Today it hits the screens Alice through the mirror, sequel to Tim Burton's film based on the animation tape that adapted the book published by Lewis Carroll in 1865.
One more example of that close relationship between Disney films and great classics of world literature of which we have witnessed during the last decades, although the adaptation has not always been 100% faithful to the material for various reasons, some of them so respectable that if they had been discovered they could have ruined our childhood.
Let's discover these differences between Disney movies and the books they are inspired by.
Alice in Wonderland
If we take as a reference the tape of drawings released in 1951, Disney's Alice included the odd difference from the book published in 1865 by Lewis Carroll. Among some of them we find the absence of the famous "No-Birthday Party" celebrated by La Liebre and The Mad Hatter, or the appearance of the twins Tweedledee and Tweedledum, both included in the second part, Through the Looking Glass and what Alice found there, but not in the first and most famous book.
The Jungle Book
The cartoon film in 1967 and adapted in real image this same 2016 is based on on the set of stories The Book of the Wildlands by Indian-born English author Rudyard Kipling, who was inspired by the travel notebooks of various explorers to bring the stories of Mowgli, Baloo and Bagheera to life in the jungles of Seeonee. The film, a noble adaptation of this book, omitted details such as a greater presence of the adoptive wolf parents in the book, the limp of the tiger Shere Khan (and his double confrontation with Mowgli, or the secret of a treasure that the snake Kaa knew.
Beauty and the beast
In a week where the teaser of the new adaptation of Beauty and the Beast It has revolutionized the networks. Many of us have remembered the 1991 cartoon film and the French tale of multiple authors (and of which none has been confirmed as official) from which it was inspired. In the original story Bella had two vain sisters hungry for luxury and jewelry. The father of the three, a merchant, one day went to a castle where roses grew. After taking one at the request of his daughter Bella, the noblest of the three, he was captured by the Beast that we all know today.
The Little Mermaid
The difference between the Disney movie and the famous tale by Hans Christian Andersen it lies in a completely modified ending and adapted to children's canons. And it is that few children would have understood that, really, Ariel got to commit suicide at the end of the story after Prince Eric left on a boat to marry another woman. At least, after throwing himself into the sea Andersen softened the drama of the moment with the verse "His body becomes foam, but instead of ceasing to exist, he feels the heat of the sun, because he has become an ethereal spirit, a daughter of the air".
Cinderella
Towards the end of the famous 1950 movie Cinderella was locked up by her stepmother while her stepsisters tried on the most famous glass shoe in history with great difficulty. In the original version of the Grimm sisters' tale, the envious villains opted for somewhat more "gore" solutions, cutting off even part of their fingers in order to fit their wedding passport. Thanks Disney.
Frozen
Although Disney has already warned that its highest grossing film, Frozen, It was a vague adaptation of the short story The Snow Queen by Hans Christian Andersen, the truth is that the differences are greater than we thought. In the story Anna and Elsa do not exist, being replaced by Gerda and Kay, two childhood friends whose friendship is broken when Kay aspires the crystals of a mirror fallen to Earth from the Land of the Trolls. The evil Snow Queen is here a separate character, inspired by the Norse goddess of ice, Hel.
These differences between Disney movies and the books they are inspired by They have helped us ponder a childhood that could have been much more dramatic if the stepsisters had cut their fingers and dear Ariel had thrown herself off a cliff instead of going after the ship that her beloved and his new wife slept on.
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In the case of Cinderella, the Grimm's version is not the original (like all their fairy tales, collected from oral tradition and where there is no single version). It is one of the most widespread and oldest tales in Europe and is thought to come from China. But the Disney movie is based on Perrault's version, not the Grimm's. Perrault's does not have the gore theme of bleeding feet, and if the fairy godmother appears, the pumpkin ... (in the Grimm's there is no fairy godmother but a magic tree). It is perhaps one of the Disney fairy tale movies that best fits the text on which it is based.