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The Queen is a Fictional Character in the '' Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs '' fairy tale and the Disney Animated Film Based On It . The Queen was often referred to as "'''Queen Grimhilde'''" in Disney publications of the 1930s. Her appearance was inspired by the Helen Gahagan character in the film " She " (1935). She was voiced by Lucille LaVerne. The Queen is extremely beautiful but very Evil and very proud and Vain . She seduced and married a widowed King who had a daughter called Snow White with his first wife; the King died, and the Queen sent Snow White to work in the Castle and abandoned her title as Princess , similar to the situation of Cinderella . Aside from being the first ever classic Disney villain, the Queen holds symbolic status above the rest of the Disney Villains and is regularly seen as their leader - although the most powerful is traditionally Maleficent , even she follows the Queen. DISNEY MOVIE VERSION The Queen possessed dark powers and knowledge, including a Magical mirror of which she could look on what she wished when she summoned the mirror. The Magic Mirror showed a haunted smoky face of which replied to the Queen's requests. She regularly asked the Mirror who was the fairest in the land, and the Mirror always replied her that she was ("Mirror, mirror, on the wall. Who's the fairest of them all?"). However, one day, the Mirror told her that Snow White was the new fairest woman in the land. After overseeing the handsome Prince singing a love song to Snow White, the Queen, in a jealous rage, ordered her huntsman Humbert to take the Princess deep into the forest and kill her, also removing her heart to prove that he had done so. Humbert did not bear to kill the young princess and let her go. He returned with a pig's heart and gave it to the Queen. When she questioned the Mirror again, it still came with the reply that Snow White was the fairest and revealed the huntsman's deception. Filled with fury, the Queen went down into the bowels of the castle and mixed a Potion that turned her into a hag, an old peddler woman so that her beauty was disfigured in ugliness; a true image of a twisted evil. This appearance of the Queen is commonly referred to as The Witch. She then proceeded to make a Poison apple of which incoporated death inside, and proceeded to leave the castle; she thought that no one would know or perform the counter-curse of her spell and believed the dwarfs would bury her alive. The Queen came to the cottage, unknowingly followed by two vicious vultures, and found Snow White baking a pie for Grumpy the Dwarf. It is not known whether the animals saw through her disfigurement or whether they realized she was the Queen through the vultures; but after an unsuccessful attempt to warn Snow White by attacking the Queen, they went to warn the dwarfs of the Queen's arrival. The Queen tricked Snow White into letting her inside the House and into eating the poisoned apple pretending it was a magic wishing apple. Snow White took a bite and fell to the floor, apparently dead. The Queen rejoiced in her victory, but was then chased by the dwarfs deep into the forest. She climbed up into a valley where she stood upon a precipice and hoped to push a large rock onto the dwarfs using a large stick. A great storm had risen as she crackled and screamed as the dwarfs were almost finished by the giant boulder. But fate intervened and a flash of lightning destroyed the precipice, sending her tumbling into the valley, the boulder following, seemingly killing her and leaving the aforementioned vultures to devour her corpse. ALTERNATIVE DISNEY VERSIONS In a portion of the Disney film that was never completed, the Evil Queen was to have captured the Prince who wakes Snow White. In this scene, she was also to have made the skeletons in the Dungeon dance in order to frighten him. This would later inspire the dungeon scene in Sleeping Beauty when Maleficent torments Prince Philip . The Queen is still a popular Fairytale villain that has appeared in a number of other medias other than ''Snow White''. The Disney version would go on to make frequent appearances in Disney Comics , where, under the alias The Witch, she regularly antagonized Disney characters like Li'l Bad Wolf , Chip 'n Dale , and Tinkerbell . There was even an Italian story explaining how she had survived her apparent death in the movie, and why she couldn't change back to her normal self. In both versions of the nighttime show '' Fantasmic '' in Disneyland , the Queen plans to get rid of Mickey Mouse by changing his dream into a "nightmare Fantasmic." She mixes a spell and becomes the Witch in a similar way to the movie. She calls on a host of other villains, including Ursula , Cruella De Vil , Scar , Frollo , Jafar , Hades , Chernabog , and Maleficent . Eventually, Mickey destroys all the villains and the Queen is the last to be destroyed. THE BROTHERS GRIMM VERSION The original Brothers Grimm fairy tale is mostly the same as the Disney one, with a few differences. In the original story:
Execution Also, although the Queen did not die right after giving Snow White the poisoned apple, she was killed eventually, as after Snow White and the Prince revealed her evil-doings, she has been invited to their wedding, where she was forced to wear red-hot iron shoes and "dance until she dropped down dead." |
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