tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8770811529718101789.post3835049576022298144..comments2024-03-21T00:29:29.587-07:00Comments on Fairy Tale Fandom: Folk Tale Secret Stash: Issun Boshi.Adam Hoffmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16129844426168129584noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8770811529718101789.post-6376980365513618592016-07-26T14:07:57.581-07:002016-07-26T14:07:57.581-07:00Weirdly I find myself oten subconsciously doing th...Weirdly I find myself oten subconsciously doing that. Often when I find a folktale, story or or movie (doesn't seem to work with books, most likely because I won't finish them if I really don't like them) particularly unpleasant, my mind will begin to rerite it and when years later someone tells me about how much a certain story blows, I get confused, because in my memoy it wasn't *that* bad.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11593854763215902252noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8770811529718101789.post-62901110121826280742016-07-25T02:40:26.248-07:002016-07-25T02:40:26.248-07:00Would the story of Coppelia, the ballet, count? I...Would the story of Coppelia, the ballet, count? It's based on two ETA Hoffman stories, which I haven't read. I've actually only ever read Coppelia as a story, I've never seen it onstage. Originally it was never particularly interesting to me, but then I read about a re-imagined version by director/choreographer/dancer Roland Petit which had Coppelius deliberately create the doll to look exactly like Swanilda because he's in love with Swanilda, not just due to convenient coincidence for later plot developments. Creepy, but it made the story less of the "...and then this happened" variety to me. I then found my interest in the story renewed again later on when I thought about gender-reversing Coppelius and Swanilda, just because you don't usually see a female character as the highly intelligent, yet creepy and entitled, villain who objectifies a man (or... man-ifies an object?).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8770811529718101789.post-55660034069639278762016-07-24T12:56:02.936-07:002016-07-24T12:56:02.936-07:00Intriguing question! I was never all that bothered...Intriguing question! I was never all that bothered by Cinderella's passivity, but for those that are, there are countless folkloric versions in which she is more active, or the movie "Ever After" which influenced how I see Cinderella. Same thing with Bluebeard-the Perrault version is pretty maddening, but in several similar tales the heroine is brave and often saves herself, and her curiosity is seen as a good thing. Kristinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01097525403940409218noreply@blogger.com