Like its live-action predecessors, Snow White is unable to take advantage of her changes when other re-interpretations of Grimm's famous fairy tale, like Mirror Mirror or Snow White and the Huntsman, have covered White's growing ascendancy and independence with more assertiveness and courage than what the Disney remake can muster.

While Disney's live-action Snow White remake sticks pretty closely to the animated original, it also features five particularly big alterations.

Screenwriter Erin Cressida Wilson had an unenviable task ahead of her when she signed on to adapt 1937's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs into a live-action re-imaging that'd appeal to contemporary audiences.