And then the story takes a disturbing turn. He lifted her in his arms, and carried her to a bed, where he gathered the first fruits of love. And clearly he had no reservations about ditching her after raping her. Nine months later, Sleeping Beauty gives birth to two children, a boy and a girl, while she is still asleep.
Once the babies are born, two fairies appear to help care for them. Instead, she just picks up the babies and starts breastfeeding them. But readers have to wonder if the flax poisoning that put Sleeping Beauty in a coma might have affected her faculties—she sure doesn't react like a typical person.
And it only gets worse once the king comes back to claim his children. He must have been pretty surprised to find Sleeping Beauty awake—and taking care of his twins. The king leaves out one small detail, though: he's already married.
Maleficent might be innocent in the original version of Sleeping Beauty, but once she figures out that her husband is cheating, she turns vicious. Then, the queen sits down with the king to watch him eat his children. WTF you talking about?? He was a king, so he was the law, as it appeased to him….
She WAS royalty herself, though. Her father was a law all his own, too, and usually diplomacy can get recompense when it comes to the political sway of a nation like that. Oh dear, please understand the Grimm Brothers created nothing — they took lore from the lands and wrote the stories down as their own. Lore existed long before the Grimms. If I only was so lucky as to get raped when I slept and then wake up having two babies suckling me!
Of course it was a man who wrote it. Only men were educated yrs ago not women. Your email address will not be published. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. The stories are told with hardly any break, and the tone, at least in the Neapolitan tales, is perfectly caught… While there are several variants of The Sun, Moon, and Talia told since the first documented instance, the basic story is of a baby girl named Talia, born to a powerful ruler.
Enjoy this article? Articles Entertainment Featured Facts. I love the last line. Nicki February 7, pm. Pedanticboy May 30, am. Meanwhile, while cleaning up the mess to prepare for Aurora's 16th birthday, Merryweather and Flora argue about the color of Aurora's dress, attracting the attention to Diablo, who sends the news about Aurora's discovery to Maleficent. When Aurora returns, despite promising to meet him again, she is unable to return as her "aunts" choose that time to reveal the truth of her birth to her and to tell her that she is betrothed to a prince named Phillip and she runs to her room, heartbroken.
Meanwhile, Stefan and Hubert were having a conversation about their children's future, and Phillip returns home to tell Hubert about a peasant girl he met and wishes to marry despite his prearranged marriage to Aurora. Hubert tries to convince Phillip to marry Aurora instead of the peasant girl but fails. The fairies and Aurora return to the castle. Unfortunately, Maleficent uses her magic to lure Aurora away from her chamber and up into a tower, where an enchanted spinning wheel awaits her.
The fairies go searching everywhere, trying to look for Aurora. But by Maleficent's order, Aurora touches the spindle by pricking her finger. When the fairies arrive in the same chamber where Aurora pricked her finger, they were too late. Maleficent taunts her arch enemies in their inability to defeat her.
Right before their eyes, the evil witch uncovers the fallen princess and disappears, cackling in triumph. As had been foretold by the curse, she is put under a sleeping spell. Heartbroken about their failure to protect Aurora, the fairies place her on her bed with a red rose in her hand and cast a powerful sleeping spell on everyone in the kingdom, causing a deep sleep to fall over them until the fairies can find a way to break the curse.
According to Hubert, who was about to go to sleep, they realize the answer is Phillip, but he has been kidnapped by Maleficent and her goons to prevent him from kissing Aurora and waking her up from the curse. The fairies sneak into Maleficent's lair, aid Phillip in escaping, and explain to him the story of Maleficent's curse. Armed with a magical sword and shield, he escapes, races to Stefan's castle, and battles Maleficent, who transformed herself into a gigantic fire-breathing dragon.
After being cornered on a cliff, he flings the sword and it impales her heart, which kills her. He climbs into Aurora's chamber and removes the curse with a kiss. One by one, everyone else, including Stefan, Leah, and Hubert, awaken from their slumber.
As the film ends with Aurora and Phillip arriving in the ballroom, where the former is happily reunited with her parents, she then dances together with Phillip, each happy to learn that their betrothed and their beloved are one and the same, and Merryweather and Flora argue over the dress color again.
In , following the successful release of his first full-length animated feature Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs , Walt Disney began thinking about creating an animated adaptation of Charles Perrault 's fairy tale La Belle au bois dormant , but, for reasons unknown, it didn't go any further than an idea stage back then.
Twelve years later, in February , another adaptation of Perrault's fairy tale, Cinderella , premiered and was a huge critical and commercial success, which, basically, marked the rebirth of Disney animation after the lean years of World War II, an era best known for cheaper package films, such as Saludos Amigos , The Three Caballeros , Make Mine Music , and etc.
Riding high on the success of Cinderella , Walt was determined to produce another feature based on a fairy tale, and, in November , he officially announced he was developing Sleeping Beauty as an animated film.
Disney envisioned this picture as his ultimate masterpiece, a film that he felt would be the pinnacle of his studio's achievements in the field of animation. At the same time, he realised, if his staff returned to the fairy tale format, they couldn't duplicate Snow White or Cinderella ; it was necessary to develop new methods of storytelling to make Sleeping Beauty as special and as different as they could.
Sleeping Beauty was tough, because it had a lot of the elements that we had in Snow White and Cinderella. Early versions of the story indicated the names of the Three Good Fairies as Tranquillity, Fernadell, and Merryweather the latter, ultimately, remained in the final film.
After the production title was registered on January 19 , , Walt assigned a small team of Bill Peet , Ted Sears, and Winston Hibler to begin adapting Perrault's tale to the style of Disney feature.
From the beginning of the writing process, the story artists decided to thoroughly rework the original story, deleting all the unnecessary elements, particularly, the "bizarre" second act of the fairy tale, and finding strength in the romance, for they felt little romance was developed between the strange prince and the princess. On May 15 [1] , , the first outline was written, which featured a wake-up kiss as a climactic moment, as well as the meeting between the prince and princess before the latter falls asleep.
Shortly before her sixteenth birthday, the princess, wishing to explore the world outside the castle walls, was to change the clothes with her maidservant and would have secretly escaped into the nearby forest, where she would have met and fell in love with the prince [2]. Then the prince would have gone on a journey to a faraway land and returned a few years later to find the princess and wake her up with his kiss.
The outline also indicated the names of the fairies, the number of which was reduced from eight to four three good and one evil , and their corresponding magical abilities: Tranquillity, the Fairy of Dreams, Fernadell, the Fairy of Forest, Merryweather, the Fairy of Elements, and Maleficent, the Fairy of Darkness. Early designs of Maleficent depicted her with more inhuman, "insect-like" appearance.
Another challenge was to increase the conflict in the plot, so the story team decided to significantly expand the role of the evil fairy; it was also decided to make her a far more powerful and sinister character, the opposite of the depiction of the old hag in the original fairy tale. At this point of the story development, Maleficent was to conjure an indestructible spinning wheel, which the king and queen would have unsuccessfully tried to get rid of until, in desperation, they would have locked their daughter in the castle walls and not let her out.
On the day of the princess' sixteen birthday, Maleficent, disguised as an elderly spinner, would have tricked her into pricking the finger with a spindle of the cursed spinning wheel, and then she would have surrounded the castle with an impenetrable wall of thorns.
Maleficent was to engage in a fight with the prince at the climax, obstructing his passage with various hazards. At the same time, the story artists increased the role of the good fairies by turning them into comical companions and protectors of the princess, in the same way they did with the dwarfs in Snow White.
The first outline and later versions included fairies' attempt to surround the castle with a protective circle, through which "no evil thing that walks, or flies, or crawls could ever pass", on the day of the princess' sixteenth birthday it turned out to be unsuccessful, as Maleficent was able to enter the castle, disguising herself as a fish, caught by the pantry boy.
The fairies were also to cast a sleeping spell on the castle when Maleficent's curse would have been fulfilled, and at the climax, they would have helped the prince overcome the hazards on his way through the thorn forest.
Among other things, the plot introduced a talking vulture who was to become a comically incompetent "hench-bird" of Maleficent and would have tried to ingratiate himself with the animals of Fernadell to find out the information for his mistress although early versions of the plot, including the first outline, depicted the evil fairy's hench-bird as a huge falcon, who was a far more sinister character.
In June of , Erdman Penner and Joe Rinaldi presented the final version of the story in the form of storyboard presentation, which left Walt dissatisfied as he felt that this story approach was way too similar to their past animated features, particularly Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and Cinderella.
Disney asked to rewrite the script, with the task of making their third princess as different from the previous heroines as possible.
Walt also insisted that the writers should avoid the subplots, like the mice in Cinderella , and concentrate on the reality of the story and the subtlety of the main characters. The name of the lovely Sleeping Beauty is " Princess Aurora " that means "sunrise" or "dawn" in Latin, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish , in the film, as in Tchaikovsky's ballet; this name occurred in Perrault's version, not as the princess' name, but as her daughter's.
The wicked fairy was aptly named Maleficent which means "Evil-doer". Princess Aurora's long, thin, willowy body shape was inspired by that of Audrey Hepburn. In addition, Walt Disney had suggested that all three fairies should look alike, but veteran animators Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston contrasted this idea saying that having them be like that wouldn't be exciting.
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