[ SECRET POST #2580 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2580 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I'm not american, and I love Disney. While some of the rewrites irk me to the point of not watching the movies (Hunchback and Hercules, to be exact), I'll forever be glad that there's a version of the Little Mermaid where she doesn't die because the writer was a mysoginistic nice guy who couldn't deal with the fact that the woman he admired from afar got married. (AHEM. Sorry, that's a hot button for me)

When I was a lot younger, I was a bit angry that we didn't get the cool parts of Snow White and Sleeping Beauty, for example, but then I had a lot of fun telling my friends at school about the real stories during recess. Hell, I got to read books that no one in my family knew existed thanks to Disney, like 101 Dalmatians, The Hound and the Fox (Another one that I'm glad they stopped before getting to the real ending) and Mary Poppins.

TL:DR, some people like those rewrites and it has nothing to do with knowledge of the original tales.

[(Anonymous)]

...I thought the writer of the Little Mermaid wrote it cause the MAN he admired from afar got married...?

[(Anonymous)]

Nope, it was a ballerina he was in love with. That's why the original Little Mermaid is a ballet.

[(Anonymous)]

I do remember that from the (EXCELLENT) Hans Christian Anderson movie...why did I think it was to a man?

*googles* ah! It's a theory from some historian dude. "Rictor Norton, in My Dear Boy: Gay Love Letters through the Centuries, theorizes that The Little Mermaid was written as a love letter by Hans Christian Andersen to Edvard Collin. This is based on a letter Andersen wrote to Collin, upon hearing of Collin’s engagement to a young woman, around the same time that the Little Mermaid was written. Andersen wrote ”I languish for you as for a pretty Calabrian wench... my sentiments for you are those of a woman. The femininity of my nature and our friendship must remain a mystery.”[11] Norton interprets this as a declaration of Andersen's homosexual love for Collin."

[arcadiaego]

Anderson does seem to have been bisexual, if for bisexual we're saying 'obsessively in love with people without ever actually doing anything sensible about it'. The ballerina was one, but there were others.