Introduction: Walt Disney took its own spin on the 1844 tale The Snow Queen by spinning the tale from what it originally was and modernized it to the twenty first century views and values. They modified the theme, interruptions and their view on normal humans. Disney wanted a princess with psychological problems and background scaring instead of a normal person. They wanted to explain how the main character is misunderstood and never wanted or intended to hurt anyone. When comparing the two stories, its clear that there’s many similarities and differences between them. Many if the differences between the plot and how the story plays out. The snow queen only consists of three main characters, as where frozen has at least six. Also Disney took frozen and placed it in a musical aspect to fit more of its recent film designs. …show more content…
This book consists of seven fairytales draw together to make one story. The book describes a mirror and the wicked spirits that control it. The spirit that brings evil through a mirror, turns the reflections of those who look in it, into something hurtful, instead of what’s truly there. Gerda and Kay are bests friends. When the mirror shatters from the evil spirits, multiple people got a glass splinter in their hearts, which turned their hearts into lumps of ice. When Kay looks in the mirror, it shatters and a piece gets stuck in his heart and eye. This began to which change him for the worst, for it froze his heart. He then gets kidnaped by the snow queen and goes missing, leaving Gerda to search for him. When Gerda finds Kay, his heart is frozen and her tears penetrate the ice and set him
This creates sinister predators within her short stories through the use of empowering and dangerous women. in ‘The Snow Child’, the use of subversion turns the traditional fable of Snow White’s existence from maternal desire into a child who is the product of paternal desire and sexual fantasy. The original tale of Snow White explores a queen who is driven by her desire for beauty and youth, this is similar within ‘The Snow Child’ as the Countess becomes jealous of the child as the Count begins to favour her. The countess and the child are portrayed as binary opposites throughout the story; as one is clothed, the other is naked. This could reflect the importance of appearance within society, and explain the Countess’ antagonistic response to the child and acts of neglect due to her jealousy of the child’s beauty. Carter’s description of the Countess’ clothing leaves the reader with an idea of her dangerous nature; she wears “pelts of black foxes”, an association suggesting a predatory and cunning nature. She also wears “scarlet heels, and spurs” and it may be that the colour of the heels comes from the actions of the spurs, which adds to this idea of violence. We see this nature when she is threatened by the child regarding the Count’s affections, “wife” becoming “the Countess” in a shift emphasised by finally having her own thoughts and feelings in the
Of course, this could be justified by the target audience, as it is a Disney princess film after all. However, this relationship between two sisters is special enough to be analysed. Indeed, female friendship is often depicted as conflictive, in films such as Bride Wars for instance, whereas male friendship is made more valuable, as seen in most Seth Rodgen films. Here, the feminine solidarity is the core of the plot in Frozen, which motivates each protagonist’s designs and solves central issues of the
Since Disney’s Snow White appeared in 1937, Disney princesses have been a present in pop culture. With the release of new movies frequent and re-release of decades old movies inevitable, a continuous stream keeps Disney princesses in the foreground of adolescent society. It is with the value of entertainment they have been created and as entertainment they should be viewed.
Frozen is the tale of Anna (voiced by Kristen Bell) embarking on a journey to find her sister, Elsa (voiced by Idina Menzel), after she goes into hiding when her powers cast an everlasting winter in their town, Arendelle. Frozen was inspired by the 1844 fairy tale by Hans Chris...
If children or adults think of the great classical fairy tales today, be it Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, or Cinderella, they will think Walt Disney. Their first and perhaps lasting impression of these tales and others will have emanated from Disney film, book, or artefacts (Zipes 72)
Disney movies are intergenerational, in a sense that families with people of all ages have can find a common past time in them. Based off a study done by Professors Towbin, Haddock, Zimmerman, Lund and Tanner, Disney movies produced from 1937-2000 have five common themes for the male gender and four common themes for the female gender (24). In regards to this movie, two themes from the male gender themes were looked at when applied to the movie Frozen, which was released in 2013. The Disney feature-length animated film Frozen has very different gender roles presented than that of Disney movies from pre-2003. When it comes to the villain, Hans, critics have realized that he is different from other Disney villains in the sense that he pretends to love Anna, the princess character, and uses that power to manipulate her. This type of blind emotional manipulation is unique to Frozen. Since Frozen was the only modern movie looked at in this paper, it is possible that this manipulation could only be a one-time thing for Disney. However, going off of the study done by Towbin, Haddock, Zimmerman, Lund and Tanner, the Disney Corporation does not see any problems in using past themes
The Little Mermaid was released after the women’s liberation movement but sadly we still see the typical princess in Ariel. The typical princess is where they are passive and everything happens around them. Ariel does take the initiative to do the things she sets her heart to but the princess still ends up with the prince and creates the happily ever after. In contrast with The Little Mermaid, Frozen does not fall in the same category has the “typical” Disney movie. Frozen never ends up with a prince , nor do the girls just sit around and do nothing. It is very important we do not let our younger girls surround their lives around a Disney
As a child, I was told fairytales such as Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs every night before I went to sleep. Fairytales are an adventurous way to expand a child’s imagination and open their eyes to experience a new perspective. Modernizations of fairytales typically relate to a specific audience, such as adolescence, and put a contemporary spin on the old-aged tale. Instead of using whimsical themes heavily centered in nature, the contemporary poems connect with the reader in a more realistic everyday scenario. Also, many modernizations are written in poetic form to help reconstruct a flow in the piece and to develop or sometimes completely change the meaning from that of the original fairytale. Comparing Grimm’s Fairytale Snow White and the Seven Dwarves to the contemporary poem by Denise Duhamel, Snow White’s Acne, differences such as main character modifications, altered archetypes, and dissimilar intended morals can be interpreted and analyzed. These disparities renovate the tale, and bring forth current sociological issues such as an over-emphasis on beauty in adolescence and the results of heavy expectations in mother-daughter relationships.
The Lion King, and Cinderella are classic Disney movies that at first have glance are completely different, but actually have a very similar plot. The Lion King is about a lion named Simba who leaves his home, The Pride Lands, at a young age, has numerous adventures, and for much of the movie lives a “no worry” free life. Cinderella on the other hand, is about a girl named Cinderella who is locked up at her home and lives a seemingly boring life until the end of the movie. However, these two movies are much more similar than most realize. For instance, both Simba and Cinderella had their lives seemingly ruined by someone who is supposed to have their best interest in mind. Secondly, both characters spend the high majority of the movie living a different life than the one that they were intended to. Thirdly, both of the primary antagonist in the movies have assistant antagonist who help them against the protagonist, Simba and Cinderella. Also, both movies end with the two characters getting help from some friends and taking back the life they were supposed to live.
...s a person because she is only able to find maturity in marrying a man. The Disney version of Snow White and the seven Dwarfs is not to off in comparison with the Grimm’s brothers fairytale. Therefore, both lack deeper level of personification for their characters which are not many of them. This affects the readers/ viewers of the Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs story because it only allows us to see the superficial messages of gender roles and not reflection of mirroring in it affects to our identity development.
In the past the Disney’s version of “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” has been recognized as being the original story of Snow White even though it was produced in 1937, a hundred and twenty-five years after the original. The Newest version of Snow White called “Mirror, Mirror” came along in 2012, exactly two hundred years after the Brothers Grimm’s version was published. This version brought comedy and color into the story. As a result, they changed a little more of the story to make it more appealing to an audience of today’s generations.
This legend is based on the Brothers Grimm parable which is one of their earliest works. In the Grimm story, the Queen is the princess’s real mother. When the queen finds out from the mirror that her daughter is more beautiful than herself, she becomes jealous and grows to hate her own daughter - who is “fairest of them all” (The Origins of Snow White, Cinderella, and Sleeping Beauty" 2) at only seven years old. The queen sends the huntsman to kill Snow White like in the original story, however she requests the lungs and liver of her daughter, not the heart. The huntsman lets her go mostly because he thinks the wild animals will kill her anyways. During her sojourn with the dwarfs, the queen knows she is there and makes three more attempts on her life. The dwarves manage to save her the first two times, but they conclude that she is deceased the third time, when she gets a piece poison apple caught in her throat. A prince comes along one day and falls in love with the unconscious beauty. He then proceeds to take the corpse everywhere he goes, referring to her body as “his dearest possession,” (The Origins of Snow White, Cinderella, and Sleeping Beauty" 3). The piece of apple is dislodged waking the princess, and she falls in love with the prince. At their wedding, the queen is forced to put on red-hot iron shoes and dance until she dies. Although this tale had a happy ending, it contains a few gory details that the Disney animation did not
Snow White by the Brothers Grimm explores the theme of insecurity which can be defined as one’s subjective evaluation of his or her own self. The fairytale is a story about a Queen who seeks to be the prettiest by constantly asking her mirror “Mirror, Mirror, on the wall, who’s the fairest of them all?.” Initially it was always her; however, as the story progresses and as her stepdaughter Snow White matures, the mirror states that Snow White is the fairest. This causes the step-mother to try to kill Snow White through a huntsman, using a comb, a corset, and finally an apple. This mirror phrase seems to raise more and more anger the more it is asked. One could assume that the mirror is the judging factor in the phrase, but after a closer look on a psychological level, the
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"Little Snow White" is a worldwide known fairytale written by the Grimm brothers in 1812. The story is about a beautiful young girl that has to escape from the care of her envious mother that tries to kill her. It follows Snow White through her journey until her mother isn't her worry anymore. The moral of the story would be that vanity and beauty drives people to do unexpected things, whether they be good or bad.