Sunday, October 18, 2009
Grimm
I felt as though the article “Grimm Realities” did a superb job connecting the old fairy tale, “the Gentlemen”, to the plot of the episode “Hush” of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. However, I wish as though I had read this article before I watched “Hush” because it did a great job explaining the tale of “the Gentlemen” and, believe it or not, before I watched this episode of Buffy, I had never heard the tale. As a child, I never really heard many fairy tales. I know, I was a deprived child, but I found it very interesting that, according to Bridges, “plenty of children’s folk rhymes deal overtly in death, juxtaposed by a happy melody and a cute rhyme”. I could definitely see this concept portrayed through “the Gentlemen” in “Hush” (Bridges 102). I would never have guessed that “the Gentlemen” would have been considered a fairy tale. All in all, I feel that Bridges did a great job showing how Joss Whedon incorporates the fairy tales and their characters into Buffy.
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I'm right there with ya Mike. I wasn't a big fairy tale person as a child, but this article really made the episode easier to understand
ReplyDeleteCome to think of it, I don't remember reading too many fairy tales when I was younger either, certainly not any about the gentleman. This article really did help me understand the episode a lot more from a fairy tale aspect.
ReplyDeleteWhether or not you guys are avid fairy talers you should know... The Gentleman wasn't actually a fairy tale. But nonetheless, I really liked how Whedon used the fairy tale. I liked how it seemed real to me. Instead of some bizzaro science fiction world, its a real world that I can believe in.
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