What
you may not realize about the ever-so-classic Disney movies we all know and
love today is that some of them were based on old folk tales that were passed
down verbally for generations, and they weren’t as “happily ever after” as you
were lead to think. Many Disney movies were inspired by very gruesome fireside
stories.
Pinocchio – In the movies, Pinocchio was a mischievous
wooden toy who wanted to become a real boy. This is very similar to the original
story. However, when Pinocchio first leaves his home without his father’s
permission. Out on his adventure, he encountered a fox and a cat, who steal his
money and attempt to hang him. Fortunately, he escapes. Unfortunately, the
talking cricket we all know as Jiminy? Pinocchio squashed him.
The Little Mermaid – Ariel, the daughter of King Triton, is
a fan favorite amongst Disney Princess lovers, so not many of you will like
hearing the truth about this Little Mermaid. After Ariel makes the deal with
Ursula, she travels up to the human world to attempt to win the heart of the
Prince. Unfortunately, every step she takes with her artificial legs gives her
the feeling of walking on shard of glass. Days into her plan, Ariel feels like
she is winning the Prince’s heart. But on the last day, the Prince leaves her
for another woman. Broken hearted, Ariel throws herself into the sea and turns
into sea foam.
The Hunchback of Notre Dame – This movie was an adaption by
a book written by an author named Victor Hugo in 1829. However, this story in
Disney’s movie was severely twisted around. Esmerelda captures the heart of
Quasimodo by giving him water after he is flogged and put out in public
exposure. Unfortunately, she also captures the heart of Judge Claude Frollo,
Quasimodo’s adoptive father. Esmerelda is accused of attempted murder, and is
hanged. When Quasimodo sees his father laughing at her death, he pushes him off
of the heights of Notre Dame to his death. He later goes to Montfaucon, a huge
cemetery where the bodies of the damned are dumped. He finds Esmerelda’s body
and lays beside it, eventually starving to death. When their two bodies are
found many years later, and are tried to be pulled apart, they crumple into
dust.
Sleeping Beauty – We all know the tale about the power of
true love’s kiss, as shown when the Prince kisses Princess Aurora and wakes her
from her slumber. However, this isn’t how the original tale went. After Aurora
was cursed into slumber, she was raped by a king who was most likely in his
fifties. Twice. She, while still asleep,
got pregnant, and did not wake up until she felt extreme birth pains. After she
gave birth to the king’s child, she was then forced to marry him in order to
keep her child from being considered illegitimate.
The Fox and the Hound - Remember when Tod accidently got Copper's friend Chief run over by a train? Well, in the movie, Chief survives, but that's not what happened in Daniel P. Manix's original book. Chief actually dies in the original tale, and Copper, driven mad by a lust for revenge, kills Tod's first mate, second mate, and his cubs, and chases Tod for the rest of his life until Tod finally dies of exhaustion. A short while after Tod's death, Coppers master retires from hunting to a nursing home, but not before putting Copper down by shooting him in the head.
Cinderella - Possibly one of the most classic Disney Princess tales. Most of Disney's film adaption of this old fairy tale was accurate. Except for the outcome of Cinderella's step sisters. In the movie, they just have to live in jealousy of their sister's fortune and beauty for the rest of their lives, but in the old tale, when the prince arrives with the glass slippers, looking to find the woman he'd danced with, one of the step sister's cuts off her toes to try and fit her foot into the slipper, and the other slices off her heel, leaving them horribly disfigured and unable to walk for the rest of their lives.
The Fox and the Hound - Remember when Tod accidently got Copper's friend Chief run over by a train? Well, in the movie, Chief survives, but that's not what happened in Daniel P. Manix's original book. Chief actually dies in the original tale, and Copper, driven mad by a lust for revenge, kills Tod's first mate, second mate, and his cubs, and chases Tod for the rest of his life until Tod finally dies of exhaustion. A short while after Tod's death, Coppers master retires from hunting to a nursing home, but not before putting Copper down by shooting him in the head.
Cinderella - Possibly one of the most classic Disney Princess tales. Most of Disney's film adaption of this old fairy tale was accurate. Except for the outcome of Cinderella's step sisters. In the movie, they just have to live in jealousy of their sister's fortune and beauty for the rest of their lives, but in the old tale, when the prince arrives with the glass slippers, looking to find the woman he'd danced with, one of the step sister's cuts off her toes to try and fit her foot into the slipper, and the other slices off her heel, leaving them horribly disfigured and unable to walk for the rest of their lives.
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