Poll: From Paper to the Screen: The Brothers Grimm

Results of 250 votes:

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   Liv Tyler and Viggo Mortensen in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)

    

   "Sweetheart Roland." An evil witch plans to cut off her stepdaughter's head in the night. The girl becomes aware of this plot and turns the tables, also stealing a magic wand and running aw…
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   Rose Leslie in Game of Thrones (2011)

    

   "Allerleirauh." When her father wishes to marry her, a princess escapes the awful situation by wearing a coat made of many kinds of animal skin and running away. In the woods, a neighboring…
3. 3.
   

   Robin Wright in The Princess Bride (1987)

    

   "Maid Maleen." A princess wishes to marry her true love, a prince, but her father does not approve. To punish her, he locks her in a tower for seven years, but when her time is up and no on…
4. 4.
   

   Kristen Stewart in Snow White and the Huntsman (2012)

    

   "The Twelve Huntsmen." After her true love, a prince, is bound to marry another woman, a young girl takes eleven female companions and disguises them all as male huntsmen so they can stay at…
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   Warwick Davis in The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (2008)

    

   "Rumpelstiltskin." Thanks to her father's tall tales, a miller's daughter is forced by the king to make gold on a spinning wheel. Luckily, a mystical man arrives to help her, in trade for h…
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   Emilie de Ravin in Once Upon a Time (2011)

    

   "The Twelve Brothers." A king threatens to kill his twelve sons if his wife gives birth to a daughter, and she does. The princes flee to the forest and vow to kill any girl they meet as rev…
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   Dennis Quaid and David Thewlis in DragonHeart (1996)

    

   "The Two Brothers." A pair of abandoned, indentical brothers raised by a huntsman go their separate ways, each accompanied by a set of faithful, talking animals. One battles a dragon to mar…
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   Bette Midler in Hocus Pocus (1993)

    

   "Hansel and Gretel." A lost brother and sister are lured into the home of witch, who plans to fatten them up and eat them. The siblings must come up with a plan to escape.
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   Amanda Seyfried in Red Riding Hood (2011)

    

   "Little Red Riding Hood." On the way to her grandmother's house, a girl is followed by a wolf, who later devours her granny. When she is also in danger, a passing huntsman may save them.
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    Emma Watson and Yasmin Paige in Ballet Shoes (2007)

     

    "The Shoes That Were Danced to Pieces." With the help of a mysterious woman, a solider discovers that twelve princess sisters go through a portal and into a magical world to dance all night.
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    Ginnifer Goodwin in Once Upon a Time (2011)

     

    "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs." A witch-queen tracks her lovely stepdaughter into the woods where she lives with seven dwarves, and uses multiple ruses to try to kill her.
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    Lily James in Cinderella (2015)

     

    "The Goose Girl." A kind princess on her way to marry a prince is threatened by her waiting maid, who forces them to trade places. The true princess must stand by and herd geese while the m…
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    Colin O'Donoghue in Once Upon a Time (2011)

     

    "The Robber Bridegroom." A young woman is reluctant to visit the home of her fiance whom she does not love. She arrives and learns he and his friends are not only thieves but also cannibals …
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    Emptying the Skies (2013)

     

    "The Juniper Tree." A beyond wicked woman panics after beheading her young stepson. She hastily cooks him and makes his sister bury the bones under the juniper tree. However, the boy retur…
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    Mackenzie Mauzy in Into the Woods (2014)

     

    "Rapunzel." A man makes a hasty promise to a witch, which results in her whisking away his newborn daughter and raising her in a high tower. The girl grows long hair as a way in and out for…
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    Imelda Staunton, Lesley Manville, and Juno Temple in Maleficent (2014)

     

    "The Three Spinners." A girl who hates work is employed by the Queen to use a spinning wheel, which she is terrible at. Then three strange but talented women agree to secretly do her job fo…
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    Ginnifer Goodwin and Meghan Ory in Once Upon a Time (2011)

     

    "Snow White and Rose Red." Two lovely, pious sisters befriend a talking bear who holds a secret.