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* "WesternAnimation/{{The House That Jack Built}}" is a mashup that combines this story with the nursery rhyme "The House That Jack Built".
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* "WesternAnimation/{{The House That Jack Built}}" "WesternAnimation/TheHouseThatJackBuilt1967" is a mashup that combines this story with the nursery rhyme "The House That Jack Built".
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The story of "Jack and the Beanstalk" seems to be an amalgamation of many of the giant-killing stories such as "Literature/JackTheGiantKiller" (which has its links to [[KingArthur Arthurian]] lore), and the tale of "Literature/TheBraveLittleTailor".
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The story of "Jack and the Beanstalk" seems to be an amalgamation of many of the giant-killing stories such as "Literature/JackTheGiantKiller" (which has its links to [[KingArthur [[Myth/ArthurianLegend Arthurian]] lore), and the tale of "Literature/TheBraveLittleTailor".
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* ''Anime/JackToMameNoKi'': {{Anime}} version of the story from the late '70s.
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* ''Anime/JackToMameNoKi'': ''Anime/JackAndTheBeanstalk1974'': {{Anime}} version of the story from the late '70s.
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* SellWhatYouLove: Jack and his mother are forced to sell their family cow to make enough money to live. Instead of getting cash for the cow, Jack trades the cow for magic beans.
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* JourneyToTheSky: The tale consists of Jack climbing the magical beanstalk that grew overnight out of a set of magical beans he obtained by trading a cow he was supposed to sell for money. When Jack reaches the top, he discovers a castle inhabited by giants.
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** The moral of the story seems to be that you should totally give away something that has a lot of worth for something that seems worthless, because might pay off by giving you immense wealth.
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** The moral of the story seems to be that you should totally give away something that has a lot of worth for something that seems worthless, because it might pay off by giving you immense wealth.
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** The moral of the story seems to be that you should totally give away something that has a lot of worth for something that seems worthless, because might pay off by giving you immense wealth.
** There's an animated FracturedFairyTale version that portrays Jack's mother as constantly thwarting her son's efforts to enrich them by stealing magical money-making devices from a cruel and magical millionaire, ultimately leaving them both as poor as ever as the narrator openly proclaims honesty and principles are not inherently rewarding.
** The moral of the story seems to be that you should totally give away something that has a lot of worth for something that seems worthless, because might pay off by giving you immense wealth.
** There's an animated FracturedFairyTale version that portrays Jack's mother as constantly thwarting her son's efforts to enrich them by stealing magical money-making devices from a cruel and magical millionaire, ultimately leaving them both as poor as ever as the narrator openly proclaims honesty and principles are not inherently rewarding.
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* SignatureInstrument: The giant owns a harp that plays itself on command and lulls him to sleep. A plot point involves Jack stealing it.
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* {{Deconstruction}}: Music/StephenSondheim's ''Theatre/IntoTheWoods'', Brian Henson's ''Series/JackAndTheBeanstalkTheRealStory'' and (briefly) Creator/TerryPratchett's ''Discworld/{{Hogfather}}'' all have a go at Jack.
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* {{Deconstruction}}: Music/StephenSondheim's ''Theatre/IntoTheWoods'', Brian Henson's ''Series/JackAndTheBeanstalkTheRealStory'' and (briefly) Creator/TerryPratchett's ''Discworld/{{Hogfather}}'' ''Literature/{{Hogfather}}'' all have a go at Jack.
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* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: The Giant's wife. She lets Jack into her home, gives him food and helps him hide from her husband. In return, he steals from her home and eventually kills her husband.
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* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: The Giant's wife. She giant's wife lets Jack into her home, gives him food and helps him hide from her husband. In return, he steals from her home and eventually kills her husband.
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* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: The Giant's wife. She lets Jack into her home, gives him food and helps him hide from her husband. In return, he steals from her home and eventually kills her husband.
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* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: The giant hates Englishmen.
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Many critics of this story like to point out [[DesignatedHero Jack is a petty thief, who also kills the Giant he robbed]]. Some versions justify his actions by various means, such as [[AdaptationalVillainy adding a bit about how]] the Giant [[YouKilledMyFather killed Jack's father]] and/or that the Giant stole most of his treasure in the first place. In the latter retellings, such as in ''Disney/FunAndFancyFree'', the Harp is explicitly eager to be liberated from the Giant and helps Jack (or his stand-in) in any way she can. At other times this story gets the FracturedFairyTale treatment, showing Jack as a jerk of a robber.
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Many critics of this story like to point out [[DesignatedHero Jack is a petty thief, who also kills the Giant he robbed]]. Some versions justify his actions by various means, such as [[AdaptationalVillainy adding a bit about how]] the Giant [[YouKilledMyFather killed Jack's father]] and/or that the Giant stole most of his treasure in the first place. In the latter retellings, such as in ''Disney/FunAndFancyFree'', ''WesternAnimation/FunAndFancyFree'', the Harp is explicitly eager to be liberated from the Giant and helps Jack (or his stand-in) in any way she can. At other times this story gets the FracturedFairyTale treatment, showing Jack as a jerk of a robber.
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* ''Disney/FunAndFancyFree'': The Creator/{{Disney}} version, with a [[Franchise/MickeyMouse certain mouse]] playing the part of Jack.
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*DisappearedDad: According to most tellings, Jack's mother is a widow.
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* AdaptationSpeciesChange: Many versions feature a hen instead of a goose. A few replace the giant with an ogre.
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* "WesternAnimation/{{The House That Jack Built}}" is a mashup that combines this story with the nursery rhyme "The House That Jack Built".
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* "WesternAnimation/JasperAndTheBeanstalk", a WesternAnimation/{{Puppetoons}} stop-motion short in which a more innocent African-American boy named Jasper plays the Jack role.
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* Jack makes several appearances in ''WesternAnimation/SuperWhy'' This version of him has been {{age lift}}ed to a teenager (at least 18, since one episode shows him going to college), and gives him a family; parents, a little brother, Whyatt (the main protagonist), and a baby sister, Joy.
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* Fragments of the tale appear in ''Series/OnceUponATime'', where Prince Charming and a [[GenderBender gender-bent]] Jack climb the beanstalk in order to rob the giants and kill them all and the last surviving giant is a human-enthusiast. The Beanstalk still stands in the middle of the enchanted forest long after the events of the tale have passed.
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* Fragments of the tale appear in ''Series/OnceUponATime'', where Prince Charming James and a [[GenderBender gender-bent]] Jack climb the beanstalk in order to rob the giants and kill them all and the last surviving giant is a human-enthusiast. The Beanstalk still stands in the middle of the enchanted forest long after the events of the tale have passed.
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Many critics of this story like to point out [[DesignatedHero Jack is a petty thief, who also kills the Giant he robbed]]. Some versions justify his actions by various means, such as [[AdaptionalVillainy adding a bit about how]] the Giant [[YouKilledMyFather killed Jack's father]] and/or that the Giant stole most of his treasure in the first place. In the latter retellings, such as in ''Disney/FunAndFancyFree'', the Harp is explicitly eager to be liberated from the Giant and helps Jack (or his stand-in) in any way she can. At other times this story gets the FracturedFairyTale treatment, showing Jack as a jerk of a robber.
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Many critics of this story like to point out [[DesignatedHero Jack is a petty thief, who also kills the Giant he robbed]]. Some versions justify his actions by various means, such as [[AdaptionalVillainy [[AdaptationalVillainy adding a bit about how]] the Giant [[YouKilledMyFather killed Jack's father]] and/or that the Giant stole most of his treasure in the first place. In the latter retellings, such as in ''Disney/FunAndFancyFree'', the Harp is explicitly eager to be liberated from the Giant and helps Jack (or his stand-in) in any way she can. At other times this story gets the FracturedFairyTale treatment, showing Jack as a jerk of a robber.
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* {{Deconstruction}}: Creator/StephenSondheim's ''Theatre/IntoTheWoods'', Brian Henson's ''Series/JackAndTheBeanstalkTheRealStory'' and (briefly) Creator/TerryPratchett's ''Discworld/{{Hogfather}}'' all have a go at Jack.
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* {{Deconstruction}}: Creator/StephenSondheim's Music/StephenSondheim's ''Theatre/IntoTheWoods'', Brian Henson's ''Series/JackAndTheBeanstalkTheRealStory'' and (briefly) Creator/TerryPratchett's ''Discworld/{{Hogfather}}'' all have a go at Jack.
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* ''Theatre/IntoTheWoods'', a StephenSondheim musical that combines it with several other fairy stories
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Many critics of this story like to point out Jack is a petty thief, who also kills the Giant he robbed. Some versions justify his actions by various means, such as adding a bit about how the giant Giant [[YouKilledMyFather killed Jack's father father]] and/or that the Giant stole most of his treasure in the first place. The latter, In the latter retellings, such as in ''Disney/FunAndFancyFree'', the Harp is explicitly eager to be liberated from the Giant and helps Jack (or his stand-in) in any way she can. At other times this story gets the FracturedFairyTale treatment, showing Jack as a jerk of a robber.
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It seems there are even more than five.
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The first known printed version of "Jack and the Beanstalk" dates from 1734 and was called "The Story of Jack Spriggins and the Enchanted Bean". Of the at least five alternate versions of the tale printed in the 19th century, the one by Creator/JosephJacobs (1890) is the most popular ([[http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/jackbeanstalk/index.html read it here]]).
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The first known printed version of "Jack and the Beanstalk" dates from 1734 and was called "The Story of Jack Spriggins and the Enchanted Bean". Of the at least five alternate versions numerous variants of the tale printed in the 19th century, the one by Creator/JosephJacobs (1890) is the most popular ([[http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/jackbeanstalk/index.html read it here]]).
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I am not sure what the phrase "the oldest one of the commonly known tale, as collected by Joseph Jacobs" was trying to say.
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Full text [[http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/jackbeanstalk/index.html here]] -- not the oldest variant, but the oldest one of the commonly known tale, as collected by Creator/JosephJacobs.
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We have been through this. Screwy Sqrl, you are still misrepresenting the findings of that study. "The Boy Steals the Ogre's Treasure" is not a variation of "Jack and the Beanstalk", but "Jack and the Beanstalk" is a variation of "Boy Steals the Ogre's Treasure". My post on the discussion page
still stands. By the way, how do you think those linguists are estimating the age of fairy tales? They do it by looking at a large number of related tales in many different languages and extrapolating how long it must have taken for these stories to develop from a common original tale in a common ancestor language. Which only works when (and because) many different tales in many different languages can be broken down to the same tale type. There are MANY tales of the "Boy Steals the Ogre's Treasure" type. "Jack and the Beanstalk" is just the one you are familiar with. For someone from another country, it might be another one. Note that the magical beanstalk and the castle in the sky which figure so prominently in "Jack and the Beanstalk" are NOT integral parts of "Boy Steals the Ogre's Treasure".
still stands. By the way, how do you think those linguists are estimating the age of fairy tales? They do it by looking at a large number of related tales in many different languages and extrapolating how long it must have taken for these stories to develop from a common original tale in a common ancestor language. Which only works when (and because) many different tales in many different languages can be broken down to the same tale type. There are MANY tales of the "Boy Steals the Ogre's Treasure" type. "Jack and the Beanstalk" is just the one you are familiar with. For someone from another country, it might be another one. Note that the magical beanstalk and the castle in the sky which figure so prominently in "Jack and the Beanstalk" are NOT integral parts of "Boy Steals the Ogre's Treasure".Changed line(s) 19,20 (click to see context) from:
Full text [[http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/jackbeanstalk/index.html here]] -- not the oldest variant, but the oldest one of the commonly known tale, as collected by Creator/JosephJacobs. A 2016 literary study suggested variations of this tale (summed up as "The Boy Steals the Ogre's Treasure") date back to the beginnings of civilization (circa 3500 B.C.E.), making it one of the oldest continuously told stories in history.
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Full text [[http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/jackbeanstalk/index.html here]] -- not the oldest variant, but the oldest one of the commonly known tale, as collected by Creator/JosephJacobs. A 2016 literary study suggested variations of this tale (summed up as "The Boy Steals the Ogre's Treasure") date back to the beginnings of civilization (circa 3500 B.C.E.), making it one of the oldest continuously told stories in history.\n
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Full text [[http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/jackbeanstalk/index.html here]] -- not the oldest variant, but the oldest one of the commonly known tale, as collected by Creator/JosephJacobs.
Creator/JosephJacobs. A 2016 literary study suggested variations of this tale (summed up as "The Boy Steals the Ogre's Treasure") date back to the beginnings of civilization (circa 3500 B.C.E.), making it one of the oldest continuously told stories in history.
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Older Than Dirt is an index, not a trope.
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* OlderThanDirt: The basic story ("The Boy Steals the Ogres Treasure") was traced back in a 2016 Linguistic study to the original Indo-European language, circa 3500 B.C.E. !
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* OlderThanDirt: the basic story ("The Boy Steals the Ogres Treasure") was traced back in a 2016 Linguistic study to the original Indo-European language, circa 3500 B.C.E. !
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* OlderThanDirt: the The basic story ("The Boy Steals the Ogres Treasure") was traced back in a 2016 Linguistic study to the original Indo-European language, circa 3500 B.C.E. !
