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48 Hours
A Campus Mystery Unraveled
Taylor Beale is just an interesting girl. On one hand, you've got this very bright, very bubbly, very personable college student. And then on the other hand, you have this young lady that is very amorous and very flirtatious towards older men.
48 Hours
A Campus Mystery Unraveled
It's almost like you're dealing with two different people when you talk about Taylor Beale.
48 Hours
A Campus Mystery Unraveled
Folley showed it. He had a computer that was filled with pictures of young ladies involved in various bondage poses.
48 Hours
A Campus Mystery Unraveled
Taylor was very aware that these models were involved in the bondage industry. I think that may have perked her fascination.
48 Hours
A Campus Mystery Unraveled
Rural jurors expect men to act like gentlemen and they expect young women to act like ladies. That mindset, we believe, certainly played into our favor.
48 Hours
A Campus Mystery Unraveled
For Matthews County, it's huge. It has no peer. God knows how many people are going to be there for the trial. It's a real, real, real big event.
48 Hours
A Campus Mystery Unraveled
I can't quote it verbatim, but it simply said that I am the reason why Taylor is dead. I deserve to be imprisoned.
48 Hours
A Campus Mystery Unraveled
I agree. I think things could have gone far worse for Mr. Folley. I think he may have come out on a little bit better end of the stick, all things considered.
Dateline NBC
Return to the Lake
And I would like to wear this white rose this morning for those two sweet children. We are so, all of us, emotionally involved in this story. You're sharing this information with viewers, viewers around the world as well.
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Return to the Lake
For the black community, there was added rage. Everybody's looking for a black man and, you know, I hate that she used this as a scapegoat, you know, to cover up the incident. You know, it could have been anything else, you know, but this is the way she chose out.
Dateline NBC
Return to the Lake
And the prosecution said no and made the offer again and again and again.
Dateline NBC
Return to the Lake
Well, a lot of what I saw was that she was just in an agony of grief and remorse and self-loathing. Grief for her children, remorse for what she had done.
Dateline NBC
Return to the Lake
What led her to the lake is a story of mental illness. It's a story of depression. It is a story of a really complete emotional collapse.
Dateline NBC
Return to the Lake
It wasn't her desire to get back together with the wealthy boyfriend. That relationship was dead as a doornail before this crime occurred.
Dateline NBC
Return to the Lake
She grew up in a family marked by alcoholism and violence, and finally her father did commit suicide. Susan was six when he died. He shot himself and then called 911 and screamed into the phone to get them to come and help him. That is what suicide is like. It's not rational. People want to die and they want to live at the same time.
Dateline NBC
Return to the Lake
And what she did at the lake really echoed the way her father left her when she was just a little girl.
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Return to the Lake
She is a child at age 13, was making childish suicidal attempts with pills, and again at age 18.
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Return to the Lake
A father who seemed to the outside world what she had lacked in her earliest years, but it turned out that he had been sexually molesting her when she was a teenager, at least at age 15, 16.
Dateline NBC
Return to the Lake
Well, her ex-husband, David, knew that she had had this sexual relationship with her boss. And it had also come out that this sexual relationship with her stepfather had resumed.
Dateline NBC
Return to the Lake
And she is exhibiting the promiscuity and the impaired judgment of an untreated incest survivor, of somebody who was left to figure out what had been done to her on her own.
Dateline NBC
Return to the Lake
She was a single mother with two small children who was about to be utterly disgraced. And she could not, could not survive this. And the children could not be left alone without their mother. And that is where the suicide idea came from.
Dateline NBC
Return to the Lake
I thought it was so clear from the fact that this was a murder-suicide attempt that was caused by mental illness that she was not going to be sentenced to death.
Dateline NBC
Return to the Lake
I think the testimony about how much she loved those children from so many people.
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Return to the Lake
Beverly Russell was a very, very flawed man, but he still saw his responsibility to Susan when this disaster struck and did what he could.
Dateline NBC
Return to the Lake
Well, she was relieved for her family. that her family was not going to have to go through the whole gruesome process of having a loved one executed. But David was both angry and disappointed.
Dateline NBC
Return to the Lake
I never went for the suicide part of it. What do you hope will happen to Susan Smith?
Dateline NBC
Return to the Lake
Susan doesn't pose a danger to society. I don't see what punishing her year after year after year in prison does to help anyone.
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Return to the Lake
I just, if anybody sees anything whatsoever, please contact your local police department and inform them if anything looks unusual. Please.
Dateline Originals
The Man in the Black Mask - Ep. 1: Where's Johnny?
Does the name Jen mean anything to you? No. That's what I asked me about that too. Yeah, something out of 10 or anything like that. So the name Jen doesn't mean anything to you. You don't know a Jen. You don't have an actress named Jen.
Dateline Originals
The Man in the Black Mask - Ep. 1: Where's Johnny?
He told me that he just finished his House of Cards, which was about a serial killer, but he wanted to pursue more of that. And I said, well, why not a female serial killer? Why has it got to be a guy, you know? And I said, let's explore that.
Dateline Originals
The Man in the Black Mask - Ep. 1: Where's Johnny?
I really thought that at the end of this thing, he just laughs his way all the way to the bank on it. At the end of the day, it's a big publicity thing for him.
Next Up with Mark Halperin
Why Stephen Miller and JD Vance Have All the Power, Plus Rand Paul's Favorite Trump Admin Disruptors
Stephen Miller is at the top of the totem pole. I mean, I think he sort of indirectly already has that job. You understand? Because he has a lot to say about a lot of things. He's a very valued person in the administration.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2139 - SHOCKING Tapes: Department of Education Pushes SEX WORK FOR CHILDREN
The subcommittee headed by Chairman Marjorie Taylor Greene, her and her staff discovered $2.7 trillion in improper payments to Medicare, Medicaid, overseas, to people who should not have gotten it. Some of this room might have missed that press conference. Can you elaborate on what the president is thinking at this point?
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2139 - SHOCKING Tapes: Department of Education Pushes SEX WORK FOR CHILDREN
Well, again, that's another example. There's a very long list of the fraud, waste, and abuse that Doge is identifying on a daily basis. Elon Musk also talked about yesterday about Social Security payments that are going out the door for people who are no longer with us. Unfortunately, I would say that is certainly fraud. There's also a lot of contracts they've
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2139 - SHOCKING Tapes: Department of Education Pushes SEX WORK FOR CHILDREN
identified that just as a hypothetical example are a million bucks, but only 500,000 went out the door. So where's the rest of that cash? And so that's the thing. Those are the things that Doge is working on every single day.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2139 - SHOCKING Tapes: Department of Education Pushes SEX WORK FOR CHILDREN
Privately, even Biden officials often acknowledge that Ukraine would ultimately have to give up some territory in order to secure a deal to end the war, though those Biden officials usually avoided saying that out loud. Trump officials say they're just being realistic three years into this invasion in order to drive both sides to the bargaining table.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2139 - SHOCKING Tapes: Department of Education Pushes SEX WORK FOR CHILDREN
leaders of our European allies should take primary responsibility for defense of the continent, which means security ownership by all allies, guided by a clear understanding of strategic realities, and it's an imperative given the strategic realities that we face. And that begins with increasing defense spending. 2% is a start, as President Trump has said, but it's not enough.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2139 - SHOCKING Tapes: Department of Education Pushes SEX WORK FOR CHILDREN
Nor is 3%, nor is 4%, more like 5%. Real investment, real urgency.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2139 - SHOCKING Tapes: Department of Education Pushes SEX WORK FOR CHILDREN
what we're hearing is just complete chaos and frankly a whole bunch of cruelty because at the end of the day um you can make departments more efficient and i'm not a big believer in bureaucracy but this feels like as elon musk said to you evisceration so here's a guy who has hundreds of millions of dollars of contracts from these departments. And he's not touching them.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2139 - SHOCKING Tapes: Department of Education Pushes SEX WORK FOR CHILDREN
But what he's doing is really taking money from kids who really need it in the field.
Today, Explained
Snow White and the Seven Controversies
Gather round, old and young, because it's time for Controversy Number One.
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Snow White and the Seven Controversies
And at the time, it was the highest-grossing sound picture ever made.
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Yeah, the animation really was groundbreaking in a way that I think is hard for us to understand at this point because this is just what animation has looked like for so long for us. But animation before this really was cartoonish and silly and sort of vaudevilly. But Snow White created this really naturalistic, painterly style. which was very, very expensive and labor-intensive to do, right?
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So to make Snow White, Walt Disney is pouring money into his studio. He's having his animators study figure drawing and like the play of light in moving images and this tradition of European fairy tale illustrations. He's also building new technology. He makes what's called the multi-plane camera, which
Today, Explained
Snow White and the Seven Controversies
So I would say that if I'm charting it, the first controversy actually stems from comments made by very popular, very beloved actor Peter Dinklage, who has a common form of dwarfism. And the original Snow White has been criticized for being ableist specifically for its portrayal of the seven dwarves and specifically for portraying them as childlike, right? And so when this movie was announced,
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is this hugely expensive piece of equipment that lets you pull the camera through layers of panels when you're depicting a background. So Snow White is not a silly, funny cartoon animal who is stuck on a flat plane. She's this really expressive, human-looking character who can sing and dance gracefully, and she's in this really rich, dimensional space that looks like an oil painting.
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Oh my God, they changed so much about the Brothers Grimm story. Disney famously gets rid of all the violence from the Grimm fairy tales in their adaptations, so probably the most famous change they make is the way that Disney kills off the evil queen is she accidentally falls off of a really high cliff and it's her own fault and Snow White's hands are completely clean, right?
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In the Grimm story, the way they kill off the evil queen is Snow White and the prince invite her to their wedding, and then they make her dance in red hot iron shoes until she burns to death.
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It's not a thing in most versions of Snow White that she's awakened by true love's kiss until Disney gets their hands on her. So actually, the Grimms really change this up a number of times as they're editing the story across all the editions that they make.
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Snow White and the Seven Controversies
But in the first version that they collected and wrote down, the prince takes Snow White's unconscious body to his castle, and he like has his servants... What? Yes, know what? It's not clear what he plans to do with her, but he just like has his servants prop up her body like at the table across from him while he's eating dinner. So he is a creep. I mean, he's not not a creep.
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Snow White and the Seven Controversies
And then eventually one of the servants gets really sick of this and he hits Snow White's body, kind of giving her an accidental Heimlich.
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And the poison apple flies out of her throat and she wakes up and that's the happy ending.
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The main change, I think, from the original movie is that the original movie is designed like an opera. Snow White is this very static, passive character. She doesn't really have a character arc. And that's the kind of storytelling Disney's really stepped away from in the years since then.
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The way they tell stories now tends to be where there's something that the main character wants and they have to overcome some kind of inner flaw and they grow as a person in order to get it. Classic. Yeah, that's the classic kind of hero's journey type arc.
Today, Explained
Snow White and the Seven Controversies
So what that looks like in this new live action Snow White is they reinterpret the idea of Snow White being the fairest of them all as being about justice. So Snow White believes in fair play. And her goal that she wants to accomplish is to protect her kingdom from her wicked stepmother, who's an unjust ruler. Your Majesty.
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Snow White and the Seven Controversies
Pies are luxuries. They don't need luxuries. It confuses them.
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Snow White and the Seven Controversies
And in order to do that, she has to overcome her own fear. So this is like a very classic quest narrative that gets kind of grafted on top of this weird, allegorical, creepy fairy tale in ways that are a little confusing because they really have very little to do with each other as stories.
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Snow White and the Seven Controversies
There are some changes that they made to the new movie that I think are interesting on paper. It is an, I would say, average to bad movie, I think. It is a movie that just, it reads like it was designed by a committee whose big priority is to avoid offending as many people as possible. And yet so many people are mad. And so many people are mad, so they really didn't pull that off.
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There was a big question mark of what were they going to do about that element. And when Peter Dinklage was on Marc Maron's WTF podcast, they got to talking about it.
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And yet it is still the most boring possible way to make a movie. Yeah.
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Yeah, I think that the reason that Disney's first version of Snow White is so successful is really that it was something brand new that no one had ever seen before. And in the decades since that first movie, Disney's been really, really good at building a brand based on nostalgia. And that makes sense because they've been so fundamental to the childhoods of so many people.
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But at the end of the day, that nostalgic legacy was made possible because of this incredible innovation that they did. And I would love to see Disney make a new movie that does look like something no one has ever seen before now in 2025.
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Snow White and the Seven Controversies
And he called Disney out for hypocrisy, for patting themselves on the back for casting a Latina actress as their quote-unquote fairest princess, right? Disney responded very quickly, saying they were taking a different approach, that they were going to talk to the dwarfism community.
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Magic mirror on the wall. Who is the fairest of them all?
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Okay, like they're going to do some soul-searching around the portrayal of dwarves in the movie?
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I mean, it's very unclear, because what happened next was an alleged photo from the set leaked, which revealed that the dwarves had seemingly been replaced by actors in a diversity of genders, heights, and ethnicities, only one of whom had dwarfism. And so that made headlines.
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Snow White and the Seven Controversies
And then in the final product, they seem incredibly reminiscent to the original animated dwarves, just this time CGI animated. So I don't necessarily know what conversations were had, but it's definitely that element alone has taken its own journey.
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But yeah, it's safe to say that not everyone is enchanted.
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Controversy number two. You're telling me, I'm telling you. Tell everyone in cities and towns they've turned Snow White into Snow Brown?
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I mean, some people online have probably called her that, considering that any time these days that there is a remake or an adaptation of popular beloved IP, especially where in which the main character, the titular character, is white, you will always have a contingent of more conservative traditionalists, let's say, who are going to push back against any sort of diverse castings.
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This surprised me because it's Snow White, whose skin was described as white as snow. I don't know what they're going to call Snow White.
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Is it still going to be Snow White? Critics, this choice represents yet another example of Hollywood prioritizing diversity quotas over staying faithful to the source material. And so people were always going to be angry at the idea of Zegler portraying Snow White, Zegler being half Colombian, half Polish. And she did receive some incredibly racist pushback from that online. The trolls are mad.
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The trolls are sad. The trolls think Rachel will be bad. But it's not just that she's not as white. It's also that she likes a fight.
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Snow White and the Seven Controversies
Yeah. So outside of the more culture war type of pushback, Rachel Zegler has also upset seemingly everybody on the Internet at one point regarding this particular film. She told Extra TV.
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And also, funnily enough, that she was terrified of the original as a kid. And so she only rewatched the movie for the first time in years in order to prepare for the upcoming adaptation. And fans definitely did not love that the star of the remake of one of their childhood favorites was so critical of it that it seemed like maybe she wasn't even a fan of the original movie.
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I'm sorry, I haven't seen this movie in a minute. Is the prince a stalker?
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I would lean towards perhaps maybe yes, that Rachel Zegler might be onto something there.
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And it's not just fights of Rachel's own design. It's also Israel-Palestine?
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Snow White and the Seven Controversies
So the Evil Queen is played by Gal Gadot, who very famously has also portrayed Wonder Woman and also very famously is an Israeli actress. She has served a mandatory stint in the IDF when she was in her 20s. She's been very vocally pro-Israel. I mean, just a couple weeks ago, she was honored at the Anti-Defamation League's annual summit where she gave a speech about fears of anti-Semitism.
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Snow White and the Seven Controversies
Well, you're in luck. You're so lucky today is your lucky day because there happens to be about seven. Oh my goodness!
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And never did I imagine... that on the streets of the United States and different cities around the world, we would see people not condemning Hamas, but celebrating, justifying, and cheering
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on a massacre of Jews. And if you contrast that with Zegler, who throughout her career has been very vocally political, particularly with how she posts on social media and online, it's safe to say that within that bucket, she has also been very vocally pro-Palestine. She's called on social media for a free Palestine and for people to contribute aid relief to Gaza.
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Snow White and the Seven Controversies
And so there is a bubbling rumor that there is a feud between the two lead actresses of this movie.
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Zegler's very well known for being vocal online. Go vote blue. And if you disagree with this sentiment...
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Especially politically, and her politics tend to lean left, and I would say this probably contributes to the film's current controversy, she actually posted an impassioned anti-Trump message to her Instagram stories following the 2024 election, in which she not only lambasted Trump, but also his fans, saying, quote, May Trump supporters and Trump voters and Trump himself never know peace, end quote.
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Ouch. That upset everyone who aligns themselves with Trump. And she later apologized. Zegler apologized, took it down. And she said, quote, I let my emotions get the best of me, end quote.
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Snow White and the Seven Controversies
Very well, then. Controversy the fifth, this time for real. What is Disney's Snow White deal?
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Snow White and the Seven Controversies
So while the first four had more to do with the production of the movie, with rumors of behind-the-scenes drama, with global politics somehow, the final three have more to do with the way that Disney is promoting this movie, the rollout of it, and everything that we sort of see on the current back end leading up to this. the release of this movie.
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So I would say that the fifth controversy has to do with the two stars, Rachel Zegler and Gal Gadot, have not been promoting the movie together as often as someone would expect. They did join forces to present an award at the Oscars just recently. I saw that.
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Visual effects push the boundaries of what we see on screen.
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Their work makes the impossible seem possible. I mean, they seemed cordial enough. But other than that, they've been on what feels like entirely separate press tours. And it's unclear if they're ever going to sort of be seen in the same frame again. There were talks of a junket, a press junket, that the cast and crew were going to do. But it was unclear if they were going to do it together.
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It's also unclear if it's been done. I haven't seen any clips from it as of yet.
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But that's not all at the House of Mouse. For those who sit both high and low, you might have trouble on Fandango.
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So I would say the sixth controversy, controversy, the sixth, if you will, is that and lets. I would say that that I would attribute more to sort of the ticket sales, the difference in advance ticket sales. So usually for a Disney property sale, They would have tickets go on sale in advance for about a month out before the film actually premieres.
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But in this case, they didn't make advance ticket sales available until less than two weeks before the movie's premiere. And in all the reports about this, everyone who's interviewed, all the theater owners and the industry professionals basically say that...
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The sort of main reason that they can think of for this being the case is that Disney was afraid that people weren't going to be buying tickets. And then they would get headlines about how the advance ticket sales weren't selling out. So everyone seems to think that it's an indicator of Disney being afraid that the movie won't sell.
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And last but not least, a cultural feast. A celebration divine and oh so hearty. But would you believe an afternoon party?
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So the final controversy, Controversy the 7th, is that where Disney Studios would usually host a bustling, lively, populated premiere, particularly in the States, it's been reported that instead, on March 15th, they held what was a very scaled-back, red-carpet interviewer employed by Disney only, right? Like, no outside journalist presence premiere. Huh.
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Snow White and the Seven Controversies
The Assembly of Photographers was reported to be much smaller than usual. In a statement from Disney to The Hollywood Reporter, they claimed that they were, quote, And I will also say that they sort of did a similar thing in the European leg. Usually for these films, for these big blockbuster movies, they'll have a very big London or UK premiere.
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And instead of doing that, it seems like Snow White only got what outlets are calling a premiere event or a special event in Segovia, Spain, in front of the original castle that has inspired the famous Disney castle. Yeah. And I think that this is maybe the most damning controversy of them all.
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Because at the end of the day, if you're not promoting your movie, if you're not putting your actresses out there, it seems as though there actually might be something going on underneath the surface.
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Are there even any more to make? I mean, probably, but I'm more so thinking live action Princess and the Frog. We haven't gotten, there's still some, there's still a few princesses in the tank. I think maybe my answer to your question is I don't think Disney will ever stop. I mean, I think that what they might do is pivot to more external or supplementary stories like Barry Jenkins. Mufasa!
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instead of yet another Lion King. So I don't know, we'll see. But I do think they're going to play in the wheelhouse of their own IP until the end of time.
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Nadira Goth, at Slate she doth write. But what would the Brothers Grimm say on this night? Would they celebrate? Would they complain? Let us turn the page on Today Explained.
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Snow White is pretty important. You know, the princess is famous for being the fairest of them all, but I would go so far as to say that the movie is maybe the most important of them all. Of any of them? Even Frozen? Okay, I love Frozen so much. Olaf, you're melting!
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No. I think that there is a lot of confusion and a lot of controversy around Snow White.
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Like, it's a much more fun movie to watch. But Snow White is the first not only Disney princess movie or Disney animated movie, Snow White is the first full-length animated feature film that anyone ever made. So Snow White premieres in 1937. So up until that point, Disney is just making short movies throughout the 1930s. Hey!
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They're making those little reels, you know, that play before the feature movie with the newsreel. And then they decide they're going to make a feature-length movie, and it's going to be Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
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Then maybe they'll let me stay. People are convinced this is a terrible idea. Newspapers at the time call it Disney's folly. First of all, animated movies at the time, they're cartoons, right? They're like Mickey Mouse does like a silly gag. It's slapstick. It's mostly animal characters because no one has really figured out a way to animate humans in a way that's fun to watch.
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Like this is kind of where traditional animation is at this stage. And everyone's like, who would want to sit through like an hour long movie of that? That's a terrible idea.
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Audiences immediately love Snow White in this very, very deep, intense, visceral level. People are bursting into tears in the movie theater. Sergei Eisenstein, who's the Soviet director who invented montage, he calls it the greatest film ever made. It ends up grossing $66 million at the box office. That's $1937, much, much more today.