They rewrite the tales so much that they have none of their original depth.
2007-03-22 17:27:44 · 16 answers · asked by rebekkah hot as the sun 7 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Comics & Animation
No, but my bunions are!
2007-03-22 17:29:37 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
People have been rewriting and borrowing from stories for different purposes forever. The movie the Magnificent Seven was based on Akiro Kurosawa's Seven Samuri. Shakespeare borrowed the concept of two young lovers with fueding families from the Greek story Ephesiaca by Xenophon of Ephesus for Romeo & Juliet. And how many times have Shekspearean stories-- including Romeo & Juliet-- been retold in a different setting or in a slightly different way for a different audience. If you don't like the way that Disney tells fairytales, don't go see their movies. But for the most part they seem to be acceptible entertainment for kids. Kids really don't need/wouldn't get/aren't yet ready for the complexity or the gore of the original Grimm's fairy tales anyway.
2007-03-23 06:00:40 · answer #2 · answered by Otis T 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's true but someone along the way decided that the fairy tales were not appropriate for children so they changed them completely and made it into a happy little tale. They're cute, but should be considered completely different from the fairy tale they were taken from.
2007-03-23 00:31:36 · answer #3 · answered by sa7914 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
JUST SAY NO TO "DISNEYFICATION!!"
It's sad but true - many many stories that started out decades ago have been "Disneyfied".... Most of the stories told by The Brothers Grimm? They were VERY bloody, graphic, and totally NOT for children to listen to (unless you wanted to scare the life out of them). Try looking for a book about the real stories of the Brothers Grimm (I forget the name of it, but it's TOTALLY different from the stories you think they'd be).
Too many people these days censor and edit stories for content - even Bugs Bunny cartoons haven't escaped this process. You have to look for what are called "Banned" cartoons to find them, but there are still copies out there of politically incorrect cartoons.
THE PROBLEM ISN'T THE STORIES,
IT'S THE PEOPLE
If you can't read a story, watch a cartoon, read a textbook, or listen to someone talk without critisizing them, you need to open your mind (for all the hypocrites out there). A book is not evil - how the person reading the book interprets it is the problem - look at how many "open-minded" Christians view The Chronicles of Narnia.... it's sad when people can't view the world outside their own minds....
2007-03-23 01:49:23 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think disney movies are made that way for a reason - they are written for a particular audience and the reason that they are so popular and successful is because they connect with that audience so well.
There's contraversy at the moment about an australian film which shows male rape - i doubt that disney would want that kind of publicity
(In the original Sleeping Beauty as i recall she was raped by her handsome prince)
I know that i'm not interested in seeing a film where a woman is raped - but that might be your taste.
2007-03-23 03:57:48 · answer #5 · answered by Bexsi 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
In my opinion they are.
I remember hearing
the real version of
Snow White, darn who knew!
If only the little kids found out
what their favorite tales are
really about. It's like they
are making young children think
they are living in fairytale land
when all of a sudden they grow up
and "What happened to the magical world
of Disney??" sad sad.
2007-03-23 00:31:53 · answer #6 · answered by kidmischief1 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
True, they did alter the plot and messed up the storyline and made it sweet and innocent....... but thats why they're fantasy right? If they showed a cartoon about the real cinderella (and how the sisters chopped off their toes and heels for the glass slipper to fit.. :D)... or maybe the real snow white (and how the queen was forced to wear iron hot boots and made her dance until she dropped dead... :D)..... and even hercules (on how he killed his teacher coz he was so frustrated..) don't you think the little kids would grow up bitter? Although its wrong to make them hope for their prince charming... its still nice that they're happy and giggling..... its a sort of "escape" from the bitters of the real world... BUT STILL, we need to draw a line from reality and fantasy..
2007-03-23 00:57:46 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't really care about that as long as it is a fairy tales. And I really missed disney's musical fairy tales movies like pocahontas, mulan, hercules.....
2007-03-23 05:44:04 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, of course. It wasn’t obvious?
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2007-03-24 13:12:10 · answer #9 · answered by cdf-rom 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The originals would have been deemed too violent for modern children. They want to sell stuff, not intellectually stimulate.
2007-03-23 00:30:41 · answer #10 · answered by answerator 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Soem are. They can be re-Written too many times that they Become unwanted. but sometimes its nice to have a story rewritten in a differant way.
2007-03-23 15:54:32 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋