Following the 1937 film “Snow White,” the live-action film was finally released on March 21, 2025, but it’s nothing like the original. The original film begins with the narrator unfolding the story of a lonely girl who works for her wicked stepmother as a scullery maid. Meanwhile, the new movie devotes the beginning to show Snow White’s childhood: showing how her royal parents ruled with kindness and baked pies for villagers. It portrays how the wicked Queen weasled her way into power after Snow’s mother died and how the princess continued to take care of the common folk, despite her circumstances.
In the original movie, Snow White instantly falls in love with a handsome prince who overhears her singing at her wishing well and begins to serenade her. Whereas, the new film, the unnamed prince seems to be a wannabe Robin-Hood heartthrob named Jonathan, who leads a resistant group of bandits that steals from the monarchy to the poor.
As he does in the animated film, the Huntsman backs out of killing Snow, although instead of tricking the Queen with a pig’s heart, he merely puts an apple in a box and hopes she doesn’t notice. The Queen eventually takes matters into her own hands, disguising herself as an old hag and showing up at the dwarfs’ front door with a poisoned apple in her hand.
In this version, Snow White still takes a bite and falls into a sleep-like death. Rather than a glass coffin, the dwarfs place the princess on a stone slab adorned with flowers in the middle of the woods. Jonathan shows up one day, having escaped the Queen’s dungeon for stealing potatoes. He plants “love’s first kiss” on the sleeping Snow White, who awakens ready to fight the Queen.
When she arrives at the castle gates, the Queen orders her guards to seize Snow White and kill her once and for all. Snow recalls her mother’s advice to always remember people’s names. And so, the princess appeals to the guards’ good graces, recounting fond memories of the men they were before they joined the Wicked Queen’s force.
Now with no one on her side, the Queen flees to her throne room, where she smashes her magic mirror and gets sucked into its enchanted vortex. It’s a much less gnarly ending than the animated movie, which climaxes with the Queen plunging to her death after attempting to crush the dwarfs with a giant boulder.