Snow White and The Huntsman

Originally Written by the BROTHERS GRIMM.

A long time ago, a child was born to a queen and king and she was called Snow White.  When the queen died, the king married again.  This new queen was wicked and hated Snow white.  The queen gave orders that Snow White was to be treated as a servant.

Snow White grew very beautiful and one day a Prince riding by, saw her at work and fell in love with her.
The queen was beautiful too, and every day she asked her Magic Mirror, "Who is the fairest in the land?" and the mirror always answered, "You are the fairest one of all".

But one day the mirror answered Snow White was the fairest in the land, and in a rage the queen gave orders to one of her Huntsmen to take Snow White into the woods and kill her.
The Huntsman had a kind heart and couldn't do the deed so told her to run away.  She fled into the woods where Seven little dwarfs lived.  Their house was small and strange.

Snow White entered the little house and finding it very untidy, started to clean up.  Upstairs she found seven little beds.  She was very tired and stretching out on one of the beds, was soon asleep.

When the Dwarfs came home they were surprised to find Snow White and after some argument, decided to let her stay.  She promised to cook and look after them.

The Queen discovered where Snow White was living and disguising herself as a witch, took a poisoned apple and set out for the Dwarfs cottage.  She gave Snow White the poisoned apple to eat and as soon as she bit the apple, she sank into unconsciousness.

Thinking she was dead, the Dwarfs built a glass coffin and put her in it. For days she lay in the forest in her glass coffin.  One day, the Prince was riding through the forest looking for Snow White and found her.  He leaned over and kissed her.  She opened her eyes and sat up with a smile. Everyone was happy.  The Prince took Snow White to his palace where they were married and lived happily ever after.



This NEW and IMPROVED Movie stars Kristen Stuart, Chris Hemsworth and Charlize Theron Directed by Rupert Sanders.

It's quite a dark twist on the tale but looks super epic. For me, I've never like Smiley, Happy, drown-myself-with-love endings so this should be right up my (dark) alley.

First, there were times when the characters portrayed were too (...lets say) Disney; too over done. Charlize had a rough time. For most of her scenes she had to be 'Mentally Unstable' so props to her but there were many where I forgot she was a character and saw her as an actor.
Secondly, Did anyone notice the seriously long drawn out last frame of the film? awkward...

BUT (and this is a Kim K one) what made me enjoy it so, was the twist that the Huntsman was her 'Dashing Prince' and the actual Prince was a dork... I liked that they were confident enough to change the most 'Disney' thing about this type of movie.

I can't firgure out if it helped of hindered the watching experience, but I watched the making/behind the scenes of Snow White & the Huntsman a week before.
I was watching out for certain costumes worn by 'Raveena' (Charlize). A full cape made of feathers, a metal disc-linked coat, hooked nail rings, a wedding dress made of bones; I am pretty sure I missed most of what was going on in those scenes.... Ooops.

I really did enjoy it though; Top marks for entertaining, But I won't be buying the DVD any time soon...