Movie Monday: Misquoted Movie Lines


March 24, 2025 11:04 AM CDT
By: Laura McKenna
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If you’re like me, I sometimes just make up my own words to a song. Not that I do it on purpose or anything. I genuinely think I’m correctly singing along but what I hear sometimes (ok, most of the time) ends up being something completely different than what I see when I look at the lyrics written down on a page. Huh. How could that be?
Maybe the same way as some famous movie quotes are misquoted so often that the real quote seems incorrect when you finally watch the movie again.
Take Snow White, for example. Let’s test this out. Go ahead and say the famous line about the “mirror on the wall”…
Don’t cheat. Just say it. Now let’s see if you’re correct.
Chances are, what you think you remember from the original 1937 Disney classic Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs isn’t the line at all.
In the original Disney classic, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs the Evil Queen utters the famous line: “Magic mirror, on the wall – who is the fairest one of all?”.
Did you think she said, “Mirror Mirror, on the wall”? You wouldn’t be alone. I did, too.
Maybe we’re getting that confused with the original Brothers Grimm story (translated into English):
Mirror, mirror, on the wall,
Who in this land is fairest of all?
But wait…that land part isn’t something I remember either.
Maybe we’re thinking of Disenchanted….
No, that’s not the one I was thinking. It was definitely fairest, not powerful.
Or maybe…
But the crazy part is, I’ve never even seen Snow White and the Huntsman (2012) so how can that be the line I remember?
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