{"id":1164,"date":"2015-04-18T17:02:39","date_gmt":"2015-04-19T01:02:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wou.edu\/westernjournal\/?p=1164"},"modified":"2015-04-18T17:02:39","modified_gmt":"2015-04-19T01:02:39","slug":"fairy-tale-films-on-the-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/fairy-tale-films-on-the-rise\/","title":{"rendered":"Fairy Tale Films on the Rise"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre>By Emily Pate\r\n Freelancer<\/pre>\n<p>This spring, Disney released \u201cCinderella,\u201d the latest in their live action fairy tale adaptions, following last year\u2019s \u201cMaleficent.\u201d According to the International Business Times, these two films will soon be joined by similar adaptations, including Emma Thompson\u2019s \u201cThe Beauty and the Beast,\u201d as well as \u201cMulan,\u201d \u201cThe Jungle Book,\u201d and numerous others.<\/p>\n<p>And why not, with how popular these new versions have been? In fact, the recent wave of fairy tale retellings has even been enough to catch \u201cSaturday Night Live\u2019s\u201d attention, which refers to both \u201cMaleficent\u201d and \u201cCinderella\u201d in their parody trailer of a live-action \u201cBambi\u201d starring Dwayne \u201cThe Rock\u201d Johnson.<\/p>\n<p>Many of Disney\u2019s most popular recent movies have been a retelling of fairy tales. \u201cFrozen,\u201d according to the Daily Mail, recently became the fifth highest grossing film of all time. The only four that have earned more are \u201cAvatar,\u201d \u201cTitanic,\u201d \u201cThe Avengers\u201d and \u201cHarry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2.\u201d This means that, of the five films that have made the most money globally, three are adaptations of preexisting stories.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrozen\u201d is a new version of Hans Christian Anderson\u2019s \u201cThe Snow Queen.\u201d The Disney version of this story was then adapted to television in ABC\u2019s \u201cOnce Upon a Time\u201d; the Huffington Post reports there are currently stage and on-ice versions in the works. Disney has also recently released the film \u201cInto the Woods,\u201d an adaption of a play of the same name, which was \u2013 in turn \u2013 an adaptation of the many fairy tales that take part in its plot.<\/p>\n<p>These films and TV shows are just a few of the fairy tale adaptations that can be found in recent media. There are also, among many others, the ongoing show \u201cGrimm,\u201d which presents a new view of the family most famous for recording fairy tales, and \u201cHansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters,\u201d which transforms the classic story into an action film. The number of these new versions only seems to be rising.<\/p>\n<p>As an adult watching the animated films of my childhood, I often wonder why the characters do what they do. What does Maleficent try so hard to hurt Sleeping Beauty? Why does Cinderella stay in a house where she is unhappy?<\/p>\n<p>These new adaptations try to supply the answers, but what never changes is the fact that fairy tales are good stories. There are infinite ways to tell them \u2013 evident by the skyrocketing popularity of the genre, and as they shift for new mediums and audiences, I\u2019m sure there will be even more versions in the future. I, for one, am hoping so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Emily Pate Freelancer This spring, Disney released \u201cCinderella,\u201d the latest in their live action fairy tale adaptions, following last year\u2019s \u201cMaleficent.\u201d According to the International Business Times, these two films will soon be joined by similar adaptations, including Emma Thompson\u2019s \u201cThe Beauty and the Beast,\u201d as well as \u201cMulan,\u201d \u201cThe Jungle Book,\u201d and numerous [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}