Snow White and the Huntsman: Difference between revisions

{{quote|''[[Missing Trailer Scene|Lips red as blood. Hair black as night. Bring me your heart, my dear, dear Snow White.]]''}}

 

 

In a land ruled by tyranny, the [[Vain Sorceress]] and [[It's All About Me|selfish]] Queen Ravenna learns that her stepdaughter, Snow White, is destined to surpass her not only as the "Fairest One of All" but also as the kingdom's future ruler. But then the Queen learns from her Magic Mirror that the only way to remain in power is to [[I Am a Humanitarian|consume Snow White's heart]] and achieve immortality. Snow White escapes into the Dark Forest and Ravenna recruits the Huntsman Eric to find and kill Snow White. Eric, however, takes pity on the young princess and teaches Snow White the art of war. Now, with the aid of eight dwarves and the duke's son William (Sam Claflin), Snow White begins a rebellion to bring down her stepmother once and for all.

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* [[Action Dress Rip]]: The Huntsman rips Snow White's dress so she can move through the forest easily.

* [[Adaptational Badass]]: Snow White. Also the Huntsman, and William, who is closest in the movie to the traditional prince role.

* [[Adaptation Expansion]]

* [[After-Action Patchup]]: The Huntsman gets a gash below his collarbone after fighting the troll. A woman from the village he and Snow White stay the night at patches him up and we get a shot of [[Mr. Fanservice|Chris Hemsworth's]] [[Shirtless Scene|abs.]]

* [[The Alcoholic]]: The Huntsman is introduced as one, but he stops drinking soon after meeting Snow White.

* [[All Trolls Are Different]]

* [[Arrows on Fire]]: Snow White awakens to one landing in near her head, and quickly realizes that Finn and his soldiers have tracked her down, and are setting fire to the village buildings. William also uses these at one point.

* [[Ascended Extra]]: The Huntsman's role is much larger and more important than in the original fairy tale.

* [[Awesome Moment of Crowning]]: {{spoiler|Snow White's coronation.}}

* [[Back-to-Back Badasses]]: William and the Huntsman against an evil, magical flock of ravens.

* [[Badass]]: The Huntsman takes on several soldiers at once in defence of Snow White. The dwarves also kick-ass.

* [[Badass Damsel]] / [[Badass Princess]]: Snow White.

* [[Bambification]]: Averted with the White Hart, who looks more regal and majestic than cutesy.

* [[Beauty Equals Goodness]]: Played straight with Snow White, but inverted with Queen Ravenna, who was the [[Fairest of Them All]] and evil.

* [[Beauty Is Never Tarnished]]: Deliberately averted by the village of women. {{spoiler|They all [[Beauty Is Bad|gave themselves facial scars]] so that Ravenna doesn't prey on them with her life-stealing magics.}} Snow White herself spends a good portion of the movie covered in dirt and grime, but it isn't treated as if it detracted from her beauty.

* [[Big Bad]]: Queen Ravenna.

* [[Big Fancy Castle]]

* [[Big No]]: Used twice. Once by Snow White when the troll is about to kill the Huntsman, {{spoiler|and once by the Huntsman when Ravenna is about to kill Snow White after poisoning her with an apple.}}

* [[Black Widow]]: Ravenna marries the king and kills him on their wedding night. {{spoiler|She claims to have done this several times before.}}

* [[Blind Seer]]: Muir, the lead dwarf.

* [[Blondes Are Evil]]/[[Blond Guys Are Evil]]: Queen Ravenna and [[The Dragon|her brother]] Finn. Ravenna deliberately plays up [[Hair of Gold]] when first introduced, though.

* [[Book Ends]]: Snow White escapes from her prison by striking Finn in the face with a nail when he [[Attempted Rape|molests]] her. {{spoiler|Snow White's journey ends when she performs a similar attack on Finn's sister Ravenna: Snow White abruptly stabs her in the stomach while Ravenna is focused on [[Hannibal Lecture|Hannibal Lecturing her.]]}}

* [[Boring Return Journey]]: Justified in that when Snow White was leaving the castle, she was alone or with a small number of companions and she came back with an army, making it much easier to go where she wanted in safety.

* [[Breast Plate]]: Averted. Snow White is shown wearing regular plate armor.

{{quote|'''Huntsman''': ''[[Ship Tease|You're very fetching in mail.]]''}}

* [[Brother-Sister Incest]]: See incest subtext below.

* [[Bruiser with a Soft Center]]: The Huntsman, whose speech prior to {{spoiler|[[True Love's Kiss|kissing Snow White awake]] [[Tear Jerker|touched everyone.]]}}

* [[The Caligula]]: Ravenna. Also her possible relationship with her brother mirrors ideas about the original Caligula, see Incest Subtext below.

* [[Chewing the Scenery]]: [[Charlize Theron]] really gets all the ham out of her system when Queen Ravenna demands that Snow White be brought to her after her initial escape.

* [[The Chosen One]]: Snow White.

* [[Costume Porn]]: Queen Ravenna's many outfits.

* [[Creepy Uncle|Creepy Step-Uncle]]: Finn likes to watch Snow when she's trapped in the castle.

* [[Crystal Dragon Jesus]]: Played with. There is a lot of overt and undisguised Christian imagery in the movie, but in the end, the bishop that {{spoiler|crowns Snow White}} does it not in the name of God (as it would have been in a real-world medieval setting), but "in the name of everything good in the land".

* [[Curb Stomp Battle]]: {{spoiler|Snow White vs. Ravenna in the climax. Snow White couldn't lay a finger on her until she stopped to gloat.}}

* [[Darker and Edgier]]/[[Grimmification]]: [[Exaggerated]]. The film is even darker than most of non-bowdlerized Grimm fairy tales.

* [[Death Glare]]: The Queen does this frequently.

* [[Deceased Parents Are the Best]]: Snow White's parents both die a few minutes into the film.

* [[Did You Actually Believe?]]: {{spoiler|That Ravenna would bring back your wife, Huntsman?}}

* [[Didn't See That Coming]]: {{spoiler|Many people did not expect the Huntsman to be the one to kiss Snow White awake; it was assumed that since William's character was the closest to a "prince" that he would fulfill that role.}}

** {{spoiler|Subverted with Snow White. She "dies" in William's arms but the Huntsman's kiss revives her later.}}

* [[Distracted by the Sexy]]: The king, when he meets Ravenna. He's so entranced by her that he forgets his grief over his wife and resolves to marry her ''the next day''. Ultimately played for drama.

'''Huntsman''': ''She is certainly dead.'' }}

* [[The Drag Along]]: The Huntsman. A several stages of the story, he wants no part.

** Does double duty as the [[Mook Lieutenant]] early on.

* [[Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep"]]: The Huntsman. Even the ''credits'' don't list his real name (it's "Eric", apparently).

* [[Every Thing Is Better With Princesses]]: It's still a fairy tale after all.

* [[Evil Laugh]]: The Queen in many of the promos. One that's very bitter.

* [[Evil Matriarch]]: The Queen is technically Snow's stepmother after all.

* [[Fractured Fairy Tale]]: The film follows the general premise of the fairy tale, but twists its element in different ways.

* [[Freudian Excuse]]: Ravenna's behavior is explained through a childhood flashback and the way a previous king treated her.

* [[From Nobody to Nightmare]]: {{spoiler|Ravenna used to be a normal young girl who lived in an Arctic village. Now she is a powerful immortal sorceress determined to lay waste to kingdoms for the sole sake of maintaining her youth and powers.}}

* [[Gender Bender]]: {{spoiler|The Queen transforms into William to trick Snow into eating the apple.}}

* [[Good Parents]]/[[Deceased Parents Are the Best]]: Snow White's parents were good and loving parents, and die minutes into the movie.

* [[Guttural Growler]]: The Huntsman.

* [[Heartbroken Badass]]: {{spoiler|Twice, sort of. Eric's wife died prior to the start of the story, and given the state he's in when the audience is first introduced to him, her death still badly haunts him. Then again, when Snow White falls into her death/coma. He tells the dead/unconscious Snow White that she had the same kind of strength and inspired similar feelings of worth in him that his wife did, and that they both deserved better.}}

* [[Heroes Prefer Swords]]: Snow White is just about the only notable character who uses a sword. Everyone else uses axes, bows, daggers, a cane, and so forth. The only exception is her father, the King.

* [[Heroic Sacrifice]]: {{spoiler|Gus takes an arrow for Snow White.}}

* [[The High Queen]]: Snow White's mother. {{spoiler|Snow White herself becomes one in the ending.}}

* [[Hollywood Tactics]]: Using cavalry in deep woods or during high tide? Storming a castle without siege engines or at least a battering ram? Don't worry, you'll get by thanks to [[Rule of Cool]].

* [[Light Feminine and Dark Feminine]]: Snow White and Ravenna.

* [[Like Brother and Sister]]: William and Snow White. They used to play with each other as kids and were constantly bickering.

* [[The Lost Woods]]: The dark forest and the Sanctuary. One is an evil forest and one is full of fairies, but they're both undoubtedly ancient forests filled with strange creatures.

* [[Love Interests]]: {{spoiler|Even though there was [[No Romantic Resolution]] at the end, William is assumed to be a love interest for Snow White as she kissed him (even though it was actually Ravenna). The Huntsman may also qualify, but it is never made clear as to whether or not he actually developed romantic feelings towards Snow White. Before she is revived, he mentions that she inspires feeling of worth in him in a fashion similar to his late wife.}}

* [[Love Triangle]]: {{spoiler|Subverted. You'd expect one between William, the Huntsman, and Snow White, but it is only implied and never directly addressed, to some people's frustrations and others' jubilation.}}

* [[Mama Bear]]: {{spoiler|Ravenna's and Finn's mom invoked dark powers to protect her children. But whenever she intended for her daughter to become a monster it is not clear.}}

* [[Manipulative Bastard]]: This is how Ravenna usurped Snow White's kingdom in the first place. {{spoiler|And she'd already done it to countless other kingdoms in the past, considering her [[Really 700 Years Old|immortality]]...}}

* [[Manly Tears]]: The Huntsman cries [[Tears of Remorse]] {{spoiler|over Snow White's comatose body, lamenting the fact that he failed to protect her and his wife. }}

* [[Medieval European Fantasy]]: Christianity exists among natural deities, fairies, dwarves, and dark magic.

* [[Medieval Stasis]]: Assuming Ravenna's boast about how long she's lived is accurate and not simply hyperbole (which could be debatable based on her less-than-stable state of mind), than in the past 800 to 1400 years humans have not progressed at all past the plate armor knights on horseback phase (seen in her childhood flashback).

* [[More Deadly Than the Male]]: Ravenna.

* [[Mordor]]: Ravenna's [[Fisher King]] influence has turned the land into this.

* [[Mushroom Samba]]: The Dark Forest is filled with hallucinogenic spores.

* [[Never Trust a Trailer]]: The quote at the top of the page is never said by Ravenna, and the Magic Mirror never shatters like it does in one of the trailers.

* [[No Immortal Inertia]]: {{spoiler|Both Finn and Ravenna age rapidly upon their deaths.}}

* [[Not So Different]]: Said almost verbatim by Ravenna to Snow White during the climax.

{{quote|'''Snow White''': [[Shut UP, Hannibal|I'm everything you're not!]]}}

* [[One for Sorrow, Two For Joy]]: Magpies are all over this film. One appears right before Snow White is to be led to the Queen and murdered, two appear later to lead her to her horse. Basically, any time something happens, either one or two magpies will appear to portend it, whichever is appropriate. Not that anybody comments on this.

* [[One-Scene Wonder]]: Early on, one of the resistance fighters and his son are captured and brought before the Queen. The father stays silent and ignores the Queens taunting, but the son {{spoiler|grabs a dagger and ''stabs her in the stomach.'' Granted, it doesn't kill her but you have to admire his spirit.}}

* [[Our Dwarves Are All the Same]]: Yep. They're no different here than they are in any other fantasy setting.

* [[Perma-Stubble]]: Both the Huntsman and William have short facial hair which is longer than usual stubble but still not quite a beard.

* [[The Power of Love]]: {{spoiler|Interestingly, never really touched upon in the film. [[True Love's Kiss]] is never mentioned, although some think that the Huntsman was thinking of his wife when he kissed Snow White awake, and that was what made the kiss proportionate to one of true love. }}

* [[Raven Hair, Ivory Skin]]: Snow White.

* [[Real Men Love Jesus]]: The adult Snow White, and future action heroine, are ''The Lord's Prayer''.

* [[Really 700 Years Old]]: {{spoiler|In Queen Ravenna's words, she has lived at least 20 lifetimes. It's also implied that her sorcery allows her brother immortality through her healing his injuries.}}

* [[Rebel Leader]]: Snow White becomes this when she reaches the Duke's castle.

* [[Reverse Mole]]: {{spoiler|William joins Finn's pursuit of Snow White because he knows it will lead him to her.}}

* [[Rightful King Returns]]/[[In Its Hour of Need]]: The climactic battle.

* [[Scenery Porn]]: The film has lots of incredibly beautiful nature shots. [[Scenery Gorn|And no fewer shots of desolate and burnt-down landscapes]].

* [[Sequel Hook]]: It is likely that if a sequel is made, it will [[Cleaning Up Romantic Loose Ends|Clean Up Romantic Loose Ends]] left at the end of the first movie in regards to the [[Love Triangle]] between Snow White/William/{{spoiler|The Huntsman.}}

* [[Sexy Back]]: Played straight when Ravenna is at full power, subverted when we see her again when her power is diminished, aged and haggard.

** Played with when the only time the Huntsman comments on Snow White's beauty is when he tells her that she looks fetching in mail, ''not'' a dress.

* [[Ship Tease]]: Mostly between the Huntsman and Snow White, because the only real moments she gets with William he {{spoiler|turns out to be the [[Shapeshifting|Queen in disguise]]. }}

** The part where Snow White enters the Dark Forest while fleeing capture. The manner in which she mourns her horse's loss as it gets stuck in the bog is reminiscent of how [[The Neverending Story|Atreyu]] mournfully watching Artax die in the Swamp of Sadness.

** The part where Snow White gets lost in the Dark Forest and gets into a [[Troubled Fetal Position]] is reminiscent of when an utterly dejected Bella Swan gets into that same position in the forest after Edward Cullen leaves her in the ''New Moon'' film.

** {{spoiler|The White Hart}} in the Sanctuary is a clear [[Shout-Out]] to {{spoiler|the Forest Spirit in ''[[Princess Mononoke]]''}}. {{spoiler|He even gets abruptly shot by the bad guys in a similar manner as he's meeting with the protagonist!}}

** One of the dwarves starts singing the Disney film's "Heigh-ho" song {{spoiler|while sneaking into the royal castle.}}

** Halfway through her shapeshifting spell, the Evil Queen looks ''exactly'' like [[Harry Potter|Lord Voldemort]].

** Early in the film, the Evil Queen walks up to a random prisoner and starts tormenting him with her usual [[Does Not Like Men]] spiel. Instead of politely listening to her ranting, in mid-speech the guy grabs an unsecured dagger from the guard holding him and straight up stabs her in the chest (which gives him more smarts and initiative than 99% of Fantasy genre characters). Sadly, she's enchanted and can only be killed by [[The Chosen One]], and kills the poor guy for his defiance.

** {{spoiler|Snow White finally confronts Ravenna in battle and the latter has the former on the ropes. When Ravenna sneers at Snow White for having led her followers to their deaths in their attack on her kingdom, Snow White uses this chance to stab Ravenna in the stomach.}}

* [[Smug Snake]]: Queen Ravenna

* [[Snow Means Death]]: {{spoiler|Snow Whites takes a bite from the disguised Ravenna's poisoned apple while in a snowy forest, and subsequently enters a death/coma.}}

* [[Something About a Rose]]: Snow White's mother is inspired by a rose blooming in winter, and hopes that her child will have the strength and courage of the flower.

* [[Spikes of Villainy]]: Ravenna's crown sports tall and menacing "spires".

* [[Stalker with a Crush]]: It is mentioned that Finn watches Snow White quite often while she's in prison, but doesn't come in because his sister won't let him.

* [[Storming the Castle]]: Snow White and her army attack Ravenna's castle in the climax.

* [[Toplessness From the Back]]: Ravenna on several occasions, although [[Fan Disservice|not always in a good way]].

* [[Troubled Fetal Position]]: When Snow White is lost in the Dark Forest.

* [[True Love's Kiss]]: Made obvious by the [[Climactic Music]] that plays after {{spoiler|the Huntsman kisses Snow White.}}

* [[Unexplained Recovery]]: It's surprising how little anyone bats an eyelid when Snow White casually walks out, perfectly alive, of the castle wherein she was laid out ''while dead''. Apparently, in this universes, [[True Love's Kiss]] can just do that.

* [[What Happened to the Mouse?]]: We never found out what became of the [[Magic Mirror]].

* [[What the Hell, Hero?]]: The Huntsman tries to leave Snow White, and is asked how he can possibly be that cold.

* [[Wicked Stepmother]]: Only barely. Ravenna did marry the king before she took over.

* [[Will They or Won't They?]]: Snow White and William/{{spoiler|The Huntsman}}.

* [[Woman in White]]: Snow White. {{spoiler|The Resistance dresses Snow White in a white gown when she's in her coma/death. When Snow White later wakes she gives the Resistance a [[Rousing Speech]] while wearing this white gown.}}

** Ravenna also has a moment where she submerges herself in a white liquid and emerges white from head to toe.

** The soldiers in the Dark Army at the beginning as well as the monsters at the end are both made up of some kind of magical glass or other substance.

** In a rare non-evil version of the trope, the White Hart can discorporate into a flock of white doves.

* [[Wounded Gazelle Gambit]]: Ravenna pulls one to gain the king's sympathy.

* [[Xenafication]]: In this version, [[Jeanne D'Archetype|Snow White]] goes [[Joan of Arc]] on her enemies.

* [[Ye Goode Olde Days]]/[[The Dung Ages]]: Both are used, depending on whether times are good or times are bad. In the beginning of the movie under the reign of King Magnus, the kingdom was prosperous, while everything is dirty and grimy when Ravenna is queen.

* [[You Killed My Father]]: Invoked during the climax, by Ravenna rather than Snow.

 

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