So true dude, like that was my first thought when that happened, because of her happiness and when he died she just Walt away with the baby 😆 with no sympathy or sadness or maybe the recap didn't specify on that point 🤔
The older woman had one fun night with the snack of a king and then he threw her out of a window. Yeah, he went through a lot but Dora said it was good while it lasted. 🤣😂
It's nice seeing that the king is such a dedicated and loving husband. He even gave his life, just in attempt to grant his precious wife the one happiness she couldn't have.
Holy smokes!!! The woman that pulls back her wrinkles is based on a story from centuries ago called “The Skinned Woman” it’s an amazing and gruesome read if y’all are interested in that
I personally believe the lady believing her sister, and dying, caused her sister to return to being old again. The spell that made her young, was broken since her cruelty allowed her own sister to die.
@@mexiad76 I like to imagine his soul lived on in the two boys. They were basically the creatures children. So it died, but it was able to have children in death,one of which became a king,
'The flayed old woman' There once were two sisters, close in age, who had been birthed and loved and became stooped and wise and were now old women together. They lived in a house in a courtyard surrounded by a tall stone wall, meant to keep out most children and all men, though starlings made their nests in the boughs of the elms. One day, the king-an old man himself-was walking by the wall when he heard the lilting voices of the sisters, who had become accomplished singers over their long years. He listened for a while, his eyes narrowed with contentment, and then ambled his way to a small gap in the mortar. “What sweet creatures sing behind these walls?” he asked. Both sisters scrambled for the gap, but the first sister-a little taller, with slightly longer legs-got there first. “We have always been here, your highness,” she said, her voice gravelly at its edge. “Show me,” the king said. So the first sister slipped her finger into the gap. She felt the king’s breath puff on her skin, and then his lips enveloped it. The thrill she felt! Out of sight, the king’s mouth was wet and tight-like probing her own sex-and she felt a kick of desire as he suckled her fingertip as if it were a nipple. At the edge of the pull and draw was a nip of teeth, and she moaned. Excited by this, the king bit down and drew blood, which excited him further. It was all he could do to not loose himself from his clothes. “My young maiden,” he said. “My blushing, tender girl. Come to my bedchamber tonight. I wish to be your first, to barricade past your maidenhead.” The sisters laughed silently behind their hands, for they had rid themselves of their maidenheads long ago. But then the first sister said, sweetly, “My king, you may have any part of me you wish. I will be there tonight.” And then the king was gone. The first sister withdrew her finger and examined the bite marks at their tip. Before she departed, she had the second sister gather up her extra skin and pin it tightly behind her back, so that she might appear young as the king believed her to be. • • • • That night, the first sister arrived at the castle beneath a cloak, and was whisked upstairs by staff as silent as dolls. From outside his bedchamber door, she said, “My love, I am afraid of fire. Please put out your candles before I enter.” From within, she heard the hiss of a snuffed flame. The door opened. In the silt of the shadows they made love. Afterwards, as she glowed with sensation, the first sister wished him to see her as she really was. She wanted his pleasure to come from her stomach and thighs and breasts, not those of some imaginary creature. And so in the darkness, she stood, and unpinned her skin. She struck a match and laid it to the candle’s wick. The king, horrified by her shape, leapt from the bed. He shoved her toward the window, and then out of it. “Please, please,” she begged as he pried her fingertips from the ledge. He did not even stay to watch her fall. The first sister plummeted down, and down, but just before she struck the ground, she became tangled in the branches of a tree. Its thorns hooked into the soft folds of her body. She screamed and cried and hung there like a tanning hide. It was then that a group of fairies passed by. They laughed at the old woman in the tree, bare and slick and weeping. Her humiliation was intoxicating to them as wine. Fairies are very indulgent, self-satisfied creatures, and their meddling knows no ends. And so one of them waved his finger and the first sister dropped to the earth. She lay on the cool soil, afraid to move. The fairies walked off, and she heard their voices long after they’d disappeared into the night. Her tears dried and left streaks of salt behind. When the first sister finally stood up, she felt strange-no longer sore, and supple as a reed. She ran her hands over her body, apple-firm and smooth. Her flesh was young again. • • • • The second sister waited for the first sister to return. They had shared lovers throughout their long lives, and as soon as they were together again, the second sister knew that she would learn the secrets of the king’s pleasure, and take her own in turn. But when the night thinned into dawn, and then day, and the first sister did not return, the second sister left their home to find her. She walked along the wall and through the door and out into the bright world. All she found near the castle was a beautiful young maiden, sitting naked beneath a tree. “Excuse me,” said the second sister, “I don’t mean to trouble you, but have you seen-” It was then that she recognized her sister’s eyes, hazel as her own. The first sister looked at the second sister with horror. Had her own skin hung in such a way? Had she been so shriveled, so loose, so ancient? She could barely remember. “What’s happened to you?” the second sister asked. “This is the skin that was beneath,” the first sister said. She closed her eyes and shook her head, as if disagreeing with herself. She tried to explain again. “This is my true skin.” The second sister reached out and touched the first sister’s jaw. It was downy and soft as a newborn fawn. They had not had skin like that since they were young women together. “You’re gone,” she said. “Sister, you’ve left me behind.” The first sister pulled her face away. “I’m sorry,” she said. She stood and walked back toward the castle, to find the king. The second sister walked to town and located a barber. “Take my skin,” she said. She handed him a coin. “Take it off?” he said. She handed him a second coin. He shrugged. He dragged his razor up and down a leather strap, and then held it up for inspection. The blade-edge caught the morning light. It was like the sweet, briny bite of sugar against an open nerve; then, like being dropped into the sun. • • • • The second sister continued to live even after the barber hung her skin from his window, and then sold it to a bookbinder. But with no flesh to contain her body, the wet meat of her muscle and the roping of her tendons were on full display. Bits of dust and soil clung to her damp organs. She often woke to the sensation of mice scrabbling beneath her breastbone, of skittering cockroaches rounding her eye. On the rare occasion when she ventured beyond the wall, mothers would bend down to their children and point at her. “See?” they would say. “This is what happens when you worry about your looks. Such is the price of vanity.” She spent the remainder of her life wiping crumbs from her joints and crevices, tears draining through her body like raindrops sliding down a windowpane. As for the first sister, there are many stories about how she ended up trawling the earth for her old skin. In the first, the king died, and when she went to find her sister, she discovered a dead, shucked corpse in a chair by their old fireplace, and she clutched the body and wept and wept. In another, the king tired of her, and their old home was vacant and lined with dust, and soon she found herself wandering the land alone. No matter the story, one thing is the same: She missed her old skin. She felt vulnerable without its age and warmth, like a fox pelt silver with time, and its power of concealment. This taut, ageless woman, her skin gleaming like dew clinging to stem and petal, with a mouth like a pitted cherry, was never left alone. Wherever she went, men followed with their hands and cocks and voices, their hungers and wants and desires. They trampled and pursued. She hunted down the fairies. She demanded they return her skin to her, and when they laughed and refused, she pulled their heads from their bodies like dandelions. In this way, she walked and searched until the end of her days. Her grief never abated, and when she died and should have become part of the soil, she remained unchanged and immutable as wax. She is there still, if you know where to look.
If anyones wondering the movie is about womanhood specifically said by the director as "plastic surgery; the frenzied desire to have a child; the conflict between generations; the painful passage from adolescence to adulthood". You should watch the movie because this recap is extremely brief and doesnt cover many of the actual details especially the last woman.
Your 3 line summary has convinced me I need to watch this movie. I'm guessing, based on the summary of the older sisters story, it will also touch on ageing for women, and how they are forgotten and punished by society. The skinning could also be an illusion to menopause.
@@milesa508I am talking about the end of this movie. This is a three-part story (with different point-of-view of each kingdom, since there are three rulers involved here: the king with wild reputation for debauchery, the prince born from eating a monster's heart who later became king, and the life of a princess as a price for her father's selfishness who also later became queen) movie, which are all connected. The Violet I mentioned in my comment is the princess who was made as prize to her father's selfishness.
@@katsukibakugou7100 really?? 🙄 Did you watch the recap carefully or did you just skip? It was written in the first seconds of the recap. It's Tale of Tales.
@@saradellapiana628 i didnt watch it, but maybe the sea creature was just part of the magic as an ingridient and the sacrifice was the king, or maybe the fact that he and the creature died was the reason why two kids were born, idk
The last story is actually familiar to me, it is similar to an old traditional story with spanish and portuguese roots. It's folklore, and as so it has multiple variations, but the one I read was very different (and sweeter) The insect was raised by the princess herself, the king just had it killed and made into leather. The competition was the same, but it was a young boy who got it right, because he helped a kind of god, and had magical favors. The king didn't want to give the daughters hand because the boy was poor, and he made him go through three other trials of sorts. In the end the king accepts his defeat, and ultimately gives the decision to the daughter, if she wants to marry the boy. She says yes and they do.
Violet deserve so much better than being the queen, His dad should’ve done something even better than an apology and coronation in the end. He could’ve saved her the moment she doesnt visit him
I found Violet shallow and the ogre caused her no harm, even after she betrayed him. She should blame her father for making a stupid challenge. He still came to her rescue at least in his perspective. He seemed to care for her even though she didn't care for him. The similar thoughtless attitude of like father.
And they were way better than Violent's father. They only knew her for a day and weren't rich, yet helped her and cared for her. Violent's father was the king, had knighs and soldiers and wealth, and yet decided to play his stupid guess-the-animal game and was a unable to protect his daughter. I mean, Violet kills the ogre with a knife, sure the ogre was a great warrior but I don't think he was a match for a group of well prepared soldiers.
I love how she didn't care a bit about her husband death. He cared for her, but when he loved her, she was unhappy. When he died actually for her - she was the happiest ever..
She could have adopted an orphan child from the kingdom instead of sacrificing both that sea creature's and her husband's lives. She could have accepted the two boys' friendship seeing how much her son cared for Jonas, instead of letting her vanity and pride get in the way of her child's hapiness. When her son left to come to Jonas' rescue, she could have sent gards to go after him and protect him, instead of making yet another deal with the necromancer and going after him herself. Really, she was just such a selfish and difficult woman her sorrows were no one else's fault but hers. You could already tell what type of person she was when she threw a tamptrum after seeing the circus woman was pregnant.
Violet had only asked her father to find a tall and handsome husband for her, why did he have to make such a statement? And even if the ogre guessed right, he's the king! He let that creature just take her away. The other thing I felt sorry about Violet's story is the people who saved her, why did they all have to die, I thought she was going to marry one of those handsome young men ☹️😭
The story of Violet is kind of relatable to marriage in many Arab Muslim communities. Many Muslim girls are forced into arranged marriage and the groom has be admired and accepted by the parents first before the bride and marriage can be executed based on financial agreement or a deal between groom and bride's parents without her consent. Women are not allowed to date or even talk or sit with a guy alone even in public places since they have that stupid objectified sexually obsessed mindset that whenever a man or a woman sits together alone, satan is their third wheel (meaning that they will be sexually attracted to each other).
@@m.t768 How likely is it that you vilify Muslims against a Muslim? I don't know what the Arabs are doing right now, but there is no such thing as forced marriage in Islam. Two people look at each other, like it or not, and talk with the intention of getting married. No one can force anyone to marry. And forced marriage or marriage for money has existed all over the world and still exists in some places, the nobles, the royal families, rich people. Why did you feel the need to give examples from Muslims? Finally, is there so much rape and womens murder in your world because there is no mentality that when a man and a woman are alone, the third is the devil? Maybe you still haven't found a solution to these?...
@@m.t768i can sense the hatred and ignorance in your comment. Islam considers the woman’s acceptance of the man to marry important as if she rejects him the marriage can’t be right. And what makes you mad about Satan being with an alone man & woman? Go see the statistics of how many rape cases in your country (which mostly happen when the man and woman are alone)
To everyone feeling sad for the ogre this recap fails to mention that the ogre r@ped violet multiple times and it was stated in the movie that he did this.
Don't bother.... Even if they know she was rapèd, they try to justify his actions while spouting complete nonsense. Give it to the boys to feel sad over the r@pists and not the victim
These stories are based on the book "Tale of Tales", of Gianbattista Basile. He comes from my town, Giugliano, in the province of Naples. His book brought a very important contribution to the fairy tale literature: one of the stories is called "The Cat Cinderella", which will become the "Cinderella" we all know
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Man I love anthologies so much. They're often just simple strange stories that SHOULDN'T be made into full movies but are still packed so full of thought provoking.
I love the setup, the look, the cast, and the concept of this film. It's been a hot minute since a good fairy-tale anthology was produced. That being said, these stories just did not do it for me. They lacked a strong theme (hinted at but executed poorly), the satisfaction of the elements which make fairy tales feel complete/resolved, and/or the witticism to keep things truly entertaining.
It's all about woman hood, from the desire to change yourself for a man, the desperate act of a mother, and true love. The recap doesn't do anything for the movie
The king in the first one was the best and the ONLY one who was a good husband. But the queen was just not it. He literally gave up his life to make HER happy and she just fucking walks away like it was nothing.
@@logout7491 stop with the "sorry for my broken english" because only the nazi kids on the internet will point that out in the comment section to make them feel better about themselves and should you care about them? NO. Nobody cares about your broken english cause any decent human being will respect that English is not your native language. Except the kids
I THINK women make more sacrifices for men and they never appreciate it, they are the reason women do stupid things because they don’t want to be a disappointment. She was probably tired of men anyways 🤣. She should have protected him thou, for good men are RARE. Society 🥲.
@susan ivy Okay why are you salting at this. Like if they didn't say please, would you have come in and asked them to say thank you? you weren't even the person providing the movie title?
@@krystalrainehudlin8673 Jonah's mother was never a threat to the queen. The queen never made any attempts or threats on her. Jonah was her only main concern
I saw this movie a couple times. In Violet's story, I had hoped the younger son survived the ogre attack and she married him when she was queen. Unfortunately, he and his entire family got killed by the ogre.
This film disturbed me on so many levels. Like the real fairy tales though, I just didn't expect to be so bothered. The father and daughter plot in particular reminded me of my own father so I think the tale hit hard.
One of my theories is that the sea monster was once someone who struck a deal with the necromancer. Seeing how he transformed the queen into a worldly similar monster.
I stated this. It's really odd how someone can watch some poor girl cry her heart out, attempt to take her life, be forced into a relationship she doesn't want; only to choose to empathise with the abuser. Like...what?! If you repeatedly told someone you didn't want to be with them, and they forced you, not exactly a good kind soul. Society really does look lowly upon women.
Well they were written by an earlier author than the Grimms, Giambattista Basile. The actual father of Rapunzel and Cinderella. The thing about Fairy Tales is that more often than not, the authors we attribute the works to are just "covering artists". Good ones, to be fair, the Grimms were great, Perrault as well. But those stories are rooted in earlier works or even way older folk tales.
@@k.v.7681 Actually the old stories are not written by someone, they are oral traditions, transmitted from mouth to mouth. Grimms and Perrault are not actual writers-inventors of the stories, they are collectors of stories that eventually wrote them down. Very wise of them :) we should be thankful.
Same, people are calling her dumb but they don’t realize how desperate she was to look young like her sister. Desperation can sometimes lead a person into doing some really foolish things.
I feel for the girl in the last one man, why do some parents want bad things for their kid she wanted to marry a prince and the dad was like "ha ha yeah no" like wtf they easily could've gotten other kingdoms and had her go on dates or something
But a prince could have been ogre too. Only this one would wield a handsome smile and charming eyes only to find while being strangled to death on her birthing chambers that he only married her for the throne and after birthing him a son she has outlived her usefulness. Young, desperate for affection, she wouldn't know how she died. It's easy to be on guard against "ugly" and we don't really try to figure it out because "it's ugly, what else to it is there". But in the face of beauty? Oh how we let our guards down, oh how quickly it kills us. She reminds me a lot of Sansa Stark at the beginning when she was still enamored with Joffrey.
I hate how the second story is about a tale of women’s vanity yet in the story the King’s lust and his own vanity isn’t punished whatsoever. I know these are fables from centuries ago, but still…
What was failed to be told in the narrative that was real juicy was that Dora drank from the witches tit which made her young! For a long time I thought the witch was just some old man and missed the part where Dora was breast fed by the witch! The Ogre did love Violet I'm sure but let's not forget he did forcefully have sex with her!! He made her work and help him with the hides he hunted..He slept with his arm over her holding her down! The wicked queen got her just desserts in the end when stabbed by her own son!
Thank you for adding the missed part! I think the parts where is missing is very important part, I have seen other video about the third scenario one and the ogre treated Violet bad so im quite confused about this one
I don’t really see yielding to gaslighting or abuse as “amazing.” The king didn’t care enough about his life to say no, and the queen didn’t care enough about his life to stop him from risking it.
They are. In the end, the kings mentioned in the first and second movies attended the banquet held by the queen (Violet) in the third movie as a commemoration to her coronation and she invited circus performers to perform as a tribute to the family that saved her (because the family that saved her are all circus performers).
@samantha ssmith true, but in bridgerton's defense, it's an American made show. It's not that deep i guess. Whats it have to do with white hair though?
This movie is based on a book by Giambattista Basile, he made a great contribution to fairy tales by collecting stories from people, kind of what the Grimm brothers did. Giambattista gave us some of the primal version of these stories.
This fim is a collection of stories and fairy tales written by the Neapolitan author Giambattista Basile of the 17th century, in the middle of the Baroque period. I would not draw conclusions or comparisons with authors and works later in time with the possible creative inspirations of the director, obviously being prior to the short stories, to the references that many go here in the posts, taking as an example. If anything, I would be more amazed at how the director Mattore Garrone has succeeded with this work which is a compendium of masculine obscenities towards the woman and her figure, has managed to anticipate a few years and be more analytical and attentive with respect to the movement - sometimes hysterical - of the metoo, narrating and denouncing better with fairy tales than with news stories or releasing interviews. Ps: this film must be viewed carefully, there is some subtext and interpretation - as well as the typical poetic of the author - that many of you might miss, as locations and scenographies, often of existing and in some ways evocative places. for the historical appeal and functions that these have had over time. The castle that can be seen in the final scene: Castel del Monte of Frederick II of Swabia, is not a simple castle, it must be understood in its particular and atypical form even for the late Middle Ages. Its octagonal plan, and the many octagonal towers that rise from the corner of the central body, makes the castle look like a mathematical fractal, a mechanical wheel in the middle of the countryside ... there is magic in that structure and a desire for knowledge. It probably also covered the function of an astronomical observatory.
@@LinhNguyen-vw2lm Hello, the director is an author who likes to elaborate and interpret the potential psychic discomfort, which develops in urban social environments, in particular sub-urban constraints, which unexpectedly exacerbates the daily routine, often with tragedy and drama. Men and women who clash with the reality of their experience and the will to fulfill and pursue their desires - whether they are good or unhealthy - far from being able to concretely realize them. The director is inspired for this by known facts of crime, as many titles of his films suggest, such as: "First Love", "the embalmer", "Gomorra", "Dogman" etc. etc. If you think about it, the storytelling does not deviate from this obscure vein, and from the subtle restlessness that one feels in identifying, even if only partially, in some characteristics of the characters or in their discomfort. His films always have a retro-bitter taste and never complete resolution of the story, almost never quenching the viewer's desire for satisfaction.
Fairy tales, especially those you see in Western countries - I like Japanese ones too - are usually familiar with Christian angiography as they develop and form. Not only other than - modern fables - the sum of tales of popular oral tradition, of proto-religious myths, which, according to the cultural context in which they arrive, take up another local form and connotation, while not losing the basic evocative archetypal structure. For example, the stories in this film, which take up that of the baroque writer Giambattista Basile, do nothing but combine in a midlepoint, the folk tale with that of the Italian commedia dell'arte, even in a sophisticated cultural context ... don't forget that southern Italy at the time was dominated by the Spaniards, indirectly influencing their taste for the "picarescò" literary genre. Then we leave out all the philosophical-scientific influence of the time and of the diffusion of the practice of alchemy - the Castel del Monte that you see in the film is a strong symbolic reference still today Masonic - but the genres add up without the right of authorship, and some man of letters takes inspiration from this by re-adapting the folk tale to the taste or genre he prefers to evoke. The Brothers Grimm do not invent the concept of their stories or characters from the former, since there are different versions of those fairy tales in many countries of Europe, especially the Nordic ones, but they reappropriate them, to evoke a certain spirit, a taste. contingent on his own ... probably romantic gothic, giving them a new anthology, a new literary guise and a new ethical interpretation of the facts. Don't forget that they are almost contemporaries of Mary Shelley and Bram Stoker :). Have a good evening
@@yvettemarshallTWN CORRECT!!! Sometimes, the most profound concepts, spontaneously appearing, simultaneously, across the Globe, are just Ideas, Who's Times Have Come.....
@@yvettemarshallTWN Little buzzed last night. Let me clarify: The Universal Consciousness is a wellspring of creativity, An ocean of learned knowledge and understanding, available for All of Creation to draw upon. It's just that SOME conscious beings have their faucets turned on a little wider than other's. Many times, over the course of History, multiple independent individuals working in relative solitude, from opposite sides of the globe have conceived of and pursued the same novel concept, never before pondered upon this Earth; and the world has not been the same, since. THAT is an Idea whose Time has Come.
All those stories. They are so, so old, in my folklore they used to talk about them all the time. Never knew they were made into "movies" I used to listen to them as a child. Took me a second to relise though, great vid. Thank you.
The story is depicted centuries ago. 60 yo was indeed a very old age at the time, and simple people were wrinkled, marked and they lost their teeth early. They were working in harsh conditions and didn't have modern medicine and work laws. No retirement, no days off, no holidays. Being 60 yo at the time, has nothing to do with being 60 yo nowadays. Prehistorical people were elders at 40 yo. It depends on the circumstances and era
6:18 Omg, is the king played by Vincent Cassel ?! As a french native I just love Vincent, he's such a talented actor and he always manages to play wicked or unlikable characters masterfully, with this little plus that makes you like him anyway 😁
I get it must have been devastating for her to be barren. But think about how much pressure that king would have been under to find a new wife but still he chose to stay and try and make her happy knowing that he alone would never be enough :(💔
when we were young my grandma would sit my cousins and I down and would literally tell us the exact same story as the last tale! you wouldn't imagine our faces when we watched the movie and realized it was our same childhood's story lol
They are actually based on neapolitan tales from the 17th century. But neapolitan culture had long exchanges with Spain for centuries, so tales were exchanged as well! :-)
Ma’am that’s not a good mentality. You are still beautiful weather you age are not. Being young and mistaking your sons as your boyfriends is not a blessings . Aging well and being happy is a blessing.
Honestly wish i hadnt seen the recap in its entirety. All the stories are incredibly interesting and i wish to have watched the movie instead. However it was difficult to stop watching the video when it was so well done!
This is one of those movies you just wish was "better". You enjoy it but always wish it was just a bit better. Like a dish that tastes good but is "missing something ". I love salma Hayak and the dude from the Hunger games
WHy is nobody talking about how amazing that king of the queen was? He went through so much to make her happy.
So true dude, like that was my first thought when that happened, because of her happiness and when he died she just Walt away with the baby 😆 with no sympathy or sadness or maybe the recap didn't specify on that point 🤔
if i have man like this idc for a baby
The older woman had one fun night with the snack of a king and then he threw her out of a window. Yeah, he went through a lot but Dora said it was good while it lasted. 🤣😂
Yeah
@@haneennusayr6636
Here i am :)
It's nice seeing that the king is such a dedicated and loving husband. He even gave his life, just in attempt to grant his precious wife the one happiness she couldn't have.
What's the name of the movie?
@@midi6615 Tale of Tales
What a simp
What a simp
So damn unfair
Holy smokes!!! The woman that pulls back her wrinkles is based on a story from centuries ago called “The Skinned Woman” it’s an amazing and gruesome read if y’all are interested in that
Do you have any links to this? I can’t seem to find it
@@GloGod must be only a physical copy, scrolls I presume. That’s why you can’t google it 🤔
@@sideswipe248 🤣 bruh I ain't ever seen sarcasm delivered quite this well over the internet
I do remember that story.
@@GloGod try searching 'the flayed old lady'
“Attempts to terminate herself”
“However the king calms her down by telling her there’s nothing he can do”
Bruh he was selfish asf
lol same thought.
Left me with so much to think about😂😂😂
Because the king had never loved his daughter.
💀💀💀 that shii had me dying
I felt sad for old lady who died believing her sister, but we can say she was blind by her desires.
I personally believe the lady believing her sister, and dying, caused her sister to return to being old again. The spell that made her young, was broken since her cruelty allowed her own sister to die.
@@theoneeyedartist3253 yesss
It’s sad :(
@@theoneeyedartist3253 perfect logic !
@@theoneeyedartist3253 Maybe but he said she was sarcastic. Which means she wouldn't have expected her to try it.
The sea monster was cute though. & he wasn’t bothering anyone, just napping. Poor thing.
True i feel mostly bad for tht creature
Why u did that now am depressed and sad abt that poor fellow
@@mexiad76 I like to imagine his soul lived on in the two boys. They were basically the creatures children. So it died, but it was able to have children in death,one of which became a king,
The bear is cuter
@@theoneeyedartist3253 🥺
A movie that contains three stories...now that's something you don't see everyday
Definitely a must watch
What’s it called ?
@@breannaminnier9518 Tale of Tales
Ballad of Buster Scuggs is worth a watch
I wish it was a tv show
It's called an anthology.
'The flayed old woman'
There once were two sisters, close in age, who had been birthed and loved and became stooped and wise and were now old women together. They lived in a house in a courtyard surrounded by a tall stone wall, meant to keep out most children and all men, though starlings made their nests in the boughs of the elms.
One day, the king-an old man himself-was walking by the wall when he heard the lilting voices of the sisters, who had become accomplished singers over their long years. He listened for a while, his eyes narrowed with contentment, and then ambled his way to a small gap in the mortar.
“What sweet creatures sing behind these walls?” he asked. Both sisters scrambled for the gap, but the first sister-a little taller, with slightly longer legs-got there first.
“We have always been here, your highness,” she said, her voice gravelly at its edge.
“Show me,” the king said.
So the first sister slipped her finger into the gap. She felt the king’s breath puff on her skin, and then his lips enveloped it.
The thrill she felt! Out of sight, the king’s mouth was wet and tight-like probing her own sex-and she felt a kick of desire as he suckled her fingertip as if it were a nipple. At the edge of the pull and draw was a nip of teeth, and she moaned. Excited by this, the king bit down and drew blood, which excited him further. It was all he could do to not loose himself from his clothes.
“My young maiden,” he said. “My blushing, tender girl. Come to my bedchamber tonight. I wish to be your first, to barricade past your maidenhead.”
The sisters laughed silently behind their hands, for they had rid themselves of their maidenheads long ago. But then the first sister said, sweetly, “My king, you may have any part of me you wish. I will be there tonight.”
And then the king was gone. The first sister withdrew her finger and examined the bite marks at their tip. Before she departed, she had the second sister gather up her extra skin and pin it tightly behind her back, so that she might appear young as the king believed her to be.
• • • •
That night, the first sister arrived at the castle beneath a cloak, and was whisked upstairs by staff as silent as dolls. From outside his bedchamber door, she said, “My love, I am afraid of fire. Please put out your candles before I enter.”
From within, she heard the hiss of a snuffed flame. The door opened.
In the silt of the shadows they made love. Afterwards, as she glowed with sensation, the first sister wished him to see her as she really was. She wanted his pleasure to come from her stomach and thighs and breasts, not those of some imaginary creature. And so in the darkness, she stood, and unpinned her skin. She struck a match and laid it to the candle’s wick.
The king, horrified by her shape, leapt from the bed. He shoved her toward the window, and then out of it. “Please, please,” she begged as he pried her fingertips from the ledge. He did not even stay to watch her fall.
The first sister plummeted down, and down, but just before she struck the ground, she became tangled in the branches of a tree. Its thorns hooked into the soft folds of her body. She screamed and cried and hung there like a tanning hide.
It was then that a group of fairies passed by. They laughed at the old woman in the tree, bare and slick and weeping. Her humiliation was intoxicating to them as wine.
Fairies are very indulgent, self-satisfied creatures, and their meddling knows no ends. And so one of them waved his finger and the first sister dropped to the earth. She lay on the cool soil, afraid to move. The fairies walked off, and she heard their voices long after they’d disappeared into the night. Her tears dried and left streaks of salt behind.
When the first sister finally stood up, she felt strange-no longer sore, and supple as a reed. She ran her hands over her body, apple-firm and smooth. Her flesh was young again.
• • • •
The second sister waited for the first sister to return. They had shared lovers throughout their long lives, and as soon as they were together again, the second sister knew that she would learn the secrets of the king’s pleasure, and take her own in turn.
But when the night thinned into dawn, and then day, and the first sister did not return, the second sister left their home to find her. She walked along the wall and through the door and out into the bright world. All she found near the castle was a beautiful young maiden, sitting naked beneath a tree.
“Excuse me,” said the second sister, “I don’t mean to trouble you, but have you seen-” It was then that she recognized her sister’s eyes, hazel as her own.
The first sister looked at the second sister with horror. Had her own skin hung in such a way? Had she been so shriveled, so loose, so ancient? She could barely remember.
“What’s happened to you?” the second sister asked.
“This is the skin that was beneath,” the first sister said. She closed her eyes and shook her head, as if disagreeing with herself. She tried to explain again. “This is my true skin.”
The second sister reached out and touched the first sister’s jaw. It was downy and soft as a newborn fawn. They had not had skin like that since they were young women together. “You’re gone,” she said. “Sister, you’ve left me behind.”
The first sister pulled her face away. “I’m sorry,” she said. She stood and walked back toward the castle, to find the king.
The second sister walked to town and located a barber. “Take my skin,” she said. She handed him a coin.
“Take it off?” he said.
She handed him a second coin.
He shrugged. He dragged his razor up and down a leather strap, and then held it up for inspection. The blade-edge caught the morning light.
It was like the sweet, briny bite of sugar against an open nerve; then, like being dropped into the sun.
• • • •
The second sister continued to live even after the barber hung her skin from his window, and then sold it to a bookbinder. But with no flesh to contain her body, the wet meat of her muscle and the roping of her tendons were on full display. Bits of dust and soil clung to her damp organs.
She often woke to the sensation of mice scrabbling beneath her breastbone, of skittering cockroaches rounding her eye. On the rare occasion when she ventured beyond the wall, mothers would bend down to their children and point at her. “See?” they would say. “This is what happens when you worry about your looks. Such is the price of vanity.” She spent the remainder of her life wiping crumbs from her joints and crevices, tears draining through her body like raindrops sliding down a windowpane.
As for the first sister, there are many stories about how she ended up trawling the earth for her old skin. In the first, the king died, and when she went to find her sister, she discovered a dead, shucked corpse in a chair by their old fireplace, and she clutched the body and wept and wept. In another, the king tired of her, and their old home was vacant and lined with dust, and soon she found herself wandering the land alone.
No matter the story, one thing is the same: She missed her old skin. She felt vulnerable without its age and warmth, like a fox pelt silver with time, and its power of concealment. This taut, ageless woman, her skin gleaming like dew clinging to stem and petal, with a mouth like a pitted cherry, was never left alone. Wherever she went, men followed with their hands and cocks and voices, their hungers and wants and desires. They trampled and pursued.
She hunted down the fairies. She demanded they return her skin to her, and when they laughed and refused, she pulled their heads from their bodies like dandelions. In this way, she walked and searched until the end of her days. Her grief never abated, and when she died and should have become part of the soil, she remained unchanged and immutable as wax.
She is there still, if you know where to look.
Wtf is this lmao
@@keannix The actual story about the old women
Oh okay I get it now
Woah man!! 🔥 That's nice
What’s the name of the original story?
If anyones wondering the movie is about womanhood specifically said by the director as "plastic surgery; the frenzied desire to have a child; the conflict between generations; the painful passage from adolescence to adulthood". You should watch the movie because this recap is extremely brief and doesnt cover many of the actual details especially the last woman.
dang, 3 stories in 1 and all of it is well executed?
What is the movie called??
Don't read my name please.
Your 3 line summary has convinced me I need to watch this movie. I'm guessing, based on the summary of the older sisters story, it will also touch on ageing for women, and how they are forgotten and punished by society. The skinning could also be an illusion to menopause.
@@dontreadtheprofilephoto..5546 shut up
It wasn't mentioned that Violet always welcome circus performers to the castle as a reminder and tribute to the family that saved her.
Thats a good point.
@@milesa508I am talking about the end of this movie. This is a three-part story (with different point-of-view of each kingdom, since there are three rulers involved here: the king with wild reputation for debauchery, the prince born from eating a monster's heart who later became king, and the life of a princess as a price for her father's selfishness who also later became queen) movie, which are all connected.
The Violet I mentioned in my comment is the princess who was made as prize to her father's selfishness.
@@AleckeiaJeannese1041 but what is the movie called is it so hard to answer such a simple q? 🙄
@@katsukibakugou7100 Bruh watch the damn video, the title is literally on it. READ
@@katsukibakugou7100 really?? 🙄 Did you watch the recap carefully or did you just skip? It was written in the first seconds of the recap. It's Tale of Tales.
Did she just pretend like she didn't see her husband's lifeless body on the floor 🙂
Most likely didn't care.
One life for another.
@@snicholson8884 but the Dragon was already dead!
@@saradellapiana628 i didnt watch it, but maybe the sea creature was just part of the magic as an ingridient and the sacrifice was the king, or maybe the fact that he and the creature died was the reason why two kids were born, idk
In which part???
The last story is actually familiar to me, it is similar to an old traditional story with spanish and portuguese roots. It's folklore, and as so it has multiple variations, but the one I read was very different (and sweeter)
The insect was raised by the princess herself, the king just had it killed and made into leather. The competition was the same, but it was a young boy who got it right, because he helped a kind of god, and had magical favors. The king didn't want to give the daughters hand because the boy was poor, and he made him go through three other trials of sorts.
In the end the king accepts his defeat, and ultimately gives the decision to the daughter, if she wants to marry the boy. She says yes and they do.
Way better than the movie version!
can you please tell me the title? i would like to read it !!!
@@janine8676 sure thing! It's "lice leather", or "couro de piolho" in the original language ^^
@@illuxtre oh i see, thank you! one more thing, is it available online and has official english translations?
What is the name of this movie?
Violet deserve so much better than being the queen, His dad should’ve done something even better than an apology and coronation in the end. He could’ve saved her the moment she doesnt visit him
When he the narrator said himself that the father doesn't care about his daughter so why would he done anything to save her?
I found Violet shallow and the ogre caused her no harm, even after she betrayed him. She should blame her father for making a stupid challenge. He still came to her rescue at least in his perspective. He seemed to care for her even though she didn't care for him. The similar thoughtless attitude of like father.
@@itiswhatitis7474 it's heavily implied that the ogre raped her
hardly the father cares that much. all he cares is his own comfort and ego. who TF allows their child to marry an ogre just for a stupid guess game
same pfp 🤝🤝
The family that helped Violet was so kind and brave.
And six feet below
Movie name pls
@@SachinRao630 the tale of tales
And they were way better than Violent's father. They only knew her for a day and weren't rich, yet helped her and cared for her. Violent's father was the king, had knighs and soldiers and wealth, and yet decided to play his stupid guess-the-animal game and was a unable to protect his daughter. I mean, Violet kills the ogre with a knife, sure the ogre was a great warrior but I don't think he was a match for a group of well prepared soldiers.
I love how she didn't care a bit about her husband death. He cared for her, but when he loved her, she was unhappy. When he died actually for her - she was the happiest ever..
Tittle pls
Psych
Female fantasy for a good looking partner?
It's so damn sad rlly
She could have adopted an orphan child from the kingdom instead of sacrificing both that sea creature's and her husband's lives.
She could have accepted the two boys' friendship seeing how much her son cared for Jonas, instead of letting her vanity and pride get in the way of her child's hapiness.
When her son left to come to Jonas' rescue, she could have sent gards to go after him and protect him, instead of making yet another deal with the necromancer and going after him herself.
Really, she was just such a selfish and difficult woman her sorrows were no one else's fault but hers. You could already tell what type of person she was when she threw a tamptrum after seeing the circus woman was pregnant.
Violet had only asked her father to find a tall and handsome husband for her, why did he have to make such a statement? And even if the ogre guessed right, he's the king! He let that creature just take her away. The other thing I felt sorry about Violet's story is the people who saved her, why did they all have to die, I thought she was going to marry one of those handsome young men ☹️😭
The story of Violet is kind of relatable to marriage in many Arab Muslim communities. Many Muslim girls are forced into arranged marriage and the groom has be admired and accepted by the parents first before the bride and marriage can be executed based on financial agreement or a deal between groom and bride's parents without her consent. Women are not allowed to date or even talk or sit with a guy alone even in public places since they have that stupid objectified sexually obsessed mindset that whenever a man or a woman sits together alone, satan is their third wheel (meaning that they will be sexually attracted to each other).
@@m.t768 How likely is it that you vilify Muslims against a Muslim? I don't know what the Arabs are doing right now, but there is no such thing as forced marriage in Islam. Two people look at each other, like it or not, and talk with the intention of getting married. No one can force anyone to marry. And forced marriage or marriage for money has existed all over the world and still exists in some places, the nobles, the royal families, rich people. Why did you feel the need to give examples from Muslims? Finally, is there so much rape and womens murder in your world because there is no mentality that when a man and a woman are alone, the third is the devil? Maybe you still haven't found a solution to these?...
@@m.t768i can sense the hatred and ignorance in your comment. Islam considers the woman’s acceptance of the man to marry important as if she rejects him the marriage can’t be right. And what makes you mad about Satan being with an alone man & woman? Go see the statistics of how many rape cases in your country (which mostly happen when the man and woman are alone)
@@m.t768nobody is forced to marry in Islam stop the lies
@@m.t768 You're so full of hate...
To everyone feeling sad for the ogre this recap fails to mention that the ogre r@ped violet multiple times and it was stated in the movie that he did this.
What movie is it??
@@rinraina3955 the name of the movie is Tale of Tales
Don't bother.... Even if they know she was rapèd, they try to justify his actions while spouting complete nonsense. Give it to the boys to feel sad over the r@pists and not the victim
Well to be honest i never felt bad for the ogre .
yikes.
These stories are based on the book "Tale of Tales", of Gianbattista Basile. He comes from my town, Giugliano, in the province of Naples. His book brought a very important contribution to the fairy tale literature: one of the stories is called "The Cat Cinderella", which will become the "Cinderella" we all know
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@@wendyladybug355laurie4 thank you
@@kavyakavya7135 I don't know where to watch it, but it is called tale of tales (2015), of the director Matteo Garrone
@@kavyakavya7135 they has it on Netflix but then was removed over period of times
Wow non lo sapevo, io sono di Pompei cmq
Man I love anthologies so much. They're often just simple strange stories that SHOULDN'T be made into full movies but are still packed so full of thought provoking.
This movie was seriously one of my favorites ever.
The style and whimsical darkness really captured the spirit of the classic fairytales for me.
What’s the name of this movie?
@@brittanyrodriguez2684 Tale of Tales (2016)
These are so dark.. I used to read these as children stories.. Tone was totally different
Where can I watch this at on Roku ?
I love the setup, the look, the cast, and the concept of this film. It's been a hot minute since a good fairy-tale anthology was produced. That being said, these stories just did not do it for me. They lacked a strong theme (hinted at but executed poorly), the satisfaction of the elements which make fairy tales feel complete/resolved, and/or the witticism to keep things truly entertaining.
Completely agree ^ I remember feeling a bit disappointed with end of all the fables
I was kind of hoping that the fables would all tie together somehow
What are they called
It's all about woman hood, from the desire to change yourself for a man, the desperate act of a mother, and true love. The recap doesn't do anything for the movie
Then watch the actual movies not the recaps
The king in the first one was the best and the ONLY one who was a good husband. But the queen was just not it. He literally gave up his life to make HER happy and she just fucking walks away like it was nothing.
Exactly 😫
I guess the queen just love what she want and not the one who try to get her wanted. Sorry for the broken english.
@@logout7491 stop with the "sorry for my broken english" because only the nazi kids on the internet will point that out in the comment section to make them feel better about themselves and should you care about them? NO. Nobody cares about your broken english cause any decent human being will respect that English is not your native language. Except the kids
I THINK women make more sacrifices for men and they never appreciate it, they are the reason women do stupid things because they don’t want to be a disappointment. She was probably tired of men anyways 🤣. She should have protected him thou, for good men are RARE. Society 🥲.
Regarding the twins, the queen didn't exile Jonah. She tried to murder him but failed. So Jonah leaves to protect himself.
title of the movie, please?
@@alwayskian6789 Tale Of Tales (2015)
@susan ivy Okay why are you salting at this. Like if they didn't say please, would you have come in and asked them to say thank you? you weren't even the person providing the movie title?
& his mother!
@@krystalrainehudlin8673 Jonah's mother was never a threat to the queen. The queen never made any attempts or threats on her. Jonah was her only main concern
The one with the doppelganger boys is beautiful
She pulled a Homer lmao
Lmfao
Lol
Don't read my name
@@dontreadtheprofilephoto..5546 okay I won't
Could you explain
I saw this movie a couple times. In Violet's story, I had hoped the younger son survived the ogre attack and she married him when she was queen. Unfortunately, he and his entire family got killed by the ogre.
What's the movie called?
Same. I really hoped he would survive. The only tale that didn't end in disappointment was the one with Jonah and Elias.
Whats the movie?
@@Yuyuxi486 Tale of Tales
@@liIuvic Tale of Tales
GRIMMS FAIRY TALES, was frightening enough for me as a child.
😂😂😂😂
Don't read my name please.
Ummm yes, much agreed.
Grim brothers they lived up to the name
As a kid I really thought that it Grimms was spelled as Grim and those were Grim Fairy tales 😅
This film disturbed me on so many levels. Like the real fairy tales though, I just didn't expect to be so bothered. The father and daughter plot in particular reminded me of my own father so I think the tale hit hard.
What is the name of the movie ?
@@Saira607Tale Of Tales
The king killed a giant axolotl. Just so his queen can get pregnant
🙄🙄🙄
🤣
Dude could just summon me rather than killing an innocent creature-🤔
One of my theories is that the sea monster was once someone who struck a deal with the necromancer. Seeing how he transformed the queen into a worldly similar monster.
@@bichen-up-ur yikes, that is a rather creepy theory.
Queen needed patience to wait on her son. Peel off skin!! 😂😂 The king is wicked
Don't read my name please
@@dontreadtheprofilephoto..5546 deez nuts
@@ironspidy6997 😶😶
@@ironspidy6997 lmao
@@bai252 make deez nuts joke any video anywhere
The people in the comment section who think the ogre is a good soul and didn't deserve to die piss me off
He was so cute
Exactly how can someone reach to such stupid analysis
I stated this. It's really odd how someone can watch some poor girl cry her heart out, attempt to take her life, be forced into a relationship she doesn't want; only to choose to empathise with the abuser. Like...what?! If you repeatedly told someone you didn't want to be with them, and they forced you, not exactly a good kind soul. Society really does look lowly upon women.
@@sweetcheeks5775 no, he wasn't
@@reginaphalange8428 Ikr
😂😂😂Yo she asked the guy to peel off her old skin … my guy says Ok! 😂😂😂😂 hilarious
I guess she has not heard of stem cell treatments yet for making her skin look younger which is why she's using super glue instead🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
All these stories honestly feel like it could've been written by the Brothers Grimm and I *LOVE* IT!!!
Well they were written by an earlier author than the Grimms, Giambattista Basile. The actual father of Rapunzel and Cinderella. The thing about Fairy Tales is that more often than not, the authors we attribute the works to are just "covering artists". Good ones, to be fair, the Grimms were great, Perrault as well. But those stories are rooted in earlier works or even way older folk tales.
@Nicholas Boyko u down bad, bro?
@@k.v.7681 Actually the old stories are not written by someone, they are oral traditions, transmitted from mouth to mouth. Grimms and Perrault are not actual writers-inventors of the stories, they are collectors of stories that eventually wrote them down. Very wise of them :) we should be thankful.
@@chrichri8851 Hence why I mentionned folk tales...
do you know whats the name of the movie that in the video??
omg the poor sister from the 2nd movie died because her sister lied about getting her skin peeled off i feel bad for her
I'm creeped outt
She didn't lie, but Imma interpreted her words literally. (Horrible, Horrible) :(
Imagine actually beliving that getting ur whole skin totally peeled off can make u look younger lol
I don’t feel bad at all, how can u be convinced to skin yourself alive
Same, people are calling her dumb but they don’t realize how desperate she was to look young like her sister. Desperation can sometimes lead a person into doing some really foolish things.
I feel for the girl in the last one man, why do some parents want bad things for their kid
she wanted to marry a prince and the dad was like "ha ha yeah no" like wtf
they easily could've gotten other kingdoms and had her go on dates or something
Well it was stated the king didn't care about violet or loved her, so him being a terrible father makes sense
And the fact that the ogre treated her in the worst ways
But a prince could have been ogre too. Only this one would wield a handsome smile and charming eyes only to find while being strangled to death on her birthing chambers that he only married her for the throne and after birthing him a son she has outlived her usefulness.
Young, desperate for affection, she wouldn't know how she died. It's easy to be on guard against "ugly" and we don't really try to figure it out because "it's ugly, what else to it is there". But in the face of beauty? Oh how we let our guards down, oh how quickly it kills us. She reminds me a lot of Sansa Stark at the beginning when she was still enamored with Joffrey.
I hate how the second story is about a tale of women’s vanity yet in the story the King’s lust and his own vanity isn’t punished whatsoever. I know these are fables from centuries ago, but still…
What was failed to be told in the narrative that was real juicy was that Dora drank from the witches tit which made her young! For a long time I thought the witch was just some old man and missed the part where Dora was breast fed by the witch! The Ogre did love Violet I'm sure but let's not forget he did forcefully have sex with her!! He made her work and help him with the hides he hunted..He slept with his arm over her holding her down! The wicked queen got her just desserts in the end when stabbed by her own son!
Thank you for adding the missed part! I think the parts where is missing is very important part, I have seen other video about the third scenario one and the ogre treated Violet bad so im quite confused about this one
@@fernanda8729
@@allensandramaddela2489 hm?
Name
Of movie
@@darvindejesus4744 0:06
I wouldn't mind looking young again too, but there is never a witch around that can do that when you need it.
😅😅
love these tales, feel and sound medieval
Don't read my name please
@@dontreadtheprofilephoto..5546 okay, I won't
@@colouratura26 thank you
That’s because they come from the oldest european Fairy Tale Collection, "Lo Cunto de li Cunti", written by Basile in Naples in 1634
Can't remember when I watched this but the stories will stick with me for a life time. It was so well done !
11:24 i feel bad for the family who lost their lives simply for helping her😕
The king's efforts to make his queen happy is amazing
I don’t really see yielding to gaslighting or abuse as “amazing.” The king didn’t care enough about his life to say no, and the queen didn’t care enough about his life to stop him from risking it.
It would be so cool if the stories all tied together somehow in the very end
They are. In the end, the kings mentioned in the first and second movies attended the banquet held by the queen (Violet) in the third movie as a commemoration to her coronation and she invited circus performers to perform as a tribute to the family that saved her (because the family that saved her are all circus performers).
this is why you gotta ask for the fine print every time u make a deal with someone only wearing a black robe
Now this is a tale i would watch
Don't read my name please
@@dontreadtheprofilephoto..5546 ok bye
i remember watching this when i was a small child, maybe six or seven, and being super fascinated by how light the boys hair was.
I'm albino and have white white hair. People always ask me if it's real
@@Totalchaos0228 You’re a Targaryen just like every Albino.
@samantha ssmith what? It's a European movie, why would there be black people
@samantha ssmith true, but in bridgerton's defense, it's an American made show. It's not that deep i guess. Whats it have to do with white hair though?
@@pillsburydoughboy1627 wtf is this comment black people exist in Europe 💀
Dobby straight up became a necromancer
11:58 they had a hulahhooping bear and they didn't make the whole movie about that?
The circus artists were the true highlight of this movie! 🤣
I saw this, I liked the darker more gritty nature of the stories.
What is the name
@@eduardozavala1555 , Tale Of Tales, is 3 short stories set in a Brothers Grim type setting of Fantasy.
This movie is based on a book by Giambattista Basile, he made a great contribution to fairy tales by collecting stories from people, kind of what the Grimm brothers did.
Giambattista gave us some of the primal version of these stories.
Thank you.
That’s pretty cool
"The maid and the queen give birth to their children at the same time. The boys look to be the same age"
Logic 100
the first story reminds me so much of merlin
“To make a life, one must take a life.”
Also he was born by magic, like King Arthur
King Arthur have magic? I thought it was Merlin.
@@donnadee3254 he was born by magic but doesn’t have magic
@@monisel4075 I understand now. Thank you 😊
How come I NEVER Heard of this Crazy $#!+??🙃 And it had Salma Hayek & John C. Reilly in it!😯 Both Biggish Actors??🤔
WTW!!!🤣🤣🤣
Yeah, I have NEVER heard of this movie. 😵💫
This fim is a collection of stories and fairy tales written by the Neapolitan author Giambattista Basile of the 17th century, in the middle of the Baroque period. I would not draw conclusions or comparisons with authors and works later in time with the possible creative inspirations of the director, obviously being prior to the short stories, to the references that many go here in the posts, taking as an example.
If anything, I would be more amazed at how the director Mattore Garrone has succeeded with this work which is a compendium of masculine obscenities towards the woman and her figure, has managed to anticipate a few years and be more analytical and attentive with respect to the movement - sometimes hysterical - of the metoo, narrating and denouncing better with fairy tales than with news stories or releasing interviews.
Ps: this film must be viewed carefully, there is some subtext and interpretation - as well as the typical poetic of the author - that many of you might miss, as locations and scenographies, often of existing and in some ways evocative places. for the historical appeal and functions that these have had over time. The castle that can be seen in the final scene: Castel del Monte of Frederick II of Swabia, is not a simple castle, it must be understood in its particular and atypical form even for the late Middle Ages. Its octagonal plan, and the many octagonal towers that rise from the corner of the central body, makes the castle look like a mathematical fractal, a mechanical wheel in the middle of the countryside ... there is magic in that structure and a desire for knowledge. It probably also covered the function of an astronomical observatory.
@@LinhNguyen-vw2lm Hello, the director is an author who likes to elaborate and interpret the potential psychic discomfort, which develops in urban social environments, in particular sub-urban constraints, which unexpectedly exacerbates the daily routine, often with tragedy and drama. Men and women who clash with the reality of their experience and the will to fulfill and pursue their desires - whether they are good or unhealthy - far from being able to concretely realize them. The director is inspired for this by known facts of crime, as many titles of his films suggest, such as: "First Love", "the embalmer", "Gomorra", "Dogman" etc. etc. If you think about it, the storytelling does not deviate from this obscure vein, and from the subtle restlessness that one feels in identifying, even if only partially, in some characteristics of the characters or in their discomfort. His films always have a retro-bitter taste and never complete resolution of the story, almost never quenching the viewer's desire for satisfaction.
Fairy tales, especially those you see in Western countries - I like Japanese ones too - are usually familiar with Christian angiography as they develop and form. Not only other than - modern fables - the sum of tales of popular oral tradition, of proto-religious myths, which, according to the cultural context in which they arrive, take up another local form and connotation, while not losing the basic evocative archetypal structure. For example, the stories in this film, which take up that of the baroque writer Giambattista Basile, do nothing but combine in a midlepoint, the folk tale with that of the Italian commedia dell'arte, even in a sophisticated cultural context ... don't forget that southern Italy at the time was dominated by the Spaniards, indirectly influencing their taste for the "picarescò" literary genre. Then we leave out all the philosophical-scientific influence of the time and of the diffusion of the practice of alchemy - the Castel del Monte that you see in the film is a strong symbolic reference still today Masonic - but the genres add up without the right of authorship, and some man of letters takes inspiration from this by re-adapting the folk tale to the taste or genre he prefers to evoke. The Brothers Grimm do not invent the concept of their stories or characters from the former, since there are different versions of those fairy tales in many countries of Europe, especially the Nordic ones, but they reappropriate them, to evoke a certain spirit, a taste. contingent on his own ... probably romantic gothic, giving them a new anthology, a new literary guise and a new ethical interpretation of the facts. Don't forget that they are almost contemporaries of Mary Shelley and Bram Stoker :).
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@@samuelesam1 ALAS, the complex and convoluted Mystery we create to entertain ourselves, when there is no TV.
@@yvettemarshallTWN CORRECT!!! Sometimes, the most profound concepts, spontaneously appearing, simultaneously, across the Globe, are just Ideas, Who's Times Have Come.....
@@yvettemarshallTWN Little buzzed last night. Let me clarify: The Universal Consciousness is a wellspring of creativity, An ocean of learned knowledge and understanding, available for All of Creation to draw upon.
It's just that SOME conscious beings have their faucets turned on a little wider than other's.
Many times, over the course of History, multiple independent individuals working in relative solitude, from opposite sides of the globe have conceived of and pursued the same novel concept, never before pondered upon this Earth; and the world has not been the same, since.
THAT is an Idea whose Time has Come.
Oh sht I remember watching this high asf one night years ago. Definitely must watch it again.
All those stories. They are so, so old, in my folklore they used to talk about them all the time. Never knew they were made into "movies" I used to listen to them as a child. Took me a second to relise though, great vid. Thank you.
Honestly in the third story, the girl should’ve ended up with the young tightrope walker guy, he risked his life to save her from the huge guy😤
Thanks, now I know Mark Zucc's origin story! Much appreciated! 👍👍
I LOVE Violet's story! This is how you write a strong female character.
NOBODY AT 60YRS. OLD HAS THAT
MANY BODILY WRINKLES!!! 🤣🤣🤣
The story is depicted centuries ago. 60 yo was indeed a very old age at the time, and simple people were wrinkled, marked and they lost their teeth early. They were working in harsh conditions and didn't have modern medicine and work laws. No retirement, no days off, no holidays. Being 60 yo at the time, has nothing to do with being 60 yo nowadays. Prehistorical people were elders at 40 yo. It depends on the circumstances and era
@@veruschkadahmer1805 Okay...
You've Made it Easy to Understand. 👍
@@veruschkadahmer1805 people living in traditional cultures now still dont have that many wrinkles at 60.
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Omg, is the king played by Vincent Cassel ?! As a french native I just love Vincent, he's such a talented actor and he always manages to play wicked or unlikable characters masterfully, with this little plus that makes you like him anyway 😁
The King of Highhills really is a lovable bastard here as well!
He is!
I get it must have been devastating for her to be barren. But think about how much pressure that king would have been under to find a new wife but still he chose to stay and try and make her happy knowing that he alone would never be enough :(💔
I'm sure the king's grave says: "History might not remember him as the best king, but he sure af has been the best husband"
I loved all the stories but the 3rd story is sad because the dad gave her to a man she didn't like nor love.
But she became a bad ass queen
A man?
@@Kate_Ntombela Evil Shrek
Came across this gem 💎 of a film by accident years ago. DEFINITELY worth a watch, love how they've got 3 stories on the go at once so clever 🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟
What is the name of this movie
@@ritudubey9745 Tale of Tales (2016)
5:59 They missed their chance at naming the other woman "Explora"😂
This is the film 'A Tale of Tales'...its absolutely beautiful, brilliant and amazing...had some beautiful music in it too..a must see..Jxx 😎⛱🌝🌞☀️💕
when we were young my grandma would sit my cousins and I down and would literally tell us the exact same story as the last tale! you wouldn't imagine our faces when we watched the movie and realized it was our same childhood's story lol
Necromancer: look for a sea monster
King: goes to a river
I love the medieval spain set up and costumes 👏
Watched this years ago, and still fascinating to this day. Love these type of fairy tales.
“The boys look to be the same age” No crap, you just said they were born at the same time.
"She's climbs to the roof to attempt to terminate herself" I love these audio bots lol
it’s because saying the actual term will get him in trouble with the platform
We need more films like this. It effortlessly seamed the stories together.
The necromancer tho..
*"MASTER 🧀 HAS 🤓 GIVEN 👄 DOBBY 🎶 A 🔊 SOCK. DOBBY 🙆 IS 🗣 FREE"* lookin ahh..
Albino twins? Cool. It’s the first time I have seen that in a movie! Kudos.
The boys apear to be the same age after being born at the same time???? I WONDER HOW THAT HAPPENED.
Eating the same demon heart to be convinced...
This is like the compilation of a fever dream
8:37 the fact that imma died believing Dora for peeling her skin that was just hella brutal
But she was too stupit 😅
Necromancy isn't one craft should ever go for fertility spells. 🤦♀️ It is similar to voodoo but voodoo don't socialised with raising the dead.
Necromancy is summoning dead people like pokemons right?
Don't read my name please
@@dontreadtheprofilephoto..5546 ok I won’t
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@@bai252 😶😶
The first and third one must be based on a Spanish tale! I remember it 😊
They are actually based on neapolitan tales from the 17th century. But neapolitan culture had long exchanges with Spain for centuries, so tales were exchanged as well! :-)
1st movie: Rumpelstiltskin
2nd: Flayed old Lady
3rd: The flea
Omg thank uu
@@ramnunthari8709 Those stories was from the Grimm's fairytale. I don't know the name of this actual movie though
@@carpediem6911 Tale of Tales
Omg Rumpel has a movie ??? 🤝😩
@@simonblanchet1022 yup full movie is available on RUclips
I thought this was a Madonna documentary.
The parasite thing is what's throwing Me off. Cuz that just like...didn't seem to come back in the story.
How much money would it take you to eat that whole thing? 2:40 I wouldn't do it for even 1 Million
FREE!🤑 I love Sea Monster Heart & Sweetbreads...delizioso!😋_🤣🤣🤣
Yh sure you wouldn't.
$300 we have a deal
AAAAAND
I'll do it topless......
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@@goose9756 Same... but not topless lol 😀
The fact that the king died for the queen
The king looks like the guy from captain America first avenger hydra
They're weird, but highly entertaining.
I am 65 years old and just beginning to to realize how blessed I am, you are really blessed when people think your son’s are your boyfriends!!!
Ma’am that’s not a good mentality. You are still beautiful weather you age are not.
Being young and mistaking your sons as your boyfriends is not a blessings . Aging well and being happy is a blessing.
Honestly wish i hadnt seen the recap in its entirety. All the stories are incredibly interesting and i wish to have watched the movie instead. However it was difficult to stop watching the video when it was so well done!
@honey b ohh sweet! Thanks for letting me know!
I like how the creator narrated the plot of those movies. It's just my thing
The flea is kinda cute.
Can we take a moment to appreciate how much time and effort he puts in the videos for us 😊.
For us😂
And gets money 🙄
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Actually watched it in a movie theatre when it came out. A journey of a lifetime :D totally wasn't expecting anything close to what we've had to see
The king looks like Gordon Ramsay 😂
people were fucking geniuses back then, this writing feels like being high but with depth🔥
And this, boys and girls, is why we just say no to drugs.
I saw these stories many years ago, it seems I missed the first one. I got to look it up again. Thanks for doing a recap on it.
If there’s one thing Salma Hayek is gonna do is be stressed or depressed in every role she plays 😩
She wasn't stressed in the hitman's bodyguard. She was just violate.
This is one of those movies you just wish was "better". You enjoy it but always wish it was just a bit better. Like a dish that tastes good but is "missing something ". I love salma Hayak and the dude from the Hunger games
Fun fact John C Reily and Salma Hayek were also lovers in Cirque Du Freak The Vampire Assistant.