Damsels in Distress Now A Thing of the Past
June 23, 2012
Recent movie fairytales show young princesses as strong and emancipated. In the animated film Brave, Merida, a Scottish princess, defies tradition and rejects marriage, while two recent movie versions of Snow White present the fair maiden either as cunning or battle-ready. The question is whether the new image is satisfying young audiences.
In 1937, Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs captured the imagination of children the world over.
The princess, from Grimm's fairytale, was presented as fragile and helpless, waiting for her prince to rescue her from the wicked stepmother.
But fairytales are being reinvented. Brave, the newest one in theaters, takes us to Scotland and Merida, a princess who rejects marriage and shows up the men in archery. Even Snow White is getting a remake, with two recent versions.
In Mirror Mirror, the lighter twist on the story, Snow White is feisty and smart.
She still ends up in the Prince's arms. But she also outsmarts the queen and wins the kingdom.
The second version, Snow White and the Huntsman, is ominous. The wicked stepmother is a dark soul.
Snow White battles for her kingdom. She even saves her man.
These films and others like them are sparking the appetite of young children for fairytales, says Wendy Tucker, a librarian at a Washington area elementary school.
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