And the Hello and welcome to Disney Story Origins, Episode Zero, Introduction.

It's common knowledge that the books, myths, and historical events that Hollywood draws inspiration from are always

better and more interesting than the films that are based on them.

We've grown up hearing that old platitude, the book is better.

It's a platitude because it's true more often than not.

And when you see a movie based on a book, a myth, or some historical event,

Hollywood always get something wrong. It could be a work of absolute fiction and

Hollywood will do its best to capture the essence of the story without telling the

whole story. And for those of us who are interested in what really happened or how the story was really told,

we find ourselves reading the books, doing the research, and then wanting to ask directors like Peter Jackson,

where's Fatty or Tom Bombadille?

And since when is Aragorn so reluctant to be the king?

That's not how I remember it.

You want to say to Randall Wallace who wrote the screenplay for Braveheart,

you do realize that the Battle of Sterling is actually called the Battle of

Sterling Bridge, because it was fought over a bridge.

But one has to understand that most of the historical facts or sections of the original work that is ignored is irrelevant to the stories that the filmmaker is trying to tell.

No one takes that principle and bends it to their will like Disney.

Disney does it their way no matter what the story is.

Some fairy tales and myths fit into their formula nicely, but if it doesn't, if that story

is a square peg and their family-friendly formula is a round hole.

They'll take that square peg, put it on top of that round hole,

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