I saw a post going around about this movie a few days ago, so I got the artbook for the movie “Red Shoes and the Sever Dwarfs”! I’ve heard a lot of positive things about this movie but hadn’t got around to watching it yet, maybe I’ll watch it this weekend.
※Contains spoilers for the movie!! Please read at own risk
I hope it’s okay to post some pictures from it, the book actually had a lot of info packed in it and it was a really nice read, it had interviews, and things about how making 3D animated projects worked, since making this movie was a huge challenge for this studio. I think it was their first major project and apparently it took them 10 years to develop it as a whole.
The first edition of the book came with a mini poster design that was unused, along with a small notebook, it was so cute!
Uhh so as you may know, the story of this movie revolves around the seven princes(dwarfs) and snow white, the princess.
The princes were supposed to be something like the idols of this universe with great skills and looks-
but they’ve turned into dwarfs because they attacked a fairy princess mistaking her for a monster judging her only by her looks. She gave them a curse that’d make them shift into small green gremlins whenever someone “looks at them”. When they are alone they can return to their original selves, but if someone else is there they immediately have to change into this form ↓
and of course they’re in utter shock and they wish to return back to their pretty selves- and there’s only one way back: to find the most beautiful princess ever and receive a kiss from her. And then we get the princess, snow/red shoes.
Snow White is a princess who looks like the one on the left, and she’s actually pretty happy, fond and proud of how she looks. She somehow obtains this red shoes that turns her into this slim and pretty figure on the right though, and seeing how she is in that form, the dwarfs think “wow, she is the one we’ve been looking for” and tries to help her find her dad and help her return to the kingdom she’s from. So she starts to have her own internal conflicts too, thinking how she might be treated differently when she reveals how she originally is?? but she already loves herself as she is in general overall, and she’s pretty much a character that’s fully developed in terms of personality.
It’s the other main character, Merlin, that’s the one who grows throughout the story. Handsome as he is,(or used to be) he really cares about the way he looks and is so determined to get back being pretty. I kind of get him though, I’d want to go back too if I were to be him I mean look at how cute he looks! (although he’s still kinda cute as his little green self)
Really like how he turned out in the finalized design, tbh the reason I initially got interested in this movie was due to how good this guy looked?? he looks so cute
anyhow, he finds it really hard to accept that he isn’t “beautiful” anymore and emphasizes a lot on how he used to be the most handsome guy ever and believes if snow saw him as his original self she’d fall for him immediately as well. But in reality, she ended up loving him regardless of the way he looked (in fact, it says that she actually thought he was cuter as a dwarf)
and later on, he finds out that she is the most beautiful princess in the world for him too, not due to her looks or her kind heart or anything. He just ended up loving her as a whole, for being her. After he realizes it, his curse is finally lifted and him and snow ends up together as their true selves.
the other guys seem to learn their own lessons too from their friend and find their own loves regardless of looks
Overall, really cute story. I already knew about the plot but reading about the director’s thoughts behind the making process and how this story came to be felt pretty meaningful, it isn’t perfect, but I like the message they’re trying to send!
They write that the reason they chose the fairy tale “snow white and the seven dwarfs” as a motif was because that story has a lot to do with “looks’ and “beauty”, with the stepmother trying to murder snow white for being more beautiful than her and snow white eventually being saved due to how beautiful she looks. They wanted to question what is true beauty then? and in that story, snow white leaves with the prince leaving the dwarfs behind (always thought about that too, I hope she remembered to thank and repay them) so they made the dwarfs take a more major role, and flipped the story around enabling the dwarfs and the princess to save each other, regardless of the way they look.
In short, the message this movie’s trying to deliver is “love yourself as you are”, as stated by the director. It could be an overused message by now but I still think they put a lot of thought into this to try and deliver a meaningful message, and it’d be nice if little children could feel more positive about themselves after watching a movie like this in their childhood!
other than that, the book in itself was really pretty on its own too!// looking at the artworks (the bgs especially) was really inspiring! This is my second time buying an artbook from an animated film (the first being zootopia and that movie as great!) and it felt really pleasant! a lot of beautiful concept artwork from production and there were quite a bit of words too? I was surprised it actually had some entertaining read about film production. Pretty convinced I’ll give this movie a try! If it’s good, I’ll recommend it! It seemed rly cute, the artbook was adorable and I loved it for sure.
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