Although it’s said that most expecting Royal couples pray
for sons, this queen longed for a daughter and Snow White was in all aspects
the answer to her mother’s wish. But she was to be an only child as the queen
took ill and died while Snow White was a young girl. The king, grief stricken
with deep despair from the loss of his beloved queen, was lured into battle by
a dark force. Never the less, he and his army were victorious and even managed
to rescue a chained damsel being held prisoner. The king became enthralled with
her beauty and on the very next day they wed, but there was to be no happy
honeymoon for the new Royal couple. For she was an evil sorceress, but now she
is the evil Queen Ravenna (Charlize Theron). Her spells had well served their
purpose so on that night she killed the king, brought in her army and took over
his kingdom.
As Queen, she ordered the king’s young daughter to be locked
away high up in a tower far from everyone and everything while she ruled the
kingdom with her devoted brother Finn (Sam Spruell) at her side. Ravenna’s evil
reign was so poisonous that over the years nature turned on itself; the land
died, the people turned on one another and eventually all hope was lost. The
Queen demands to be the only source of grace and beauty, but even she has a
weakness; in fact she herself is the victim of a magical spell, except her’s
was cast with love by her mother for protection. Her spell guarantees
everlasting beauty, strength and unrelenting powers that can ever only be
undone by the blood of one fairer than she. So to keep herself and her spell
safe she relies on the truth and wisdom of a magical mirror to reveal“Who is
the fairest of them all?” And for the past several years, the answer is always
the same. However lately her beauty has been failing until finally one day, the
mirror proclaims “On this day, one has come of age fairer even than you…” Snow
White (Kristen Stewart) has been allowed to grow up and become the fairest of
them all, and now she possesses the only thing that can destroy the Queen, the
innocence of Fairest Blood. Gripped with anger and regret the Queen wants her
killed but the mirror also informs her that she will achieve immortality by
personally holding Snow White’s heart in her hands. Impatiently the Queen
orders Finn to retrieve the princess from the tower, but Snow White overpowers
Finn during a foolish moment of lax lust. She methodically escapes the tower
and the Kingdom and then sets off on a quest to find Duke Hammund (Vincent
Regan) with the hope that he can help her regain her father’s kingdom. Snow
White swims through the sea and roams the land trying to stay ahead of Finn and
the Queens soldiers until she stumbles into the Dark Forest;
a disgustingly toxic swamp like wasteland that few have dared to venture and
even fewer have survived to boast about. Once again Finn returns to the Queen
to report his failure to retrieve the innocent princess, she sends him out to
find someone that knows the forest and he returns with a troubled widower.
Queen Ravenna commands the Huntsman (Chris Hemsworth) to track and return Snow
White, alive; but he refuses and cannot be swayed even by the threat of death.
However, she persuades him with the promise of her power to bring his dead wife
back to life. That proves to be an offer he can’t refuse. So the Huntsman leads
Finn and the Queen’s soldiers out into the Dark Forest
and, yes he does find Snow White. But as usual Finn fumbles again, he calls the
Huntsman a fool and discloses that not even the Queen’s powers can bring his
wife back from the dead. Well, after a scuffle both the Huntsman and Snow White
vanish into the gloom of the forest. Meanwhile word of Snow White’s survival
and escape has reached the Duke and he’s pleased to pass the news on to his son
William (Sam Claflin), Snow White’s childhood best friend. William vows to find
her and bring her to their castle for safety. He manages to infiltrate Finn’s
search party and over time they finally catch up to Snow White, who by now has
collected quite a group of protectors. Never the less, she still needs at least
one more as William drops his disguise and pledges his allegiance to her
safety, meanwhile the Queen is suffering from the severance of her better half,
but the day ends in sorrow when not all protectors survive Finn’s surprised
attack. William joins forces with the Huntsman, but to their dismay the Queen
musters up enough magic to find Snow White and poison her. Her entourage
mistakes her for dead, but continues to deliver her body to the Duke’s Castle;
where, YUP, ya know it! True Love’s Kiss revives the fallen princess. And the
Duke with his entire kingdom helps Snow White rain H3LL back on the evil Queen
as she reclaims her father’s kingdom as the rightful heir.
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