I mean, don't get me wrong, some of em are really good. And because it's originally based on a fairytale that we are all familiar with, we obviously know how it's gonna end. So why do we still enjoy watching them so much? We complain about lack of originality or cliche-ness in movies, but that's exactly what we love. Maybe Hollywood's catching on to this and is just giving us what we want. ;)
Let's recap shall we?
Cinderella:
Walt Disney's Cinderella (1950, original)
A Cinderella Story (2004)
Another Cinderella Story (2008)
A Cinderella Story: Once Upon A Song (2011)
Snow White:
Walt Disney's Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs (1937, original)
Sydney White (2007)
Enchanted (2007)
Mirror Mirror (2012)
Snow White And The Huntsman (2012)
Beauty And The Beast:
Beauty And The Beast (1946, original)
Wat Disney's Beauty And The Beast (1991)
Beauty And The Briefcase (2010)
Beastly (2011)
I think my favorite remake has to be Beastly (: maybe cause I just adore Vanessa Hudgens. And LOVE Alex Pettyfer haha.
Okay, so we all know the "original" fairytales, and can identify the modern twist that was added in every movie right? Like in the original cinderella story, she lost her glass slipper, but in the subsequent movies, she began misplacing her iPod, her cellphone etc...
Yeah. We all know the remake of the movies had some sort of twists or changes. But do we know the TRUE origins of some of these fairytales? Disney didn't write em all on their own. A lot of these fairytales were taken from Brothers Grimm, which if you don't know, write really gruesome, twisted stories. Disney simply slotted in a happy ending and made it popular.
Interested to know how some of these fairytales were supposed to turn out? Great. So am I.
Little Red Riding Hood
So in the version we all read about as a kid, there's this little girl who's traveling through the woods to her Grandmother's house. And foolishly tells a wolf where she's heading to.
He gets there first, eats the grandmother, climbs in bed and wears her clothes. She tells him how big his teeth are, etc and then he eventually eats her too. Then all of a sudden, a random woodsman comes in and kills the wolf with his axe, and cuts Red Riding Hood and her grandma out. HOORAY.
But in the original story, the wolf eats her and the grandma. And they die. The. End. That's it. In other older versions, it was mentioned that the wolf cooked the grandmother and fed it to Red Riding Hood instead. And then ate her afterwards. How fabulous.
Snow White
This one we are pretty much still familiar with right? I mean, with all the recent Snow White movies and all. Okay so to recap, an evil queen thinks Snow White is prettier than her, sends a huntsman to kill her and bring back her heart as proof. The huntsman gives Snow a chance to run and she seeks refuge in a house with 7 dwarfs.
The queen finds out she isn't really dead, and slips her a poisoned apple which puts her into a coma. Until the lovely prince comes along to wake her by kissing her. And they both live happily ever after.
What they didn't tell you, was how the queen didn't only want Snow White's heart for proof. But she wanted to eat it. In the original story, she had asked for Snow's liver, lungs, and other body parts to consume as well.
Also, in the original story, Snow White was only 7 years old when the story occurred. So unless the prince was around that same age, there's a real question of Pedophillia in this story....
Cinderella
Probably the most commonly referred to fairytale. Ever. When ever the word "happy ending" comes up, we all immediately think of this one. So yes, the fairy godmother gives her a pumpkin carriage and a beautiful outfit and sends her off to this ball, where she meets her prince but has to run off at midnight.
He finds the slipper that fell off her foot while she was running, searches the whole town until he finds her. He finds her. The end.
But the part that either got lost in translation, or simply wasn't fit to be on the big screen, was that in their desperation to fit the glass slipper, Cinderella's two step-sisters mutilated their own feet. Cutting off the toes, and shaving off the heels. Whole ten yards, to fit into the slipper.
Yuck.
I'm pretty sure there's plenty more of where that came from. Could you imagine if Disney hadn't edited some of these stories? *Shudder*
But recently, the gore and twisted-ness has slowly been creeping back in into the movies. Like in Snow White and the Huntsman, and Red Riding Hood (the Amanda Seyfried one). Who knows? Maybe they'll start unveiling the true versions of these fairytales soon.
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