The Dark Origins of Disney

[@donyanasser1674]

You should make this a series. I’ve heard all the origins of the stories before, but I don’t mind hearing them again. I really do enjoy these types of videos!

[@OffhandDisney]

I mean, there are plenty of movies to cover.

[@bongorazzdazz]

I agree. i’ve read so many fairytales but I love hearing about them and others opinions

[@mercurialmoose5006]

Agreed, this would make for it's own great series

[@angelsinger4574]

I agree! Perhaps the next could be films based on books? For example: “The Sword in the Stone,” “Alice in Wonderland,” “Tarzan,” “The Hunchback of Notre Dame,” and “Mary Poppins.” It would be like this one, with the darker themes/facts that Disney altered or left out all together (and in just the little list I gave you...there are plenty).

[@clffliese26]

@@angelsinger4574 You left out One Hundred and One Dalmatians, which came from a book that Disney changed quite a bit.

[@ThursdayNextSO-27]

“But that’s ok she just turns into dust” - Offhand Disneyland 2018

[@coyoteartist]

If only she had stayed that way.

[@tr0nmo992]

Mr stark I don’t feel so good *turns to dust* (seen infinity war?)

[@SuperFreyaGAILINProductions]

Po Teletubbie oh! 😭

[@willlyon7129]

How many years or centuries has she been living?

[@jayfox8765]

*T H A N O S S N A P*

[@mcbonkin3091]

*Fun fact - In the real story of Snow White, the prince and snow white invited the evil Queen to their wedding which turned out to be a trap, they killed her and tortured her to death.*

[@whattheheckamidoinghere4305]

Thanks god that Disney decided to have the Evil Queen dead from cliff falling.

[@mo0n__mo0n]

n... niiiice....?

[@olivia-he7tq]

Fun fact. Lmao

[@naimalee1046]

YUP

[@HighItsBubba]

Thats fucking metal

[@CT--lj9ck]

Jean Laffitte = The real Origins of Disney

[@PureVikingPowers]

What does this dude have to do with disney?

[@siracha4956]

jeans la feet

[@TooCooFoYou]

@@PureVikingPowers Everything.

[@curtiscrane5415]

@@siracha4956 lol!

[@yankeeclipper4326]

@@PureVikingPowers I don't get it either. Must be some kind of inside joke for this channel

[@gennacarmichael6526]

I love darker stuff like this it is so interesting

[@abbipomeroy6167]

Into the woods is a musical that includes elements of the original fairy tales

[@hannahblespecter5325]

Fun fact! Folklorists have studied and agreed that most fairy tales we know today actually have no traceable origin. There are a few (like The Little Mermaid) that do have books they're based off of. However there are stories (Like Snow White) that are simply another version of the same plot and stock characters that have been told all around the world for centuries. In fact folklorists think the first "Snow White" story may have been told orally in China around 50 BC. There are tons of stories that are classified by fairy tale from different parts of the world in different parts of time and that is really fascinating! So while I absolutely love the Grimm versions they are NOT the originators for any fairy tales like many people seem to think! It doesn't make their versions (or any of these versions) wrong, because all them follow the same plot and category classifications. It just means they aren't the First. Regardless I love folklore so thank you for this!!

[@ambrosia7801]

Most writers who wrote the fairytales were historians and.From information of different mythologies wrote or borrowed tales from the original mythology tales and made it there own and for a lesson.Also sources of real creatures and urban legends of real instances of cases with... witches,werewolf's,faeries,elves,and vampires,mermaids and spirits or,the creatures amoung the living folks of the faeries as well.So read up a little bit more because you may not have the full answer as you may think you do.??? (Fun fact) The original drafts of the most famous fairytales you know might not be the one that everyone must have read before the later ones. Since of all peoples complainte's of it being to dark for a child to read,they simple stated they didn't write it for children they writen it for the parents to read to their children about what's going on in the world and for the child to be prepared or that will be your very unfortunate fate.

[@daveandgena3166]

I really like it when you put on your historian hat. It suits you. PS: I had a storybook based on that original Italian Pinocchio story when I was a small kid. I was only slightly scarred by it.

[@jonahclemons9231]

Not sure if I should pay attention to the Pinocchio story or the music box from haunted mansion.

[@morganwhitt9054]

This video was so cool! Please please please make this a series!! I love Finding Nemo the most because of the amazing animation, life lessons and funny moments. My favorite Disney fairytale has to be The Princess and the Frog. Tiana's hard work and perseverance throughout the movie really inspired me to work at what I want in life.

[@maybedefinitely4498]

There’s only 2 things in this world that will make me stop everything I am doing and devote my full attention to: Offhand videos and HQ trivia.

[@camilelcoyne]

Yes, more dark, please! This was a wonderful, informative video and I'd love to see more like it!

[@RafaelGorrochotegui]

Great video! Thoroughly researched. It is good to see comparisons between the versions of these stories. It make me wonder what could have been if they did the original stories verbatim as an animated film.

[@denis65]

Aladdin is my favorite. It's action packed. I'd like to see more of these origin stories

[@nicolemoses7410]

Also, Sleeping beauty only had 18 minutes of screen time and 18 lines

[@memethyst]

oh gOD THE SLEEPING BEAUTY ONE NO THANKS

[@OffhandDisney]

Yeah, yikes.

[@curtiscrane5415]

@@OffhandDisney yep,these storys are messed up!

[@alexisw5674]

I've been binge watching Offhand's videos for a week now

[@amaliatorres625]

Can I just say how much I love your videos and ur the reason why I love Disney so much!!!! Such amazing content I love it :D!!!!!

[@OffhandDisney]

Wow, thanks for the kind words!

[@drewaskeland6529]

I liked this video a lot and would also like to see more videos about the films, while still keeping the parks as a focus. Congrats on 40k!

[@kyancaudill6971]

Offhand is better than any KZbinr I know, like this if I’m stating facts

[@battleindie2413]

Kyan jackson so true

[@OffhandDisney]

Pffft

[@johnpurdy3336]

Offhand Disney Ok. ONE of the best. Like top 3. Btw, u had me at Dark!

[@kyancaudill6971]

John Purdy #1

[@wdbarbie]

Kyan jackson Trueee

[@allison1436]

I would love seeing videos like this in the future!

[@poppunpresents]

I remember reading that during the early stages of production on Pinocchio they ended up shelving 6 months of story work because of how the original story and characters were

[@thomass8269]

Most came from “The Brothers Grimm.” In that era...those stories were often “Cautionary Tales” more so than “Happily Ever After...” So Yes...Please...continue with these types of vids...as they truly do assist in reminding we as a populace...what was acceptable story telling in a completely different...yet remains...RATHER RELEVANT.

[@nutmeqzy]

Please do more, these are the best. Maybe do one about dark things that have happened in the parks?

[@alexm7859]

Its fun stepping into the darker side every now and then, I definitely would enjoy watching more of these. Also I really like the new intro!

[@TweetsieRailroader]

7:02 Pinocchio was a pretty messed up Disney Movie to begin with.

[@jennyk8122]

I liked this one. I would enjoy more of the comparisons of the original stories and the Disney versions. It's fun!

[@eddieboehm8410]

can you please talk about the real life castles that Walt used as the base for Sleeping Beauty/ Cinderella castles respectively in the parks.

[@ScumlordStudio]

I thought everyone knew tangled was literally Rapunzel?

[@Retnick]

We read the original version of Pinocchio in 6th grade and I cried lol

[@serenity_lumiscient1879]

I love this video! You should totally make more videos even though its a little darker. I thought you were going with the Grimm version of these tales.

[@david_walker_esq]

I think you should do this as a series in addition to your usual Disney and Disneyland history. Many Disney films are really only inspired by or are reimaginings of fairy tales. I'm familiar with a lot of the original source material, but I still find this type of video enjoyable. You ask for our favourite Disney movies. I know you meant animated feautures, but Disney has produced so many great films through its various studios. I've got so many, I basically have a top 10 list for animated features alone. Golden Age: Snow White, Wartime: The Three Caballeros, Silver Age: Sleeping Beauty, Bronze Age: Robin Hood, Renaissance: The Little Mermaid & Beauty & the Beast, Post-Renaissance: Atlantis: The Lost Empire & Meet The Robinsons, Revival: Mulan & Zootopia.

[@gir2009]

You should definitely make this into a series! Snow White, Cinderella, The Little Mermaid, Peter Pan -- they all have some pretty dark origins. I think we're all a bit fascinated by the more macbre bits of Disney lore.

[@carpentiled]

Giving up your child for a salad 11/10 parenting

[@donaldnelson9761]

Follow your muse wherever it takes you!! It's a pleasure to watch your work! Your videos are always informative!

[@quinakaquin8401]

I am so happy when a new video from offhand Disneyland er..... I mean offhand Disney pops up in my inbox

[@themillenniumpeacock]

Great video! Would love to hear more origins and more spoopy facts

[@Queendaisy76]

I would love more of these videos. I really enjoy your channel!

[@mrje6128]

My favorite movie is The Nightmare before Christmas. It comes from the poem made by Tim Burton. Love these videos!

[@jkranz100]

This was a good educational and fun video. I would be happy to see more like this. Thank you.

[@christinehorror8178]

Loved the darkest video! Want to see more. My fav Disney movie is little mermaid cause the art was just gorgeous and I always wanted to turn into a mermaid as a kid! Lol oh and I'll be at Disneyland on Feb 7th

[@ChrisDaron]

The Metal side of Disney.... I dig it!

[@jessecaalvarez-kuykendall7071]

4:36 Yay! I'm glad you found this. Shelley Duvall's Faerie Tale Theatre is highly underrated.

[@MsArana]

I liked this video and format! I'd love to see more soon! My favorite Disney film is Aladdin, the story is fun and the ad-libs from Robin made it all the better. As a cast member I'd love to catch you while you're at the park, I'd share my discounts with you to help you stretch your dollar!

[@tishypoo]

Hey guy! Loved this video so much and please do more like this. I think it’s so interesting to learn the original stories and how Walt beautified what we know today. Wait til you learn about Snow White and Little Mermaid 😳 JUST WAIT

[@diy2surf]

I love the darker stuff!!!! But all your stuff is great too!!! Would love to see more darker stuff! 👻🎃

[@professormultipurpose5244]

My favorite Disney movie is The Lion King. Beautiful animation, music, and characters, amazing development, fresh new take on a variety of old stories, and just being super nostalgic to me. BUT my fav Disney movie based off a fairy tale is Beauty and the Beast. Unlike its source material, there’s not really anything that feels forced in it(like the Beast actually taking care of Beauty’s father but then losing his shit because he took a flower, at least in the movie, the Beast has a reason to get crazy over it, it also makes sense within the film’s universe), the animation is simply breathtaking, and the romance and growth Belle and the Beast have together is simply amazing. They never say how long they’ve actually gotten to know each other, and that’s awesome, we can interpret it as however long we want it to be so that way their relationship feels natural. Also the really inventive thing they did with the villain being viewed as a hero but is really cruel and vile deep down inside, BRILLIANT I SAY! BRILLIANT!

[@Idk-wm3pt]

Nice vid. Love the new intro!!

[@AdventureandDonuts]

Love the video, I appreciate the research and work that goes into these.

[@KennFast]

Honestly, I love the darker videos! My favorite movie based on a fairy tale is The Little Mermaid.

[@MaskedAwesome]

Absolutely do more like this! Loved it!

[@wendymoya1696]

Definitely enjoyed it, actually I wish it was longer and I looovvveeed the background music🖤

[@oliviacopeland01]

I definitely love learning about the origins of fairy tales. Especially when they are accurate (like they were in this video). I've read most of the Grimm and Anderson fairy tales and you do great at comparing them to the disney movies. You should definitely do more. The little mermaid and Cinderella are both great as well. Both in their original stories and (of course) their Disney movies

[@robinlovesdisney6519]

Would love to see more videos like this! Thank you!!

[@gkupos]

Giving up your child for a. Salad 😂😂😂

[@ramonantoniodejuanbennett6239]

Or giving up your child to have your "salad tossed"! Yeah I went there cause I have gas for the trip!

[@jimmymcinerney1950]

I like this. You should do more of origins of Disney movies.

[@HelloZombieGurl]

I loved this video! Facts like this are so interesting to learn (: Also Sleeping Beauty is my favorite Disney Movie as well. The art style, the characters, all of it makes it my fave c:

[@Winchester7983]

I would love more videos like this, it would make a great series!

[@NxTTxT]

I did a side by side comparison of the original and Disney versions of Pinocchio and they are inextricably two completely different stories.

[@laurendouglas2926]

In art school we had an entire day devoted to "the Old Disney's love affair with Hell" and it was amazing. So your 'darker' videos are totally still up the original Disney alley, my friend.

[@Retnick]

7:50, best music choice ever dude!

[@CybermanBill]

YES.... YES... Yes... Please make more... You should make this a running series!! Great video! 🤖🤓

[@alyfan1]

Love this. Hearing the originals is great as alot of people don't realize how dark the stories originally were.

[@alyjones9391]

I’m with you - Sleeping Beauty is my favorite! But I do also love the little mermaid which is a very, very different story from the original fairytale.

[@DimbleDuck]

Love it. :) you’re the best channel on KZbin

[@ryoko65]

Yes, yes, yes! More, more, more! Please, please, please! Your video is awesome as always! Thank you for all the time and effort you put into the videos. 😊

[@whoiskaianyway]

I love this video! I grew up with the Grimm fairy-tales making this special!

[@mikkelstergaard6218]

Must say I heard a slightly different version of Rapunzel when I was young, up until the prince shows up it mostly goes the same, he gets into the tower, but instead of the witch catching him in the tower, she sees him leaving, and being a devious old witch she then proceeds to cut off Rapunzel's hair and lies in wait, the next time the prince shows up he calls out to get back in the tower, the witch throws the hair out of the tower so he can climb up and as he makes it to the top, she stabs him in the chest and pushes him right out the tower where he dies on impact with the hard ground. You know, something you'd tell a child for their bedtime story.

[@nighthawk9097]

Pretty interesting to hear the origin stories to those movies, hope to see more videos along this line

[@coyoteartist]

And if the author of Pinocchio had been able to publish his original version, it would have ended with the hanging. My choice would have been don't write the book in the first place. I was not a fan. actually not a fan of the movie either. Well Figaro. Got to love him.

[@sloppiesweeaboocorner]

I actually enjoy the book and all its messed up moments (even though i stole it from the school library in 4th grade HAH dont steal kids) i thought the stark contrasts were really interesting to look through and compare

[@coyoteartist]

@@sloppiesweeaboocorner Well if it had ended the way the author wanted, it would have looked more messed up. That hanging was suppose to be the end. It's not that it can't be an interesting book, I just never could get on board with the main character. He never sat well with me. Even in the Disney movie, I didn't like him and combine that with my tendency to stronger reactions to things in animation then live action, the creepy things like the string dance and turning into a donkey and all, just sealed it's fate.

[@rochellemullin6531]

If you do a followup video, I'd suggest looking at the original versions of The Little Mermaid, Cinderella, Snow White, and the Snow Queen. All are rather disturbing and were definitely cleaned up for the Disney versions.

[@shannonnichols3415]

Loved it!!!! Do more of these if possible! Great job! Thx & many blessings!🇺🇸

[@insertnamehere7538]

Huh, I randomly found someone with an extremely lovable gutso personality whomst makes disney videos on youtube. Never thought I’d say that sentence in my life.

[@ClayArtGirl]

Nice video! But to elaborate on Rapunzel, there are actually 3 different versions of it. One ends like how you explain, one ends with them never finding each other after he is blinded and she is sent to live in a forest and the last one ends with them finding each other but she wasn't able to heal his eyes.

[@MB_173]

Love the video, would like to see more. Also, I liked lilo and stitch the most

[@jenmontzingo]

Originally, it was Cinderella because my favorite character is Gus the mouse. Is there anyway, you could explain the merge in between Pixar and Disney. I would like the movie inside out analyzed from the Disney perspective and how it revolutionized the standard Disney story. Maybe I’m totally confused because I’m new to your channel and new to all things Disney on how this all works. Thanks for your channel, I’ve never really been a Disney aficionado but I stumbled upon it and find it so worthwhile.

[@Jupzilla]

I loved this video! I’d love to see more of them. I like the the Snow Queen, and The little Mermaid originals. The original Beauty and the Beast too. I heard an early Disney storyboard kept Beauty’s sisters

[@adamhajjar1886]

I love the scarier vids

[@zeldamaniac14]

I like the Phantom Manor music box toward the end.

[@oliviaggallup]

The music made this so spooky!!

[@PikminGhost]

A few years late but... my favourite is Beauty and the Beast. I Grew up with a back deformity in a girls only school... I was never bullied or anything but I couldn't help but feel like a beast among princesses. Anyways, I think I liked it that much because it showed me that 'beasts' can have happy endings too :)

[@joevinski1]

Yes keep up the great work brother the more often the better!!!!

[@Just_jessie_3]

I enjoyed this video and would like to see more! My favorite Disney film is Frozen but my favorite fairytale is The Little Mermaid. Frozen is technically based on a fairytale too but The Little Mermaid follows the plot of the original fairytale closely (except for the whole turning to sea foam thing at the end).

[@wrenshah2793]

I'm really hoping that I can see you in Disney! My trip is from the second to the fifth so hopefully our paths will cross.

[@MissKarma666]

My favourite Disney film of all time is Dumbo 🐘 and my favourite European fairytale adaptation is the sword in the stone 😄 wonderful video as always

[@meli_lanza]

My favorite part of this was the Phantom Manor music, and I've only seen videos about it!

[@CuriosityRocks]

This is really interesting so I would love more of this. My favourites are Beauty and the Beast, Ratatouille, Hercules

[@Sage-gn1vb]

“I don’t have a picture for this part, so just imagine a gross, cut up blind guy.”

[@Jo-jg3cn]

Great stuff! More of this please

[@KR-og5wu]

This was great. I would love to see more!!

[@carissacarlson1418]

Dude, you should make this a running series.

[@johnlucas8550]

excellent. I'd like to see more like this. well done.

[@aggressivewolfie2452]

I really liked this and would be thrilled to see more like it.

[@conceptvague5708]

Did anyone else laugh when Pinocchio threw his mallet at jimmeny cricket?

[@RebuildingRosie]

More of these please. I loved it

[@2headedtasman200]

I really miss these types of videos

[@nolanatterbury157]

Yeah this was a great video! Would love more

[@cbranalli]

very interesting and entertaining. would enjoy more.

[@kydrafraznoir1964]

Disney even did the same thing with Daniel P. Mannix's novel The Fox and the Hound even that was dark. So Disney made a few changes to the movie and made it based on friendship rather than revenge which was one of the themes of the novel, but retains some of the dark tone it had. Originally they were going to make Chief die like he did in the novel but they decided that an on-screen death might be to graphic for children and it might anger parents as well as grandparents so they made him survive with a cast instead and good thing too. The Fox and the Hound was one of the most difficult developments/productions in Disney's history.

[@clffliese26]

Like you, my favorite classic Disney movie is Sleeping Beauty. My favorite modern movie is Frozen, which has a pretty dark origin, as well. I'd love to see more videos like this. You should do some of the modern movies. Hans Christian Andersen's tale of the Little Mermaid is really dark. Beauty and the Beast is very dark, too. Of course, that was written by the Brothers Grimm and all their stories were very dark. It seems like all "Fairy Tales" were full of murder and mayhem. And, we tell these stories to little kids. Go figure!

[@unusual772]

Can I know the dark about frozen because I don't see any dark side except Elsa maybe a witch