from the screen - snow white and the huntsman

It's always interesting to read an early version of a film script, and then go to the movie and
see what was changed.

By Nicoletta Ceccoli

Here are just a few changes I noticed from Snow White and the Huntsman,
screenplay by Evan Daugherty:

Script - The Huntsman and Snow have a whole montage where he teaches her how to fight and survive in the dark forest.
Screen -The Huntsman only shows Snow one move, the move that she uses to kill the queen in the end.  Otherwise, we have no explanation for Snow's skills.

Script - The prince is presented as wimpy, whiny, and over protective.
Screen - The prince is a rebel, good with arrows, and loves Snow from afar.

Script - The Huntsman has a long back story about a white wolf (owned by the Queen) killing his wife.  The queen offers the Huntsman revenge on the wolf if he gathers Snow from the dark forest.
Screen - The Huntsman's wife was youth-stolen by the Queen.  The Queen offers to bring her back to life if he gathers Snow, which is an easily exposed lie (exposed too soon if you ask me).

Script - Snow kills the Queen with a shard from the hall of mirrors that the Queen shattered to form her temporary glass army.
Screen - Snow kills the Queen with a knife.  And the fair blood in her veins, I guess.

Some changes were good, some maybe not so good, but finding the differences is always an interesting exercise in critical thinking in storytelling.

on reading - catherynne m. valente

But no one may know the shape of the tale in which they move.
And, perhaps, we do not truly know what sort of beast it is, either.
Stories have a way of changing faces.  They are unruly things,
undisciplined, given to delinquency and the throwing of erasers.
That is why we must close them up into thick, solid books, so they
cannot get out and cause trouble.

- Catherynne M. Valente,  The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of 
Her Own Making

By Tae-Eun Yoo

illustration - andrea zuill

These are really amazing.  Ripe for inspiring some feisty fairy tale retellings, or a few originals.

Queen of Hearts

Goldilocks

the well written - zora neale hurston

There is a basin in the mind where words float around on thought, and thought on sound and sight.
Then there is a depth of thought untouched by words, and deeper still a gulf of formless feelings untouched by thought.

- Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

By Anubiss (Dev. Art)

photo stories - rock climbing and colorful storm clouds

What happened in this place?
What did these storm clouds do?

By Joe Nigel Coleman

By Guan Wei

the well written - milan kundera

A long time ago, man would listen in amazement to the sound of regular beats in his chest, never suspecting what they were. He was unable to identify himself with so alien and unfamiliar an object as the body. The body was a cage, and inside that cage was something which looked, listened, feared, thought, and marveled; that something, that remainder left over after the body had been accounted for, was the soul.

- Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

By Pamela Jaeger

from unexpected places - vanessa jackman street style

These women could be one of your characters.  Or a piece of them.  Maybe you just like something in their eyes, or the way their hair flops, or the era they hint at.  Keep writing.

Via Vanessa Jackman