Snow White Comparison

Snow White is a famous fairy tale which is known by many nations and told by a lot of people therefore it urges film makers and film companies to retold this influential fairy tale with their own point of view. “The Brothers Grimm published it in 1812 in the first edition of their collection Grimms' Fairy Tales.” (Wikipedia) It was written by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm. It was adapted to the cinema by “The Walt Disney Company” in 1937 and it is called as “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” and it is made by 6 directors and it is made as an animation on the other hand there is an another movie which is made in 2012 this one is called “Mirror Mirror”. This latest adaptation is directed by Tarsem Singh. 1937 version of the Snow White story is created as an animation. This is the major difference between these two films. Tarsem Singh’s Mirror Mirror uses real people whereas 1937 version of Snow White story depicted with the help of …show more content…
He profits from this advantage and creates a visual film. He is also known for visual obsessions in his films. In his article Ebert emphasize this idea: “He's in love with spectacular landscapes and architecture, and in all of his films the costumes of the late Japanese designer Eiko Ishioka dominate every scene they're in and every character they're worn by.” (Ebert) Singh gets the help of Ishioka in his films to create a visual film. Comparing Singh’s film with Disney’s Snow White could not be fair for the Disney’s film because it is made nearly 100 years ago where there are no computers also it is not fair to compare an animation with a regular film because as we mentioned in the latest film it is easy to create a visual film because it is not made out of cartoon therefore it is hard to create visual film for the animation