The Frog Prince:
I think something exciting here would be the prince's entire backstory. Why was he enchanted in the first place? What did he do to the fairy that made her transform him into a frog? My vision here is that the prince is kind of rude and pretentious at the beginning, which ends in him being a frog. I also see him being a frog for a very long time before he meets the princess in our story.
Rapunzel:
This is very similar to the classic tale; a child is taken from a family and locked away in a tower for many years only to be discovered by a man wishing to marry her. What's interesting is the last part about the prince falling from the tower and basically gouging his eyes out. I'm interested to see what I could potentially do with the Disney adaptation of this story, Tangled. Instead of the prince finding her tower, a crook finds her. Rapunzel in this movie is also not as pathetic as she seems in this classic tale. She defends herself against the crook when she first meets him and holds her own as they travel through the surrounding forest to get to her parents.
(The Prince Beckons to Rapunzel's Tower, web source: Wikimedia)
The Travelling Musicians:
I hadn't ever heard this story before, so I'm glad I chose this unit. I think this is an interesting story that could be retold using humans instead of animals. What if the animals were actually teenagers that wanted to start their own band and they each ran away from home to do so? And then they come to a situation where they really need their parents (something to put here instead of the animals coming up to a robber's house), and then they learn their lesson and go home? Could be an interesting concept.
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