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As a PG-13/R rated drama.........


I can see this as a more mature Drama......hear me out

So Giselle comes to the real world, like here, and falls for Robert....like here....But in my idea she is forced to discover that life isn't a Disney movie. Giselle discovers war, she discovers bigotry, she discovers hate, learning about atrocities like Nazi Germany. She discovers her own sexuality, she discovers things that make her want to get back to her world ASAP....Robert has to show her the beauty the real world has, art, culture, the birth of a baby, watching the sun set on a mountain, how each day is a gift that and life is what we make of it.

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The irony of this all is that Disney movies are not like Giselle world in the first part of the movie, not at all.

Snow White risks to be killed by an hunter paid by her step-mother who wants to rip her heart off. Pinocchio is turned into a donkey for going in a place where you fool around and smoke for free. Ariel is 16 and her hormones are so wild that she fall in love with a human, disappoint and abandon her family to risk being turned into a clam and living forever as the slave of an evil witch who is eventually impaled by the human. Mulan goes to the war, see with her own eyes a whole villege children including slaughtered and risk being killed by the guy she loves for being a woman in disguise.

So actually Disney movies and expecially fairy tales in their original version (Beast dies because Belle never come back, Ariel kills herself with a knife, Snow White witch is killed by the dwarfs who melt her feet...) are full of bigotry, death, violence, war and so on

On the other hand "love" is always treated as a more superficial thing. Even violent fairy tales had the theme of falling in love at first sight, because they thought of making the idea of combined marriages and all that stuff more bearable. So what Robert really shows to Giselle is that true love is more beautiful than fairy tale love exactly because it is more complicated, less black&white and requires more efforts. That falling in love is about accepting the good and bad, is getting to know the other person and his/her interests and thoughts and it's respect and compromise.

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The irony of this all is that Disney movies are not like Giselle world in the first part of the movie, not at all.

Snow White risks to be killed by an hunter paid by her step-mother who wants to rip her heart off. Pinocchio is turned into a donkey for going in a place where you fool around and smoke for free. Ariel is 16 and her hormones are so wild that she fall in love with a human, disappoint and abandon her family to risk being turned into a clam and living forever as the slave of an evil witch who is eventually impaled by the human. Mulan goes to the war, see with her own eyes a whole villege children including slaughtered and risk being killed by the guy she loves for being a woman in disguise.

So actually Disney movies and expecially fairy tales in their original version (Beast dies because Belle never come back, Ariel kills herself with a knife, Snow White witch is killed by the dwarfs who melt her feet...) are full of bigotry, death, violence, war and so on

On the other hand "love" is always treated as a more superficial thing. Even violent fairy tales had the theme of falling in love at first sight, because they thought of making the idea of combined marriages and all that stuff more bearable. So what Robert really shows to Giselle is that true love is more beautiful than fairy tale love exactly because it is more complicated, less black&white and requires more efforts. That falling in love is about accepting the good and bad, is getting to know the other person and his/her interests and thoughts and it's respect and compromise.

So very well stated!
Happy New Year 2012!

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