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Post by letminlt on Feb 16, 2007 23:53:57 GMT -5
What is everyone's favorite childhood story?
Mine is "Peter Pan." It always has, and always will be. If any of you have seen the newer "Peter Pan" movie, from 2003, I believe it is. My friends got annoyed and moved away from me in the movie theatre, when I started yelling "That doesn't happen in the book!" They were embarrassed...But the director kept insisting that he stayed true to the book, so when I saw differences between the book and the movie, I made sure my friends were aware of them as well. Haha.
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Post by caserdonian12 on Feb 17, 2007 0:40:27 GMT -5
Mine was "Were the wild things are"
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Post by Renegade Replicant on Feb 18, 2007 16:05:39 GMT -5
Where the Wild Things Are is a classic...
I'm not sure, but one of my favorites was this book my mom read to me when I was pretty small just before bed. In the book, each page said something along the lines of, "I am a Doctor" or "I am a Firefighter" and It'd have a drawing of a small kid dressed up like one these things. I remember the book ended with, "But I'll always be me!".
Anyways, I liked it because one of the pages said, "I am a Sand which" and it had a drawing of a kid in between two pillows and I'd always love to try to emulate it. Ha ha, I was such a weird kid (and still am a weird person...)
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Post by caserdonian12 on Feb 18, 2007 19:32:42 GMT -5
Maybe I should find a better response it was!
Another one was "brown bear"
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Post by Renegade Replicant on Feb 22, 2007 12:48:38 GMT -5
@lt I don't like how Disney romanticized and censored the story in the animated version.
The live version from Universial is just as bad.
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Post by caserdonian12 on Feb 22, 2007 14:03:18 GMT -5
Yeah
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Post by letminlt on Feb 22, 2007 14:53:41 GMT -5
RR...I know. I have yet to find a "Peter Pan" movie that I like.
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Post by zarog on Feb 22, 2007 16:18:41 GMT -5
Probably Stomp! Stomp! Don't ask long story.
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Post by Renegade Replicant on Feb 22, 2007 16:34:20 GMT -5
@lt Honestly, just about every Disney movie based on a fairy tale is severely sanitized and censored.
Cinderella originally ended rather violently.
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Post by letminlt on Feb 22, 2007 16:47:09 GMT -5
Oh, I know that. The original "Fairy Tales" were very dark, sexual, and full of violence.
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Post by Renegade Replicant on Feb 22, 2007 16:55:11 GMT -5
Yeah, its kinda fun to break the awful truth to people that Cinderella originally ended with the two step-sisters cutting off parts of their feet, then getting their eye's pecked out by birds.
What a lovely story ;D.
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Post by zarog on Feb 22, 2007 16:56:27 GMT -5
That is truly the best version.
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Post by Renegade Replicant on Feb 22, 2007 16:57:55 GMT -5
zarogI knew you'd like it ;D.
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Post by zarog on Feb 22, 2007 16:59:31 GMT -5
That is the only version worth hearing so of course I would like it.
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Post by caserdonian12 on Feb 26, 2007 8:42:32 GMT -5
Of course!
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Post by letminlt on Mar 7, 2007 0:16:58 GMT -5
Another angle on Cinderella is "Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister" by Gregory Maguire. I just read it, and enjoyed it. It is a great take on the story.
Right now I'm reading "Mirror, Mirror" by Gregory Maguire also, and it is another take on the Snow White story...it's alright so far...you have to have a knowledge of the Borgia family story if you want to SUPER understand it (thank you french class!), but it is still really good...
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Post by Renegade Replicant on Mar 7, 2007 16:47:22 GMT -5
@lt So its basically Cinderella from the perspective of one of the two Ugly Stepsisters? What angle does it take?
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Post by letminlt on Mar 7, 2007 19:10:11 GMT -5
It basically is the story of CInderella. The 2 stepsisters go to Holland from England when their dad is killed. Their mother becomes housekeeper for a local painter, who paints a photo of one of the sisters. HIs painting attracts the attention of a local tulip seller, who wants the sister to come and help teach his daughter to speak English. She agrees, and he hires her mother to work in the kitchen, and her sister, who possibly has downs syndrome, from the decription of her, just goes about on her own. It tells of the friendship formed between the three girls, and how when "Cinderella"'s mother dies, the housekeeper uses her wiles to marry the tulip seller. Due to her selfish nature, the family goes into dept, and the father becomes a recluse. The stepmother then goes about selling everything in the house to gain the money to attend a ball held by some European queen who wants to marry off her godson. She does, and the stepsisters launch a plan with the ppainter's apprentice to get their sister to attend the ball as well. If you want to know the rest, you'll have to read it. :-)
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Post by Renegade Replicant on Mar 7, 2007 22:00:08 GMT -5
Sounds interesting... so it portrays the step-sisters in a more positive light?
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Post by letminlt on Mar 7, 2007 22:00:57 GMT -5
Yes, it does.
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