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ddvm wrote:
I read Bambi years ago – if I remember correctly Faleen had a brother who was injured. So somebody takes him in and nurses him back to health and then releases him back into the wild. But he has lost his fear of man so he approaches the hunters. 😥 And I think there was a lot more of Bambi with his dad. But it’s been years and I don’t remember all the details.
In the original book of The Fox and the Hound the hound kills the fox at the end. Disney really changed that story!
ddvm got the basic gist of how the stories differed, the original Bambi sent a message about not messing with the natural order of things…the original author is Felix Salten, and is a very good book. My issue has some illustrations in it too. 🙂
Dragon Master wrote:I heard that in the original Cinderella the step sisters chopped off part of their feet to try and fit in the glass slipper
And crows or ravens came and pecked out their eyes…the original fairy tales were really grim! (pun intended) I actually took a class on fairy tales and German lit in college – it was definitely an eye opener. French fairytales aren’t any better – there is at least one with incest.
The original Bambi was such a great story!
I think Faline’s brother was named Gobo? He was a sickly baby that got adopted by humans when he couldn’t keep up with the herd. But then the family turned him loose and he was later killed by hunters because he wasn’t afraid of people.
The story touches on the notion that there’s an “Old Prince” in some other critters like some beetles? I think and maybe a couple leaves?
Also the Old Prince saves Bambi when he was shot by hunters and took him to his hiding place.
It’s been so long since I read it, but it’s so much more captivating than Disney’s version. But Disney gets most of their animated film ideas off of old books.Dragon Master wrote:I heard that in the original Cinderella the step sisters chopped off part of their feet to try and fit in the glass slipper
Grimm’s fairytales were awesome! Not like Disney at all!
Anyone see the play “Into the Woods”? It’s about a bunch of fairtale characters that all live near the same woods. Jack climbed the beanstock and ended up killing the giant, but the giant’s wife is pissed now and wants revenge. Meanwhile Rapunzzle has gone a bit batty due to being locked up in the tower by her witch who turns out to be her mother. This is the same witch that cursed the Baker and his Wife. Little Red Riding Hood is a bit physcotic.
It’s a really great story!I caught the original “Planet of the Apes” on tv today, is it just me or do the modern versions of most stories have a “flattened” effect to them? Where it seems all the nice storyline details get ironed out? The one i’m watching has alot more to it than the modern one I originally watched. 😕
Phoenix wrote:Dragon Master wrote:I heard that in the original Cinderella the step sisters chopped off part of their feet to try and fit in the glass slipper
Grimm’s fairytales were awesome! Not like Disney at all!
Anyone see the play “Into the Woods”? It’s about a bunch of fairtale characters that all live near the same woods. Jack climbed the beanstock and ended up killing the giant, but the giant’s wife is pissed now and wants revenge. Meanwhile Rapunzzle has gone a bit batty due to being locked up in the tower by her witch who turns out to be her mother. This is the same witch that cursed the Baker and his Wife. Little Red Riding Hood is a bit physcotic.
It’s a really great story!whats so psycotic about gutting a wolf and finding a little girls corpse in it 😀
Phoenix wrote:Dragon Master wrote:I heard that in the original Cinderella the step sisters chopped off part of their feet to try and fit in the glass slipper
Grimm’s fairytales were awesome! Not like Disney at all!
Anyone see the play “Into the Woods”? It’s about a bunch of fairtale characters that all live near the same woods. Jack climbed the beanstock and ended up killing the giant, but the giant’s wife is pissed now and wants revenge. Meanwhile Rapunzzle has gone a bit batty due to being locked up in the tower by her witch who turns out to be her mother. This is the same witch that cursed the Baker and his Wife. Little Red Riding Hood is a bit physcotic.
It’s a really great story!Yay Sondheim! “Into the Woods we go again, repeat the line again and again…”
Yeah! I loved watching the video of Bernadette Peters as the witch (we nicknamed her the rhyming witch :lol:). I’ve seen/read a version of Little Red Riding Hood where the wolf was split open to let Red and Granny out, then rocks were sewn up in the wolf’s stomach. The original fairy tales are definitely a bit more interesting than the originals. Gore didn’t matter. Gore is what kept your little kiddies out of the deep dark woods or from fooling around too much back in those days, when people who traveled further than the next village were considered a daring traveler!
I remember my grandfather reading to me (more like translating) when I was a kid a book of ‘fairy tales’.
They were scary!!! Dem people from the motherland thought up some scary tales back in the day. No wonder I was a good kid, I thought that misbehaving was going to kill me… 🙄 I suppose that was the point though.
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