Agreed. Fairy tales are inherently surreal. So unless you're dedicating a ton of money into aftereffects, the realism works against the story's surrealist narrative. I mean, unless you are trying to build some kind of horror reboot (like Grimm's fairy tales have a pretty dark tone and can be kind of cool as a horror-fairy-tale genre blend), it just doesn't make sense to go the live action route. (Reminds me of the live action remake of Alice in Wonderland and the Tim Burton aesthetic — it worked because there's an underlying madness to the Alice story.)
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Date: 2022-10-09 23:44 (UTC)Agreed. Fairy tales are inherently surreal. So unless you're dedicating a ton of money into aftereffects, the realism works against the story's surrealist narrative. I mean, unless you are trying to build some kind of horror reboot (like Grimm's fairy tales have a pretty dark tone and can be kind of cool as a horror-fairy-tale genre blend), it just doesn't make sense to go the live action route. (Reminds me of the live action remake of Alice in Wonderland and the Tim Burton aesthetic — it worked because there's an underlying madness to the Alice story.)