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| Mirror Mirror Dir. Tarsem Singh, 2012 |
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| Snow White and the Huntsmen Dir.Rupert Snaders, 2012 |
Snow White is one of those fairy tales you're going to see time and again adapted for the big screen, but twice in a few months? Luckily
Mirror Mirror and
Snow White and the Huntsmen are two completely different films.
I enjoyed them both at the time, but shortly after leaving the cinema realised they were sadly lacking (
Huntsman more so than
Mirror). I felt like
Huntsman was trying to be too many things to too many people, and while striving to tick off all of those things that make a blockbuster, lost something in the narrative and character development.
Mirror on the other hand had a well rounded and thought out story, clearly aware of what it wanted to be. However there were elements that were not as successfully executed. One of the most intriguing innovations and perhaps the focus of the film given it's title, the mirror, was never fully explained or explored. Interlinked with this is the motivation of the Queen and the nature of magic which also needed a little work.
Now putting my feelings and reviews of the films aside let's get to them pretty pictures.
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| By Arthur Rackham, 1909 |
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| Disney's Snow White, 1937 |
Snow White was Disney's first
feature length animated film. This where it all started.
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| By Maxfield Parrish, 1912 |
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| Rachel Weiss as Snow White in a Disney ad campaign |
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| By Heinrich Leutemann or Carl Offterdinger at the end of the 19th Century |
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| By Heinrich Leutemann or Carl Offterdinger at the end of the 19th Century |
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| By Anne Anderson |
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| By Henry Meynell Rheam |
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| Original Theatrical Poster |
Sorry it's so teeny, I just loved it so much I had to include it.
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