When he laughs as Esmeralda is hung, Quasimodo kills Frollo and visits the cemetery where he mourns Esmeralda, eventually dying of starvation on her grave. In Victor Hugo’s novel, however, the story has a much sadder ending, with Quasimodo’s guardian Archdeacon Frollo betraying Esmeralda and sending her to her death. After one sister tries to trick the prince into believing she’s his true love by cutting off her toe to fit into Cinderella’s shoe, and the other tries the same trick by cutting off a part of her heel, Cinderella and the prince are reunited and happily wed, with Cinderella’s pigeon pals plucking out her stepsisters’ eyes as the post-wedding entertainment.ĭisney’s The Hunchback of Notre-Dame – certainly one of the darker animated films in their vast back catalogue – ends happily, with Quasimodo saving Esmeralda, accepting that she loves another and leaving the cathedral to be welcomed into society as a hero. In the Brothers Grimm version, Cinderella still gets her happily ever after, but her evil stepsisters get a much gorier comeuppance. Hamlet by William Shakespeareĭisney’s animated classic is fun for all the family, complete with singing mice, a kindly fairy godmother and a showstopping dress. It’s said that the writers were inspired by Shakespeare’s Hamlet, in which the Prince Hamlet sets out to seek revenge on his Uncle Claudius, after Claudius murders his father in order to seize the throne – not unlike the plight of our favourite lion cub, Simba. When he disappears, it’s assumed Kai has fallen into the river and died, but Gerda is sure he’s alive and begins an epic quest to rescue him.īuy Best Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersenĭon’t be fooled by cute lion cubs and warthog/meerkat comedy duos, the inspiration behind Disney’s beloved animation – and the new live-action film which is set to hit cinema screens on the 19th July – is much darker than you might expect. Years later, a splinter gets into the eye of a boy called Kai, causing him to become cruel and reject his grandmother and best friend Gerda, making him an easy target to be enchanted and imprisoned by the Snow Queen. When the mirror is shattered, splinters get into the eyes and hearts of people around the world, freezing their hearts. In the Snow Queen, the devil makes a magic mirror which shows people only the bad and ugly aspects of themselves.
With her female identity revealed Mulan is ordered to become a concubine, but she commits suicide rather than submit to this fate.ĭisney’s spectacularly popular animation is loosely based on Hans Christian Andersen’s The Snow Queen, but while Frozen is an empowering story of sisterly love and learning not to fear your power, The Snow Queen has much darker beginnings, though a similarly happy ending. They are eventually spared, but when Mulan returns home she finds that her father has died and her mother has remarried. The two become inseparable, and when the king is defeated they offer to be put to death in his place. When Mulan takes her father’s place in the army she meets the king’s daughter, who is also a warrior. Both films follow quite closely the original poem, The Ballad of Mulan, but the 1695 version of the tale included in the Sui Tang Romance takes a darker turn. But one thing you’re guaranteed is a great night with the kids.Disney have been inspired by the heroic female warrior not once but twice, first in their 1998 animated adaptation and now in the live action remake starring Liu Yifei. You’ll even find some of the best animated films of all time. You’ll find classics old and new, hidden gems, a generous helping of Pixar and some live-action treasures (minus Star Wars and Marvel, which Disney owns but nobody thinks of as ‘Disney movies’).
To help you separate the Toy Story s from the Computer Wore Tennis Shoes- es, we dove deep into Disney’s catalogue and rounded up 50 can’t-miss picks for your family movie night.
But just because the Disney logo graces a film’s credits doesn’t mean it’s a sure thing: For every Beauty and the Beast there are dozens of inferior direct-to-video sequels, shaggy dog stories about shaggy dogs and cheaply made cash-ins, to say nothing of the recent spate of live-action remakes that do little to improve on their animated forebears. Now that Disney’s vault has been kicked wide open on Disney+, there are hundreds of options for family movie night. It has since dropped more than 450 films on loving audiences, from hand-drawn classics to computer-generated wonders, live-action adventures and everything in between. The Walt Disney Company changed the face of cinema in 1937 with a little animated film called Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
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