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- From: umcho000@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Connie Cho)
- Subject: Re: Shallowness in TLM, BATB (Was Re: Cheap Animation)
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- References: <cf=ptc600VpO84CagF@andrew.cmu.edu> <1992Dec17.020025.18807@news2.cis.umn.edu>
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 16:30:18 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec17.020025.18807@news2.cis.umn.edu> avatar@wings.micro.umn.edu (Timothy Fay) writes:
- >"Kevin J. Chen" (kc2w+@andrew.cmu.edu) wrote:
- >>The fact that [the Beast] turned out to be
- >>handsome in the end is just the traditional Disney icing on the happy
- >>ending cake.
- >
- >No, more like typical Disney meddling with the original story.
- >
- >>If you happen to think this kind of romanticism is
- >>silly, then so be it, but it is the heart and soul of -- well, at
- >>least modern-day depictions -- classic fairy tales.
- >
- >If that's what you think, then perhaps you should read the original
- >stories THE LITTLE MERMAID and BEAUTY AND THE BEAST were based on.
- >
-
- I have- Andersen's of TLM and the two original French versions of
- BatB (in English translation) I have also read gadzillion children's
- versions that have taken liberties equal to Disney's. I would have
- much preferred the darker ending to TLM, but the original is *NOT*
- a children's tale and Disney's is; unfortunately, that is the price
- that the market seems to demand in order to bring a fairy tale
- to the screen (Faerie Tale Theatre is widely acclaimed, but it too
- is sanitized BTW) The ending in BatB was fairly true, since
- the Beast did become a handsome yong man in the French contes.
-
- My personal tastes? I would really like to see some of the more
- fantastic, obscure fairy tales , both classic and modern (read
- The Golden Key by G. Macdonald) brought to the screen, with
- Disney technical skill but probably not their artists; I want to
- see darker style and coloring, in keeping with some of the
- downright
- nastiness in some of the tales. And although I enjoy the
- 'Broadway musicals', they wouldn't fitin this case.
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