Talk:Pocahontas (character)/@comment-9204379-20140715042756/@comment-1672596-20160320192655

^You forgot to mention how Belle would have had such a rotten family relationship with her sisters that it made even Cinderella's stepsisters seem like they genuinely cared for her well being by comparison, or that her dad would have been a failed merchant instead of an inventor with slight sanity issues. Oh, and Gaston would not even exist as a character. Or how Aurora not only would have literally been awoken a century later, it was because she had either been raped by her prince, or the spell just wore off by that time and the prince had just happened to find her there.

So far as changes, I'm also not a particularly big fan of adaptations having changes to the story, but I'm willing to tolerate it if there's an actual good reason behind the change. For example, with how The Little Mermaid's ending was changed, let's face it, families would not exactly want to take their children to see the heroine in the end basically suffer the fate of that anti-Mutant senator in the first X-Men movie (and quite personally, as an aside, I actually hated the original tale and especially how the mermaid was characterized there because she actually DID come across as a massive brat, especially the fit over lacking a soul, and how she in effect got rewarded for her bad behavior overall just by committing suicide). Also, having Snow White being nearly assassinated as a child would not have gone over well even to viewers watching back then, let alone today. For Beauty and the Beast, though, many of the changes made in the film were completely unnecessary, especially cutting out Belle's wicked sisters, completely removing the element of Belle being an abuse victim by her sisters, and making a villain who didn't even exist in any capacity in the original tale, all to push a feminist screed that was completely unnecessary to the intended moral of the tale. Same goes for Frozen (though that being said, ironically, the bit about Elsa not being evil was actually one of the few things about the original tale the movie got right, since in the original tale, she wasn't the villain, a troll was, and the snow queen, if anything, was a neutral entity and a victim.).