Brewer, Jr. Donald Halliday. Sleeping Beauty is a 1. Walt Disney Pictures and Buena Vista Distribution and originally released to theaters on January 2. The sixteenth animated feature in the Disney Animated Canon, it was the last animated feature produced by Walt Disney to be based upon a fairy tale (after his death, the studio returned to the genre with The Little Mermaid), as well as the last cel animated feature from Disney to be inked by hand before the xerography process took over. Sleeping Beauty is also the first animated feature to be shot in Super Technirama 7. The Black Cauldron, has been shot in Super Technirama 7. The film spent nearly the entire decade of the 1.
Along with the mixed critical reception, it was also noted to be the film that made Walt Disney lose interest in the animation medium. However, the subsequent re- releases proved massively successful, and critics and audiences have since hailed it as an animated classic. At her christening, the good fairies Flora (dressed in red), Fauna (in green) and Merryweather (in blue) arrive to bless her. Flora gives her the gift of beauty, which is described in a song as . At this point, Maleficent, the film's villain and mistress of all evil, appears on the scene. Claiming to be upset at not being invited to Aurora's christening ceremony, she curses the princess to die when she pricks her finger on a spinning wheel's spindle before the sun sets on her sixteenth birthday. Fortunately, Merryweather has not yet blessed Aurora, so she uses her blessing to change Maleficent's curse, so Aurora will not die when she pricks her finger; instead, she will fall asleep until she is awakened by True Love's Kiss.
Knowing Maleficent is extremely powerful and will stop at nothing to see her curse fulfilled, the three good fairies take Aurora to live with them in the woods, where they can keep her safe from any harm until she turns sixteen and the curse is made void. To fully protect her, they even change her name to Briar Rose to conceal her true identity.
She is raised in a cottage in the forest by the three fairies, whom she believes are her aunts. One day, while out picking berries, she sings to entertain her animal friends; her angelic voice gains the attention of Prince Phillip, who had grown into a handsome young man and is out riding in the woods. When they meet, they instantly fall in love.
Realizing that she has to return home, Aurora flees from Phillip without ever learning his name. Despite promising to meet him again, she is unable to return, as her . They then take Rose to her parents.
King Hubert tries to convince Phillip to marry the princess instead of a peasant girl but fails. Unfortunately, Maleficent uses her magic to lure Aurora away from her chambers and up into the tallest tower of the castle, where a spinning wheel awaits her. Fascinated by the wheel, she touches the spindle, pricking her finger. As had been foretold by the curse, Aurora is put under a sleeping spell. The good fairies place Aurora on her bed with a red rose in her hand and cause a deep sleep to fall over the entire kingdom until they can find a way to break the curse.
They realize the answer is Phillip, but he has been kidnapped by Maleficent to prevent him from kissing Aurora and waking her up. The three good fairies sneak into Maleficent's lair, aid the prince in escaping and explain to him the story of Maleficent's curse. Armed with a magic sword and shield, Phillip battles Maleficent when the sorceress turns herself into a gigantic fire- breathing dragon. He flings the sword, plunging it into the dragon's heart and killing her. Phillip climbs into Aurora's chamber and removes the curse with a kiss.
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Then, Aurora dances together with Phillip, happy to each learn that their betrothed and their beloved are one and the same. The script, adapted mainly from the fairy tale La Belle au bois dormant (. The film's musical score and songs are adapted by George Bruns from the 1. Sleeping Beauty ballet by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Its art direction, which Walt Disney wanted to look like a living illustration, was not in the typical Disney style. Because WDFA had already made two features based on fairy tales - Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and Cinderella, Walt decided this film to stand out from its predecessors by choosing a different visual style. The movie eschewed the soft, rounded look of earlier Disney features for a more stylized one.
Since Super Technirama 7. Earle also painted the majority of the backgrounds himself. Earle took much of his inspiration from medieval art (particularly the mille- fleurs style of 1.
The elaborate paintings usually took seven to ten days to paint; by contrast, a typical animation background took only one workday to complete. Disney's decision to give Earle so much artistic freedom was not popular among the Disney animators, who had until Sleeping Beauty exercised some influence over the style of their characters and settings. The wicked fairy was aptly named Maleficent (which means . 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. Additionally, the idea originally included seven fairies instead of three. They include Maleficent's capture of the Prince and the Prince's daring escape from her castle. Disney discarded these ideas from Snow White because his artists were not able to draw a human male believably enough at the time.
The role of Prince Phillip was modeled by Ed Kemmer, who had played Commander Buzz Corry on television's Space Patrol five years before Sleeping Beauty was released. For the final battle sequence, Kemmer was photographed on a wooden buck. Among the actresses who performed in reference footage for this film included Spring Byington, Frances Bavier (The Andy Griffith Show's . The Super Technirama 7.
Sleeping Beauty is a 1959 animated feature produced by Walt Disney Pictures and Buena Vista Distribution and originally released to theaters on January 29, 1959.
Cinema. Scope- compatible 3. Technirama prints were released in four- track stereo, and others had monaural soundtracks. On the initial run, Sleeping Beauty was paired with the short musical/documentary film Grand Canyon which won an Academy Award. Sleeping Beauty's production costs, which totaled $6 million, made it the most expensive Disney film up to that point, and over twice as expensive as each of the preceding three Disney animated features: Alice in Wonderland, Peter Pan and Lady and the Tramp.
The high production costs of Sleeping Beauty, coupled with the underperformance of much of the rest of Disney's 1. Nevertheless, the film has sustained a strong following and is today hailed as one of the best- animated films ever made, thanks to its stylized designs by painter Eyvind Earle who also was the art director for the film, its lush music score, and its large- format 7. Its consensus states that . However, it had many re- releases in theaters over the decades. The film was re- released theatrically in 1. A 1. 99. 3 re- release was planned, but it was later canceled. Sleeping Beauty's successful reissues have made it the second most successful film released in 1.
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Then the film underwent an extensive digital restoration in 1. VHS and Laserdisc again (this time with the laserdisc in widescreen version, albeit letterboxed) as part of the Masterpiece collection, and in 2. DVD in a 2- disc . A Platinum Edition DVD/Blu- ray Disc was released on October 7, 2. The DVD/Blu- ray returned to the Disney Vault in 2. The film was released as a Diamond Edition title on October 7, 2.
Sleeping Princess). Portuguese: A Bela Adormecida. Romanian: Frumoasa din p. To help promote the film, Imagineers declared the castle there to be Sleeping Beauty's (it was originally to be Snow White's).
It closed shortly after September 1. The attraction reopened in 2. Upstairs guests are able to view stained glass windows and tapestries telling the story, whilst downstairs they are able to view an animatronic dragon. After Sleeping Beauty, she would also end up being the voices of Mother Rabbit in Robin Hood and Kanga in The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh. Jumbo in Dumbo, the Fairy Godmother in Cinderella, the Queen of Hearts in Alice in Wonderland and Aunt Sarah in Lady and the Tramp. After Sleeping Beauty, her last film for Disney was providing the voice for Winifred in The Jungle Book.
The good fairies appear in Kingdom Hearts II, giving Sora new clothes. The only version of the story which gives her a name is a 1. A. L. Singer, in which she is named Queen Leah. In the end, the princess died temporarily (as Aurora fell into a deep sleep) and a prince saved her by killing the sorcerer, who had turned into a huge bat (just as Maleficent morphed into a dragon and Prince Phillip killed her and saved the princess with . Interestingly, though the story is also based on a Tchaikovsky ballet (Swan Lake), the filmmakers chose not to adapt the ballet score, going instead with a generic '9. Lex de Azevedo. In fact, Aurora says nothing at all in the film's second half, even after being awakened from the sleeping spell. As opposed to having the backgrounds be designed to match the characters, Sleeping Beauty's characters were designed to match the backgrounds.
Work on the film was delayed because Walt's attention was turned to the building of Disneyland. The style of animation in this film was radically different possibly because Sleeping Beauty had been such a failure). The music to the song was also used in recent commercials for Sargento Cheese as well as a couple of Fred Quimby era Tom & Jerry cartoons. Interestingly, in a What's New Scooby- Doo? It's a wonderful and beautiful movie! I liked the beginning of Maleficent when they had her backstory, but once they started changing the entire story (Malefic..
Sleeping Beauty (1. IMDb. This film is exactly the same as Dornroschen . It is the most fantastic recreation of a fairy tale I have ever seen. This version is set in a pink palace, beside an enchanted lake, in which 1. It is very much in the old- style tradition and gives the viewer a sense that they have gone back hundreds of years ago, as a film should. The wicked fairy that puts the curse on the Princess lives in a tower and is the typified hag.
Although this is a classified as a story for children, I do not recommend that children 5 years or under should see this as some scenes are quite frightening. This film is also excellent in that there is extensive character development. We not only meet Briar Rose and her parents, but everyone from the King, down to the cook and the kitchen boys plays a part here, so we can see how life would have been way back then for servants as well as royalty.
A must- see for all who enjoy traditional fairy tales!!