The evil queen from sleeping beauty. It's scary, it's creepy
Convincingly proves that evil can be damn attractive.
As a child, Jolie watched the Disney cartoon many times. "Sleeping Beauty". Most girls liked its main character - the blond princess Aurora, who pricked her finger on a spindle and fell into a magical sleep. But Angelina in this fairy tale was fascinated by the image of Maleficent - a colorful, powerful villain with a spectacular headdress in the form of horns. “I was very afraid of her, but I still loved her,” admits the actress.
Many years later, when Hollywood decided to film the story of the famous witch, Jolie became the main contender for the role of Maleficent. According to the authors, the beauty of the heroine should captivate the audience at first sight, and who can cope with this better than the most desirable woman in the world. In the new film, the plot of Sleeping Beauty (played by actress Elle Fanning) fades into the background; the script centers on the biography of the sorceress, who in her youth was not at all evil and vengeful. The heart of the former fairy Maleficent was hardened by the betrayal of loved ones and the forced struggle for her beloved kingdom.
On set, the actress had to put on makeup for four hours every day. Angelina's appearance has undergone a significant transformation. The star had to wear special silicone pads on her nose, cheekbones and ears to make her facial features look sharper. The color of her eyes also changed: Jolie wore gold contact lenses painted by a professional artist. But the main test was the 30-centimeter black horns, which were attached to the helmet using magnets. At first, the actress could not cope with the heavy structure and constantly hit the scenery and filming equipment with it. The horns broke, the artists had to make new ones - a total of about 20 helmets from various materials were created for filming.
According to the script, in one of the episodes Maleficent meets 4-year-old Princess Aurora, and the girl is not at all afraid of the evil witch. The search for the child became a real problem for the film crew: at the sight of Angelina in a black robe and with horns on her head, the kids began to scream and cry. As a result, the role of the princess became the debut of Vivien Jolie-Pitt, the youngest daughter of the actress and her common-law husband Brad Pitt. The girl was the only one who was not afraid of the sinister sorceress. The eldest children of the star couple, Pax and Zacharias, also starred in the scene of Aurora's christening, portraying a prince and princess from distant countries.
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Formally, the main role in this film was played by the star of the “Twilight Saga” Kristen Stewart, but both viewers and critics remembered the film thanks to Charlize Theron. A heartless stepmother who kills her husband, the king, shortly after the wedding, she changes luxurious costumes in every scene and wears rings in the form of predatory claws, with which she rips out the hearts of birds and strangles young girls to take away their youth. “What I liked most was yelling at people,” Charlize later joked. “Finally, I could decompress at work.”
The German storytellers in the film are portrayed as charlatans who do not believe in magic and scare the gullible people with the help of tricks and tricks. This continues until they meet a real witch - the Mirror Queen, obsessed with the idea of eternal youth. The role of the main villain was intended for Uma Thurman, but she refused to film, making room for the Italian diva Monica Bellucci. “The fate of my heroine is a warning for those who identify themselves with their reflection in the mirror,” stated the actress.
The British star loves auteur cinema and rarely appears in blockbusters, but for the role of the White Witch in the Chronicles of Narnia trilogy, she made an exception. The main reason was the actress’s children: shortly before filming, Swinton had just started reading fairy tales to her twins and realized that in her filmography there was not a single picture for family viewing. “I created a completely new image,” she said. - My sorceress does not scream or threaten, like ordinary villains. She does even dark things calmly, elegantly and with dignity.”
Many European nations have a fairy tale about an evil witch and a princess in an enchanted dream. Over the past 400 years, the legend has been retold under various names about 1,000 times. Novels have also been created based on this fairy tale. The first of them is “Perseforest” by an unknown author, dating back to 1527.
However, the most famous version was the story of a beauty sleeping in the forest from the collection “Tales of Mother Goose” by Charles Perrault. The great storyteller wrote it in 1697.
Charles Perrault was the first to introduce into the legend a handsome prince, whose kiss breaks the spell of enchanted sleep. So there were three main characters in the fairy tale: the witch, the princess and the prince.
About "Sleeping Beauty"
For the first time on screen, the sorceress Maleficent, the princess and the prince were shown by Disney in 1959. The cartoon was called “Sleeping Beauty” and became the 16th animated project of the Disney film studio.
Disney's animated film Sleeping Beauty stands in stark contrast to the Brothers Grimm and Charles Perrault's versions of classic fairy tales. The main contradiction is that the total length of the German and French fairy tales takes up about three pages. Disney studio writers needed to create a film that was 80 minutes long.
Filming took about ten years and more than $6 million was spent. The film became the most expensive of all that had been shot at the Disney studio up to that time.
The cartoon received a worthy musical accompaniment, based on P. I. Tchaikovsky’s music for the ballet “The Sleeping Beauty”. In particular, 2 songs “Once upon a dream” and “I wonder” are based on a waltz-allegro. It is the music, organically woven into the course of the narrative, that creates an allusion to medieval life of the 14th century.
Still from the cartoon "Sleeping Beauty"
About Maleficent
Filming began on June 11, 2012 at the famous English studio Pinewood Studios. Most of the film was filmed on the sites of this studio. Over the course of five months, there were six pavilions, several square kilometers of outdoor sites, as well as some other production areas.
About 40 decorated areas were created for filming - starting from a small room of 3x3 meters and ending with a large hall with an area of 464 m2.
One of the natural sites was an ancient castle - an exact replica of the majestic building, both inside and outside, which the animators drew in 1959. The floor was covered with real marble slabs, and the interior used genuine antiques.
It took 250 builders and 20 artists about 14 weeks to build and decorate the site.
The scenery of the nondescript house in which Aurora spent her childhood was built on location at the London film studio Pinewood Studios. The house itself was made of timber, and the roof was thatched by hand using the technology used by professional roofers. In the whole of Great Britain there are no more than 1,000 specialists who earn money from such an exotic craft.
About fairytale makeup
The prosthetic makeup team was led by seven-time Oscar winner Rick Baker. Several specialists worked exclusively on Maleficent's false horns and ears. Other makeup artists spent several hours each morning applying makeup to the remaining characters.
Baker and his assistants sculpted three different sets of horns, inspired by the original design.
The horns were made of polyurethane, a fairly light but very durable material.
To ensure that the plastic overlays exactly matched the curves of Angelina Jolie's face, the make-up artists first made a cast of the actress's head and cast a plaster bust. It was subsequently used to adjust the rubber pads on the cheekbones and ears. The procedure for applying complex plastic makeup took about four hours every day.
Still from the movie "Maleficent" Photo: WDSSPR
About fairy costumes and spinning wheels
Costume designer Anna Sheppard and her team are literally hand-crafted.
Angelina Jolie worked a lot with professional hatters, selecting a headdress design that would hide her heroine's horns. Six different hats were designed, including a summer version made from python skin. When Maleficent appeared at the christening, her horns were covered with a headdress that emphasized the unnatural whiteness of her skin.
Prop designer David Balfour assembled dozens of spinning wheels for the scene in which the king imposes a massive ban on the use of spindles throughout the country. The spinning wheel is the only key element of the tale that has been repeated in all variations, from the very first legends to the present day. Pricking a finger with a spindle meant for all the princesses to fall into a deep, uninterrupted sleep.
Still from the movie "Maleficent" Photo: WDSSPR
About actors and consultants
Sam Riley, who played the werewolf Diaval, rehearsed the movements that should be characteristic of a raven under the guidance of special trainers. Riley admits that the hours he spent with the instructors were the most embarrassing of his entire acting career. He felt especially awkward when he had to run around the room, waving his arms and trying to croak. Even in human form, Riley as Diaval had animal features - crow feathers stuck out in his hair, and his eyes were completely black contact lenses.
Played by Imelda Staunton, Juno Temple and Lesley Manville, performance capture technology was used. According to the plot, the height of the heroines did not exceed half a meter, but all the nuances of facial expressions were recorded and conveyed with the utmost care. The visual effects team used 150 markers attached to each actress's face to convey the slightest grimaces of the digitized characters. The fairies turned out to be very comical - with large heads and wide eyes. Many other proportions were also purposefully violated.
Incredible facts
Many may be quite surprised to learn that some Disney cartoons, which have been so popular among children for several generations, are actually initially they are not based on good and positive stories.
This may be shocking, but these very stories were based on violence, murder, cannibalism and other blood-chilling events.
Original versions of fairy tales
It is generally accepted that Disney, by changing the original versions of fairy tales, made them kind and pleasant, and therefore more accessible to the general public. However, there are also those who accuses Disney of unfairly distorting the original stories.
Some of the very first versions of fairy tales became known to us thanks to the Internet and discussions on various forums. However, there are many Disney stories that actually look different, and we don’t even realize about “substitution” of the plot.
Listed below are examples of lesser-known versions of popular cartoons that more than one generation of young viewers have grown up with.
Pinocchio Disney
1. Pinocchio: Corpses and Murder
Original version: Pinocchio becomes a murderer, and in the end he himself dies
In the very first version of the tale, Pinocchio was punished with death for his disobedience. Wooden boy ruthless towards old Gepetto and constantly teases him. The old man begins to pursue Pinocchio and ends up in prison for allegedly offending the boy.
Pinocchio returns home where he meets a hundred-year-old cricket who tells him that naughty children turn into donkeys. However, the wooden boy, not wanting to listen to wise advice, in a fit of anger, he throws a hammer at the cricket and kills it.
Pinocchio ends his life by being burned to death. Before his death, he sees the same fairy who saves him in the Disney version. The wooden boy is choking on smoke. Witnesses to his dying suffering are a cat with a mutilated paw, which Pinocchio had previously bitten off, and a fox. Both animals were hanged by the evil wooden boy.
The editors found this ending too angry and sad. Therefore, it was decided to change the second part and add a different ending to make the story more positive and kind.
Thanks to the efforts of Walt Disney, after numerous misadventures that Pinocchio experienced due to his own disobedience and stubbornness, he returns to his old father and becomes a good boy.
History of Aladdin
2. Dismemberment in Aladdin
In the original version: Cassim was mutilated and brutally killed
For those who don't know, Kassim is the father that Aladdin lost in his early childhood. This hero appears in the third part of the film. Cassim is the leader of the Forty Thieves gang. Surely everyone has heard about this gang.
The stories of "Aladdin" and "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves" begin to become closely intertwined. To go to the wedding of his son and Princess Jasmine, Cassim had to leave his villainous business for a while.
In the original version, Ali Baba learns what words need to be spoken in order to get into the cave where forty thieves keep their treasures. He then tells his brother Cassim about the gold, also telling him magic words, thanks to which he still ends up in the treasury.
However, from the greedy excitement that gripped him at the sight of such untold wealth, Cassim forgets his magic spells and cannot leave the cave. At this moment the robbers return. Seeing an unexpected guest, they kill him in cold blood.
Fallen princesses: what happened to the heroines of fairy tales after the wedding?Cassim's body was then cut into pieces. The robbers left the dismembered limbs at the entrance to the cave as a warning to others who wanted to enter the treasury.
At the end of the tale, after numerous scenes of murder, only the slave remains alive.
Cinderella: original version
3. Cinderella the Killer
In the original version: Cinderella kills her evil stepmother
Perhaps each of us is familiar with two versions of the fairy tale about a poor girl who was offended by her evil stepmother. "Cinderella" from Charles Perrault and the Brothers Grimm is based on the plot of the fairy tale by Giambattista Basile.
In Basile's version there is another character - the governess, who at first is very supportive of Cinderella. The girl cries to her about her bitter fate and complains about her evil stepmother. The governess advises her to kill the one who makes Cinderella's life unbearable.
With one blow from the chest lid to the neck, the girl takes the life of her tormentor. The governess marries Cinderella's father. However, her life becomes even sadder and harder than before.
As it turned out, the new stepmother has seven daughters whom she hid. When they were presented to Cinderella's father, he forgets about his own daughter. Now Cinderella is doomed to hard work around the clock. She is forced to do the most menial chores around the house.
5 Little-Known Versions of Famous Children's Fairy TalesThe final part of the story is very similar to a traditional fairy tale. Disney did not change the ending of the story, since in any version the fairy tale about Cinderella has a happy ending. The poor girl, after undergoing trials, marries a handsome prince.
And with Charles Perrault, and with the Brothers Grimm, and with Basile, a simple servant becomes a princess. Disney, being a supporter of the "happy ending", did not change the final part of the story, but only added positivity and joyful faces to it.
So, the story about a poor girl with whom the prince falls in love was not always as harmless and pure as Disney presents us with.
Sleeping Beauty - original
4. Sleeping Beauty is among the dead
In the original version: Sleeping Beauty rests among decaying corpses
Everyone remembers how in the famous fairy tale the witch cursed the girl. At the age of fifteen, the beauty was supposed to die from a spindle injection. However, another witch softened the curse, promising that it will not be death, but a dream lasting a hundred years.
The briar bushes that grew thickly around the castle became a thorny trap for hundreds of young people who tried to pass through these thorns in the hope of seeing the sleeping princess. They all died after getting entangled in the bushes. They died a terrible and painful death.
Exactly one hundred years later, as the second witch predicted, the curse subsided. The abundant vegetation, which had become the grave of many young men, turned into wonderful flowers.
A prince passing by on a horse sees Beauty. With his kiss he brings her back to life. This is exactly the happy ending that Disney filmed.
The original version of this story came from the same Giambattista Basile. And his fairy tale script was much less pure and joyful.
In his version, the king rapes the sleeping Beauty. In a dream, a girl becomes pregnant and gives birth to twins. Then she wakes up, but her life is overshadowed by the machinations of the evil queen, who, in the end, burns in fire intended for Beauty.
Despite the fact that the ending of the fairy tale is also happy, it is difficult not to admit that the entire plot of the story is filled with disgusting scenes of violence and murder.
Andersen's fairy tale The Little Mermaid
5. Bloodthirsty Little Mermaid
Disney made the cartoon "The Little Mermaid", taking as a basis the plot of the fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen. In this story, for the sake of the prince, the young Mermaid makes enormous sacrifices: her tongue is cut out, and her legs bleed.
Mermaid endures unbearable pain in order to stay with her loved one. However, the prince marries someone else. Unable to kill the one she loves more than herself and her family, the Little Mermaid commits suicide by turning into sea foam.
However, Andersen himself came up with his own tale based on another story written by Friedrich de la Motte Fouque. His version of Ondine is more cruel and sad.
Having received a human soul, Ondine marries a knight. However, numerous relatives of the mermaid are plotting, thereby interfering with her happiness with her husband. On top of everything else, the knight falls in love with Bertida, who settles in their castle.
Disney cartoons pale in comparison to Soviet cartoonsTo save her lover and his new passion from the wrath of her uncle, the evil merman, Ondine commits suicide by throwing herself into the river. The knight marries Bertida. However, Ondine returns in the form of a mermaid and kills her unfaithful husband.
A stream suddenly appears near the knight’s grave, which is a kind of symbol of the fact that the mermaid and her lover are together even in the next world, and their love is stronger than life and death.
Fairy tale Snow White and the Seven Thunders
6. Torture of unfortunate Snow White
In the original version: Snow White was tortured and became a slave.
In the story described by the Brothers Grimm, the queen attempted Snow White's life three times: at first she tried to strangle the girl by tightening the corset so tightly that deprived her of the ability to breathe.
Then she combs the girl's hair poisonous comb. When this method did not bring the desired result, the evil queen decides poison your stepdaughter with an apple, biting into which she dies.
The dwarves put Snow White in a glass coffin. A prince passing by, seeing the beautiful deceased, decides to take the coffin home. With a strong push, a piece of the poisoned apple falls out of Snow White's throat, and she comes to life.
At the wedding of her stepdaughter and a handsome prince, the evil queen dances in shoes made of hot iron, then dies from burns to his legs.
Perhaps many will be surprised by the fact that the Brothers Grimm borrowed the idea of the fairy tale from the same Basile, whose version was distinguished by its particular bloodthirstiness and numerous scenes of violence.
According to Basile's story, the girl dies at the age of seven. Her body is placed in seven glass coffins. The key to the coffin is kept by the uncle of the deceased, as the girl’s mother is dying of grief. In a dream, the girl continues to grow and by a certain age she becomes a real beauty.
The uncle's wife finds a coffin with a deceased woman. She pulls her hair, the poisonous comb falls out, and the girl comes to life. Suspecting the poor woman of being her husband's mistress, the woman begins to treat her poorly.
Snow White's hair is cut off, she is beaten half to death, and she is made a slave. The poor thing is subjected to humiliation and beatings every day. This causes her to have black circles under her eyes and bleeding from her mouth.
The girl decides to take her own life, but before doing so she tells the doll about her difficult fate. Snow White's uncle, having overheard her confession, understands everything. He divorces his wife, treats his crippled niece, then marries her to a rich and good man.
The Story of Hercules
7. Self-immolation of Hercules
In the original version: Hercules burns himself
Zeus, the supreme god, rapes Alcmene, the wife of Amphitryon, who also has intimate relations with her that same night. As a result, Alcmene is pregnant with two babies from different fathers. From Zeus son Hercules is born.
The boy grows up, becomes a great and valiant warrior and marries the beautiful Megara. In a state of madness brought upon him by Hera, Hercules kills his children.
At the end of the story, his fourth wife hangs herself after seeing Hercules tear off his clothes and skin. He's trying to burn himself alive. However, only his flesh is burned in the funeral pyre. The immortal part of his being returns to Olympus, where he lives happily ever after with Hera.
8. The Fox and the Death of the Hunting Dog
In the original version: both animals die a terrible death
Copper and Chief, a brave hunting dog, have a complicated relationship. Copper hates Chief and is jealous of his master. It is obvious that the owner singles out Chief among all his dogs. This is not surprising: after all, somehow Chief saved him from a bear attack, while Copper, frightened by the huge beast, simply hid.
Tod is a fox who always teased his master's dogs, driving them to madness. One day, after another provocation from Tod, the Chief breaks loose. While chasing a daring fox, Chief is hit by a train and dies.
Grieving, the owner swears revenge on the fox. He trains Copper to ignore all foxes except Tod.
Meanwhile, Tod and the old Fox are causing trouble in the forest. However, Copper and the owner, having stumbled upon the foxes' den, poisoned the little foxes inside with gas. Master mercilessly kills Tod's cubs one after another.
Todd himself always manages to escape death. But Copper finds Tod and kills him. The dog himself is very exhausted and also almost gives up his soul to God. However, the owner is nursing his dog. For a while, both are almost happy.
Unfortunately, the owner starts drinking and ends up in a nursing home. In desperation, he takes a gun and kills his faithful dog. Copper died at the hands of his own master. This is the very sad ending to the original story about the Fox and the faithful dog.
Cartoon Hunchback
9. Death and suffering in "The Hunchback"
In the original version: both Esmeralda and Quasimodo are subjected to severe torture, then they both die
Hugo's version is undoubtedly more tragic. The lover Frollo inflicts a terrible wound on the handsome Phoebus during his date with Esmeralda. Quasimodo then throws Frollo off the roof of Notre Dame. Disney softened the ending of the story. In the classic story, the beautiful gypsy was hanged on the gallows.
At the end of the story, the unfortunate hunchback goes to the crypt where the corpses of executed criminals are buried. Having found his beloved among the rotting bodies, Quasimodo hugs her corpse. And after some time, people entering the crypt see two skeletons intertwined in a tight embrace.
10 Pocahontas Was Raped And Murdered
In the original version: Pocahontas was kidnapped, raped and killed
The Disney film about the beautiful Indian girl Pocahontas was based on the notes of English travelers. The history covers the period of early colonization. The action takes place in the Virginia Colony.
When Pocahontas was very young, she was kidnapped by the British for ransom. The girl was raped and her husband was killed. She was then baptized and given a new name, Rebecca.
To hide the pregnancy that occurred after the rape, Pocahontas is married to John Rolf. Together with her new family, the savage leaves for England, where familiar things become a curiosity for her.
After two years, the Rolfs decided to return to Virginia. On the eve of departure, Pocahontos becomes ill and vomits violently. Suffering from terrible convulsions, the girl dies. Presumably, Pocahontas died of tuberculosis or pneumonia. She was only 22 years old.
However, according to another version, Pocahontas became aware of the plans of the English government to destroy the indigenous Indian tribes. The British intended to take the land from the people of Pacahontas.
Fearing that Pocahontas might reveal the Indians' political strategies, the British planned her poisoning. Pocahontas had to die before returning to her homeland and telling what she knew.
Probably every girl dreams of becoming a sleeping beauty, who will be rescued from her dreams by a handsome prince, as was the plot of a traditional European fairy tale. Book lovers saw a non-trivial story thanks to the literary edition of the Brothers Grimm and. By the way, these same writers worked on “” and other works that are familiar to both adults and children. The story about a bewitched girl migrated to the vastness of cinema and other literary works.
History of creation
The tale of Sleeping Beauty was invented much earlier than one might think. Moreover, some researchers were looking for hidden subtext. For example, there is an outdated theory among some folklorists who suggested that the thirteenth fairy - the outcast - was invented for a reason. The fact is that the thirteen-month lunar system was changed and shortened: thus, humanity “put in the center” not the Moon, but the Sun.
A familiar plot is found in the French work "Perseforest", which was published in the 14th century, but Charles Perrault based on a different source and relied on the plot, which is presented in the fairy tale "The Sun, the Moon and the Thalia" by Giambattista Basile (1634). Basile wrote about the royal daughter Thalia, whom court astrologers predicted danger from flax.
In order not to condemn the child to an unenviable existence, the owners of the throne ordered all the herbs to be removed from the castle, but this precaution did not help, because after some time Thalia saw an old woman spinning flax from the window. The girl asked to try spinning, but she drove a splinter into her finger, which caused her death.
The upset king and queen did not bury their beloved daughter, but ordered the girl’s body to be transferred to a country palace. Further in the plot, a king appears who failed to wake up the unfortunate princess. Since this man was visiting the girl for a reason, Talia soon gave birth to two twins, one of whom became her savior: instead of a breast, the boy began to suck his mother’s finger and sucked out a splinter from it, due to which the main character woke up.
Later, that king returned to his mistress and, seeing the children, named them Sun and Moon. Then his legal wife finds out about the king’s betrayal and prepares a dish for all participants, which is usually served cold - revenge. The real story contains cruel motives, for example, the owner of the throne ordered the killing of the Sun and the Moon and cooking them with roast “with Robber sauce.” However, the story of Thalia and the twins has a happy ending.
Charles Perrault could not allow children to see rape and cannibalism in a fairy tale. Therefore, the literary genius did the same as with “Little Red Riding Hood” - he softened the particularly “acute” moments, and also changed the reason for the girl’s eternal sleep to the curse of an evil fairy.
Charles's tale is surrounded by a magical atmosphere and ends with a kiss and a wedding, while his predecessor described all the harsh trials that the couple in love had to go through. Also, the master of words changed the queen to the mother, and the king to the prince.
It is worth saying that Giambattista has a similar moment in the work “The Young Slave,” in which the fairy curses the beautiful Lisa and prophesies her death because her mother will leave a comb in her hair. By the way, the crystal coffin used by the Brothers Grimm in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs appears in this manuscript.
Charles Perrault's "lethargic" tale was published in 1697 and was actually called "The Beauty of the Sleeping Forest." This work received recognition among the sophisticated public, especially since the author adapted the creation to the courtly literature of the time, trying to dress the characters in noble costumes of the 17th century. And the girls blushed at the phrase:
“He approached her with awe and admiration and knelt down beside her.”
Perrault did not pursue the goal of impressing the public, because every fairy tale, even if it is a children's work about wizards and fairies, must have a philosophical subtext. Thus, the main idea of “Sleeping Beauty” is that the power of love can overcome any adversity. But for young readers there are other, adapted storylines - translations by N. Kasatkina, T. Gabbe, A. Lyubarskaya and other literary figures.
As for the Brothers Grimm, it’s not just the main character who falls asleep, but the entire kingdom, and the fairy tale ends when the princess wakes up. To get to know the Russian mentality, you can contact the creator of “”, who wrote “The Tale of the Dead Princess.”
Plot
The classic story begins with the birth of a daughter to the king and queen. In honor of this event, a grandiose feast was planned throughout the kingdom, where all the sorceresses were invited, except one: that fairy had not appeared from her tower for half a century, and everyone thought that she was dead. The uninvited guest finally came to the celebration, but she did not have enough cutlery, so the owner of the magic wand felt that she had been treated discourteously.
When the rest of the fairies presented the birthday girl with gifts, the old woman Carabosse uttered a cruel prophecy that the spindle prick would be fatal for the beauty. But still, another sorceress commutes the sentence, because the last word wins the argument: the unfortunate girl will not die, but will fall into a deep sleep for exactly a hundred years. It is noteworthy that in the original retelling of Charles Perrault there is no mention of the prince’s “invigorating” kiss.
Having heard the witch's prediction, the king ordered all the spindles and spinning wheels to be burned, but his attempts to save his daughter were in vain: having become an adult girl, the princess found in the country tower of the castle an old woman who did not know about the ban on spindles and was spinning a tow.
The main character decided to help, but pricked her finger on the spindle and fell dead. They did everything they could to wake up the princess: they splashed water in her face, rubbed her temples with fragrant vinegar, but no measures woke up the king’s daughter.
The fairy, who at one time commuted the sentence, asked the owners of the castle to leave the place and plunged it into eternal sleep; Tall trees grew around. The young sorceress thought that the princess would be sad when she woke up after a hundred years and did not see a single familiar face. Therefore, the fairy touched each courtier with her magic wand, and they also fell asleep for a century. The king and queen avoided this trick, since, according to Perrault, rulers have matters that cannot be postponed for such a long time.
A hundred years later, a prince appeared in the castle, who did not know about the current situation, but heard from a passer-by about the sleeping beauty and what a brave young man would awaken her. The king's son rode his horse to an enchanted place, where he saw a young girl. When he knelt down, the princess who had been pricked by the spindle woke up. Consequently, in Perrault’s original there was no kiss, because the heroine woke up from the fact that exactly a hundred years had passed.
- The composer also presented his own vision of the fairy tale, albeit in a musical performance. Spectators still enjoy the ballet “The Sleeping Beauty” of the same name.
- In 1959, a film adaptation of the tale of the sleeping beauty was presented by an animator, translating the concept of Charles Perrault into a full-length cartoon. The main characters were voiced by such actors and actresses as Mary Costa, Bill Shirley, Eleanor Audley, Verna Felton and Barbara Jo Allen.
- Disneyland has Sleeping Beauty Castle, built as a promotional tool. But the children's park opened in 1955, four years before the premiere of the cartoon. The origin of the castle was announced in 1957, because curious tourists were constantly interested in this building.
- She appeared in the cartoon in the guise of an evil fairy. By the way, this heroine became popular and even deserved a spin-off of the same name starring her.
And take that dead girl away!
Shrek.
Google's translation is simple and clear: "a popular story about a princess who is cursed by a witch after their birth. She must stick to the spindle and fall asleep from time to time. The good fairy softens the curse for consultation."
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky wrote a wonderful ballet. Libretto by M. Petipa, I. Vsevolzhsky. They forgot to invite Fairy Carabosse to the christening. Princess Aurora expands with a knitting needle, which is hidden in a bouquet of flowers.
"The Sleeping Beauty is the daughter of the last king." Music, as usual, by Pyotr Ilyich, no words, staged by Yuri Vamos. Theater "State Prague Opera".
Some of the names by which our heroine is known: Briar Rose, Dornröschen, La Belle au Bois dormant, Princess Auroura, Princess Rosebud, Prinsessa Ruusunen, Sleeping Beauty, Tornerose.
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Dornroschen
Germany, 1917.
Director: Clyde Geronimi
Played by: Mabel Kaul
In one of the roles: Marie Grimm-Einodshofer 
They are filming.
Dornroschen
Germany, 1929.
Director: Carl Heinz Rudolph
Played by: Dorothy Douglas
Soviet art is breaking in.
sleeping Beauty
USSR, 1930.
Director: Georgy Vasiliev, Sergey Vasiliev
Role: Varvara Myasnikova
About the need to create new, proletarian art.
Varvara Myasnikova played Anka the machine gunner in Chapaev and the fairy godmother in Cinderella. 
And the Germans are filming everything...
Dornroschen
Germany, 1943.
Director: Ferdinand Diehl
First cartoon. 
Suddenly.
Princess Ruusunen
Finland, 1949.
Director: Edvin Laine
Role: Tuula Ignatius, Annika Sipilä (as a child) 
The Germans became wary and called in a director-storyteller.
Dornroschen
Germany, 1955.
Director: Fritz Genschow
Played by: Angela von Leitner
The director in the role of the father-king.
Dancer Gert Reinholm as the prince. 
Greedy American hands don't sleep either.
The Sleeping Beauty
USA, 1955.
Director: Clark Jones
Played by: Margot Fonteyn
Ballet. Music by P.I. Tchaikovsky.
Episode of "Producers" Showcase". 
The Sleeping Beauty
USA, 1958.
Played by: Anne Helm
An episode of Shirley Temple's Storybook. 
Sleeping Beauty
USA, 1959.
Director: Clyde Geronimi
Voice: Mary Costa
The Same Cartoon That Turned a Gothic Story into Cotton Candy.
The princess receives the name (according to Tchaikovsky) Aurora, the prince is now called Philip, and the uninvited old woman is Melifecent.
The image of the old woman (however, here she is young) becomes the image of all Evil in subsequent Disney studies. And not only in it (remember the Eye of Sauron in the Trilogy).
Singing animals. 
Well, our guys arrived in time.
Sleeping Beauty.
USSR, 1964.
Director: Apollinary Dudko, Konstantin Sergeev
Role: Alla Sizova
And, yes, this is ballet.
The premiere of the ballet “The Sleeping Beauty” took place at the Mariinsky Theater on January 3, 1890, and under the editorship of choreographer Konstantin Sergeev received a second wind on March 25, 1952. Twelve years later it was filmed.
Dornroschen
GDR, 1965.
Director: Katja Georgi
Cartoon.
States again.
The Magic Land of Mother Goose
USA, 1967.
Director: Herschell Gordon Lewis
Played by: Linda Appleby
Something surreal.
Fairy Tales for Old Children
USA, 1968.
Played by: Jane Powell
Episode of "The Red Skelton Show".
All fairy tales come to visit us. 
Woke up: Prince of a Guy(USA, 1968, Melody McCord, episode of the series "Bewitched"), Grimms Märchen von lüsternen Pärchen(Germany, 1969, Ingrid van Bergen, porn), Dornroschen(GDR, 1971, Juliane Korén, ballet), Once upon a Brothers Grimm(USA, 1977, Joanna Kirkland), Big Apple Birthday(USA, 1978, Rep Gurst), Fairy Tales(USA, 1978, Fred Deni, porn), American Ballet Theatre: The Sleeping Beauty(USA, 1979, Cynthia Gregory, ballet).
Jak se budí princezny
Czechoslovakia-GDR, 1978.
Director: Václav Vorlicek
Played by: Libuse Svormová 
Dornroschen
GDR, 1980.
Director: Dieter Bellmann
Played by: Marie Gruber
Sleeping Beauty
USA, 1983.
Director: Jeremy Kagan
Played by: Bernadette Peters
Episode of the series "Faerie Tale Theatre". 
Boszorkányszombat / Fairy Tale Ball
Hungary, 1984.
Director: Janos Rozsa
Played by: Eniko Eszenyi
It happens that the prince kisses the wrong Sleeping Beauty. This can cause trouble. 
That same year we held our own fairy tale ball.
Tales of the Old Wizard
USSR, 1984.
Director: Natalya Zbandut
Role: Anna Isaykina 
Sleeping Beauty
USA, 1987.
Director: David Irving
Played by: Tahnee Welch 
So that there is no doubt that the actress is a beauty: 
Sipova Ruzenka
Czechoslovakia-Germany-Italy, 1990.
Director: Stanislav Parnicky
Played by: Dana Dinková 
Into the Woods
USA, 1991.
Director: James Lapine
Cameo role: Maureen Davis
Broadway productions on screen. 
Sleeping Beauty
USA-Japan, 1995.
Director: Toshiyuki Hiruma, Takashi Masunaga
Cartoon. 
Several ballet adaptations:
The Sleeping Beauty
Great Britain, 1995.
Played by: Viviana Durante 
Törnrosa
1999
Director: Mats Ek, Gunilla Wallin
Played by: Vanessa de Ligniere 
La belle au bois dormant
France, 2000.
Director: Pierre Cavassilas
Played by: Aurélie Dupont 
Woke up: Sov sødt / Sweet dream(Denmark, 2000, Tina Guldmann, episode of the Christmas series "Pyrus i alletiders eventyr"), House of Genius(USA, 2002, voice of Jennifer Hale, episode of the animated series "House of Mouse"), Jack Milton: Fairy Tale Detective(USA, 2003, Jennifer Jarrett), Märchenland Reinhardswald(Germany, 2003, Natalie Schalkewitz, documentary), DysEnchanted(USA, 2004, Sarah Wynter), Dornroschen(Germany, 2004, Ramona Drews, horror-horror), Märchen-, Sagen- und Symbolfiguren: Märchenland Reinhardswald(Germany, 2005, Sarah Weber), Sesame Street(USA, 2006, Leslie Carrara).
Blanche-Neige, la suite / Snow White. Mating season.
Great Britain-Belgium-France-Poland, 2007.
Director: Picha
Voice: Cécile De France
The Prince kissed Beauty, but he was already married to Snow White, which Beauty doesn't care about. 
Shrek the Third
USA, 2007.
Director: Chris Miller
Voice: Cheri Oteri
Although S. Beauty herself is mentioned briefly in the tetralogy about Shrek, the plot of the first and fourth parts is based precisely on “someone must kiss and cast a spell on the princess.” 
Disney Princess Enchanted Tales: Follow Your Dreams
USA, 2007.
Voice: Erin Torpey
Two cartoon stories in which Aurora and Jasmine extract eternal values from the universe. 
Dornröschen - Ab durch die Hecke!
Germany, 2007.
Director: Dominic Müller
Played by: Josefine Preuß
Episode of the series "Die ProSieben Märchenstunde". In the same series, a year earlier, our heroine appeared in the episode "Rapunzel oder Mord ist ihr Hobby" performed by Annette Frier. 
The Sword, the Wand and the Stone
New Zealand, 2008.
Director: Marama Killen
Played by: Daan Bolder
We don’t know what kind of film it is or what it’s about. There is a character named Thalia.
Sleeping Beauty
USA, 2008.
Voice: Elisa Paganelli
Cartoon. Episode of "Super Why!"
Sp. The beauty appears in three more episodes.
Granny O'Grimm's Sleeping Beauty
Ireland, 2008.
Director: Nicky Phelan
Cartoon. Oscar nomination.
Grandma O'Grimm tells her version of the fairy tale. It's scary. 
Dornroschen
Germany, 2008.
Director: Arend Agthe
Played by: Anna Hausburg 
Dornroschen
Germany, 2009.
Director: Oliver Dieckmann
Played by: Lotte Flack 
Nothing seems to be missing. It began with the Germans and ended with the Germans (as of today).