Disney sure does soften up a lot of its adaptions...which is great, when you're a kid. Then you grow up and you Google these things. Yikes! I tried this a few months back. Here...
1.) In the original Cinderella, the other women actually cut their feet in half so the slipper would fit.
2.) In The Frog Prince, she doesn't kiss him - she throws him.
3.) In the original Goose-Girl (I don't know if Disney ever made a movie about this), the talking horse is slaughtered and his head hung over a doorway, because an evil housekeeper feared he would let slip that he overheard her spouting death threats to the princess.
4.) In the original Hansel "Und" Gretel, they're kidnapped by a cannibalistic witch; and after enslaving Gretel, she decides to kill them and eat them. In the end, Gretel pushes the witch into the oven and bolts the door shut.
5.) In the original Rumpelstiltskin, a miller tells the king that his daughter can spin straw into gold, and the king locks her away, threatening to behead her if she fails. When she runs out of pay-ment methods, she promises to give him her first child. When he loses that bargain, he runs away and never comes back. They later rewrote the ending, instead making Rumpelstiltskin fall into a chasm and die.
6.) In the original second part of Sleeping Beauty, the prince's mother is part-ogre, who demands that her children-in-law are cooked; but when her ogre counterpart is revealed, she commits suicide, climbing into a tub filled with vipers. In a different version, Sleeping Beauty's real name is Talia, whom the king rapes, and whom the queen wants to be burned alive. When the king realizes his wife wants to burn Talia, he burns his wife, and some other people who betrayed him as well.
7.) In the original Snow White, the queen is so jealous of her beauty that she hires a huntsman to kill her, and bring back her lungs and liver as proof. He backs down when she pleads for her life, promising to leave and never come back. He instead returns to the queen with the lungs and liver of a boar. When the queen discovers Snow White is still alive, she poses as a peddler and brings her laced bodies, and ties up the laces so tightly that Snow White faints. The queen leaves her there, and the seven dwarves find her and undo the laces, just in time. After Snow White is later am-bushed with a poisoned comb and then a poisoned apple, her life saved each time; the queen gives up all hope and attends her son's wedding, and is horrified to learn Snow White is now her step-daughter. As punishment for her misdeeds, she's forced to step into a pair of red-hot iron shoes, and dance until she dies.
Grimm enough for you?
1.) In the original Cinderella, the other women actually cut their feet in half so the slipper would fit.
2.) In The Frog Prince, she doesn't kiss him - she throws him.
3.) In the original Goose-Girl (I don't know if Disney ever made a movie about this), the talking horse is slaughtered and his head hung over a doorway, because an evil housekeeper feared he would let slip that he overheard her spouting death threats to the princess.
4.) In the original Hansel "Und" Gretel, they're kidnapped by a cannibalistic witch; and after enslaving Gretel, she decides to kill them and eat them. In the end, Gretel pushes the witch into the oven and bolts the door shut.
5.) In the original Rumpelstiltskin, a miller tells the king that his daughter can spin straw into gold, and the king locks her away, threatening to behead her if she fails. When she runs out of pay-ment methods, she promises to give him her first child. When he loses that bargain, he runs away and never comes back. They later rewrote the ending, instead making Rumpelstiltskin fall into a chasm and die.
6.) In the original second part of Sleeping Beauty, the prince's mother is part-ogre, who demands that her children-in-law are cooked; but when her ogre counterpart is revealed, she commits suicide, climbing into a tub filled with vipers. In a different version, Sleeping Beauty's real name is Talia, whom the king rapes, and whom the queen wants to be burned alive. When the king realizes his wife wants to burn Talia, he burns his wife, and some other people who betrayed him as well.
7.) In the original Snow White, the queen is so jealous of her beauty that she hires a huntsman to kill her, and bring back her lungs and liver as proof. He backs down when she pleads for her life, promising to leave and never come back. He instead returns to the queen with the lungs and liver of a boar. When the queen discovers Snow White is still alive, she poses as a peddler and brings her laced bodies, and ties up the laces so tightly that Snow White faints. The queen leaves her there, and the seven dwarves find her and undo the laces, just in time. After Snow White is later am-bushed with a poisoned comb and then a poisoned apple, her life saved each time; the queen gives up all hope and attends her son's wedding, and is horrified to learn Snow White is now her step-daughter. As punishment for her misdeeds, she's forced to step into a pair of red-hot iron shoes, and dance until she dies.
Grimm enough for you?
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