What are your views on fairy tales and their evolution toward modern Disney tales?
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This is an answer I gave recently to someone asking about Little Red Riding Hood being adult themed:\n\n"Faeries are creatures who are neither malevolent or benevolent, but simply do things as their whim takes them. This is why tales such as those spun by the Brothers Grimm were given the name "Faerie Tales", because they have the properties of faeries in them.\n\nChildren were told faerie tales (not the glossed up Disney ones) to teach them what becomes of having a whimsical nature and not following certain rules of behaviour. Life conditions were harsh back then and the mortality rate was high, especially for children. Much depended on children contributing to their families in the way of chores and earning a livelihood, as well.\n\nThe unedited versions of faerie tales which were told back when they were first introduced might seem "adult" by today's standards, or seem to have "adult" themes, but they were simply par for the course back then, nothing adult about them. Just a way of teaching life lessons which needed to be learned."\n\nDisney is good at corrupting the nature and intention of faerie tales, trying to give them a "happily ever after" theme that was never intended. The ones by the Bothers Grimm and Hans Christian Andersen were familiar tales told and so were most often redone by Disney. In the original Italian tale of Pinocchio (Le Avventure di Pinocchio) it has Pinocchio killing the cricket given him to act as his conscience, smashing it thoroughly underfoot. As he had neither a soul or a conscience, Pinocchio was by definition a monster and acted accordingly. In the original unrevised version he was killed for his crimes against others.\n\nLong before faerie tales were called faerie tales, from what I've been able to gather throughout the years researching, the tales came about to speak of the "Book of Pacts". The Book of Pacts is an object referred to in many very ancient cultures throughout the world, and although these cultures were separated by distance they tell similar tales of its origin. Pieced together and shortened, here is how it basically goes:\n\nOnce there existed several groups of different beings who were ever at odds with each other for various reasons, and so they battled constantly. Much time passed without any group becoming victor over another. All of them slowly came to realize that, as things existed, no one group could ever gain enough power to claim superiority over the others, and left as they were the fighting would continue endlessly. And so they all eventually came to an agreement for a solution: All of existence must be changed to allow for the possibility that not only one group could gain the power to reign over the others, but also that one individual in a group might gain this power. The details of how reality would change and how each group would be changed in it (their forms, abilities and limitations) were worked out and placed in a Book of Pacts (agreements). The Book was then hidden in a place agreed by all, and reality shifted.\n\nThe different groups became such as faeries, dragons, leprechauns, jinn, daemons, vampyres, were-beings, etc., and even some humans. The Book changed as well, as did the place it was hidden. One of the ways it is said that the necessary power might be obtained is for a being to take possession of the Book in whatever form it is now in. \n\nIt is my opinion that faerie tales started taking on their "nicey-nice" flavour in the telling at the beginning of the 20th century. As life came to be less harsh and jobs gave sway to industry, the old lessons to be had from tales of faerie seemed less important. Children were having more of a childhood, it being extended longer and more full of playtime. Parents wished their children to enjoy this new lease on childhood time and wanted objects in their lives that helped make this possible. So the faerie tale began a reinvention to
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Mixed opinions... I love Toy Story, always have, but I'm so tired of computer animated movies. Anything drawn has been shunned in favor for talking cars, animals, etc... they get to be very interchangable.\nThat said I still love TS too much, i would see it.
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Which part of a fairy tale don't you understand?
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Because by definition classic is a standard of excellence, Disney seems to produce excellent movies and thus considered classics.  Additionally, a classic is something that is sometimes considered traditional and if anything the Disney movies have the same story line.
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You know, that is the most interesting take on the whole philosophical probelm of the 20th century*.\n\n My guess is that Disney was making the point that standing upright, using tools and speech were an important part of being granted human rights; Since Goofy at least managed to grasp those concepts, he had more rights than Pluto did. \n\n * This is of course the question "Mickey is a mouse, Donald is a duck, pluto is a dog, so What's Goofy?"
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fairy tales? , probably you can do that in literature or history, but in physics is sort of hard ..He dedicated his life to work , he was truly a genius, we needed a bunch of scientists to get together just for continue with his legacy ; maybe his ideas were , at his time, sort of fantastic ; but I don't think He was a lier or something ,if that's what you were trying to say... if not, yeah he was fun :P
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Oh gosh! Where do I start!  The very last movie we went to see was "Ice Age 2 The Melt Down" We all loved it! Sid and the squirrel crack me up! Other movies would be......\n\n1. Snow White......This one takes me back to my childhood! This was my favorite Disney "Cartoon" type movie when I was a kid. I was just awed by the Diamond Mine scene. It was so pretty!\n\n2. Cinderella.........What little girl(and older woman) doesn't want to be a princess? So beautiful and so magical.\n\n3. Mary Poppins..........Another one of my favorite movies and I sing the Lullaby song to the children. LOL, well I guess it is actually an Un-Lullaby song. "Stay Awake"  I always wanted to be able to jump into those chalk pictures!\n\n4. Wizard of Oz..........True Magic! Beautiful music. When it goes from black and white to color it is so magical! \n\n5. Aladdin...........We loved this movie and we own the soundtrack. I love the Genie!\n\n6. Little Mermaid.......I love Mermaids and Sebastian is GREAT! We own the soundtrack for this one too.\n\n7. Lilo & Stitch.........Great movie and fantastic music! \n\n8. Ice Age............Loved it!\n\n9. The Lion King..........Funny and beautiful, I still cry when the Simba's Father dies! We own the soundtrack.\n\n \n\n\nThe list goes on and on! We own so many Disney movies and soundtracks. I think Disney is great at creating movies that both the young and young at heart will love.\n\nWe are going to see "The Wild" today..........It looks great and we are really looking forward to seeing the movie.\n\n\n@--->---
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Uhm I know!! You don't need to tell me this is no place for man, but I also watch classic disney movies, a lot! I'm not gay! :) And I choose Belle to be my wife, because she's simple, conservative, a singer, a dancer, a booklover, and most important of all, she's a princess! The wife of a horrible monstrous beast!! This is the best ever disney movie ever, although timon and pumbaa tried there best too. Beauty and the Beast, you won't see any movies as hilarious as a cup that talks, a clock that has a moustache? a candle that likes a sexy broom, and lastly love that has broken the spell which could end the life of the beast(actually a handsome prince who turns into a beast because of a spell). This movie has also a sad part aside from all those spoons and forks which Belle uses 3 meals a day.. yuk! hehe Oh well, I think I'm the first and might be the last male user to post an answer in this question! ;)\n\nEDITED: LOL I forgot to mention Gaston, the antagonist who eats 5,000 eggs a day to have large muscles! hahaha bummer x_X
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its the nouns in fairy tales that change.... i.e places, persons, things...but the meanings stay the same. Humankind since fairy tales have been around havent changed much. We still have the same wants, fears, desires, hopes and needs; and this is what fairy tales impart.  Good can come from bad... good is stronger that evil.... If you study them fairy tales from different ages will have many many underlying similarities.
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I love Disney movies so much.\n\nMy favorite has got to be Peter Pan, Aladdin and Mulan. The stories and the animations are equally wonderful in all those movies. All the other Disney movies were exeptionally well too, but these three are the ones that I enjoyed most!
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I did love it as a kid and the new ones seem quite good too. My villain would be an updated version of The Spanish Inquisition but they can travel through time....either that or a giant bee with a dogs head and tentacles........
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I love all those films. In a way, I find the storys much more involving than the plots of the films that are around today. (I'm not old either!)
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Grimm's Fairytales are typically German. Go look some up and see the old versions.\n\nhttp://www.pitt.edu/~dash/type0709.html\n\nhttp://www.beepworld3.de/members28/meinemaerchenwelt1/7geisslein.htm\n\nhttp://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Hans_in_Luck
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Dreamer is a pretty good movie, it has some similarities to Seabiscuit if u liked that. Another suggestion is Hoodwinked. It's a animated version of Little Red Riding Hood with ton of twists and turns. Definitely not like the fairy-tale.
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I have two more movies to watch that I rented. I already watched The Brothers Grimm, not too bad, pretty cool how they included a lot of things in the movies that had to do with fairy tales. Now I have left The Constant Gardener and The Village. \nOther than that, it's too cold to go outside, just staying in, locked to the internet and alternately playing Morrowind:The Elder Scrolls III.
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Disney Movies! Hands down!  Think about it, everyone loved and and still loves, Cinderella, Snow White, Lady and the Tramp talk about classics!
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Beauty and the Beast(Disney). I love it.