Showing posts with label Godfather Death. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Godfather Death. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 21, 2015

SurLaLune's "Grateful Dead" Are Coming!

Awesome news from Heidi and SurLaLune this week! (So very excited, my fingers are tripping over themselves as I type!)

From the SurLaLune blog:
The Grateful Dead Tales From Around the World--the 10th SurLaLune Fairy Tale Series release!-- will be officially released on 5/4/15.  
...The book is 828 pages and stuffed full with Grateful Dead tales, discussions, and other miscellanea.
You can find more about the book HERE.

And the table of contents is HERE.

The links to Amazon don't work yet for pre-ordering but should soon.

And Heidi will be sharing on Grateful Dead folklore and tales in the lead-up!

And if you don't know this already because you're not a SurLaLune subscriber/regular, then I strongly recommend you go and check into everything SurLaLune has done because we would not be the same without her efforts and excellence.

I am buying this. I need it. I even have a gap on my bookshelf waiting for it. Why? Go check in with Heidi's upcoming posts about the tales and you'll see why this is a completely fascinating tale type.

Monday, March 24, 2014

"Evil Is Complicated" (Maleficent Update)

Fan made poster by Silviya Stoyanova Carrier
I found all these random little things regarding Maleficent this past week and decided I might as well just put them together in one post.

The first is a Twitter comment, not at all related to Maleficent but I thought illustrated the direction this movie has taken really well. They say when you write for an evil character the best way to make them genuine is for them to believe they are really the (unsung/misunderstood) hero.
Then there's the most recent trailer, released last Thursday, which dovetails well with this sentiment. It's titled "Evil Is Complicated":
The day immediately after, these gifs (that I still can't find the source for) surfaced:
I found an alternate set of gifs that show the context better, though they're not as pretty:
That cottage... definitely channeling the Disney the fairies hidden cottage, though Maleficent clearly didn't take sixteen years to find this one.

And yes, I'll keep hunting for actual footage, with sound, of this scene.. (though if you have better google-fu than I today and find it first, please do share the link with us all in the comments below!)

In an interesting turn of my brain, the baby smiling at Maleficent's words (whatever they happened to be), reminded me of Godfather Death and how the godson was never afraid of his unusual godparent, despite that he was the ultimate fear of most of the world.

It makes for an interesting set of questions, regarding how much the people who watched over you when you were small, ultimately ended up influencing you, especially as you didn't realize who - or what - they were. This is a theme you find quite a bit in fairy tales. The godchild either turns out to be truly special because of they way they see a situation (and act in it) OR they reveal a warped psyche no one could have predicted and turn out to be some kind of monster. More than that, their 'monster' is a truly scary one since they believe themselves to be the only one who sees things the way they really are and does "what needs to be done".
Fan made poster by Peter Gilbert
I have to say, we're being shown an awful lot of this movie. I do hope there are some real surprises left for us (and that they're GOOD surprises). How are you feeling about all the reveals?

Thursday, January 14, 2010

Fairy Tale News New Year's Bumper Edition: Blog posts and/or articles discussing/using fairy tales

Rapunzel by Steering for North
  • Which fairy tale will spawn a new princess next? Article from the LA Weekly which discusses four fairy tales not yet touched by Disney and how they would be 'Disneyfied' (i.e. what the Disney version might end up like) if they were chosen for a new 'princess film'. Article could have used a spell check (or just a read through) for mistakes but otherwise is interesting and quite amusing. Fairy tales discussed are: The Rose Elf (Andersen), Godfather Death (Grimm), The Red Shoes (Andersen). The Maiden Without Hands (Grimm).
Godfather Death by Lefler & Urban
  • Hidden Personality - Bluebeard. One of many excellent student guest posts at the Diamonds & Toads blog (the post was an assignment). I particularly love this one on Bluebeard. Well researched with interesting thinking, clear writing and a great read. Perfect companion to the Bluebeard photoshoot I've also pointed you toward today under General Headlines.