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Snow White and the Huntsman
After the Evil Queen marries the King, she performs a violent coup in which the King is murdered and his daughter, Snow White, is taken captive. Almost a decade later, a grown Snow White is still in the clutches of the Queen. In order to obtain immortality, The Evil Queen needs the heart of Snow White. After Snow escapes the castle, the Queen sends the Huntsman to find her in the Dark Forest.
2012 · Directed by Rupert Sanders · 127 min · Adventure · Fantasy · Drama · Screenplay in the scene database · 9 frames
Tagline
The fairytale is over.
Plot
While admiring a bright red rose blooming during a white winter, Queen Eleanor of Tabor pricks her finger on its thorns. Three drops of blood fall onto the snow, and she wishes for a daughter with skin as white as snow, lips as red as blood, hair as black as a raven's wings, and a heart as strong as the rose.
The queen gives birth to Snow White but falls ill and dies many years later. After her death, Snow White's father, King Magnus, and his army battle an invading army of glass soldiers. King Magnus finds a prisoner called Ravenna, becomes enchanted with her beauty and marries her the next day.
Ravenna is in fact a powerful sorceress who used the false glass army to charm her way into the kingdom. On their wedding night, she confesses that there was a king much like Magnus that used her, hurt her, then discarded her. She kills him before taking over the kingdom. Snow White's childhood friend William and his father, Duke Hammond, escape but are unable to rescue her, and she is locked away in a tower for years. Ravenna does not know why she allowed Snow White to live, but has a feeling about her.
Plot summary from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.
Crew
- Screenplay: Evan Daugherty, John Lee Hancock, Hossein Amini
- Cinematography: Greig Fraser
- Edited by: Neil Smith, Conrad Buff IV
- Music: James Newton Howard
- Production design: Dominic Watkins
- Produced by: Joe Roth, Sam Mercer
Cast
- Kristen Stewart as Snow White
- Chris Hemsworth as The Huntsman
- Charlize Theron as Queen Ravenna
- Sam Claflin as William
- Ian McShane as Beith
- Ray Winstone as Gort
- Nick Frost as Nion
- Noah Huntley as King Magnus
- Toby Jones as Coll
- Eddie Marsan as Duir
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English
- Studios: Universal Pictures, Roth Films
- Budget: $170,000,000
- Box office: $396,600,000
- Themes: magic, immortality, fairy tale, queen, imprisonment, forest, deception, eternal youth, evil queen, evil stepmother
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