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What are your favorite fairy tales? Favorite Disney movies based off of them? Favorite novel-length retellings? Like C.S. Lewis said, there comes a time when you are "old enough" to be into fairy tales again, and I've totally gotten back into it since my Disney-princess years.
My lifelong favorite fairy tales are Beauty and the Beast and East of the Sun, West of the Moon (the latter is the Norwegien twist on the former). Favorite Disney remakes would have to be Tangled (the real Rapunzel is strange) and Beauty and the Beast (it was always my favorite from age three, so...though I have also seen the old French one). As for novel versions, I haven't found a satisfactory one for ES, WM (there are many, but all just seem to taste flat--the one by Jessica Day George came the closest to decent) so I just read the original. Otherwise, Spindle's End by Robin McKinley (Sleeping Beauty) and Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine (Cinderella) are my top two favorite fairy tale retellings (two of my top ten favorite books, actually!)
Does anyone know of a good novel of Snow White? I've read Fairest, of course, but I wondered if there were any others.
submitted by Everinne, age 15, Fairyland
(October 5, 2014 - 12:12 pm)
(October 5, 2014 - 12:12 pm)
I'm not sure when it's coming out, but there's one in the works. Just search Beauty and the Beast live action and it should come up.
(October 10, 2014 - 10:34 pm)
I'm getting more and more excited for the new Cinderella as the days go by honestly. I can't express how much I adore her. She's up there next to Anne Shirley. (So that should say everything.) I am somewhat worried still though, cause one of the few pictures released from the film has Cinderella in a fairly revealing dress, and I'm not very keen on that.
Wow, I hadn't realized that Bellatrix was going to be the fairy godmother. That's going to be hard to get past.
(October 10, 2014 - 6:00 pm)
I know! That's going to be really funny. And Cate Blanchett is going to be Lady Tremaine. I always think of her as the benevolent and noble (albiet slightly creepy) Galadriel, so that's going to be another interesting thing to see.
Re: the revealing dress, that's Hollywood for you these days. I have yet to find any film in the past ten years for people of our age that doesn't have something racy in it.
(October 11, 2014 - 7:17 pm)
It is! Hmm, that name is familiar. *googles* Oh yeah. Well she looks like she could play Lady Tremaine, so it will indeed be interesting.
*sigh* So true, so true. Why they insist on doing that, I will never know, but I haven't seen any movies without any racy content either. Durn the realm of Hollywood!
(October 17, 2014 - 1:19 pm)
1. The Land of tories series (this one is a mix of the diferent fairytales with lots of twists)
2. Once upon a Toad (This one is a twist on the story where one girl get diamond in her mouth when she talks)
3. Twice Upon a Time series (These are Wendy Mass. They come in flavors Rapunzel, Sleeping Beuaty, and Beuty and the Beast.)
4. The Princess Tales (more gy Gail Carson Levine. There are a whole bunch.)
Spammie says pzed. He's puzzled why we don't know any good Snow White retellings.
(October 17, 2014 - 5:08 am)
I know, why aren't there any? Maybe I ought to write one.
(October 17, 2014 - 11:44 am)
Narnia and Beauty and the Beast, I like Brave too.
(October 17, 2014 - 7:47 am)
The Snow Queen (NOT Frozen), Peter Pan, Snow White, Cinderella, and The Twelve Dancing Princesses. =)
(October 20, 2014 - 7:11 pm)