We Love Fairy Tales Week - Tag

Rachel at Hamlette's Soliloquy is hosting a We Love Fairy Tales Week (February 9-14). Feel free to join in and answer these tag questions.

1. What's your favorite fairy tale?
In the past I would say Beauty and the Beast but now I prefer East of the Sun and West of the Moon which thought to be the inspiration for Beauty and the Beast but instead of a beast, it's a bear which I guess is like a beast.

This book (above) version has a frog instead of a bear but it's a children's book.

East of the Sun and West of the Moon is about a man (perhaps a prince) cursed to be a bear until a girl (maiden) lives with him for a year while he's in his bear form but he cannot tell her he's cursed or let her see him in his human form. Somehow, he begins to share her bed but he comes into her room in total darkness so she never sees him as a human. Later, being curious about who her bedfellow is, she somehow gets a candle to light the her room and finally sees him in his human form which ended with him being taken to the troll palace (which is located east of the sun and west of the moon) to marry the troll princess. The girl travels to the troll palace with the help of various wind beings and sort of recuses him with some trickeries and somehow breaks the curse and they live happily ever after. (I have no idea if the original story is like this but this is the version I like.)

2. If you could cast any actors and actresses ever in a movie version of that fairy tale, who would you pick?
I don't know who to pick but definitely actors/actresses who are not well known because I prefer the characters to stand out and not the actors. But then again, I probably prefer an animated version so the faces are not anybody in particular.

3. Do you have a favorite fairy tale movie?

Disney's Tangled (which is a Rapunzel retelling) which is a musical which I don't like all that much but for this movie, I didn't mind it. Also, I'm sure if I have more time to think it over, I would come up with some other title but I guess it would still be a Disney movie as I maybe watched a bit too many Disney movies growing up.

4. Do you have a favorite book that retells a fairy tale?
I have made a list of favorite fairytale retelling books here.

5. If you got to be in a stage or film production of a classic fairy tale, what fairy tale would you want to be in, and who would you like to play?
I can't pick a tale but I would play someone wicked, one of the villains maybe, not a good guy because I think playing the bad guy is more fun but definitely someone with magic/powers.

6. Do you like fairy tales by Hans Christian Andersen or the Grimm Brothers best? Or someone else's?
I like both Hans Christian Andersen and the Grimm Brothers - combined, they give you a more complete types of tales but I'm sure there are other fairytale storytellers that I don't know about out there.

7. What more obscure fairy tale do you think more people should know about?
The Ordinary Princess by M. M. Kaye? I don't know if it's considered a fairytale but it reads like one. I don't think it's obscure but I don't hear about it much.

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