Well, it's not the brother's Grimm, but Hans Christian Andersen's books have been significantly watered down for Disney as well. I have a collection of his stories.
The Little Mermaid is all kinds of fucked up.
Remember, how Ariel couldn't talk when she was newly human in the Disney film? In Andersen's original version, the little mermaid actually has her tongue cut out by the witch, which is the real reason she couldn't talk. Also, remember how Ariel was stumbling around when she first gets her legs. In the original version, the witch gives her a potion that, as it changes her from a mermaid to a human, feels like she is being cut in half by a sword and every step she takes on her new human legs feels like she is stepping on knives. The prince tells Ariel that he will probably marry her, but then falls in love with another princess who had taken care of him after a shipwreck (yes, the little mermaid saved him from drowning, but this other princess found him once the little mermaid dragged him to shore). He marries the princess on a ship, and the morning after their wedding the little mermaid's sisters come to the surface with all of their hair cut off. They tell the little mermaid that they sold their hair to the sea witch so that she could return to the ocean. All she needed to do was take the knife they were offering her, plunge it into the prince, and when his blood washed over her she would change back. So the little mermaid goes in to where the prince is laying with his new bride but cannot do it and so throws the knife into the ocean. Just then the sun rises, and she dies. She turns into sea foam momentarily and then her spirit floats into the air. The prince and princess wake up, to find the little princess/mermaid gone and just assume she committed suicide.
The Little Mermaid is all kinds of fucked up.
Remember, how Ariel couldn't talk when she was newly human in the Disney film? In Andersen's original version, the little mermaid actually has her tongue cut out by the witch, which is the real reason she couldn't talk. Also, remember how Ariel was stumbling around when she first gets her legs. In the original version, the witch gives her a potion that, as it changes her from a mermaid to a human, feels like she is being cut in half by a sword and every step she takes on her new human legs feels like she is stepping on knives. The prince tells Ariel that he will probably marry her, but then falls in love with another princess who had taken care of him after a shipwreck (yes, the little mermaid saved him from drowning, but this other princess found him once the little mermaid dragged him to shore). He marries the princess on a ship, and the morning after their wedding the little mermaid's sisters come to the surface with all of their hair cut off. They tell the little mermaid that they sold their hair to the sea witch so that she could return to the ocean. All she needed to do was take the knife they were offering her, plunge it into the prince, and when his blood washed over her she would change back. So the little mermaid goes in to where the prince is laying with his new bride but cannot do it and so throws the knife into the ocean. Just then the sun rises, and she dies. She turns into sea foam momentarily and then her spirit floats into the air. The prince and princess wake up, to find the little princess/mermaid gone and just assume she committed suicide.
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