SNOW WHITE
In the interview with
Crave Online Tarsem stressed that this
Snow White will be a family film as opposed to Kirsten Stewart's
Snow White and the Huntsman. He hopes that it will get a PG rating. Ratings are a funny thing with Tarsem, as he was asked by the studio making
Immortals if he could turn that into a PG movie as well. He jokingly replied that if they wanted a PG rating then they'd only have "ten minute movie."
What is your take on that, that’s different from what Disney has done, or the horror version?
[...] In this particular one, it’s like the Queen, who’s looking into the mirror… You know, it’s always like the evil mirror, or she’s evil… She’s not evil; she’s just insecure. I said she’s insecure about beauty, about things that are passing her by, and now she wants to have power. Because the original one is just about vanity. It’s just about “Who’s the fairest?” I just said, so if she looks into the mirror – and I just don’t want her talking to the mirror – so I said she enters the landscape, which is a mindscape, and in there is a house, inside which are many mirrors, and in those mirrors she just talks to herself. So basically, it’s like all those nasty people that’ll always do what they want to do, but they hear voices, or [say] people told them. So it’s actually just her talking to herself. She’s just bad, but wants to outsource the evil and say “That thing told me.”
Oh, that’s really interesting.
So I found that really interesting, so I put one of those in.
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I like this vanity aspect, because it always amused me that this woman who’s obsessed with beauty, at the end of the story, turns herself into a hag…
Hag! [Laughs] For me, in this one, she gets turned into a hag.
Okay, so that’s her comeuppance.
Because basically there’s a particular charm that she’s put around something that gets broken, her true age comes out. So it isn’t “I’m melting, I’m melting,” but it’s pretty gross! [Laughs]