boston.com — Something important is lost when a child's introduction to fairy tales comes in such whitewashed form. It's not just Rapunzel: In toys, movies, and books, the old fairy tales are being systematically stripped of their darker complexities. "Fairy tale" may be our shorthand for castles and happy endings, but these classic stories have villains, too.
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philbertSep 22, 2008
Check out the movie Snow White: A Tale of Terror. Terrible name but excellent movie. Much closer to the original story than the watered down Disney version.<a class="user" href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119227/">http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119227/</a>
Closed AccountSep 22, 2008
That sounds more like a Metalocalypse episode than a fairy tale.Sign me up.
jashobeam5Sep 23, 2008
Very true. Disney is a product, nothing more.
mortiraOct 9, 2008
You can't change the fact that people weren't always so PC. How else can we learn from our mistakes? If a bunch of white busy-bodies decide that the crows should be cut from future releases of Dumbo, I will lose my mind. Even Whoopi will tell you that "Snow White and Coal Black" is a classic piece of historic cinema.
kellenvhOct 13, 2008
Ahhh, "the long bag we drag behind us". Robert Bly