“I'm awfully sorry. I didn't mean to frighten you. But you don't know what I've been through. And all because I was afraid. ” – Snow White (“Snow White”, 1937)
What a dramatic change this story was from the all-smiles fairytale movie adaptation from Disney. It was interesting enough to have the stepmother queen’s point of view for a change. She still wanted to kill Snow White, but this time it was the Queen who was the good girl. Snow White was portrayed as a blood-sucking and sex-loving monster whose body and heart is as cold as ice – as cold as snow. As a huge Disney follower, this stirred my spirit a little; but the darkness and raunchiness of this story just made me appreciate it more. Having learned that the real Snow White actually had these rather wild themes makes everything more tolerable than repulsive.
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