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Came across this post via Neatorama–might be helpful for the “adaptation” part of your final. In it, the author lays out a few cool ideas for adaptation of Grimm’s Fairy Tales into movies. Note that he briefly summarizes the story, pulling the most important parts, then applies the tropes of a particular movie genre.

[PG-13 language at the link.]

“Do we shape stories, or do stories shape us? After going through much of my mammoth collection of Grimms Fairy Tales, I think it’s more often the latter.  Fairy Tales, in their original non-Disneyesque glory, are dark and disturbing morality tales that have as much relevance today as they did when the Grimm brothers first started collecting them.  Many of our ideas about horror, super heroes, science fiction, and even serial killers come from Fairy Tales.   Some of them are so insightful on how people behave, that it’s simply stunning; but Hollywood doesn’t seem to care much about those stories.  Either Disney gets to take them over and make them accessible for grade schoolers, or Hollywood gives them a cheesy redo that sucks all the juice out of the actual story.”

via Nerd Blerp – 7 of Grimms Fairy Tales That Would Make Great Movies.