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What is the content of the story of the story?

The film consists of three parts: the Queen, the two old women and the flea.

By chenzhongxinPublished 2 years ago 3 min read
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All three stories come from the Five Days of Talk, or from the folklore of western and parts of southern Europe. So similar plots can be found in many of the stories that are also adapted from the legends of these regions. Such as the Grimm fairy tales, such as Calvino's Italian fairy tales, and some French fairy tales (but there are also many French legends influenced by Russian legends) and so on. You can see the original version of brutal violence and pornography Cinderella, Rapunzel, goose girl ………… This kind of folk stories of the 16th and 17th centuries, similar to "the fantastic stories told by grandma" or "the wandering storytellers playing and singing", have great exaggerations, absurdities, bloody curiosity and are not suitable for children. Most of the stories reflect a "motif" in a culture, or the collective unconscious of a group, or use magic to interpret darker realities. Another important feature of these stories is that they must end with a lesson, a lesson to the members of the group or culture, a lesson to be honest, to stay on the straight and narrow, not to touch taboos. No matter how absurd the lesson. In the original version of the first story, the king wanted a son, so he found a sea dragon heart and asked a virgin maid to cook it for the queen. Both the virgin and the queen were pregnant. The queen was jealous of her son's friendship with the maid's son, so she drove the maid's son away. The maid's son later married a princess, the maid told the son not to go hunting with him, but he did not listen, was killed by a wizard into a lovely deer. When the queen's son learned of his brother's death, he came out to avenge his death and saved the maid's son. The maid's son said he would never go hunting against his mother again. Note that the lesson of the original story is -- don't disobey your mother! The hidden truth is that the illegitimate son of a king and a maid, loved by the half-queen's son, is hated by the queen. The director felt that the sea dragon heart is not as strong as the dead king ah, and the queen of infinite amplification of the role of possessiveness. The second story is pretty much the same as the original story. The two old ladies, who sing beautifully, are pursued by the king who hears the sound through the wall. On the wedding night, the king found that he was deceived and threw his sister out to hang on a tree, laughing at the three fairies. Then the old lady became a beauty and fell in love with the king. Younger sister envy, looking to ask elder sister how to become beautiful, elder sister vexed, said he let cobbler cut off a layer of old skin. So the sister called a cobbler and flayed herself alive and died. In the original novel, the sister remained beautiful and lived a happy life with the king. And the lesson is ———— don't be jealous of other people's blessings! The director thought it was wrong, how could a deceptive marriage last, so he killed his sister and turned her back into an old woman. The third story can also be found in calvino folklore. It was the king's brainpower that married his daughter to a bad man, and the princess was rescued and married again. The king solved a puzzle on a whim and married his daughter to the winner. But this man is a wizard, and he's killed a lot of people. The princess asks for help, meets an old woman's seven sons, kills the wizard finally, the princess returns home, gets happy life. In Calvino's version, the wizard is a robber and the princess is saved by the king. Mind you, in the original version, the lesson of the story was for the king -- don't do anything that makes you want to go against the rules of society, like marry your unwilling daughter to a stranger on a whim. The director felt that this was obviously not profound enough. The wizard in the movie turned into a savage. The barbaric simplicity made it easy to sympathize with, and suddenly there was a fierce conflict between the primitive wildness and the civilized society. And let the princess go back to enthronement, then there is the implied meaning of feminism, look, all of a sudden tall up.

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