Grimm Brothers...

[silversolitaire]

Hmm... I just took a quiz that tested how well I knew Hansl and Gretl and I realized two things.

One: I don't know the fairytale as well as I thought I did, even though I have read the original version and not the cutesified children's version.

Two: The Grimm fairytales are really brutal. Okay, yeah, I knew that, but just thinking about it now, in detail, really makes my blood curl. I mean, imagine! The mother say "Oh, we're out of money, let's dump the kids!" o.o The kids reach the witch's house after a night of being scared and hungry and freezing. And then the witch locks them into a cage and stuffs them with food, testing how fat they've become yet in order to eat them! Holy shit! I mean, think about it! How sick is that! O.O;;; I'm trying to think... was this fairytale ever cutesified? I wonder how... did they make the mother less evil? I doubt they could change much regarding the witch wanting to eat them... hm...

Gosh... I remember when I was a kid I had this cassette with the Frog King that was true to the original source as well. The frog gave this terrible loud scream when the princess slammed him into the wall... ó_ò I was so scared. Heh, and in the cutesified version she just gives him a kiss. Never mind the fact that she's rather shoot herself than kissing that slimy bastard.

Heh... it's strange. No wonder kids in the past were so terrified... LOL

Comments

[silversolitaire.livejournal.com]

Oh yes! Totally! For you, the mermaid has a lot more to suffer for being human. Every step she takes hurts like walking on blades and she has to be careful not to give herself away with the blood leaking from her feet! And then she doesn't stand a chance and in the end the prince marries someone else and she dies, not having managed to get the prince and becomes seafoam. Oh, and her sisters cut their hair to help her out, but she refuses. T_T Very sad.

[pikachan.livejournal.com]

Does Ursula still gets killed in the end?

[silversolitaire.livejournal.com]

The seawitch isn't called Ursula and she isn't like in the movie at all. She doesn't get involved in anything above the surface and she doesn't really care whether the mermaid wins or not. She just offers the deal and since the mermaid screws it up herself, she perishes. No involvement of the witch.

[silversolitaire.livejournal.com]

Ooooh forgot! Fleur reminded me! *g* The deal her sisters made with the seawitch is that if the mermaid kills the prince on his wedding night, she'll be a mermaid again. But she can't bring herself to do it and rather dies. And in the end, she become a light sprite of sorts because she's proven to be a good person after all. I don't know anything about that, since I've completely forgotten about that, but Fleur says so and she knows! *g*

[pikachan.livejournal.com]

Does the seawitch still wants the mermaids voice, like in the movie? Cause that was weird.

Who wrote this anyway? Grimm? I think I need to read more of that, then @_@

[silversolitaire.livejournal.com]

Hans Christian Andersen ^.^

I can't remember if she wanted to voice... probably yes. Otherwise she just could have walked up to him and say "Yo, Prince, it's me!" LOL

[(Anonymous)]

"There it is(the potion that'll give her legs)" said the witch and cut off the tongue of the little mermaid, who was now mute, could neither sing nor speak.

Oooh, and there's the air sprite thing.

"Where will I go?" she asked, and her voice sounded like that of the other sprites, so ethereal no earthly music can reproduce it. "To the air's daughters!" the others answered.

Meh.

I shouldn't have opened that book -_- now I remember how sad I was about the Steadfast Tin Soldier ;_;

[silversolitaire.livejournal.com]

T_T Yeah... it's sad as hell....

[(Anonymous)]

hmm, in the version i read she couldn't kill him and still became seafoam, no light sprite or something... eh.
you still owe me eeeeemaaaail. :P

[silversolitaire.livejournal.com]

So it's you! hehe I was already wondering!

Eeeek! You're right! It actually is half done! I just never finished and sent it off! >_< Will do now!

[(Anonymous)]

yay ^o^