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Thursday, July 3, 2008
The Best of Friends The fox and the Hound OSTWhen you're the best of friends
Having so much fun together
You're not even aware, you're such a funny pair
You're the best of friends
Life's a happy game
You could clown around forever
Neither one of you sees, your natural boundaries
Life's one happy game
If only the world wouldn't get in the way
If only people would just let you play
They say you're both being fools
You're breaking all the rules
They can't understand, the magic of your wonderland
When you're the best of friends
Sharing all that you discover
When that moment has past, will that friendship last?
Who can say? There's a way!
Oh I hope... I hope it never ends
'Cause you're the best of friends
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Sighx, this song is so sad-x! I went back to re-read this story when i listened to the Disney OST the other day...
(Actually, my mom bought it long ago, but i only got round to listening to it...)...
Actually, the story was never really given what is considered by me to be a happy ending...
(well, it defintely didn't end with those two living together in the same farm forever...)...
But i decided that it probably had to end that way coz its just more... logical, coz really, foxes don't live on farms, no matter how much i prefer them to...
Well, the story goes something like this...
(cut short and cut short-ed, if u want, juz go wiki and type Fox and the Hound, they have the plot bunny.)
There was an orphaned fox, who was sent by an owl to a farm owned by a kind old lady. The fox, who was named Tod, met a puppy, Copper, from next door, who had just been taken home by its ill-tempered owner. On the same farm, was another dog, Chief, who treated Copper like his own child.
Tod and Copper became friends, however, Copper's owner Slade, was unhappy, and disapproving of the friendship, and tried to prevent them from meeting, however, Tod decided to meet Copper at his own home, which led to a chase by Chief, and eventually, Slade promising to kill Tod next time.
Tod's owner made Toid stay inside the house during the hunting season, and Copper was taken out by Slade to hunt. And several months later, when Copper had returned, Tod had grown up into a handsome adult, whereas Copper had become an excellent hunting dog. Tod, upon Copper's return, meets Copper once again at the farm at night, thinking that Copper was the same puppy as before, but Copper had told him, that they were no longer friends, because they were in fact, natural enemies. A chase occurs, but Copper divereted Slade and Chief. However, Chief was able to chase Tod to the railway, but in an accident, Chief died. Copper becomes very angry, and blames Tod for the accident, and swore revenge.
Tod's owner, fearing for Tod, left Tod at a nature reserve, so that Slade and Copper would not be able to get at him. At this point, Tod is shown to be unable to fit in and survive with the wild animals there. However, the owl, and a vixen, Vixey, taught his survival skills.
Later in the story, a vengeful Slade and Copper transpass the reserve in a bid to catch and kill Tod. However, the traps that Slade had made caused them to be in danger, and a bear nearly kills Copper, who was trying to defend Slade. Tod, who had been watching at that time, against his better judgement, intervenes and manages to lure the bear away, which had caused him and the bear to fall down the waterfall.
Tod survives and meets Copper at the shore, who was confused by Tod's actions. However, Slade chose the time to appear to shoot Tod. Then~
Copper stood in front of Tod, unwilling to let Slade shoot his friend. And Slade did not shoot, as he didn't want to lose his prized dog, to kill a fox that he did not need. Finally, the two friends shared a last smile before going seperate ways.
The end...
Sighx....
REally not my idea of a happy ending, but i guess it was better than the original story it was based off.
The original story was actually 'The Fox and the Hounds' by Daniel Mannix.
It followed the general trend of fairytales in the past(true ones, with their original, unchanged endings).
Fairytales in the past, including Sleeping Beauty, Beauty and the Beast, etc, were notorious for having unhappy and bloody endings, meant for adults, to scare and warn...
Usually, it doesn't end nicely, both to the good guys and the bad guys...
Thanks to the Grimm Brothers and Disney, we now have happy endings and 'happily-ever-afters'.
Back to 'The Fox and the Hounds'.
The story basically flows in the same general direction until the end, where Tod, was shot and skinned and hung on the hunter's wall, whereas Copper, was also shot in the end, presumably because it tried to stop the hunter from killing his friend...
Sighx, the harsh-ness of reality... Well, it is indeed true... Most hunters would have just sacrificed Copper...
Sadded.
O.o this led to an intensive research on my part about most of the other fairytales i thought i knew, from disney(courtesy of wiki)... And this is the result of it...
Not all are tragic, of course, but most.
The version we know, is green, and the actual version is in red
Beauty and the Beastx
Belle is the daughter of a rich merchant-
Belle was actually the daughter of a king, and an evil fairy, who was disguised as a merchant's daughter to protect her from the fairyx
The prince was turned into a beast because he refused to let a fairy in from the rain-
The prince was actually the charge of the evil fairy, who had turned the prince into a beast when he refused to fall in love with the fairy(org.
Madame Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de VilleneuveFamous variation:
Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont)
Sleeping BeautyPart 1 of the story was the same, but there is a lesser known part two to the more or less well known story.
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She awoke from a kiss from her prince.
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She was raped in her sleep and awoke because the twins she bore was nudging her.
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They wedded each other and lived happily ever after-
They were secretly wedded and was kept a secret from his ogre mom. However, when he went to war, his mother, had known of it already, and demanded to eat his 2 children and the princess, who quickly outwitted the ogre queen. However, when she found out, she prepared to kill the princess and the 2 children with a cauldron of disgusting and poisonous stuffs. Luckily, the prince saved them, but the Queen suffered a terrible death of her own makings.Little Red Riding Hoodx
A hunter appeared, killing the wolf and saving Little Red Riding Hood and her Grandma.-
They died. D.I.E.D. Eaten. Gone. DEAD.
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The Little Red Riding Hood talked to the Big Bad Wolf and ran away.-
No, she did a striptease for the wolf and THEN ran away.x
The Big Bad Wolf ate the Grandma, then Little Red Riding Hood later.
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No, he dissected the Grandma, invited Little Red to eat it, then ate her... EW.
Snow White and the Seven Dwarvesx
The step-mother falls over the cliff and dies.-
Said step-mother was forced to dance in red-hot iron shoes until she died.x
The step-mother wanted Snow White's heart to be shown, so that she knew that the servant did do his job.-
The step-mother wanted the heart, and a couple of other intestines to EAT.
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The step-mother asked a servant to abandon Snow White.-
The mother had abandoned Snow White by herself. There was NO stepmother.Rumpelstiltskinx
The baby boy was saved by his mother.
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Sadly, no. In most past versions, the baby boy was killed.x
Rumpelstiltskin was so angry, he threw a tantrum and went away.-
He was so angry, he stamped a hole into the floor, and then pulls himself up with so much force, he was torn into half.(there's one more version, but i'll let u find that on your own xD)Cinderellax
She was a poor girl with a really bad evil stepmother and step-sisters.-
She's actually a muderess who killed her own mother so her dad could marry the housekeeper.x The step-sisters tried to fit into the shoe, but it didn't work.-
The step-sisters mutilated, cut off toes, etc etc to try and fit inside the glass slipper.x
... I forgot wad happened to the step-mother...-
When the prince realised that he loved Cinderella, birds pecked out the step-mother's and the step-sisters' eyes for being wicked.
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