Hey everyone! This is my first time writing fan-fiction. I'm actually a filmmaker and hoping to write a screenplay based on this story, but I wanted to get some feedback about it before I go devoting a few months of my time to write a script. I'm basically trying to get the story out of my system before I forget it and see how it flows and everything. I am VERY open to hearing your opinions, and making possible storyline changes based on your suggestions. As such, I'm not used to writing in this kind of format, so please bear with me! The film will most likely have a PG-13 rating, but if you want me to add some juicy scenes for your own enjoyment, I will be happy to (although they won't make it to the film) I just want keep you interested! I hope while you read you can kind of try to picture this as a movie in your head, because my goal is for it to end up in that format!
Cheers, BG.
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Once upon a time there lived a magnificently beautiful queen. The kingdom reveled in her beauty, and the king was finally happy again after the loss of his first wife. But the queen knew that she was not loved. Her beauty was what snared the king, but deep in her heart she knew it would soon fade.
Day by day, the king's daughter grew more and more beautiful and mature, her raven hair healthy and shiny, her red lips as soft as satin, her fair white skin as young and glowing as ever. The attention that was once directed toward the queen was slowly ebbing its way to her stepdaughter, Snow White.
Sensing the queen's insecurities, an old beggar woman came to the castle one day to bestow a gift upon the queen. It was a large, gilded mirror, with intricate ancient carvings and a beautiful grand shape. Its reflection had magical properties that made its subject appear even more radiant than true life. The queen graciously accepted, touched by the mysterious old woman's kindness. The mirror was placed in a secret room in the palace where the queen could lose herself for hours admiring her youthful beauty. Consumed by her vanity, she soon became obsessed with maintaining her youth and spiraled into a fit of despair. The king, saddened by the distressed state of his bride, would do anything she pleased to keep her complacent. She ordered more and more mirrors to be purchased for her own enjoyment, to the point where a whole wing had to be added to the palace to accommodate her personal hall of mirrors.
Some years later, news was brought to the palace proclaiming the king's death in battle fighting in another faraway land. The entire kingdom mourned the loss of their kind leader, and the queen was inconsolable. She believed that in her state of fading youth, she would never find another man who could love her. In her desperation, she turned to the powers of evil and dark magic in order to bring her beloved hall of mirrors to life. Deeper and deeper she fell into this manic state, calling upon the powers of evil to fulfill her desires until her once pure and warm heart had turned as cold as ice.
One day, when consulting her magic mirror during her daily routine, the queen was shocked by a new revelation:
Mirror, mirror, on the wall,
Who is the fairest of them all?
The queen mused, to which the mirror responded:
You, my queen, are fair, 'tis true,
But soon will be one fairer than you.
And there began the story of Snow White. A story, like many other fairy tales, we have all come to love and pass along to our own children, commending the heroine for her apparent goodness and purity we've derived based on her stunning looks. But what we do not realize, is that these stories themselves are what bring us pain, leave us feeling insufficient, and teach us that there is really only one, true thing that will always bring us our happy ending.
Beauty.