Many people who like Disney animation are familiar with the characters in "The Little Mermaid" or "Beauty and the Beast", thanks to Disney's adaptation of the original fairy tale. When asked about these fairy tales, images of beautiful big-eyed women and charming men, as well as funny supporting roles, came to the minds of many viewers. But the truth is that the Disney version of these stories is often very different from the original version.
Here are some of our favorite Disney movies and original stories. Through comparison, you can discover the dark side of these classic stories.
To understand why the original fairy tales are so dark and violent, it is important to understand the purpose of fairy tales. Although we often associate fairy tales with children’s bedtime stories, their original intentions and purposes are different from what we see. Fairy tales in their original form are moral stories. Their purpose is to teach people a lesson and promote the idea that evil, vanity, greed and desire will ultimately lead to evil results. Their violent details and endings help strengthen the moral views of the audience and readers.
Some fairy tales are only oral stories at the beginning. They are passed down from generation to generation. They are a kind of warning to children and adults, telling them to be a good person and not a bad person. Although
still has a certain degree of moral and purposeful stories in the Disney version of fairy tales, their originally dark content has been downplayed or deleted.
Beauty and the Beast
Disney's "Beauty and the Beast" tells the story of a father and daughter, as well as her selfless rescue of a father imprisoned by a beast. The original fairy tale has some surprising changes.
In the original story, the beauty comes from a wealthy family, but she is in trouble. When some of her siblings left home, she and her already poor father moved to the countryside to help take care of the house.
In the original version, when his father lost his way in the forest, the beast took him in. He was kind and generous to his father. When my father left, he picked a rose from the bushes of the wild beast and offended the beast.
So, the beast told this man that it had to pay a price, he would either give up himself or give up one of his daughters. Beauty says for her father that she will go to stay with the beast, even if her father doesn't want her to do so.
In this story, the beast is always polite to the beauty, ensuring that she is treated and taken care of. Beauty begs the Beast to let her see her family again. The Beast finally agreed, but told her that she must come back or he would die.
is like a Disney movie, the beauty finally returns (after leaving too long, she dreams that the beast is in danger), and then the beast becomes a handsome prince. One of the notable changes of
is that the beast punishes the beautiful sisters because they are not as kind or kind as her, and turns them into stones that decorate the front of the castle. Her sisters can spend all their time gazing at the happiness of beautiful women.
Cinderella
Although the basic plot of Brothers Grimm’s "Cinderella" remains unchanged, there are still some surprising and shocking details. The
story has Cinderella, her evil stepmother and stepsister. They plan to go to the prince's ball, but Cinderella is not allowed to come. (Arrange her some tasks that they don't plan to let her complete on time).
In some versions of the story, Cinderella gets help from a fairy, this is Disney's Cinderella. But in Brothers Grimm's version, she was helped by a white dove, and he brought her a dress and a pair of shoes.
She went to the dance party and the prince was very surprised. The next night, she went again, and everyone was amazed. The prince had fallen in love with her. But when it was near midnight (when the magic was over), she ran out and dropped a shoe. Just like in a Disney movie, the prince travels throughout the village to find the right girl. What is shocking about
is. The stepmother encouraged the first sister to cut off her toes so that she could put on shoes. But when she rode a horse with the prince, the magical white dove told the prince to look at her bleeding feet. Then the second sister cut off her heel, but encountered the same problem as the first sister. Finally the prince saw Cinderella and realized that she was the one he fell in love with at the ball.
At their wedding, the stepsister's eyes were pecked out by the pigeons. This is the most evil deed against themAfter the lesson.
I want to know why Disney avoided that ending?
Notre Dame de Paris
Although Disney's "Notre Dame de Paris" is dark, it is not as dark as Victor Hugo's novel.
In the movie "The Oddity of Notre Dame", the Oddity of Notre Dame Quasimodo rescued the gypsy Esmeralda from the evil Langolo, and finally brought her and the handsome Phoebus together.
But the original work is much more complicated. The gypsy Esmeralda rejected Frollolo, which made him very angry. After the April Fool's banquet, she was accused of attempted murder. He tried to hang her, but Quasimodo saved her and took her to her safe church.
But in the end, Frollolo drove the boat into the church and took Esmeralda away. After she refused, he successfully hanged her. In anger, Quasimodo pushed Langolo off the church tower.
Then he went to lie beside Esmeralda's body, and finally died on a hunger strike. Do you agree with such happiness?
Snow White
"Snow White" is similar to Brothers Grimm's version and Disney's version in many ways. But there are some noteworthy, bloodier details in the Green version.
In the original fairy tale, Snow White's mother died when the child was born, and when the king married again, the stepmother was very vain and evil. But she had a magic mirror to ensure her beauty, until one day, it let her know that Snow White took her place. Queen
asked a hunter to take Snow White into the woods, let him kill her and bring her heart back. But he sympathized with her and let her go, but brought back the wild boar's heart, and then the queen cooked his heart and ate it.
Snow White found a safe place in the hut of the Seven Dwarfs, but this did not last long, because the magic mirror let the queen know that Snow White was still alive. Queen
dressed herself as a hawker, gave Snow White a beautiful corset and encouraged her to wear it. When she did this, the queen pulled it so tight that Snow White fainted. The queen thought she was dead and left.
But the dwarfs came back in time, untied the rope, and she survived.
Of course, the queen found out and pretended to be herself again. This time she sold her a poisonous comb, and Snow White fainted after using it. But the dwarf came back in time to save her.
Finally, the queen came back in disguise and gave her an apple. Snow White hesitated, but the Queen took a bite of the non-toxic part, so Snow White thought she was safe.
This time, the dwarfs couldn't save her, so they built a crystal coffin for her. A passing prince saw her and immediately fell in love with her. The dwarves lifted the coffin, and the poisonous apple from Snow White's throat fell out. When she woke up, the prince and Snow White planned to get married. They invited the evil queen to the wedding, and she went. But this is a trap! When she arrived, she was given a pair of hot iron shoes, and she was forced to dance until she fell to the ground and died.
Disney's ending made her fall from the cliff look plain.
The Little Mermaid
The Disney version of The Little Mermaid is very beautiful. Ariel's flowing red hair, the interesting and inspiring friends around her, and her determination to surpass her destiny all admire the audience today.
Although she grew up in fear of losing her tongue and having to learn to walk, she finally defeated the evil sea witch to save and protect her prince. Even her father joined the action, helping her gain humanity and enabling her to marry her prince.
But in the original book, Hans Christian Anderson is a bit dark, and the little mermaid has no happy ending. In the original fairy tale, the mermaid had to wait until her 15th birthday to climb to the top of the tower and see "another world." When it was her turn, she saw a boat and a handsome prince. Just like a Disney movie, the mermaid saved the prince from a shipwreck. Then she began to plan how to become a human being and make the prince fall in love with her.
But in the fairy tale version, although the mermaid has legs, she is cursed forever in pain, just like the witch on the sea told her:
"You still have beautiful movements, no dancer can walk It’s so light, but every time you take a step, you feel like you’re stepping on a sharpOn the knife, and your blood must flow out. "The mermaid agreed. She took the potion, surrendered her tongue and swam to the shore. Prince
seemed to recognize her vaguely. She lived with him, but he never realized she was the one who took him from The person rescued from the shipwreck. The prince finally thought that another princess saved him. Because the mermaid did not win his love, she died under the curse. When the sun set on the prince’s wedding night, she slipped into the sea and changed It became the foam of the sea.
This is a completely different ending from the Disney version. This is a moral story. It tells the story of knowing where you are and no longer resisting.
The Lion King
Do you know? Disney is super popular "The Lion King" is just a reinterpretation of Shakespeare's "Hamlet." Uncle
conspired to kill his brother and inherited his throne. Then his uncle tried to kill his son. The son was awakened by his father's soul, Then he realized that he had to avenge his father’s death. The climax of the
story occurred when the uncle and nephew fought to the death. This is the basic plot of "Hamlet" and "The Lion King", and even has funny characters. "The Lion King" In "Hamlet" there are Ding Man and Peng Peng. In "Hamlet" there are Rosencrantz and Gildenston, two of Hamlet's incompetent friends.
In the Disney version, Simba won and defeated his uncle , The kingdom is restored to peace. In "Hamlet", everyone is dead-Hamlet, uncle, and other people who conspired to kill Hamlet and the queen.
Disney fairy tale
in our favorite fairy tales and Disney movies, Many are derived from darker and deeper stories. But when we get used to the Disney version, we lose our knowledge of the original version.
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