The Little Mermaid - What's the Difference?
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- Опубликовано: 13 сен 2024
- The source material behind Disney's animated classic, Hans Christian Andersen's The Little Mermaid, is a surprisingly metal fairy tale. Let's take a look at all the ways the filmmakers changed the source material, talking crabs and all! It's time to ask What's the Difference?
Correction: René Magritte was Belgian, not French.
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Actually, in the original story as Andersen first wrote it, the mermaid does dissolve into foam and ceases to exist. The ending was considered way too dark and many disliked it, so he revised it so that she still makes the sacrifice expecting to die but becomes a daughter of the air instead, which can eventually earn her the immortal soul she's been seeking.
I knew I heard about her attempting to commit suicide, so this whole sacrifice becoming daughter of the air thing really caught me off guard.
Exactly. That was the version my grade school library had and the one that I remember. The daughter of the air thing, I found out about years later and felt that it cheapened the original ending.
Yes, that's the version I grew up on! I was listening to the end of the video going,"Wait! What? She dies! She just dies!"
man, i thought i knew the wrong version
thanks for the explanation
Yes, this was a very early example of a writer/director changing a story element at the last second due to emmence fan backlash.
Glad to find out that I'm not the only one who knows about the original bummer ending though.
When I was in first grade I read the original version where the little mermaid dissolves into sea foam. I remember being so confused that I went to asked my teacher about it. She explained to me that there were different versions of fairy tales and not all of them are like disney. Then she gave a book with all the classic fairy tales to read. Needless to say I was scarred for life.
As a Belgian i feel obligated to let you know Magritte is a Belgian painter, not French. He's one of the only good things we have don't say he's French, thanks, all Belgians, probably.
Yes, Magritte is Belgian.
Fries are French.
@@invock well, thats a whole other debate, as a chef i can tell you french is a way of cutting the fries, but most people think fries also came from Belgium, West-Flanders to be exact. Am so sorry
@@JMartianOfficial But only if they have mayo with them LOL. Now for your _proper_ chips, pop over the channel ;-D
(Just kidding. Sort of. Bigger chips are definitely better with fish, er, well, with food in general. "Fries" are a snack.)
@@y_fam_goeglyd hah, im not a real fan of quartered potatos that got fried.. i like finesse, just like our fries :P and Belgian mayonnaise is the best, fight me. Fuck Dutch mayo tho 😂
I was here to say exactly the same ! Why people often refers Belgian things and people as French? We have a proper country do I don't really get this ^^
And about the french fries, same thing : it comes from the verb "to french" (so it literally means "sliced fries" actually), it's not about the country. English native people should understand this even more than us...
i'm pretty sure the deus ex machina ending is the english translation version.. i'm from Denmark and when i was told the story in kindergarden and later in my life, she just strait up ends as sea foam... a lot of H. C. Andersens fairytales end up pretty sad or bittersweet.
Just read the story again. Fellow Dane here. She turns into sea foam, and then joins the daughters of air
Anna Sørensen What are your thoughts on the 1975 anime version? It’s basically the same as the original tale.
@@robbiewalker2831 if we are thinking of the same, I really like that one
Anna Sørensen Looking back on that story, Marina was more proactive and selfless compared to the Disney version. And it makes it worse in Ariel’s case when “Return to the Sea” made her a hypocrite, by having her daughter not go to the ocean, and not tell her that she disobeyed her father before when she was Melody’s age.
Oh you were thinking of the Disney sequel? I was thinking of a danish series where the original Hans Christian Andersen stories were told as an animated show
This is legit one of my favourite series on YT
same
KalKenobi83 it’s the best way to examine which medium you want to go for, in terms of characterization and storytelling.
Was my favorite.
But that Ariel is my cartoon crush as my childhood crushes when I was toddler in the early 90s.
We live in a period of time in which "childhood" has been extended into young-adulthood--particularly in the United States. College-age kids, these days, are about as mature as sixteen-year-olds might have been a couple-hundred years ago...
When you consider the time-periods in which the Grimm brothers, and Andersen, collected the fairy-tales that have travelled through time to us, you would have been dealing with shorter life-spans, higher infant-mortality rates, and briefer childhoods. The stories were told to warn kids of the importance of making smart choices, and to be aware of the dangers of the world.
We can't impose the coddling of the present age on the stories told in the past, because back then, you were basically an adult in your mid-teens, married or employed before you were twenty. I mean, Andersen's "The Little Match-Seller" is the story of a poor girl, selling matches in the dead of winter, who freezes to death dreaming of the feasts enjoyed by wealthy children/families. Not exactly kid-friendly fare, by today's standards!
If we presented films, based on the original fairy-tales, the way they were meant to be told, most couldn't be marketed as kids' films; the violence they contained would bee too much.
I agree. Jab at adults. But its true. More likely. People lack common sense but bookwise they are intelligent. Most people in the world are stupid. I can't speak for bac, in the day. Just times now .
*Ariel:* [turned into a foam]
_PRINCE ERIC, I DON'T FEEL SO GOOD..._
I'm dead 😂💀😂💀😂💀😂💀😂💀
Marina: How do you like it?!? Not so good when you get punished! At least I earned my rank for my good behavior.
Ursula is OG Thanos
🤣🤣🤣🤣
Was there a comment section where I haven't seen Mr. Friendship? BTW, love your profile picture. There is a Clockwork Orange episode in this series if you are interested.
So, how about Lion King and Hamlet in time for the remake?
Lion King and Kimba the White Lion would be more appropriate.
@@flockinify but then the folks at Cinefix would have their thumbs broken by hired goons lol
@@flockinify But why not all three? It must be doable.
Because the Lion King is not an adaptation of Hamlet
@@Armadio21 actually...
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Interesting. It seems that rather than just being feel good movie magic, Disney's Little Mermaid operates on an idea that an honest love between two people will overcome dysfunctions in communication. Andersen's original maintains that there is no overcoming this gap, but unselfish and self sacrificing love is superior to vengeful and jealous possessive destruction, and will be rewarded.
3:25 It's the STONE MASK!! Grab it before she turns into a vampire!
"I REJECT MY MERMAIDHOOD, FATHER!"
What always struck me about the original story is that the Prince falls in love with the other princess partly because she's a great singer, and the little mermaid also used to be a great singer back when she had her voice... now all she can do is dance, and it's extremely painful... you can see how they made the singing a much bigger element in the Disney version...
"'But a year taken off when a child behaves and a tear shed and a day added whenever a child is naughty? Andersen, this is blackmail. And the children know it and say nothing. There's magnanimity for you."
-P.L. Travers
That whole "knives jabbing into her feet" bit that kept coming up legitimately made my legs numb with discomfort.
Thanks, Cinefix.
Thankfully the 1975 version doesn’t have to bring that up visually.
Fishy flesh 😂
*FOX AND THE HOUND WAS NOT LACKLUSTER.*
Mike, from Texas ya dang right!!!
mkbits the DisneyToon sequel, on the other hand...
That movie is great.
The book of the Fox and the Hound is really @#$%ed up!
No it wasn’t.
And I still love The Black Cauldron! It’s still one of the scariest, with a terrifying villain, and just superbly awesome animation!
Disney had internal problems back then which carried over into their artistic endeavors.
Disney simplified the story a lot. I am guessing that's because some elements of the story were too dark for children (cutting out the mermaid's tongue, her feet bleeding, her briefly considering killing the prince, etc.), but sadly some of the deeper elements were lost as well, such as her quest for the immortal soul.
I like the 1975 version for that reason.
Did you just say The Fox and the Hound was bad? Lies and Slander it's fantastic.
Honestly, I found it boring.
still was a box office bomb
eli stewart Not as bad as the DisneyToon Sequel.
No it was not. Only a lot of the critics didn't like it.
disney fan81 are we talking about the same fox and the hound movie or the DisneyToon sequel?
Lemme just say that the animation of CineFix is seriously good here, especially when explaining about the real story of the Little Mermaid. Kudos!
I can sense how these really old fairy tales have morals that you kind of have to dig deep to find but makes a lot of sense. For Little Red Riding Hood it was don't trust strangers, or follow them, the wolf representing the stranger. Not just because they could hurt you but specifically because they want to perform unsavoury acts on children. We know this because in some versions the wolf (as the Grandma) asks Little Red Riding Hood to undress in front of him and crawl into bed with him before he "eats" her. In the Little Mermaid, she's 15, falls in love with a pretty boy she's never talked to, goes and make a deal with the odds against her, and loses her tongue and walks in pain, with the threat of death if she fails, only for the Prince to disregard her and marry someone else. Making the self-sacrificial choice, she jumps into the sea and dies. This moral is don't go elope or sleep with the first guy you fall in love with as it will only bring you pain. As a naive teenager the Little Mermaid makes a terrible choice out of infatuation. Upon receiving the knife, she has the oppertunity to retake her the life she impulsively cast aside, though it would mean taking innocent lives. She chooses the right decision in the end, taking responsability for her actions and learning from her past mistakes. This is a cautionary tale to children that big decisions they make in their youth can lead to ruining your life down the line, specifically don't be dumb when it comes to young love.
Can you guys do a video on Mulan? the two versions of her story are pretty violent and full of death, like a lot of ancient chinese history. Its a really stark conparison to the og disney movie.
You should do the other hannibal books, for Red Dragon you could do a difference between the movie vs the book vs the second half of S3 of Hannibal
4:14: “I ate her tongue with some Fava Beans and a nice Chianti.”
wasn't there also a tv movie?
EDIT: Yup there was one, but it was called Manhunter
THANK YOU! This is one of my favorite set of stories to compare, and a lot of people haven't read the original. I"m glad it's getting some lovin! Also, the original mentions a lot of red, like the flowers in the mermaid's garden, sunsets, etc. So Ariel having red hair it so perfect.
8.30 You gave H.C. Andersen a german accent and i'm offended!
Amanda Damgaard Nielsen I know! Painful. So good to hear the real story shared though. HC Andersen’s actual stories are so good. And creepy.
limeBlender The 1975 version is the best adaptation if you want a visualized version of the original story.
What does a Dane sound like? A Swedish chef?
So many folks from the U.S. do a Danish accent, that sounds like a bad German one. Or they’ll throw a Swedish accented word in with the bad German dialect. 😂
I’m from the U.S. so I’m not just hating.
SPL-316
Swedish chef raised in Germany, by Belgian parents. 👻
7:08 "Dumb" is a synonym for "mute".
Yep, back then. Also, that's such a cute profile picture!
The original also had a heavy emphasis on God and the mermaids desire to come closer to the divine.
Honestly, if there was a competition on which movie was morally correct, All Dogs Go to Heaven was more like Hans Christian Andersen’s tale than Disney’s film!
God, I loved „All dogs go to heaven“
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles screened around the same time in Germany; 1990. I remember wanting to see TMNT, being a "3-year old fanboy" with all the action figures and shit. But we ended up seeing Arielle instead, my sister's preference; her birthday.
At the end of Arielle I cried and I remember my mother asking me, if it was because of us not watching TMNT, and I said: "NO! Because the witch (Ursula) died!". - My life life as an underdog had literally just begun.
You should do Treasure Planet, with Treasure Island
Treasure Planet is one of my favorite Disney movies of all time!
I noticed one difference. SPOILERS but Arrow in the novel was not respected at all, was a drunk and died pretty early in the novel in a very anti climactic way of stooping overboard. Where in the movie he was more respected though got someone on his nerves was what did him in the end.
OH MY GOD!!!! THANK YOU GUYS SO MUCH!!!!!!! I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU DID A FAIRY TALE!!!!!!!!!! AND YOU DID ONE OF MY FAVORITES AND YOU DID A MARVELOUS JOB!!!!! THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Grew up watching the og hc Anderson version (sagoberättaren was the shit for the Scandinavians out there) and the image of the mermaid throwing herself in the ocean has always stuck with me
Also for some reason I have always thought that she stabbed the wife before throwing herself off the boat but just my morbid brain so great 🙈
I would like to see a What's the difference video on A Scanner Darkly.
You guys should do one for "No Country for Old Men"
Would love to see any of Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan adaptations (especially The Hunt for Red October).
Also would like to see Gone With The Wind
To Kill a Mockingbird
Please come back with 8bit movies!!!!! I just woke up thinking on an Endgame 8bit video.
Do a “what’s the difference “ of Interview with the Vampire
One thing that's kinda fun is that Hans Christian Andersen is never mentioned as such in Danish, he's more known as H. C. Andersen, we rarely say the first two names
He didn't "conveniently decided" that the princess was his savior. The princess did find him later, after the little mermaid rescued him, so she was the first person he saw after waking up.
To quote the cinema snob:
"Most fair tales are pretty fucked up"
You've got that right!
Elizabeththegreatest Yeah, like a witch fattening two children up to eat them.
@@robbiewalker2831 Yeah, cannibalism is always fucked up, unless the alternative is starving to death!
JAIL.
😐
Do The Chronicles of Narnia please
Always love the quality of these videos, thanks for all the work y’all do!
In Europe when I was a child those type of stories were actually red...
In America they’re also white and blue
Read not red.
Ha
Ariel in the movie: [Normal dog]
Ariel in the story: [Big steroid wolf]
You mean werewolf?
@@smithwesson1896 Yes, but I like "big steroid wolf" better, it just fits with my personality.
Also, would you like a carrot?
@@creator_ant nope
J. Anthony Ashley also, don’t you mean Marina? Because remember, the book never said her name was Ariel. And yes, Marina is more like an Alpha Wolf, where as Ariel is like an Omega Wolf. By that, Marina is proactive and selfless, vs Ariel being careless and selfish.
@@robbiewalker2831 The original story never gave anyone names. Only generic stock titles. The Prince, The Sea Witch, the Little Mermaid, and so on. You are thinking of the old Toei anime film.
Just an FYI: The word "dumb" in this context doesn't mean stupid. It means mute, as she is unable to speak.
My favorite Disney film and one of my favorite films of all time. 😍😍😍
My personal favorite is the sequel film "The Little Mermaid 2: Return to the sea" staring "Tara Strong" as "Melody" the daughter of Ariel.
As Tara Strong also started in the 10 year period Hasbro series "My little pony: friendship is magic" and "Equestria girl" as "Twilight sparkle".
Tara is a 21st century June Foray, the woman of a thousand voices.
Hey CineFix, could ya do the green mile next? I love the movie and will probably read the book when I get the chance but I would like the cliff-notes, also I want to know just how similar the film and the novel are. Please and thank you!
A Little Sacrifice" (Polish: Trochę poświęcenia) is a short story written by Andrzej Sapkowski and is the fourth story in Sword of Destiny is the best version of Little mermaid
Was watching the cinemasins video of the 1992 Aladdin video the just released, and thought "I would love to know the difference is between the 1992 Aladdin movie and the original story found in the one thousand and one nights book(?)
Would be another "Just in time for the live action" video
Please do the following movies on future What's the Difference episodes:
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Cinderella
Sleeping Beauty
Beauty and the Beast
Aladdin
Mulan
The Princess and the Frog
Tangled
Frozen
Pinocchio
The Wizard of Oz
Why did you give HC Andersen a German accent?
Because all americans think that northern europeans speak German or with German like accents, just like they think that Sweden and Switzerland are the same country.
A Danish accent is difficult to emulate and this is further exacerbated by the difficulty of proper pronunciation of Danish from a strictly English background. From personal experience, I've said "rødgrød med fløde" enough that I have had many sore throats. It's basically the 'My Fair Lady' test of the Danes.
Because Americans are the most ethnocentric nation on earth. Most of them don't know shit about the world.
@@stell4you Not true.
@@FredoftheNorth What does a Danish accent south like? Swedish chef?
As a kid this was legitimately one of my favorite stories, original Hans Christian Anderson and all.
Is it possible for you to do a "What's the difference" for A Series of Unfortunate Events?
In the latest dragon quest game they made a reference to this story. It's as heartbreaking as you would think it is, since they kept the original ending of the mermaid turning to seafoam
What's the difference between "The Secret of Nimh" and "Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh"?
Book vs movie
I don't watch the Disney version of anything I like in the original because I know they'll Disney-fy it. "The Little Mermaid" is my favorite fairy tale, and "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" is my third favorite novel; but I was never even tempted to watch the Disney version of either. Subsequent reports showed me the wisdom of not watching them. Thanks for further validating my point. Thumbs up.
I love how Brenda Chapman, a story board artist on Disney’s The Little Mermaid who went on to co-direct both The Prince of Egypt and Brave said that Hans Christian Anderson’s version of The Little Mermaid was one of her favorite fairy tales growing up.
*This coincidence is creeping me out. We literally finished watching this movie, the little mermaid 1989, with my niece an hour ago. She wanted to watch Aladdin but my inner gay wanted little mermaid* 🧜♂️ 😂
nice username
WOOOOW THAT'S INSAAAAAAAAAANE!!!! 😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱
Resting sad face thanks. Your username is my daily look
My inner gay leads me to Alamein sometimes, for them animated abs.
0:08 - René Magritte was from Belgium
You guys should do a WTD vid on the mcu like infinity war x infinity gauntlet saga.
I never understood the phrase, "this isn't some fairy tale," when fairy tales are so dark. Hell, I'd love to see a Disney version of Bluebeard.
Well, when people say that they’re ussually referring to post-1800 fairy tales.
@@expendableindigo9639 Even post-1800 fairy tales.
@@slashbash1347 Yeah, I don't know how recent but at some point they definitely became more neutered. The ones I grew up with were not the Grimm ones.
7:07 - you say "his words, 'dumb child'" as if "dumb" was being used to insult her. When The Little Mermaid was written, "dumb" literally just meant "cannot speak." Hence the phrase "deaf and dumb" for someone who cannot hear or speak. Dumb wasn't an insult, it was a mere descriptor like "deaf" or "blind."
Big Fish?
OMG HOW DID I NOT SEE THIS IN MY RECOMMENDATIONS?!?!?
Please oh Pleeeease let this be the start of a series of Disney "What's the Difference"s
I imagine the pain she felt walking to be like the pins and needles feeling when your foot falls asleep, never having had those nerve endings herself... Or the bones squishing the skin on the floor, ouch lol 😅
PLEASE DO A EXCERPT ON THE FILM SHOTS IN THE MOVIE "BAD TIMES AT THE EL ROYALE"!!!!!!
DO THE MASK ALREADY CMON, THAT WOULD BE A GREAT DIFFERENCE COMPARISON
Alec Figueroa ask and you shall receive
Shout out to messed up origins.
When I clicked this video I did not know it was cinefix
Surprisingly, i love hearing Clint flipping out about a Disney song
"This is not a pipe" reminds me of The fault in our stars
Gross
Victor Von Deathstroke Or a Robotnik YTP by chairman that I saw.
Please, for the love of God I beg you, find some excuse to mention Jan Svankmajer in one of your lists (even if just in the prelude before a main pick)
There is not enough Cinefix in this world!
8:30 I don't know if you guys know Denmark and Germany are 2 different countries
markus corneliussen it's our front porch (cough, cough) ;)
I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS
This is a song with the original story of the little mermaid, it's in spanish but has subtitles in english
I was not expecting this
"And she who holds her tongue will get a man." Did anybody else notice this possible reference to the book?
I never noticed how Ursala turning to a huge monster, and getting rammed by a boat is the exact ending as Call of Cthulhu
Yeah....I was totally read the original little mermaid when I was a kid. I always cried at the end.
Can’t wait for the Live action. I heard there doing screen shots in Puerto Rico were I live. I hope they make perfect.
Love how many americans are shocked of how brutal the original story is because of disneys magic wonderland retelling, most scandinavians grow up with these and H. C. Andersen is honestly brutal (one children story of his is about a girl ho freezes to death..)
You guys a seriously good!
What do you mean that this WAS a childrens bedtime story? It still is. Most Danish kids gets a book of Hans Christian Andersen stories when they are born.
Let’s not forget about one of my personal favorites: the Emperor’s New Clothes, where a King was being so vain about clothing to the point where he lets random strangers give him gold to make new clothing, only to realize he was tricked, when he was either in his underwear, or naked, after a child calls out on it when he marched out downtown.
For all the Danes saying that "She turns into sea foam at the end! She does not join the air people". Well, I just read the story again, from Hans Christian Andersen's complete works, published in 2001, and that version ends with her, not killing the prince, jumping into the sea, and then joining the daughters of the air, because of her good deeds. This is the story I have always heard. She GETS turned into foam, but after that, she joins the daughters of air.
Next do the Fox and the Hound and the Hunchback of Nortedame. Those 2 books are very @#$%ed up!
I thought the end was the little mermaid becoming foam for the longest time
Usually when people talk about the original version they want to underline the dark aspects, so often they leave out the happy ending
cramer floro Yeah, and the plot twists.
Robbie Walker which particular twists did you have in mind?
cramer floro Throughout the entire story, they keep bringing up how humans work and how they earn their place in the Kingdom of Heaven; since Marina (the Mermaid of the original tale) was becoming more human through proactiveness and selflessness, she earns her place as daughter of the air for it.
Sure, she left her family for the same Prince she rescued; but compared to Ariel from the Disney version, who was defiant and selfish, Marina was never harsh towards her own family and tries to reason with them as best as she could. Ariel always gets into fights, mostly with her dad, who has a hate agenda on humans. She causes more harm than good. In other words, Ariel is the exact opposite of Marina, despite having the similar story.
Best episode in a while guys. 👍
Please consider making a video about They Live based on 8 o clock in the morning by Ray Nelson
Great video bruh
With Aladdin remake coming out, y'all should do a what's the difference with the Animated version and the real story
Please do Princess and The Frog vs the Frog Prince
I miss the Roundtable discussions, when are they coming back?
We named our daughter Ariel...THAT'S how much impact this movie had.
Do Deadly Class next.
I would say this in the original story she dies turning the sea foam and the anime version she does a Russian version dies
Hey I have a couple ideas for future lists. those are 10 best bad films (so bad they're good), 10 best foreign (not american and/or british) films and 10 best theatre adaptations. Please make it true!
That's the Wild Rover in the background!
Pretty please do Alita Battle Angel manga vs movie. 💜
Love this series
The original tale is one of the best friendzone stories ever.
Seriously, even if I love the Disney version, the Andersen tale is so beautiful and sad.
Lmao. Is this just one guy as CineFix? Cause Fuck he’s great
It still amazes me that people don't know the original children fairy tales. When I was a child my parents/grandparents often read me Andersen & Grimm Brothers' stories or even Arabian Nights tales o_O