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> > Mousie, it gets worse. In the real story, she DIES. I think it was the Brothers Grimm. The Prince marries the girl he was told to marry, despite loving Ariel.
> > sam"and I refuse to talk about the last paragraph of the real story"hael
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> Nope, The Little Mermaid was written by Hans Christian Andersen. That's why there's a statue of her in the harbor of Copenhagen.

The Disneyfication I *really* take issue with is "The Hunchback of Notre Dame". It just boggled my mind when I heard Disney was making a kids' animated movie of it. What? Huh? How on earth? You have GOT to be joking! Even if you took out the deaths and the rape and the disillusionment and the evil and the morbidity and the cynicism, and changed all the characters and the storyline and the ending, you'd still have ... uh ... oh, right. That's what they did.

Brunnen-"but in that case, why not just change the title too?"G