The tale-tellingest man in town...

[liveinthelayers]

I've been searching for a fairy tale I knew as a child, one that hasn't been turned into a Disney feature-length cartoon. (Yet.)

The details are a little fuzzy, but I remember a girl getting three gifts: a silver dress, a golden dress, and some kind of fur coat (bear skin? cat skin? many different furs?) Girl wears the fur coat and works as a

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Re: Storytime

[liveinthelayers]

Cool! I'd love to know which fairy tales you were told as a child.

Also, this: http://www.asofterworld.com/index.php?id=528

[protodisco]

yes, hunchback is shockingly different. they make whatsisface into the clearcut hero, when in the book he just wants to get laid, and in the movie i think they also ignore that the priest (or whatever) is sexually obsessed with the girl. i literally cannot remember any of the characters names, and i just read that book in december.

[liveinthelayers]

Growing up, because I had three younger sibs all very close in age, my family did not go to movie theaters. Period*. So when a movie came out, my mom took us to the library and we got the book instead.

I clearly remember "Fern Gully" being different--the book had a dragon character (named "Drags," haha) who literally DIED BECAUSE OF POLLUTION. I remember being mystified that my friends who'd seen the movie didn't know about that.

Hunchback was another biggie. Quasimodo (hunchback) DIES. Gypsy girl (Demi Moore?) = DEAD. Soldier boy, too.

Not that I loved tragedy as a kid. I think I was pissed because the plot differences made it glaringly obvious to my peers that I hadn't seen the movies, which was, like, so uncool.

*Except for "Star Wars: Special Edition" and then Episode 1.