Film Theory: What REALLY Saved Snow White!

You've known and loved Snow White your entire life - this is the quintessential Disney story of adventure and love conquering all! OR IS IT? What if I told you that love didn't save Snow White at all? Disney has been pulling the wool over our eye since the 1930's and TODAY I set the record straight.

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[funkymonkey]

I love how he has to make everything realistic. Maybe the apple was just covered in some evil magic poisoning. But his theory makes lots of sense.

[sofiaorwhatever]

Now this is interesting:

I don’t know how it is in the rest of the world, but as a German I was told the actual Grimm stories way before ever watching the Disney movies. And in that she never woke up. The prince took her to the castle...dead...to burry her...on the way to the castle the little stupid dwarf that was part of holding her was stumbling over a rock which made her cough out the actual bite, then she woke up and for some reason still married the random man that wanted to burry her

[darkmage]

Matpat: *looks up poisonous things*

Fbi: hes typing again quick get the notebook

[gloomyTurtle_]

0:11 I’m rewatching older videos, yk, in light of the recent announcement and. She’s holding a ukulele here. Genuinely hilarious coincidence

[chubbybunny]

The dwarves didn't have a coffin just lying around, the movie specifically says that they didn't have the heart to bury her, so they made the coffin out of gold and glass themselves to keep her in to essentially preserve her. Which yeah, does sound creepy, but remember we do it too with embalming.
They were all probably gonna bury her IN that coffin once they'd all finished mourning her. So she's actually alive entirely because of the dwarves. The carbon from them mining absorbed the nightshade, and them wanting to mourn her kept her from essentially being buried alive.

[ButtercheeseYay]

Here's how it goes in the original:
1. The apple is actually the _third_ attempt of the Queen to kill Snowwhite with her own hands.
First she tries to suffocate her by binding her corset too tight with a ribbon/ lace she sells her, second she puts a poisoned comb in her hair.
2. The dwarves build the glass coffin fer her specifically, because they believe Snowwhite is too beautiful to be burried. Much to their suprise, she doesn't start to rot. But since they don't know what a coma is, they just assume that some higher force or something tries to preserve her beauty as well.
3. There is no "true love's kiss". The prince comes by the house randomly and the necrophilliac maniac asks to keep her body, because she looks so beautiful. On his way back home one of the servants carrying the coffin trips, resulting in Snowwhite spitting out the apple piece that was stuck in her throat.
4. The prince and Snowwhite get married and they invite the Queen to the wedding. Which is where Snowwhite makes her stepmother literally _dance to death in a pair of glowing hot metal shoes._

[Moonstar]

You reeeaallly have to appreciate the lengths this guy goes to for his theories.

Respect!

[fictionalcrossing]

the colleen thing in the beginning did NOT age well 😭😭

[sunshine--vkw]

I like how he just completely turns a fairy tale into something slightly realistic

[bvkxjbn]

#1 Corpse Germs
#2 Corpse Germs
#3 She was like 13 in the movie

[estrella]

The reason for the coffin is that the movie says that, the dwarves fashioned her a coffin of gold and silver. They didn't have it just lying around.

[Sabellesanctuary]

Prince charming: *finds a body in the woods* _kisses it_

Logan paul: *finds a body in the woods* _records it and laughs_

[oracle]

Oddly enough in the original fairy tale, she choked one the poisoned apple and it was lodged in her throat. When the prince came by, he had other men help him carry the glass coffin and one of them tripped and caused the coffin to drop, dislodging the bit of poison apple in her throat, causing her to wake up. There are variations of the story but this is the main one collected by the brothers Grimm.

[calvinposumah]

*Evil queen:* ok mirror i killed my stepdaughter now who is the fairest of them all?

*Mirror:* * shows a dead body *

[Incred_Canemian]

Wait, you're saying love isn't a magical force that can overcome the natural laws of the universe?

[SuperSongbird]

I've read the original fairy tale and in that version Snow White falls into a death-like state because the apple gets stuck in her throat.  The Prince doesn't kiss her in this version, he wants to take the coffin away for a proper burial but it gets dropped, the vibrations knock the apple piece out of Snow White's throat and she wakes up.  Could this be a very lucky case of oxygen starvation where she somehow didn't suffer permanent brain damage?

[tracybui]

“the dwarves saved her not the CORPSE GERM PRINCE”

[slimetime]

Matpat: “Kind of like toys R us, just without the creepy giraffe guy”

Me: R.I.P Jeffrey

[Dannythedanman]

Here is a ligit question: WHY DOES THE PRINCE FIND A DEAD BODY IN THE MIDDLE OF THE WOODS, AND KISS IT!?

[hannanags]

"How about the fact that the prince’s first instinct when he sees a dead body lying in the forest is to pucker up?"
Seriously bro? #1- corpse germs, and #2- a dead body can't consent