Sunday, January 11, 2009

Also...

Also, I forgot to mention that I am in love with ALL Disney movies...I guess I am a kid at heart
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8 comments:

  1. zach nJanuary 11, 2009 at 6:25 PM

    i like the jungle book most

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  2. Andy DuncanJanuary 11, 2009 at 7:51 PM

    Kipling's Jungle Book provided the model for Gaiman's Graveyard Book. Disney's, not so much.

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  3. KaylaJanuary 11, 2009 at 10:07 PM

    After I failed at thinking of examples in class, I later remembered the Disney movies. I love them as well.

    I think I'd have to say Pocohantas, Mulan, and Little Mermaid are some favorites.

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  4. Sarah SmithJanuary 12, 2009 at 2:51 PM

    I remember performing in a Disney show in my high school drama club. Each scene was from a different animated film, and the members sang and danced to different songs with one another. I was the last scene...the Genie from Aladdin. I sang "Friend Like Me." It was AWESOME...and I was blue. I just hope whatever videos of the show are stowed deeply away.

    In relevance to the topic, I can say that yes, I love Disney. Apparently, haha.

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  5. NatalieJanuary 13, 2009 at 7:35 PM

    I love Disney too, wholeheartedly, but I always regarded those movies and storylines more to be fairy tales.

    Should fairy tales be considered just another word for fantasy, or do ya'll think they are separate? Or perhaps fairy tales are just a subtheme of fantasy.... I wouldn't exactly know how to differentiate between them. Except that fairy tales always have happy endings, and the same cannot be said for fantasy.

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  6. Kellie HensleyJanuary 13, 2009 at 9:04 PM

    I think that fairy tales are a a sub theme. The do share a whole lot with other fantasy stories. Fairy tails have their own qualifications that set them apart:
    • Intro: “Once upon a time”, “There once was”,
    • Use of the number three: wishes, riddles, chances, encounters
    • Alliteration: “Hans the Hedgehog”,
    • Repetition: of an adjective, list of words
    • Day of change: every thing was going along in perfect order until some day when something happened
    • Loss: of a possession, of happiness or contentment, of a person
    • Wish or request: often is not granted in the way the asker imagined
    • Magical entity: a fairy, troll, genie, talking object or animal, mysterious old woman, etc
    • Magical item: beans, lamp, spring of water,
    • Source of evil: a witch, a person who plants an adverse idea in the protagonist’s mind, evil step-mother, a bad king, giant
    • Personification: animals and objects are given the qualities of a human. Specifically feelings, ability to walk, talk, think, and perform jobs.
    • Assumption: fairy tales assume that there is nothing out of the ordinary about a talking pencil, a dog runs an inn, that a genie granted someone three wishes, or that a prince’s kiss was enough to wake the sleeping princess.
    • Good v. Evil: Good always prevails over evil. Period. Good and evil are always clearly defined.
    • Emotion: fairy tales focus on the emotions that drive the action of the characters. Most commonly: love, jealousy, fear, bravery, anger, revenge, sadness, lonliness, loss, want (of a child, wealth, power, etc)
    • Time period: no set time period. Often described as “a long time ago”. The body of the story may cover a short or medium period of time. The ending (approx a paragraph) sums up a long period of time in a few words. Such as “The two were married the next day and there was peace again in the kingdom for many years. The prince and his lovely bride lived happily ever after.”
    • Ending: Endings are often “happily ever after”. If not they end abruptly, assuring the reader that all ended well and the future looked bright.
    • Moral: fairy tales usually teach a moral truth, but not always.

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  7. NatalieJanuary 14, 2009 at 11:37 AM

    Kellie--wow. Thanks for posting all those qualifications; I've never actually gone through a fairy tale and noticed those traits directly, but they all are spot on. That's really impressive, where did find all of those?

    I think my favorite things about fairy tales from above are the ideas of assumption, that literally anything goes without a second glance or question whatsoever, and the concept of a day of change. It's weird to think that there never would have been a story if not for one, usually very small and insignificant event had not taken place.

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  8. Kellie HensleyJanuary 14, 2009 at 3:43 PM

    I'm a creative writing minor & in one of those classes we had to write a fairytale. But to do that we had to determine the qualifications of afairytale.
    Kellie H

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