Summary
There have been plenty of movies of fairy tales, but "The Brothers Grimm," in theaters now, is something else, much rarer: It's a movie about fairy tales. Its conceit is that the boys, on a mission to eradicate spirits from a Black Forest glade in Germany in 1813, encounter snippets of experience that will later grow in their minds into the tales that haunt our childhoods today. But there have been a few other films more or less about fairy tales:
* "The Company of Wolves" (1984): An examination of the tale of Little Red Riding Hood, but through the prism of modern psychiatry. Overripe, precious, erotic, violent, moody and dangerous - and no, not particularly savory - it returns the fairy tale to its dark roots.See the full content of this document
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Fairy Tales Lurk in Film Plots
* "Working Girl" (1988): "Cinderella...
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