Talk:Snow White/@comment-5904919-20130823190448/@comment-1672596-20140925012242

"I was okay watching at as a kid. Kids are okay watching it now. Disney is probably the most sensitive way for kids to learn the world is an evil place full of people who want to cause serious harm, but there is always love and hope."

Yeah, I wasn't particularly disturbed as a kid, and I definitely doubt Snow White, a film watched by many families to this day, would have given people nightmares.

Which actually reminds me: this makes Jeffrey Katzenberg's reason for scrapping the 1989 draft for Disney's Beauty and the Beast and rewriting it much more nonsensical (especially considering that, in spite of it being lighthearted, it came across as being extremely cynical at far too many points, the Gaston reprise being a particularly notable example, as was Belle basically backstabbing the Beast to save her father, heck, even some of Belle's behavior in the film. It even cheapened the whole true beauty comes from within moral, especially when the triplets, her foils or at least the closest thing to them, came across as more pure of heart in their behavior than Belle did despite crushing on Gaston [and while Belle did technically betray Beast in the original tale, it was more she lost track of time due to her wicked sisters trying to make her a meal for the Beast literally, instead of, you know, basically selling him and his servants down the river to a bloodthirsty mob in an extremely stupid manner]), since honestly, at least from what I could tell from my research on it, it wasn't anymore dark than Snow White and Cinderella were (heck, if anything, Snow White certainly was much darker than that draft), certainly not dark enough to be considered "too dark and dramatic." Not to mention I'd argue that it was actually Beauty and the Beast, not The Little Mermaid, that started the whole thing about not adapting fairytales even remotely closely (Even with the end change of The Little Mermaid and making Ursula the main villain, most of the film was otherwise kept true to the book), especially when the draft actually was far closer to the original book than the final version.