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Fairytales in French cinema

Pictures from 2001's "Le Petit Poucet", Olivier Dahan's adaptation of the "Little Thumbling" fairytale. It might have been translated as "Tom Thumb" in English, despite the movie not having to do with this tale.

On an international level, you might have heard of it thanks to its soundtrack, which was created by Joe Hisaishi, the man behind the music of many great Japanese movies (notably those of Miyazaki and of Takeshi Kitano).

#french movie #french cinema #self-reblog #fairytale cinema #fairytale movie

[themousefromfantasyland]

You mentioned you like Stephen Fry! Be wary, he is a Yid and he is only friends with you to extract wealth, which is the primary objective of a Jew. He may seem nice to you but in reality all he wants is more sympathisers and your money. You can't trust a Jew as far as you throw it. No need to thank me, education on them should be mandatory not volentery. Dirty, evil creatures. Keep up the good work with the books.

Look, this is a bit embarrassing, but I’m afraid that I’m a fully-paid-up honest-to-goodness barmitzvahed-and-circumcised Jew myself. And while I would, of course, like sympathisers and money, I most certainly do not want yours.

Also, it’s spelled ‘voluntary’.

#antisemitism #neil gaiman

[themousefromfantasyland]

Fairytales in French cinema

Pictures from 1972's Petit Poucet, a Little Thumbling movie adaptation for children by Michel Boisrond. In terms of aesthetic it was influenced by Jacques Demy's Peau d'Âne, though it is a much more bombastic and goofier movie due to the younger intended audience.

(It seems the movie was translated as "Tom Thumb" in English? Which is a typical mistranslation - as very often English translator choose "Tom Thumb" to translate "Petit Poucet", Little Thumbling, despite the two characters being from different traditions and tales)

#french movies #petit poucet #little thumbling #hop o' my thumb

[themousefromfantasyland]

Fairytales in French cinema

Pictures from 2009's "Barbe Bleue", a Catherine Breillat Bluebeard adaptation, first of the series of Arte-Flach fairytale collaborations.

#blue beard #bluebeard #french cinema #french movie

[themousefromfantasyland]

Daily reminder that the legend of Sweeney Todd (I am talking about the 19th century fiction, long before any movie or Broadway musical) is actually a British modern reinvention of an older "urban legend" - a 17th century French legend about the murderous barber and cannibalistic baker (male this time) of the rue des Marmousets, a legend that stood strong and famous until the 19th century.

#sweeney todd #french culture #french history #urban legend

[themousefromfantasyland]

Shakespeare's Cymbeline obviously has some story elements in common with Snow White. A princess heroine, a wicked queen stepmother, a servant is ordered to kill the princess but instead lets her go, she finds the home of some men in the wilderness and lives with them, but then she succumbs to "poison" from her stepmother and is mourned as dead, yet she isn't really dead, and eventually there's a happy ending.

In the play, the character of Belarius, the foster father who takes Imogen in (and whose foster sons turn out to be her long-lost brothers), goes by the pseudonym Morgan.

In the Let's Pretend radio adaptation of Snow White (or rather Snowdrop, as it's called), the leader of the seven dwarfs, basically a more dignified version of Disney's Doc, is named Morgan.

I see what you did there, Nila Mack. I see what you did there.

#shakespeare #snow-white #cymbeline #snow white

[themousefromfantasyland]

It is so infuriating when people keep depicting Zeus or Poseidon as old men because... that's the very opposite of what the gods are supposed to look like in the Greek myths.

One of the very basis of Greek mythology is that the gods are ever-young. They never age. They can put on the illusion of being an old person, but in their true form they cannot be old.

The whole "old white-bearded Zeus and Poseidon" is a mix of visual misinformation (due to the "white statue" phenomenon), projection of other figures onto the ancient gods (like the "Old Father Sea" projected onto Poseidon) and Christanization of Greek mythology (because it is easier to accept a vision of the "pagan" gods that fits the idea of the "Father-God" as the "old bearded white guy in the sky").

If you want to know what Zeus could have looked like, just check this famous painting:

No grey hair, no white beard. That's how the Ancient Greeks depicted Zeus, with colored hair and beard. Yes that's ageism, but heck the entirety of Ancient Greece was ageist as f*ck, so either you stick with the source material or you just move on to a different religion/mythology.

What is even more infuriating is that media that tend to do the whole "Let's age Zeus and Poseidon into grandpas" can't even keep consistent with the age of the gods because they always make Hades have a fully-colored hair and/or beard, making him look younger than Zeus... DESPITE ZEUS BEING THE YOUNGEST BROTHER COME ON PEOPLE READ THE FRIGGIN' BOOKS!

And here's a black-bearded Poseidon for the road:

(Mind you, of course, making the gods look elderly by default can make sense if you MAKE IT make sense. Like... how in American Gods we see weakened versions of the old gods starving for faith and offerings and worn-out by modern days and the forgetfulness of humans. There's a whole trope about old worn-out gods reduced to crumbling little old grandpas and grandmas that dates back to at least the mid-19th century literature.

But if you want to illustrate or put into visuals an actual Greek legend, within Ancient Greece, in a faithful way... Making Zeus white-bearded or Poseidon white-haired makes no sense. Except if Zeus' beard is made of clouds, and Poseidon's hair made of foam.)

#greek gods #zeus #poseidon #hades #greek mythology

[themousefromfantasyland]

There’s two ends of the horror spectrum

#horror #funny #writing #literature

[themousefromfantasyland]

@ariel-seagull-wings @princesssarisa @thealmightyemprex

okay strictly speaking “necromancy” is specifically the raising of the dead for the purpose of divining the future (νεκρός/dead + μαντεία/prophecy, same root as bibliomancy or arithmancy), so theatre is therefore… reverse necromancy??? the raising of the dead for the purpose of gaining insight into the past???

#necromancy #theater #funny #reverse necromancy

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#angels #angel wings #art #christian art #angel depictions

[themousefromfantasyland]

Found this history book from the 1930s that explicitly refers to the Vejlø Church pulpit-bearer as a troll - not a slattenpatte, as she's erroneously called nowadays - and says that she was carved as an allusion to the Trolle coat of arms (a local noble family, known for founding Herlufsholm school)

Additionally, the book translates the inscription on the pulpit:

"Templa, sacerdotes, dum vult prosternere dæmon, templa, sacerdotes, insignia Trollia portant."

into

"Naar Trolden, o Præster, vil omstyrte Kirkerne, da bærer, o Præster, Trollernes Tegn Kirkerne."

which roughly translates to

"When the troll, oh priests, will¹ destroy the churches, then the Trolles' sign², oh priests, carries the churches."

1) The Danish word 'vil' can be translated as both desiring/wishing to do something, or as the future act or doing something.

2) The direct translation is "carries, oh priests, the Trolles' sign the churches" because Danish uses a different a word order than English.

I'm very excited to get confirmation that the Latin 'dæmon' has been translated as 'trold' (troll) in Danish.

This all supports my hypothesis that the modern image of trolls, as horned, tailed, animalistic creatures is actually Christian in origin, and that the horned/tailed troll outlived the dwarven troll in large part because of Christian depictions of devils - devils that were referred to as trolls.

#troll #history #denmark #history of trolls #danish folklore #trolls

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@ariel-seagull-wings @thealmightyemprex

Merlin and Morgan le Fay

Barbie® Bazaar - August 2000

#arthuriana #barbie #barbie doll #morgan le fay #merlin

[themousefromfantasyland]

Medieval sources on Lancelot's backstory: His parents were the rulers of a French province called Benoic, and the family were the only survivors when their castle was attacked by the evil King Claudas. His father died of grief, and baby Lancelot was spirited away by the Lady of the Lake, who is either a fairy or a powerful sorceress. He was raised in her underwater kingdom with two of his cousins and a bunch of other magical ladies. He grew up in only three years, then went out to discover his true identity and join King Arthur's court. The Lady of the Lake gave him a bunch of magical weapons, and she or her damsels occasionally show up to help him on his quests.

Modern stories on Lancelot's backstory: He's French. We'll explore this by making French jokes.

#Lancelot #Arthuriana

[themousefromfantasyland]

my fave greek history story to tell is that of agnodice. like she noticed that women were dying a lot during childbirth so she went to egypt to study medicine in alexandria and was really fucking good but b/c it was illegal for women to be doctors in athens she had to pretend to be a man. and then the other doctors noticed that she was 10x better than them and accused her of seducing and sleeping with the women patients. like they brought her to court for this. and she just looked at them and these charges and stripped in front of everyone like “yeah. im not fucking your wives” and then they got so mad that a woman was better at their jobs then them that they tried to execute her but all her patients came to court and were like “are you fucking serious? she is the reason you have living children and a wife.” so they were shamed into changing the law and that is how women were given the right to practice medicine in athens

#misinformation #agnodice #ancient greece #history #ancient greek history

[themousefromfantasyland]

No film ever has all of this three:

Unproblematic cast

Unproblematic filmmakers

Unproblematic studio

#hollywood #films #cinema

[themousefromfantasyland]

Does anyone else feels bummed out that at the end of Bedknobs and Broomsticks Eglantine miss all her magic knowledge?

Imagine an alternative history where a Disney witch helps England and the Allies against Hitler and the Nazis.

I imagine a scenario like Motherland: Fort Salem, but with child-friendly, Disney witches, and magical creatures in hand-draw animation.

@ariel-seagull-wings @thealmightyemprex @the-blue-fairie @princesssarisa

#disney #bedknobs and broomsticks #eglantine price #angela lansbury

[themousefromfantasyland]

I didn't watch the movie, but Nostalgia Critic did a review of it.

The movie is mostly about Batman and Superman. The only thing from the Flash mythos that they took was the Flashpoint premise.

@thealmightyemprex

So I havent seen the Flash movie,but I am so grumpy they made a Flash movie.....With none of his rogues gallery,cause Flashs rogues galery is unique.You have some legit dangerous villains Reverse Flash,Vandal Savage ,or Gorilla Grodd,but you also have the Rogues which makeup most of his villains,lead by Captain Cold,one of the smartest criminals in DC ,the rogues membership fluxuates (Notable members are Trickster ,Mirror Master,Heat Wave ,and Weather Wizard ).....And they have a legit code,not out of really morality as much as practicality .The rogues are supervillains for profit ,they dont wanna take over the world ,they dont wanna see it burn,they are alll about the score,so they have a few rules:No drugs ,focus on the score,no killing people (ESPECIALLY DONT KILL KIDS .CAptain Boomarang found that out the hard way ) but the biggest one :DONT KILL A SPEEDSTER .Flash has friends,and while Captain Cold doesnt mind tnagoing with Flash,if he killed him,that means bringing the unwanted attention of the friggin Justice League ,and they dont want that .I dunnno I love the idea of baddies with a code who you kind of like

@ariel-seagull-wings @theancientvaleofsoulmaking @themousefromfantasyland @the-blue-fairie @piterelizabethdevries

#dc comics #flash