Writers rarely, if ever, pull off a perfect story on their first try. More often than not, they go through several drafts, and sometimes the final product is vastly different from the original version. In the modern era, when stories are translated and updated from much older texts, not to mention adapted into TV shows and movies, many details can be lost. And not just subtle details, but entire plot lines, characters, and more.
10. Pinocchio killed Jiminy Cricket and then he was hanged
The story of Pinocchio, a wooden doll who became a boy, was literally adapted for the screen dozens of times . The original story was called "The Adventures of Pinocchio" and was written back in 1881 by Carlo Collodi as a serial story. The book as a whole was published in 1883.
As with many fairy tales aimed at children from a bygone era, the original Pinocchio was a bit darker than today's version. For example, while the original featured a talking cricket, later named Jiminy, he wasn't actually the protagonist's friend. Instead, when the talking cricket decides to give Pinocchio an order, the puppet angrily throws a hammer at the bug's head, killing him.
Pinocchio himself eventually dies in the story, at least briefly. After Gepetto is arrested for mistreating a puppet, Pinocchio meets a fox and a cat who learn that he has some gold, so they they hang it on a tree and steal it.
The Death of Pinocchio was supposed to put an end to the story , a little moral tale about the dangers of lying and disobedience, but his editor urged him to continue the story, so the Blue Fairy arrives and rescues him, and his adventures continue until, eventually, he finds himself becoming a real boy.
9. Pazuzu from The Exorcist was called upon to fight the worst demons.
Pazuzu's name was not widely known before the film's release. "The Exorcist" 1973 In this story, Pazuzu is a demon who possesses Linda Blair's character, ostensibly to punish the priest Father Karras for his lack of faith. He encountered the demon early in his life in Iraq, and he clearly took an interest in it.
Author of the book "The Exorcist " did not pick the name Pazuzu out of thin air. In real life, Pazuzu hails from Mesopotamia, where he was the personification of West Wind He is the king of the wind demons and has two pairs of wings, a monstrous head and a scorpion-like tail. But our modern idea of what a demon is wasn't necessarily what it was for people between the 8th and 6th centuries BCE, when Pazuzu was in his prime.
As demonic as he was, Pazuzu was also a curse for other, more malevolent spirits, such as Lamashtu. Calling on Pazuzu could protect you from Lamashtu , who was believed to prey on pregnant women and newborns. In his own way, Pazuzu was an exorcist who kept a far worse demon at bay.
8. The One Ring was not the One Ring in the original The Hobbit.
Before "The Lord of the Rings" became a worldwide hit worth hundreds of millions of dollars, it was a modest series of children's books written by J. R. R. Tolkien. And before " Lord of the Rings" was just "The Hobbit" .
Initially "The Hobbit " was published in 1937, and at the time it was a standalone book that Tolkien had no particular intention of turning into a larger universe. Because of this, the original "Hobbit" is actually different from "The Hobbit" which we know. As soon as Tolkien began to expand his story with " Lord of the Rings" , he had to rework "The Hobbit" , to make the story work. In particular, the One Ring and Gollum needed significant edits to make the rest of the story work.
Before the revision, the One Ring wasn't the One Ring at all. It was just a ring. It was magical, sure, but not in any meaningful way. Its owner was invisible, but that didn't matter much. When Bilbo met Gollum, Gollum was happy. put your magic ring to their little competition because it didn't matter much to him. He still uses name Precious, but he is talking about himself, not the ring. After Bilbo wins the ring, they go their separate ways, and Gollum doesn't seem to care one way or the other.
7. Sherlock Holmes was originally a cocaine addict
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes is one of the greatest literary characters, who still lives on in new tales in print and on screen. His first appearance was in "A Study in Scarlet" in 1887, and his keen powers of observation and intelligence made him an instant classic, as well as a model for the numerous fictional detectives that followed.
One of the major differences between the original Sherlock and what became of him was that Sherlock Holmes was originally cocaine addict . And not just a random drug addict, this man loved his cocaine In the second Sherlock novel, The Sign of Four, published in 1890, the book actually begins with Watson annoyed that Sherlock is injecting himself again. Holmes explicitly states that he uses cocaine, a 7 percent solution, and even offers it to Watson. This is after Watson remarked that he had observed Holmes injecting himself three times a day for "many months."
While Watson disapproves, Holmes counters that while cocaine may be physically harmful, the mental effects are worth it because he finds it "extraordinarily stimulating and clearing of the mind."
By 1904, Holmes was no longer a drug addict, as explained in the story " The Adventure of the Three-Quarter Missing Person" There we learn that Watson weaned him off drugs. This coincides with the period of time when cocaine, once used in all sorts of products including Coca-Cola, was banned due to its harmful effects.
6. In the original stage version "The Wizard of Oz" Instead of Toto there was a cow.
Most of us know the story of The Wizard of Oz, and even if you're not a fan, you know there's a lion, a tin man, a scarecrow, and even a little dog named Toto. That's because of how popular the original Hollywood movie was. But not everyone The Wizard of Oz followed this plan.
Before "The Wizard of Oz" starring Judy Garland was filmed in 1939, it was a novel by L. Frank Baum published in 1900. And in between those two events, there was a Broadway musical in 1902. Neither of them are the same story you'd recognize.
The stage show and subsequent silent film featured notable changes, such as replacing Toto with a cow. named Imogen Dorothy went to Oz with her cow. It is said that this was because the director did not want to rely on a trained dog.
When Dorothy arrives in Oz, she meets a madman among others , a tram conductor and an anarchist. There are no Munchkins, and witches exist, but do little. The Witch of the West is only mentioned, never seen.
5. There were no rats in the original Pied Piper story.
The Pied Piper of Hamelin is a legend that comes from the town of Hamelin, Germany, hundreds of years ago. It tells the story of a bagpiper who is hired to rid the town of rats, which he does. The town, unsavory characters, decide not to pay the man. So he uses his pipe to lure their children in, too. This fits the dark aesthetic of many old legends and fairy tales, which seem light and sweet until they turn dark and grim.
In a much darker twist, if you follow the story back to its origins, you'll find some evidence that there were no rats at all originally, and that this actually happened. The real town of Hamelin has been chronicling the story, apparently, as far back as 1300 , when it was part of a stained glass window in a church. According to written accounts of the long-lost window, in this version a bagpiper appeared and 130 children disappeared.
So what really happened? Theories vary. from the story being a metaphor for some great tragedy, and the Piper being death, to him being a kind of recruiter leading the migration out of Germany.
4. Peter Pan may kill the Lost Boys
Like Pinocchio, Peter Pan is another beloved childhood character made popular by Walt Disney. In the story, Peter lives in Neverland, and while modern viewers may know it as a place where no one ages, that's not how it was originally. Only Peter stayed young, the Lost Boys aged in the wrong place.
In the original text by J.M. Barrie, published in various forms in the early 1900s before finally being released as one complete novel as Peter and Wendy in 1911, it was acknowledged that the Lost Boys had grown up. Chapter 5 begins with a description of the Lost Boys searching for Peter and the pirates searching for the Lost Boys. It then describes how the number of boys changes as some are killed and others become too old to be allowed to live. The text states, "When they seem to be growing up, which is against the rules, Peter thins them out ".
The exact meaning of this is never established, but it seems like it can only mean that Peter is sending them away or killing them. One from fan theories even suggested that Captain Hook's hostility stemmed from the fact that he was a lost boy who grew up, survived, and returned for revenge.
3. There were originally vampires in the room
« Tommy Wiseau's "Room" is infamous for being one of the worst movies ever made, and beloved for that fact. Rumor has it that it was almost even weirder than what we actually got.
According to Greg Sestero, the film's other star, one of Wiseau's first ideas was to show that his character was actually a vampire . It would have been really amazing with the scene where Johnny's car flew away would at night, because, you know, he's a vampire.
2. In the original myths, Medusa was always a monster.
Medusa is one of the most famous creatures from Greek mythology, a Gorgon with snakes for hair who could turn anyone who saw her to stone. In the most famous version of the story, she was a beautiful mortal who was the lover of Poseidon/Neptune, who was later cursed by Minerva/Athena to become a monster no one could even look at. But it was version fairy tales Ovid , written many years after the original myth.
As one of the Gorgon sisters, Medusa was originally always been a monster , and not a mortal woman. Only later she turned into a mortal, and the two sisters-monsters, beautiful, not hideous, to make the whole story more tragic.
1. There is no balcony in Romeo and Juliet.
If you right now Google Romeo and Juliet as an image search, you will notice a common theme in many of the images. The scene depicted is often a famous scene on the balcony . Technically, it's Act II, Scene II, and one of the most quoted sections of the play. It features Romeo's speech, "but soft, what light comes through yonder window." In dozens, if not hundreds, of films and stage adaptations, he has depicted Romeo in a garden and Juliet on a balcony above him. It's all rather ironic, since Shakespeare never wrote about a balcony.
It is noteworthy that the word "balcony" had never appeared in print before 20 years after Shakespeare wrote "Romeo and Juliet" . There were no balconies then. But they were in use when Thomas Otway's famous play " The History and Fall of Gaius Marius" , years after Shakespeare had fallen out of favor and his plays had never been performed.
Caius Marius was, for lack of a better term, a plagiarist. Otway stole entire scenes and dialogue from Shakespeare, and his balcony scene, which borrows heavily from Shakespeare, took place on a balcony. And the play was very popular, performed 30 times over a 30-year period, whereas Shakespeare had never been performed. So the stage became closely associated with the balcony for most people, because that was how they had always imagined it.
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