How Disney butchered 'Snow White' — and it's worse than just wokeness



Growing up in a home of overly competitive board gamers, it isn’t surprising that I am now a board-game nerd with an acquired taste for overly complicated Euro-style board games. But there is a charm to the simple games of yesteryear — such as Would You Rather? — that you can find on the shelves of big-box retail stores.In this game, the reader reveals a card presenting two horrendously icky, painful, or terrifying actions, and then the other players try to guess which one the reader would choose.

I thought about this game recently when I was asked to review the new "Snow White" film and what horrendous things I would rather do than sit through all one hour and forty-nine minutes of Disney’s latest live-action flop. Since I don’t own a brutally honest magic mirror, I consulted the closest alternative I could find: my wife.

My dear, my dear, of blunt wherewithal
What is fairer than watching "Snow White," wall to wall?

To this, she answered:

Eating pizza topped with cicada husks.
Scratching upon chalkboard, from dawn to dusk.
Tightrope walking between two skyscrapers.
Trapped on the toilet with only sandpaper.
Across the land, these and countless terrors —
Are yet, my love, a thousand times fairer.

I was satisfied with this answer, for I knew my dear spoke truth. But like the royal huntsman, I was required to shoulder this grim duty. And while like the huntsman, I was tempted repeatedly to flee the theater and feign completion of my analytical task, I forced myself to complete the grisly vivisection.

But before dissecting the new "Snow White," let us first recall the various ways in which the original story (and, in some respects, the 1937 animated classic) was quickened by deeply biblical and Christian themes and imagery.

In the original story from the Brothers Grimm, a queen prays for a child “white as snow, red as blood, black as ebony,” which she is granted, but the queen dies. The king remarries a beautiful woman who, in her pride and arrogance, can brook no rival to her beauty and obsessively seeks affirmation of it. The queen is revealed to be “godless”: a satanic figure who manifests a particular form of disordered self-love. She does not see her physical beauty as a gift to be offered to the glory of God and the good of others but as her possession by which she demands the praise of others as a sort of goddess, a worldly renown that is telescoped into the magic mirror’s words.

The new 'Snow White' film abandons or obscures most of the biblical and Christian themes and imagery that made the original story great.

The fairy tale explores how the capital or deadly sins feed off one another. After the mirror tells the queen that Snow White is fairer, her pride is said to grow together with envy “like a weed in her heart.” The queen’s pride, as we have seen, is a kind of excessive self-love in which she ascribes to herself excellence above her station — i.e., not under God.

Snow White can thus be seen as an Eve-like figure, who is created in innocence and radiant beauty and outshines the Luciferian one who misused the beauty God first gave her. Hence, Snow White’s creation stirs envy in the heart of the queen, which is a sorrow for the good God has bestowed upon another. And this is followed by wrath: a hateful desire of vengeance to be visited upon the girl and the God who gave the gift of surpassing beauty to another. And this is followed by gluttony, for the evil queen proceeds to eat what she believes to be Snow White’s lungs and liver. After learning that she has been tricked, the queen repeatedly tries to infiltrate the dwarves’ domicile to tempt and kill her, like the demon with designs upon the wayfarer’s soul.

That the queen is a demonic figure is underscored by her use of witchcraft to ensnare Snow White.

The story even subtly evokes specifically Catholic themes. The number seven is repeated throughout: Snow White’s beauty fully manifests at seven years old, seven dwarves live across the seven mountains, and their house is furnished for seven. And notably, in contrast with the animated film, Snow White finds the dwarves’ house orderly, “so neat and clean that no one could say otherwise.”

The numerical motif not only hints at how the queen embodies the seven deadly sins and Snow White the seven cardinal virtues, but it is also suggestive of the Catholic priesthood. The Catholic priesthood fulfills the Levitical priesthood, whose consecration and ritual duties are rife with the number seven (e.g., Exodus 29:35-37; Leviticus 4:6, 8:33). The Catholic priesthood embodies the seven gifts of the Holy Spirit and guards and administers the seven sacraments, to succor the wayfarer.

The seven dwarves — who are not named for emotional states in the original story — can thus be seen as a metaphor for the priesthood. When Snow White arrives beleaguered and exhausted, she eats “a little bread from each little plate, and from each mug she drank a drop of wine,” after which she “entrusted herself to God” before falling asleep. The dwarves return and discover the young maiden. As the Catholic priests provide the Eucharistic nourishment to the Christian in the refuge of the Church, so the dwarves promise the continued nourishment of bread and wine and the protection of their cottage from the wilderness.

And, like a pastor who exercises his teaching office to guide the spiritual life of his flock, the priestly dwarves also offer counsel to Snow White about how to guard against “the godless queen” when they are away.

Like Satan’s temptation of Eve, the queen offers Snow White a poisonous apple to which, despite the dwarves’ warnings, Snow White succumbs. Even the wayfarer quickened by the sacraments — the soul made beautiful by God, white as snow — is frail and can be deceived. And only the coming of a man — of a loving prince — can ultimately save all who have fallen asleep under the curse. The dwarves prepare and adorn the sleeping maiden with a funeral rite to await the lover who can resurrect her.

Unsurprisingly, the new "Snow White" film abandons or obscures most of the biblical and Christian themes and imagery that made the original story great. It is apparent that the backlash to leaks from the set and the woke gaffes from the actress portraying Snow White (Rachel Zegler) led Disney to rewrite and rework parts of the film.

The original remake apparently had a sharper “modern edge”: a girlboss plot of a plucky young heroine who dreams not of Prince Charming but of leading a political revolt against a tyrant at the head of her crew of diverse “magical creatures.” Disney brought back the dwarves and forest animals through CGI (which now seems to mean Cringey Grotesque Images). And the filmmakers shoehorned a semi-romance back into the story.

The result is a messy combination of identity politics aimed at late modern audiences with some quasi-traditional elements sprinkled in. We are left with something akin to when small children mash together different colored chunks of Play-Doh.

Snow White is now waiting until she has the strength to make her own girlboss wishes come true.

In an astonishingly wooden performance, Gal Gadot plays the evil queen. While the vices of pride and envy are certainly present, they seem to take a back seat to chiefly political vices such as over-taxation, conscription, and imposing cruel and unusual punishments. And Snow White’s virtues — fearlessness, bravery, fairness — are keyed on political justice. Rachel Zegler’s performance is serviceable — she clearly is a talented singer — but there is only so much the actress can do with such a poorly written script.

Snow White defies the queen by freeing the handsome, roguish bandit Jonathan — who claims to fight for the mysteriously disappeared king, Snow White’s father — from a cruel punishment. It is this act that changes the mind of the magic mirror that Snow White is the fairest. Huh?

If the mirror — which proclaims to be bound only by what is “true” — is the arbiter of fairness in the sense of beautiful moral character, how did Snow White’s quiet and humble service as an unjustly enslaved scullery maid not garner the mirror’s notice? How is it that Snow White’s assistance to the resistance is a sufficient act of political virtue to make her fairest, but the queen’s tyranny was insufficient to make her morally ugly in the mirror’s eyes?

This is just one example of the incoherencies generated by transforming Snow White’s virtues into those of a political revolutionary.

If the original story is at least in part a metaphor for the dramatic contest between the divine lover and demonic hater of the soul, the animated film cloaks the metaphor behind the veil of romantic love, particularly in the tunes “I’m Wishing,” “One Song,” and “Someday My Prince Will Come.” On the level of romantic love, the traditional Snow White sees herself as radically incomplete without a husband — and when read in light of the spiritual economy and the plane of divine love, her soul longs for God.

This acknowledgement of the need of marital and divine friendship is characteristic of traditional Snow White’s humility.

The late modern "Snow White" cuts all of this out. The main theme song of the film is “Waiting on a Wish.” No longer is the beloved waiting on her lover. Snow White is now waiting until she has the strength to make her own girlboss wishes come true.

Will she lead or just be led? ...
Someone who could finally start
Start speaking with a fearless heart
Someone who just might be brave
Someone no one needs to save

The implication is that a different sort of pride is good — a self-sufficient political pride in which the oppressed scullery maid rises up against the tyrant and takes the throne.

True, Snow White promises to undo the evil queen’s tyrannical policies, and “fairness” is not merely the queen’s diktat. But the guise of “fairness,” which seems to actually be a kind of sentimentality, only obscures Woke Snow White’s own disordered self-love.

Hence, Snow White practically has to be forced to stay with the dwarves, who are largely relegated to charmless and feckless appendages to Snow White’s path to self-empowerment. She leaves the dwarves’ cottage after just one day to seek out the resistance fighters, whose story arcs we neither know nor care about and who are largely background figures to Jonathan.

While he is also mostly irrelevant to Snow White’s arc, the screenwriter deigned to give Jonathan the job of waking Snow White up from the apple’s poison with an awkward kiss laid partly on her cheek and partly on the corner of her lips. Doubtless, Woke Snow White had mixed feelings about being kissed without her signed and notarized consent. No profession of love is made — no desire or plans for marriage expressed. Instead, the not-prince quickly disappears from the screen so that the climactic final confrontation can take place, in which the empowered Snow White defeats the evil queen and assumes the throne.

Thankfully, Disney does not go so far as to turn Princess Snow White into Mulan, a warrior assassin.

So how does she effect the revolution? With a deus ex machinamarch to the palace, a protest speech, and a bloodless coup so implausible that it should make even the writers of "Superman: The Movie" blush. (That was the one where Superman flew around the earth really fast to reverse time.)

The final scene — an utterly cringeworthy mass dance scene in which everyone is dressed in white for no apparent reason — is not the celebration of a marriage but of the girlboss who asserted herself, made her own wishes come true, and didn’t need saving (except, of course, for that nonconsensual kiss).

With such inane and incoherent storytelling, is it any surprise that "Snow White" has been a disastrous flop at the box office?

In all honesty, I wasn’t as strong as I implied earlier. I took a couple of my daughters with me so that I wouldn’t have to suffer through the film completely alone.

Afterward, I asked them:

My dears, my dears, hearken my call,
Would you say this movie was fair, or not?

They replied:

The movie itself was decidedly not,
But it was fair to have a date with our pa.

I was satisfied with this answer — in any “either/or” that involves a date with my daughters, one choice is always a thousand times fairer.

This article first appeared on Word on Fire’s Evangelization & Culture Online.

Snow White Bombing Was The Best Gift Hollywood Could Give Us

Only from the ashes of such a magnificent and glorious failure can Hollywood return to its glory days.

Did ‘Snow White’ actress Rachel Zegler DESTROY her career?



“Snow White” actress Rachel Zegler has stepped into the national spotlight after her starring role in the remake of the classic Disney film — but not because of her performance.

Zegler has been accused of hurting the film by Jonah Platt, son of producer Marc Platt, with comments she’s made in interviews and on social media.

In an Instagram comment, Platt claimed his father was forced to fly into New York City in August to confront the actress regarding a “free Palestine” comment she added to a promotional message posted on X.


When one commenter called Platt’s father “creepy as hell” for attempting to control Zegler’s social media posts, Platt wrote back in a now-deleted post: “You really want to do this? Yeah, my dad, the producer of [an] enormous piece of Disney IP with hundreds of millions of dollars on the line, had to leave his family to fly across the country to reprimand his 20 year old employee for dragging her personal politics into the middle of promoting the movie for which she signed a multi-million dollar contract to get paid and do publicity for.”

“This is called adult responsibility and accountability,” Platt continued. “And her actions clearly hurt the film’s box office. Free speech does not mean you’re allowed to say whatever you want in your private employment without repercussions. Tens of thousands of people worked on that film and she hijacked the conversation for her own immature desires at the risk of all the colleagues and crew and blue collar workers who depend on that movie to be successful. Narcissism is not something to be coddled or encouraged.”

Glenn Beck of “The Glenn Beck Program” couldn’t agree more with Platt.

“I don’t think I could have said it better,” Glenn says. “I would have said it meaner, perhaps.”

“This is how narcissistic our society has become. It’s all about me. It has nothing to do with the blue-collar workers that are depending on that movie to be successful, has nothing to do with the thousands of people, the tens of thousands of people that worked on that movie. No, it’s all about her,” he continues.

“You don’t have free speech without consequence. You can say whatever you want, but she was on the Disney dime,” he adds.

Want more from Glenn Beck?

To enjoy more of Glenn’s masterful storytelling, thought-provoking analysis, and uncanny ability to make sense of the chaos, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.

Whacked! Double De Niro roles an offer audiences can refuse



Robert De Niro just got whacked. Twice.

The Trump derangement victim does double duty in the new mob drama “The Alto Knights.” The actor plays both Frank Costello and Vito Genovese, real-life gangsters whose childhood friendship morphed into a bitter rivalry.

Of course, Disney didn’t fire Zegler like it did Gina Carano. 'The Mandalorian' star’s crime? She was right of center.

Why cast De Niro twice? Who knows? Audiences didn’t bother to ask, ignoring the film during its opening weekend. The $45 million film made just $3.4 million, plus a tiny $1.9 million outside the U.S.

That’s moviegoers sending a message without injuring a single horse. We’re not interested in seeing De Niro on the big screen once, let alone twice ...

Clooney dumps rom-coms

No more “meet cutes” for George Clooney.

The actor, busy lecturing the country on what real journalism looks like, says he’s no longer interested in starring in romantic movies.

Why?

He’s 63, and rom-coms are a young man’s game.

“I’m not trying to compete with 25-year-old leading men. ... That’s not my job. I’m not doing romantic films anymore.”

Clooney hardly looks his age, and his 2022 rom-com “Ticket to Paradise” made some cash ($68 million U.S.). It also offered adults over 30 a sweet, credible romance to call their own.

That’s refreshing in youth-obsessed Hollywood.

Still, anytime an Oscar-winner shows some self-awareness must be applauded. Now, if he can apologize for hiding President Joe Biden’s dementia-addled state last year until the leader’s poll numbers sank ...

'Impossible' math

The term “Hollywood accounting” is already a thing. Now, it’s hitting absurdist levels.

Take “Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning.” The film, the second of the two-part “M:I” cliffhanger opening this May, is already a box-office bust.

You don’t need a crystal ball to see that.

The film sports a $400 million budget, meaning it will need to make roughly double that, or more, to break even.

The previous installment earned $571 million in total, a disappointing tally. Plus, no “M:I” movie has made more than $791 million globally (“Mission: Impossible – Fallout” hit that peak and deservedly so).

Hollywood is already having a terrible year at the box office to date, and that was before “Snow White” crashed and burned last weekend. “Final Reckoning” is meant to jump-start the summer movie season.

New 'Mummy,' same curse?

It still might but not enough to make its studio happy ...

Speaking of Cruise, his 2017 film “The Mummy” was a rarity in his film canon. It stunk, underperformed at the box office, and helped stall a proposed “universe” of Universal Monsters movies.

So of course, Hollywood is rebooting the classic movie monster.

A new “Mummy” is heading our way soon, this time co-starring the lesser-known Jack Reynor. To be fair, Reynor shined in the sublime ‘80s yarn “Sing Street” — if you grew up in the Reagan era, it’s a must-see.

He’s still no Tom Cruise.

Everything old in Hollywood is new again, even if it’s wrapped in dusty, decaying bandages ...

Disney bashes 'Snow White' star

Hope it’s comfortable under that bus, Snow White.

Rachel Zegler made life hell for Team Disney in the run-up to the live-action “Snow White” update. The young star trashed the source material during a red carpet interview, calling the prince a “stalker” and saying the story was “weird.”

Later, she wished Trump voters would “never know peace.” She apologized for the latter, but by then, it was too late.

Way too late.

Now, Disney is leaking bad tidings about Zegler to camouflage the box-office misfortunes of "Snow White."

“She didn’t understand the repercussions of her actions as far as what that meant for the film, for Gal, for anyone,” says one insider to Variety magazine. The piece details how Zegler kept sharing controversial views, like “Free Palestine,” while the Mouse House brass cringed.

Of course, Disney didn’t fire Zegler like it did Gina Carano. "The Mandalorian” star’s crime? She was right of center. Zegler did far more damage to the Disney brand, but she stayed on the project.

Hmmm.

Now, Disney is telling the world Zegler deserves the blame for the film’s dismal showing. There’s some truth to that, no doubt, but Disney did itself few favors by refusing to hire little people for the film and, later, backtracking somewhat by adding CGI dwarfs to the feature.

The screenplay also turned our heroine into a girlboss. That’s on Disney, not Zegler.

Either way, when you’re a 23-year-old star and the biggest studio in Hollywood is trashing you, consider your work prospects bleak moving forward.

“Heigh-ho, heigh-ho, it’s off to work we go?” Maybe not for Zegler.

'Snow White' producer's son obliterates 'immature' actress Rachel Zegler for her 'narcissism' after disastrous showing



The actor son of the producer of Disney's "Snow White" live-action remake unloaded a barrage of criticism against lead actress Rachel Zegler after it was reported that his father flew out to New York just to berate her for politicizing the movie.

Jonah Platt defended his father, Marc Platt, over the report from Variety that he had flown to New York in order to try to persuade Zegler to take down a message of support for Palestine just after she was announced as the lead actress.

'This is called adult responsibility and accountability. And her actions clearly hurt the film's box office.'

The report said Zegler refused to take the post down, and months later, the movie imploded upon release.

A random critic demanded that 38-year-old Jonah Platt answer for his father, and he fired back a scorching response.

"Your dad flew to NYC to reprimand a young actress? Any words on this? Cuz that's creepy as hell and uncalled for. People have the right to free speech, no? Shame on your father," she wrote.

"You really want to do this?" Jonah Platt replied.

"Yeah, my dad, the producer of enormous piece of Disney IP with hundreds of millions of dollars on the line, had to leave his family to fly across the country to reprimand his 20 year old employee for dragging her personal politics into the middle of promoting the movie for which she signed a multi-million dollar contract to get paid and do publicity for," he added. "This is called adult responsibility and accountability. And her actions clearly hurt the film's box office."

Zegler's missive was among the numerous controversies that led to box office receipts far below expectations for the remake of the beloved classic.

"Free speech does not mean you're allowed to say whatever you want in your private employment without repercussions," Platt continued. "Tens of thousands of people worked on that film, and she hijacked the conversation for her own immature desires at the risk of all the colleagues and crew and blue collar workers who depend on that movie to be successful. Narcissism is not something to be coddled or encouraged."

Screenshots of his response went viral among those criticizing Zegler as well as those who support her. One post garnered over 27 million interactions in about 24 hours.

Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

New ‘Snow White’ is so bad, THIS leftist outlet called it ‘a Marxist call to arms'



Disney’s new live-action “Snow White” movie starring Latina actress Rachel Zegler debuted this weekend after years in the making.

Long before it hit the box office, the film was expected to be a giant flop due to Zegler’s negative comments about the beloved 1937 classic, casting controversies, and the wokification of the original plot line.

And it turns out that the film’s premature criticism was dead on. The movie sucks.

To get the scoop on what exactly makes “Snow White” such a catastrophic failure that people are celebrating its box office flop, Glenn Beck invites Nerdrotic’s Gary Buechler to “The Glenn Beck Program.”


“I’m ecstatic at this failure,” says Buechler. “Rachel Zegler has become the symbol of everything that's wrong with modern Hollywood right now, and seeing it just crumble does my heart good.”

“Hollywood doesn't know how to be good anymore. They are so black-pilled; they are so dystopian; they are so nihilistic,” he tells Glenn.

According to Buechler, this woke version of “Snow White” is “essentially feminism versus femininity."

“Disney took the film that built their empire — that is a paradigm shift movie, that is sacred text in Hollywood — and just threw away the original script and gave us, and I'm not kidding, communist propaganda,” he condemns.

Buechler explains that in the film, Snow White’s parents run “a socialist utopia” where all equally share the bounty of the land, the handsome prince is replaced by a thief, and Snow White is more interested in leading than finding love.

The producers, given additional time due to the Hollywood strike, even made some edits to their original plan in response to the widespread criticism. But they still failed so miserably that even the BBC called the film “a Marxist call to arms.”

“This has to be the closest a Disney princess film has got to paraphrasing 'The Communist Manifesto,'” BBC’s Nicholas Barber wrote.

As for Zegler’s career, Buechler says, “It’s over.”

“She goes to Broadway, that would be my guess,” he says.

To hear more of the conversation, watch the clip above.

Want more from Glenn Beck?

To enjoy more of Glenn’s masterful storytelling, thought-provoking analysis, and uncanny ability to make sense of the chaos, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.

Has DEI already KILLED Disney's new 'Snow White' remake?



The long-awaited release of Disney’s new “Snow White” remake has turned out to be a massive disappointment, as ahead of the box-office opening, it had the worst Rotten Tomatoes score for a Disney live-action remake.

Before it’s official release, the critic score was 46%.

One of the top critics, Otis Henderson, wrote, “I had high hopes that 'Snow White' would make me happy; instead, this dopey remake made me sleepy and grumpy.”

While the professional movie critics weren’t pleased, the audience hasn’t been, either.


“Wow Disney, you truly are incredible. It took you three years, multiple rewrites, unnecessary CGI, and $209 million just for me to enjoy a comment section of a movie I will never watch. Bless you,” one YouTube user wrote about the trailer.

The film stars Rachel Zegler as Snow White and Gal Gadot as the evil queen, which has led to the remake coming under even more fire for poor casting.

“I mean look, I love Gal Gadot, I don’t think she’s the greatest actress,” Matthew Marsden tells Sara Gonzales and Jaco Booyens on “Sara Gonzales Unfiltered.” “But why do you pick somebody who is quite clearly more beautiful than Snow White to play the queen?”

But it’s not just the casting that the panel sees as a flop.

“They have dried up with any creativity,” Booyens says.

“That’s true,” Gonzales adds, “That’s like all they’re doing now is coming out with live actions of others like ‘The Lion King.’”

Want more from Sara Gonzales?

To enjoy more of Sara's no-holds-barred take to news and culture, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.

Disney's woke 'Snow White' on life support



Mirror, mirror on the wall … just how far will this film fall?

Rachel Zegler’s “Snow White” hits theaters March 21, but Disney isn’t rolling out the red carpet for the live-action film. Try rolling it up, to be more accurate.

As producer Harvey Weinstein famously said, 'Hollywood has the best moral compass.'

Fancy “Snow White” film premieres in Los Angeles and London have been scrapped or tweaked mere days before its global release.

Live-action Disney films typically print money, but Zegler has been a one-woman PR nightmare for the project. She infamously insulted the source material, saying it was “weird” and insisting that her version would be empowering.

More recently, she hoped Trump voters will “never know peace.” She backpedaled almost immediately, but her radioactive brand tripped a few Geiger counters.

Oh, and she’s totally pro-Palestine and co-starring with former IDF soldier Gal Gadot. Awkward!

Now, box office gurus think the film may not crack $50 million in its opening weekend. And we didn’t even mention how the project initially used traditionally sized actors to play the story’s “dwarfs” as a woke sop, only to scrap that plan for animated figures.

As Mickey Mouse might say, “Oh, boy …”

Ava-tearjerker

He’s the king of the world and, apparently, master of the tear ducts.

James Cameron’s wife, Suzy Amis Cameron, emerged from an early screening of his third “Avatar” film, subtitled “Fire and Ash,” shaken beyond words.

The director said his wife sobbed for four straight hours post-screening. That’s roughly 40 minutes longer than the film itself.

“She kept trying to get her s**t back together so she could tell me specific reactions, and then she’d just tear up and start crying again. Finally, I’m like, ‘Honey, I’ve got to go to bed. Sorry, we’ll talk about it some other time,’” he laughs.

Guess that decision to do a crossover with “The Notebook” paid off …

Gipper ghouls

Will Ferrell sank to a new low by flirting with a comedy about President Ronald Reagan’s dementia.

The project imagined Ferrell as an addled Gipper stumbling his way through his second term in office. Hilarious! And totally accurate!

(Although you'd think a more recent president might have provided a lot better material ...)

The public outcry was swift and uniformly negative, with Reagan’s adult children sharing the most disgust. Ferrell quickly dropped the project. It remains dropped to this day.

As producer Harvey Weinstein famously said, “Hollywood has the best moral compass.”

Recently, John Oliver tried to one-up Ferrell. His latest “Last Week Tonight” episode touched on Reagan anew. The far-left “comic” responded to a fellow Democrat who praised Reagan to smite President Donald Trump.

Oliver’s response?

“And I will admit there are positive things you can say about Reagan, like ‘He was our only president to make a movie with a chimp,’ or ‘He’s dead,’ but his moral clarity might come as a surprise to any gay people who lived through the 1980s.”

If you’re wondering where the jokes are in that rant, you’re not alone …

Better to burn out ...

Mick Jagger famously sang, “What a drag it is getting old,” with the Rolling Stones.

Yet the rock legend appeared at the recent Oscars telecast looking remarkably spry for an 81-year-old. Amazing.

Other rock icons haven’t been so lucky.

Phil Collins is still processing his inability to play the drums at 74 due to chronic health woes. Ozzy Osbourne, 75, accepted his Rock and Roll Hall of Fame honors for his solo work late last year while seated on a bat-themed throne.

Now, Billy Joel is cutting his current tour short to focus on his health. The 75-year-old is recuperating from surgery to address an undisclosed illness but vows to be back on the road soon.

The irony is palpable. These rockers provided the soundtracks to our youth, and every time they perform, they take us back to those days. It’s transformative. Yet we struggle to process their battles with Father Time.

Take Jagger’s Stones. They’ve been mocked for their advanced age — “look, the Rolling Bones,” yuk-yuk. Yet whenever they grace a stage, they remind us that music can make us forever young.

That’s priceless.

Get better soon, Piano Man.

Disney princess Rachel Zegler melts down over Trump victory — says president and his voters should 'never know peace'



Disney actress Rachel Zegler said she was "heartbroken" over Donald Trump winning the election and urged her fans not to use Elon Musk's platform X due to his support of the president.

In a series of social media stories on Instagram, the "Snow White" actress said the election results left her "speechless."

"Another four years of hatred, leaning us towards a world I do not want to live in," the 23-year-old opined. "Leaning us towards a world that will be hard to raise my daughter in. leaning us towards a world that will force her to have a baby she doesn't want. leaning us towards a world that is fearful."

On top of admitting she shouldn't be shocked, the actress said she was "heartbroken" for her friends who woke up fearful the morning after the election. She expressed to her fans that she is "here" for them should they need to "cry," "yell," or "hug."

"The left continues to fail us in forging a new path forward. this loss should not have been. and it certainly should not have been by so many votes," she waxed on.

'There is no help, no counsel, in any of them.'

Zegler's tone turned darker as she said she agreed with the sentiment that "more than anything," Trump supporters, voters, and Trump himself should "never know peace."

Adding to the long-held Democratic Party claim that Trump is a threat to democracy, Zegler said there is a "deep, deep sickness" in the United States, proven by the tens of millions of people who voted for Trump.

She also called the number of people who support Trump "terrifying," saying they are subscribing to a "false sense of security, of masculinity, of intelligence, of patriotism, and of humanity."

"There is no help, no counsel, in any of them," Zegler said of Trump supporters. "I could go on. i won't. i feel sad. you probably do, too. f*** this."

The young actress also urged her followers not to use Musk's platform because he "helped get that man elected," accusing those who are on X of "giving [Musk] business."

The New Jersey-born star has frequently rejected backlash for her commentary, attributing it to prejudice related to her ethnicity.

She said in October 2023 that those speaking against her were doing so because she is one of the many "fearless and loud" Latino performers who are "loud about having seats at the tables they deserve to be at."

The same account that posted Zegler's recent anti-Trump rant also noted her recent hyperbolic post describing why she was voting for Vice President Kamala Harris.

"I'm voting for kamala harris because either she or donald trump will be president come january, and if hillary clinton (another deeply flawed candidate) had won in 2016, roe v. wade would be law today and women who are now dead from treatable pregnancy complications would be alive," she claimed.

In addition, she also implied that the Republican ticket believes "trans people and immigrants are the root" of the nation's problems. Zegler also suggested that the National Guard would be unjustly deployed on protesters if Trump wins.

"If [Kamala] loses, i worry i may never vote again."

Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

'Snow White' star suggests desire to ensure Disney's costly remake is a box-office bomb



Walt Disney Studios confidently released a trailer for its live-action "Snow White" remake over the weekend, only to be derailed once again by its woke leading lady, Rachel Zegler.

Zegler, the actress who plays the titular Snow White and starred in the failed relaunch of "The Hunger Games" franchise last year, took to X this week to express gratitude for those watched the new trailer for Walt Disney Studios' next potential tax write-off.

At the time of publication, the trailer on YouTube had over 6.3 million views, 65,277 likes, and 478,811 dislikes.

"I love you all so much! thank you for the love and for 120m views on our trailer in just 24 hours!" wrote Zegler. "What a whirlwind. i am in the thick of rehearsals for romeo + juliet so I'm gonna get outta here. bye for now."

Zegler, who stars in the film opposite Israeli actress Gal Gadot, could not resist the temptation to issue one more tweet, writing, "And always remember, free palestine."

'People are making these jokes about ours being the PC Snow White, where it's like, yeah, it is — because it needed that.'

While the Hispanic actress appears to have been taking her own advice to actively advocate "for a ceasefire, for a free palestine, for no more lives lost" ahead of pro-Hamas protesters' return to school, the Times of Israel highlighted that Gadot was simultaneously facing an onslaught of criticism online by anti-Semites over her ties to Israel.

Zegler's tweet was immediately seized upon by critics, not only as a dig at her colleague but as further evidence both of Disney's ideological capture and its one-way tolerance for employees' expressions of political views online.

While Zegler's tweet is likely to create a headache for Disney, it is far from the only scandal plaguing the "Snow White" remake.

Early in development, the notion that Disney might provide dwarf actors with gainful employment and screen time in a global blockbuster infuriated actor Peter Dinklage, who is himself a dwarf, as well as other activists.

Blaze News previously reported that Dinklage condemned Disney over its "f**ing backwards" plan to remake the film, stating:

I was a little taken aback when they were very proud to cast a Latina actress as Snow White — but you’re still telling the story of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Take a step back and look at what you're doing there. It makes no sense to me. You're progressive in one way, but then you're still making that f***ing backward story about seven dwarfs living in a cave together?

Following Dinklage's inaccurate remarks — the dwarfs lived in a idyllic cottage together as opposed to a cave — a Disney spokesman revealed in 2022, "To avoid reinforcing stereotypes from the original animated film, we are taking a different approach with these seven characters and have been consulting with members of the dwarfism community."

Last year, photographs taken on set revealed that the seven "magical characters" who replaced the dwarfs were men and women of various races, all of an average height except for one actor, who looked the part.

This move generated controversy all its own, prompting the company ultimately to digitally replace the seven with the computer-generated dwarfs seen in the trailer — a costly and time-consuming endeavor.

That Park Place reported that Disney's efforts to spare "Snow White" from the fate of its other box-office bombs required extensive reshoots, which one anonymous source indicated costed more than $30 million to execute.

Disney had on set not only a dwarf problem but a Zegler problem.

Zegler, who some critics suggested was an odd casting choice to play the "fairest of them all," stressed from the start that the remake would be politically correct, telling Vanity Fair in October 2022, "People are making these jokes about ours being the PC Snow White, where it's like, yeah, it is — because it needed that. It's an 85-year-old cartoon, and our version is a refreshing story about a young woman who has a function beyond 'Someday My Prince Will Come.'"

In another interview, Zegler emphasized her disdain for the original's straight love story, noting, "We have a different approach to what I'm sure a lot of people will assume is a love story just because we like cast a guy in the movie."

Zegler's repeated characterization of the film as a woke remake drove various critics and potential viewers to swear off watching the film.

Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!