href="http://disney.go.com/disneypictures/enchanted/">"Enchanted" gets a fresh look with Storyteller.net director and professional K. Sean Buvala in our latest edition of our podcast at storytellerpodcast.net. Listen to the podcast now when you click here right now!
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Avondale, AZ November 18, 2007- "Fairy tales showing up in the middle of modern life?
That’s not new. They’ve been there, in all their twisted goodness, since the beginning of humanity. Fairy tales have been making the leap into the ’modern world’ since human beings first experienced their imagination and understood the differences of good and evil," so says Sean Buvala, a full-time professional storyteller and director of the premier Internet storytelling site, Storyteller.net. And he ought to know. He’s been travelling the United States for more than 21 years sharing tales with adults, teens and children.
In the latest Podcast at Storyteller.net, Buvala discusses the role of darkness and challenge in fairy tales. "In the new Disney movie, ’Enchanted,’ the characters get trapped in modern day situations and the movie appears to ask the ’what if’ question. Stories, and fairy tales in particular, however, have been asking that same ’what if’ question for hundreds of years. What if we were confronted between the choices of morality, doing what is right and selfless behavior and the more appealing less sociable behaviors? These confrontations are the core of the meaning
of fairy tales."
In a genre-busting premise, "Enchanted" puts the pure-love and doe-eyed behaviors of its main
characters in the midst of our own seen-it-all society. However, Buvala says these calm, loving
behaviors would be nearly unknown to fairy tale characters if they came to life. "In the real
versions of fairy tales, there is very little of these types of Disney-nice actions. Rather there are
behaviors of deceit, treachery, child abuse, punishment, rewards and swift justice. Fairy tales
aren’t the politically correct or sanitized stories of animation. They’re hard-core, ’act right or
else’ ultimatums in many cases. Children punished by death, people doomed to walk the earth as
ghosts for stealing pennies and losing true love for minor infractions: these would be the
behaviors fairy tale characters would expect to see in modern life."
The irony of a Disney movie parodying the contemporary understanding of fairy tales is
especially fun for Sean Buvala. "The Brothers Grimm would not even recognize the Disney
animated versions of ’Sleeping Beauty’ or ’Cinderella.’ In many ways, it seems that Disney made
’Enchanted’ to poke fun at the one-dimensional nature of fairy tale characters. However, those
wide-eyed people in our imaginations are Disney’s own spawn. They must be having a fun time
’dis" Enchanting their own dragons."
Sean goes further in depth regarding fairy tales in modern life and examines the power a genuine
storyteller has with a live audience in the latest podcast at Storyteller.net. The free-of-charge
podcast can be found on the front-page of the website at www.storyteller.net or maybe be
downloaded at www.storytellerpodcast.net.
Will Buvala be seeing the "Enchanted" Movie? "I’ll be in the Disneyland area next week. Maybe
I’ll go see it right there in the Downtown Disney attraction," the nationally travelled storyteller
says with a wicked grin.
ABOUT K. SEAN BUVALA AND STORYTELLER.NET
The Avondale, Arizona based STORYTELLER.NET is the premier Internet site for those
wanting to learn more about storytelling, find storytellers and storytelling events and hear and
read stories. Visitors to Storyteller.net will discover more than 150 articles relating to storytelling
in our growing database. Storyteller.net on-line services are free to the public. Well-travelled
throughout the United States, K. Sean Buvala has been presenting workshops, performances,
retreats, consultations and training for schools, libraries, churches and corporations since 1985.
Specializing in creativity and the arts, Sean has trained and presented events for thousands of
teens and adults throughout the United States.
"EXPERT CONSULTANT for the Press, Television and Radio"
Storytelling (both traditional and digital), fairy tales, legends and myths, performing artists,
public speaking, corporate training, business coaching .
CONTACT INFORMATION:
K. Sean Buvala
Storyteller.net
623.298.4548
sean@storyteller.net
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