10 Animated Disney Films That Made Big Changes To The Source Material

8. Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs

Based Upon: 'Snow White' by The Brothers Grimm As could be expected, the changes made by Disney are quite often to give fairy tales a lighter and happier feel. Their first, and arguably biggest, feature length animated film is definitely no exception. The Evil Queen was a lot more deserving of the title in the Grimm version. When she receives the heart (and in the tale, liver) she believes to be Snow White's from the Huntsman, she proceeds to eat them. Yes, eat them. Upon discovering that Snow has not actually been harmed, The Queen takes matters into her own hands. Here attempting to kill her twice before the poisoned apple. The original tale has a much less graceful awakening than Disney's "love's first kiss" from her prince. Instead she wakes after the prince orders her glass coffin to be carried away. The carriers trip during the act, causing the apple to dislodge from her throat. With the Queen originally being a more despicable character, it is only fitting that she suffer a more gruesome death. In the Disney version, she falls to her death as the result of a lightning strike sending her off a cliff. In the tale, she actually attends her stepdaughter Snow's wedding to the prince. There she is forced to wear burning-hot iron shoes, which she must dance in until her death.