Michael Cohn
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Snow White and the Huntsman (2012)
Directed by Rupert Sanders
influenced by Snow White: A Tale of Terror (1997)
Plot
It’s neither the kid-friendly take of 1937’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs or the two-month-old Mirror Mirror , nor the R-rated horror version offered by 1997’s Snow White: A Tale of Terror .
Frozen (2013)
Directed by Chris Buck
influenced by Snow White: A Tale of Terror (1997)
Plot Themes Characters
…did have baddies -- Michael Cohn?s bloody 1997 Snow White: A Tale of Terror does not match the 1937 original?s…
Hans and Anna’s whirlwind romance seems no more hasty than the love at first sight of Sleeping Beauty or Snow White , though Frozen jerks us back to reality when a shocked Elsa tells her sister that she can’t marry someone she’s only just met — and Kristoff tells her the same thing.
Ever since “Snow White,” the cute craftsmanship of Disney cartoons has blotted out the homicide and sorcery in the source material, which is often the folklore of central Europe.
They’re not the stepmother from Snow White.
Disney is at its best when it’s working with classic stories and/or fairy tales (think “Aladdin,” “Beauty and the Beast,” “Snow White” and “Cinderella”).
Horror filmmakers are well aware of that fact and have moved well beyond the simple, supernatural talking mirror in "Snow White."
Cruella (2021)
Directed by Craig Gillespie
influenced by Snow White: A Tale of Terror (1997)
Characters Themes
Cruella De Vil is—despite her penchant for black, white and red—a colorful character who fueled the nightmares of little children beginning the moment that film was released in 1961 and, like so many over-the-top villainesses in Disney’s filmography (the Evil Queen in Snow White , Ursula in The Little Mermaid , Malificent in Sleeping Beauty ), she makes for a great foil to her demure, well-meaning protagonists.
Gone are the princesses who wait for a prince to kiss them in their sleep (Snow White), who give up their voice and their family to be with the dashing prince (The Little Mermaid).
Beauty and the Beast (2017)
Directed by Bill Condon
influenced by Snow White: A Tale of Terror (1997)
Visuals
And that’s a problem, because the cartoon is already basically perfect: the best and most justly beloved film of the 1990s Disney renaissance, and the only cartoon Disney ever made after the mid-1940s that I would rank alongside their early masterpieces, Snow White , Pinocchio , Fantasia and Bambi .
The form was invented by Disney eighty years ago, with “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” (1937), a film I still think has never been surpassed, and when you watch something as transporting as “Snow White” — or “Bambi,” or “Toy Story,” or “Beauty and the Beast” — every gesture and background and choreographed flourish, from the facial expressions to the drip-drop of water, flows together with a poetic unity.
“Be Our Guest” in particular is a choreographic extravaganza that enfolds decades of Disney history (all the way back to “Snow White” and “Fantasia”) in contemporary cinematic craft.
The studio is still following the broad parameters it started laying down in 1937, with Snow White a nd t he Seven Dwarfs , by reshaping a culturally specific fairy tale to fit a family-friendly, accessible template.
Nearly 80 years after "Snow White," the old Disney factory is still crankin' 'em out better than anyone.
Friends with Benefits (2011)
Directed by Will Gluck
influenced by Snow White: A Tale of Terror (1997)
Hollywood often bum rushes a theme for our amusement, from dueling asteroid movies in the ’90s – “Armageddon” and “Deep Impact” – to the two upcoming “Snow White” movies.
What, just because Farquaad's kingdom is a theme park with turnstiles and his subjects include Pinocchio, Cinderella and Snow White?
Even a sweet-singing bluebird (resembling the one in Snow White) meets an untimely end.
The Imitation Game (2014)
Directed by Morten Tyldum
influenced by Snow White: A Tale of Terror (1997)
Themes
The director also exhibits welcome restraint in resisting what must have been great temptation to show the outcome of Turing’s fascination with cyanide and the Snow White legend.
It’s a strange omission — particularly given that Turing was said to have been fascinated by the “Snow White” story.
After a nasty altercation with the Queen in which Merida cleaves a tapestry depicting them in two, the princess races off on Angus to the Standing Stones where will o’ the wisps lead her to the cottage of an old woman wood carver (of bears) who is obviously really a Witch (voice of Julie Walters, "Harry Potter's" Molly Weasley, design courtesy of "Snow White" and "Spirited Away").
In fact, “Brave” feels more in line with the canon of Disney Princess stories like “Sleeping Beauty,” “Cinderella” and “Snow White” than the Pixar films.
Or, perhaps more hopefully, Disney is subtly signaling the long overdue end of one of its recurring motifs—that of the evil, older woman playing the embittered foil, a tradition almost unbroken from “Snow White” through “Sleeping Beauty” and even up to “The Little Mermaid.”
Bad Times at the El Royale (2018)
Directed by Drew Goddard
influenced by Snow White: A Tale of Terror (1997)
Plot
This fulfills the rule of seven, an ancient storytelling maxim that can be found in everything from Snow White to Gilligan’s Island to The Magnificent Seven.
Ghost in the Shell (2017)
Directed by Rupert Sanders
influenced by Snow White: A Tale of Terror (1997)
Plot
Sanders’ flawed but glitzy “Snow White” rehash positioned him as a facilitator of lavishly visualized, if faintly derivative, worlds.
That 1997 movie was the first time many American filmgoers entered Miyazaki’s world of myth, magic and lyrical, finely detailed imagery; happily, there are now generations of children who have grown up cherishing such Miyazaki classics as “My Neighbor Totoro,” “Kiki’s Delivery Service,” “Spirited Away” and “Howl’s Moving Castle” the way their parents played and re-played “Snow White,” “101 Dalmatians” and “The Aristocats.”
Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
Directed by George Miller
influenced by Snow White: A Tale of Terror (1997)
Visuals
Walt Disney at his most sentimental — think the pastoral Technicolor nature scenes for Snow White and Bambi —couldn’t have tweaked the Fury Road color scheme to make it any prettier.
Imagine a movie about Elmer Fudd or a “Toy Story” spinoff about Mr. Potato Head or a “Snow White” sequel about Grumpy.
Big Hero 6 (2014)
Directed by Chris Williams
influenced by Snow White: A Tale of Terror (1997)
Themes
Adhering to a Disney tradition as old as Snow White and as recent as Frozen , the new movie makes Hiro an orphan who must fend for himself.
Of all the stretches in Sex Tape, the one taking the movie to Hank's mansion, adorned with paintings of himself in various Disney classics (yes, even Snow White) is most welcome.
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012)
Directed by Peter Jackson
influenced by Snow White: A Tale of Terror (1997)
Oh, Jackson might sarcastically reply, and I suppose you’d want the 13 dwarves in Tolkien’s story pared down to seven, because that number was plenty for Walt Disney (the animated feature Snow White opened exactly three months after The Hobbit was published).
And yet, after "Prometheus" was finally unleashed for its press screenings, the Internet was practically humming for hours with people offering their oblique (so as to avoid violating any review embargoes, of course) murmurs of discontent/disappointment with what they had just seen--even those who have recently given passing grades to such multiplex meatballs as "Men in Black III" and "Snow White" were muttering about how the film just didn't work for them to such a degree that one might have thought that George Lucas had directed it instead of Ridley Scott.