And the nude shots of Jessica Rabbit that you can find watching WFRR in still-frame...
The stories behind the stories...
Peter Pan didn't age, but his Lost Boys did. They each had their own tunnel they used to get to the Lost Boys' home. When one of the boys was too big to fit through his tunnel, Pan would kill him. One of the boys would "play" in his tunnel, using a knife to carve the sides and try to make the tunnel bigger so Pan wouldn't kill him. This is all in the original novel.
Cinderella had her step-people loaded in a barrel, nails pounded into it, and it rolled down a hill. Sad fact is, this ending was even kept in the "cleaned up" version of the story (it was in the fairy tale book I read when I was six). The barrel rolling thing was actualy used as a form of executing criminals several hundred years ago.
Lion King was based on Hamlet. Lion King II was based on Romeo and Juliet. Despite the goofy deal in the grass, I consider LK 1 to be one of the best animated films of all time.
Beauty and the Beast: Sure, he turns into a handsome prince, but only AFTER she has borne their monsterous child, who is eventualy killed by the townspeople.
Little Mermaid: HBO did a live-action 1/2 hour version of this about 15 years ago that did the story justice. The witch's spell is that she either must get the prince in three days or she will die. Another girl comes along and the prince falls for her instead. Little Mermaid dies and becomes the little bubbles on top of the ocean's waves.
Disney's Sleeping Beauty is rather accurate, except the original story was for adults (XXX), as is it was not a kiss but an orgasm that awoke the princess.
Snow White... Showtime or HBO did a rather awesome movie based on Snow White a few years back starring Sigourney Weaver as the witch. Disney leaves out little things like the witch killing the hunter and his family when she finds out he gave her a deer's heart. The dwarfs weren't kind to SW at all, and were rather abusive towards her. They all had Norse names, which means that they were probably Vikings in the early tales. Not to mention that the witch's spell ends the same way as the one in Sleeping Beauty.
