Billy Ray's Blog

I really enjoy stories of people  rising up  from nothing. These stories, or so-called “rise tales” features a narrative arc of “rags to riches through magic and marriage.” Cinderella is probably the most popular “rise tales” when we are discussing fairy tales, and we watched two films that had to do with this central motif in Cinderella. The one film, which is Disney’s animated  Cinderella , is the story of Cinderella that most of us are familiar with. The other film,  Pretty Woman , is a more modern adaptation of the story of Cinderella. Though the movies are different, they both prove that it’s realistic for a person to reach success with magic, marriage, and charm.      In  Cinderella , no matter how much negativity is thrown at Cinderella, she does not let it affect her until she has a breakdown when her dress gets destroyed by her wicked step sisters. Even in the beginning of the movie the narrator explains how badly Cinderella was...

The music clip “Sonne” by Rammstein has a lot of similarities to the “Snow White” fairytales we have read for class, yet it is still much different from the actual tale we have read (and the music clip it's a lot creepier in my opinion). The music clip is basically a modern adaptation of the German tale we learned about, which is the Brothers Grimm version of Snow  White. In the clip the band members are all acting as if they’re mining gold for a woman.      The woman looks awfully familiar to our beloved Snow White that we have learned about in the fairytales, and her dress strongly resembles the Disney version of Snow Whites dress. However, there is a twist on the Brothers Grimm tale in the music clip. The band members are acting as if they’re dwarves mining this gold for Snow White which, didn’t happen in the fairytale...but we could imagine that the seven dwarves would perform any task for their beautiful Snow White. The other twist is that Snow White i...