But they were written specifically for children. Saying they aren’t for kids is silly, the problem is OUR SOCIETY has turned childhood into this sacred right where all must be good with the world, when it isn’t.
It’s not just changes to the story, I understand that for different mediums and audience stories must change, it’s BAD changes that turn them into BAD stories. That’s the simple basic problem, the Disney version are all saccharine CRAP, they just plain aren’t good stories anymore. They took great stories and turned them into stupid stories.
Disney kind of started to correct when they did the “dark” wave, but that was in response to others making money in that field, and frankly, their dark versions still sucked.
No that’s not my logic, that’s you erecting a straw man. Those stories you’re lining out actually are NOT for kids. The only problem here is you can’t understand the difference between a fairy tale, written for 5 year olds, and a comic written for teens and adults. Kids SHOULD be able to handle the fairy tale, and if your three your old can’t it’s because you filled their head with fluffy Disney gobbledygook.
The Disney version ARE significantly different, for one thing they’re all stupid.
As Borges said, most of the fairy tales were NOT for children, that came later (and besides, Brothers Grimm never actually wrote anything, they merely collected). And besides, are you seriously going to tell me that rape is kid-friendly material at ALL? Because the Brothers Grimm stories had plenty of that (like Princess Aurora being raped by that ogre prince, or how about Snow White being woken up because the prince in his haste to have a literal trophy wife dropped the coffin which gave her just enough force to spit out the poisoned apple jammed into her throat). And for the record, most Disney stuff AREN’T saccharine crap. Do I really have to point out that the very first full-length animated movie by Disney involved a Stepmother trying to commit infanticide against her own stepdaughter just because she was more beautiful than her (And Disney even opted to make the woman as evil and serious as possible, and not a comical bumbler which was what was originally planned)? Or how about the story of Cinderella [which was based on the Perrault Version, NOT the Grimm version] where Cinderella was the victim of parental and sibling abuse for most of her life. Even Sleeping Beauty had Maleficent actually attempt to KILL Aurora with zero remorse simply for not being invited (in fact, the ONLY reason it was merely a coma instead of death was because the three fairies softened the curse, and based on the fact that Maleficent had left, we could easily assume that she still thought Aurora was DEAD by the time the curse set in) and was practically Satan incarnate, which was significantly different from the original fairy tale where she actually DID intend to just put her in a coma. And The Little Mermaid? Aside from including an element of racism that wasn’t in the original tale via King Triton, a large part of the story involved a faustian deal between Ariel and Ursula, and Ariel actually trying to clean up her mess. And The Lion King actually had a very dark villain in the form of Scar who was perfectly willing to off his own brother and nephew just to become king, and then turned the Pride Lands into a wasteland of near extinction once he got it. That doesn’t even match up with saccharine crap. You want “saccharine crap?” Try Barney & Friends or Teletubbies. THAT’S “saccharine crap.”
And no, they WEREN’T significantly different, and I even explained how similar overall they were to the fairy tales. The only ones that actually WERE significantly different were the Jungle Book and maybe Beauty and the Beast, oh, and Aladdin as well.