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 ...