[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: Disney; Mermaid

[Tandy, Heidi]

But Little Mermaid - the Disney version - is, until the final scenes, pretty
close to the Hans Christien Andersen version, which you can find at
http://hca.gilead.org.il/li_merma.html
<http://hca.gilead.org.il/li_merma.html>  - the mermaid in the story does
give up her voice for a pair of legs (and in the story, suffers terribly
every time she takes a step) - Understandably, the Disney version involves
less death, attempted murder and religious symbolism than the original, but
honestly, I don't see anything sexist in it that wasn't in the original tale
itself. What else do you do with lines like this:
"As the days passed, she loved the prince more fondly, and he loved her as
he would love a little child, but it never came into his head to make her
his wife; yet, unless he married her, she could not receive an immortal
soul; and, on the morning after his marriage with another, she would
dissolve into the foam of the sea..."
 
I am a complete Disney buff - when Harrison was born, we got the 5(?) cd set
of Disney classics, and he knows a lot of the songs, watches Fantasia a lot
(it's his favorite video) and has already made 4 trips to the Magic Kingdom,
and we're going again in a few weeks, and one of the best sets of photos I
have is when we went to breakfast with the princesses at Cinderella's Castle
in January and they all gave him kisses - and I wish, more than anything,
that Disney had obtained the rights to the HP books, for movie purposes (and
theme park ones as well) - what would be cooler than an Animal Kingdom ride
through Hagrid's class, ending with the firebolt-assisted capture of an egg
from a nesting mother dragon? Or a Quidditch ride, where you can actually -
sorta - play? Plus, you *know* their art would've been a lot better than
this junk from WB.
 

-----Original Message-----
From: Rosmerta [mailto:tmayor at mediaone.net]
Sent: Monday, May 14, 2001 11:02 PM
To: HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com
Subject: [HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: Hunchback; Disney (was: Aliteracy--various
rants...)


Real-To: "Rosmerta" Three words for Ebony and Scott and other Disney
apologists: The 
Little Mermaid. A movie so sexist and stupid it makes "Pretty Woman" 
look like "Little Women." The Disney you're remembering fondly (me 
too!) and the one currently keeping the "happy" in Happy Meals are 
two different beasts.