A Disney Villains Retrospective Part 3: The Evil Queen (Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs)
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- Опубликовано: 15 май 2020
- Disney's first theatrical villain really delivered! In this entry, we're talking about Queen Grimhilde, Snow White's wicked stepmother. We'll be tracing her Grimm Brothers origins, looking at her 1937 movie appearance, and beyond!
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I am a huge Cinderella fan and I strongly disagree with Cinderella lacking a personality especially compared to snow white. I can agree that Aurora lacks a personality but not Cinderella. Cinderella is kind to those who deserve her kindness but here are scenes in the film where she stands up to her stepmother and stepsisters. She doesn't like her current living situation and activity tries to get away from it even if it's only for one night. Her kindness to her animal friends ( shown in the beginning of the film when she saves Gus from a mouse trap ) She also keeps them fed. helps pave her way to freedom. The animals help her by making a dress for her and following instructions given to them from Cinderella when she is locked in her room by the evil stepmother. Cinderella is smart because she is the one who came up with the plan to escape her room and she instructs her animal friends to help her. She is also a hard worker and a fast one too. She is able to finish all of the chores her stepfamily gave to her in a matter of hours. She is resourceful by keeping the extra glass slipper from the ball which she later presents to the prince's butler when the other one is broken.
Having the perpetually vain queen's life end as a old beggar woman, never being able to return to the beauty she so craved, is a far better move, thematically, than dancing in hot shoes. Excellent job! One of my favorite Disney baddies done justice!
It's kinda a disappointment that the prince subplot was scrapped. Like it would've been awesome in seeing the animals freeing the prince and battle the guards together
If Snow White was the one who started it all, then The Evil Queen was the one who started the great tradition of Disney villains.
To be fair to Snow, she is shown to be way more suspicious by the third try, the Queen even being forced to take a bite of the apple herself to prove it's not poison (Unfortunately, old Grimhilde, crafty sort that she is, anticipated that, and so, only poisoned ONE HALF of the apple, biting into the non-poisonous part, and leaving the rest for Snow).
I’m sorry, but the line of the evil queen essentially forcing the dwarves to retire as dwarves gave me the mental image of them just throwing their hands up and rudely declaring that they’ll just somehow grow three feet bigger and I couldn’t help but laugh and the sheer ridiculousness
The cruel thing about the Evil Queen dying offscreen in Birth By Sleep is that you're playing the story three times as three different player characters who are all doing different things in the Disney stories. When you hear the queen died when playing as one character, you assume that one of the other two player characters is going to battle her, and only when you play through all three do you realize that it really was offscreen.
My fave villain EVER, elegant and classy. Although I wish she had a song; her personality is mostly serious but she does have a morbid sense of humor for sure. I think it would be interesting to give her a song about how she kinda likes disguising herself as an old witch because it gives her a chance to let loose and not be concerned with being perfect all the time.
I'll always regret that Snow White's screentime was reduced due to the dwarves, as well as the prince not being able to have large role due to difficulty in animation. The queen and mirror also deserved more screentime.
The way the witch’s eyes look when she first interacts with Snow White standing in the window is sooooooo creepy
One thing I love about Grimhilde is how stoic and emotionless she is when in her real form, and how wild and manic she is in her witch disguise. It’s sort of a Jekyll and Hyde motif where she lets out her inner emotions in a less regally sophisticated appearance. Hard to believe that both forms share the same actress.
I had the hypothesis that the Queen's exaggerated obsession with her looks and dignity had to do with her supposedly humble (non-royal, or maybe even non-aristocratic) origins. She may have tried to suppress the fact she was of far lower birth than other court women, especially Snow White, so she feigned an overtly haughty monarch, with ridiculously plain symbols of vanity, like the peacock-themed throne and shit. She also exhibited notably coarser, less refined behavior and vocabulary once she got transformed into a hag, meaning the wickedness AND vulgarity may have been her true nature all along. A number of people behaves that way once they suddenly ascend from their humble status to something much higher: they masquerade as highborn in an exaggerated, as if self-satirical way, often having much stronger disdain for the lower classes than the actual highborn people do.
Snow White:
"Magic Mirror on the wall!"
I would like to add that, last year, she was mentioned as an important person in the 2020 Japanese rhythm game, Twisted Wonderland, created by Disney and Aniplex. She is called "The Beautiful Queen" and is considered a figurehead at Night Raven College alongside six other iconic Disney villains: the Queen of Hearts from Alice in Wonderland, Scar from the Lion King, Ursula from the Little Mermaid, Jafar from Aladdin, Hades from Hercules and Maleficent from Sleeping Beauty.
Watching this retrospective reminds me of when my parents took me and older brother to a Disney On Ice show of Snow White when I was 6. When it got to the part where Snow White asks the audience should she eat the apple, naturally every kid said "no", I, however, surprisingly said, "Yes, do it." because at that time I had already seen the movie a good number of times and studied it. At the age of 6, I was basically saying, "Be authentic!"
"Her wicked brother that wanted to avenge her death"
Fun fact. In the Japanese release of Birth by Sleep, the queen doesn't use a potion, but rather the darkness of her anger and jealousy corrupted the mirror to attack Terra and Aqua.
My grandfather was very young when Snow White came out and he remembers being scared by the witch/Evil Queen
A couple of fun facts regarding the Grimm version of the story: