We are in a creative era when villains are usually misunderstood. The Success in the box office of adaptation of universal images of "wicked" He just cemented the obvious: the bad guys we know are not really so bad if we get to know them. The wicked witch in the West, one of the most iconic villains in the history of the cinema, is thoroughly and in accordance with Elfaba, an intelligent and moral young woman who rebels against an artist who is called a wizard and demonizes her people to ensure that they will remain true.

But the "wicked" is far from the only work of modern pop culture trying to rethink the quintessential bad. It may be appropriate that many of the latest examples come from Walt Disney company, which is first established as a place where they can be told and told classic stories of good and evil on the big screen. Movies such as "Maleficent" and "Cruella" are not only named after memorable villains; They are also trying to get viewers to think about characters who, accordingly, curse babies to death and try to kill dogs to make a beautiful fur coat.

In fact, just as the whole company was, as Walt Disney wanted to say, started with a mouse, Disney's characteristic film started with a Princess named Snow White. In the animated feature in 1937 "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs". The eponymous heroine is terrorized outside the gate of the wicked queen so frightening and unpleasant that it does not even get the pleasure of having her own name. If her title was not enough for a term, within minutes of the initial time of the film, the wicked queen not only persecuted Snow White to be a servant, but she was so overwhelmed by an albemorrhe that she was no longer the most difficult in the country that she ordered to kill Snowy.

Hence, when Disney announced that "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" as a live film/CGI, titled "Snow White", it was easy to wonder if the new interpretation of the wicked queen would be softer, kindness or just more complex. Now that the movie arrived (You can check the movie review here), that's the case of good news and bad news. The good news? This wicked queen, as shown by the Gal Gadd, is just as wicked as it was before. Bad news? The play of the nastle is absolutely terrible.

Talking about why the performance of the bastard fails so extremely, it is important to be clear about what she is trying to do and how that attempt can be successful without working. As stated above, this wicked queen is not given an additional dimension or depth in the Snow White script that is credited to Erin Cresida Wilson; That is, honestly, a good thing. Among Disney's villagers, the wicked queen may not be the worst, everyone said. (Again, cruella de Will tried to kill 100 dogs to make a coat. It could be a little worse, no?) But she's also definitely one -dimensional in the best way. As shown in "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" and director Mark Webb's remake, the wicked queen is as beautiful as it is in vain - someone so obsessed with her appearance that she has a magical mirror whose sole purpose is to confirm her on her own.

"Snow White" expands the story of the animated original as a whole, but still only skims the surface of what happens to the wicked queen. From this new film, we learn that she arrived in the nameless kingdom after her king lost her queen of illness and that she charmed her to be in it. Of course, as soon as that happens, the true colors of the woman appear; She sends the king to his death so that he can control the country, essentially persuading his residents to lower their agricultural tools in favor of the soldier's weapons. But as we see new evidence of the magic of the Queen, there are only so many details given (many of them are visually shown than explaining through dialogue or narration). And the wide strokes of what makes Snow White's wicked queen remain the same in the remake as they are in the original film: she sends hunters to kill our heroine, anger when she realizes that Huntsman let her go, and then turns into an old woman with a poisonous woman.

So, on paper, the way the wicked queen is revived in live-action "Snow White" makes sense and feels true to the spirit of the animated original. It is true that there are many differences in this new film, but those changes (some of which are more reasonable than others) are largely designed to ensure that Snow White is a character with an agency instead of a helpless stain in trouble. The most important and obvious change for the wicked queen this time is that she gets her own song, titled "Everything is Fair". Hearing the huntinger, after she realized that he did not kill Snow White as ordered, the wicked queen aims to use the awkward, unpleasant flambound in the string, filled with a set of female dancers who fit around her as she reminds Huntsman, (The political context of this film is, uh, is not terribly subtle.)

It's not only that Snow White accidentally arrives in cinemas for nearly five years until the day Gaal Gad and some of her famous friends sang "Imagine" the world through a video on Instagram (a soft clip that was immediately ridiculed from the world). That's it, although the nurse turns to the fences with her performance both in and out of her great musical number, she is unpleasant and unstable. The choreography in the scene "Everything is Fair" is just as glossy as it is stunned, just one step or two removed from someone who makes a robotic set of dance moves in the 80s, while singing about how wicked they are.

Now, Disney has a long history of burning animated bad, especially in the modern era (Think Ursula in the "Little Mermaid" or scar in the "lion king"). Unfortunately, many of those villains have since unsuccessfully imagined in the Remeans live in the studio. It is just as much to do with actors who are not in question, to really embody these characters, as with our expectations of which those antagonists should be and, more often, because the scripts of these films fail to follow their actors so spectacular. Here, although Wilson's script is not very sparkling, the problem is primarily Gado. Where she needs to feel slimy and nasty, she instead makes a failed camp attempt, stumbling over the dialogue lines that had to be clarified how unusual the Queen was.

Just as the wicked queen looks properly terrible and wicked within the Snow White script, Disney makes sense in theory, which casts Gal Gadd. She is a well -known actor who is not too removed from the adoption of Wonder Woman, one of the most iconic comics of superheroes of all time, to life. (While "a miracle of 2017 miracle" feels like it has arrived before five life times, the nurse is undeniable in that first film.) But it is also not difficult to consider other actors at the age of 40 - the bastard hit that milestone at the end of April - and imagine them in the characteristic wicked.

What did Snow White look like the same script and music, if Rachel Zagler like Snow White was forced to face, say, Scarlett Johansson as a wicked queen? Or Aubrey Plaza? Or Keira Knightley? All those actors, aside from being similarly glittered and used to work with the company Walt Disney, would feel properly frightening as the villain of the film, and may have brought sequences such as "everything is a fair" number in life and energy. (It is worth noting, by the way, that the words of verses of "everything are fair" do not make nasty.

Every Disney Classic remake faces a huge mountain of creative challenge, especially the one that arrives after a long line of other frustrating examples. Many of the other recent Disney remake or have tried to softly soften their bad guys - think like Luke Evans like Gaston in "Beauty and Be -Tver" for 2017 " It is only a touch of less misogynistic and unobtrusive than the animated version - or it simply cannot help, but we do not break their display. Think of flat visual and uninspired vocal performances from otherwise-noticeable Livel Egianofor as a scar in Jonon Favre's lion king, or Melissa McCarthy as Ursula in the "Little Mermaid" or Aladdin's 2019 version, And so on and so on.

However, even these plays were forgotten bad for one reason or another. Gal Gadd, as a wicked queen in "Snow White", on the other hand, is clumsy and even encouraged to see. It is a kind of performance that will live in memories of people for all the wrong reasons.

Snow White is currently playing in the theaters.