All the sweetest fairy tales
Nowadays, fairy tales have been cleaned up (and often outfitted with boring pop culture referential comedy that mitigates the timelessness of the stories.) Cinderella's evil sisters don't cut off parts of their feet to fit into the glass slipper. The little mermaid lives happily ever after instead of sacrificing herself to save the life of her beloved. These stories were made to tap into children's deepest fears, to give weight to the shadows the crept up on them, and thus to be able to put some space between children and their fears. Some fairy tales didn't have happy endings and some did. In Los Angeles, more often than not, they don't. This is a town where the big bad wolf eats all three of the little pigs or Little Red Riding Hood, where beings as malicious and evil as anything imagined in the old world wander the streets -- and haunt studio lots all over town.
Over the next few days, we're going to explore a story that had all the trappings of your favorite fairy tale -- a beautiful girl from a poor family who leaves home to find a better life. But this girl walked into the woods and never came out.
posted by kuaptic. @ 9:05 AM
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