Famous short film made by Disney studios in 1933, “The Three Little Pigs” tells how a trio of young piglets find themselves braving the threat of the Big Bad Wolf. But where did their parents go?
Produced in 1933, the animated short Les Trois Petits Cochons is one of the very first classics of the Disney studios. Adapted from a famous popular and traditional tale of oral origin, this cartoon follows the misadventures of Naf-Naf, Nif-Nif and Nouf-Nouf, three pig brothers struggling with the Big Bad Wolf, who intends to devour them to his lunch.
While we could see the three characters leaving the family home at the beginning of the original tale, the Disney version presents them to us already launched into the vast world, without father or mother, and occupied by the construction of their houses. respective. However, when we observe the sets of the short film a little more closely, certain details allow us to learn more about the fate that was reserved for the parents of the Three Little Pigs.
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Indeed, after being chased from their straw and wooden homes by the wolf, the first two characters take refuge in their brother’s brick house. Hanging on the walls of the main room, we can see a frame representing the mother of pigs, surrounded by a litter of seven cubs.
A little further in the cartoon, two other frames, accompanied by the word “father”, ominously display … a smoked ham and a string of sausages.
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Based on this chilling discovery, several questions arise: The Three Little Pigs are they the only survivors of a farm, where their parents and the rest of their siblings would have stayed? Did their mother survive, unlike their father who seems to have come to a disastrous conclusion? But above all: why keep such an atrocious memory, framed on the wall of his own house?
This dash of black humor, slipped by the animators in the 1933 short film, has undoubtedly cooled some spectators since its release.
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