What's the Difference between The Little Mermaid the Book and The Little Mermaid the Movie?
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In the Movie |
the Little Mermaid
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Ariel
Portrayed by: Jodi Benson
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the Grandmother
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This Character does not appear.
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the Sea King
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King Triton
Portrayed by: Kenneth Mars
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the Sea Witch
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Ursula
Portrayed by: Pat Carrol
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the Prince
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Eric
Portrayed by: Christopher Barnes
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This Character does not appear.
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Sebastian
Portrayed by: Samual Wright
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This Character does not appear.
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Flounder
Portrayed by: Jason Marin
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This Character does not appear.
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Scuttle
Portrayed by: Buddy Hackett
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The Little Mermaid Book vs Movie
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In the Movie |
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The prince takes the Little Mermaid to the castle and dresses her in fine clothes. He enjoys watching her dance and calls her his little foundling. She is dressed in a page's clothes to go horse back riding with the prince. She sleeps on a cushion near her bedroom and is treated like a pet. |
Eric and Ariel go riding in a buggy, Eric becomes infatuated with her but they do not kiss. Ursula's minions, the eels Flotsom and Jetsom actively interfere with her efforts to make the the prince fall in love with her. |
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The Little Mermaid's walk was so painful she left red marks from blood where she walked. She soaked her feet in the cold sea in the evening to ease the pain. Her sisters visited her each night and one time she saw her father and grandmother in the distance. |
This does not happen in the movie.
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The prince is arranged to meet and possibly marry a girl from a neighboring kingdom. But he loves the girl from the temple believed to have saved him. During the journey the prince says if forced to marry he would rather marry the Little Mermaid (his dumb foundling) than another. |
Eric appears to have fallen in love with Ariel. |
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When the prince sees the princess he realizes she is the one who found him on the beach after the Little Mermaid saved him. He falls in love with her and decides to marry her. |
Ursula decides to directly interfere by turning herself into a black haired beauty with Ariel's voice. She hypnotizes the prince; forcing him to marry her that (third) day.
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The prince and princess are married and depart on a ship along with a wedding party and the Little Mermaid in attendance. |
The prince and Vanessa (Ursula in diguise) are to be married on a wedding barge but Ariel's friends intervene. Ursula is exposed and the prince's trance is broken, but before Eric can profess his love, the sun sets and Ariel changes back into a mermaid. Ursula resumes her octopus form and takes Ariel to the sea bottom to add her to the collection other mer-people she "raked over the coals". |