OK, haven't seen the movie, but wanted to comment on your statements about fairytales.
Fact is, the fairytales of our youth are very Disney-ized fairytales, sanitized by adults too concerned with not exposing our youth to the harsh realities of the world. When you read the older versions of the tales collected by the "Brothers Grimm" and others, you find much more stark, much less light stories where children are abandoned, eaten, and otherwise come to harsh ends, even without that glimmer of "things will be better on the otherside."
I guess a good deal of the cleaning-up occured as part of the Xianization of the stories, many of which are much older than Xianity. Can't have good little Xian children being killed by evil/devilish witches, even if the little tots deserved their fates.
And don't get me STARTED on the sexism of the sanitized tales of Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty and Snow White!!!!
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Date: 2007-11-05 06:07 pm (UTC)Fact is, the fairytales of our youth are very Disney-ized fairytales, sanitized by adults too concerned with not exposing our youth to the harsh realities of the world. When you read the older versions of the tales collected by the "Brothers Grimm" and others, you find much more stark, much less light stories where children are abandoned, eaten, and otherwise come to harsh ends, even without that glimmer of "things will be better on the otherside."
I guess a good deal of the cleaning-up occured as part of the Xianization of the stories, many of which are much older than Xianity. Can't have good little Xian children being killed by evil/devilish witches, even if the little tots deserved their fates.
And don't get me STARTED on the sexism of the sanitized tales of Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty and Snow White!!!!