Why I choose the class "From Grim to Disney", and my favorite fairytale Beauty and the Beast

The cartoon I have picked "The Story of Rapunzel" (1951), by Ray Harryhausen. It is a little different in that the animation is stop motion. Which is a little different then hand drawn animation, or computer generated. However, while it may look different it still does do the job of telling the Rapunzel story. It cuts how some details like the father going to the Sorceresses garden to steal the lettuce called Rapunzel, but it cuts it out more in a way like the Coppola's "The Godfather" (1972), where they cut out some scenes. Except instead of replacing them with something else or cutting out entirely they still have the scenes in the order they happened just with some aspects cut out for time. The Godfather was over 3 hours long, and in this case the reason why they were cut out for was time. Because the reason why in stop motion the people move so stilted. This is due to the process which involves moving them very slowly then they take one picture, or one frame

The three are all similar in that they all involve going to a house, and finding a room they are not supposed to go in. Then when they do go in they realize there are dead people in it, and it ends with the villains of the story being killed by either a magistrate, or brothers of the person whose is in the house. In all the stories there exists the temptation about the forbidden room. Comparable to Eve eating the forbidden fruit, not necessarily because it may be something they like, but rather something they want to see solely on the basis that it is forbidden. The "Robber Bridegroom" is more pirates in general. Or at least the worst of the pirates, in regards to how they treat women. In this case a woman who is taken by a suitor from her fathers house, and goes to where he lives and she is forbidden from entering the room. However in a Hansel and Gretel, like way she walks to it making a path of peas, and lentils. After a while she encounters the old women who informs her

The first difference lies in the events before Hansel and Gretel are captured by the witch. In the Brothers Grimm version they are left to go into the forest multiple times, instead of the one time they go into the forest in the film. The change was made so that instead of the parents having the same argument three times, it instead shows why they are struggling for food. It is because the father is a bit of a pushover, who can't get the full amount of money for the wood from the baker. This is different then in the Grimm's version where the reason why they are starving is because of a plague sweeping through the country. The change clearly made because something like a plague would not fit in with the tone of the film. Which is a somewhat campy musical. Also the before mentioned change to Hansel and Gretel only going once did work very well, because instead of telling us they starve because of a plague, in the movie they show us that the father is a pushover. It works because

By F. Mason Hertrich Comparison of "Cupid and Psyche", and "The Frog King", by the Brothers Grimm                                                                               The two stories are verily similar. There is the difference in that one takes place more in ancient times, and the other takes place in medieval times. However what they do have in common is that the main character meets someone who she wants nothing to do with, until the end when she changes her mind. In Cupid and Psyche in a slightly Snow White type of situation Venus out of pure jealously of Psyche condemns her to be with a man who is hideous and lives in the mountains. Then she goes there and meets the creature to at first not like him. Until she shines a light in his face and thru that she sees he isn't as bad as she thought. In the Frog King it is slightly different. In this case the princess losses her ball, and the frog brings it back to her. She then promises the frog wh

The main difference seems to lie in that while a lot of the same things happened in the tale it is done differently in the movie. The first example is when the huntsman spares her, where she originally pleaded with him, in the movie he said it all, and let her go. Another example is when she encounters the dwarfs and the dwarves tell her she can stay if she does the house work. In the movie she is the one that says it, this changes how the original tale went about it, and changes the message. Which is why in the original tale when she offers to do it, it comes across more as she is trying to survive in the world after being sentenced to death by her stepmother, in the movie I feel like it comes across more as being a part of the filmmakers evidently apparent goal of not having women do anything that contributes to the plot. Obviously this is more due to the time period when this film came out. It was 1937, meaning doing this was more normal back then. Especially back then, because in a

Obviously since magic does not exist someone can't use that, but with marriage yes. Also important to remember that the story of Cinderella takes place at a time when women had virtually no rights. People nowadays also live in places and work jobs they don't like, because they do not have any other options. However that is usually when people don't have money and can't change it because of that. In Cinderella's case the house is very big and they have money, the stepmother thinks of her as a leftover from getting the house. Even though the father is still alive he does not run the house, and even when someone asks if Cinderella is his daughter he says it is his dead wife's child. As if he wasn't the father. Therefore even though the father is still alive he may as well be dead. Nonetheless she could leave, but even if she could she would probably have not really any other options that were different. So naturally she thinks of being married and thus being se