I'm so tired of people saying that the Prince from Snow White is a creep for kissing Snow White when he thought she was dead.
People act as if he put his tongue down her throat while she looks like a regular corpse.
Maybe I'm just more comfortable with death because of my upbringing.
There's a European tradition that you would kiss dead people goodbye. You would also wait with a dying person because dying alone was one of the most horrible ways to die.
In Poland, you would spend three days with the dead body of your relative in the house so family and friends have time to say goodbyes. We even have pictures of family members in coffins, so we could remember them.
Yeah, it's a very post-modern, historically, culturally-small-minded way to look at it.
Specifically in this movie (which is a fairy tale's fairy tale) people just...totally ignore the scene where The Prince is introduced.
Seriously and truthfully, BECAUSE the Prince only takes action in three scenes of the movie, you HAVE to take all three of them very very seriously. Because thats all there is to know about him. That's how fairy tales work: lots of information hiding under very brief, simple snippets of information. It's called nuance.
Anyway.
The Prince kisses Snow White as a culmination of their promised love for each other.
First scene he's in, he falls in love with her because of her obvious purity and he overhears her longing for someone to love her. Then she runs away because she's not sure of him, and doesn't know him. But he sings his part of the song, which is all about how he has just one heart to give, one devotion to spend, and he's choosing to give it and spend it on her if she'll have him.
And she will have him. How do we know? She sends a kiss to him on the dove. That's how the exchange ends; that's how she responds, and that's why he leaves satisfied. It's their engagement scene. They're promising their hearts to each other.
Fast-forward, the Queen messes up what might have been the natural follow-through of that engagement which is marriage by trying to kill Snow White, she's living in the woods, but she won't forget the Prince and wholeheartedly believes he'll come find her.
And the very next thing we hear about him is that he keeps his promise. He's got one heart, one love, one devotion, and it's promised to Snow White, and he will not stop searching for her. When he finds her, he's returning her kiss from their engagement scene. He thinks she's dead, but he has to finish his quest anyway. This is him, trying to keep his promise even if she's dead; he's trying to fulfill the exchange they had when they saw each other last.
It's ridiculous to assume that she needed to be awake and alive to give permission for him to kiss her; it's ignorant of the whole relationship, symbolic and literal, between these two fairy tale characters. She already sent him her kiss and her heart; he already promised to claim it; he's fulfilling the promise in that scene.
Crazy postmodern people, don't know how to take in a story. Not everything gets to have your socio-cultural lens imposed upon it.
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I had some fun with photoshop tonight fixing up this animation cell of Adam/the Beast after his transformation. If you look at the original cell, the 2nd image, you can see that the lighting and shadowing is incorrect to what animator Glen Keane intended, if you look at the third image; the light is intended to be from the bottom right and he’s meant to be viewed from below— you’re looking up at him. His right eye was also drifting away a bit, so I centered that and pushed up his mouth more to empathize the bottom of his chin.
You can really see the difference here
Does it work? That’s up to y’all. I always thought he was hot 🤷♀️
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I would appreciate a reblog perhaps
EDIT: after some deranged nut operating on moon logic accused me of somehow contributing to corporate injustice against artists and spitting in the face of the animators who worked on this scene, I am forced to state that THIS WAS JUST FOF FUN. I’m not saying this edit is better than the original or that the movie gets bad marks on craftsmanship, I just wanted to share a silly photoshop edit. Dear god.
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Dungeons & Disney Princesses - Snow White
“The old woman holds out the apple and offers it to you. She says it’s a magic wishing apple.”
“Well, that’s obviously sketchy as hell, but I’m not sure I would know that. Can I roll to see if I realize this is sketchy as hell?”
“Go ahead.”
“...Nat 1.”
“Great news. You’re like 99% sure it’s totally a magic wishing apple and this old woman is your best friend.”
“DAMMIT.”
inspo from @heroeddiemunson
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