Horrific revisions of childhood tales…

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Fyrefox

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As copyrights for classic stories of children’s literature are falling into the public domain, we are now seeing film producers free to mess with them, and come up with twisted versions in the horror genre, quite far afield from the original storyline and characters. First there was Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey…

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Upcoming soon will be The Mean One (patterned on How the Grinch Stole Xmas), Bambi: The Reckoning, and Peter Pan: Neverland Nightmare. Others are sure to follow. All will be extremely dark tales…

So how do you feel about such parodies? Dark humor, or travesties? Childhood may never be the same… 🙀

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jujube said:
If anyone has read Grimm's fairy tales in their original form, you'll know they weren't meant for a child's entertainment. They were "morality stories" intended to scare a child into good behavior. "Grimm" is the operant word here.
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I've read some of them and IMO Anderson's fairy tales are worse. They became sanitised for children with the advent of illustrated books, probably in Victorian times.

We cannot control what is available to children all of the time but we can to some extent inoculate them by exposing them to better quality literature and cinematic experiences.
 

jujube said:
If anyone has read Grimm's fairy tales in their original form, you'll know they weren't meant for a child's entertainment. They were "morality stories" intended to scare a child into good behavior. "Grimm" is the operant word here.
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Grimm fairy tales immediately came to my mind. They had a bit of gore. I read them as a kid. They have been sanitized.

But I'm not sure we need to scare up stories that were never meant to be that way in the first place. Referring to OP.
 
I remember one of the Grimm (or it might have been Anderson) stories about a proud little girl. She had a pair of new shoes and her parents sent her to the village to buy some bread with the very last of their money. On the way back, she came to a mud puddle and didn't want to dirty her shoes, so she threw the bread down in the puddle to walk on. Of course, her parents starved to death.

So, she was cursed and started dancing uncontrollably. She danced until she was half dead and then danced up to a woodsman and asked him to cut off her feet. He did and whittled her a pair of wooden feet. For the rest of her life, she hobbled around on the wooden feet in very bad pain. Boy, that sure taught her!

Just the story you want to read to your kids before they go to sleep. "Now, kids, you go right to sleep and don't get up or I'll have to cut off your feet! Pleasant dreams, sweeties!!!"
 
I don’t know as many children read those classic works these days.
When my children asked me to read to them, they preferred books
like, “If You Give A Mouse A Cookie ..” or “The Giving Tree”. I doubt
that childhoods in today’s children will be ruined by such things but
I get the feeling that a lot of memories for those of us fortunate enough
to have been exposed to such classics will be jarred.

There’s always time to buy the original stories for the children you love.
Christmas seems a perfect time too to do so.

Bring Me The Head Of Winnie The Pooh by AA Killme 🫣
 
The Mean One re-imagines the Grinch as Xmas killer, and Little Cindy Lou-Who, now twenty years older, as kinda like Linda Hamilton playing a seasoned Sarah Conner in the Terminator series. Whoville is now Newville. The film is full of dark humor, which I’ve always enjoyed… 🙀

 
In the original version of Cinderella, the prince comes calling around the countryside with the glass slipper trying to find the girl from the ball.

Evil Stepmother locks up Cindy and insists he tries it on Stepsister #1. When her foot won't fit, Mom takes a cleaver and chops off her daughter's toes. Voila! The shoe fits and the prince reluctantly starts to ride off with the bogus bride behind him, her foot dripping blood down the horse's side. Now, Princy really must have needed glasses because he obviously missed the fact that the GLASS slipper was filling up with blood, but on with the story.... Luckily, a little birdie flew by chirping, "Turn back, turn back, you have the wrong bride!"

So he turns back and Evil Stepmom apologizes and says she's sure her other daughter must be the one! He tries the shoe on her (I assume they must have run the shoe under the pump at this point) and, of course, she also can't get it on. Stepmom, being determined that one of her daughters is going to be the next Queen (sort of like the mothers on "Toddlers and Tiaras"), decides this time to whittle off that daughter's heel with the cleaver until the shoe fits. Once again, the Prince starts to ride off with his prospective bride behind him on the horse. Again, the little birdie flits by chirping, "Turn back, turn back, you have the wrong bride!"

So he returns, dumping the second sister off his horse and demands to know if there are any other girls in the house. Stepmom admits she has one locked up in the attic and is forced to present her.

Cindy comes down, put her foot in the (presumed) bloody shoe and IT FITS! She produces the other glass shoe and she and the prince ride off to live happily ever after. The story doesn't say, but I assume the stepmother and the stepsisters got their heads chopped off.
 

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