I hope you've all been having a jolly time this week! Today is your last day to enter my giveaway -- I'll choose and announce the winners tomorrow! Might be late in the day, as I have a pretty full Saturday lined up.
Okay, here we go.
1. What's your favorite fairy tale? The Twelve Dancing Princesses! And has been since I was a small child, reading a children's book version with amazing artwork. I love that the hero solves the mystery using cleverness, not strength or magic. Well, not much magic -- he does have an invisibility cloak. But that just makes things a bit easier. I think he could have solved it eventually without that.
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2. If you could cast any actors and actresses ever in a movie version of that fairy tale, who would you pick? Hmm. What about Jude Law as the retired soldier returning home from the war, Samuel L. Jackson as the king, Letitia Wright as the youngest sister, and Tessa Thompson as the oldest sister. And the soldier falls for the oldest sister, not the youngest.
3. Do you have a favorite fairy tale movie? The Princess Bride (1987) -- no contest! True, it's kind of a spoof of fairy tales, but I still think it counts.
4. Do you have a favorite book that retells a fairy tale? I really love the novella Falling Snow by Skye Hoffert, which is included in the Five Magic Spindles anthology.
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 would love to play the fairy godmother in a version of Cinderella set in either the Old West or the 1940s.
6. Do you like fairy tales by Hans Christian Andersen or the Grimm Brothers best? Or someone else's? I like lots of fairy tales, including some by both of them, some from the Arabian Nights, and others, too! I don't have a clear favorite source.
7. What more obscure fairy tale do you think more people should know about? I'm really fond of The Boy Who Learned to Shudder, also known as The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was. It's a sweet one.
There we have it! Do we have any answers in common? Don't forget to check out everyone's contributions via the main list in this post :-) I'm behind on that myself, but hope to catch up this weekend!
Tessa Thompson + Jude Law would be SUCH a fun combo! It would especially give Jude Law a chance to be the "detective" himself, and not just the Watson to a Holmes, as good at that as he is. ^_^ Now I'm realizing that a movie of 12 Dancing Princesses doesn't exist at all which is sad because it could be so easy to fix that!
ReplyDeleteChloe, wouldn't they be a great combo? And yes, let's let Jude solve some mysteries. He's such an enjoyable actor -- one of those who never phones in a performance and elevates whatever he's in.
DeleteWe should lobby Hollywood to make this, clearly.
Your MCU casted fairy tale movie needs to happen. Like immediately.
ReplyDeleteIvy Miranda, wouldn't it be fun? And haha, you can tell I've been rewatching a lot of Marvel movies with my kids, can't you? I started this casting with Samuel L. Jackson, and then the rest just kind of slotted into place around him :-)
DeleteI like the 12 Dancing Princess and I like that there's all these mysteries that went with it.
ReplyDeleteI love the Princess Bride when I first saw it and then I read the book and I appreciate the movie movie more because it ended on a happy note unlike the book.
An old west Cinderella? I'm up for that.
Have a lovely day.
Lissa, yes! I've always been drawn to solving mysteries, even as a kid, I guess.
DeleteThe movie version of The Princess Bride definitely stops at a more upbeat spot. I guess because we don't like imagining characters having to go through ordinary life like us, we want them to just stop right there and be in that moment forever, or something.
I intend to write a Cinderella retelling for my Once Upon a Western series eventually. It'll probably be book... um... 9? I think? So it'll be a few years yet, since I'm currently working on the first draft of book 7. Meanwhile, there's a fun western Cinderella novella called Corral Nocturne by Elisabeth Grace Foley that I like a lot, if you're curious :-)