Thursday, October 31, 2013

30 Day Challenge #4

For my second entry in my second 30 Day Challenge, I decided to compare the original Cinderella with it's different media forms.
Again, the most popular media form is the Disney movie, since Disney is known for their movies about princesses. The premise in the movie is a girl named Cinderella lives with her step-mother and step-sisters, and has to work all day. But she gets to go to a ball thanks to her fairy godmother and meets her Prince Charming there. But the spell that changed the pumpkin into a carriage and gave her a nice dress wears off at midnight, so she runs away, leaving a glass slipper behind her. The Prince finds the slipper and uses it to find Cinderella. He goes around the kingdom and has all of the women try on the shoe. Eventually Cinderella tries on the slipper, it fits, and she and the Prince live happily ever after.
The original version of Cinderella is practically the same as that. If there are any changes, they are minor and do not affect the story. Unlike with Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella stuck with the original and didn't stop before the end.
However, there are some different versions of Cinderella that aren't as close adaptations as Disney's is. In one retelling of the fairy tale, the step-mother and step-sisters don't want Cinderella to try on the slipper, so they go as far as cutting her feet off so it would be impossible for her to try on the slipper.
This challenge is  slowly getting easier for me because it's easier and faster to find the original fairy tales and how to separate them from their reinventions.

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