Snow White (1995 Video)

Kathleen Barr: Queen

Quotes 

• Narrator : Sadly, shortly after Snow White was born, her mother, the good and noble queen, died of a mysterious illness, and the king soon remarried. This new queen was truly beautiful, but her beauty went no deeper than her skin. She was a wicked and cruel woman, who was only happy when she was looking into one of her many mirrors. And when the good king died while fighting a war in a faraway land, the new queen did not shed a single tear. For now she could tax the people heavily, and use the money to buy herself all sorts of lotions and potions that would maintain her great beauty. And the people of the kingdom became sad and frightened. The queen had many, many mirrors, but by far her favorite was a magic mirror, which always spoke the total and absolute truth. For many years, several times each day, the vain queen would look into her magic mirror, and ask the same question.

  [repeated lines] 

  The Evil Queen : Magic mirror, tell me do. Tell your mistress; tell her true. Answer me, obey my call: who's the loveliest of all?

  Narrator : And each time, the magic mirror would answer exactly the same way.

  The magic mirror : The answer, queen, is crystal clear. You are most lovely far and near.

  Narrator : And then, one fateful day, the queen received an answer of a different sort. Yes, a very different sort indeed.

  The Evil Queen : [angered]  Ugh! Send me my royal huntsman!

• The magic mirror : Her skin is pure as a brand-new snow. Her eyes set people's hearts aglow. Lips red as blood, hair black as night, the loveliest is: the fair Snow White.

  The Evil Queen : What? How can this be? *I* am the most beautiful woman in the land. I always have been and I always shall be. Treacherous mirror! How dare you say Snow White is lovelier than I!

  The magic mirror : Your loveliness is great, 'tis true, but there is one more fair than you. For Snow White's beauty does begin where yours does stop: 'tis from within.

• The Evil Queen : [to the huntsman]  So you understand what you must do?

  The huntsman : But you're majesty,

  The Evil Queen : [in a firm voice]  I asked you a simple question! Do you understand?

  The huntsman : [slumping]  Yes you're majesty, I understand

  The Evil Queen : Good, cause if for some reason you should fail me then tonight I shall be dining upon head of huntsman do I make myself clear?

  The huntsman : Yes your majesty.

  The Evil Queen : Good then it looks like we understand each other, Now Go!

  [throws her mirror on the ground breaking it and she laughs maniacally]