then when she hopes to live with them she doesn't expect something for nothing she's willing to do something for it again teaching us not to expect something for nothing in life, we have to work hard. Contrast that with a lot of modern princesses who start of doing okay often, but want more out of life, often obsessed with identity or doing more with their life, and then go of on a grand adventure. Its not that the latter is bad, it's just a bit more ego driven. Snow has things happen to her and her strength of character gets her through she never looses her hope, remainds kind and compassionate, and grateful for what she has and far more relatable. None of us are going to go on grand adventures but all of us will come up against hard times and its how we choose to work through it that makes us who we are. I think she's such a misunderstood character and tbh if we had another character like her we could learn a lot from her. Plus I think her character will endure. Messages of hard work, endurance, strength of character, will live on. Doubt that people will be humming along to moana, or frozen nearly 100 years from now.
But no disney is instead obsessed with deconstructing their films, correcting what they think are flaws and having another what ironically ends up being another boring one dimensional character that imo does reflect society. We are all obsessed with self identity now, all obsessed with ourselves, how we have be wronged rather then how we can do better etc. Not everything that comes later I think is actually progressive or helpful. Don't get me wrong I wouldn't want to live the the 30s but I think we could take some lessons from them in terms of stop being so self obsessed and do your best with life rather then wallowing in self pity or resentment which seems ro be in the water in the culture now.
This movie deserves more love than it gets. It seems all society cares about now is having a girl boss. I don’t need a man type of character. Romance does not make a person weak. And the same goes for being kind. Thank your for giving this movie the praise it deserves. Snow White does not need to save the world to show that she is important. She is important because she does not have to prove anything. She gives kindness even trough the hardest times.
Is it nostalgia? Hell to the capital N-O. Snow White was (and still IS) a beautiful piece of escapist entertainment with charming, likeable (and hateable) characters, catchy songs and animation that still manages to hold its own against the so called 'juggernauts' of the modern era In summation, it's a goddamn masterpiece that has aged like a fine wine and only gets better as the years fly by
I watched the film recently for the first since the VHS days and I finished it sobbing. The music, the animation, and the characters really make it special. There were so many details I noticed watching it now and I have come to appreciate the film a lot more. Although it's very different from something like Beauty and the Beast, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs will always have a special place in my heart
This movie came out during or not long after the Great Depression. Disney wanted to show a protagonist that still smiled and remained optimistic and hard working despite the fact that she had just lost everything and was in the lowest point of her life. The scene in the forest after her panic attack really shows her strength. This character was intentioned to be that one voice of optimism shown to an audience living in the most difficult time in history. Snow White isnt a role model because shes a beautiful princess, shes a role model to young and old that works hard and smile through a song. This is something modern Disney has forgotten and it saddens me deeply.
I found it amazing that every time Snow White made a wish, it came true. There were consequences, but... The movie opens with Snow White singing into a magic wishing well and wishing that her prince would find her today. He did--and the Queen flipped out and ordered Snow White's murder. What happened to Grumpy when Snow White wished that he'd like her? The result was that Grumpy's heart was broken when Snow White succumbed to a poisoned apple. Speaking of the apple, since it was a magic wishing apple Snow White wished it was spring and that her prince would take her to his castle. This broke the hearts of her dwarven friends again, but they were happy that she had found happiness. It may have been this wishcraft that caused the Queen to seek Snow White's death. Traditionally, witches gain their powers when they become adults. The German word for fair/bright/brilliant is "hell." Snow White was shining, all right! Was that storm caused by Snow White when her friends were in danger?
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Great video! I love learning more about the history of the Disney movies I grew up watching. As a child I didn't rewatch Snow White as often because I was obsessed with Sleeping Beauty, but I still loved it. I watched it recently for the first time in eighteen years or so and I was surprised by how much I enjoyed it. I was very impressed with how scary and creepy the forest and the evil queen's transformation were. In a way it was like watching the film for the first time, since I could appreciate the music and the artistry in a way I couldn't have as a child.
Snow White didn't need to fight against 50 people or possess supernatural powers to show she was worthy of her salt. With a firm and yet loving hand she managed to become the head of the Seven Dwarfs house; and showed she could be feminine, selfless, valiant and accomodating as well. That many traits of hers were hardly found or replicated by the princesses of the Disney Reinassance, let alone those ones of recent years; therefore, I consider Snow White not only the fairest princess, but the Fairest Disney Queen.
23:43 Oh my goodness SOMEONE WHO UNDERSTANDS. Maybe it’s because the song is in my favorite key, maybe it’s because this is my favorite Disney movie of all time, maybe it’s because the dwarfs are some of my favorite Disney characters ever made, but I just LOVE THIS SONG. It even pains me that it’s so short.
Snow White has been one of my favourites ever and a great role model for kindness optimism, hard work in a positive light and helping others. I made sure Snow White was part of my daughter's childhood and she enjoyed it from the first watch.
Snow White is their greatest work! Everything great is underappreciated in these mindless times and gets buried further and furher down, under the tons of liquid CGI shit Disney's pushing out of their rancid butthole daily. Everything sucks after the first Goofy Movie and I refuse to watch any of it and stick to the hand drawn classics.
I love Snow White just not just a movie, but the princess, her self and people really ridicule her so much. It drives me insane. I mean she’s sweet she’s kind she’s caring. She’s got a lovely voice. There’s nothing wrong with her and just because she’s not physically strong doesn’t mean she’s not strong I mean hello. She practically tells the door of that if they don’t wash their hands, then getting dinner, and then she apologizes to the forest animals for her scaring them even after she just got the crap scared out of her. oh, and I meant to say, she tells the dwarves that if they don’t wash they can’t eat.
your video is very good, but I would like to correct one thing, disney did not use rotoscoping in its animations, it used video as a reference to make the movements more logical with reality. there is a video of Tonico Pantoja that explains the difference between rotoscoping and reference video, if you want I can give you the link
While it's not a particular favorite of mine, I can understand why Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs would be someone else's. There's not much it does badly. It's just that it follows conventions that are no longer used in storytelling(Some of them come from the operetta and the pantomime), so it's not as popular nowadays. Kind of sad really.
What this video mentioned about the extreme mood whiplash in the movie reminded me of this quote from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens. It is the custom on the stage, in all good murderous melodramas, to present the tragic and the comic scenes, in as regular alternation, as the layers of red and white in a side of streaky bacon. The hero sinks upon his straw bed, weighed down by fetters and misfortunes; in the next scene, his faithful but unconscious squire regales the audience with a comic song. We behold, with throbbing bosoms, the heroine in the grasp of a proud and ruthless baron: her virtue and her life alike in danger, drawing forth her dagger to preserve the one at the cost of the other; and just as our expectations are wrought up to the highest pitch, a whistle is heard, and we are straightway transported to the great hall of the castle; where a grey-headed seneschal sings a funny chorus with a funnier body of vassals, who are free of all sorts of places, from church vaults to palaces, and roam about in company, caroling perpetually. Such changes appear absurd; but they are not so unnatural as they would seem at first sight. The transitions in real life from well-spread boards to death-beds, and from mourning-weeds to holiday garments, are not a whit less startling; only, there, we are busy actors, instead of passive lookers-on, which makes a vast difference. The actors in the mimic life of the theatre, are blind to violent transitions and abrupt impulses of passion or feeling, which, presented before the eyes of mere spectators, are at once condemned as outrageous and preposterous.
I have always loved this movie, and hated how people called Snow White a maiden in distress, when she is a hard worker that wishes for her dream to come true, but never expects it without a price. She cleaned up the dwarfs cottage because she knew she couldn't just stay for free. She is a symbol of a hard working person in the great depression. And ofc she's gonna be helpless sometimes. 14 or not she is still young, and you can tell. Plus she handled herself quite well for being young, and hiding from a mad woman trying to kill her. BTW I just love this movie. My favorite scene is definitely the spooky forest scene. It captures her anxiety, and fear so well.
Okay I love this movie genuinely and have always valued it for its masterful animation as well as music and storytelling. I liked a lot of what you said, but your comments about the working conditions for the film kinda overlook the fact it was a huge recession and the ones about dopey mocking learning disabilities feels so super wokey and reachy preachy. not necessary.
