What? Children's movies, not accurate? But how could this be?
Don't get me wrong; if there's one thing I love, it's Disney. Ol' Walt was a brilliant man. He took old fairy tales and gave them a new life. But in order to be able to market them toward children, he had to change them a bit, as they weren't exactly child-friendly in their original forms. Here are a couple of films with inaccuracies.
Cinderella
We've all heard at least one version of the tale; nearly every culture has one. I've even written one of my own. Girl's mother dies, father remarries, stepmother and stepsister are cruel...there's a ball, girl goes in secret, girl meets Prince, girl flees before getting caught...Prince finds girl, they live happily ever after.
How did the Prince locate his true love in the original version? She left a fur slipper at the ball in her haste to escape. You heard me: not glass, fur. She also had very small feet, as we all know. It was mentioned in the movie. But where was the part about the stepsisters chopping off their toes with an axe so the shoe would fit them? You guessed it--not in the movie. Too much blood.
Hercules
A more modern work, but Disney nonetheless. It (more or less) tells the story of the Greek hero. First inaccuracy:
Hera was not Hercules' mother. Alcmene was. But they couldn't so much as imply that Zeus had fathered children with mortal women. (I dare you to look up the family tree associated with Greek mythology. It's insane.) Hera was, in fact, the main antagonist in the myth (not Hades).
Oh, another fun fact: Hercules actually did marry a woman by the name of Megara, and had children. But during a fit of temporary insanity, he murdered the lot of them. Nothing is ever easy for the hero.
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