The representation of death and the quest for immortality in the films of Walt Disney

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Charles Perrault, Brothers Grimm and Hans Christian Andersen, Walt Disney

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Walt Disney draws its inspiration from fairy tales for the first animated films (from 1937 to 1966). Conclusion of the oral tradition, fairy tale tells a story which involves various supernatural or magical elements. It originated in myths and legends. The storytellers and long temps remain in the oral tradition. If the word "fairy" Or "wonderful" is used, it is primarily for the simple side stories, where the brave hero triumphs over evil, the end that almost always ends well, and each tale has a moral or message to remember.

It is not for the appearance of a fairy in each story, because they are almost non-existent in the writings tales. Fairy tales are allegory, or rather a metaphor to describe reality through the imagination, anthropomorphism, or the supernatural. According to Bruno Bettelheim "fairy tales reveal truths about the species and the man himself". These tales have their written existences and famous great authors Charles Perrault, Brothers Grimm and Hans Christian Andersen.

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[...] He studied various books and made major research in the works of Charles Perrault, the Brothers Grimm and Andersen. It was during the summer 1935 during a trip to Europe that Walt Disney is expanding its collection and especially his sources for his animated films. It then opens in the studios of Hyperion Disney Animation Library . Created by Walt Disney in 1934, it is a library that includes all his personal collection. It has more than three hundred and fifty pounds and allows its employees to bring out the sources of inspiration for the development of animated films. [...]

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[...] Gustave Doré (1832-1883) is an illustrator, engraver, French painter and sculptor. He is famous for his illustrations of fairy tales. Marc Eliot , Walt Disney : Dark of the Prince of Hollywood , Albin Michel p 101. [...]

[...] This recital as modern troubadour, he became famous in France for his songs like at the fair in the east or Go where the wind takes you. Branduardi , http://www.angelobranduardi.it/fra/testi.htm , official website, accessed 10/05/2012. Various representations of Death , http://www.lamortdanslart.com/divers/divers.htm , website, accessed 24/01/2012. Philippe de Champaigne (1602-1674) is a classic French painter. He painted mainly oriented works on religion. Charles Baudelaire (1821- 1867), French poet. He is best known for his collection of poems The F their evil . [...]

[...] They have fun to stop in mid-flight engines, to empty the tanks of British airmen stationed on the north and eastern India during the border econd D G World uerre. This legend was adapted for film in 1984, thanks to director Joe Dante. Sleepy Hollow : the legend of the headless horseman , is the story of a ghostly rider furious that comes to threaten the peace of the inhabitants of a small town on the banks of the Hudson. [...]

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