Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.

 

                                 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.

I first saw this one when I was 4 years old at a local drive-in and to 

those who don't know what a drive-in is, it was a place where you went 

to watch movies when you didn't want to sit in a gross sticky theater, 

most of the time there was a speaker you hung on your car window that 

played the movie, damn I miss those days. This was the first full 

animated movie Disney made and it was a major hit and it is the most 

iconic animated movie Disney has ever done. The story and animation is 

amazing for it's time, Disney really know how to make good movies. So, 

with that, lets get to the story shall we:

Snow White is a lonely princess living with her stepmother, a 

vain Queen. The Queen worries that Snow White will be more beautiful 

than her, so she forces Snow White to work as a scullery maid and asks 

her Magic mirror daily "who is the fairest one of all." For years the mirror 

always answers that the Queen is, pleasing her.

One day, the Magic Mirror informs the Queen that Snow White is now 

"the fairest" in the land; on that same day, Snow White meets and falls 

in love with a prince who overhears her singing. The jealous Queen 

orders her Huntsman to take Snow White into the forest and kill her. She 

further demands that the huntsman return with Snow White's heart in a 

box as proof of the deed. However, the Huntsman cannot bring himself 

to kill Snow White. He tearfully begs for her forgiveness, revealing the 

Queen wants her dead and urges her to flee into the woods and never 

look back. Lost and frightened, the princess is befriended by woodland 

creatures who lead her to a cottage deep in the woods. Finding seven 

chairs in the cottage's dining room, Snow White assumes the cottage is 

the untidy home of seven orphaned children.

Actually, the cottage belongs to seven adult dwarfs—named Doc, 

Grumpy, Happy, Sleepy, Bashful, Sneezy, and Dopey—who work in a 

nearby mine. Returning home, they are alarmed to find their cottage 

clean and suspect that an intruder has invaded their home. The dwarfs 

find Snow White upstairs, asleep across three of their beds. Snow White 

awakens to find the dwarfs at her bedside and introduces herself, and all 

of the dwarfs eventually welcome her into their home after she offers to 

clean and cook for them. Snow White keeps house for the dwarfs while 

they mine for jewels during the day, and at night they all sing, play 

music, and dance.

Meanwhile, the Queen discovers Snow White is alive when the mirror 

again answers that Snow White is the fairest in the land and reveals that 

the heart in the box is that of a pig. Using a potion to disguise herself as 

an old hag, the Queen creates a poisoned apple that will put whoever 

eats it into the "Sleeping Death," a curse she learns can only be broken 

by "love's first kiss," but is certain Snow White will be buried alive. 

While the Queen goes to the cottage while the dwarfs are away, the 

animals are wary of her and rush off to find the dwarfs. Faking a 

potential heart attack, the Queen tricks Snow White into bringing her 

into the cottage to rest. The Queen fools Snow White into biting into the 

poisoned apple under the pretense that it is a magic apple that grants 

wishes. As Snow White falls asleep, the Queen proclaims that she is now 

the fairest of the land. The dwarfs return with the animals as the Queen 

leaves the cottage and give chase, trapping her on a cliff. She tries to roll 

a boulder over them, but lightning strikes the cliff before she can do so, 

causing her to fall to her death.

The dwarfs return to their cottage and find Snow White seemingly dead, 

being kept in a deathlike slumber by the poison. Unwilling to bury her 

out of sight in the ground, they instead place her in a glass coffin 

trimmed with gold in a clearing in the forest. Together with the 

woodland creatures, they keep watch over her. A year later, the prince 

learns of her eternal sleep and visits her coffin. Saddened by her 

apparent death, he kisses her, which breaks the spell and awakens her. 

The dwarfs and animals all rejoice as the Prince takes Snow White to his 

castle.