The Little Match Girl - HQ Disney

[MayDayJonas]

WHY WASN'T THIS IN FANTASIA 2000!?!

[Roxsor]

I have always thought that ending of this story is happy. She meets her granny again and travels to heaven where is no suffering anymore. Even that I always cry at the end. Mostly because of touching.

[dnguyen253]

something hit me in the eyes Q A Q

[cherls15]

Just saw this book at my sons school now and immediately had a flashback to childhood of my mum reading me this book for the first time and me being about 8 and captivated by the pictures.I remember feeling so sad for the little girl and in my mind at the time I truly believed that someone would come along and pick her up.Instead she just dies...so quickly in the book and I remember being so deeply affected by this at the time.Seeing the book this morning as an adult was so amazing.I cried again

[Cynthiahe1]

beautiful...

[TsukiraAquarius]

@ BugsySecret They actually didn't change the ending much. In the original fairy tale, yes, the people discovered her body, but no one felt anything other then "too bad," and carried on with their lives. This was focusing more on her finding happiness/acceptance of death instead of making the people feel bad. Honestly, most people would act that way in modern society then we'd like to think. I really like what Disney did with this.

[GhostPlanetFilms]

I like this version WAY better than the original tale.

[resance1]

god i love hans christian andersens's fairy tales!!!

[jennaurora]

That was so sad!! :( I was expecting a happy ending from Disney! :(

[Dumbledorathexplora]

i want to cry

[GhostPlanetFilms]

T_T Beautiful.

[EmpressEster]

I'm fuckin' crying! :°( This is amazingly beautiful

[ghiaccioprincipessa]

today i was in a big city and it was very very cold ......i hope that i will always have eyes and a heart from the poor .

this video is a very good old story , from i think the truth live in big citys ,we see it all , but only a handfull help :(

thxs for upload *****

[BugsySecret]

So why did they change the end of the story? The whole point and moral of the story is lost in this adaption... you know THE END, where all the people who didn't buy a match from the little girl realize what cold hearted Jerks they were... Honestly I think the end was changed to spread some kind of ugly pro-capitalist Christian agenda. Brainwashing at it's finest

[allegriajoy]

@BugsySecret I don't see that they really changed the ending...just left the bit off about the people discovering her body. Anderson comes right out and says that they "both flew so very high...They were with God" and that the only thing the people said was "she wanted to warm herself." online-literatureDOTcom/hans_c­hristian_andersen/981/

[griz1601]

read the story in school many years ago ..having been snowbound a few times, I could feel the cold ..in the end I was not ashamed to cry

[Spierred]

Eight matches found this extremely disturbing.

[veggietalesfan65]

I was happy when the woman found the girl then I wanted to cry when I saw the rest....:'(

[Maiitreya]

A beautiful interpretation of a cherished childhood story. I will never forget the profound effect this had on me growing up. Well done.

[soaponaroapDG]

@hesitate71 what ARE you!?

[KrakenZero]

It's like trying to find a job in the economy. You use the last of your savings to abate the cold temporarily.

[Elvisia50]

wist niet dat deze bestond

mooi gemaakt weer net als alle disney films

alleen deze liep niet zo goed af

maar ze is beter af in de hemel bij haar oma moeder of wat het ook was snik

[LaNinjaDeArgentina]

what an ending i'm crying right now ;A;

[TheShatteredShadow]

Oh my god my heart! ;A; So beautiful.

[koishiou]

My heart D': What have you done to it???

[nattymewbag]

@gguioa, Andersen did start his life in poverty, yes, but never as bad as the match girls of the period, his family could find money for bread, and at the end of his life he left 50,000 rigsdaler to the love of his life Edvard Collin, I don't know how much that is worth today, but it was a lot then. Not saying the Match Girl is less valuable though, it is a heart breaking truth =(

[SimonMoreal]

Mulan ?



[BTTBfromTPC]

Boy do I hate chopping onions in front of the screen.

[AgnusDei12345]

@BTTBfromTPC yes yes... chopping onions

[hesitate71]

I didn't cry nor did I feel any sadness towards this.

[vxMarksmanxv]

@hesitate71 Whoah, watch out. We got a badass over here.

[hesitate71]

@vxMarksmanxv Shit, how was I found out!

[gguioa]

Just so you know, this tale's writer had an equally miserable life.

[lceus]

Moral of this story: don't do drugs.

[Digipep1]

I'm not embarrassed to admit this- I'm a guy, I came across this vid looking for another pixar vid, and after watching this, I'd forgotten how it sometimes feels good to cry....

[TheGracieariana]

So sad :'(

[MrLuckyTanman]

Rest in peace, little match girl.

[watermelon668]

WHY WAS THIS SHELVED FROM FANTASIA 2000 TAKE OUT THAT FLAMINGO ONE AND PUT IN THIS INSTEAD!!!!

[LovleyAngel666]

my brother told me at the end she dies cause they didn't really explain it well in the book, all i saw was a little girl getting a home and being happy, so when he told me she fucking dies i denied it............until now (burst out sobbing)

[givefreedom]

Damn, this made me cry.

[narnarlovesu]

6 people cried so hard that they disliked the video for making them feel like that

[FantasmaLuna]

Stunning! Absolutely stunning! In my opinion, one of Disney's finest work to date. The animation is spectacular and it really did justice to the original Anderson story.

What a great holiday treat! Happy New Year, everyone!

[terdilynn91]

that is so heartbreakingly sad :'(

[HannahsCry]

I remember reading this story as a child also, and crying.

[porkeebear]

My eyes were filled with tears. TY for reminded us that we have a responsibility to feed and care for the poor and destitute, orphans, homeless and lost. This is the best Christmas present I could ever ask for and reminds me to get off myself, and to help others in their time of need. Merry Christmas 2011.

[ElisavetfromGreece]

i have read this Hans Christian Andersen's fairytale when i was a child,and i was crying for days!!What kind of children's fairytale is that? lol

[werewolf478]

Just showed my family this vid...=w= They told me I depressed them for Christmas with this vid..but said it was very sad yet beautiful the same time.,

[Reykjaviking]

wasn't aware of it taking place in Russia..

[eddt078]

omg ._.



[SephyVince84]

This is actually a tale from Hans Christian Andersen.

[Ponyship]

Frowny Face*

[Joshuar51]

Oh shit, this is sad :/

[kapanihan]

Add the snow filter on the video, and the snow keeps up on piling up even though she's imagining such warm things. Truth hurts. It's almost covered my whole screen now from repeating the video. *cries all over desk*

[maddyrock101]

@picatictara

Why don't u stop dissing Disney. If that happened to yur friend you wouldn't say that now would you? This is actually a really good story so why don't you trash something somewhere else ok?

[mdalsted]

Aww... D: T_T Well, at least now she's with her dear, sweet mother or grandmother (whoever that is) in Heaven.

[picaticatara]

stop smearing your shitdisney walt propaganda all around my toilet bowl go be nazi sadist somewher e else

[givefreedom]

@picaticatara This was actually an Anderson story, and so how dare you go around insulting a timeless writer like him. Also the next time you feel like acting like an asinine fool, check your spelling, and your grammar.

[picaticatara]

@givefreedom cry more u shitstain

[shamanite]

OMG. I know the story. I saw extracts of this short before. I knew how it was going to end... I cried nevertheless...

[Disneythievesrock]

The new snowflake thing has never been more appropriate.

[RustyNex]

bear grills would have survived

[ayash721]

What people have to understand is that this wasn't really supposed to be a sad ending, more like a happy ending. Think about it, she died going to heaven and she died by having her soul being carried by the one human being she loved most, her grandmother. It brings me to tears because I know she's in a better place, as opposed to the cruel, cold world where she was beaten by her father and was neglected by people. I cried knowing she had happy visions before she passed. Don't cry of sadness.

[zxu262]

@ayash721 horrible mysticism

[ayash721]

@zxu262 I really didn't ask for your opinion.

[ScandalousUnicorn]

what the hell, disney.

[Scorpio7500]

I was bawling within the first 30 seconds :'(

[zxu262]

altruïst socialist subtle propaganda

[PriNathShow]

@zxu262 your reading ayn rand? :D

[Direness]

@zxu262 Or rather, at the time Andersen wrote this, an everyday truth. Every winter they'd find the bodies of the very young and very old in the streets in Europe, those who didn't make it through another night. It still plays out today in America, except it's often homeless vets these days, who fought a war and then lost it when they came home. In other countries its still normal occurrence to find a street child's body left in the street. So much for propaganda.

[LordGarvals]

Oh...it's russia.

Oh wait...it brings me some weird dark memories.

Yes, yes, i remember now. It based on Grimm-faery tales, right? There was a russian cartoon back at 80th that also was based on this story. But it was waaaay more dark and depressive. And girl didn't looked like young disney princess. It looked like a real poor girl... I remember those bad feelings after watching it as a kid...

[MrBathiani]

@LordGarvals "The little girl with the matchsticks" is a short story by Danish poet and author Hans Christian Andersen. The story is about a dying child's dreams and hope, and was first published in 1845.

[LordGarvals]

@MrBathiani I know. :)

i mean first time i saw this very old russian cartoon as a kid...It was so depressive.'

Watch it here on youtube as "Девочка со спичками". Even without understanding russian it brings emptyness.

[MrBathiani]

@LordGarvals Now I understand, thank you for the russian version. - Regards

[Kurolli]

so, she froze to death? :C

[nosokompa]

@xx2n23 It still happens today Around the World . . . It still happens . . .

[anifan89]

;_____;

[roshanakmofidi]

OMG I REMEMBER THIS STORYYYY

so sad =[ =[

[tiffanyyyism]

4 people are heartless bastards :(

[mdalsted]

@tiffanyyyism 6 people! D:

[JaayyB]

Where's this set? Tsarist Russia?

[ForsakenThirteen]

@JaayyB probably, looking at the buildings I'd say it looks like an Eastern Orthodox Country, so it's most likely Tsarist Russia .

[Eponine83]

I have never yet managed to watch this without crying. My faith in Disney is momentarily restored.

[criticalvideo2]

In the dawn of morning there lay the poor little one, with pale cheeks and smiling mouth, leaning against the wall; she had been frozen to death on the last evening of the year; and the New-year’s sun rose and shone upon a little corpse! The child still sat, in the stiffness of death, holding the matches in her hand, one bundle of which was burnt. “She tried to warm herself,” said some. No one imagined what beautiful things she had seen, nor into what glory she had entered with her grandmother.

[imaloony8]

Damn, that ending...

It's both incredibly sad and joyful at the same time. Disney and Pixar really made something special here. It's very morbid, but it does give a lot of hope in the end in its own way.

[berlande101]

@imaloony8 this was actually a book written by hans Christian anderson....just something disney stole credit for again

[BloodyBay]

@berlande101 6:06, lower left.

You're welcome.

[MrBbouas]

@imaloony8 its the writer who made it incredible lol... "hans anderson"

[kovanecky]

I just love it !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[jawproduction]

Gorgeous. Love the story and how its animated. BUT i've been spoiled and have seen another attraction in the Efteling I think is better ( not much motion but even More emotion) You must understand the dutch language ofcourse. Still this is a 10/10

[loldongsman]

LITTLE GIRL WAS NOT TRUE SOVIET, SUCH IS LIFE IN MOSCOW

[Mullahgrrl]

@loldongsman She wasn't a workers council? I suppose not.

[veldinsparx]

Friend: *shows me this*

Me: WHY DO YOU DO THIS TO ME?!

Friend: Do you feel something? Something in your chest? Does it hurt?!? Q_Q

Me: Hmm? What. No. But I'm out of matches.

[AlexRiddles]

Hits me every time ;.;

[Starbat88]

Oh God, that's the saddest thing I've seen since Grave of the Fireflies. DX;;

[DefensiveOffender]

='( This is too depressing ... But it's beautiful.

[DrFrohman]

I... probably should have waited until the credits. Never mind.

[DrFrohman]

Who's the composer? David Lang, right?

[aNGLICANcHOIR92]

@DrFrohman Alexander Borodin.

[jupiknight]

WHAT. Did she really die ;3; Oh dear god. I've never seen/heard this story before.

[TheOpinionater]

@jupiknight Yes she really died and so did the little mermaid, by turning into sea foam;)

[randominity15]

@TheOpinionater She turns into a spirit after the sea foam part. A "daughter of the air" that can earn a soul after 300 years of good deeds.

[TheOpinionater]

@randominity15 ...OR less, if she find enough good children...but...in my book, if/when you turn into a spirit/ghost, you're dead :D.

[Hopeofmen]

Hans Christen Andersen, you know how to pluck my heartstrings.

[Milliondollarloser]

f___, i remember reading this story in middle school literature, it's one depressing memory after another today. first nostalgia critics top 11 saddest scenes, then this. i'm going to bed.

[deuxfoisy]

disny wold better help those kids instead to make money based on the emotions of idiots

[Milliondollarloser]

@deuxfoisy f u, i found this story very depressing both when i was a kid and watching this.

if i am misreading your statement, please correct me. Otherwise: my sleep deprived, currently emotionally saddened mind will stay by said statement til sanity returns; whenever that is.

[xGuignolx]

@deuxfoisy Articulate.

[momoshun]

This is quite possibly the saddest video I have ever seen in my life. There's something this cartoon can do that real images of humans suffering can't... I don't know what it is, but I sob every time I watch this.

This just convinces me even more that we are all in this world together and anything I can do to contribute to the well being of humanity is a noble effort.

[Frentara]

That was so sweet and sad at the same time. :(

[dundeecake]

Onward to the heavens above

[sjorsjulius]

:'(

[LynnStarDust]

as anyone seen the Alice Academy version :)

[TheAliceSnape]

@LynnStarDust i was thinking about that as i watched the video! that was adorable

[Cjb3398]

I know a different story, from a childs book called Alumette.

[Xao14]

@Cjb3398

Yeah, Disney recycles a lot of those stories for their own use.

I wish they would put the original authors or something at the end of the videos.

[SpiderRiderKya]

@Xao14 If you read the credits they did, it says 'Based on the original story by Hans Christian Andersen'

[Xao14]

@SpiderRiderKya

Yeah, I missed that.

[CitizenGatsby]

Oh my God. ಥ﹏ಥ

[Jpmcke]

imdb.com/title/tt0816562/

~

[Nertrender]

what year is this? it looks like an early attempt at digital coloring

[marianneistocool]

Tragically beautiful.

[Eyah2]

Why so SAD. WHYYY !! :"(



[harrypotteranddobby]

Well, 5:42 gave me chills... she was such a pretty little girl

[MattBarber51993]

Why is Lilo in russia?

[Tatsuhiko]

Gah...The ending...EVERY TIME. ;_;

[sherpah]

C'est triste la vie, c'est mieux qu'elle soit au Paradis que sur Terre en enfer

[LynnaWaUtau]

HOW COULD ALL THOSE PEOPLE TURN HER AWAY LIKE THAT? HOW?

[ivanclaysburgh]

@LynnaWaUtau It's the same way we turn away from other people like that in our world today. When we pass the homeless man on the corner, or the family living in the shelter. They are out there, but we continue to ignore them.

[LordNibblenoo]

Fff. I read the original story and knew that this was going to be sad. Why did I watch it anyway? ;-;

[xXSpXxXFanXx]

dis she die at the end?

[CuteVidoll]

@xXSpXxXFanXx yes. the story is originally by christian andersen if you want to read it. she meets her grandmom at the end and asks her to take her to heaven but basicly she freezes to death ;.;

[wwedanny101]

@xXSpXxXFanXx yes when she touched her grandma after lighting the 3 matches she died

[RudeysPunkt]

heartbreaking though my favorite story ever!

[Hidethegames]

Wow... oh wow that was tragic.

[sweetblackblood1]

she looks asian

[jpopqueen]

i remember reading this story as a little girl. And it still depresses me and makes me appreciate what I have.

[cobrall009]

//sobstory

[CLMinzyDaraBom]

She have to sell those matches because if she didn't sell any of those, her father will beat her

[sweetiegrl41]

that was sad:

Little girl: Wanna buy some matches? *man comes*

Man: You'll hurt yourself little one

Little girl: Wanna buy some matches sir?

Man: No I'll pass *walk away*

Little girl: 8:::L please don't go

[BloodyBay]

3 people resorted to the Dislike button because they couldn't think of any better way to express their anger for that entire herd of heartless bastards who couldn't even spare a few goddamned Rubles to buy some frickin' matches and save that little girl's life. >:(

Also, I talk too much. :p

[xtinax3]

It's so sad...sometimes for some reason though I'm reminded of how pretty yet sad it is ..then i torture myself by watching it and crying my eyes out!!! :(

[MrsMaddus]

It made me swallow my tears.

[SlymeGreen]

Oh my god. D':

[Necrovoker]

The Little Match Girl is one of the very few stories that can make me cry... poor little girl :(

[TotalPirateLuvva]

GAAAHH SO SAD

[mjoi25]

que lindo video, hermosa animació y música ambiental, me dan ganas de llorar cuando lo veo:-(

[Aurora7]

Cry everytime.

[cheapcape]

I bawl every time I watch this..

[volt792000]

3 people hate crying.

[WhiteDragonProduc]

So sad. D: Porr little match girl. All she wanted was a few cents, but nooo. veryone was too selfish. T^T And then she died in a little corner and the last thing she was thinking of that she really wanted was a house and a family. It's really sad but at least she got reunited with her mom/grandmother. :(

[Wenchoochoo]

3 people don't have a heart :(

[Wakishea]

@Wenchoochoo

Maybe they disliked it because it made them upset? ;/

Like, thinking if I like this does that mean that I dont care?

Now, I'm confusing myself > <! -poofs-!

[LarFang]

It's so sad! Yet the art is so beautiful! Why cant disney make movies like this anymore?

[Ryoukoholic]

Oh my God, that is the saddest thing I've ever seen. That poor little girl. She couldn't have been older than seven.

[loveClowns8]

But wasn't it her mother in the book? I'm not sure since it was long ago i read it...

[BlackWitch709]

I cry so much, especially at the end with the playing violins. I think that it's sad with what happened with the Little Match Girl. Everyone thinks this is not a happy ending, but it's a happy ending for her and I think so too. In the end, she gets reunited with her loving grandmother with the cabin in the sky.

[tehUBERn00blet]

Why can't I cry at anything? I swear something's wrong with me.

[Cl00lessGrl]

:'(

[lambce1]

I was already a little teary eyed at the beginning but absolutely lost it at the end - I don't know how I didn't see it coming - I was so rattled it took me nearly ten minutes to calm

[ulapinkie]

So sad...

[Globalinhabitant]

I don´t care who made this, but I liked it a lot! I cried so hard TT_TT and was very much surprised of myself. Good job, nice piece of art, it´s very moving!

[94keyblade]

I swear to you guys...the ending was an inch close to make me cry. :.(

[PufferBluntman]

@94keyblade yeah, thank god they didn't show her death more graphically but metaphorically

[cheapcape]

@PufferBluntman the original story did though and I believe Andersen wrote it that way so everyone would realize how important humanity is

[PufferBluntman]

@cheapcape that what I was talking about - I actually read lot's of Anderson's stories, including the Snow Queen.