#kvitebjorn

[suthnmeh]

Hello my pretties!! Yes I'm still on here, sorta. Not many turtles but there's going to be more animation stuff like this coming since I can finally start posting my stuff from The Polar Bear Prince! I moved to Belgium for 8 months for this, working at Studio Dreamwall in the city of Charleroi, the Detroit of Europe. I had a BLAST there, lemme tell ya. This here is Liv, and she likes animules and I kinda love her. Also look up the songs, they were my favorite thing from the movie!

[reviews-sky]

New Movie Thoughts!

The Polar Bear Prince (2024)

[fairytalemovies]

The secret is revealed…

Princezna Duše (1991) Kvitebjørn kong Valemon (1991) Prins Hatt under jorden (1980) Na východ od Slunce a na západ od měsíce (1969)

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Zwerg Nase (2021) has this, sort of. It's been a while since I last saw it, but I remember thinking that in some places it felt like a Disney movie.

I think even some Norwegian and Swedish critics at the time thought that Kvitebjørn Kong Valemon (1991) had a "Disney aesthetic".

Somebody recently said that the Peau d'Âne of Jacques Demy, aka the 1970 Donkey Skin, was their favorite fairytale movie outside of the Disney ones, and that Disney would never adapt Donkey-skin. It is funny because the whole purpose of this movie was to BE a Disney movie.

I posted several times about this movie before, and one of the big things with Demy's creation is that he purposefully embraced and imitated the codes and visuals of the Disney fairytale movies of the time (Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, etc...). He wanted to create a live-action Disney movie, he wanted to make the "Disney movie Disney would never make". Of course there were other influences (the hippie and psychedelic aesthetic of 60s America, the Gustave Doré illustrations of Perrault, the surrealist movement) but Disney was one of the core ones (alongside Cocteau's Beauty and the Beast).

And this made me wonder something... Are there other live-action fairytale movies that purposefully tried to embrace a Disney aesthetic? We know about Disney homages or imitators or rip-offs in the animated world, but in the live-action world? I am pretty sure Demy's Donkey Skin is the only movie I heard of that purposefully tried to embrace a Disney aesthetic. But it can't have been the only one right?

Weren't there other "Disney live-action fairytale" movies before Disney actually made live-action fairytale movies? Probably in other European countries cinema history...

[whatsoeverislovelyandpure]

The Polar Bear King / Kvitebjørn Kong Valemon (1991)

[fairytale-idylls]

Norway.

[temiree]

Recently, I hit 100 patrons for the first time on Patreon! To celebrate, I decided to do this massive group shot! These are top supporters of mine, and deserve just as much recognition for making what I do even possible in the first place. Thank you so much, you guys! 💕

Want to see why so many people have decided to support me? Check out my Patreon over here! https://www.patreon.com/temiree

FROM LEFT TO RIGHT

IN ORANGE: AnimalKingdom (Izzy), High King Silvian (Silvian), GrumpyVentrexian (Chance), Backlash (Zak)

IN BEIGE/BROWN: ArdWolf, Altairey (Vincent Atrada), Seeker, Cameron Black (Waffles), Eoin, Shaz

IN PURPLE: H-Nighthawk (Lothander Whitestar), Silver the Snep (Silver)

IN GREEN: Resafandrab (Res), Adryx-Dyrennin

IN RED: Wolf-Ezo (Ezo)

IN BLUE: Temiree, Takkinfaircrest (Takkin)

IN BLUE-GRAY: DJ Wolf, Jonathan McDevitt (Rowan Darkedge)

IN GRAY: Rece Wolfthorn, Kvitebjorn Kong Valemon (Oscarion), DJ-LOL-5 (Blue Lightning)

IN YELLOW: Shar

IN THE BACK: Various YCH's to represent top supporters who didn't give me refs and Andy S who requested to be a YCH, Markus, Nes, Ryan

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[fairytalemovies]

Alright, here comes some suggestions…

Based on the fairy tale:

La belle et la bête (live action; 1946) Belle to Kaijuu Ouji (puppet animation; 1976) Beauty and the Beast (live action; 1976) Die Schöne und das Tier (puppet animation; 1976) Panna a netvor (live action; 1978) Skønheden og dyret (puppet animation; 1989) Die Schöne und das Biest (live action; 2012) La belle et la bête (live action; 2014)

Based on fairy tales similar to Beauty and the Beast:

Der Prinz hinter den sieben Meeren (live action; 1982) Kvitebjørn kong Valemon (live action; 1991)

Inspired by the fairy tale:

Meridian: Kiss of the Beast (live action; 1990) - Be aware, though… It's not a good movie!

So like, does anyone have any good Beauty and the Beast type movies to recommend? I've seen all four Disney movies (the original, the two DVD sequels, and the live-action remake), Belle (the anime), Blood of Beasts (a low budget Viking movie), Beauty and the Beast (the series starring Ron Perlman and Linda Hamilton), I am Dragon (a Russian movie about a dragon), The Shape of Water (the Del Toro movie that everyone needs to watch at least once in their life), Penelope (Christina Ricci movie where the girl is actually the 'beast'), Corpse Bride (the stop motion musical about a dead woman trying to marry a living man), Warm Bodies (Zombie!Romeo x Survivor!Juliet), Edward Scissorhands (needs no introduction), Bram Stoker's Dracula (the sexy one with Gary Oldman), the Shrek quadrilogy (even if only the first one really fits the mold), and I'm going to include TAU on this list (a movie about a kidnapped girl, a sadistic scientist, and a tortured AI) because you can't convince me that it wasn't a love story.

I love Beauty and the Beast and stories that are similar, so any recommendations are appreciated.

(Also, if you want to count Phantom of the Opera as a Beauty and the Beast story, I've seen the 1943 version, the Robert Englund version, half of the Julian Sands version (it was really bad), and the Gerard Butler musical version.)

[bobmorane]

Kvitebjorn Kong Valemon (White-Bear-King-Valemon) (1912)

Theodor Severin Kittelsen

[m-n-a-critique]

Shell launches sale of stakes in Norwegian fields, pipelines: document

#Shell launches sale of stakes in Norwegian fields, pipelines: document

Royal Dutch Shell has launched the sale of its stakes in two oilfields and two pipelines in Norway, according to a sales document seen by Reuters.

Shell is selling its 6.45% interest in the Kvitebjorn field and pipeline and its 3.225% interest in the Valemon Unit and Valemon Rich Gas Pipeline, according to the document.

The offshore assets are operated by state-controlled Norwegian oil firm…

[fairytalemovies]

One of the better Nordic fairytale movies. :)

The Polar Bear King (1991) 

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[whatsoeverislovelyandpure]

When the Princess realised she had condemned her beloved to marriage with the witch, her mind lost all sense of reality. She rushed into the forest, desperately searching for some sign of his passage… ― The Polar Bear King (1991).

[fairytale-idylls]

The Polar Bear King (1991)

[jizzyyjayy]

I WILL END YOU

Lmao come do it then punk