Last Tuesday we looked at 3 Disney movies exactly like their original tales, and discussed briefly the trend of Disney transforming and retelling fairy tales. In the years following the success of Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty, Disney picked up and tried out several fairy tales, garnering lots of success from …
In the early days of its career as an entertainment business, Disney, under the direction of Walt Disney and his staff, kept fairly true to the stories of the fairy tales they were transforming into animated and live-action films. Short pieces in the 1920s and 30s were almost carbon copies …
Tuesday I laid out the bare bones of what a fairy tale is, and even made a nifty recipe to follow. I also happened to mention that one of the biggest things that makes a fairy tale a fairy tale is that it’s often retold, again and again. Does that …
