There are grim (ah-ha!) versions of many fairy tales, and you'd probably have to research each one to find out the different variations and themes.
It's the best way to find those things. They probably changed all of them at least a bit.
Neil Gaiman also brings up an older version of Little Red Riding Hood in the Sandman - Hood gets eaten by the wolf, the end. No woodsman.
The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter (who did a translation of Perrault) kinda takes some of the old fairy tales and drops them in a slightly more modern era (but you can still start them with "once upon a time.") There's some complex feminism in there (neither "all men are evil" nor "let's make all women into men"), but since fairy tales were originally told by women, the book is a good example of what fairy tales were like for the people that first heard them.
I don't know that many of the changes were necessarily made by Disney. The Victorian Era really messed up fairy tales. Jack and Jill being eaten by the witch was too gruesome so people changed it (completely countering the point of "don't go into strange houses.")
Neil Gaiman also brings up an older version of Little Red Riding Hood in the Sandman - Hood gets eaten by the wolf, the end. No woodsman.
The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter (who did a translation of Perrault) kinda takes some of the old fairy tales and drops them in a slightly more modern era (but you can still start them with "once upon a time.") There's some complex feminism in there (neither "all men are evil" nor "let's make all women into men"), but since fairy tales were originally told by women, the book is a good example of what fairy tales were like for the people that first heard them.
Hansel and Gretel perhaps?
I think you'd have to look up each individual story and watch the Disney version to see the differences.
The original Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo is dark. Very dark. My aunt's read it. 
The legend of Robin Hood was altered for Disney, as well. First, you never really hear about Much/Will/Alan in the Disney version. Second, Marian dies. Yea...
I don't know that many of the changes were necessarily made by Disney. The Victorian Era really messed up fairy tales. Jack and Jill being eaten by the witch was too gruesome so people changed it (completely countering the point of "don't go into strange houses.")
Hansel and Gretel perhaps?
This is why I shouldn't write sober.
Isn't it Sleeping Beauty where, in the original version, she kills the witch that cursed her by slamming her head in a trunk and decapitating her?
Have you seen The Hunchback that Disney made? It's the darkest Disney movie ever. EVER!
I'd have to agree: it is fairly dark. Although some bits of PotC are somewhat dark. But Hunchback (which I used to call The Back when I was little) is probably the darkest animated film that Disney's done. Considering the whole Hell/damnation talk.
Tim Burton's version of Alice in Wonderland is bound to be eccentric/dark. I mean, it's Burton. Be ready to have your Disney interpretation shattered.
Have you seen The Hunchback that Disney made? It's the darkest Disney movie ever. EVER!
The original story is even more so.
Bah - if you want definite Non-Disney, you should check out Anne Rice's take on Sleeping Beauty.
I didn't know there was such a version. Very interesting. If it's anything like Neil Gaiman's chilling version of Snowhite, I'm sure of it.
I didn't know there was such a version. Very interesting. If it's anything like Neil Gaiman's chilling version of Snowhite, I'm sure of it.
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Hercules murdered his first wife( due to temporary insanity brought about by divine snit-fit) and got murdered( or accidentally poisoned) by the second one. Pretty sure Disney left that out of their version. ;)
As well they should have.
It'd be easier to say what Disney got right with Hercules then what they got wrong.
Oh don't get me started (to be fair, it's not as if the movie was not enjoyable. It simply was even more distant to the original source than the Jungle Book)...
It is actually pretty obvious that most of these stories had a much darker and sinister past when they were originally told.
Many fo them were quite bawdy as well. You don't really think the prince climbed Rapunzel's hair just to sit and talk with her, right?
Many fo them were quite bawdy as well. You don't really think the prince climbed Rapunzel's hair just to sit and talk with her, right?
I thought he was a barber and was offering her a discount haircut... maybe I should throw my mind back into the gutter...