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When I was but a wee lass, I happened across an animated version of The Little Mermaid playing on TV. Not the Disney one. This one stuck very closely to the original Hans Christian Anderson story. And I think it may have emotionally scarred me at a very young age. What an f'd up story to tell your kids.
Maybe this is why I love the disney version so much. Happy endings are always better.

So anyway, it went a little something like this. The little mermaid gets turned into a human to get the prince to fall in love with her. If he doesn't, she'll turn to seafoam. Prince falls in love with a different girl who he thinks saved him. They get married. Little mermaid's sisters cut off their beautiful hair and give it to the sea witch. In return they are given a knife. Little mermaid needs to use that knife to kill the prince. When his blood spills over her feet, it'll turn back into a fin and she can be a mermaid again. Little Mermaid decides she loves the prince too much and cannot kill him. She turns into seafoam. Prince wakes up, sees a scale that the Little Mermaid left behind and realizes it was her all along who saved him.

So EVERYBODY IS SCREWED! Little mermaid is DEAD. Sisters cut off their hair for NOTHING! Prince is stuck with the OTHER girl. Depression ensues until I watch Disney's little mermaid and am happy again.
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=bPAVLICA Apr 20, 2013
I think I know which version you are talking about, and in my opinion, it's the best version of the story I've seen. (:
Correct me if I'm wrong, but is it this one: [link] [link]
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~southpony98 Mar 28, 2013
Which channel was the movie playing on?
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*BabylonSabby Dec 6, 2012  Student General Artist
And this is why Disney decided NOT to stick with the original plot of the fairy tale. XDD
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Mood: Love ~Silence-in-November Sep 24, 2012
I totally agree! Not really a story to tell little kids....but I think the theme of the story was that life isn't fair.

Although your picture is very lovely, it's also very sad. As the little mermaid returns to the sea, who is no longer her friend, her sisters rush to her aid; but no matter how fast, they'll never reach her in time. I think you chose your colors very well, and the perspective gives the piece a rushed and interesting view. I've never seen a version where the sisters rush to help their beloved human sister after she commits suicide. It's very unique. Truly, honestly, I think you did a great job.
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~Istriel Jul 30, 2012
I loved and I will always loved that animated version.
Thank you so much to bring back my childhood.
I love the idea to see what happened next once she jumped in the sea. You depict that with poetry
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~cernon Jul 27, 2012
The Little Mermaid in the original doesn't simply die. In her strife to gain a soul, upon her death, she becomes a daughter of air and will gain a soul after three hundred years of service.
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~bloodonthemoon5 Jul 16, 2012  Student Digital Artist
featured! :heart:
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Mood: Tearful ~Kevdraws223 Jun 28, 2012
wow... depressing much
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~KunoichiZen Jun 27, 2012
In contrast to your opinion, I actually feel that I prefer this sadder ending more than the happy Disney ending. It seems more poetic, has more of an impact and I feel like I can really relate to it myself (before anyone makes a joke about how I've never been a mermaid who became sea foam, it's a story about unrequited love ok XD).

I consider this ending more bittersweet than anything, because although the film doesn't mention this, it was clear that Marina not only longed for human life but she also longed to have a human eternal soul that lasts long after death, as mermaids only live for two hundred years but they do not have an afterlife. So although Marina turned to sea foam, you also see in the film that her soul was lifted above the sea and descended up to the Heavens. This shows that what made Marina truly human, was her pure and true love for her prince and her price of self-sacrifice in order to allow him to live and be happy. So eventually, she did gain what she wanted, a soul and she discovered true love. I think that is what the film's message meant when it stated that Marina will and will forever continue to be of guidance to all of mankind.

Also, I like to think that the Prince and Marina will reunite in Heaven because you can't say that isn't a possibility. :D
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~Nanda-MC95 Jun 24, 2012
God, you took the words out of my mouth. This is EXACTLY what I felt, after I decided to read the original story.... little did I know back then.. hahahaha
If I have ANY idea, that Anderson was a F***ing psychopath, that wrote stories to scar children for life, I would never had read it.
This made me love Disney even more, if that's possible :)
Anyway, great work, I love it :D
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