Tag: fairytales

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↣ “ Dear Beauty,” he said, “nothing but your love could have disenchanted me. A wicked fairy turned me into a Beast, and condemned me to remain one until some fair and good maiden should love me well enough to marry me, in spite of my ugliness and stupidity. “ [source] ↢

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Beauty and the Beast (French: La Belle et la Bête) is a traditional fairy tale written by French novelist Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont and published in 1756.Variants of the tale are known across Europe. In France, for example, Zémire et Azor is an operatic version of the story, written by Marmontel and composed by Grétry in 1771, which had enormous success well into the 19th century; it is based on the second version of the tale. Amour pour amour, by Nivelle de la Chaussée, is a 1742 play based on Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve’s version.

Villeneuve’s tale includes several elements that Beaumont’s omits. Chiefly, the back-story of both Belle and the Beast is given. The Beast was a prince who lost his father at a young age, and whose mother had to wage war to defend his kingdom. The queen left him in care of an evil fairy, who tried to seduce him when he became an adult; when he refused, she transformed him into a beast. Belle’s story reveals that she is not really a merchant’s daughter but the offspring of a king and a good fairy. The wicked fairy had tried to murder Belle so she could marry her father the king, and Belle was put in the place of the merchant’s dead daughter to protect her. She also gave the castle elaborate magic, which obscured the more vital pieces of it. Beaumont greatly pared down the cast of characters and simplified the tale to an almost archetypal simplicity.

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One Gifset per Fairytale [13/?]

The Nutcracker and the Mouse King (“Nussknacker und Mausekönig”, Germany, 2015, part of “6 auf einen Streich” series)

This adaptation is based on the story of the same name by E. T. A. Hoffmann.

Other adaptations of the fairytale include: The Nutcracker Prince (Canada, 1990), Barbie in the Nutcracker (USA/Canada, 2001), The Nutcracker in 3D (UK/Hungary/Canada, 2009) or the upcoming Disney’s film The Nutcracker and the Four Realms (USA, 2018).

Here is the YouTube link.

I can’t even tell you how much I love this adaptation. In a way it reminds me of the animated Nutcracker Prince, but this version is both darker and more romantic. Also, the romance actually works much better here since Marie and the Nutcracker are in their older teenage years*. Definitely worth a watch, even if you (like me) don’t speak German.

*The original novel is kinda gross in that respect because Marie is literally seven and gets married in the end – but I understand that the book is supposed to be a wish-fulfilment

fantasy of a little girl who saves her “prince charming” and becomes a queen.