I had not seen that article... and it is PRICELESS. Bwah.
I've never seen Song of the South, though I didn't have any clue/idea why my mother turned her nose up at it, along with all the other Disney movies. It didn't have a princess in it, I remember complaining (we saw no someday-prince-will-come movies in our house), but Mom didn't budge.
I never bothered to read the original until after we'd seen the storyteller. Even then, I only read the chapters that referred to Brer Rabbit, and skipped everything else. I didn't even realize until very recently that there was even a framing story (of Remus telling the stories to Little White Master). Selective attention of a kid, I suppose! We could fast-forward even before there were fast-forward buttons.
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Date: 25 Feb 2011 12:55 am (UTC)I've never seen Song of the South, though I didn't have any clue/idea why my mother turned her nose up at it, along with all the other Disney movies. It didn't have a princess in it, I remember complaining (we saw no someday-prince-will-come movies in our house), but Mom didn't budge.
I never bothered to read the original until after we'd seen the storyteller. Even then, I only read the chapters that referred to Brer Rabbit, and skipped everything else. I didn't even realize until very recently that there was even a framing story (of Remus telling the stories to Little White Master). Selective attention of a kid, I suppose! We could fast-forward even before there were fast-forward buttons.