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One of the obvious challenges in adapting most fairy or folk tales into full-length novels or films is how to extend them from their generally brief and undetailed versions to take 200 pages or 2 hours. Quite a few adult adaptations add in sex scenes. Disney fills up time with musical numbers. Frost, in moving Bluebeard to nineteenth-century America, fills up the empty pages with background information. The characters walk places. They clean. They make candles. They cook, say prayers, and eat. T
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