which Fairy Tale would you choose if you had to live out one and why?
I really try to be good but it just isn’t in my nature!
Snow White, and you know why?
Cottage in the woods, 7 dwarves !
How can that not be fun?
“Patriotism is the last refuge to which a scoundrel clings.” Bob Dylan
Dopey Sneezy Doc???
I am definately a Beauty and the Beast type of gal, I can’t resist the challenge of taming the beast!
but there is the appeal of that long nap in Sleeping Beauty…
Any connection between your reality and mine is purely coincidental.
Beauty and the Beast - Disney version. I’d live in a gorgeous castle, have my very own library, have kitchen utensils dancing attendence on me instead of vice versa, would be amused at the spectacle of a big hairy guy (all right, a Beast) trying to win me over in a nice platonic way, and eventually he would magically turn into a gorgeous Fabio type human and we’d live happily ever after.
The Hobbit, because chivalry is not dead and the hero faces the dark forces of evil and prevails against all odds.
or Princess Bride because (see above) AND he gets the girl in the end!!!
Of the classic fairy tales [cocking a snoot at the Disney “dream” machine]…Beauty and The Beast. Because it’s one of the few terror and gore-driven tales that emphasizes looking beneath surfaces and builds for a lasting happy “ending”.
Haven’t seen the Disney version, but I always liked the dynamics of one learning to look beneath surfaces while the other learns humility. IMO, it’d work just as well with the gender roles reversed.
Veb
Some edification for crack, please.
I’m trying to form a mental list of the classics, but not having much luck finding many male roles of significance. Snow White, Cinderella - The Prince. No name, no personality, just The Prince.
Okay, Beauty and the Beast - major male character.
Classics. Are we talking Grimm tales here? Hansel and Gretel?
All of a sudden, I feel very lacking in the area of children’s literature. A little help please.
I was always rather fond of the Emperor’s New Clothes myself.
I really try to be good but it just isn’t in my nature!
Twelve Dancing Princesses.
I mean, hey! Twelve Dancing Princesses!!!
-
Shadow of the Pigeon -
Weirdo of the Night
Rikki-tikki-tembo-no-sa-rembo-chari-bari-roochi-pip-pari-pembo.
That tale kicked ass.
“Winners never quit and quitters never win, but those who never win and never quit are idiots.”
I wish I would have gotten to this thread first, cause I’m definitely the ultimate Beauty and the Beast fan. Always has been my favorite fairy tale, since I was little, and I’ve loved the movie since I first saw it - know every word, including the songs from the musical 
I like that it, unlike many of the other fairy tales, has a strong female character. She’s kind and good, but she’s not a pushover like in other fairy tales like Cinderella or Sleeping Beauty or especially Snow White. I’m not just talking about the Disney version here, either. Just about any version I read of this fairy tale I love because it keeps that solid personality that she has.
Another two that I wouldn’t mind living out would be East of the Sun and West of the Moon and Tam Lin. I like the idea of the woman doing the saving, as she does in both of those, the former from a wicked troll duchess and the latter from the fairy that whisked him away to Faerie and kept him prisoner.
I rode Omni in Springfield, IL
I would choose to be Bastian Balthazar Bux in the book “The Neverending Story”, because of all the marvelous adventures he has, and because (of course) it all ends well.
The author had a tremendous imagination!
A horde of insects that fly incessantly and take up a cloud shape resembling a huge spider;
A lion who turns vegetation to sand beneath his burning feet;
so many other amazing things I can’t even begin to list them.
Buttercup from the Princess Bride of course, what a life that would have been.
Ahh
“Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian.” Dennis Wholey
Definately Sleeping Beauty. She had it pretty easy in comparison to Snow White, Cinderella, Rapunzel, Beauty, and most others. A little sleep never hurt anyone, and she got her Prince.
How 'bout we sing ‘Kyle’s mom is a stupid bitch’ in D minor?
Does Alexander Lloyd’s Prydain Chronicles (The Horned King, The Black Cauldron, The Castle of Llyr, Taran Wanderer, and The High King) count? 'Cause if it does, that’s my choice. I want to be Princess Eilonwy.
I’m a fairytale junkie and would gladly live through anything with a happy ending; my special favorites have got to be The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit. Love, loyalty, human failings and triumphs, great wardrobes… can’t wait to see how the movies turn out.
TaleraRis, have you read the Robin McKinley version of Beauty and the Beast? I’m not sure it’s in print anymore but it’s a wonderful book-- probably classified as “young adult” literature, but we all know better. Fairytales are for everybody.
Gamera is really neat, he is full of turtle meat, we’ve been eating Gam-er-aaaa…
I’d like to be the Tinker of Tamlacht.
He outwits God, the Devil, and Death, lives happy AND rich for hundreds of years, and ends up immortal and perpetually 20 years old, drinking and screwing all over Ireland.
Uke
I don’t really care which fairy tale I’m in, but I sure as hell want to make sure I’m the *third[/] brother!
…but when you get blue, and you’ve lost all your dreams, there’s nothing like a campfire and a can of beans!
Not really a fairy tale, but the place I always wanted to live was the place in “The Lorax” - before it was all messed up by the Onceler, y’know.