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How typical is this film of the tradition of fairy tales?

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How typical is this film of the tradition of fairy tales?

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Brave Official Trailer #3 (2012) Pixar Movie HD

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Once upon a time there was a little princess who was good at whistling.

“Don’t whistle,” said her mother.

“Don’t whistle,” said her father, but the child was good at it and went on whistling.

Years went by and she became a woman. By this time she whistled beautifully. Her parents grieved. “What man will marry a whistling woman?” said her mother dolefully.

“Well,” said her father, “we will have to make the best of it. I will offer half my kingdom and the princess in marriage to any man who can beat her at whistling.”

The king’s offer was duly proclaimed, and soon the palace was jammed with suitors whistling. It was very noisy. Most were terrible and a few were good, but the princess was better and beat them easily. The king was displeased, but the princess said, “Never mind, father. Now let me set a test and perhaps some good will come of it. ”Then she turned to the suitors, “Do you acknowledge that you were beaten fairly?”

“No,” they all roared, all except one, “we think it was magic or some sort of trick.”

But one said, “Yes.” “Yes,” he said, “I was beaten fairly.” The princess smiled and turning to her father she pointed to this man. “If he will have me,” she said, “I will marry him.”

By Suniti Namjoshi (1941 –   )

Svayamvara: the choosing of a husband by the bride herself (Sanskrit Dictionary)

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10 Painfully Racist Moments In Disney Movies They Want You To Forget

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Harry Potter and the contradictions about racial justice

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The idea of a black Hermione is fantastic in pushing against the idea that fictional heroes are white by default - but it also points to inconsistencies in the series

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Harry Potter: the spectre of racial allegory

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Saptarshi Ray: The fantasy world of Harry Potter is rife with racial imagery and motifs but its greatest accomplishment is its universal appeal in real life.

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How is this tale different from the traditional story?

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How is this tale different from the traditional story?

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Revolting Rhymes_ Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf.mp4

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Though "The Princess and the Frog" doesn't open until December 11, critics are already weighing in on Disney's handling of its first African-American protagonist. Is Tiana, a Jazz Age New Orleans waitress who falls in love with a cursed prince, a breakthrough black icon-or just the latest example of what critics see as Disney's racial insensitivity?

Disney does cross the line: While Tiana, the titular princess, is "smart, bold and fun," several upsetting and arguably racist elements compromise the film, says Dodai at Jezebel. For instance, the imagery accompanying a witch doctor's curse seems to suggest that "African people are spooky and scary and have magical powers." And why does Disney's first black protagonist have to spend most the film trapped in a frog's body?
"5 possible problems with the princess and the frog"

The movie is refreshing, not racist: "The Princess and the Frog" doesn't strain to emphasize Princess Tiana's race, which is part of the movie's charm, says Lisa Schwarzbaum at Entertainment Weekly. Disney "inserts no overt lesson in the history of civil rights" into this faithful reimagining of the classic Disney formula: "Dreams are fulfilled, wrongs are righted, love prevails, and music unites."
"The Princess and the Frog"

Why is Prince Charming white? Tiana isn't the problem, says Angela Bonner Helm at Black Voices. Was there any particular reason why her love interest, Prince Naveen of Maldonia, couldn't be black, too? Though America has a "real-life black man in the highest office of the land with a black wife, Disney obviously doesn't think a black man is worth the title of prince."
"Disney's First Black Princess.... Has a Prince Who's Not Black"

Flawed or not, the movie is brilliantly expedient: This is "sheer, commercial opportunism" for Disney, says Vince Mitchell at Times Online. With the high-profile of strong African American women such as Oprah or Michelle Obama, Disney stands to make a lot of money merchandising their first black princess worldwide-with the added benefit of being "seen as supporting the sea of cultural change" in black communities worldwide.
"Disney cashes in on Obama era with Princess Tiana"

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Though "The Princess and the Frog" doesn't open until December 11, critics are already weighing in on Disney's handling of its first African-American protagonist. Is Tiana, a Jazz Age New Orleans waitress who falls in love with a cursed prince, a breakthrough black icon-or just the latest example of what critics see as Disney's racial insensitivity?

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Red Riding Hood shrinks from female sexuality

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Film-makers are more fearful of young women's carnal desire than were the fairy-tale tellers of old

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1- Order chronologically. Can you suggest what century they belong in?

Victorian times - Bronze Age - William Shakespeare - Grimm Brothers

2-a Go to the link below

2-b  While you listen, say whether these statements are True or False according to the recording

1.       Current film versions of fairy tales are highly original

2.       In Shakespearean times fairy tales had a moral

3.       In Victorian times fairy tales were very dark

4.       The brothers Grimm were the creators of Beauty and the Beast

5.       There is no kiss in the Frog Prince by the brothers Grimm

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Why do we all love fairy tales? Because it isn't just children: Hollywood has recently produced a number of films based on traditional fairy tales for the adult market. Sophie and Neil talk about the seven dwarves and teach you some related vocabulary.

This week's question

Which movie star played the role of the evil fairy in Maleficent, a 2014 film based on the fairy tale Sleeping Beauty? Was it...

a) Cate Blanchett?

b) Angelina Jolie?

c) Meryl Streep?

You can hear the right answer at the end of the programme.

Vocabulary

remake
a film that has been made again

Transcript

Note: This is not a word-for-word transcript

Neil
And I'm Neil. So, Sophie I watched Snow White and the Huntsma n on TV last night.

Oh, you mean the modern retelling of the story Snow White? Did you enjoy it, Neil?

Anyway, fairy tales are the subject of today's show, and I have a question for you: which movie star played the role of the evil fairy in Maleficent, a 2014 film based on the fairy tale Sleeping Beauty? Was it...a) Cate Blanchett?b) Angelina Jolie?

Or c) Meryl Streep?

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Diane Purkiss, children's author
Interestingly there has been a bit of a move towards seeing fairy tales as an adult, or at any rate a young adult - a dark sort of genre. And that's natural because actually in the past fairy tales were told by adults to adults in William Shakespeare's time. It's only in the Victorian era that they become moral children's tales and it looks like we're going back to the inception of fairy stories now with a more adult take on them.

That's right, Neil. And dark here means scary or frightening. The Victorians toned down this dark content - or made it less forceful. They also introduced a moral - or message about what's right and wrong - to the tales.

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Dr Jamie Tehrani, anthropologist at Durham University
Dr JTehrani: So these fairy tales that we've looked at - we've been able to trace back, really, thousands of years - probably sort of 4-6,000 years is the origin of many famous European folk tales, stories such as Beauty and the Beast. BBC Reporter: What, 6,000 years?! Dr J Tehrani: Yep, going right back to the Bronze Age. BBC Reporter: Good heavens!
Dr J Tehrani: We've been able to trace the transmission across generations of these stories much further back than is generally recognized.

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BBC Learning English - 6 Minute English / What's in a fairy tale?

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Why do we all love fairy tales? Because it isn't just children: Hollywood has recently produced a number of films based on traditional fairy tales for the adult market. Sophie and Neil talk about the seven dwarves and teach you some related vocabulary.