Twisted Fairy Tales

[bloodrayne]

I'm sure that someone here can produce a better rendition of Rumpelstiltskin than what the movie portrayed...Anyone want to try?

[Je Suis Phnomne]

Originally posted by bloodrayne
Really interesting concept and good attempt...I was thinking more along the lines of...

The "giant" is just a regular guy like us...Jack is the menace...He comes from some microcosm...The beanstalk is just a normal beanstalk in the "giant"'s garden...Jack's people are starving...The "magic beans" are regular beans that one of his people found...Anyway...looking for ANY solution to the starvation problem...He climbs up...Sees this guy has MASSIVE amounts of food..."Golden Eggs" becomes a metaphor based on the fact that just one goose egg could feed his entire village, thereby making them valuable...Jack kills the guy...takes his stuff...The sheriff and townspeople in our world are completely baffled...The people in Jack's subterranian world want more stuff...Huge battle with the little people insues...Much murder and mayhem...

Any thoughts?

Sounds like Jack and the Beanstalk crossed over to Needful Things

[Je Suis Phnomne]

http://www.ucs.mun.ca/~wbarker/fairies/grimm/

this site has 210 of the Grimm tales available for online reading, you can also download all of them in one zip file for offline reading as well.

[bloodrayne]

Originally posted by Je Suis Phnomne
Sounds like Jack and the Beanstalk crossed over to Needful Things

Actually...It sort of makes me think "Evil Borrowers"...

[bloodrayne]

I don't suppose that it would be possible to do anything with the "Three Little Pigs"...Can anyone even think of anymore fairy tales to "doctor" up?

[meetthecreeper]

Yeah how about the Billygoats Gruff, the troll under the bridge, no longer has billygoats crossing over because these are modern times now and so Mister Troll has to find a different way to satisfy his appetite.

[billbundix]

i always wondered about this. in jack and the beanstalk, at the end of the story, after the giant was dead, what did they do with the body? maybe, just maybe, when it fell it landed on jacks house, destroying it. and maybe it was like, 100 feet tall. way too big to move. and maybe the land was going through a famine, sooooooo. jack gets his ax and begins wacking big hunks out of this giant then invites all of his neighbors to come over. and since no one has eaten in a long time, all the people in the kingdom carve a piece off and brings it home to eat, just like a bunch of fire ants. and after they pick all the meat off the bones, jack carves out the skull and makes it his home. sorry, just a thought:)

[bloodygurl02]

Originally posted by billbundix
i always wondered about this. in jack and the beanstalk, at the end of the story, after the giant was dead, what did they do with the body? maybe, just maybe, when it fell it landed on jacks house, destroying it. and maybe it was like, 100 feet tall. way too big to move. and maybe the land was going through a famine, sooooooo. jack gets his ax and begins wacking big hunks out of this giant then invites all of his neighbors to come over. and since no one has eaten in a long time, all the people in the kingdom carve a piece off and brings it home to eat, just like a bunch of fire ants. and after they pick all the meat off the bones, jack carves out the skull and makes it his home. sorry, just a thought:)

thats a good way to go w/ it

[predfan]

Originally posted by billbundix
i always wondered about this. in jack and the beanstalk, at the end of the story, after the giant was dead, what did they do with the body? maybe, just maybe, when it fell it landed on jacks house, destroying it. and maybe it was like, 100 feet tall. way too big to move. and maybe the land was going through a famine, sooooooo. jack gets his ax and begins wacking big hunks out of this giant then invites all of his neighbors to come over. and since no one has eaten in a long time, all the people in the kingdom carve a piece off and brings it home to eat, just like a bunch of fire ants. and after they pick all the meat off the bones, jack carves out the skull and makes it his home. sorry, just a thought:)

sounds like a nice story to tell the children bwahahahaha

[bloodrayne]

I decided to bump this thread since the subject has been renewed in another thread...

Anyone care to add to it?:)