Best Disney Princess?

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Yes, in the movie Pongo and Perdita.

Few people know this, but the 101 Dalmatians was actually a book first, and in the book Perdita was not the mother. Mr. and Mrs Dearly’s dogs were named Pongo and Missus; Perdita was a lost Dalmatian who had given birth and had her puppies stolen by Cruella DeVil and she helped nurse the large litter. Perdita had become lost looking for her mate Prince and the stolen puppies.

It all ends happily anyway, and it was probably easier for the movie to deal with ‘one’ canine couple and not two!
 
Yes, I read the book some years later after finding it in my school library. It was on about a middle schooler level. I did note that Perdita was not “Mrs. Pongo” in the book but understood that Disney usually simplified books it used, or left stuff out, “Bambi” being another one I’d encountered that had tons of stuff in it that didn’t make it into the movie.
 
Oh absolutely.

Movies always leave out things. My mom loves Gone With the Wind (the novel) but even though she loves Clark Gable, and enjoyed the costumes of the movie, she didn’t care for the movie as 'it left too much out". I’m the same way; if I’ve read the book, I really don’t care to see the movie. . .and about the only way I can get through the movie with any enjoyment is to pretend it’s all about an entirely different story.

It took me years to fine-tune this approach to where I can enjoy seeing Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings, which really IMO did a hatchet job on the actual story, even though in some cases it tightened things up or made some things a little clearer. Tolkien had a much less jaundiced view of humanity --would it have KILLED Jackson to allow Faramir to follow the story line from the start? Or not to tart up Eowyn and Arwen just to make them 20th century ‘women’? but I digress. . .

But pretending this was a cool story about a fantasy land and a quest and not paying attention to the characters’ names or to what the actual BOOK talked about helped quite a lot. In that land which was NOT the Middle Earth of Tolkien, Frodo could be a kid and not a 50 year old, Gimli could toss off 'never toss a dwarf", Aragorn could do a ‘what if’ with Eowyn, Faramir could be a deeply flawed man with a Daddy complex, etc. etc. In THAT world, with its magnificent scenery and all, it worked OK.

But for the most part, give me books and my own imagination.
 
Growing up my sister watched Sleeping Beauty everyday for a summer. I developed a crush on Maleficent 😈
 
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