Well, Diluka wanted another one, and here it is. Yeah, I don’t follow the order of the phim chiếu rạp this time around; I’ll jump a little bit between the earlier and the later ones. And with “The Little Mermaid” I think it’s the best to work through the elements of the story point to point to show, where Disney moves away from the nguồn text and where it (surprisingly) doesn’t. But before we come to that, I want to point out something: The nguồn text is in this case much different compared to the ones of the Grimm fairy tales. Those were a collection of preexisting oral lore. While the...
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