{"id":1962,"date":"2012-11-20T08:55:04","date_gmt":"2012-11-20T13:55:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/tatar\/?p=1962"},"modified":"2012-11-20T08:57:14","modified_gmt":"2012-11-20T13:57:14","slug":"guillermo-del-toro-on-the-villains-horror-and-fairy-tales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/2012\/11\/20\/guillermo-del-toro-on-the-villains-horror-and-fairy-tales\/","title":{"rendered":"Guillermo del Toro on Villains, Horror, and Fairy Tales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/tatar\/files\/2012\/11\/original.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1963\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/tatar\/files\/2012\/11\/original-300x235.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"235\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/files\/2012\/11\/original-300x235.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/files\/2012\/11\/original-1024x803.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/files\/2012\/11\/original.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/io9.com\/5961916\/guillermo-del-toro-explains-the-biggest-mistake-people-make-in-telling-stories-for-children<\/p>\n<p>Guillermo del Toro talks about his new movie, Rise<em> of the Guardians<\/em>, and tells us a lot about monsters, darkness, and how to write for children.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>What&#8217;s the difference between a monster movie and a dark fairy tale?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>It&#8217;s a very, very, very thin difference. I think that horror stories come from fairy tales, in a way. They share a lot of similarities. I think the difference is tonal. You know, the fairy tale contains a lot more elements of magic and whimsy and the the horror story contains a lot more, sort of, almost existential feelings \u2014 sort of dread, and ultimately they are similar melodies, played at a very different key.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/io9.com\/5961916\/guillermo-del-toro-explains-the-biggest-mistake-people-make-in-telling-stories-for-children Guillermo del Toro talks about his new movie, Rise of the Guardians, and tells us a lot about monsters, darkness, and how to write for children. What&#8217;s the difference between a monster movie and a dark fairy tale? It&#8217;s a very, very, very thin difference. I think that horror stories come from fairy tales, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2125,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2125"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1962"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1967,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1962\/revisions\/1967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}