What if Disney adapted Donkeyskin?
Aha! A third tale that I do not need Disney to go anywhere near, because Jim Henson's The Storyteller has already adapted it and therefore won my heart forever <3
To be fair this adaptation - Sapsorrow, althought I always call it Straggletag - is based on the German Allerleirauh (All-Kinds-of-Fur), rather than Perrault's Donkeyskin. But I already preferred Allerleirauh over Donkeyskin because it has the three royal balls and the way The Storyteller mixes in some Cinderella (two jealous sisters and a lost shoe) and extra character development for the prince (he agrees to marry the strange, furry Straggletag before he knows she is his mysterious princess) makes it even better. They also rewrite it so the King does not want to marry his daughter, but is forced to because she fits the Royal Ring, which makes the plot more tragic and less icky.
Also it's just as dreamy and nostalgic as all the other adaptations they did:
And they actually made the princess look like a creature!
The only thing I'd change is go back in time and give them a bigger budget for Sapsorrow's silver, golden, and starry dress. Because you can tell they struggled with the fabrics. But that's really the only thing. Honestly, who could possibly improve upon this ending narration:
"And what the Prince didn't know he very soon did, they talked and talked. Explaining this and explaining that. Stories of rings, stories of fur and feathers. And they wept for her father, smiled for poor Straggletag, forgave the bad sisters, danced for a day without going away! And...and...well after that they were so out of breath they lay down and slept, and glory me if I don't wake them soon they'll never get wed!"
