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Isn't Cinderella an American fairy tale ?

posted 9 years ago by mpboylanjr-54038
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I could be srong, and if I am then whatever I'm saying is just dumb lol (ill admit that much) , but isn't Cinderella an American Fairytale ??
I remember growing up loving the original cartoon version. Why does everyone have British accents, and not only this , but it seems like basically everything else ?
I'll admit that it sounds more classy , and there's really nothing wrong with it. I just wonder why if it is indeed an American fairytale that it's not American accents . Can't we keep our classics in this country anymore ? Lol.
I thought it was great. I just was wondering if in fact it is American than why don't they keep it with American accents ?

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[–] Weber4278 9 years ago

Cinderella's ancient, its much older then America, theirs been many different versions throughout the centuries, the oldest probably having come from China.

The Disney Version is based off the most popular version which is the one written by Charles Perrault in 1697, this is the version with the Fairy Godmother.

The Brothers Grimm also did a version of Cinderella and theirs is probably the most gruesome telling of the story with the Stepsisters carving up their own feet to try and fit into the slipper.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinderella

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[–] ecstasyecstasy 8 years ago

Frozen is based on a danish fairytale, everything in the movie points to it yet theyre not speaking danish? But to answer your question, America didnt exist when this plays out. Plus as far as I know America has never been a monarch country. Wouldnt make sense if they spoke american english.

[–] annedoe 8 years ago

Snow White, Rapunzel= Germany

Cinderella, Egypt, China, Korea, France, Germany, Thailand,Nigeria, Poland/Jewish,Iraq, Greece, etc

Beauty&the Beast=France mostly

Sleeping Beauty France&Germany

The Frog Prince=Germany

Bambi=Austria (?)

Pinnchio=Italian

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[–] Mhjm6 8 years ago

Well so much for America

[–] AmyJune1989 8 years ago

You're kidding, right? As another poster stated, the tale of Cinderella has been around for millennia in one variation or another. There are probably too many to count at this point.

[–] DoctorShemp 8 years ago

Millenia?? Wait so Cinderella is older than the Bible?

[–] mugwort-80-433639 8 years ago

Okay not includng any more info on the origin of "Cinderella" I believe the other posters put out enough info on that. What I am including is I think there are more versions of Cinderella than any other story in the history of film. There are the straight up versions. That telling the story and that's it. There are musical versions. One is "The Glass Slipper" There are all black versions. There are cartoons, mainly Disney. There are silent versions. One being Melies's 1899. From the description on imdb. com looks to me the earliest movie with a storyline. Even predating Porter's "The Great Train Robbery"1903 by four years. Speaking of the silents there is a comedy version "Ella Cinders" Plus Jerry Lewis's movie "Cinderfella" There are some Cinderella pictures in development too.

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[–] ElizaDushkusGroomToBe 8 years ago

I can understand why one would think it's American considering it's long association with Disney, an American company, but when in doubt look at the royalty in the story. Are they native or from a far off land? If they are native it is not American as we have no royalty.

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