4 Christian reactions to Disney's 'Snow White' remake
1. Greg Laurie
Disney’s live-action remake of Snow White “lost the point” of the original 1937 animated film, said Pastor Greg Laurie in a review he published last week of the entertainment company’s latest project.
Laurie, who serves as senior pastor of the multi-site Harvest Christian Fellowship based in Riverside, California, called himself a “lifelong Disney fan,” and praised Walt Disney’s original vision, which involved creating stories that “celebrate family, virtue and faith.”
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The Evangelical leader noted that the original 1937 film adaptation is based on a fairy tale that serves as a “moral fable,” and the story contains allusions to the Bible.
"It's a story about good versus evil written by the Grimm Brothers, a tale about a vain queen so obsessed with her own beauty and status she's willing to murder an innocent girl just to remain the fairest in the land," Laurie said.
"Sound familiar? That's basically the story that we read about in the Bible, about Lucifer, a once high-ranking, powerful angel who wanted to take the place of God with himself. The problem with Lucifer is he was in love with his own image. He wanted to be in the place of God."
At the end of the original story, Laurie noted that evil is defeated and Snow White being "resurrected from her death-like sleep, saved by the prince" is one of the story’s many biblical parallels.
"The original Snow White carried the message that one day the prince would come, the true prince, the one who raises the dead and defeats evil once and for all," he added.
The pastor also highlighted the song Snow White sings in the original film, “Some Day My Prince Will Come,” which Laurie suggested is “not all that different from a Christian worldview.”
In the 2025 remake of the animated movie, Disney chose not to include the song. "Instead, she's got a new song, ‘Waiting on a Wish’ — a song about, you guessed it, female empowerment and self-sufficiency, because, Heaven forbid, we acknowledge the timeless human desire for love, redemption and rescue," Laurie said.
Laurie expressed hope that Disney can “find its way back,” asserting that the best way to accomplish this is to return to the original vision of its founder.
Samantha Kamman is a reporter for The Christian Post. She can be reached at: samantha.kamman@christianpost.com. Follow her on Twitter: @Samantha_Kamman
