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Literature / Snow White

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Once upon a time, a little girl was born that was exceptionally beautiful. Due to jealousy, a wicked witch wanted her dead. She ended up being raised in fosterage in the forest by magical dwarfs, but eventually the queen found a way to poison her and put her in a coma resistant to aging. Eventually, Prince Charming showed up, kissed the girl and woke her up, and slew the evil witch.

But then, this article isn’t about «Sleeping Beauty».

A queen wishes for a child with lips as red as blood, hair as black as ebony, and skin as white as snow. She gets her wish and names the child Snow White, but promptly dies and is replaced by a Wicked Stepmother who prides herself on her great beauty. Every day the stepmother asks her magic mirror:

And every day the mirror assures the queen that she was the most beautiful.

Snow White is a beautiful child, however, and when she turns seven, the mirror replies that she, and not the queen, is the fairest. The queen isn’t having any of that, so she orders her faithful huntsman to cut out Snow White’s heart and give it to her to eat. The huntsman has some trouble with this, so he lets Snow White go and gives the queen the heart of a boar instead.

After some time wandering in the woods, Snow White falls in with a bunch of dwarfs, who let her stay with them in exchange for doing the housework. The mirror tips the queen off to Snow White’s continued existence, however, so she disguises herself as a peddler and makes three assassination attempts; firstly by pulling Snow White’s corset-laces too tight, secondly by selling her a poisoned comb, and thirdly with a poisoned apple. After each attempt, the dwarfs come home to find Snow White unconscious. While they succeed in reviving her the first two times, the third has more sticking power, and they have to admit that she’s dead for good.

She is too beautiful for them to bury her in good conscience, though, so they build a glass coffin and take turns keeping guard. Fortunately for everyone involved, she does not decay, but remains so fresh and beautiful that a passing prince just has to have her. The dwarfs are reluctant at first, but eventually let him take the glass coffin. Thanks to a clumsy servant, the coffin is jolted, dislodging the piece of apple and reviving Snow White. Apparently the prince likes her almost as much when she’s awake, and they marry. Hopefully, she’s a bit older than seven by now, but you never know.

The evil queen comes to their wedding and is forced to dance to death in red-hot iron shoes. Everyone else lives Happily Ever After.

«Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs» is one of the best known of the Grimms’ stories, although it existed in numerous countries before being compiled into their Children’s and Household Tales. It was one of the early victims of their bowdlerising edits; they changed the antagonist from Snow White’s biological mother to a Wicked Stepmother.

Because of Snow White’s unusual appearance and the disturbing psychological issues in the story, «Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs» is frequently subject to Grimmification or Darker and Edgier treatment. One such example is a 1997 horror version with Sigourney Weaver as the queen. There’s also a 2001 version subtitled Fairest of Them All with Miranda Richardson as the queen and Kristin Kreuk as Snow White, and rainbow dwarves, named after the days of the week. Finally, let’s not forget Neil Gaiman’s short story «Snow, Glass, Apples«, where we have a perspective flip that takes some of the more eerie parts of the story, and makes them much much worse.

By far the most well-known adaptation of this story is Disney’s first full-length animated feature, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.

Other adaptations have varied from Snow White and the Three Stooges to Prétear, which rewrites it as a Magical Girl Warrior show, the very loose Betty Boop adaptation entitled only as Snow White (1933) and then there’s Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarfs, which would be a side-splitter had not excessive Uncle Tomfoolery ruined it. It was also one of the tales adapted in Grimm’s Fairy Tale Classics.

In recent years, more Action Girl-style portrayals of Snow White have come to the fore. Sword and Sorceress XXVII‘s introduction contrasted Snow White’s portrayal in the Grimm and Disney versions with that of modern versions like Snow White and the Huntsman, Mirror, Mirror, and Once Upon a Time. Anthology editor Elizabeth Waters says:

Note that this specifically refers to the Brothers Grimm version and adaptations thereof, rather than any of the other fairytales of Aarne-Thompson type #709, «Snow White» (such as «Gold-Tree and Silver-Tree,» in which the Snow White character is married off by her father to get her away from her insane mother, or the memorable version in which Snow White stays with FORTY DRAGONS.)

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Western Animation / Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

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Walt Disney made «Snow White» into an animated movie in 1937, the first full-length animated feature film in the English-speaking world («English-speaking» being an important disclaimer, though it was at least definitely the first cel-animated one) and the first entry in the Disney Animated Canon. Using a number of new technologies and animation techniques, the film set high standards for future projects and can be considered a defining moment in animation history. Disney adapted the Grimms’ story fairly closely, but allowed Snow White and her prince to meet earlier in the story (removing some of the Squick), and made the dwarfs into individual characters. He condensed the three assassination attempts into one and gave the queen a much more family-friendly Disney Villain Death (though, all things considered, it’s arguably more violent than the original one.)

Part of the reason Snow White was made was for the purpose of economics — despite the ambitious art and extreme popularity of the Mickey Mouse and Silly Symphonies shorts, Walt came to realize that no matter how successful his shorts were, they only earned a fixed revenue from their screenings, regardless of their popularity. Realizing that venturing out into making a feature-length animated film could not only net him more profit in the long run, but also progress the medium of animation as an art form, he began work on his daring project. Around four years were spent by Disney trying to get this mammoth project off the ground — first, there was the obsessive attention to story — Walt had the savvy to realize that a feature that played out like a traditional short cartoon comedy would never work, resulting in focus on the characters’ personalities, their interactions, as well as their development in the context of the tale. The most prominent example of this character development would be the character of Grumpy, arguably the most important character in the film aside from Snow White herself.

Another obstacle was getting the animation to be on par with a live-action film — even the best Silly Symphonies and Mickey Mouse cartoons during the early 1930s were still rigid and crude in their motion. As a result, life-drawing classes and frame-by-frame studying of live-action film took place, in an ambitious attempt to get the most life-like animation possible. The Silly Symphonies began to be used as testing grounds for the work that would go into Snow White — from advancements in story and character animation, to major special effects discoveries. The studio also had to expand considerably to complete the film — from a measly few hundred to nearly 1000 staffers by the film’s completion. At one point, Walt almost ran out of money during production, and was lucky enough to receive a bank loan by showing what footage had already been finished. During production, the film was derided by critics, as well as Walt’s own wife, as «Disney’s Folly», the notion that Walt had gone over his head with this project. But upon debut, Snow White was a smash hit — at the time, it was the highest grossing film of all time, and was universally praised by critics, setting the stage for the future Disney films to come, and proving that animation could compete with live-action films.

As for the plot, we’re not even going to bother summarizing it, since everybody knows about this film and its story by now. (Well, we did anyway)

Filmation made an unofficial sequel called Happily Ever After. Unsurprisingly, Disney took offence and sued Filmation, demanding that the film should not bear any similarities to the 1937 film.

The Snow White character herself eventually appeared in the Kingdom Hearts series as a Princess of Heart, one of seven iconic Disney heroines with a pure heart free of darkness. A version of the film’s setting and plot would later appear in 2010’s Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep as the Dwarf Woodlands, with some changes to fit the series, such as the original character Terra standing in for the huntsman. The Disney Press Perspective Flip novel series A Tale of. , meanwhile, gives the Queen a backstory in Fairest of All.

The film contains examples of:

• ’20s Bob Haircut: While set in the distant past, Snow White’s hairdo reflects the era her film was released, as exemplified by the likes of Loretta Young and Vivien Leigh.
• Accidental Art: Dopey gets an awesome drum solo during the Silly Song. He was trying to smash a fly with drumsticks at the time.
• Accidental Truth: The Evil Queen, under disguise as an old apple peddler, convinces Snow White that the poisoned apple is a «wishing apple». The princess buys into the hag’s deception, biting the apple after wishing for the prince to come to her, and is knocked out cold as a result. Turns out that the laced apple did lead her to the prince she so desired, but not in a way she expected.
• Actionized Adaptation: An action sequence of the dwarfs chasing down the wicked Queen after she poisoned Snow White wasn’t in the original tale.
• Adaptation Distillation: Sticks very close to the original story, but the things it cuts out (the two other ways Snow White was going to be murdered: by a poisoned comb and by being strangled from a tight corset) and things it adds in (personalities for the dwarfs) usually work to the story’s benefit. The other failed assassination attempts were going to be there, but were scrapped due to time and budget constraints. (It also makes Snow White look like less of an idiot if she only falls for one trick instead of three.)
• All-Natural Gem Polish: The dwarfs’ mine has a huge variety of gems that are all already perfectly cut. Doc’s evaluations aren’t even really about their carats, but whether they «sound» good via tapping them.
• All There in the Script:
  • The Queen’s real name, according to comic strips and old press material, is Queen Grimhilde.
  • The Huntsman’s name, Humbert, is also not given onscreen.
  • There is some uncertainty over the Prince’s real name: while it is commonly believed to be Ferdinand, Disney has never officially confirmed any name for the character; the Ferdinand myth came from a speech by Shirley Temple who thanked Walt Disney for creating characters «like Snow White, Ferdinand, the Dwarfs, Mickey. » during the 1938 Academy Awards. Temple was actually referring to Ferdinand the Bull. Expanded universe media refers to the Prince as Florian, however.
• Anti-Sneeze Finger: Given that Sneezy, as his name indicates, sneezes a lot, especially during inconvenient moments, the dwarfs put their fingers under his nose to stop the sneeze from happening. When Dopey stands on Sneezy’s shoulders for the dance with Snow White, Sneezy begins to sneeze right before they go out, and Dopey uses his foot to stop his sneeze, and it works. When Sneezy begins the sneeze interrupting the dance, Dopey tries the Anti-Sneeze Finger on himself. It doesn’t work. Sneezy himself provides the page image.
• Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: The titles of the books in the Evil Queen’s dungeon are as follows: Black Arts, Alchemy, Witch Craft, Black Magic, Disguises (which is used), Sorcery, Poisons, and Astrology.
• Art Shift: The book in the Bookends is filmed in live-action while most of the movie is hand-drawn.
• Ascended to a Higher Plane of Existence: One possible metaphor of the ending. When the prince kisses Snow White, wakes her and carries her off to his castle (as well as her saying goodbye to the Dwarfs), it could be interpreted as her actually dying and ascending to Heaven with an angel.
• Attack! Attack. Retreat! Retreat!: The Dwarfs angrily chase the Queen to the top of a cliff during the climax. The Queen then turns the tables and starts to dislodge a giant boulder, forcing them to evade, until the storm takes care of her a few seconds later.

• Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: Grumpy has been the most vocally opposed to Snow White saying, and to her trying to boss the others around. Then he tells her gruffly to not let any strangers into the house, and she thanks him for caring with a kiss. Despite himself, Grumpy realizes he liked the kiss and waves to her. Then when the dwarfs realize Snow White is in danger, Grumpy shouts, «The Queen will kill her! We’ve gotta save her!» and takes charge.
• Badass Adorable: Those little birds that famously accompany Snow White, to the point they often appear in parodies. They end up attacking the Evil Queen.
• Bat Scare: When Snow White runs through the woods she passes near a small cave where some bats dwell and she wakes them up, causing them to flee. She’s startled and scared by them.
• Beauty Equals Goodness: Technically played straight with Snow White, although Disney intentionally made her «cute» instead of ravishingly beautiful. Averted with the Queen, who is the second fairest in the land, and rotten to the core.
• Black-and-White Morality: Literally and figuratively, in that White is predominant among Good characters (right down to Prince Charming’s horse) while the Queen wears Black.

• Bookends: The movie opens with a shot of a book opening by itself to give out exposition and ends with the same book closing itself.
• Bootstrapped Theme: Ask anyone what song they associate with this movie and it’s either «Someday My Prince Will Come» or «Heigh-Ho» — the latter being the theme used during Disney advertisements of DVD and Blu-Ray releases. Either way, no one will think of the actual title theme — «One Song».
• Botanical Abomination: When a truly terrified Snow White escapes into the woods, the trees around her looks like horrible humanoid creatures with angry faces, clawed hands, and glaring evil eyes. Turns out it’s just her imagination running wild.
• Boulder Bludgeon: The dwarfs corner the evil Queen at the top of a cliff. Enraged, the Queen tries to dislodge a nearby boulder onto the dwarfs. It nearly works, until a bolt of lightning strikes the Queen from her perch to her death.
• Call-and-Response Song: «I’m Wishing,» between Snow White and her own echoing voice in the wishing well.
• Cape Swish: The Queen manages a particularly impressive one when rushing down from the Mirror Room to her secret spell-chamber.
• Circling Vultures: Two vultures follow the Queen in her Wicked Witch disguise, as she goes to the cottage to get Snow White, and their presence alerts the Woodland Creatures that there is something seriously wrong about the «peddler woman» with her basket of apples. In the end, the vultures were not after Snow White at all, but after the Queen, and as she falls to her doom, the vultures slowly circle down after her.
• Climbing Climax: The dwarfs and animals chase the transformed queen to the top of a cliff.
• Cool Crown: The Queen wears a crown with spikes evoking the rays of the sun.
• Dark Is Not Evil:
  • The Magic Mirror — he has a creepy face and a weird voice, but he’s not evil and he’s not a Queen’s henchman, he just does his job answering questions. In other Disney material later on, it was shown that the mirror was now owned by Walt Disney (or in one children’s book, by Snow White herself), and only used for good purposes.
  • The vultures that followed the Queen. They were initially presented as a sign that she’s Obviously Evil, and Snow White’s animal friends take it as such. In the end, it turns out that they were just looking for a meal .
  • Bats fly past Snow White during her escape in the forest. Though bats are dark-coloured and usually seen as scary, and on the surface the bats in this scene appear as frightening, they’re ironically just as scared as she is since she startled them by waking them up, and they don’t mean any harm to her.
• Darker and Edgier: This movie was Disney’s darkest work by far when it was created. It focused far more on drama than comedy, had quite a few legitimate scares, and its antagonist was a very evil, very dangerous character played completely seriously.
• Dark Reprise: When the Dwarfs learn from Snow White’s forest animals that the witch is preparing to give Snow White a poison apple. The Dwarfs alongside the forest animals rush as fast as they can to the Dwarfs cottage. During this sequence, a fast-paced and urgent variation of the «Heigh Ho» song is heard as the movie intercuts to Snow White seconds away from eating the apple as the witch gleefully watches on.
• The Darkness Gazes Back: During Snow White’s run in the forest, the animals’ eyes glow in the darkness. Because of Snow White’s fear and confusion, they look inhuman and demonic.
• Daylight Horror: When the Queen, transformed into an old hag, tricks Snow White to eat the poison apple and Snow White subsequently seemingly dies, it’s in broad daylight.
• Dead-Hand Shot: After Snow White eats the apple, we see her hand flopping to the floor to show that she’s unconscious. For added bonus she drops the apple she was holding.
• Death by Irony: Cornered on a cliff by the dwarfs, the Queen/Hag tries to knock a boulder loose and bellows «I’ll fix ya! I’LL CRUSH YOUR BONES!!» She cackles madly. when suddenly a bolt of lightning shatters the ledge she’s standing on, sending the wicked Queen falling into her doom, shortly followed by the boulder falling after her. Don’t even guess whose bones got crushed.
• Death Glare: When Snow is running through the forest, she hallucinates monsters in the trees glaring at her evilly. The Queen also shows one when talking to the Huntsman.
• Deranged Animation: The dark forest sequence — while a terrified Snow White flees through the woods, the wildlife seems to come to life to terrorize her. It ends with dozens of malicious-looking eyes glaring down at her from the darkness (though these turn out to be the friendly forest creatures.)
• Didn’t Think This Through: The hunter. Snow White staying would be sure death, but sending a young little girl with no hunting experience to the forest isn’t a good option either.
• Dinner Deformation: Dopey’s stomach gets a rectangular bulge after he accidentally swallowed a bar of soap.
• Disappeared Dad: Snow White’s father is not in her life. It can be assumed he died, seeing as her stepmother seemed to be running the kingdom.
• Discretion Shot: Snow White’s death, the pig’s heart, and the Queen getting pecked by vultures after falling off the cliff are all never shown directly.
• Disney Death: In one of the earliest examples, Snow White herself! Downplayed in that she’s technically in an enchanted death-like sleep, but most of the other characters believe she’s simply dead, and the time they spend mourning her makes it feel like she really is dead until the Prince wakes her up.
• Disneyfication: The first example, although not quite as much as later entries. The biggest change is the death of the Queen — who falls off a cliff while trying to kill the dwarfs instead of being forced by Snow and her prince to dance in red hot shoes at their wedding. The film also makes Snow a Friend to All Living Things with a beautiful singing voice.
• Disney Villain Death:
  • Replaced a Family-Unfriendly Death in the source material. The death is in some ways more extreme than the pre-Disney versions — it follows the Rule of Three! But it is only implied, not shown. And since it was nature killing the Queen, none of the good guys had to — which makes it more family-friendly that way. Quite fitting, considering she’s the first Disney Animated Canon villain.
  • Some comics subvert this; since the death is No One Could Survive That!, they show that she survived.
• Don’t Go in the Woods: Well, no, you can. Unless you usually jump at shadows or you’re scared enough to imagine things as hideous monsters, giant bats, log-alligators etc.
• Don’t Touch It, You Fools!:
  • It might be poison!! See?! It’s witch’s brew!
  • Grumpy has this reaction to the bar of soap.
• Dope Slap:
  • Doc gives one to (who else?) Dopey for goofing around while they’re working in the mine.
  • Also, Dopey thinks that The Queen has somehow hidden herself under Happy’s beard; Happy bops Dopey on the head for trying to investigate.
• Early Installment Weirdness:
  • Regarding the Storybook Opening, which shows the book closing to the back cover at the end. Later instances of this would have the book close back to its front cover instead.
  • There’s no narrator to read the book, which was changed for all future films presumably because the movie makers realized their target audience wasn’t good at reading.
  • As far as Disney Villain Deaths go, the Queen’s is a little different from later instances of the trope in that there’s no Plummet Perspective when she falls from the cliff. The camera remains focused on the ledge. Although, that was likely done so we’d see the boulder come tumbling after her.
  • As far as Disney’s other fairy tale adaptations go, this one has very little Adaptation Expansion. The only thing making this different from its literary counterpart is that the prince appears earlier, the Queen only disguises herself once and the dwarfs have more fleshed out personalities. Compare to Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella and the Renaissance films, which do considerably more in the adaptation.
  • Unshaved Mouse noted that the film was very much like a series of the Disney shorts edited together — notably the extended bits of Snow White exploring the house, Snow White and the animals cleaning the house, the dwarfs finding it clean and searching for the intruder, the whole scene and song with the dwarfs’ washing themselves, and the forest animals trying to warn everyone about the Queen. Starting with Pinocchio the Disney films became much more cinematic, with every scene written to advance the plot rather than as set-pieces showcasing comic gags.
• Empathic Environment: As soon as the Queen leaves the cottage after poisoning Snow White, it’s suddenly dark and stormy outside.
• Epic Fail: The Queen’s plan to kill Snow White and be the fairest one of all. Instead, she dies a horrible death as the ugliest person of all, and the «wishing apple» she gives Snow White really does end up granting Snow White’s wish.
• Even Evil Has Standards: While it’s not clear exactly how «evil» the hunter is, it is implied that he has killed people for the Queen before, or at least done dirty deeds. Doesn’t mean he has the stomach to brutally murder a young girl for no good reason.
• Everyone Calls Him «Barkeep»: The Queen, the Prince, and the Huntsman are only known by their titles.
• Everything Trying to Kill You: The dark forest sequence where seems like everything comes to life to catch Snow White.
• Evil Laugh: The Queen does several once in hag form.
• Evil Makes You Ugly: An interesting example. The Queen turns herself ugly so that she can better perform an evil deed.
• Evil Overlooker: Some posters and cover art since the 1993 reissue place the Queen on the top.
• Extremely Short Timespan: Everything except the very last scene takes place within two days.
• Extreme Omnivore: Dopey manages to swallow both a bar of soap and a spoon (in a deleted scene) with one gulp each. Granted, both times were by accident, and eating this kind of stuff often gives him the hiccups. The aforementioned deleted scene also has Dopey eventually regurgitating both of these.
• Fade Around the Eyes: In what may be the Ur-Example, the Evil Queen does this when she transforms herself into a witch. An unusual example in that by the time the screen fades to black, the eyes have almost completely faded away, but you can still see them for a second.
• Failed Attempt at Drama: Grumpy storming out and walking straight into a door.
• Foreshadowing: At one point Grumpy refers to the Queen as an «old witch». She later becomes a literal one.
• Fourth Wall Psych: There are several moments in her evil monologue about her plan to poison Snow White where the Queen as a hag seems to be addressing the audience directly, but camera cuts show she’s addressing her bird.
• Full-Name Basis: It’s not necessarily a full-name basis. Snow White is a translation of the German name Schneewittchen, which is one word. Germans love compound words.
• Funny Background Event: It’s tricky to spot and certainly unintentional, but when Snow White enters the dwarfs’ house for the first time, her forest friends creep in with her. The animators apparently forgot which animals they were drawing, because one rabbit hops behind another and comes out a squirrel.
• Good Princess, Evil Queen: The film is a straight adaptation of the fairytale, starring the good and innocent princess Snow White and her vain Wicked Stepmother Queen Grimhilde.
• Gonk: The Queen’s hag disguise is far more stylized and grotesque than her true appearance. The dwarves are also drawn like this but in a much cuter way.
• Grief Song: «Chorale For Snow White», which plays as the dwarfs grieve for the seemingly dead Snow White.
• Hallucinations: Snow White’s run in the forest where she imagines it’s inhabited by monstrous tree creatures.
• Happily Ever After: Snow White marries the prince, and the wicked queen dies as an ugly old crone.
• Have a Gay Old Time: Doc tries to say, «who are you and what are you doing?» and comes up with «what are you and who are you doing?»
• Hellish Pupils: The Queen in her hag form has a pair of green ones. Also the scary trees who scares Snow White (in her imagination).
• Herbivores Are Friendly: When Snow White gets lost in the woods, a bunch wild animals take sympathy on her and take it upon themselves to try to help her. Except for a couple of raccoons, nearly all of these are herbivores.
• Hiccup Hijinks: During the washing scene, Dopey is trying to get a bar of soap, but he ends up swallowing it by mistake, which causes him to continuously hiccup out bubbles.
• High Collar of Doom: The Queen wears a high white collar with her black robe.
• Hoist by Her Own Petard: Near the end the Evil Queen (in hag form) is trying to roll a boulder down on the dwarfs to crush them. After lightning destroys the cliff under her she falls and the boulder rolls down and crushes her offscreen.
• Hollywood Costuming: As a minimum, Snow White. It’s set in medieval Germany according to Word of God, yet her dress has short sleeves and a lower neckline than would be accurate. Oh and she has a 1930s hairstyle as opposed to the Rapunzel Hair she would probably sport.
• Hollywood Kiss: The kiss between Snow White and the Prince, which brings her back to life.
• Holy Pipe Organ: «Chorale for Snow White», which plays during the scene where the dwarfs mourn the sleeping Snow White, is a somber organ solo that evokes the mood of a funeral.
• Hypocritical Humor: «Now I’ll be fairest in the land!». after transforming herself into a hag. Presumably, there was a way to change back, because otherwise this makes no sense, and the Queen does refer to it as a «disguise».
• I Ate WHAT?!: Dopey’s (eventual) reaction to having eaten a bar of soap; he pats at his stomach for several seconds after finally realizing he ate it by mistake.
• Imaginary Enemy: The monster-trees Snow White sees during the forest run sequence along with the alligators-logs are actually just the fragments of her imagination caused by her anxiety and fear after the Huntsman confessed to her that the Queen wants her dead.
• Incoming Ham: How the Queen’s hag form introduces herself:

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