Kristen Stewart ‘Snow White’ looks to be fairest of all
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As the vampire craze starts to quiet down, the fairy-tale one starts to really crank up. And wouldn’t you know it, there’s a bridge between the two. Kristen Stewart. The ‘Twilight’ star, who reprises her role as Bella Swan in the upcoming ‘The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part I,’ will follow that next year with her lead role in “Snow White and the Huntsman.’
Rupert Sanders’ take on the fairy tale is the second 2012 movie to put a new spin on the Grimm Bros. tale; Tarsem’s “Mirror Mirror” comes out in March.
But for all the Stewart hype, it’s Charlize Theron’s movie, at last judging by this new teaser. (Embed code is not available, but you can vew it here.)
Playing the Evil Queen in hot pursuit of Snow White, Theron is a convincing villain, especially with her mellifluous-but-lethal voice-over.
In a set of shots that at once evoke a kind of Gothic chic and modern chase movie, Theron’s queen bares her teeth, reveals some insecurity and lays out her plans. (Stewart mostly runs.)
‘Lips red as blood, hair black as night, bring me your heart, my dear, dear Snow White,’ she intones, in a storyline that feels far more coherent than that other costumed fairy-tale update, 2010’s ‘Red Riding Hood.’ There’s also a surprisingly human element, as Theron describes how it once brought her pain to cause evil, but now, well, she’s mostly nourished by the victims’ cries.
Female leads in big action movies are rare enough, but it’s even more heartening to see them leavened with some complexity. Or maybe we’re just happy to see Stewart not pulling at her hair.
The movie hits June 1.
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--Steven Zeitchik
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