Jul 13, 2026 · 1 hr 34 min · 11 segments
This week Cinema in Seconds visits the happiest place on earth, as Ian, Dan and Alyson explore the Disney animated canon. So let your conscience be your guide and be our guest. We promise we'll have…
whatever we this is the start um this is you know obviously a landmark in film history generally and certainly for disney and the moment i'm choosing is one very important scene in the film so it's kind of breaking the rules but whatever it's fine and it's the scene where i've labeled him the assassin i guess he's like a huntsman that's probably what he is
yeah he's chris
hemsworth he's
Hold on, the assassin? He has a name.
It's the Huntsman.
Exactly.
Yeah, to a Mr. and Mrs. Huntsman, a son, the.
But the scene where he is going to fulfill the Queen's command and murder Snow White, and he's got dagger in hand, ready to do it.
We get the great image of the shadow passing over Snow White as she's oblivious to what's happening.
Turns around, the camera sort of like zooming, snap zooming into him as he's holding this knife.
you know, dangling in his hand, and you see his resolve, it's both a frightening image, but you see his resolve weakening in the moment, and eventually admitting he can't do it, it's too cruel an act, and encourages her, like, the queen will come after you, she wants you, you have to just run, run away, really what the catalyst of the plot is, and, you know, thinking about this moment, it literally was in part just an image that flashed in my brain of you know, the, the shot of the Huntsman with the knife and how just impactful and frightening an image that is.
Um, but I also think in a weird little way, this is kind of a perfect embodiment of the Disney fairy tale, um, sense of morality and point of view in terms of, you know, people talk about, like, the grim fairy tales and how people love to point out, oh, they're actually much darker in the original source material.
And, yeah, if you go by, like, the details of the page, there's some pretty evil and dark and twisted stuff that happens in some of those stories that we don't get fully in the cartoons.
But by the same token, there's all sorts of frightening, horrifying, monstrous stuff in the cartoons.
He's just a donkey slave, probably still.
That's unpleasant.
So they're films that, for as much as they are more family-friendly, they're not totally shying away from what is evil, what is monstrous, what is cruel in this world.
But also, fundamentally, you feel, and especially, I think, in the era where Walt Disney himself is still alive, that...
On a fundamental level, though, that is not the world.
The world is good.
The world is just.
The world is not going to be cruel for its own sake, that this person who has been instructed by their lord to commit this awful act, and they won't do it, they cannot do it, despite everything that says they should, because fundamentally, in Disney's world...
People are good, even in the midst of ugliness.
whatever we this is the start um this is you know obviously a landmark in film history generally and certainly for disney and the moment i'm choosing is one very important scene in the film so it's kind of breaking the rules but whatever it's fine and it's the scene where i've labeled him the assassin i guess he's like a huntsman that's probably what he is
yeah he's chris
hemsworth he's
Hold on, the assassin? He has a name.
It's the Huntsman.
Exactly.
Yeah, to a Mr. and Mrs. Huntsman, a son, the.
But the scene where he is going to fulfill the Queen's command and murder Snow White, and he's got dagger in hand, ready to do it.
We get the great image of the shadow passing over Snow White as she's oblivious to what's happening.
Turns around, the camera sort of like zooming, snap zooming into him as he's holding this knife.
you know, dangling in his hand, and you see his resolve, it's both a frightening image, but you see his resolve weakening in the moment, and eventually admitting he can't do it, it's too cruel an act, and encourages her, like, the queen will come after you, she wants you, you have to just run, run away, really what the catalyst of the plot is, and, you know, thinking about this moment, it literally was in part just an image that flashed in my brain of you know, the, the shot of the Huntsman with the knife and how just impactful and frightening an image that is.
Um, but I also think in a weird little way, this is kind of a perfect embodiment of the Disney fairy tale, um, sense of morality and point of view in terms of, you know, people talk about, like, the grim fairy tales and how people love to point out, oh, they're actually much darker in the original source material.
And, yeah, if you go by, like, the details of the page, there's some pretty evil and dark and twisted stuff that happens in some of those stories that we don't get fully in the cartoons.
But by the same token, there's all sorts of frightening, horrifying, monstrous stuff in the cartoons.
He's just a donkey slave, probably still.
That's unpleasant.
So they're films that, for as much as they are more family-friendly, they're not totally shying away from what is evil, what is monstrous, what is cruel in this world.
But also, fundamentally, you feel, and especially, I think, in the era where Walt Disney himself is still alive, that...
On a fundamental level, though, that is not the world.
The world is good.
The world is just.
The world is not going to be cruel for its own sake, that this person who has been instructed by their lord to commit this awful act, and they won't do it, they cannot do it, despite everything that says they should, because fundamentally, in Disney's world...
People are good, even in the midst of ugliness.
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