To be clear: I think the kind of remake Disney are attempting here is almost certainly a bad idea, and yes, some films (Vertigo included) should be considered sacred texts and never remade. Should Snow White be considered a sacred text? Well, it depends on the kind of remake you are talking about. A because-we-can live action version of the 1937 film (as this seems to be judging by Snow White's costume) seems like a really bad idea, and in that respect, the 1937 film ought to be considered sacred. It is inevitable that this film will invite unfavourable comparison, regardless of how much they are politically correcting it (if that's what they are doing). Or course, as I'm at pains to point out in this article, we won't know for sure until we see it, and in the meantime, the vicious online attacks on Rachel Zegler should stop and everyone in general needs to calm down.

On the other hand, a fairy tale like Snow White is timeless enough to warrant further versions that are radical departures from the Disney animated take, perhaps even going back to the source material for a genuinely faithful adaptation (I'd certainly love to see that). To my mind, there is only one reason to remake anything: To either improve on the original (impossible in this case) or to do something radically different for good artistic reasons that stands alone in its own right. Del Toro's Pinocchio is an example, as I mentioned in the article.