Kulturkampf

[PhoenixDark]

in fact exactly the way you mentioned...tangled and frozen are not the original stories' names, they aren't pretending to be the exact same story

if they wanted to, they could've called snow white a number of other things...but then thinking on that, I don't even know why you'd want to retell snow white, because it's kind of a very shitty story

"envious queen wants girl dead" as a baseline could lead to awesome stories but there's basically nothing worthwhile going on with the 7 weirdos she takes refuge with

Perfect example of why they're struggling. 1:1 re-creations of animated films aren't working yet they keep doing it for the potential of backend $$$. You'd think the massive success of Frozen would have been an obvious sign that creating new classics (inspired by older stories) was the way to go. Maybe not Snow White exactly but...what if you mixed Snow White with Gulliver's Travels. Instead of dwarves, it's about her stumbling into some magical land where she's taller than everyone, and she gets put to sleep by the queen after trying to help the small people with [insert heroic thing]. Instead of falling in love with a prince, what if you make the prince a chauvinist brat whose squire is a humble guy who ends up being a hero. Like...you can do this all types of ways without offending dwarves or making Snow White completely helpless.

Of course it's hard to think imaginatively if you're stuck in the quagmire of (adult) modern thinking, which usually just boils down to "what if the girl does the thing that the boy does instead," among other things.