{"id":1035,"date":"2011-09-06T09:49:47","date_gmt":"2011-09-06T13:49:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/tatar\/?p=1035"},"modified":"2011-09-06T14:43:29","modified_gmt":"2011-09-06T18:43:29","slug":"jack-zipes-talks-about-fairy-tale-films","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/2011\/09\/06\/jack-zipes-talks-about-fairy-tale-films\/","title":{"rendered":"Fairy-Tale Films and the Dark Side"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Emma Mustich interviews Jack Zipes on the recent turn to the dark side of fairy tales.\u00a0 I’m not so sure that Disney film lack the dark side to which she refers, although the Disney Cinderella<\/em> is no match for the Grimms’ version, with blood dripping from the stepsisters’ shoes and eyes pecked out by doves.\u00a0 Remember Ursula, the Sea Witch, and her battle with Eric?\u00a0 And the transformation scene in Snow White<\/em>, down in the cellar with the skulls and ravens?\u00a0 Emma Mustich writes:<\/p>\n

These stories have entertained and comforted, spooked and delighted audiences for countless generations. Many who are alive today find Disney’s adaptations of these tales — from “Cinderella” to “The Little Mermaid” — familiar; children reared on the animation giant’s brightly-colored, upbeat and music-saturated films may view the glut of live-action fairy tale film adaptations headed our way — three new “Snow Whites,”<\/a> two “Sleeping Beauties,”<\/a> a “Beauty and the Beast”<\/a> and a “Little Mermaid,”<\/a> among others — with a curious sort of caution.<\/em><\/p>\n

A number of these films (which are in various stages of planning and production) have been pitched as “dark” retellings of familiar tales. At this year’s Comic-Con, Charlize Theron likened<\/a> her “Evil Queen” character in “Snow White and the Huntsman” to a “serial killer” (not a total departure for Theron<\/a>); the new “Little Mermaid” is based on Carolyn Turgeon’s novel “Mermaid,”<\/a> which Booklist reviewed<\/a> using words and phrases like “dark,” “foreboding,” “heartache,” “misery,” “constant pain,” “catastrophic consequences,” “brooding,” “tragic” and “not exactly a cozy bedtime story.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Does this “dark turn” in fairy-tale filmmaking represent a return to older, more forbidding versions of stories Disney gussied up for 20th-century kids? Or are these new movies simply cogs in the wheel of folk tale re-telling?<\/em><\/p>\n

Here’s the link to the interview, and you will discover that Jack Zipes is no fan of Disney.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.salon.com\/entertainment\/movies\/feature\/2011\/08\/20\/fairy_tale_movies<\/p>\n

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