Warm, cheerful and suitable for children, although not deprived of “flavors” aimed at adult viewers – these are cult animations. The happy ones, however, did not always happen in the prototypes of the stories presented in the films. There is no shortage of dark and drastic details that are considered inappropriate for children’s stories. Here are some examples.
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“Sleeping Beauty”: Twins wake her up from her sleep
In the 1959 fairy tale, Princess Aurora is cursed by the Witch. On her 16th birthday, after injuring her finger with a spinning wheel spindle, she is to fall into a long sleep, from which she is awakened by the prince’s kiss. Thanks to the help of three fairies, Prince Philip kills the Witch and lifts the spell cast on the princess and the castle.
The fairy tale of “Sleeping Beauty” has several versions. In the one published by Giambattista Basile, Princess Talia falls into a long sleep after being pricked with a splinter. The king comes to the castle, who, enchanted by the beauty of the princess, “gathers the first fruits of love”, and then leaves the castle, leaving the princess unconscious. Talia, still asleep, gives birth to twins, and one of the children sucks a splinter from the princess’s finger, who wakes up from sleep. The king visits the castle again and learns that Talia has given birth to twins. His wife writes a letter to the princess, asking her to send the children to the castle, because the king would like to see them. He also orders the cook to bake the twins and serve them to the king. The cook hides them and instead serves a roast lamb for dinner.
“The Little Mermaid”: a story about tragic love
The Disney fairy tale ends happily, the little mermaid wins the love of her beloved prince and regains her beautiful voice. The original, i.e. Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tale, is in fact a story about tragic love.
The youngest daughter of the king of the seas one day saw a ship with a beautiful prince. The storm destroyed the ship, but the mermaid managed to save the prince. She came with her unconscious lover to a distant country, and a girl passing by found him on land. The mermaid in love returned to her kingdom, but she still dreamed of becoming a human. To win the prince’s love, she agreed to give her vote in exchange for her legs. The old witch cut off her tongue, but it was not the only price – each step caused the mermaid unimaginable pain. When she reached the castle, however, the prince treated her like a sister. The king arranged a wedding with a girl who met the prince just after he was saved by the little mermaid and whom the prince was in love with, convinced that she had saved his life. The broken mermaid threw herself into the sea, but was caught by the daughters of the air. Since then, she has lived in homes with small children.
“Cinderella”: fingers cut off and eyes gouged out
In Disney’s version of the Cinderella story, the sisters try to fit a glass slipper to their feet, but fail. In the fairy tale of the Brothers Grimm, the sisters, on the advice of Cinderella’s stepmother, resort to drastic methods and mutilate their feet to fit the slipper. One cuts off her toes, the other – her heel. The blood on the shoe betrays the ruse, and the prince finally finds Cinderella. At the wedding, pigeons peck out the eyes of step-sisters.
Source: Gazeta
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