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Doesn't all the pre-suppose that the mirror is talking about physical beauty?
Given that what we're told about beauty is physical characteristics I figure that's fair. It's the colour of hair, lips, and skin, not the quality of heart and spirit, is it?
We do learn that the evil queen is, well, evil, and Snow White is nice, but that's not the setup.
It's the colour of hair, lips, and skin, not the quality of heart and spirit, is it?
Is it not "who's the fairest of them all"? If not okay. If so, open to a lot of interpretation.
That's too bad. I was hoping that it was good because Michael Chabon wrote the script.
Was he high at the time?
Is it not "who's the fairest of them all"? If not okay. If so, open to a lot of interpretation.
Considering the mirror at any point tells the queen it is her, I don't think there's a lot of interpretation for it to mean anything other than superficial looks, unless there's a really low fucking bar set for quality of character.
Considering the mirror at any point tells the queen it is here, I don't think there's a lot of interpretation for it to mean anything other than superficial looks, unless there's a really low fucking bar set for quality of character.
OK, had a hard time parsing this for a while, but I'm guessing that "here" was supposed to be "her", which makes a lot more sense. And point taken if so.
Man, I don't even have the excuse of alcohol or a soft keyboard for that typo. I just... kept typing, and apparently, I type "here" more often than "her" and just went on autocomplete.
Is it not "who's the fairest of them all"
Like PMM says, it's the mirror that's talking, but when Snow is wished for, she's wished for by feature ("how I wish that I had a daughter that had skin white as snow, lips red as blood, and hair black as ebony"). Not by character. The story seems to stick pretty clearly to vaunting the physical, at least at first. True character will out.
Apparently Uta von Ballenstedt was considered quite the looker in her day.
Linda Holmes loved The Cabin in the Woods: [link]
Okay, that sounds like pure awesome on a bed of awesome with a dollop of awesome on top.