Answers: Chip, the teacup; Flora; “Bippity-Boppity-Boo”; Maximus; Mooshoo; “Street Rat”; Sarabi; “Hi-ho hi-ho”;

Ray, the � re� y

Beauty and the Beast

Sleeping Beauty

Cinderella

Tangled

Mulan

Aladdin

Lion King

Snow White

Princess and the Frog

Fairy Tale Matcha) “Bippity-Boppity-Boo”

b) Ray, the firefly

c) “Street Rat”

d) Maximus

e) Flora

f) Sarabi

g) “Hi-ho, hi-ho”

h) Chip, the teacup

i) Mooshoo, the dragon

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Once upon a time, there was a movie based on the German fairy tale Snow White. Then, there was another made, and another. Since Walt Disney’s fi lm Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs fi rst premiered in

1937, numerous retellings have been produced. However, because of a more recent fascination with fairy tales, two twists on the traditional tale of good and evil are appearing on screen in 2012. On March 16, Mirror Mirror made its debut, tell-ing the story of a malicious queen who unjustly takes over the kingdom belonging to Snow White, an or-phan princess. Instead of seven dwarfs to help, there are seven miniature-sized highway robbers in their place. After rescuing Snow White from exile in the forest, the rebels stand by her side and help overthrow the queen.

Snow White and the Huntsman will be released on June 1, putting yet another unexpected spin on the traditional story. As usual, the evil queen is out to get Snow White, but Snow White has neither the dwarfs nor the robbers to help her. Instead, she wins over a huntsman, the prince, who was originally ordered by the queen to kill her. With him on her side, she prepares for the crucial battle that will decide the fate of the realm. These are just the two most recent adaptations that have been made of Snow

White. The story has acquired many adaptations as it has evolved over the years. Following the Disney version in 1937 came the restored Disney version in 1993, Snow White: A Tale of Terror (1997), Snow White: The Fairest of Them All in 2001 and the most recent Blu-ray Diamond Edition in 2009, just to name a few. According to senior Shawna Gilliam, fairy tales are simple to modify.

“Fairy tales are easy to alter because you can change around the plot to make it either funny or scary,” Gilliam said. “It’s interesting because we grew up watching the happy-go-lucky Snow White, but it’s a different generation now; she’s changed.” Although both Mirror Mirror and Snow White and the Huntsman are tightly woven around the tale of Snow White, they have completely opposite tones. “Huntsman takes itself very seriously, selling what looks like a Lord of the Rings take on the classic fairy tale,” MTV Movie Team critic Josh Wigler said. “Mirror Mirror is slap-sticky and over-the-top in the comedy department.” Even though she said she does not watch televi-sion much, biology teacher Leanna Racquer said Snow White and the Huntsman will certainly be a movie she watches on the big-screen. “Snow White and the Huntsman looks very aes-thetically pleasing. The sets, costumes and people

are pretty, but my fi rst impression was that it’s dark, and I like when people tell stories from other points of view. It makes Snow White look not so innocent,” Racquer said. “I’m thinking Charlize Theron makes a much better villain than Julia Roberts.”

Dark woods appeared on the television screen; then a mysterious fi gure slowly moved through a cloud of mist. Soph-

omore Jennie Battle watched as the opening music of her favorite show began to play. As the words “Once Upon a Time” ap-peared on the TV screen, her hands clenched in antici-pation of the story she was about to enjoy. “I like watching both Grimm and Once Upon a Time,” Battle said. “Grimm is especially dark, and the supernatu-ral characters are actually scary. The show is also more focused on the characters, and not necessarily their respective stories. In Once Upon a Time, every character has a back-story, which connects them to the other charac-ters, that were never introduced in the tradi-tional versions, or what everyone is used to seeing from Disney.” The two stories also have very different plot lines. Grimm is centered around a man named Nick Burkhardt, a homicide detec-tive who learns from his aunt that he is a descendant of an ancient line of “Grimms.” As descendents of the Grimm brothers, they

are charged with the task of protecting hu-mans from the creatures of fairy tales, which include Hexenbiests, Jägerbärs and Bauer-schweins, keeping with the German heritage of the original Grimm’s Fairy Tales. A reformed Blutbad, or wolf-like creature, and Nick’s old partner help Nick as he tries to protect humanity from the sinister sto-rybook characters, all the while keeping his

secret hidden from his fi ancé. “Grimm is an interesting detective show, although detec-tive stories are getting really old, and I can literally predict what’s going happen next,” junior Hannah Kyung said. “But Grimm has been really suspense-ful from the begin-ning.” Once Upon a Time opened with Emma Swan, a woman living in Boston until her 28th birthday when she is visited by a boy named Henry, the son she had given up for adoption 10 years earlier. She agrees to

drive him back to his home in Storybrooke, where he says everyone is a fairytale charac-ter under a spell cast by the evil queen, now the mayor and Henry’s adoptive mother. The characters, including Snow White, Prince Charming and Jiminy Cricket, were exiled from the world of fairy tales to the real world, unable to remember their true identi-ties and frozen in time.

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