I was just wondering what everyone else thought, if they ever thought about it.

I'm not too familiar with the books so I wouldn't really know. The classic movies are all amazing though.

Well some of the original stories, especially the fairytales were a little too dark for children. I like what they did with each story. For example in The little mermaid she doesn't get her man and i believe the ending is that she turns into sea foam if i remember correctly. Who would want to see that?

That is what happened in the Little Mermaid; it was a sad story. There are others though (like Beauty and the Beast) where it is still happy, but a slightly different story.

Its good stuff the way they do it

yes! especially cause the actual ones are really depressing.. disney turns them into fun and cute movies that everyone can enjoy

Some of the original stories are quite creepy, or yeah... depressing.

I never really read the books, but now that you mention it, it sounds like a good idea to me, to read them.

The original stories are creepy ;_;

^^i know, the movies are lighter and more fun =D

if they were more closley based we would have simba dead at the end of lion king

Most of the books would be rated PG-13 or worse so it's understandable.

Yeah I heard the real Hercules is really bad. I think he killed his wife or something

no, an evil king killed his wife and his kids, and i think disney is doing everything great

I love disney films anyway.

dragonrider hercules is killed by his wife and his mother wasn't hera, in fact hera wanted to kill him, yeah most of the stories are quite sad, or creepy, like the hunchback of notredame he dies, or the lion king is based in Hamlet (everyone dies and Hamlet was a little emo :P) the little mermaid turns into foam I could go on and on

tbh i havet even thought about it x i love disney films!

i really don't care

me ether...

i mean like,i've heard on Disney DVDs that the creators read the book and thought it was too scary/sad so they changed it:)but other than that,it rele dont care taht much,unless its a story i know and then i might be like,'oh,well Disney didnt portary it like that'lol.but mayb not.lol.

Umm... the Disney movies are all ready pretty dark, and if they followed the actaul stories MORE, well... yeah. I don't think we want to watch Ariel get her tongue get cut off, watch her face in pain because it feels like she stepping on daggars, and then not get the prince in the end, right?

Hmm Thats hard...Causes some of the books they have to change cause of tragity or age apprpriate stuff...They made alot of great and horrible changes to hunchback of notre dame...XD

Most stories they do have that Disney touch to it.

Heck,yeah! Disney's version of Hunchback of Notre Dame is much better than the book. I also love how they made Little Mermaid and Beauty and the Beast different from the original stories.

I don't really care

Almost all of the originals are really, really dark. Or depressing. Or, less often but sometimes, boring.

I love the movies and books.

Fairytales have always been dark, and apart from HoND which wasn't a fairytale, the Disney films have cut out those dark sections.
Psssh, I remember the versions of stories where you got those lovely images of Cinderella burning her feet on the ashes she was forced to sleep by, the story of Rapunzel that ended with her prince blinded and her starving to death in the desert and the Hans Christian Andersen stories where pretty much everyone dies.
However, I think Disney work better being all happy and fun. Would The Little Mermaid have worked if Ariel had committed suicide at the end and Eric had married Vanessa? Would you have really sat through Cinderella's evil step sisters cutting chunks of flesh from their feet to fit into the glass slippers? No, you wouldn't. Because then it just wouldn't be Disney!

/essay

You can't exactly have everyone DIE in a Disney movie... haha.

Besides, there already is fair amount of darkness in a lot of those movies, honestly.

Good thing they did change the stories as much as they did. In today's politically correct world, I think they would have taken most Disney movies off the market by now if they had made their films too similar to the fairy tales. Most of them are unreasonably gruesome!

Off the top of my head, I can't actually think of any traditional stories Disney actually managed to ruin by bringing it into the animation world.

I was quite a sensitive kid, actually. I used to get pretty scared while watching most Disney movies when I was very young, just at the usual amount of peril they put into their movies. Now, I look back at it and realize what a good job they did with their villains and their dramatic scenes!! But I think I would have been mentally scarred for life if they had put *certain* things from the traditional fairy tales into their movies!

Disney is just so lovely and original. If youve ever been to the one in Florida, and even the one in Paris, you'll know how magical it is, and how they can change things to make it more imaginative and interesting.
If they'd stuck to the original stories then people wouldnt be interested as much. They'd be like 'heard all this before, let's watch this one to see what its like' and then that would be it. But the new ones are ones that people have never seen before and they keep you wondering what they're going to change next xx

My thoughts are the same as everybody else's. The original fairy tales were really depressing (Hans Christian Anderson) and disturbing (Brothers Grimm). Original BatB was fine but lacked a lot of action and the enchanted objects. I could see why Ron Clements and John Musker didn't like the original Aladdin. the message of the original tale was not right. Disney is better off being fun and happy-I don't think I want to see Ariel die while Eric marries Vanessa or Quasi and Esmeralda die while Phoebus suffers being married to Fleur. And I don't think I want to see Aurora and Rapunzel going through teen pregnancy b/c of Phillip and Flynn. Disney knows how to do thier own twists on classic tales while at the same time, staying true to the basic plots. If they did their movies as exactly as the original fairy tales then the films would be rated PG-13 or even R. (For Hercules, X )

Disney is still very original. The books stories sometimes don't have an happy ending (like The Little Mermaid) but Disney Company get them a wonderful happy ever after ending. I love how it can be possible everytimes. That's my opinion. Love Disney.

I agree with a lote of people that the fairytales are too dark for kids but the hunchback of notre dame lost its drama, Ariel seemed foolish but Cinderella and Beauty and the Beast were still very good. But as i choose it all depends.

Most fairytails and Winnie the Pooh if you took em' away from disney I would have no childhood.

Well, if the movies were like that, I dont think my parents would have given me permission to watch them ...

Those disney movies are good i liked it the ones of those disney classics i do watch disney on dvd this is so good I like to go back and see Disneyland paris again i like to go see it in France and go to a disney shop i like to listen to it on a story see all of those disney classics but except the evil worst villain Captain Hook on Peter pan i hated Captain hook cause an evil nasty meany pirate!