This was partly because of Walt’s concern for story construction. Early plans for the song “Some Day My Prince Will Come” included Snow White’s dream vision: she and the Prince would be seen waltzing in a fantastic cloudscape.Īll these episodes were dropped from the finished version of the film. He would later be shown escaping and riding heroically to save Snow White, but arriving just too late. One sequence that was developed at some length would have depicted the Prince being seized by the Queen’s guards and imprisoned in a dungeon, where the Queen taunted him by describing the details of her cruel plans for Snow White. Early outlines suggested a romantic, outgoing Prince, one who engaged in light romantic banter with Snow White on his first meeting with her in the garden, and turned ecstatic handsprings when she revealed that she loved him. When they began story development for the film, Walt and the writers pictured the Prince playing a far more extensive role. His total screen time-broken up, even during those appearances, by cutaways to other characters-amounts to something barely over two minutes. Yet we see him only in fleeting appearances at the beginning and end of the film. He is, after all, the romantic figure at the center of Snow White’s dreams, the character who sets the plot in motion (by motivating the Queen’s jealousy) and who ultimately effects the happy ending. The Prince.įor a character who plays a pivotal role in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the Prince spends a markedly brief period of time on the screen. As our first major exhibition Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs: The Creation of a Classic prepares to close in just two weeks, we are celebrating all things Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs so for this month's unusual suspect, we set our sights on. but how much can you say about all the other characters in the background? Each month in our Unusual Suspects series, we will examine one character from our featured film of the month who may not shine as brightly as the main characters of the film, but still plays a distinct role in the story as a whole. We all know about Snow White, her seven compelling Dwarfs, the Evil Queen, and even the Magic Mirror.
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