Last Friday, Tim and I actually went on a date (I know right?) cause he got free movie tickets so, yeah it wasn't a really expensive date, but when the last time you've been on a date with your spouse was after you first got married, free movie tickets are the only chance you get sometimes. So anyways, we went and saw the movie "Tangled" and oh my goodness, is that movie cute! (Yes the one night we have away from our kids we go and see a kids movie, but there really wasn't anything else I wanted to waste my free movie ticket on.) Ahem, a cute movie. On the way home from the movie we stopped and got an ice cream cone (see we did spend a whole 2$) and Tim and I were talking about the movie cause Tim really liked and I did too, but I don't talk for hours on end about something that I like; I BLOG about it.;) But Tim wanted to talk about it, so we were chatting and Tim brought up the question " What other fairy tales are there that haven't been made into a movie yet?" Because Tim doesn't really know of any other fairy tales other than the classic ones, we went through those first. Cinderella, Beauty and the Beast, Snow White, Little Mermaid, (although I always point out to Tim that Disney's Little Mermaid is no where near the fairy cause in the original she kills herself, nice huh?) But after going through most of the ones that have been made into movies we approached Nursery Rhymes. I immediately started naming all the ones that haven't been made into a longer story or a movie, when I said Jack n' Jill, Tim laughed at me and said, "Yeah that would probably be a funny one. Jack and Jill went up the hill to fetch a pail of water; Jack fell down, and broke his crown, and Jill came tumbling after. How would you stretch that out into a movie?"
LIGHTBULB. I immediately started pulling apart the rhyme in my head and looking possibilities. Jack and Jill; what exactly is their relationship? Brother and Sister? Cousins? Neighbors? Lovers? Enemies? Okay now we have those, next line, "went up the hill to fetch a pail of water" what was the water for? Was it the chore? Was there an emergency? " Jack fell down and broke his crown" Why did Jack fall? His he that clumsy? Was he pushed? Did the "breaking of his crown" cause him any problems, like amnesia? Think of the possibilities THAT would bring! "Jill cam tumbling after" okay so either this hill is slippery or they were pushed down that hill. who would want to push someone down a hill? What really happened at the top of the hill?
Of course the first verse everyone knows but then I thought about the second part of the rhyme Up Jack got and home did trot as fast as he could caper, to Old Dame Dob who patched his nob, with vinegar and brown paper." Let's assume Jack and Jill up on the hill for just water and nothing or no one bad was up there waiting to push them back down, if Jack really broke his head open, would it be wise for him to get up and run home, much less move? Take a look at Old Dame Dob, Who is she? is she is mom? His grandma? Just some old lady who goes around fixing people's broken skulls? hmmmm. Seems shady. Really think about the words themselves and see what possibilities you can come up with. I'm not looking for what the rhyme really means cause there are several meanings, but just think about the words and see if you could come up with a story idea. I'm playing with a couple ideas right now and when I get them sorted out I'll write them down and post them to see if anyone can help my direction. When it becomes a story I can sell it to Disney and make a bazillion dollars.:)
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