Snow White And The Huntsman Analysis

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The movie “Snow White and the Huntsman” takes a lot of creative liberties. It expands greatly on the original story which many new elements and even removes some parts. Like the addition of an evil queen with super powers. How she not only wants to be the most beautiful and powerful person, but can take life from other people to maintain her beauty and power.
The opening of “Snow White and the Huntsman” is done just as the story in the Grimm brothers’ book. The queen pricks her finger (on a rose instead of a needle) and three drops of blood fell. Just like in the story, she describes what she wants in her child. She hopes that her child can have a child as white as snow and as red as blood. In the story the queen also wants her to be as black
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So when they came home they found her and allowed her to stay as long as she keep the house for them. The movie takes a very different approach to how they meet. It doesn’t even mention a house. Instead they meet because they have a grudge against the huntsman, who is traveling with Snow White, and the dwarfs end up capturing them both. One of the big parts of the story that is changed is the part where the queen disguises herself to try to kill Snow White. The queen tries to do this a total of three times in the story. She first tried to choke Snow White with a lace. Then she attempted to poison Snow White with a poison comb. After that she tried to kill Snow White with a poison apple. In the movie only the attempt with the apple is done. Just like in the movie Snow White take a bite of the poison apple and faints. In the movie she is taken a kingdom instead of the dwarfs’ house. There is a difference between the story and the movie with how Snow White is brought back to life. In the story she wakes up after something makes her spit up the apple piece, but in the movie she is brought back to life by the huntsman. In the story this is pretty much the end, she gets married and has the queen killed. In the movie it’s not

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