The music video for the song “Sonne” by the German metal band Rammstein, is centered around the well-known fairy tale Snow White. The video has many similarities with the classic tale but has more noticeable differences than similarities. The main similarity the video has is how it keeps the main story the same, but they leave out certain important elements and twist the story in a unique way.
The video keeps the same main characters such as Snow White and the dwarves as the center of the story, however, it completely leaves out the evil queen and the prince. This is a huge difference because the evil queen is an essential part of the original story. The video keeps the dwarves fairly similar because they are still miners, and Snow White is similar in appearance to the classic Disney version of Snow White. Another main similarity is how Snow White comes to live with the dwarves, and when she ‘dies,’ the dwarves put her in a glass coffin and set it on top of the mountain, which are both present in the original story. Apples are also present throughout the video which pays homage to the various versions of Snow White.
Rather than fleeing from the queen, Snow White just barges into the dwarves’ home. Instead of being kind to the dwarves, Snow White uses them and their hospitality to her own benefits, and she even abuses them by beating them and making them serve her like slaves. In this version Snow White is cruel rather than kind. The dwarves don’t appear to want to escape from Snow White and they continue to see and treat her as a queen and goddess. In the one scene of the video where all the dwarves are hugging Snow White, there is a circular window behind her head that makes a sort of halo around her head. This image is similar to famous pictures if Jesus where there is a circular halo around his head. This comparison supports the theory that Snow White is a divine-like being to the dwarves who practically worship her even though they also don’t appear to like her much either.
In this version when Snow White dies, she dies from some sort of overdose, instead of being poisoned by the queen who is nonexistent. The dwarves put Snow White in a glass coffin on top of a mountain. An apple tree leans over the coffin and an apple falls from the tree and breaks the glass of the coffin which causes Snow White to wake up. This is different from the original version, and it is also interesting how they changed the story, because instead of the apple being the cause of her death it is what actually revives her from her sleep.
I don’t really like this version of Snow White compared to other versions. I don’t like how she was cruel person rather than kind, and I didn’t like how the dwarves blindly served her against their will. Even though I didn’t like this version as much I still think it was a very interesting twist on the story and I thought certain symbolisms in the video was also very interesting.
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