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Princess Forever wrote:How about "in a land far, far away"?

From where I live in America, France, Germany, and England are all "lands far far away."

Super Aurora wrote:

Goliath wrote:The King looks more like a German Kaiser to me.

It's the mustache.
Agreed.

ajmrowland wrote:It's official. "Once Upon A Time" just isn't enough anymore.

Who says "Once Upon a Time" has to take place in a fictional country?

No one said that. It's that ppl should accept where these films actually DO take place. Some are easier to pinpoint than others, but it was never meant to be clear where the Disney versions take place, anyway. I don't mind SW being in Germany, or something like, but it's not like it has any effect on the way we watch these films, anyway.

It's a challenge, I accept that, and it's fun, but is it really necessary?

Super Aurora wrote:

Goliath wrote:The King looks more like a German Kaiser to me.

It's the mustache.

It is! But if you look at paintings of French monarchs, none of them looks like the King in Cinderella (costume, hair, overall appearance).

ajmrowland wrote:It's official. "Once Upon A Time" just isn't enough anymore.

Didn't Cinderella specifically states, in the opening, it takes place in a land "far, far away"?

Goliath wrote:

Super Aurora wrote: It's the mustache.

It is! But if you look at paintings of French monarchs, none of them looks like the King in Cinderella (costume, hair, overall appearance).

ajmrowland wrote:It's official. "Once Upon A Time" just isn't enough anymore.

Didn't Cinderella specifically states, in the opening, it takes place in a land "far, far away"?

Yeah, but I didn't bother to go back to edit it. I make mistakes, sometimes, and just don't always care.

I looked it up and the King actually does look a little like a German one. But "Walt Disney and Europ" said the castle and guards were taken from German inspiration. In fact, the film takes things from the German and French fairy tale. But also, countries take things from each other, so, I'm willing to accept Cinderella is in a place in France heavily influenced by Germany, at least the monarchy is, or it's some place heavily influenced by both France and Germany.

And it actually says, "Once upon a time, in a far away land, there was a tiny kingdom." I just realized, this would mean the kingdom is not the faraway land itself. So if France was never tiny, France doesn't have to be the kingdom, a tiny kingdom could have existed in it, and in that, a chateau...

ajmrowland wrote:
It's a challenge, I accept that, and it's fun, but is it really necessary?

But it's undeniably interesting, because the thing that made me start this whole thread in the first place, was because I was looking at a travel guide for Germany, and two of the castles looked quite similar to the ones you can see in the movie, Snow White.

IMO It's nice to know that there are places other than the Disney resorts that make you feel like it came out straight from the Disney movies.

After a bit of bored searching through my animal books I've found that a majority of the animal species seen in the Lion King live in Angola and Namibia so it's my theory the Lion King takes place in either one or both of those countries (since Simba does leave the Pridelands for the paradise spot so he could have crossed the "border")

I always imagine them to be on a another earth like planet or another dimension. I started writing a fanfic based martian Chronicles in which people from earth land on another planet where the fairy tales take place. I come with rather strange ideas sometimes but just get afraid to write about them.

Since the new Cinderella doll in Disneyland's It's A Small World renovation is placed in the France section, I would assume Disney at least thinks its version of Cinderella is set in la belle France!

Thanks carolinakid

Am I the only one who wonders if there's things, like the scripts or notes, that Disney has that tells them so much about the films, like where and when exactly they're set, but they never bother to tell the public?

I just saw a movie set in pre 1900 France and the soldier's uniforms and some of the dresses reminded me of what was seen in Cinderella.

If you look up Leopold I and Leopold II of Belgium, you would see that their clothes look like what the males in Cinderella wore.

I think Cinderella must have taken place in the 19th century, probably between 185 and 1870. The female costumes, especially during the Ball scene, are dead giveaways. Lady Tremaine's dress looks like something that could have been worn during the Victorian Era. Also, in the very beginning, weren't Young Cinderella, Young Drizella, and Young Anastasia all wearing bloomers? Well, bloomers were not invented till the 1850s by Amelia Bloomer.

I guess we can call it Fralium or Belgance
I hope Disney sets a fairy tale in Poland or Russia someday...

Jack Skellington wrote:

ajmrowland wrote:
It's a challenge, I accept that, and it's fun, but is it really necessary?

But it's undeniably interesting, because the thing that made me start this whole thread in the first place, was because I was looking at a travel guide for Germany, and two of the castles looked quite similar to the ones you can see in the movie, Snow White.

IMO It's nice to know that there are places other than the Disney resorts that make you feel like it came out straight from the Disney movies.

True, it is interesting.