History Headscratchers / SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs

** I don't know, but I'm against 'em.

** Due to the fact that the Queen dwelling in Dark Magic was known well among people(as said by Grumpy), the Huntsman probably thought that the longer time he took for the assassination the odds that the Queen find out about him letting Snow White escaped is higher so it's the best to let her ran away by herself. Escorting her to townspeople or alike probably wouldn't work, as the Queen could have declared her fugitive and had Snow White arrested/executed.

** Not quite sure exactly what you're asking, but the antitode was specifically listed as "Love's first kiss," and it's pretty clear that the queen had no love for Snow White. So even if she tried, her kiss wouldn't have stopped the Prince's kiss from working, if that's what you're suggesting.

* Given the Queen's obsession with beauty, how could she bear to transform herself into such a hideous old hag? Other disguises would certainly have been possible and no such extreme transformation occcurs in the original story. A related question - was the spell to make her look like that meant to be temporary or would she have had to take some kind of antidote to restore her original form had she succeeded in coming back?

** To the first question, that's the point. It's intentionally ironic that, over the course of her villainous breakdown, the queen becomes so obsessed with killing Snow White over her beauty that she comes to shed every ounce of her own beauty, in return. (For example, note the scene where Snow White eats the apple - after watching her keel over, the queen proudly proclaims, "Now '''''I'll''''' be fairest in the land!", all while under the guise of a hideous old hag.) For the second question, I think she would've had to have whipped up some sort of antidote - I remember hearing about some sort of outside material where the queen survived the fall she took at the end of the film. She tries returning to the castle, but finds that she can't get inside to change herself back because the guards don't recognize her.

* Given the Queen's obsession with beauty, how could she bear to transform herself into such a hideous old hag? Other disguises would certainly have been possible and no such extreme transformation occcurs in the original story. A related question - was the spell to make her look like that meant to be temporary or would she have had to take some kind of antidote to restore her original form had she succeeded in coming back?

* Given the Queen's obsession with beauty, how could she bear to transform herself into such a hideous old hag? Other disguises would certainly have been possible and no such extreme transformation occcurs in the original story. Also, what would have been the antidote to restore her original form had she succeeded in coming back?

** The Queen wanted to prepare a fitting end for Snow White, as she saw her as a rival for her beauty. Strangling her doesn't work because, as a frail, old woman, the queen wouldn't be able to get the jump on Snow White without her running away or screaming, wouldn't be able to match pace with her if she escapes, and if the dwarves get so much as a hint that Snow White is in trouble, they'll come riding back to save her, as is shown moments later. Finally, she may have chosen the sleeping death due to its lack of any real antitodes - it's likely the dwarves would've tried searching for any cure they could find if they'd known it was a poison, so the sleeping death was the queen's best way of ensuring that Snow White would die for good (or at least be buried alive).

* Why doesn't the Huntsman try going with Snow White to find a place for her to take shelter? It doesn't make much sense that his means of protecting her from the queen is to watch her go running blindly into a dark forest, especially since she's only, what, 14 years old? He could've helped her through the woods to the dwarves' cottage or someplace else, perhaps, sparing her all the nightmarish imagery along the way.

* Why exactly does the queen use this complicated "sleeping death" potion, when she could just use regular poison for the same purpose ? Besides, in real-life the main interest of poisoning rather than murdering more "actively" is that the murder can be set hours prior to the victim's death itself, which reduces chances of being suspected for the murderer, since the poison can very well act while the person is among a crowd. But if giving the poison to Snow White already required the Queen and the princess to be alone together, she could just have strangled or stabbed her. (Alright, stabbing would have been storywise dumb, because we already saw a stabbing earlier and we don't want to see that twice, but my point still stands).

** They found out that animating a realistic character was tricky, because a character who looks like a real person but behaves like if he was made of rubber is at best weird and at worst ''creepy''. They could not animate him freely, they had to respect a very strict code. A male moves a very different way from a female. For Snow White and the Queen, the animators got trained at animating charming woman characters, because it was worth it — what was the point of making a princess movie if you can't animate a princess ? But spending the same amount of time and money for a secondary character was impossible, unless they wanted ''Snow White'' to suffer the same fate as ''The Thief and the Cobbler''…

* What was it about the Prince that made him so much harder to animate the other characters? Yes, I can see the difference in design between him and the 7 dwarves, but how does that make him harder to animate? Especially since the two characters he resembles more, Snow White and her stepmother, both seem to get ample screen time.

* Why do the dwarves lock the door to their mines, only to leave the key hanging right next to it? What's the point of having a lock, then?
* Why doesn't the Huntsman try going with Snow White to find a place for her to take shelter? It doesn't make much sense that his means of protecting her from the queen is to watch her go running blindly into a dark forest, especially since she's only, what, 14 years old?

* Why do the dwarves lock the door to their mines, only to leave the key hanging right next to it? What's the point of having a lock, then?

* What is the Prince in this film the prince of? It can't be Snow White's kingdom, because that'd just be weird. And it wouldn't make sense for him to visiting from another kingdom, would it, with how evil and wicked the Queen is? What was he even doing at the castle?

*** Actually, no matter what time period people had a pretty good understanding of decomposition; anyone around a dead body would understand rotting within days. The ancient Egyptians actually tried to stop it, hence mummies. The situation with Snow White seems to be more along the lines of the dwarfs not really noticing due to grief or just thinking Snow White was special for some reason (lack of decay but no actual signs of life probably convinced them she was dead). They may have even thought magic was involved thanks to the queen and simply not questioned how it worked. Come to think of it, the whole glass coffin thing might have been in part due to a very slight doubt that she was actually dead along with the film's stated reason (not having the heart to bury her).

** People weren't as educated about decomposition back then.

* If the 7 Dwarfs didn't bury Snow White for months when she was believed to be death then how did they not suspect she was actually alive since her body was still fresh after such long time?