Biancaneve, una principessa "medievale"

BIANCANEVE E I SETTE NANI

(Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs)

1937, regia di David Hand

Scheda: Nazione: USA - Produzione: Walt Disney Pictures - Distribuzione: Rome, Buena Vista Pictures, Gativideo, RKO Radio Pictures, Walt Disney Home Video - Soggetto: dalla fiaba dei fratelli Grimm - Sceneggiatura: Ted Sears, Richard Creedon, Otto Englander, Dick Rickard, Earl Hurd, Merrill De Maris, Dorothy Ann Blank, Webb Smith - Fotografia: Maxwell Morgan - Montaggio: Margaret Goodspeed - Scenografie: Ken Anderson, Tom Codrick, Hugh Hennesy, Harold Miles, Kendall O'Connor, Charles Philippi, Hazel Sewell, Terrell Stapp, McLaren Stewart, Gustaf Tenggren, John Hubley - Musiche: Frank Churchill, Leigh Harline, Paul J. Smith - Effetti speciali: Buena Vista Visual Effects - Formato: Technicolor, animazione - Durata: 83'.

Voci: Roy Atwell, Stuart Buchanan, Adriana Caselotti, Eddie Collins, Pinto Colvig, Marion Darlington, Billy Gilbert.

Trama e commenti: cinematografo.it - kataweb.it - mymovies.it - film.it - film.spettacolo.virgilio.it: «La malvagia Regina ha una piccola figliastra, la gentile Biancaneve, ma la tratta con disprezzo. Anni dopo, interrogando lo specchio magico, viene a sapere che la più bella del reame è proprio la fanciulla; rosa dall'invidia, la sovrana ordina di sopprimerla. Commosso dalla grazia di Biancaneve, il sicario la lascia libera nel bosco, dove viene soccorsa dagli animali e ospitata dai Sette Nani. Ma la crudele Regina, scoperta la verità, dà fondo alle sue arti magiche ed escogita un sortilegio... Commento critico Che dire? Il primo, celeberrimo (e tecnicamente rivoluzionario) lungometraggio interamente animato di sempre, sintesi perfetta dello stile di casa Disney».

Plot Summary, Synopsis, Review: IMDb - entertainment.msn.com - tvguide.com - rottentomatoes.com: «...West wasn't far from wrong. Consider Snow White, living with seven devoted, worshipful little men. Obviously, Disney was as naive in ways as the children in his audiences. Maybe that's the secret to his animated successes, or one of them. Snow White softens the Grimms's fairytale, but then there are the sequences of terror. Timeless they are, and here Expressionistic. Indeed, Disney always seemed to pull the stops out for the moments evoking evil in his animated features. And for all the bird trills of Snow White (never again would Walt's heroine have such a fantasy singing voice, and for that reason, she's the favorite heroine of many animation auteurs; certainly, we could all agree she's the most surreal of the sisterhood), and the cuteness of the comic relief inspired by the little men, our nod goes to Eleanor Audley (who would supply the voice for all Disney's memorable villainesses through Sleeping Beauty) and the animated rendering of the Wicked Queen. Did Mr. Disney and Mr. Hitchcock have more than love of terror in common? Dubbed "Disney's Folly" by its detractors, this masterpiece was a personal success for Walt Disney--the fulfillment of his dream to pioneer animation of unimagined scope. The film opens on a storybook, and as "Some Day My Prince Will Come" plays in the background, the turning pages explain how the orphaned Snow White has been brought up as a servant of a wicked queen. The queen, an icily beautiful woman with piercing eyes, stands before her Magic Mirror and poses her vain, oft-asked question: "Mirror, mirror, on the wall, who is the fairest of them all?" She is shocked when the mirror gives an unexpected answer: "Snow White." The nasty queen then orders that the innocent young woman be killed. Snow White, however, has eight things going for her--Prince Charming and seven dwarfs named Doc, Happy, Sleepy, Sneezy, Bashful, Grumpy, and Dopey...».

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