Who doesn’t love Disney? Their classical tales and movies have been a part of everybody’s childhood. They’ve grown up with us and practically shaped us. The lovely and tender way they present us the stories is amazing.
However, all Dinsey films have a common factor, pain and suffering make the character grow. It’s in all their movies. They seem to have something against mothers, don’t they? Even though there is a biographical explanation, that you can find in “How to Be Like Walt: Capturing the Disney Magic Every Day of Your Life,” today we are gonna focus on their everlasting tales.
Every movie has a background story.
Disney’s most loved pictures come from adapting classical histories and turning them into movies. Since times have changed from the 17th century to current days Walt Disney and his crew had to make the stories more friendly and family like. So here we leave you with the ugly gory truth behind ten of your most loved childhood’s stories.
Get ready to say bye to your childhood memories!
10.The story of Rapunzel.
Rapunzel is not only a worldwide known classical story, but it’s a Grimm brother’s original tale. It all starts with Rapunzel’s parents, who were poor farmers. Due to the pregnancy craves, the father had to stole some rapunzel plant (rampion) for a salad his wife wanted, but he got caught by the witch. She let him go and take as much as he wanted with the condition that they would give her their baby.
When Rapunzel turned 12, the witch locked her in a tower that just had one window. The only way to get to Rapunzel’s location was to climb her beautiful, long hair. One day, a prince walking by the tower heard her sing, so went up the tower. That night they decided to get married, and Rapunzel got pregnant. Nothing soon at all. When the prince went back, he climbed down using Rapunzel’s hair and found the witch in the tower expecting for him. The evil witch threw the prince out the window, and he fell in some spines that left him blind.
The prince spends months blindly roaming the woods until he hears and recognizes Rapunzel’s voice. When he finds her, and his two children, her magical tears gave him back his sight. Rapunzel and the prince got married and lived happily ever after.
9.Hercules.
We all know classical Greeks and their stories that were all about gory and totally 18+. In the original myths, he did tons of violent things but let’s focus on what the movie shows. Megara was the daughter of the king of Thebes, and Hercules took her in marriage. They had two children and lived happily ever after, everything cool, until Hera, Zeus’s wife drove Hercules mad.
8.Snow White.
Even though the Disney version has some creepy stuff in it, it’s nothing compared to the Grimm Brothers original version. It really makes you wonder if everything was ok with this family since they loved putting those horrific twists in their stories.
In the original tale, the witch doesn’t die by falling off a cliff. She gets punished for trying to kill Snow White and is forced to dance in heated iron shoes until she faints and dies.
Pretty sweet and nothing sadistic at all, wonder why it didn’t make the cut to the Disney version. Would Disney have won that famous seven dwarfs Oscar with it?
7.The Jungle Book.
This story has some messed up things from the start. Like the fact that Mowgli has been abandoned by his parents. Hindsight he is adopted by wolves and grows up along with animals, Shere Kahn the only problem.
Well, in Rudyard Kipling’s tale, after he kills the gigantic and evil tiger, Mowgli discovers that his biological parents have been captured by a village of farmers. With the help of the wolves and the elephants, Mowgli destroys the town and kills its villagers. He then has to escape, logically, because the surviving habitats believe that he is an evil spirit, I wonder why? Finally, Mowgli finds peace at a village governed by the English.
6.The Sleeping Beauty.
One of the most incredible Disney movies of all time. A sweet tale of how true love and a kiss defeated evil and spells. But the Giambattista Basile original version ain’t that romantic.
First, Aurora is 16 years old. Then, she doesn’t wake up with a sweet and tender kiss, but with the birth of her twins. Yeah, they don’t show that on the film, but the prince never really kisses her. He rapes her while she sleeps and gets her pregnant. He then leaves, because you know, he’s married. Did we mention she was 16?
When Aurora and her children arrived at the palace, the prince’s wife tries to kill them, but the king stops her and allows Aurora to marry the man who raped her.
5.Mulan.
Mulan is another great movie, it’s empowering. Is not the typical wimpy damsel in distress. She has is brave, determine, and fearless. She takes things in her hands as well as her weapons.
In the original Hua Mulan’s poem, China loses the war. Yeah, a bummer. Hun Khan lets Mulan live with the condition that she lives with him, so she escapes. When she arrives home, Mulan discovers that her father is dead and that her mother has remarried. She decides to do what every reasonable person would do. She says: “I’m a woman, I survived the war, and I have done enough. Now I want to be with my father.” And she kills herself. Didn’t see that one coming did you?
4.Pinocchio.
Ok, let’s start by saying that watching this as a kid was some of the most messed up things you could do in your 6 years of life. The images were so strong and the story was so hardcore (especially if you are still figuring out how to go properly use the bathroom) that it made you feel dizzy from time to time. With that being said: Pinocchio never turned into a real boy. Intense existentialist stuff huh?
In Carlo Collodi’s story, Pinocchio is to sum it up, a giant douchebag. Since the beginning, he behaves badly, not in a mischievous cute way, no! He does some really serious stuff. He steals things and tons of other things that even his father calls him a “wretched lad.” One day, as a consequence of his actions, a cat, and a fox hangs him from a willow tree and watch him die while he swings in the wind. Pretty childish if you ask us.
3.The Little Mermaid.
The story of Hans Christian Andersen has several messed up twists that Disney wouldn’t approve. She falls in love with the prince and wants to have a soul so she makes a deal with the sea witch. The deal is the one that we know but Ariel’s legs will hurt all the time as if she were walking on knives. Since she is in pain all the time and doesn’t speak the prince thinks that who saved him was a woman from the temple. It turns out that that woman would end being princess.
The Little Mermaid’s heart breaks after all she has sacrificed and gone through for the prince. She despairs, thinking of the death that awaits her, but her sisters bring her a knife that the Sea Witch has given them. If she kills the prince and lets his blood drip on her feet she will become a mermaid once again and all of her sufferings will end. At the end, she can’t kill him and throws herself into the water dissolving her into a foam. But instead of ceasing to exist, she feels the warm sun and discovers that she has turned into a spirit.
2.Two Cinderella versions.
Dinsey used Charles Perrault’s version of Cinderella to make the film. Even though the Brothers Grimm version, yes this guys again, is the one that contains all the gory things. In fact, the original story is from Giambattista Basile’s, yes this guy again.
In the original story, Cinderella kills her stepmother so that her governess can be her new mother, only to have the governess become the real evil stepmother. However, this is only the original Cinderella version in Europe. The first Cinderella storytelling has written down in China around 850 AD.
In the Grimm’s more sadistic version, when the prince arrives at Cinderella’s house, the stepmother orders her two daughters to mutilate themselves by saying“Once you are queen you will have no need to walk.”.
She asked one of the stepsisters to cut off her toes and the other her heel to make the shoes fit. Her plan does not work, and Cinderella gets the prince and a happy ending. Just to add some more paint to it, during the wedding, some pigeons devour the eyes of her already mutilated stepsisters. You know just for fun and the sake of it.
1.The Hunchback of Notre Dame, this has to be number 1.
Just the movie is really messed up and hardcore. It might not be a gore movie by Lucio Fulci but you get the idea, taking into consideration it’s a Disney movie. The story is depressing.
The story from Victor Hugo has many horrendous things about it. But for what Quasimodo concerns he fails to save Esmeralda, unwittingly surrenders her to the authorities and watches her as she’s hanged. Then Quasimodo goes to her grave, where he stays until he starves to death.
Years later, when her grave is opened, someone finds both their skeletons, but when they try to separate them, they turn into dust.