![]() ![]() Platinum Edition DVD File:Mirror roy disney.jpg This is the last appearance of the Mirror in the film Whether the slave within is free following the Queen's death, whether the mirror is broken, or whether it simply remains unharmed, in the castle is unclear like the Huntsman and the Raven, the mirror is a minor character and is primarily used as a way of advancing the story of the Evil Queen. Though the Queen at first believes the spirit to be incorrect, she is told that she holds the heart of a pig and that her stepdaughter still lives, in the Cottage of the Seven Dwarfs. The evening following Snow White's introduction to the Seven Dwarfs, the Queen again consults the Mirror, presenting it with what she believes to be Snow White's heart. The Queen then orders her Huntsman to kill Snow White. When the Queen angrily asks for the girl's name the spirit describes her, making it obvious to the Queen that Snow White is now the fairest. When asked who the fairest of them all is, for the first time the spirit replies that, while the Queen is beautiful, a fairer being exists. The first scene of the film reveals that the Mirror hangs in the Queen's private chamber she walks to the mirror and summons the slave within, who appears amid smoke and fire. However, fearing that her stepdaughter, Snow White, may one day become more beautiful than she, the Queen forced the girl to dress in rags and made her work long as a scullery maid in the castle. The film's introduction (told in the form of a book) informs the audience that the Evil Queen consults the Magic Mirror every morning, demanding to know who is fairest of them all as long as the slave in the mirror answers that the Queen is the fairest, she is content, knowing that the mirror never lies. The slave can only answer a question with the strict truth, even if sometimes his answer can turn out to be quite enigmatic.Īppearances Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs Even though in the movie he is the Evil Queen's slave, it is possible that he could obey other people. He has the capacity to know everything and to know the answers to all the questions. Reitherman animated the Mirror nine times before he and Walt Disney were satisfied. This, symmetry, to an extent, was lost in the final film, as special effects, including smoke, fire, and ripples, distort the features. In order to make the face completely symmetrical, for each extreme pose, Reitherman drew one-half of the face, folded the animation paper in half, and traced the other half. In order to produce the Slave in the Magic Mirror's 'weird voice', actor Moroni Olsen spoke his lines with his head in a frame covered with old drumheads.Īnimator Wolfgang Reitherman found the task of animating the Magic Mirror difficult, particularly as the animator favored animating characters such as Goofy, who expresses himself by moving his entire body the face in the mirror does not move about and has no pupils, so Reitherman was only able to animate its eye and mouth shapes to accompany the dialogue. The mouth of the Magic Mirror expresses no feeling, it remains impassive. Its upper lip is red while the lower one is purple. The rest of his face is a more nuanced color, with tones of green and yellow. His eyebrows are thick and his eyes are slit black. The top of his face, including the forehead, eyebrows and part of the nose, is purple in color. The Magic Mirror's face is a theatrical mask which appears, at the order of its master, in a beautiful mirror surrounded, on the one hand, by a strip of violet color and on the other hand, gold and gold. He does not hesitate to tell the truth to the Queen when it is revealed that Snow White was still alive. Whilst he is antagonistic on various occasions, he is not intentionally evil, as he is forced to obey the Evil Queen due to being her slave. ![]() Not much is known about the mirror except that his sole purpose is to serve whoever may own him at the time. 5.3 A Twisted Tale: Fairest of Them All.5.2 Fairest of All: A Tale of the Wicked Queen. ![]()
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