But Walt Disney is not the author of the story Snow White: The original idea was Grimm brothers, who wrote a large part of the fables and stories for children in the century XIXbut with a much more tone dark and details that were later omitted in the cartoons.
The Grimm brothers They are responsible for stories like “Hansel and Gretel”, “Cinderella”, “Rapunzel”, “Little Red Riding Hood”, “Sleeping Beauty” and many more. In the case of Snow Whitewere inspired by the story of two princesses: Maria Sophia Margeretha Catharina von Erthal, who was born in 1729, and Margaretha von Waldeckwho was born in 1533.
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In all versions of the Snow White story, she was poisoned by the witch and cared for by the dwarfs.
The story of the two has similarities with the story of Snow White, but also differences. In all of them, the princess’s mother dies during childbirth and her father remarries. The name of “Snow White” It was a description of what his mother wanted: “White as snow, rosy as blood and hair black as the ebony of this window.”
Maria Sophia had stayed blind because of the smallpox and she was also a girl, she was not a young adult like in the story of disney, But both had kindness as a virtue and how much everyone loved her. The legend says that Maria Sophia He spent a lot of time with the workers at the bieber mines They were very narrow and some tunnels were almost inaccessible, so many of them were children. These workers wore colored caps to protect themselves from the hits of the stones, but unlike the drawing of disney, Many of them died from the brutal working conditions.
The witch in the story tried to kill Snow White three times and she ended up being saved by the dwarfs on each of those occasions: the first attempt is with a ribbon around her waist, the second attempt is with a poisoned comb and the third with the apple Walt Disney He only used the apple incident in his film, to soften the story a bit.
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The figure of the prince who gives Snow White the “kiss of true love” is in both versions, as is the glass box that watched over her while she was sleeping.
Walt Disney fell in love with the story of Snow White and that is why he put almost all of his company’s money into a process that lasted three years of production. New cameras, new ways of drawing and workers in a state of almost “slavery” were needed in shifts up to 24 hours.
The working hours were long, the technique with which the film was drawn was new and the cameras had to be adapted. Everything was an investment of money, hours, sweat and effort of the employees of Walt Disney. Perfection was something that was demanded of them in every detail, having to redo entire sequences if an error was found or the movement did not convince. To adapt to the new way of drawing human bodies, the way a woman, a man and two short people moved was analyzed for weeks.
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The Oscar for Snow White is very special, since it was an Honorary award.
All the sacrifices and risks paid off when at the premiere the applause was massive and mixed with sobs from adults and children. Great was the surprise of Walt Disney seeing that not only the little ones in the room were excited, but the adults could not hide their tears at the beautiful ending. The Hollywood Film Academy gave “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” a Honorary Oscar, since at that time the category of Best animated film did not exist. The award was very particular: one large statue and seven small ones.
Recently, a user of TikTok found a detail that could give another explanation at the end of the film. At the moment when the prince kisses Snow White and revives her, we see how they leave together on a horse towards the castle, but unlike the beginning of the story, the castle is not on the ground, but is among the clouds, in the sky, which could indicate that Snow White She died with the witch’s poisoned apple and the prince is actually an angel who leads her to eternal life.
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The castle that Snow White goes to with the prince is among the clouds, which could imply that she is actually dead.