The live-action remake of the studio’s beloved classic managed to hit every possible cultural land mine on its journey to theaters

Given the rapacious rate of remakes in modern Hollywood, it’s remarkable that it’s taken nearly 90 years for Disney to return to “Snow White.” It means going back to the very foundation of the Mouse House. The 1937 “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” was Disney’s first animated feature; its grosses paid for the studio’s Burbank lot.

The tale tells a story of a fair-skinned princess named Snow White. After the princess’s mother died, her father remarried. The wicked stepmother, obsessed with being the fairest of all, often consulted her magic mirror.