keep in mind that Joel Chandler Harris wrote in postbellum Georgia black dialect, and the movie’s rendition of this is actually quite mild
well
that is an understatement.
I checked it out from the university library to read to the kids.
Never mind reading it to them, I couldn’t wade through it
myself. It was just too much work to plod through a paragraphs or two.
Nonetheless, Br’er Rabbit remains one of my heroes . . .
In any event, I agree that there are a number of child actors who went off the deep end; there are also child actors who did not (Annette Funicello being one of them);
the history of Disney child actresses (and to a lesser extent, actors)
after Annette isn’t very good though . . . Annette is the last one can name off the cuff that didn’t “go bimbo”, but I suspect there are a couple that arrest’ popping to mind . . .
Oh, they
had the stance, but it applied to the movies themselves, not the behavior of the actors and studio folks when they thought they were out of the public eye . . .
My favorite princess is Cinderella. If you read the true story eek.
I checked out Grimm from the same university library.
Having learned from Snow White (in which I was fortunately reading three lines ahead and substituted for having red-hot iron shoes waiting on the forge, and forcing the witch/queen/sorcerous to wear and dance till she died . . .), I was alert the reading then Cinderella, and was ready for the step-sisters chopping off pieces of their feet to try to fit the slipper [mom says that you won’t need to walk when you’re queen, as you’ll be carried everywhere], as well as the birds sent by her deceased mother [no, no faeries, cinderella prayed at her mother’s grave, and she sent what Cinderella needed by the birds] pecking out her step-mother’s and step-sister’s eyes when they tried to attend the wedding , . ,. .
)
[on the bright side, I checked out a book on electricity from the same library for my five year old. It quickly became her favorite book, and was checked out repeatedly. And, in fact, it’s a real kick to see your five year old explain atomic structure to unsuspecting people! :crazy_face:
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