Historias de Thewildswans

Kelsey must save her 5 brothers when they were turned into Swannas by the wicked Queen Beryl.

The thirty-seventh entry for the 2022-2023 Film Journal is "The Wild Swans", from 1962. Hailing from Russia, in my continued attempt to see more international cinema both live-action and animated, I take a quick look at the adaptation of this tale and the highly distinct artistic compositions of the piece.

For the second edition of Flashfic in style, I will retell the story of The Wild Swans. As the main theme is romance, I will focus on the second part of the story where the king has come into play. I don't know how well known this story is, so I will add a short summary of the first half of the story. That way, everyone will be on the same page. - There's a king in a far-away land with 11 sons and one daughter (mc). When their mother dies, he remarries a wicked witch. She curses the princes to become swans during the day and humans during the night. She also tries to curse the princess Elisa, but her purity of heart saves her. Instead, she's banished to a corner of the kingdom where she, after many years, finds her brothers back. They take her across the ocean to another kingdom. There, Elisa is guided by the fearie queen, who tells her the way to destroy the curse on her brothers. She has to knit eleven vests of stinging nettles, which are collected from graveyards. As long as she's working on them, she can not speak a word as it will kill her brothers. One day, the king finds her in her cave while her brothers are away and brings her to his kingdom. They fall in love, and she continues her task, till drama ensues.

Every fairytale has that one person. The one doing all the work behind the scenes. The Fairy Godmother. Helping couples find their Happy Ever After. In many stories today that was Jayne. When she was 15 Jayne decided that she would put her own want for a Happy Ever After on the backburner. Instead, she would help her friends get theirs. 10 years later she has a successful event planning business and is content with her life. But then everything starts to fall apart and amidst the rubble of her life Jayne might just find her OTP.

Just tales written by Hans