Snow White is Disney’s latest live-action project, and despite being based on the 1937 animated classic Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, it left a couple of scenes out and changed many others. Disney continues to seize the trend of live-action remakes, even though many of its live-action movies so far haven’t succeeded. Its most recent adaptation is Snow White, directed by Marc Webb and starring Rachel Zegler as the тιтle princess. Snow White has the same premise as the animated movie but with a couple of changes.

Snow White follows the тιтle princess, who, after the death of her parents, is left with her stepmother, known as the Evil Queen (Gal Gadot). When the Evil Queen’s Magic Mirror tells her Snow White is now the “fairest of them all”, the Queen orders the Huntsman to kill the princess, but he tells her to escape. Snow White finds refuge with seven dwarfs in the forest, but she wants to confront the Evil Queen to save her father’s kingdom. Although Snow White adapted many scenes from the animated movie (most with some changes), many others didn’t make the cut.

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Snow White & The Prince’s Meeting At The Well

Snow White & Jonathan’s Meeting Is Completely Different

Snow White’s first musical number in the 1937 animated movie leads to her first meeting with the Prince. In it, Snow White is singing at the well about her desire to find her true love. The Prince, who is pᴀssing by on his horse, hears her singing and joins her, but Snow White is too shy and runs back into the castle. However, they continue to sing to each other when Snow White comes out to the balcony, and it’s love at first sight for both.

Snow White does give the princess a musical number at the well, but it’s not about finding her soulmate. The remake completely leaves aside her meeting with the Prince at the well mostly because the Prince doesn’t exist. Instead, Snow White’s love interest is Jonathan (Andrew Burnap), a rebel leading a group of thieves that defies the Evil Queen’s monarchy. Snow White and Jonathan actually meet at the castle, when he sneaks in to steal food.

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Snow White Cooking For The Dwarfs

No Homemade Meal For The Dwarfs

In the animated movie, Snow White convinces the dwarfs to let her stay when she tells them she can help them clean and cook – and as the dwarfs aren’t the most organized nor the most skilled chefs, they agree to let her stay. Snow White cooks dinner for them, which then leads to a musical number by the dwarfs (but more on that one in a bit). In the live-action version, however, this happens differently, and Snow White never cooks for the dwarfs, but they all clean the cottage together.

The dwarfs agree to let her stay for the night, but the following day she decides to leave. Although Snow White later returns with Jonathan and his group, she never cooks for the dwarfs, so in this version, the dwarfs are a lot more self-sufficient than in the animated version (or, at least, that’s what it seems).

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The Dwarfs’ Bathing Song

Snow White Leaves One Dwarfs’ Song Out

The dwarfs’ most famous song is definitely “Heigh-Ho”, but their second musical number in the animated movie is as fun and memorable. The song is “Bluddle-Uddle-Um-Dum”, also known as “The Dwarfs’ Washing Song”, which takes place after Snow White realizes the dwarfs don’t have the best hygienic habits. Before they have dinner, Snow White sends the dwarfs to wash their hands and faces, and they do so with a song, very fitting to their sense of humor.

Snow White keeps “Heigh-Ho”, though with a couple of changes, but it completely forgets about the bathing song. Instead, the live-action movie has a song with the dwarfs and Snow White when they clean the cottage, and later when they have a party with Snow, Jonathan, and his group of thieves.

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Snow White Kissing The Dwarfs Goodbye

Neither When They Go To Work Nor At The End

Despite being based on the classic Disney princess, the live-action version of Snow White is different. This version has more agency and looks for justice for the kingdom, so much so that she leaves the safety of the cottage to go find her father. Because of this, she doesn’t kiss the dwarfs goodbye when they go to work, nor does she at the end of the movie, before she departs with Jonathan.

In the animated movie, Snow White gives each dwarf a kiss (including Grumpy) when they leave for work, and she stays in the cottage. At the end of the movie, Snow White once again gives each dwarf a kiss before she leaves with the Prince. Of course, this doesn’t make the live-action Snow any less empathetic or kind, and the movie used the space of these scenes for more development of her character.

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Snow White Making Pies At The Cottage

Snow White Only Made Pies When She Was Little

In the 1937 movie, Snow White stays in the cottage while the dwarfs go to work. This is so Snow White will be safe and the Queen won’t find her, though she still does, anyway. While at the cottage, Snow White keeps herself busy making apple pies, and that’s what she’s doing when the Queen, now as the old hag, shows up at her window with the poisoned apple. In Snow White, the princess also makes pies… at one point in her life.

In the opening sequence and musical number, Snow White is shown making pies with her mother and giving them away to the people in the kingdom. Young Snow White is then shown making pies all by herself at the castle, but after her parents’ deaths and the Evil Queen’s takeover, she stops. Snow White doesn’t make apple pies at the cottage, either, and instead, she’s just waiting inside when the hag appears.

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The Dwarfs Going After The Evil Queen

The Dwarfs Help In A Different Way

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs sees the forest’s animals alerting the dwarfs at the mine that the Evil Queen has found the princess, and even worse, that she is at the cottage. The dwarfs rush back home but arrive too late as Snow White has bitten the apple and fallen into a death-like sleep. However, just as they arrive, the old hag is leaving the cottage, and so they go after her. With the help of the animals, the dwarfs follow the hag through the forest and to a cliff, where the Evil Queen meets her end.

In the live-action adaptation, the dwarfs are also alerted by the forest’s animals and rush back to the cottage, but Snow White has already fallen for the Queen’s trick. The Queen returns to the castle, but the dwarfs never go after her. Instead, the dwarfs begin to mourn Snow White, but luckily, Jonathan escapes from the Queen’s dungeon and returns to the forest, where he finds Snow White – and the rest is history.

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The Evil Queen Falling Off The Cliff

The Evil Queen’s Demise Is Different

The Evil Queen’s plan and intentions are the same in both the animated version of Snow White and the live-action adaptation, but her ending is different. As mentioned above, the dwarfs go after the old hag through the forest and arrive at a cliff. There, the hag tries to move a big rock with which she intends to crush the dwarfs, but lightning strikes the cliff. This makes the hag fall off the cliff to her death, with the dwarfs watching as she falls. In Snow White, the Queen returns to the castle and transforms back into her younger self.

However, Snow White arrives to confront her and reminds the people what the kingdom used to be like before the Queen took over. Thanks to this, the guards and the civilians stand up to the Queen, who tries to attack Snow, only to be stopped by Jonathan’s crew and the dwarfs. The Queen runs back into the castle and, after the Magic Mirror tells her Snow White will always be fairer, she destroys the Mirror. As this was the source of her power, the Mirror absorbs her and she disappears into a vortex.

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The Dwarfs Making A Glᴀss Coffin For Snow White

Luckily, Snow White Isn’t “ᴅᴇᴀᴅ” For Long

The Evil Queen’s plan in the animated version of Snow White is that the dwarfs will think Snow White is ᴅᴇᴀᴅ and will bury her alive. However, her plan doesn’t go like that, as the dwarfs find Snow White “so beautiful, even in death” that they can’t bring themselves to bury her. Instead, they make a coffin of glᴀss and gold so they can keep eternal vigil at her side. That way, the forest’s animals can also visit Snow White, and that’s also how the Prince finds her.

The live-action remake of Snow White completely omits the glᴀss and gold coffin, but the dwarfs still do their best to honor their friend. The dwarfs take Snow White’s body to a big rock and lay her there, and there’s an arch of flowers above it. It’s a lot less shocking than seeing Snow White in a glᴀss coffin, and luckily, she doesn’t stay in death-like sleep for long.

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Snow White & The Prince Leaving For The Castle

Snow White & Jonathan’s Ending Is Different

As mentioned above, Snow White doesn’t feature the character of the Prince as seen in the animated movie, and, instead, Jonathan is her love interest. This gives Jonathan a bigger role in the story and a lot more screen time than the Prince in the 1937 movie, and this helps make his return to the forest a lot more emotional. When Jonathan arrives and sees Snow White lying there, he’s heartbroken and mournfully kisses her, completely unaware that that is the way to break the spell. Snow White, Jonathan, his crew, and the dwarfs then leave to confront the Queen, and they win.

At the end of Snow White, the princess is shown dancing with the rest of the kingdom and Jonathan, and it’s implied that they are now married. In the animated movie, however, right after the Prince kisses Snow White and she wakes up, they leave the forest and start their journey back to the castle, a scene that the live-action remake skips in favor of the final confrontation with the Queen.