Blog 6 Sonne vs. Snow White

The music video, “Sonne” by Rammstein has many similar symbols and characters to the tale of Snow White by Brothers Grimm, but even though you can see these similarities I feel that both stories are made for two completely different audiences. In the music video you see the band playing the seven dwarfs. They are mining just as they would be doing in the story, but in this version there is a twist. Snow White is not cooking and cleaning the house for the dwarfs, but the dwarfs are working for her. She is a gold dust addict that has the dwarfs mine all day to find gold for her. She treats the dwarfs almost as slaves and is seen spanking them, but they work hard for her and it seems as though they have a sexual attraction to her. In the video the comb is no longer a threat to Snow White like in the tale because the dwarfs are seen brushing her hair with it. Instead of the Queen being the threat to Snow White, she is a threat to her own self because she snorts the lines of gold and she shoots up while she is in the bath, which puts her in a deep sleep. In this version it can be said that her sleeping would really be like she overdoses from the gold drugs. I think that Snow White being a threat to herself is showing that she may also be the queen because that character is not seen. This example was also brought up in class about how the two characters could really be one in the Grimm version as well. Like in the Grimm version Snow White is put in a glass coffin for all to see her beauty, but the apple no longer puts Snow White to her doom. Instead the apple falls from the tree and brings her back to life. The apple goes from putting her into a deep slumber in the Grimms tale, to saving her in the music video. The music video loos like it could be geared toward people who maybe be addicted to something that is not good for them. Teaching them that the addiction could potentially be fatal. Where as the tale teaches a lesson to a younger audience that you shouldn’t always trust everyone you meet and that you shouldn’t be tempted by things that you see. I personally like the music video, but I feel as if it only shows half of the story. If I was to recommend one over the other it would be the Brothers Grimm version just because you see the whole story unfold.