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Heidi
Anne Heiner
ezOP
(9/19/03 7:24 pm)
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USA Today Article 9/16/03: A fairy-tale bending
Read it here:
www.usatoday.com/life/mov...tale_x.htm
Look's like there's more on the horizon to discuss.....
Heidi
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claudiac3
Unregistered User
(9/20/03 5:52 am)
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New interpretations nothing new...
That's a lot of movies! Too bad the general public has this misconception that the Grimm's invented the tales they collected--hard to tell from reporter's take on Terry Gilliam's movie, The Brothers Grimm, if this misconception is continued.
Also, many of the morals were added to Victorian translations... go back far enough and the peasant wit of intrepid male and female characters shines.
It is every generation's belief that they have been the first to break the mold and reinterpret stories passed along the culture. I'm sure the same thing was going on when these were oral stories told to pass time in a winter evening. "Grandma told it differently!"
I look forward to seeing some of these new fairy tale adaptions!
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Niniane
Sunyata
Registered User
(9/20/03 12:05 pm)
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Bending the Frog Prince
Interesting article. I'd like to see how they tackle "The Frog Prince". I've seen one by Hallmark which was pretty dumb, another by the Faerie Tale Theatre crew which was ok, and yet another production by the Czechs which was pretty ok... Knowing disney they'll probably make the frog do goofy frog dances and all *sighs*....and what's next, a smart-talking, rapping golden ball?
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Nalo
Registered User
(9/21/03 1:18 am)
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Re: Bending the Frog Prince
"what's next, a smart-talking, rapping golden ball?"
NH: Dang; now I can't get that image out of my head...
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Niniane
Sunyata
Registered User
(9/21/03 4:05 am)
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Re: USA Today Article 9/16/03: A fairy-tale bending
oops!
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eirenical
Unregistered User
(9/22/03 2:51 pm)
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Say it ain't so
*gasp* What have they done to Ella Enchanted?
Quote:
"We are making it more applicable to today's youth,"
says Ella [Enchanted] director Tommy O'Haver (Get
Over It). "It's a world where the prince is actually
like a boy-band star. He has a fan club that reads Medieval
Teen Damsel. Ella is forced to perform, and she sings Queen's
Somebody to Love. It's tongue-in-cheek and modern."
I was really looking forward to that movie, and now I'm...not. What a shame.
Thanks for posting the link, Heidi.
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Nicole S
Unregistered User
(9/22/03 9:33 pm)
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Ella Enchanted
I am so upset about what was said regarding, "Ella Enchanted." I love Gail Carson Levine's novels, and now they are ruining a perfectly good story.
-Nicole Schreiber
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LostBoyTootles
Registered User
(9/23/03 5:43 am)
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Re: Ella Enchanted
For a complete summary of the new Ella Enchanted movie...
www.geocities.com/eethesite/movie/spoilers.html
It's awful, simply awful.
But I am looking forward to all these fairy tale movies! I wish they'd base more of them on books though. Just Ella would be a great movie, so would Crazy Jack.
Tootles~~If I can't be anything important, would you like to see me do a trick? |
