The Messed Up Origins of Puss in Boots | Fables Explained - Jon Solo

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Makes me wonder how you would write this story that doesn't include the main characters lying and manipulating others

There wasn't even any mention of the ogre being a monster; he was just chilling in his castle until a cat popped up

this was a really well done and informative video. thank you for doing all of the research and putting this together

Can't help agreeing with you at one thing. I'm always told lying is bad, and I've seen the consequences lying can have many times, and yet all this cat does is lie to the king and then the ogre, and it ends with his master becoming a king. The heck, man!?

Why is it called "puss" and not "cat" ?

I like the Sicilian version, which has a fox instead of a cat

Grimm Brothers had also Puss in Boots

Everything spot on but the use of the word cobbler is wrong. So you had shoe makers, a very high class of work. Actually making a shoe compared to the very poor and lower class of cobbler who mends shoes. It takes alot less skill to cobble which mostly is doing the leather heel of shoes.

It would be if you got boots from a shoe maker you would be considered a higher class of person.

If you got some from a cobbler, they are some old rugged things that the cobbler "cobbled" together.

'I' silent in Giovanni. Joe-VA-nee.

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The DreamWorks version of the character of "Puss in Boots" is quite unique his characteristic was inspired by Three heroic characters from other films media including Zorro, Jack Sparrow, and Indiana Jones.

I always thought the moral of the story was "Don't forget your friends on your way up in life. They are the ones who not only helped get you there, but also remember how you were as you started."

I would consider the moral to be: "Own a talking kitten." I just love the word "kitten," it sounds so much more adorable than "cat." In my mind, all animals are forever their baby versions, cause adorable things make me happy

It's the eternal tale of political ideological politicians throughout history around the world

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My favorite adaptation of Puss In Boots is the one in Fairy Tale Theatre, starring Ben Vereen as Puss and an all-star cast of black comedians and stage actors.

Japan's Toei Animation made an adaptation of Puss in Boots and their version of the character became their studio's mascot.

Manners Maketh Man.

Put a the bankrupt son of a miller in a nice suit, and you can't tell he's not a marquis.

That's a pretty scathing social critique. (And a funny, amoral story)

What’s the other story called soo I can google it??? Do any of y’all know

huh i forgot this fairy tale i know there was a story about puss in boots but its pretty forgotten story

Two morals here.
1. Fake it until you make it. You can cheat your way into wealth you haven't earned more easily than you could attain it honestly. Murder, theft, and threats are cheaply achieved.

2. Do not be quick to trust those who bribe you with gifts, whose wealth you see and hear of but know not where it comes from, and with whom you have brief acquaintanceship. If you wed your child to a con artist, their friendship and industry are quickly exhausted if they have any at all.

Andrew Lang had a version of that in his Crimson Fairy Tale Book (“How the Beggar Boy Became Count Piro”). The animal was a fox, Piro didn’t keep his promise, but begged forgiveness when the fox turned out to be alive.

Wild beef

So the third story could be kitty form the movies.

Dang

I can't be the only one wanting a movie based on the version with the fox.

It never really occurred to me before how unworthy the young man character in Puss in Boots really is. At least in Okesa Neko, a Japanese tale with a cat-helper, the old woman is kind and selfless, going hungry to feed the beloved cat who, in return, later solves her money troubles.

You didn't include the British story of Dick Wittington who also has a cat called puss in boots.

My gosh's been so long since I read Puss in Boots by Perrault. I had forgotten most of it. But the last one... my gosh! Humans can be so ungrateful!!

The dang moral of these stories is "Be kind to animals," of course.

I realized halfway through that I actually have heard this original version, it was in some book my parents would read to me when I was little. Idk what it was called, but it’s interesting to see that it’s been basically unchanged until the movies.

In real life, humans rescue cats and give them the lives of royalty, and cats show zero gratitude by clawing, pissing, and pooping on their human's stuff.
In fairy tales it is reversed.

Wow

“Carabas,” in that French story, is pronounced “ka-ra-BA.”

Excellent use of the word contrariwise!!

The moral of the story could be “appreciate what you have, it can be more valuable than you think”

So in puss in boots 3 we should expect Shrek to kill puss in boots with a jar got it.

I'm going to say it, if a cat threatens to cut you, take it very seriously, because it can and will

When we gonna get a donkey spin off!!

your videos are always the best

What about the fact that puss is also based on Zorro as in the mask of Zorro







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Yeah... I guess I'll come and ruin my childhood

I would say that we stopped Makin cursed children’s stories but watership down, animals of fathering wood wings of fire and probably a few other dark children’s stories have been made in the last 100 years.

To be fair, if you look at today's landscape. How many millionaires that you know and see are "fair"?

"You're going to have to watch to hear the answer. Yeah. I'm pulling one of those."

Oh, no. My options are gone. You've gotten me.

I guess I could just... block the channel and never watch another instead.

Puss In Boots from most book versions (not the books written for Disney movie franchises) make the character seem to be the example of being an anti-hero counterpart of Robinhood with a Zorro personality complex; thus I think the best non-Disney version of "Puss In Boots" is the one from The Brothers Grimm fairytales where the cat is not as mean as the previous renditions of the character but also does not have the little level of recklessness or the low level of ruthless attitude as the Disney Puss In Boots. I know I sound harshly down on the Disney version of the character but he can be at times be as selfish as the second known earliest version of the character; but I still regard Puss as my favorite Shrek Character.

There used to be a movie based more closely to the tale.

Soviet cartoon (The Puss in boots 1968) follows the original story