Snow White
In “Sonne” by Rammstein, the dwarfs and snow white as the main characters similar to the Brothers Grimm version. However, there was no witch. The dwarfs was Snow white’s achilles heel. Instead of giving her the apple and making her eat it, they kill her and then put her in a glass casket. The crystal casket is similar to “The Young Slave”. The dwarfs/workers in both tales are miners and cater to snow white. However, in the video snow white seem to be much larger and over powering. The apple that she ate was also poisonous in the original tale, while in the video it was the saver of the princess. The apple saved her in the casket and that is how she became free.
One huge difference in “Sonne” is the sexual appeal. Snow white continues to attract the men/workers and her attire is very revealing. There is a scene where she has on the garment around her leg and she is showing it off to the workers. She was also in the bubble bath in one scene and that is when the men put her to sleep. Once she came back from her “sleep” she had the men rubbing against her and showering her with their presence.
She has always talked about “whipping them into shape”. But she actually treated them as a slave and punished them when they was not acting right. In the Brothers Grimm version snow white was very nice and she made sure the dwarfs was in order.
The music in the video is really gothic and sounds like punk rock. In snow white she was very calm and made it so she was portrayed as very sweet. Snow white is very bright while all the other characters are dark and gruesome. One of the men even to have what looked like a black face.
I liked the Brother’s Grimm version better because it rubbed off to me differently. It made me actually think of a tale with a princess. In “sonne” there was no “magical” representations and they did not make it look like a fantasy. There was entirely too much sexual actions. They also continuously triggered a bad time in history (slavery) and I do not think that should be in a tale. I also like the way the princess is treated and she seem to be innocent.
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