Why is the mad hatter mad
Has Anyone Told You WHY The Mad Hatter Went Mad?
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hey guys it's Jessie V and today we're
basically going to be continuing our
series talking about the creepy origins
behind your favorite Disney characters
and movies last time we talked about
Snow White Rapunzel Sleeping Beauty
Little Mermaid all those awesome movies
and old folk tales that started from
some pretty creepy stuff a lot of people
don't know that Disney has taken creepy
old folktales and turn them into
happy-go-lucky
princess movies that we all know now so
the very first character we're gonna be
talking about is the mad hatter so we're
gonna talk about the Disney version of
them and then we're gonna talk about the
real version of them the Mad Hatter is a
character from Disney's 1951 animated
film Alice in Wonderland he's known for
his insane personality and oversized
green top hat Alice encounters him at
the Mad Tea Party in Wonderland the
Hatter and his best friend the March
Hare are known for throwing frequent tea
parties and celebration of their unbirth
days
everybody knows the unbirthday song
right a very merry unbirthday do you do
you I just dropped my phone so let's go
back into history all the way back to
the 1800s the term as mad as a hatter
was actually used a lot back then and
for a very sad reason it was referring
to the men that used to make hats back
in the day that actually lost their
minds due to the chemicals they were
using to make these hats the felt hats
these men were making were actually
filled with mercury which is a very very
toxic chemical and when people were
exposed too much to this chemical their
behavior would become erratic hyper and
just overall insane so the way they
did was actually similar to the actual
Mad Hatter character in Alice in
Wonderland and that is actually where he
was inspired from which is kind of sad I
mean these real people who are making
the hats back in the 1800s really
suffered so it's just so strange going
back and watching Alice in Wonderland
knowing that the Mad Hatter character
came from such a horrible time all right
let's move on to Beauty and the Beast
the Disney film tells the story of a
prince who is transformed into a beast
and a young woman named Belle whom he
imprisons in his castle to become a
prince again the Beast must learn to
love Belle and win her love in return
before the last petal falls from the
enchanted rose or he will remain a beast
forever this is definitely one of my
favorite Disney movies I love it so so
much so when I heard the actual dark
history of this I was not very happy so
in the original story Belle convinces
the beast to let her visit her sisters
for a week which is so strange because
there's no mention of Belle sisters in
the actual movie but in the novel Belle
does have sisters and she really wants
to go see them so the Beast lets her now
when she goes to see them they get
really jealous because she has jewelry
and she's wearing a gorgeous dress that
the Beast gave her her hair was all dyed
and up nicely so her sisters were like
wow this beast is really giving you all
the luxury so they really want what
Belle has so they try to convince Belle
to stay longer with the intention that
her delay staying with her sisters would
drive the Beast mad missing her because
she wasn't coming home and then when she
actually got back the Beast would be so
insane that he would devour her so
Belle's sisters were hoping the Beast
would eat her all because they were
jealous of her nice clothes and her
jewelry which is so so crazy it kind of
reminds me of Cinderella and her wicked
stepsisters and I'm really glad they did
not put that in the movie all right
let's move on to the Hunchback of Notre
Dame the plot centers on Quasimodo the
deformed bellringer of notre-dame and
his struggle to gain acceptance
to society he ends up standing up to his
tyrant Guardian in a bid to help
Esmeralda a gypsy girl and everything
sort of turns out happy just like in all
Disney movies well in the original novel
Quasimodo actually isn't able to save
Esmeralda and she dies and the next part
is so so sad
Esmeralda is buried and Quasimodo goes
to her grave where he stays there until
he starves to death so he literally does
not want to leave Esmeralda's grave he
loves her that much and years later when
as morale does grave is opened they find
both their skeletons and when they try
to separate them they turn to dust so
they were together even in death and
it's just so so sad and I'm just also
glad they didn't put that in the movie I
just want to know why people who are
writing such sad stories back in the day
I mean all of these fairy tales and
Disney movie origins are horrible
alright let's move on to Pinocchio the
film stars a puppet brought to life by a
fairy who tries to earn his right to
become a real boy as he faces the
challenges and dangers of a dark hostile
world of crooks villains and monsters
and I mean even in this Disney movie if
you have seen it it is really dark
already to be honest it is one of the
darker Disney movies misbehaving boys
are basically brought to this place
called Pleasure Island where they are
transformed into donkeys and then sold
into slavery BRR
what the heck I remember watching this
movie as a little kid at my grandma's
house and thinking oh my gosh if I'm bad
I'm gonna turn into a donkey so let's
talk about the original story in the old
tale Pinocchio is actually not very nice
at all he behaves badly he steals things
and his father Geppetto actually calls
him a wretched lad which is crazy
because in the Disney movie his father
loves him so much they have like a great
connection but in the book not so much
and you know how in the movie Jiminy
Cricket like hums and helps out
Pinocchio and gives him good advice well
in the book when Geppetto the cricket
comes to give Pinocchio
vais Pinocchio squashes him yeah and
then the book ends with Pinocchio
actually dying a cat and a fox kidnaps
him skills his money and then hangs him
from a tree and watches him die which is
extremely bizarre
I have heard like different endings to
the Pinocchio story so that is one of
them but like what the heck all right
let's move on to Peter Pan which I have
done a whole video about so we're kind
of just gonna go through this quickly
and this Disney animated film Wendy and
her two brothers are amazed when a
magical boy named Peter Pan flies into
their bedrooms supposedly in pursuit of
his rebellious shadow he and his fairy
friend Tinkerbell come from a far-off
place called Neverland where children
stay perpetually young enchanted the
kids follow him back but when Pan's
nemesis the pirate Captain Hook causes
trouble the kids began to miss their old
life so in the old book as you guys
might have known Peter Pan is not good
at all
in fact he's very much like a villain he
actually hates adults so much that he
actually kills off the Lost Boys when
they get older so basically if you're
too old to be a Neverland Peter Pan gets
rid of you it literally says in the book
when they seem to be growing up which is
against the rules
Peter fins them out fins them out what
do you think that means he can heats rid
of them and in this other scene in the
book which I've also talked about before
he intentionally takes these quick short
breaths because apparently in Neverland
every time you breathe a grown-up dies
so Peter Pan wants to like get rid of as
many as possible so breathing faster
does the job I mean it's just so so
messed up I can't even believe it anyway
so guys those are all of the Disney
movie backstories we're gonna be talking
about today there are definitely so many
more I can cover so if you like this
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awesome rest of your day and I will
you in my next video
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