I don't know if anyone is still checking these blogs but i wanted to share something i found.


I was looking back through the research I did for my paper and found an interesting quote by Caterina Scorsone

Caterina Scorsone: Well and one of the things that I found remarkable about him when I met him was he talked a lot about wanting to reclaim fairytales for adults because in this kind of, you know, unconscious world that we express through fairytales, the original fairy story there was a lot of darkness.

And there were a lot of those messy emotions that we’re talking about in this movie. You know, there was anger and there was sadness. And there was, you know, people did bad things and have guilt and, you know, regrets.

And so many of those fairytales have been kind of dignified and, you know, sanitized for children. And so a lot of the grit and a lot of the point of some of them have been lost.

And so one of the things that he seems very passionate about is reclaiming these stories and bringing out the parts of them that we really need to look at to understand ourselves.

And so I think that’s one of the things that we’re doing here with Alice.

Caterina is talking about how dark fairy tales used to be, until they were tailored and dignified, so as to be suitable for children. 

She is right fairy tales have changed and by making them dark and more suitable for adult audiences, we are simply returning them to their original state.  But since we are in a different time the "original state" is different and more modern than it was in centuries past.