Line #29 Fridge/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs


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4	* Why was Snow White so unsurprised about being woken from the dead and being led off by the prince? Because the last thing she had done was to take a bite out of what she thought was a "wishing apple", and her wish was that they be reunited.
5	* Take a look at the Queen's throne. It's shaped like a peacock, a symbol of vanity.
6	* You know, when Snow White thought a bunch of children lived in the house, [[{{Manchild}} she wasn't too far off]].
7	* This is probably unintentional, but... the Queen in disguise is Satan/The Snake, and Snow White is Eve. Think about it. It gets even more eerie when you consider that this is the ''first'' Disney film, i.e. ''Genesis''.
8	* Grumpy is very superstitious and paranoid, claiming he knows there's trouble a-brewin' because his corns hurt and accusing a simmering pot over a fire of being witch's brew. It's portrayed as just being a comical quirk in his character that makes him the slowest to trust Snow White and thus giving him the potential for CharacterDevelopment. FridgeBrilliance kicks in when you realize that his ramblings and worries are completely justified as he lives in a world with witches and magic mirrors and all sorts of other wacky shit. Furthermore, he technically ends up being ''right'' about trouble being incoming, even if Snow White has no "wicked wiles" -- the Queen, who all the dwarfs recognize as bad news, comes to the house not long afterwards looking for her.
9	** Grumpy's declaration that the Queen "knows ''everything''" isn't far off either, just lacking the means ''how'' she does. The magic mirror literally tells her everything she needs to find Snow White, upon which she promptly uses the "black magic" he also warned them of.
10	* When Snow White at first thinks that the house is occupied by messy children and realizes that they might have no mother and figures that they might be orphans, her face becomes surprisingly sad. No wonder: Snow White herself is technically an orphan (her mother's mentioned to have passed away and her father is likely dead as well) and her stepmother wanted to kill her!
11	* Outside of being a romantic ballad, the song "Someday My Prince Will Come" takes on a whole new meaning when you consider that Snow White was in hiding at the time she sang it; her Prince showing up to take her away would mean a quick and safe escort out of the Queen's jurisdiction.
12	* Why do the dwarfs so quickly allow Snow White to boss them around? She may be a teenage girl that they've just taken in, but she's still their ''princess''.
13	* Why does Snow White offer to keep house for the Dwarves in exchange for letting her stay? Because her whole life she's been put to work cleaning. She has no valuables on her and so she's bargaining with the only thing she can. She's that desperate to hide from the Queen, she's offering herself as a servant to someone else.
14	* Why does Dopey never get to kiss Snow White at any point in the film? Because the Queen's spell book clearly states that the apple spell can only be broken by "love's first kiss", therefore, Snow White's lips must remain untouched in order for the Prince's wake up antidote to truly effectively work.
15	* For Creator/TheBrothersGrimm version, the mirror isn't magic. The Queen knows this, and asks the mirror to stroke her ego. She becomes so jealous of Snow White that she goes insane and hallucinates her image in the mirror.
16	* The scene with the trees might seem out of place but if you [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2zrs7Irzuw watch it.]] you'll notice that all the faces only appear as she gets more and more frightened. Given that she's 14 and just found out her stepmother wants her dead by the man who was originally suppose to kill her it's perfectly understandable that her imagination got the best of her and made her situation worse.
17	* When Snow White and the animals first step into the cottage, their footsteps don't make a sound (with the exception of the animals running out). So why do the dwarf's shoes squeak when they sneak though the cottage? Snow White had swept up the dust that muffled the sound of her footsteps.
18	* The significance of Snow White being the 'maternal' figure of seven grown men is kinda hard to see until you realize that Snow White's showing her leadership skills all throughout the film; she's able to coordinate animals into cleaning other things, she is very authoritative towards the Dwarves and gives them rewards for listening. She is basically showing her chops as a fair and just ruler, when you compare her to her stepmom as someone who's likely a tyrant. That makes her both fair (of face) and ''fair'' in judgment. Compared to her stepmother, who is beautiful but not fair (killing a girl just because she "dared" to be more beautiful than her is quite the DisproportionateRetribution...).
19	* The Queen was envious of Snow White's beauty, believing that she herself should be the only person with the title of "fairest of them all". But in the end, as a desperate last resort, the Queen turns herself into an ugly old hag and remains that way for the rest of her screentime in the film. Fridge brilliance kicks in when you realize that this is ''symbolic'': She was so blinded by her envy towards Snow White that she lost sight of just ''why'' she was envious of her in the first place and threw away her own beauty just to get rid of her. Unless she had a potion to change herself back. Someone as obsessed with her looks wouldn't disguise herself as someone ugly without having a means of reversing the process and if she could make a potion that could turn her old, she could make one to reverse the process.
20	* Why did she choose to disguise herself as such an ugly old crone? Because as a good-looking person, she thinks being hideous would be the perfect disguise. Also, in her vanity, she's probably afraid of growing old and feels threatened by Snow White maturing into her prime. The hag is her critique on how she thinks all old people look.
21	* The monstrous trees Snow White sees as she runs through the forest represent anything connected to the Queen. They have ugly wrinkled faces, glaring eyes, some of 'em a pointed nose and clawed hands just like the Queen when she's in her hag form.
22	* The Wicked Queen is depicted as a supernatural vampire-sorceress in the Disney film. Like the classic vampiress, she is a pale cold beauty almost entirely covered up in clothing; even more vampiric, she wants Snow White's heart, she is able to summon lightning at will to flame her magic potion, she uses the potion to shapeshift into a crone wearing the same sort of funeral garb traditionally associated with the Grim Reaper, and she demonstrates superhuman physical strength. She even identifies her magic mirror as her celestial slave: "Slave in the Magic Mirror, come from the farthest space: through wind and darkness I summon thee! Speak! Let me see thy face!"
23	* The queen's opposite number is the seven dwarfs. While she is beautiful like a marble statue, they are ordinary and organic in their looks; while she shapeshifts, they are very stable in their character traits; while she worries about her looks, they sing a song about being goofballs; while she is like a vampire and the incarnation of Death or plague, they are like nature elementals or fey, even able to communicate with and rally an army of animals against the Wicked Queen in her crone guise (one of them even rides a deer into battle!).
24	* The fact that Snow White is described as being the FairestOfThemAll despite being only 14 sounds a bit odd to modern American audiences. Well, the setting looks very German and the story is based on a fairy tale recorded by Germans. In Germany, the age of consent is actually 14.
25	* Why does the Queen put Snow White into enchanted sleep [[WhyDontYouJustShootHim instead of just killing her?]] Well, she ''tried'' that already, didn't she? Even her ever-loyal Huntsman couldn't bring himself to go through with it, so presumably anyone else she sent to do it would be even less willing. That leaves her to do the deed herself, and we see no sign of her having any real fighting skills. A poisoned apple really does seem like her best bet, and a poison that effectively kills at the first taste is actually a really good poison - most real ones have to be administered over a long period of time.
26	* Fridge Tear Jerker: As Snow White had to dress in rags (probably on the Queen's order), there's nothing stopping her from wearing the same out to the forest. It's highly possible that the huntsman told her to wear a pretty outfit - a last act of kindness before she has to die.
27	* The face of the Magic Mirror is green, the color of envy, so he can be interpreted as a literal reflection of the Queen's jealousy over Snow White.
28	* Why does the Mirror think Snow White is fairer than the queen? Both are beautiful, but the queen only cares about herself, so her beauty is only skin deep, while Snow White's kind heart makes her beautiful both inside and out.
29	* Snow White seems so oblivious to her Stepmother's personality and abilities that even the Dwarfs come off as far more savvy to what she is capable of. Remember however, that for most of her life, the Queen wanted as little to do with Snow White as possible, demoting her to a mere servant and sentencing her to clean their large castle, while the Dwarfs were civilians under the Queen's rule, so likely have witnessed first hand things that occur under her power.
30	* When Snow White says she can cook, she sounds very confident and lists a variety of things she can make, which is strange when you remember she's a princess, so why in the world does she know how to cook, let alone with the that level of confidence? Then you take into account she was mentioned in the beginning to be a ''scullery maid.'' For one, it's the lowest position in the castle. But also, the scullery is the wash room, and located next to the kitchen. It could also be used as a backup kitchen if the main one was overwhelmed. It has been noted that with a clever maid and a chef willing to teach, a scullery maid could indeed learn how to cook. Snow learned how ''from'' the chef in that exact way. The scullery maid thing is unique to Disney, and it works extremely well.
31	* Snow White's dress is composed [[PrimaryColorChampion entirely of primary colors: a yellow skirt and shoes, a blue bodice and sleeves, and a red bow and sleeve stripes.]] She also has brown eyes. What color do you get if you mix yellow, blue, and red together? That's right. Snow White's eye color is made from a combination of all three primary colors.
32	* Considering that the Magic Mirror is omnipresent and knows where and when everyone is, the Queen could have used him to give info on criminals, enemies, and rebels, than she can easily send guards to hunt them down, but considering that she primarily uses it to reaffirm her own beauty, it tells us that she is so vain she doesn't even care about what her citizens ''think''.
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35	* Snow White's love of housework is seen as ValuesDissonance by some today. But from a Watsonian point of view, it might be a kind of UsefulNotes/StockholmSyndrome — the Queen has forced Snow to do housework all her ''life''. It is perfectly natural, and also somewhat heartbreaking, that she was forced to find some pleasure in that to avoid sinking into depression, to the point that she can imagine no other way to enjoy herself by the time she gets to the Dwarfs' cottage.
36	** Can we just take a moment to consider what kind of hell Snow White's childhood must've been being raised by a woman who's willing to ''send a huntsmen to killer her'' if she gets too pretty?
37	* After the queen transforms, she goes to a secret underground boat, passing a forgotten cell where a skeleton lies with arm outstretched to an empty water pitcher. The queen mockingly asks the skeleton, "Thirsty?" and kicks the pitcher so that it scatters the bones. Was this her ''previous'' rival for "fairest one of all"? Or maybe Snow White's father the King? [[note]]Actually, in an abandoned plot line, it was mentioned the Queen often [[AndNowYouMustMarryMe forced men to marry her]] so she could get their kingdoms. The skeleton is implied to be a man who refused her. And yes, in a deleted scene she tries to force Snow White's prince to marry her too.[[/note]]
38	* Adding to the above, as the Queen descends the stairs to the room where she prepares the potion that transforms her into an old hag you can clearly see a skeleton chained to the wall in the background and at least two skulls sat in the foreground. What did the Queen do to these people before they died? Also, once they expired she left them there to rot.
39	* Also, as a little kid, you don't comprehend what the {{Vile Vulture}}s are thinking or doing when the Queen falls of the cliff. Now watch the movie again as a teenager or an adult.
40	** They would have very well eaten Snow White's body instead if the Dwarfs have arrived to chase the Queen.
41	* After the death of the Queen, when the dwarfs returned home Grumpy must have discovered the gooseberry pie Snow White made with his name on it.
42	** Fridge Tear Jerker: It would make seeing him breaking down all the more poignant.
43	* The Dwarfs were literally seconds away from murdering Snow White before they actually ''saw'' her.
44	* At the end of the movie Snow White leaves with her Prince. All fine and good... until you consider the fact that the King is long dead, the Queen disappeared (as far as the Kingdom knows) shortly after Snow did, and Snow is implied to be the only heir to her Kingdom. What happened to her beautiful and peaceful Kingdom while she was under the spell? A Civil War? Another Kingdom invading?
45	** Likely, if Snow White's kingdom were to follow the HeirClubForMen rule, both kingdoms would unite through their marriage. Or she becomes the queen regnant and the Prince becomes her consort.
46	* Sneezy has storm-force sneezes. Considering the Dwarfs mine for a living, they should be lucky he hasn't caused a cave in.
47	* When the Queen tells the Huntsman to kill Snow White and bring her heart as proof, he tries to get out of it until she reminds him of the penalty for failing (which is never said). The Huntsman ends up providing the heart of a pig, and the Queen finds out. What is the penalty that terrified him so?
48	* The Queen seems awfully blasé about the lengths she's willing to go to to exterminate Snow White, such as the way she shows off her heart to the mirror or drinks the potion in such a stoic manner. While it could be that keeping her beauty supreme above all others is [[SeriousBusiness just that important to her]], could it also be possible she's so okay with all of this because she's actually ''done it before?''
49	* In the original subplot, the queen kidnapped the prince and sent him to the dungeon after he refused to marry her (for he's in love with Snow White). In spite of continuing to suffer as he was locked up and taunted by dancing skeletons, he still refuses, leading to the queen on planning to drown him as a way to dispose him quickly. Now imagine of what would have happen that instead of drowning him, the queen decided to use him for her own possibly sick twisted purposes.
50	* After work, the dwarfs lock the gems they've mined in a shed and they hang the key ''right next to the door in plain view''. If somebody happened to pass by the shed, it wouldn't be very hard for them to unlock the door and steal the jewels that were inside. And given they have a massive pile of jewels but live in a tiny badly maintained house its possible that's happened already. That or the taxes in the kingdom are high, which adds another reason to hate the Queen.

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