Hey guys i asked this same question earlier but i dont think people got it so im gonna ask again ok so for class i need to do this thing where i have to re-write a fairy-tale and i asked for some i deas and people gave me answers like doing cinderela but i NEED a plot line not a story
2007-01-26 14:54:23 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
Is the point of the re-write to exercise creativity?
If so, take a fairy story you like and know well, and picture it with different characters, and perhaps change the ending.
e.g. for Cinderella:
have Cinderella be a poor girl in a current life situation - perhaps someone who was displaced by Katerina in St. Louis. So Cinderella's home has been wasted, and perhaps her mother died in the flooding. She is devastated, but now her father has taken up with a neighbouring widow who really doesn't like Cinderella and thinks she is spoiled by her dad. This widow has daughters, who are high spirited and rap girls and who don't want to share their mother with another man and certainly not with Cinderella.
The fairy Godmother can be Oprah. She comes in her crystal bubble jet plane and with a wink of the eye, she brings in Habitat for Humanity to re-build the house and bring therapists to help the family to learn to get along. They have a big party to celebrate and who is at the party? but the most handsome young man - wealthy and fun - perhaps Johnny Depp??? or someone else appropriate. Johnny falls for Cinderella, but Cinderella has a secret - she is not who she has said she is. (She has told him she's the daughter of a famous diplomat) and so on. - Just let your imagination run & create a fantasy based on the story of Cinderella.
This was fun.
2007-01-26 15:08:39 · answer #1 · answered by concernedjean 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Well, for re-writing a fairy tale you have to first examine the plot of the fairy tale before creating your own fairy tale. Take the plot of Cinderella. The plot structure is: Nice, rich girl falls on hard times; is tormented by horrible step-family. Nice girl pines for love. A magical intervention occurs (fairy godmother) and allows nice girl to live out her dreams--but only for a little while. Then, against the odds, love finds its way to the nice girl and she gets the guy, gets the shoes, and gets the castle. The plot of many movies follow the "Cinderella" arc including "Pretty Woman" and "The Princess Diaries." Even a movie like "the Devil Wears Prada" follows this arc: Nice girl gets dumped on by evil other women, a "magical" mentor intervenes--usually with some sort of make-over, nice girl struggles just a little more and in the end she gets everything she wants.
Sooo, take the Cinderella arc and re-write it. Make Cinderella a hard working pastry chef who really wants to go to the Cupcake Ball and meet the famous Chef Charming, but her evil step-mom, who owns the bakery, won't let her go. Or make Cinderella a cobbler who longs to be a shoe designer who wants to design for Chanel Charming clothing epire, but her step-mom just makes her do all the cobbling work or something.
2007-01-26 23:16:40 · answer #2 · answered by ivybear98 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I have a sort-of Cinderella story outline. Okay, so there's this girl and she's walking to school. She's just a regular girl, not very popular, in seventh grade. Let her be, say, Haley Winston. Yes, Haley Winston. She arrives at school and stuffs her book bag in her locker and trips over a black and gold notebook. It's just a notebook, but she picks it up and covers her face with it while everyone laughs at her. When she gets to homeroom, everyone points at her and after the teacher yells at everyone for them to settle down and open their books to a given page, Haley doodles in her notebook and the writing is magical, gold ink. She tries to smudge it, but when she does, a gold ring appears on her finger and her entire outfit turns gold, as does her world, and it begins spinning around her from then on.
2007-01-26 23:01:12 · answer #3 · answered by sPrInG LiLY 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
ok cinderella did not get married to the prince sause he was a jerk! She ended up in childrens services because she killed the evil stepmother by poisoning her. The fairy odmother could not help her because she ran out of wishes two weeks ago. Sorry best I can do on short notice.
2007-01-26 23:00:23 · answer #4 · answered by twysty 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
but alot of fairy tales together and have them meet up some how with a funny story line.
2007-01-26 23:00:32 · answer #5 · answered by Danny boy 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
heres an idea its easy to run with i started a story on it.to i was quite proud ok here go.
theres a man and he lives alone and one night the carpet raises like theres a bump in it and moves around it does this several times over several weeks.theres a picture i got this idea from some dude um oh who was he some dude brought 14 pics to a publisher with titles and a single line of the story with it but he was never herd from agian so theres a book with the pics some dud ei forget name but it was sweet ideas.good luck!
2007-01-26 23:03:03 · answer #6 · answered by derek m 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Once upon a time...a fairy fell into a well....two young boys were drawing water...and faintly heard her calling to them...if you can get me out of this well...I will grant you anything that you desire.....
You can take it from there.
2007-01-26 22:58:53 · answer #7 · answered by emotional blonde 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Snow White & the 7 dwarfs play baseball?
Sorry dear, my thinking cap was used up today at work.
2007-01-26 23:11:02 · answer #8 · answered by 4kids2pay4 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I duno....Re-write the frog prince, but in the end make him say "I was just kidding" instead of turning into a prince. lol
2007-01-26 22:59:37 · answer #9 · answered by tornado10003 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
do hansel and gretal but where the witch is michael Jackson and the candy house is neverland ranch
2007-01-26 23:00:23 · answer #10 · answered by justinstrachan 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋