Board Thread:Fanon Discussion/@comment-14800267-20140205232944/@comment-4598697-20140809143726

I admit, that would be a good idea.

Since more people prefer watching movies to reading books, it's kind of a natural thing that movie adaptations will displace books (such as many Disney movies displacing the original fairy tales). Just think about it...more people have probably watched the Lord of the Rings movies than read Tolkien's books. Adaptations often become more well-known than their sources. Disney wasn't even the first to make adaptations that displaced the originals.In 19th century England, the popularity of Bluebeard pantomimes eclipsed the popularity of Perrault's story. The pantomimes often depicted an Ottoman Turkish setting, while Perrault's story presumably takes place in France. This made illustrations of Bluebeard in a turban wielding a scimitar common for many years. The French, on the other hand, generally depicted Bluebeard as European. Granted, there are some French fairy tales in Arabian Nights-type settings, such as The Blue Parrot (which is why I drew Zenon Perroquet as looking somewhat Middle Eastern) and Starlight (a fairy tale attributed to Henriette-Julie de Murat), but Bluebeard isn't one of them. So Disney's drastic adaptations of fairy tales is nothing new.