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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I've always found it super interesting that Disney made a kids' thing out of that particular book. Because that's a bleak fucking book full of nasty filthy disgusting terrible people doing nasty filthy disgusting terrible things. Someone went "you know the classic where a couple of city officials drool after a gypsy woman and violently rape her in a cathedral and then hang her in the street? And a grotesque monster rampages against them for it? Wouldn't the kids just love that one but as a musical and instead of hanging her they burn her at the stake?"

[–] [email protected] 9 points 17 hours ago

gypsy woman

Sixteen in the novel.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

"Also, let's turn a womanizing thug into a fucking Disney prince, the kiddies will love it."

[–] [email protected] 3 points 18 hours ago

More to the point, why hasn't Troma taken a stab at it yet?