Tangential to the article, I urge the reader to read Andersen's original Little Mermaid, and not settle for Disney's beautifully animated, but watered-down (heh), bowdlerized version. And I don't mean the remake. The same could be said for most of their works.
Finished reading Hans Christian Andersen's The Little Mermaid to my daughter just last night. That ending was brutal. Not at all what my daughter or I were expecting having seen the Disney film.
My daughter wanted me to read The Little Mermaid to her, so we read from HC Andersen's book. That story was brutal. I don't think either my daughter or I were expecting that bleak lesson in life.
……没有被大型传媒公司改编过。举个例子，如果我在亚马逊上搜索“Beowulf”（贝奥武夫），第一个链接是2007年的电影，第二个是书，第三个是电视剧。但如果我搜“The Little Mermaid”（小美人鱼/海的女儿），整个页面全被迪士尼的衍生品或者山寨改编作品霸占了。安徒生的原著根本连影都见不着。
…have not been adapted by huge media companies. For example, if I search "Beowulf" in Amazon, the first link is for 2007 movie, the second for the book, and the third for a TV show. If I search for "The Little Mermaid", the whole page is dominated by the Disney franchise or some off-brand adaptations. Hans Christian Andersen's book is nowhere to be seen.
It's interesting that the article mentions Hans Christian Andersen's “The Little Mermaid” as an example of a story that was “sanitized” by removing the part where Ariel is forced to choose between killing her prince or turning into foam on the waves. But Andersen's story was itself a sanitized…
虽然与本文关系不大，但我还是强烈建议读者去读读安徒生原版的《海的女儿》，别只满足于迪士尼那部动画精美、却经过严重稀释（哈）和删节净化的版本。而且我说的还不是真人翻拍版。他们的大多数作品其实都是这样。
Tangential to the article, I urge the reader to read Andersen's original Little Mermaid, and not settle for Disney's beautifully animated, but watered-down (heh), bowdlerized version. And I don't mean the remake. The same could be said for most of their works.
昨晚刚给我女儿读完安徒生的《海的女儿》。那个结局太惨烈了。看过了迪士尼电影，我跟我女儿完全没想到会是这种结局。
Finished reading Hans Christian Andersen's The Little Mermaid to my daughter just last night. That ending was brutal. Not at all what my daughter or I were expecting having seen the Disney film.
我女儿让我给她读《海的女儿》，于是我们就拿安徒生的原版书来读。那个故事太残酷了。我和我女儿都没料到会上一堂如此灰暗的人生课。
My daughter wanted me to read The Little Mermaid to her, so we read from HC Andersen's book. That story was brutal. I don't think either my daughter or I were expecting that bleak lesson in life.
……没有被大型传媒公司改编过。举个例子，如果我在亚马逊上搜索“Beowulf”（贝奥武夫），第一个链接是2007年的电影，第二个是书，第三个是电视剧。但如果我搜“The Little Mermaid”（小美人鱼/海的女儿），整个页面全被迪士尼的衍生品或者山寨改编作品霸占了。安徒生的原著根本连影都见不着。
…have not been adapted by huge media companies. For example, if I search "Beowulf" in Amazon, the first link is for 2007 movie, the second for the book, and the third for a TV show. If I search for "The Little Mermaid", the whole page is dominated by the Disney franchise or some off-brand adaptations. Hans Christian Andersen's book is nowhere to be seen.
很有意思的是，文章提到了安徒生的《海的女儿》作为一个被“和谐净化”的故事典型——去掉了爱丽儿被迫在杀死王子和化作泡沫之间做抉择的情节。但安徒生自己的这个故事，其实本身也是一个净化版的……
It's interesting that the article mentions Hans Christian Andersen's “The Little Mermaid” as an example of a story that was “sanitized” by removing the part where Ariel is forced to choose between killing her prince or turning into foam on the waves. But Andersen's story was itself a sanitized…