Semi related: A great YouTube video by Lindsay Ellis about how Disney has further changed aspects of their stories between Disney originals and the live action / CGI remakes / modern sequels, largely in the form of the remakes being woke meta-commentary on the original works:
The woke Disney remakes have all been worse than their previous counterparts. The pseudo-empowerment of Jasmin in the live action Alladin was particularly egregious. She is a strong character in the original with nuance and agency. In the remake she sings a song about female empowerment where she tells everyone off, but it turns out to be a dream sequence. Sigh.
Having said all that, the live action Cinderella remake was really something special. I can’t recommend it enough. After seeing it, I great hopes for the rest. I’ve since been disappointed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xU1ffHa47YY
Topics it covers include:
• Dumbo and the attempts to paper over ideas of racism, alcoholism, animal cruelty;
• Beauty and the Beast and feminism/female empowerment;
• Aladdin adding redundant ideas of female empowerment (that the original arguably didn't lack);
• Mary Poppins being a story about not caring about material possessions to the 2018 sequel being centred around concern for material possessions.