The tale of two beards

The Bluebeard original tale and the movie are very different from each other. At first, it was a bit hard to follow how the movie related to the tale because the movie goes into a lot of depth into the life of the young girl and her family before she meets Bluebeard. Besides this, there are many other differences, though.

In the Grimm's story, the young girl has three brothers who will do anything for her. In the movie, the young girl has one sister who she fights with a lot. In the Grimm version, the young girl hardly wants anything to do with Bluebeard and is frightened by him the minute she sees him. In the movie, the young girl is intrigued by him, builds a relationship with him, and isn't scared. In the Grimm's tale when the princess is about to die, she calls for her brothers help out the window 3 times. In the movie, she calls for her sister but also stalls by requesting different ways to die. In the end, when Bluebeard dies, she seems to mourn his death while still being in the castle. In the Grimm brothers' version, she happily goes back home and inherits all of Bluebeard's belongings.
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Also, another huge difference is that in the movie, there are children narrating the tale. But towards the end, one of the children got so frightened by the tale that she fell from upstairs and died.

Even though the movie wasn't in English, and the style of it was very different from what I usually watch, I liked the movie just a little bit more. It gave more depth to the characters and made me care more about their circumstances. Which is why I think the director chose to change it in the many ways that he did.
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