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Pop culture circles and the general public are buzzing about the latest upcoming big-screen version of a very scary Snow White in Snow White and The Huntsman<\/a>. Poisoned apples, dark and enchanted forests, magic mirrors, and mythical creatures are all part of this particular version \u2013 with no happy songs or cute animals anywhere in sight.\u00a0 This movie is laced with the stuff of nightmares and dread.<\/p>\n

Makes sense, of course, as this is probably closest in spirit to what the Brothers Grimm had in mind. Filled with terror and trials, Princess Snow is not the squeaky clean gal living with a bunch of miner dwarves. In the upcoming movie, a smart and resourceful Snow White (played by Twilight\u2019s Kristen Stewart) is a warrior princess, clad in armor and resembling a fierce Joan of Arc more than anything else. The evil Queen Ravenna, played with a deliciously macabre twist by the drop dead beautiful Charlize Theron (\u201cMirror, mirror, on the wall, who is fairest of them all?\u201d\u00a0 If it\u2019s between Queen Charlize and Snow Stewart, all bets are on the Queen) is a soul-sucker, a bit vampiric.\u00a0 And, naturally, there is the equally talented and ruggedly handsome Huntsman (played by Chris Hemsworth of Thor and The Avengers), tasked by the Queen to cut out Snow\u2019s still-beating heart. Instead, Huntsman Eric teaches Snow White how to be a true warrior \u2013 and learn how to fight.<\/p>\n

This movie, opening June 1, is full of classical imagery, with a universal theme of the eternal battle between light and dark \u2013 with each portrayed in its opposite. The blonde Queen embodies darkness, harkening back to old Celtic mythology, to the Morrigan\/Badb\/Macha, the Lady of Ravens \u2013 the Scald Crow and Queen of Battle and Death.<\/p>\n

With a taste of the Medieval, Snow White and The Huntsman looks to be the darkest \u2013 and most enjoyable \u2013 yet.package.\u00a0 Her stepdaughter, Snow White, has hair as dark as night, lips as red as blood, skin as white as snow. \u00a0At face value, she is walking darkness. But it is Snow White, the Chosen One, the One destined to break the Kingdom\u2019s rule
\nof darkness, leading the people into the light. Even in previews, Snow White walks from darkness, through to the other side to an enchanted forest known as Sanctuary, bathed in light, towards a magnificent White Stag \u2013 another symbol in Celtic mythology.<\/p>\n

And what of these fearsome images generated by nightmares and fairytales? \u00a0Writers and filmmakers are not the only ones who bring them into the light.\u00a0 Painters, too, have translated their haunting and disturbing visions onto canvas. Marc Chagall is one of those artists. \u00a0His Flowers and Feathers comes close to a Snow White vision, a jumble of light and dark, bird and steed, while The Blue Circus is a cacophony of nighttime lapis overtaking hidden elements: a girl in the dark, an electric green goat, birds, and fish. Hints of light \u2013 the moon, roses, and the red of the leotard flash in the gloom. \u00a0Salvador Dali\u2019s frightening interpretations of the unconscious landscape are also the stuff of scary tales, while Van Gogh\u2019s Starry Night and Rousseau\u2019s The Dream are much more ethereal than the darker undertones of either Chagall or Dali.<\/p>\n

Whether in book or film, canvas or song, fairytales are part of the fabric of our existence, touching the most primal of fears and emotion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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