{"id":43486,"date":"2025-03-27T13:54:48","date_gmt":"2025-03-27T17:54:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/?p=43486"},"modified":"2025-03-27T13:54:48","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T17:54:48","slug":"greg-laurie-says-snow-white-remake-lacks-the-gospel-message-of-the-original","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2025\/03\/greg-laurie-says-snow-white-remake-lacks-the-gospel-message-of-the-original.html","title":{"rendered":"Greg Laurie Says Snow White Remake Lacks the Gospel Message of the Original"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>
Disney | Inset: @greglaurie \/ X<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Disney\u2019s live-action remake of Snow White <\/em>is finally out in theaters after much controversy and anticipation. Audiences are having a lot of thoughts, with the film, which reportedly cost over $200 million to make, has already had a tepid start, with a lower-than-expected opening weekend and many decrying it as \u201cwoke\u201d or a \u201cmess.\u201d One figure offering his thoughts on the film is pastor Greg Laurie, who wrote on his blog that the film is missing the message of the original.<\/p>\n

After addressing the controversy of the film\u2019s star, Rachel Zegler, mocking the 1937 original version, he said Zegler missed the point. \u201cApparently, Zegler missed the entire point of this fairy tale. Snow White<\/em>\u00a0is a moral fable. It is a story about good and evil, a tale about a vain queen so obsessed with her own beauty and status that she is willing to murder an innocent young girl just to remain the \u2018fairest in the land,\u2019\u201d he wrote<\/a>. The film has faced criticism for replacing the character of the prince with a thief and focusing more on Snow White\u2019s desire to be a ruler than her quest for true love. \u201c[Zegler] refused to sing \u2018Someday My Prince Will Come,\u2019 the signature song of the classic film, dismissing it as \u2018weird.\u2019 Instead, she has a new song: \u2018Waiting on a Wish,\u2019 a song about female empowerment and self-sufficiency. Because, dare we acknowledge the timeless human desire for love, redemption, and rescue?\u201d asked Laurie.<\/p>\n

He then connected the story of Snow White to the Bible. \u201cThe story told in Snow White is basically the story we read in the Bible about Lucifer, a once high-ranking powerful angel who wanted to take the place of God. Like the evil queen, Lucifer\u2019s problem was that he was in love with his own image. He wanted to be in the place of God,\u201d wrote Laurie. \u201cSnow White ends with evil defeated, the queen and all of her vanity defeated, and Snow White resurrected from her death-like sleep, saved by her prince. She sings \u2018Someday My Prince Will Come,\u2019 which is not all that different from a Christian worldview.\u201d However, as a self-described Disney fan, Laurie stated that he hoped the company can find its way back to its roots.<\/p>\n

Snow White <\/em>is just one of the recently remade beloved classics that has sought to incorporate modern concepts rather than the messaging of the original. The film Lightyear<\/em> sought to capture audiences who loved the character from the colossally successful Toy Story <\/em>franchise. Yet that film flopped at the box office, with many citing a modern LGBTQ storyline being added. Laurie, however, offered a solution to Disney\u2019s struggles. \u201cThe best thing Disney can do is return to the roots of its founder, to the stories that celebrate family, virtue, and faith.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Disney\u2019s live-action remake of Snow White is finally out in theaters after much controversy and anticipation. Audiences are having a lot of thoughts, with the film, which reportedly cost over $200 million to make, has already had a tepid start, with a lower-than-expected opening weekend and many decrying it as \u201cwoke\u201d or a \u201cmess.\u201d One…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":462,"featured_media":43420,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fbia_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-television"],"yoast_head":"\nGreg Laurie Says Snow White Remake Lacks the Gospel Message of the Original<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Pastor Greg Laurie critiques Disney\u2019s Snow White remake, calling it a \u201cwoke\u201d departure from the original\u2019s moral and biblical themes.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2025\/03\/greg-laurie-says-snow-white-remake-lacks-the-gospel-message-of-the-original.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Greg Laurie Says Snow White Remake Lacks the Gospel Message of the Original\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Pastor Greg Laurie critiques Disney\u2019s Snow White remake, calling it a \u201cwoke\u201d departure from the original\u2019s moral and biblical themes.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2025\/03\/greg-laurie-says-snow-white-remake-lacks-the-gospel-message-of-the-original.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Idol Chatter\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-03-27T17:54:48+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/87\/2025\/03\/Snow-White_credit-Disney-Inset-greglaurie.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"900\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Cecilia Buchanan\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Greg Laurie Says Snow White Remake Lacks the Gospel Message of the Original","description":"Pastor Greg Laurie critiques Disney\u2019s Snow White remake, calling it a \u201cwoke\u201d departure from the original\u2019s moral and biblical themes.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2025\/03\/greg-laurie-says-snow-white-remake-lacks-the-gospel-message-of-the-original.html","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Greg Laurie Says Snow White Remake Lacks the Gospel Message of the Original","og_description":"Pastor Greg Laurie critiques Disney\u2019s Snow White remake, calling it a \u201cwoke\u201d departure from the original\u2019s moral and biblical themes.","og_url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2025\/03\/greg-laurie-says-snow-white-remake-lacks-the-gospel-message-of-the-original.html","og_site_name":"Idol Chatter","article_published_time":"2025-03-27T17:54:48+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1200,"height":900,"url":"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/87\/2025\/03\/Snow-White_credit-Disney-Inset-greglaurie.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Cecilia Buchanan","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2025\/03\/greg-laurie-says-snow-white-remake-lacks-the-gospel-message-of-the-original.html","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2025\/03\/greg-laurie-says-snow-white-remake-lacks-the-gospel-message-of-the-original.html","name":"Greg Laurie Says Snow White Remake Lacks the Gospel Message of the Original","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2025\/03\/greg-laurie-says-snow-white-remake-lacks-the-gospel-message-of-the-original.html#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2025\/03\/greg-laurie-says-snow-white-remake-lacks-the-gospel-message-of-the-original.html#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/87\/2025\/03\/Snow-White_credit-Disney-Inset-greglaurie.jpg","datePublished":"2025-03-27T17:54:48+00:00","dateModified":"2025-03-27T17:54:48+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/#\/schema\/person\/aea408b5be59bf6e05556b03859b6b79"},"description":"Pastor Greg Laurie critiques Disney\u2019s Snow White remake, calling it a \u201cwoke\u201d departure from the original\u2019s moral and biblical themes.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2025\/03\/greg-laurie-says-snow-white-remake-lacks-the-gospel-message-of-the-original.html#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2025\/03\/greg-laurie-says-snow-white-remake-lacks-the-gospel-message-of-the-original.html"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2025\/03\/greg-laurie-says-snow-white-remake-lacks-the-gospel-message-of-the-original.html#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/87\/2025\/03\/Snow-White_credit-Disney-Inset-greglaurie.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/87\/2025\/03\/Snow-White_credit-Disney-Inset-greglaurie.jpg","width":1200,"height":900,"caption":"Disney | Inset: @greglaurie \/ X"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2025\/03\/greg-laurie-says-snow-white-remake-lacks-the-gospel-message-of-the-original.html#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Greg Laurie Says Snow White Remake Lacks the Gospel Message of the Original"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/","name":"Idol Chatter","description":"Beliefnet Entertainment blog, TV blog, Movie blog, Religion in entertainment blog","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/#\/schema\/person\/aea408b5be59bf6e05556b03859b6b79","name":"Beliefnet Staff","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/wp-content\/wphb-cache\/gravatar\/6f7\/6f77b66a3e683e8aeba5be93e4ae3e04x96.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/wp-content\/wphb-cache\/gravatar\/6f7\/6f77b66a3e683e8aeba5be93e4ae3e04x96.jpg","caption":"Beliefnet Staff"},"url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/author\/skirk"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/462"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43486"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43489,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43486\/revisions\/43489"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}