My garden of musings

Fairy tale illustrations by Scott Gustafson

Jack and the Beanstalk by Pavel Tartarnikov

I still think we should have MILF Mrs. Bennet. I think everyone should be like “damn” when they see her and then she opens her mouth and they’re like “oh”. I want them to go through the same process Mr. Bennet did, in a much shorter time frame.

and totally yes to the second statement. But I want her to also have a very sexy voice, that you quickly realize is spouting nonsense.

For that matter, give us a Mr. Bennet no older than 50, to reinforce that he married his wife out of blind youthful infatuation, and make him good-looking too, to reinforce that it was mutual. (Although of course the future Mrs. Bennet also had the motive of social climbing.)

RKO, who made the 1939 version, claimed to own the name. The legal issues were eventually resolved, and the film was released as The Hunchback of Notre Dame in 1957. 

This is the same reason why from the late 1930s onward you don’t see any Hollywood adaptations of Cinderella under the name Cinderella. Instead you get names like The Glass Slipper, The Magic Slipper, First Love, or Cinderella’s Feller… because in Hollywood, the title Cinderella was owned by Disney.

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As for the Princes and other heroes, I have seen the white ones excessively criticized too - e.g. Snow White’s Prince the stalker/necrophiliac, Adam the abuser, John Smith the colonizer, Quasimodo the Nice Guy, Flynn Rider the jerk, Kristoff the boor. And I haven’t personally seen too much criticism of Shang; if anything, I’ve seen more fans who try too hard to insist he does nothing wrong. (“He doesn’t care that she’s a woman, he’s just upset that she lied!”) But I’m sure those defenses are in response to excess criticism that I just haven’t seen. And I can’t get over how hard some people are on Aladdin! It does make you wonder: if the exact same story took place in a European setting, with white characters, would they be as hard on him, or would they empathize a little more?

John Smith WAS a romaticized portrayal of an actual real life colonizer that the Native American comunity has been calling out for decades, so I wouldn’t really put him as unfairly overly criticized like the other male characters.

i love you jane my dear girl who never had a conversation in her life

Artist : Fiona Moodie