Genre:
Comedy/Adventure/Fantasy
Directed by:
Tarsem Singh
Starring:
Lily Collins, Julia Roberts, Sean Bean, Armie Hammer, Nathan
Lan
Release date:
Fri 30, Mar 2012
Budget $85 million
Box office $162,835,167
Mirror Mirror is a 2012 comedy fantasy film based on the
fairy tale "Snow White" by the Brothers Grimm. It is directed by
Tarsem Singh and stars Lily Collins, Julia Roberts, Armie Hammer, Nathan Lane,
and Sean Bean. It is unrelated to the Gregory Maguire novel Mirror, Mirror.
Plot
Snow White's mother died in child birth. Her father, the
King (Sean Bean), then raised Snow White so that she could rule the kingdom one
day. His new wife is the Queen (Julia Roberts), the most beautiful woman in the
land. One day, the king leaves to fight a great evil that has invaded the land,
giving Snow White a golden dagger. He rides off into the forest and never comes
back. The Queen rules in his place. Jealous and threatened by Snow White and
the people's devotion to her, the Queen decides that "Snow White must do
what snow does best, fall."
Ten years later Snow White (Lily Collins) is turning
eighteen and has spent much of her life locked in the palace. The Queen does
not care for her but Snow White is still loved by the palace staff, especially
by a kind baker named Margaret (Mare Winningham), who took care of Snow White
ever since the King disappeared. Margaret tells Snow White that the kingdom is
rightfully hers and that she should go outside and see what has become of her
people. Snow White then defies the Queen's orders and leaves the palace, intent
on seeing the conditions of her kingdom. In the forest, she meets Prince Andrew
Alcott (Armie Hammer) and his companion Charles Renbock (Robert Emms) who have
been robbed by short bandits. She and the Prince are drawn to each other but go
their separate ways. Snow White arrives in the town the palace overlooks (which
she remembered visiting the town once before with her father), and discovers it
is barren and the once-happy people are destitute due to the Queen's greed.
Angered that the Queen has destroyed everything her father worked for, Snow
White decides to help the kingdom and overthrow her stepmother.
Prince Alcott finds his way to the palace. The Queen,
realizing he comes from a wealthy kingdom, hatches a plot to get him to marry
her so she can solve her financial problems. She hosts a ball in honor of the
Prince and goes to great lengths to make herself as beautiful as possible. Snow
White secretly attends the ball planning to ask the prince, whom she believes
she has not met, to help her restore the kingdom. She and Alcott learn the truth
about each other when they are partnered in a dance. Smitten, Prince Alcott
makes sure that Snow White stays by his side which the Queen notices. The Queen
has Snow White seized by her guards, and Snow White (for the first time in her
life) stands up to her stepmother and tells her she has no right to rule as she
does. Seeing Snow White as the threat she always feared she would be, The Queen
orders her manservant Brighton (Nathan Lane) to take the princess into the
forest and feed her to the Beast that lives there. Brighton takes Snow White to
the forest, but is unable to kill her. He releases her and tells her to run.
Snow White flees the Beast (Frank Welker) and collapses at the door to the
Seven Dwarfs' house.
The Queen goes to her Magic Mirror, a portal to a bleak and
barren world that contains a house full of mirrors. Within the mirrors lives
the Queen's reflection (Lisa Roberts Gillan) who is much wiser, kinder, and
somewhat younger than her. She gives advice to the Queen when she asks for it.
The Queen requests a love potion so she can make the Prince fall in love with
her. The Mirror Queen repeatedly warns her that there is a price for using dark
magic, but the Queen refuses to listen. Back in the forest, Snow White wakes up
to find herself surrounded by the dwarfs Grimm (Danny Woodburn), Butcher
(Martin Klebba), Wolf (Sebastian Saraceno), Napoleon (Jordan Prentice), Half
Pint (Mark Povinelli), Grub (Joe Gnoffo), and Chuck (Ronald Lee Clark) who is
nicknamed "Chuckles" because he is always laughing. After much
debate, they agree to let her stay with them for one night.
The Queen levies another tax against the people to pay for
the parties she throws for Prince Alcott. Brighton is sent to collect and is
informed by the town magistrate that the people can not tolerate much more. On
the way back to the palace, the dwarfs rob Brighton and steal the tax money.
When Snow White finds out that the Dwarfs are thieves and that the stolen money
belongs to the townspeople, she is angry. The Dwarfs explain that no one stood
up for them years earlier when the Queen expelled them from the kingdom because
she thought they were ugly. Thus, they feel no guilt for stealing. Snow White
sneaks away while they are distracted to return the money. The townspeople are
overjoyed to have their money back and Snow White lets the Dwarfs take credit
for it, earning them the people's acceptance and gratitude. The Dwarfs agree
that Snow White can stay permanently if she agrees to become a thief like them.
She agrees, but only if they can steal from the Queen and give back to the
people.
Meanwhile, the Queen informs Alcott that Snow White is dead
and attempts to get him to marry her only to be interrupted by Brighton. When
the Prince finds out that the bandits have robbed Brighton, he goes after them
unaware of the awful things the Queen has done. In the forest, Alcott discovers
that Snow White is not only alive, but in league with the bandits. Each
believing the other to be in the wrong, Snow White and Alcott duel. Alcott
returns to the Palace defeated and informs the Queen that Snow White is alive
and in league with the bandits that stole her money.
The Queen consults her Magic Mirror again and demands that
the Mirror Queen punish Brighton for lying to her. The Mirror Queen turns him into
a cockroach (which he was dressed up as at the Queen's ball) and tells the
Mirror Queen to use its magic to kill Snow White. Despite the Mirror's warning
about using dark magic, the Queen (blinded by hatred) agrees to accept whatever
consequences her actions may bring. She uses a love potion to make the Prince
fall in love with her, like what she did to Snow White's father but with
unintended results (she accidentally used a potion called Puppy love which
causes the Prince to act like a devoted puppy dog). Although the effects of the
potion were wrong, she uses the Prince's new found devotion to get him to agree
to marry her. When Snow White learns of the wedding, she is heartbroken. The
Queen then uses black magic to create two giant wooden puppets in the forest
and uses them to try and kill Snow White and the Dwarfs. Snow White is able to
cut the strings of the puppets and break the mirror's spell, but she decides to
run away to protect her new friends. The next morning, the Dwarfs find her gone
and discover a note she left them telling them that she loves them all. They
intercept her just as she is preparing to leave and convinces her that their
lives are better with her.
They decide to crash the wedding of the Queen and the
Prince, and do so. The Queen arrives at her wedding to find the Prince gone and
the noble guests in their underwear, robbed of their clothes and valuables. The
guests inform the Queen that Snow White has captured the Prince. Back in the
forest, the Prince (still under the spell) wishes to be with the Queen. The
Dwarfs and Snow White come to the conclusion that they have to use true love's
kiss, which will break any spell. Snow White kisses Alcott as her first kiss
and the spell is broken.
The Queen arrives in the forest intent on killing Snow White
herself. She reveals that she can control the Beast that has been plaguing the
forest and sends it after Snow White. Snow White fights the Beast with help
from the Dwarves and the Prince, but all are soon overcome. As the beast is
about to deliver the killing blow, it hesitates and Snow White sees that it
wears a necklace with a moon charm on it similar to the one the Queen wears.
She cuts the chain with her father's dagger and the Beast suddenly becomes
engulfed in light. In the Mirror House, the Queen is gloating, but suddenly
realizes something is wrong. She begins to age and the Mirror Queen tells her
that this is her consequence for using dark magic. The Beast turns out to be
Snow White's father who has no memory of the last ten years. Grateful to Alcott
for his assistance, he agrees to let him marry Snow White.
During the wedding celebration, a hooded crone offers Snow
White an apple (which is the poisoned apple) as a wedding gift. Learning that
the crone is what has become of the Queen, Snow White cuts a piece of the
apple, offers it to the Queen, and remarks it is time to accept that she has
been beaten (something the Queen once said to her). Accepting defeat, the Queen
eats the apple. The Mirror House is subsequently destroyed as the Mirror Queen
declared that it was Snow White's story all along.
The film's epilogue reveals what happened to the Dwarfs:
Grimm writes a book of fairy tales, Napoleon becomes a hairdresser, Wolf
rejoins his pack, Half-Pint finds a girlfriend, Grub just eats, Butcher becomes
a flyweight champion, and Chuck joins the royal circus.
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References.
External links:
"Main Page." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, 04 Sept. 2012. Web. 04 Sept. 2012. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page>.
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I love Julia Roberts.All films she acted i saw and i'm waiting this film.
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