The Rules: Don't take too long to think about it. Ten authors who've influenced you and that will always stick with you. List the first ten you can recall in no more than ten minutes
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Hans Christian Anderson Andersen ;-) At least if you're talking about the Danish fairy tale writer.
Just out of curiosity, what do you like about his stories? Personally I'm not too keen about them any longer, but I have a feeling that that may very well be because all Danish students are forced to study him extensively in school, so it may just be a matter of overexposure ;)
Back when I did read them, my favourite was "The Snow Queen".
Thanks, yes i did mean Andersen, the Danish fairy tale writer. I read them on my own, not for school or anything as a kid. And the way real fairy tales involved actual danger and sadness and fear. It really spoke to me. That bad things happen and only sometimes can you overcome them. That decisions you make have real consequences. Unlike cartton versions of fairly tales or Disney versions.
I can understand that! I took more to the fairy tales by Brothers Grimm, but that's probably because I read those on my own, and therefore didn't have the same obligation to read them or to analyse them, but could just read them for no other reason than that I wanted to.
I think both dark and light fairy tales have their merits, and it all depends on what I'm in the mood for. It did bother me though that Disney changed the ending of "The Little Mermaid" that much.
It bothered me that Disney changed the ending until a couple of years ago. I wrote a post about it. The issue is not the lack of consequence-- the issue is what it is a consequence for.
Essentially, in the late 80s, Disney was trying to remake the messages of their movies, to say that young women should be independent and courageous and not just wait around for their prince to come. So it would have been incredibly destructive and un-feminist to have their first movie about a young woman who does stand up for herself and follow her own dreams through personal agency die as a result.
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Andersen ;-) At least if you're talking about the Danish fairy tale writer.
Just out of curiosity, what do you like about his stories? Personally I'm not too keen about them any longer, but I have a feeling that that may very well be because all Danish students are forced to study him extensively in school, so it may just be a matter of overexposure ;)
Back when I did read them, my favourite was "The Snow Queen".
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Back then my favorite was The Little Match Girl.
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I think both dark and light fairy tales have their merits, and it all depends on what I'm in the mood for. It did bother me though that Disney changed the ending of "The Little Mermaid" that much.
Thanks :)
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Essentially, in the late 80s, Disney was trying to remake the messages of their movies, to say that young women should be independent and courageous and not just wait around for their prince to come. So it would have been incredibly destructive and un-feminist to have their first movie about a young woman who does stand up for herself and follow her own dreams through personal agency die as a result.
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