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Anubis16 wrote: BallerinaBelle wrote: But doesn't Walt makes better sense than Hans because Walt actually changed the fairy tales and added the "happily ever after" endings? He made them less true to the original story in taking out the "Scary" or "Disney-inappropriate" parts whereas didn't Hans just make a few cultural changes to be better understood with his culture? I'm a little bit confused, I've read the orginal Grimm tales and they are pretty darker than the Disney movies, but both the orginal tales and the Disney movies end the same way

I was saying that Walt Disney made some of those tales more kid-friendly by taking out "scary" endings and staying even less true to the sources than Hans Christian Andersen. I'm not sure which Grimm tales you are referring to with the same endings as Disney so perhaps you can elaborate? Snow White by Grimm brothers ends with a tremor dislodging a piece of poisoned apple from her throat which awakens her. Then the Prince asks her to marry him and they invite the Queen and as punishment for her attempted murders, she is forced to wear a pair of hot iron shoes and dance until she drops dead. In the Disney version the evil queen gives Snow White the poisoned apple as the animals have warned the dwarves about Snow's danger. The dwarves chase the Queen disguised as the old woman to the cliff where she (might be hit by lightning? I forget some details) falls off the cliff and dies. Then the Prince finds her and awakens her with "true love's kiss" as they ride off into the sunset.

The only other Grimm brothers/Disney tale I know is Rapunzel which is also greatly different.