Snow White and the Huntsman

dark-daventry · February 10, 2012, 08:44:46 PM

I saw the trailer for this awhile ago, and I actually plan on seeing it. Say what you will about Kristen Stewart, but the movie looks like a really original take on Snow White. I mean, the magic mirror takes on a freaking physical form; that's awesome. For those that haven't seen it, the trailer is here.

What does everyone think?

wilco64256 · February 10, 2012, 08:56:16 PM

Aren't there two Snow White movies coming out here in the near future? What's up with that?

dark-daventry · February 10, 2012, 09:01:59 PM

Quote from: wilco64256 on February 10, 2012, 08:56:16 PM
Aren't there two Snow White movies coming out here in the near future? What's up with that?

Yeah; there's the aforementioned Snow White and the Huntsman, and then there's Mirror Mirror. Mirror Mirror is more of a comedy, and it's directed by Tarsem Singh, the guy who directed Immortals (which, personally, I loved endlessly).

Honestly, I'm looking forward to Snow White and the Huntsman more than I am Mirror Mirror, but I'll be seeing both regardless.

KatieHal · February 10, 2012, 09:35:11 PM

I'm looking forward to Mirror Mirror more, and it has almost everything to do with the fact Kristen Stewart is in the other one.

dark-daventry · February 10, 2012, 09:46:16 PM

Quote from: KatieHal on February 10, 2012, 09:35:11 PM
I'm looking forward to Mirror Mirror more, and it has almost everything to do with the fact Kristen Stewart is in the other one.

I take it you're neither a Kristen Stewart nor a Twilight fan. I'm not either, but the other movie just seems more interesting to me. It's darker and grittier, and that's the kind of thing I'd like to see. Mirror Mirror looks funny, and I'll definitely see it, but I just want to see Huntsman first. Tarsem did an amazing job with Immortals, so that alone will make me see Mirror Mirror.

MikPal · February 11, 2012, 12:37:52 PM

Quote from: wilco64256 on February 10, 2012, 08:56:16 PM
Aren't there two Snow White movies coming out here in the near future? What's up with that?

Don't forget about Grimm's Snow White by our friends at The Asylum, who previously bought us such classics as Transmorphers, Snakes on a Train, The Da Vinci Treasure, Alien vs Hunter and so on.

Lambonius · February 12, 2012, 06:44:33 PM

I don't think I would be able to suspend my disbelief about the idea that Kristen Stewart could EVER be considered fairer than Charlise Theron.

kyranthia · February 12, 2012, 08:47:37 PM

The trailer for this Snow White does look pretty awesome. But, I do fear that Kristen Stewart will drag down the movie.

Guess we'll have to see. Maybe my anti-Twilight feelings are clouding my judgement a bit.

KatieHal · February 12, 2012, 08:48:39 PM

Quote from: Lambonius on February 12, 2012, 06:44:33 PM
I don't think I would be able to suspend my disbelief about the idea that Kristen Stewart could EVER be considered fairer than Charlise Theron.

Also this, seriously! I like how they seem to have gotten around that by saying "she WILL BE fairier than you"--because, let's be honest, right now she ain't.

Lambonius · February 13, 2012, 07:24:25 AM

Let it also be said that, on principle, I am against "epic," "dark," and/or "gritty" updates of traditional fairy tale fare. I think those types of things tend to be soulless bastardizations, which is fully what I expect from this movie.

Note: Not meant as a dig at TSL--we aren't going down THAT road again.

(Posted on: February 13, 2012, 12:55:53 AM)

Also, aren't there supposed to be f***ing DWARVES in this story??!

KatieHal · February 13, 2012, 07:51:32 AM

Hehe.

I'm okay with some of them--after all, the original stories WERE much darker than what we know of them today. I will also agree that doing that sort of take on it IS getting overdone, and a lot of those reimaginings just aren't that good.

Lambonius · February 13, 2012, 11:33:36 AM

Quote from: KatieHal on February 13, 2012, 07:51:32 AM
Hehe.

I'm okay with some of them--after all, the original stories WERE much darker than what we know of them today. I will also agree that doing that sort of take on it IS getting overdone, and a lot of those reimaginings just aren't that good.

Now, see--I think it'd be interesting to have film versions of traditional fairy tales that did just strip out all the happy-go-lucky Disnification and go back to the darker roots. BUT, that should be all they do--there is a fine line. Adding darkness and angsty "grit" for it's own sake is usually lame--and I feel like that's what's being done (times 10!) in this case. But just going back to the darker source material could be cool if done right.

snabbott · February 13, 2012, 11:52:58 AM

Quote from: KatieHal on February 13, 2012, 07:51:32 AM
...the original stories WERE much darker than what we know of them today.

Seriously! Did you ever read The Frog Prince? The princess didn't kiss him, she threw him at the wall!

Blackthorne · February 13, 2012, 05:29:30 PM

Really? Grimm's Fairy tales were more brutal than most modern tellings? GTF out of town!?! I have to go tell everyone I know! THIS IS A DISCOVERY.

Bt

snabbott · February 14, 2012, 08:27:45 AM

Quote from: Blackthorne on February 13, 2012, 05:29:30 PM
Really? Grimm's Fairy tales were more brutal than most modern tellings? GTF out of town!?! I have to go tell everyone I know! THIS IS A DISCOVERY.

Bt

Do I detect sarcasm? No... couldn't be.

MikPal · February 14, 2012, 01:08:39 PM

Quote from: Blackthorne on February 13, 2012, 05:29:30 PM
Really? Grimm's Fairy tales were more brutal than most modern tellings? GTF out of town!?! I have to go tell everyone I know! THIS IS A DISCOVERY.

The Grimm's version actually were the bowdlerized versions of the earlier versions.

Snow White lived with 40 dragons. Rapunzel got pregnant. Cinderella, instead of getting help from a fairy godmother, got help from her dead mothers' bones. And so on.

(Posted on: 14-02-2012, 21:34:41)

Just had to add this awesome part from an earlier version of Sleeping Beauty:

QuoteA prince arrives, and falls in lust with the sleeping girl. He rapes her. She becomes pregnant, and – still sleeping – gives birth to twins. The twins crawl out of her and feed from her. During one feeding, one of the babies accidentally starts sucking on a finger instead of a breast, and sucks out a splinter of wood under Sleeping Beauty's fingernail. The curse is broken, and Sleeping Beauty wakes up.

Deloria · February 14, 2012, 01:31:50 PM

Hänsel and Gretel is about infanticide. The Frog Prince's head is cut off in one version.

These are not bedtime stories.

They were cautionary tales to scale children into being good and then developed independently as stories.

And Kristen Stewart is so very, very far from fair.

MikPal · February 14, 2012, 02:32:41 PM

My personal favorite is still the story of the little boy who used to suck his thumb when nobody was looking. One day suddenly a tailor runs into his house and cuts the boys thumbs off with giant scissors.

That's not Grimm though, That's Hoffmann.

Deloria · February 14, 2012, 04:29:30 PM

Oh God.

I remember that book.

We had a very graphically illustrated version. It wasn't just that he sucked his thumb though, it was also that he refused to wash or cut his hair or nails.

kyranthia · February 14, 2012, 09:20:38 PM

Also, in one version of Rapunzel, the prince is thrown from the tower by the witch. He lands in a thorn bush below and is blinded by the thorns piercing his eyes.

I do have to agree the more 'adult' versions of fairy tales are out there. Some I think are kinda cool. Others? Well...let's just say that Grimm show does not appeal to me.

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