There's actually so much plot in the new Snow White compared to the animated film it's based on that it would take all day to detail every little thing. The major iconography we know from Disney's OG Snow White is all there. The queen? Evil. The apple? Poisoned. The mirror? On the wall. The dwarves? Seven. But the new film fleshes out other elements to tell a story about hope, justice, and standing up for peace.

Here are the main differences between the 1937 golden era Disney classic Snow White and the Seven Dwarves and the live-action Snow White starring Rachel Zegler, Gal Gadot, and Andrew Burnap.

Snow White's name (and other things) get different *lore*

The Brother's Grimm version of Snow White begins with Snow White's mother wishing to have a baby with skin as white as snow, lips as red as blood, and hair as black as ebony. (Not all translations specify those body parts, to be fair.) The 1937 animated movie actually does not include this tidbit at all. The magic mirror just kind of describes a girl with those attributes to the Evil Queen who, thanks to the power of context clues, figures out that the mirror is talking about Snow White.

In the live-action Snow White, however, the princess is born during a snow storm and her parents give her that name because of those special circumstances. This is not uncommon. ABC's Once Upon a Time gave their Snow a similar origin story. There's also a little more about how Snow White's parents raised her to be a fair ruler in a land where the people provide for each other. And there's intrigue about what really happened after the King got remarried to the Evil Queen.

There are a *lot* of new songs & a lot of your faves got cut.

Benji Pasek and Justin Paul, the composing duo behind Dear Evan Hansen, The Greatest Showman, and the lyrics for La La Land, collaborated with Jack Feldman and Lizzy McAlpine to write about five new songs for this film–making it more of a Pasek and Paul musical than a remake of the original. These songs include one that introduces Snow White's parents and the villagers, an "I Want" song for Snow White, two duets for Snow White and her love interest Jonathan, and a campy vampy villain song for the Evil Queen.

Fans of the original soundtrack will only recognize "Whistle While You Work," "Heigh-Ho," and "The Silly Song" from Snow White and the Seven Dwarves. "I'm Wishing," a duet that Snow White sings with her own echo in a well, Prince Charming's love ballad "One Song," Snow White's "With a Smile and a Song" and the iconic "One Day My Prince Will Come" do not appear in this film.

There are also a *lot* of new characters.

Every character, except for Prince Charming, from the original movie is in the live-action version. The queen, huntsman, mirror, dwarves, and Snow White herself are all there. But the live-action version adds some more characters, including Snow White's parents, a group of bandits, and some more of the Queen's guards. One of the bandits, Quigg, is played by an actual little person named George Appleby. This distinguishes the seven dwarves as a magical race not found in our world instead of, like, the film's representation of what it thinks little people look and act like.

Dopey gets a voice!

Snow White bonds with Dopey, who is initially nonverbal, and encouraging him to express himself in other ways. That's how and why she sings "Whistle While You Work" and delegates chores to the dwarves themselves, instead of woodland creatures. This change of context for the happy tune is additionally a nice, subtly feminist note that this Snow White teaches the messy men she lives with how to clean up after themselves rather than offer to cook and clean.

Snow White's love interest got a personality upgrade.

Instead of Prince Charming, Snow falls (no pun intended) for a bandit named Jonathan. He's not not charming. But he's also rebellious and snarky. He wears a hoodie, even to their eventual wedding. When they meet, Jonathan is a pessimistic thief and Snow is a passive captive. He's pretty much lost his faith in leadership. Their flirtation is a little like the dynamic that Anna and Kristoff have in Frozen. But while there is attraction at first sight, it takes time and banter to turn that attraction into true love.

This is very different from the Prince in the animated movie, who overhears Snow White singing into a wishing well, sneaks up on her in a way she initially does not like, sings a love song, and then disappears until the news gets out that Snow White is dead. He rides off to smooch her corpse, not knowing it will lead to happily ever after. To give him the slight benefit of the doubt, Snow singing "Some Day My Prince Will Come" implies that he still managed to make a good impression. Even still, the relationship is not really developed. Animated Snow's attempts to win Grumpy's affection are more layered than her relationship with the prince!

In the animated movie, the Magic Mirror first declares Snow White to be the fairest of them all after the Prince sees her and starts belting. In the live-action, this happens after Snow White sets Jonathan free and gives him bread. It's still romantic, but more about how good she is than just how pretty she is. Another thing the live-action movie does to soften the more misogynistic elements of the animated classic is to include a lyric where Jonathan and Snow promise to wake each other with a kiss. That way, when he breaks the spell with "true love's kiss" later on he at least has something that resembles consent. I'm genuinely so proud of them for that. The last thing we need is to encourage a new generation of boys to kiss unconscious girls without at least having a conversation about it first.

The Evil Queen's defeat is very, very different.

In Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, Snow White is barely involved in what happens to the Evil Queen. The dwarves chase the wicked woman off of a cliff and come home to find Snow White dead. After Prince Charming wakes Snow White up with true love's kiss, they ride off together to his castle. That's it. Roll credits. They're not bothered. In this version of Snow White, however, the bandits and the dwarves join Snow and together they banish the Evil Queen and reclaim her castle.

The EQ refuses to leave, tries to destroy the mirror, and then bursts into millions of pieces. The movie ends with peace and joy throughout the land and Snow and Jonathan's wedding reception. The updated plot is definitely not against romance in any way. This happy ending just allows its heroine to get back what she lost in addition to a new beginning with her handsome bandit and seven new best friends.