Fact vs. Fiction

Compare the film “The Brothers Grimm” with the real life of the Brothers Grimm (Chapter 1 in Zipes). What is Fact and what is fiction?

• Hollywood has been making movies about historical figures for what seems like centuries; taking the most interesting parts of their lives and overlooking pretty much everything else. The hardest part of watching all historical fiction is weeding out every stretched truth, and getting down to the facts of the movie. This movie is no different, let's just say this movie took creative liberty in the facts about the Grimm brothers. Let's start with the facts there are indeed two brothers and they are named Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm. They lived in Hanau when they were children where one of their sisters were sick. Later in life, both brothers went to school somewhere; which seemed glossed over because it was only mentioned once in the dialogue. Finally, the Grimm brothers collected fairy tales from person accounts like Angelika and Cavaldi (at the very end of the movie). Now, what fiction is the plot of the rest of the movie. The Grimm brothers never fought an evil witch that cursed a town, because she wanted to be "The fairest of them all". The fairy tales they wrote about were never about real people but, from German folklore passed down families for generations and what they researched. Jacob Grimm never a partner but, was married to his work. Finally, the Grimm brothers were never arrested for burglary, theft or were con artists who went from town to town to pray on the villagers fear of the supernatural for money. The movie did however end in true fairy tale style with the famous "and they lived happily ever after or did they?".