When I was but a wee lass, I happened across an animated version of The Little Mermaid playing on TV. Not the Disney one. This one stuck very closely to the original Hans Christian Anderson story. And I think it may have emotionally scarred me at a very young age. What an f'd up story to tell your kids. Maybe this is why I love the disney version so much. Happy endings are always better.
So anyway, it went a little something like this. The little mermaid gets turned into a human to get the prince to fall in love with her. If he doesn't, she'll turn to seafoam. Prince falls in love with a different girl who he thinks saved him. They get married. Little mermaid's sisters cut off their beautiful hair and give it to the sea witch. In return they are given a knife. Little mermaid needs to use that knife to kill the prince. When his blood spills over her feet, it'll turn back into a fin and she can be a mermaid again. Little Mermaid decides she loves the prince too much and cannot kill him. She turns into seafoam. Prince wakes up, sees a scale that the Little Mermaid left behind and realizes it was her all along who saved him.
So EVERYBODY IS SCREWED! Little mermaid is DEAD. Sisters cut off their hair for NOTHING! Prince is stuck with the OTHER girl. Depression ensues until I watch Disney's little mermaid and am happy again.
I have a Korean children's book with that version... 'Cept... she flies away with cherubs instead of turning into sea foam. xD <3 nicely done though! i really like it!
It's funny, I loved the Hans Christian Anderson version when I was a kid. I can remember seeing ads for the Disney movie when it was coming and being indignant because I knew they'd change the ending.
Then I saw the movie 12 times in the theater.
I still get what Anderson was saying with the original story, and I still enjoy it, but I enjoy the other version, too.
I saw that non-Disney animated one, too, and I think it scarred me because you saw her nipple at one point. I was a strange child.
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Nothing prepares kids for the harsh reality of life like original fairy tales. XD The original Cinderella is just as gruesome, although it's aim at the villains so you still kinda get a happy ending.. except for the Evil Stepmother and Sisters who were banished and birds plucked their eye out.... O.O;
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OMG. I WATCHED THAT WHEN I WAS LITTLE TOO. I kinda liked it xD.. But I think for the general child population happy endings are definitely better x_x. Man it was depressing when she jumped into the sea T-T.
hahaha I too remember watching a version like 'this' before Disney's version.
let me tell you i was Not happy after watching that version. whatta bloody downer aye.
anyway love the movement in this piece. i really like the image (but would rather not have to look at it long, as it brings back negative child memories)
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'Cept... she flies away with cherubs instead of turning into sea foam. xD
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nicely done though! i really like it!
Then I saw the movie 12 times in the theater.
I still get what Anderson was saying with the original story, and I still enjoy it, but I enjoy the other version, too.
I saw that non-Disney animated one, too, and I think it scarred me because you saw her nipple at one point. I was a strange child.
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I too remember watching a version like 'this' before Disney's version.
let me tell you i was Not happy after watching that version.
whatta bloody downer aye.
anyway love the movement in this piece.
i really like the image (but would rather not have to look at it long, as it brings back negative child memories)
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Probably becuase the illustrations we better than the Disney version when I read it in a book haha
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