That’s not to say that they took out all the blood! When I was growing up, the Grimm stories Mama read to me in German were still darker than Disney sweetness. For example, Cinderella’s step-sisters cut off pieces of their feet to get the slipper to fit… OUCH!
The movie, in many ways, seems like a Brothers Grimm fairy tale. Did you see it that way? Yes. I was about halfway through writing the music and was reading the Grimm version ofCinderellato my daughter. We got to the part where the evil stepmother has her daughters cut o...
Murder, Child abuse, Racism sound like the ingredients for a good children`s story? Probably not, but that`s exactly what you`ll find when you look at some of the early versions of the Grimm brothers` fairy tales. When Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm began collecting and writing down folktales,...