The Messed Up Origins of Cinderella | Disney Explained - Jon Solo

Cinderella is one of the most famous Disney movies of all time... but have you heard the Brother's Grimm fairy tale that inspired it? ಠ_ಠ

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[JonSolo]

Thanks for watching everyone! New "Messed Up Origins" episode is coming SOON :D

[cookieintheface]

"She waters it every day" awww

"With her tears" wait what the fu—

[jasminel]

She had to try on a blood soaked slipper

[bananabried]

Prince Charming to Cinderella: I love you
Him also: doesn't even remember the face after dancing all night with her

[ARedVelvetBunnie]

“They invite every beautiful girl in the kingdom to the ball”
Lmao guess I ain’t going then

[Carlionalife]

Disney's adaptation of Cinderella was based on the French version of the story that was in a collection of fairy tails that was published by Charles Perrault in 1697. The two version are identical in every way except that Disney killed off her father because he was a bad role model.
In the Perrault version the father was essentially brainwashed into treating his own daughter horribly, even going so far as to call her Cinderella rather than her own name.
The Grimm version is the German version of the story. Grimm did not invent the story, as the version he and his brother published was done in 1812, which is well after Perrault wrote down the French version. The Cinderella story does go further back than the 1690s, as there was an Italian version that was written down in 1638, and it is not credited to any one author.

A thing you missed about the Grimm version is that the step sisters tried the shoes on while they were next to Cinderella's tree and the birds perched in it were the ones that alerted everyone to the blood in the shoe. They sung something like this, "Ku-coo Ku-coo, there's blood in that shoe."

[classyoldsole]

Actually in this version of the tale, the birds swoop down to peck out one eye each from the sisters right as they reach the palace,
and peck out their remaining eyes after the wedding,
so that the last thing they ever saw was Cinderella’s happy ending.😎
God i love those birds.😏

[brooks]

I always wondered... In the movie...if the spell is broken at midnight... Wouldn't her glass slippers change back to the original shoes as well? Everything else changed back..? Why did thr slippers stay glass?

[froggie]

NOBODY IN THE KINGDOM HAS THE SAME SHOE SIZE?!?!

[pepijn]

Maybe her name is Ella.

Also I remember seeing a cartoon that was very similair to the orginal story.

[ellabutz]

I wanna add, that when the prince rode home with Cinderella's stepsisters the birds from her tree tell him: "Ruckedigoo, Ruckedigoo, blood is in the shoe. The shoe is too small. The right bride still sits at home." And when he rides to the castle with Cinderella they tell him: Ruckedigoo, Ruckedigoo. No blood is in the shoe. The shoe is not to small he's taking the right bride home.

[trishdaha]

Him: says he loves her
Also him: has to put a shoe on every girl in the village to find her

[bridgetsheils]

You should watch Into The Woods, it legit has everything that you just said

[misseli]

I heard that before Cinderella was officially written down by The Brothers Grimm and Charles Perrault, it was shared via oral storytelling in multiple countries, with each version having some variance. So it's hard to pinpoint the original-original version

[MattFyrm]

So into the woods is actually really accurate

[weirdbutawesome]

“This time it’s written by the brothers Grimm”
is it just me or is it ALWAYS the brothers

[powerofanime]

Yes, I like the original ending best. :)

[wickedamoeba]

The Brothers Grimm version isn't the original. The story goes back centuries. The two oldest versions were Ancient Greek and Ancient Chinese stories. The Greek story is known as Rhodopis and the Chinese story is Ye Xian. They may go by different names but each one involves a servant girl, evil siblings, an awesome party thrown by a royal bachelor, and golden footwear. Rhodopis' story is older but Ye Xian's tale is the first one to have all the plot points we associate either the Cinderella story.

[amalia]

I know I’m late buuuut








If the slipper was a “perfect fit” then how did the slipper fall off




*Think about it* (from the movie)

[shan-t]

Cinderella trying the slipper that's filled with blood? yep would definitely do.