Reading the Fairy Tales That Inspired the Disney Renaissance Movies 🔱
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- Опубліковано 8 лип 2024
- In this video, I read the fairy tales that inspired three of the Disney Renaissance animated classics - The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast and Aladdin!
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✨ Timestamps ✨
0:00 Introduction
10:04 The Little Mermaid
23:04 Beauty and the Beast
38:50 Aladdin
58:06 Thank You for Watching!
✨ Books Mentioned ✨
The Little Mermaid by Hans Christian Anderson
Beauty and the Beast by Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve
One Thousand and One Nights, Arabian Nights, The Story of Aladdin, or The Wonderful Lamp
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#TheLittleMermaid #BeautyandtheBeast #Aladdin
imagine the beast laying on the floor playing dead for hours until she gets home just to gaslight her
I’m taking notes on how NOT to woo someone
The shell bra and the red wig I am losing it 😂 who allowed you to be this iconic?????
Hearing you wonder why it always had to be the youngest daughter who was the prettiest and not the middle child made me think of Sophie from Howl's Moving Castle and how she'd just accepted her lot in life as a middle child. If you haven't read the book yet I highly recommend it. The world it's set in is used to the common fairy tale tropes, but then likes to play with them.
I love that video! The "Father askes daugthers what to bring from his travels" is acutally a very common fairytale thing. It happens in the Brothers Grimm Version of Cinderella and several other tales with three daugthers by them too :D
You know it’s a legendary video when Gav’s in drag. Also, the Mermaid Cosplay is (chef’s kiss)
I love the irony you talked about agendas with The Little Mermaid…I’m pretty sure Hans Christian Andersen himself was gay and The Little Mermaid was inspired in part by his own unrequited love!
In Denmark, it's generally accepted that he was bi. He's written quite extensively in his diaries about both men and women.
He was bisexual, not gay. It's an annoying misconception that he was just gay. Please remember that Andersen was rejected by men and women alike and that's why many of his fairy tale protagonists have no hoes
The Little Mermaid in particular was written as a coping attempt after the man he loved got married to a woman.
@@mon_moi Gay can include bi.
@@Painocus since when 😭 I thought 'men who love men' was the umbrella term for gae and bisexual men
I belive the original "little mermaid" ended when she turned too foam, but people complaind about it too Anderson so he added the whole "daugthers of the air" part where he tells children to be good or the little mermaid will never enter heaven😅. I could be wrong, but that's the story I've heard😁
If you find the source for that I'd love to see it: been looking for it since reading this comment and not found a corroboration as of yet. I feel a doubt that it's true: a man who would write a story like "The Red Shoes" or "The Girl Who Trod On A Loaf" would change the dark ending of any of his stories unless he truly wanted to.
@@melenatorr True. I actually have no idea where it came from. I think I heard it as a kid and it stuck with me as a neat story. I guess in my mind it made sence as many of the Anderson farytales I grew up with had more depressing endings 😅 Anderson really did not do happily ever after😂
@@marenlunde4860 I have things like that in my memory too!
Yes, poor Andersen was unhappy for so many extended periods in his life.
I think you read the extremely abridged version of beauty and the beast, because in the full tale, there is a LENGTHY explanation of how the beast was enchanted
about the ending of the little mermaid: i don’t know what was the original ending, but the version i got told as a child said that the little mermaid getting a happy ending (in this case an immortal soul i guess) didn’t depend on HER good deeds, but on the ones of children! in that version i was told the little mermaid needed a certain amount of children to be good before she could get her happy ending, but for every bad/cruel things children did more years would be added to her time waiting for it. i never met anyone else who got told it that way too, but i think it's an interesting one!
I believe the original ending was her turning into sea foam
That thumbnail is in my head now... Thanks Gavin.
You’re welcome 🥰
THUMBNAILS GONNA MAKE ME ACT UP 😳😳
ALSO CAN I JUST SAY I THINK THE ORIGINAL TALE OF THE LITTLE MERMAID WOULD BE AN INTERESTING FILM!!
I’d love to see it
There is one from the 1970's. It was so freaking sad.
@@GavinReadsItAll There are several great retellings of Hans Christian Andersen’s The Little Mermaid.
Shelley Duvall’s Faerie Tale Theatre’s version is excellent.
Shirley Temple’s Storybook Theatre’s version is also pretty good.
The 1975 anime Andersen’s Fairytales: Princess Mermaid does add a couple interesting elements to the story, but overall it’s quite close to the source material.
There is a Russian film from the 60s or 70s as well. I’ve never seen it. But I heard it was visually striking and pretty close to the original. I’ve seen a couple screen caps claiming to be from the film and I have to say the mermaid herself is interesting. She looks like she’s no older than 12 while the prince actor is clearly in his 20s.
The old soviet animated version is gorgeous and pretty close to the text from what I remember.
LIVING for that thumbnail!💚✨
Hehe thanks 😊
The original and then the Disney version of Aladdin is so interesting to hear. It is so vastly different 😮
‘87 kids represent! The Brave Little Toaster came out that year and is still one of my all time favorite cartoons. Little Mermaid is my favorite of the Disney Renaissance era and was the first movie I saw in theatres.
The Rescuers Down Under is extremely underrated!! It's a great movie. It has one of the most beautiful movie scores I have ever heard as well as animation even in the Disney Renaissance. Don't get why people overlook it. It's about friendship, family and found family as well as the love for nature and preserving habitats and species. It's still as relevant today with it's message more so than a lot of other Disney classics who don't necessarily even have a message to speak of outside the generic dreams come true happy ending.
I’m so glad you mentioned the Princess Rap Battles
I loved them. SMG is iconic
Since Gavin so kindly asked, my favourite (Disney) movie of all time, Pirates of the Caribbean, came out the year I was born (2003). ☠️ It‘s fate, you guys 🥹😂
I LOVE Pirates of the Caribbean, you were born in a good year!
“Chill video less than an hour” *58:36** mins* YOU DID IT!!🎉👏🏼🤣 Can’t wait to binge this while folding laundry for the next hour 💕
THANK YOU haha I screamed in joy the moment the raw footage slipped to under an hour while editing 😂
The Great Mouse Detective was my movie, but The Little Mermaid was my first theater experience. Beauty and the Beast is my favorite 90s movie, and Tangled is my favorite modern Disney film. Thanks for your reviews!
I saw The Little Mermaid in theaters when I was 7 (yes I'm old). My mom said I was so scared of the movie, especially Ursula, that we had to leave the theater 🤣
I wasn’t scared of Ursula but I lost my mind at the end because she left her dad behind 😂
@Carolyn Choate - Book Funnel Fanatic oh man. That movie damaged my young self 🤣
I'm loving the Aries costume while reading The Little Mermaid 😂 we need more Gavins in the world ❤
Ariel?
I am so glad I grew up on disney which you can sometimes pull a moral of the story from and not these fairy tales. The amount of red flags that are raised in some of those classics is surprising.
Tarzan was the Disney classic that came out the year I was born, and if Pixar counts, so did Toy Story 2
Based on knowing the stories Beauty and the Beast is itself based on, I think the Beast was actually dying and Beauty coming back saved him. Tho in those stories there is also usually a reason the Beast/Polar-Bear/Bull/Wolf/Dragon/etc. can't just tell her he is the prince.
Andrew Lang is basically the translator.
Disney's Aladdin basically pulls a bunch of common tropes from different middle-eastern fairy-tale (and just as often, other western adaptions of those fairy-tales), and used Aladdin for name recognition (because for some reason Aladdin and Ali Baba were and are the most know ones in the West at-least.)
Aladdin story sounds utterly mental! Thank the lord for disney !
10/10 even for just the thumbnail, I’m cackling 😂😂😂 watching the video now
Lion king came out the year I was born and Hercules was the first Disney movie I saw in theater but Beauty and the Beast will forever remain my favorite Disney movie. I love your videos. Some of my favorites are when you go to locations and read. I'm a scaredy cat and could never go to haunted locations so I live vicariously through you!
You were born in a very good year 😄 and thanks so much!
I gasped when you held up TBHK it’s so fun and the art is fantastic. I think you’ll like it!!
I didn’t remember something after the sea foam 😮 It’s been a lot of years since I read it. I saw Beauty And The Beast in theaters with my grandmother. ❤
I love seeing the differences between the original materials and Disney movies. There weren't too many good movies that came out the year I was born (1988) but I did have The Brave Little Toaster, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, and Oliver and Company. Between those three, Oliver and Company was definitely my favorite
I really enjoyed this video.
I did an extensive college research project on this same concept. Though I compared the original source material to their later revisions, film adaptations, and modern retellings in other media.
The biggest surprise for me was how vividly sexual the original 1001 Arabian Nights stories were. It was like reading porn, but porn predominately written to be quite eloquent.
The original Aladdin story was added to 1001 Arabian Nights hundreds of years later and is in fact not Persian, but Chinese.
Sleeping Beauty is seriously disturbing. The Prince finds her 100 yrs into her sleeping curse, takes sexual liberties with her body while she is unconscious, she ends up pregnant and has twins who wake her by suckling and removing the spindle tip from her finger, she goes in search the prince and meets his wife, the next scene in the story is the wife serving the prince his dinner….she cooked Sleeping Beauty and her babies! Depending on which version you read…the story either ends there or it is revealed that the wife had been duped by her cook and had served the prince lamb instead. He then has her thrown on a fire and marries Sleeping Beauty.
I feel that many people who read Beauty and the Beast do not fully understand the character of the Beast. He is not pushy, not predatory, and certainly not manipulative. He is more than content to keep Beauty as a friend. He finds her compelling…he isn’t used to a strong, independent woman who is also demure and kindhearted, but has absolutely no interest in luxury. He is, however, a man of his time. A modern lens cannot truly see him. Two adaptations I’d recommend are the Cannon Movie Tales Beauty and the Beast with Rebecca DeMornay and La Belle et la Bete from 2014, though it does add a Greek mythology spin to the French story it is gorgeous and the chemistry between the beast and his beauty is palpable.
Beauty and the Beast came out the year I was born (1991), Mulan is by far my favorite. Funny because beauty and the beast was the only Disney movie we had on VHS during my childhood
So I grew up on the OG Little Mermaid and when I saw the Disney version I _hated_ it! It's grown on me since then, but at the time I was very upset that she didn't die in the end. XDD
Same!
Love this! Fairytales are one of my favorite genres to read! I’ve read a lot of Retellings this year and some Grimm’s, but those books are so gorgeous and Little Mermaid has been a favorite movie since I was little! I need those beautiful books!
Heracles is the Greek name, or rather Hercules is the Latin version rendered into English.
Mulan came out the year I was born (1998) but my favourite is Beauty and the Beast!
Aladdin was wild
Robin McKinley's retelling Beauty was a big inspiration for the Disney adaptation of Beauty and the Beast! You can see where Disney "borrowed" some ideas from her.
So my birth date was just before the Disney renaissance (1987). Per the internet, Benji the Hunted was released that year. HOWEVER, The Brave Little Toaster was distributed by Disney (and still haunts my nightmares), so I'm claiming that one.
So happy for you managing to get a video under an hour! Am binge watching your videos as I just got back into reading but it feels like I have stepped into a MASSIVE world 😂😂😂
I was born a week after Beauty and the Beast was released 👩🏻🥀📚🫖 Though I’ve always loved all the Disney classics. I’m here for future videos like this one, love you Gavin! 💕
The Fox and the Hound came out 12 days before I was born in 1981!
I’ve been wanting this video for months brb gonna rewatch it 5 times!
I have to agree ❤ the thumbnail. Another great video from Gavin.
Omg the thumbnail 😍😍😍😍
I've been watching almost every video posted for a little while now and I can say I'm having a good time following this channel lately. Good job 👍
the opening!!! stunning🤩love you for reading the original fairy tales, i've lowkey always wanted to read them so im just going to live vicariously through you🤣
Oh my gosh Gavin I just love you!!! As soon as I saw your thumbnail, I started cracking up! I knew this video was gonna be so good! Thank you for always brightening up my day! You’re everything!!!😘😍❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
I love this series! Those fairytales are bananas!
Omg, I literally squealed when I saw the thumbnail, I've never clicked play so fast 😆 I loved this! I wish I could bottle the happiness I feel when I watch your videos. Thanks Gav, you're a gem 🥰
And now I feel like I need to watch all the Disney movies again 🥲
OMFG PLEASE PLEASE A SING ALONG WITH GAV VIDEO! I WOULD DIE!
From your description the djinn in Alladdin really reminded me of djinns in Deavabad trilogy.
Little mermaid came out the year I was born. Guess it makes sense since I love the water lol
I still like Beast solely for the reason of his gigantic library. I can just hide there all day 😂😂😂
INCREDIBLE thumbnail
The great mouse detective came out the year I was born… makes me feel old 😂
My birth year was a great year for Disney lmao Mulan, A Bug’s Life, AND The Parent Trap??🙌
UA-cam has been horrible about notifying me of your videos yet it shows me this delicious thumbnail!
I love the music from Legally Blonde! I would love to see it someday and I loved the Lunar Chronicles!
Loved this video Gav!! The red hair suits you 🙌🏼 also, I agree, why is it always the youngest child as I’m the oldest hahah
The Incredibles came out the year i was born. my favorite movies are tangled, brave, and wall e
I loved this! Great job. I love the long videos ❤
Apparently Beauty & the Beast was released the year I was born!
Fun fact about Aladdin, it’s not a middle Eastern story. It takes inspiration from Middle East mythology but it was written first in China. It wasn’t even in the first 1001 nights collection.
Beauty and the Beast came out the year I was born!
My most watched Disney movies as a child were The Lion King, Aladdin, Pocahontas, Flubber, Homeward Bound, Balto, Hercules, The Might Ducks, Inspector Gadget, 101 Dalmatians, An American Tail,
My birth year is 1992 so Aladdin. But my favorite Disney films are the Hunchback of Notre Dame and Beauty and the Beast!
Loved this video!! The movies that came out in the year i was born (2003) were Brother Bear, which i have never seen before sooo thank you for my next movie night watch 🤗 and then there was Finding Nemo and The jungle book 2 sooo i would say it was a pretty good year 👏✨🥳
You look fantastic in your mermaid outfit!
I'm not that much into those disney fils, but it was interesting to learn about the originals!
Also, have you ever read more of the old/original Märchen (fairytale)? A lot of them are really dark.
No don't chuck Aladdin jumper. You could turn it into a cushion.
And Beauty and the beast came out in my birth year. And the little mermaid, beauty and the Beast, and Aladdin are my ABSOLUTE favourites ❤️
Thanks for another awesome video! I enjoy analyzing fairytales. I had to do it in high school and college for English courses. Disney Classic movie for my birth year is Mulan! The original Disney classic movies I still love and tend to prefer; partly because of nostalgia. However, I have appreciated and enjoyed the remakes that I have seen. I think the remakes have added to the stories and/or explored different parts of the stories. I am excited to see The Little Mermaid and Halle Bailey’s performance!
I'm the same as you Gavin, 1992 and Aladdin was my favorite movie as a child! I used to watch it over and over 😅
My Disney movie was also Aladdin, but it’s not my fave. Fave from this era is probably Mulan, but I will never get tired of Belle as a character and I always said I could live in that library
1992 kid's too ! So same as you Aladdin.
I saw the live action ‘The Little Mermaid’ on my birthday and it was so much fun! It really made my morning. I do have points of critique but it was just SO WELL CAST.
P.S. Jonah Hauer King as Prince Eric >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Happy belated birthday!!
@@GavinReadsItAll Omg thank you
Literally very interested in the side of the little mermaid where she also trades her tale and voice because she wants a soul.
Ahhhh!!! I’ve been waiting for this!! OH EM GEE- I am so glad you got Toilet Bound Hanako. Those Lunar Chronicles editions are pretty. Also - How am I just finding out you are also a middle child like me (this explains why we are kindred spirits)
Eek hope you enjoy Kat!
For my birthday year (1999) the movies Tarzan and Toy Story 2 came out. It’s cool since Toy Story 2 is my fav from those movies.
Fantastic vid man, I love a good costume !! Ooh awesome manga haul and I honestly need you to film reading Food Wars, because that is a wild experience haha. Also I'm 1992 Aladdin for a birth year film so can't complain.
Apparently, the little mermaid came out the year I was born haha. I always thought it came out in the early 90's .
i feel like it could be fun to do this for fantasy fairy tale retellings? the first one that came to mind is Little Thieves by Margaret Owen which is a retelling of Goose Girl. there's so many, i feel like that could be a fun series!
Yessss '92 babies!! So I guess my answer is also Aladdin 😄.
Alright I’m gonna toss my hat into the ring as your oldest fan…in 1973, when I was born, Robin Hood came out….which I don’t think I’ve ever seen ! 😆 Love the thumbnail! Had to click right away!
I love the Titan's Bride!
I was born in early 1993--the year Hocus Pocus came out. It wasn't a Disney Renaissance film, but it's a classic, nevertheless. BUT Aladdin came out when my mom was pregnant with me and she would sing "A Whole New World" to me in the womb so that's a very special Disney Renaissance film for me💙
Hocus Pocus and The Nightmare Before Christmas came out the year I was born! I didn't know that before today.
You’re so cool, those are my favourites
40:01 Mulan came out in 1998, the year I was born! I remember I had Mulan 2 on DVD and I used to rewatch it all the time
Idk how long you shot the raw footage but omg it must’ve been agony with the injured tongue.
1994 was the year of both Lion King and my birth 🦁
Im fairly certain that in Beauty and the Beast Beast was not thr one causing the dreams. Like its been a while since i read the tale but i grew up with a giant fairy tail book and beauty and the beast was one of my favorites.
Im pretty sure the dreams were just apart of the magic of the tale like. Forseight. And not like that the beast had dream manipmuation abilities and were using them on Bell.
As for what classic disney movie was released in my birth year. Mulan! Which is fitting cause it was one of my other favorite disney films growing up
My Disney movie is The Emperor's New Groove, which is one of favourites 😂
When the thumbnail makes me cackle and go "oh my! Gavin's posted!" I know im in for a good vid 😂😂
The little mermaid tale is strangely more like the Disney counterpart than I remember! I actually love that.
The lion king came out the year I was born! 🥰 my top 3 Disney films are beauty and the beast, The lion King and Tarzan! I love comparing the movies with the source material it’s interesting!
Disney classic that came out in 1981 The Fox and The Hound - which I love!
Ok so I definitely vote for a part 2 and then I vote for a part 3 where you read all the Never After books by Emily McIntire (I particularly love Scarred and Twisted)
Bonjour! 🤣🤣🤣🤣 Loved that part! -
I hope so so so much, you are gonna make a series out of this. So many Disney works are inspired by Myths or Fairy Tales. - I have a list :D :D :D
(You already made a video about Bambi, which is based on a book by an author from my home country, and i liked that video a lot!!)
Thanks for the new video and for always making room for the kitties, they are so cute
The Disney animated film that came out the year I was born was funnily Little Mermaid. Haha~
My fave Disney films are Atlantis, Treasure planet and Mulan!
Mine was High School Musical. Which came out the year I was born
two disney movies that came out when i was born (2003) are Finding Nemo and Brother Bear. im very happy w/ that i love both of those! Freaky Friday also released that year (ik that’s a remake but it’s better than the original anyway lmaoo)