The White Snake

An Animated Disney feature film based of the Brothers Grimm fairy tail set in  Medieval Ireland. ==Plot ==

The Film begins with narration explaining that in a castle in Ireland, every evening the wise King Ardghal receives a covered dish after mealtimes, providing he’s left alone to uncover it. In the same castle a boy named Alastar becomes one of the King’s servants after his parents were killed by bandits. Years later, Alastar has become a free-spirited teenager and official manservant to the King due to the friendship they formed over the years.

One day when King Ardghal is out hunting he is ambushed by a group of bandits and killed, leaving his younger brother Barra to take the throne. Being the complete opposite of his brother, Barra is cruel and tyrannical, thus treating his people including Alastar terribly. When King Barra requests that his late brother’s dish be presented to him, Alastar feels that he didn’t deserve whatever King Ardghal had. When the time came, Alastar switched the dish with a replica with random herbs inside it and hid the real one in his chambers. Curious with what the King had been hiding all these years he discovers a pearl-white snake under the cover of the dish. After one bite from the snake, Alastar discovers the snake was now suddenly talking to him.

After a few minutes of rambling in disbelief, Alastar listens to the snake explains that she and King Ardghal were once old friends, she the proceeds to tell Alastar the story of how they met and why she would sneak into the castle and be presented under the covered dish in order to visit him. The Snake also explains that her venom was magic as it had the power to give any person she bites the power to understand and communicate with animals, but now that King Ardghal was gone the Snake now feels alone, feeling pit for her Alastar offers his friendship to which the snake happily agrees and formally introduces herself with the name King Ardghal gave her… Eva.

Weeks later, Alastar is accused of stealing King Barra’s favourite ring, after pleading his innocence he is given one to prove it or submit the punishment of execution much to Barra’s delight due to his hate for the boy. Wanting to save her friend, Eva sneaks around the castle and finds the ring hidden in Barra’s bed chambers. After presenting the ring to Barra the king reluctantly allows Alastar to walk free, not wanting to fall for another one of Barra’s tricks, Alastar and Eva decide to leave the castle and escape to another Kingdom. Sneaking off in the middle of the night, they steal one of the King’s horses named Brendan and flee to the countryside.

On their journey to another town Alastar, Eva and Brendan encounter Bridget, a small bat who they free from a poacher’s trap and joins them on their journey wishing to return the favour in the future, later they meet Francis, The Ant King of his colony who they free from a spider’s web who also offers his services in exchange for what he had done Saying “One good turn deserves another,”

Meanwhile King Barra announces that he wishes to marry Elaine, a princess of a neighbouring kingdom who was once childhood friends with Alastar, what nobody else know however is that once he is married to her, Barra intends to kills both the king and his daughter in order to inherit their kingdom thus expanding his empire. Under the false impression that Barra simply wants to unite the kingdoms, Elaine’s father agrees to the proposal despite his daughter’s protests.

After spending some time in the neighbouring kingdom, Alastar hears word of Barra’s plan after Bridget tells him what she overheard a group of other bats saying what they witnessed in Barra’s chambers a few days ago. Realising that they had to do something, Alastar, and Eva travel back to Barra’s kingdom without the others due to the fear they felt about going there. Unfortunately Barra’s spies spot Alastar talking to the animals and reports back to Barra before they could even reach the kingdom and Alastar and Eva get captured upon entering the Kingdom.

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==<span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">Original Material ==

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"> ==<span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">Songs ==

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"> ==<span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">Quotes ==

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