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.

* [[Action Girl]]: Snow White.

* [[Attempted Rape]]: Finn tries to do this to Snow White in prison while she's lying on her bed. However, she strikes his face with a nail.

* [[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.

* [[Covered in Mud]]: The Huntsman when we are first introduced to him.

* [[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.}}

'''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.

* [[Elite Mooks]]: Humanoid monsters made from fragments of broken glass.

* [[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.

* [[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.}}

** {{spoiler|It is speculated that if there is to be a sequel, this would be an important part of the plot, as it is never made clear if Snow White did end up falling in love with the Huntsman or William.}}

* [[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]]...}}

** 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]].

* [[Shut UP, Hannibal]]:

** 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.

* [[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.

* [[Worm That Walks]]:

** The Queen can turn herself into a huge flock of ravens.

* [[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.