Determined to prevent this, three good fairies raise Aurora as a peasant in order to protect her, patiently awaiting her sixteenth birthday — the day the spell can only be broken by a kiss from her true love, Prince Phillip.
The pixies encourage the reluctant Phillip to kiss Aurora, but this does not wake her. After they leave, Maleficent tearfully apologizes to Aurora and kisses her on the forehead. This unexpectedly wakes Aurora, as Maleficent truly feels maternal love for her.
With Maleficent finally vanquished for good, the fairies lead Phillip to the sleeping Aurora's bedside, where he placed a kiss on her, awakening her and also allowing King Stefan, King Hubert, Queen Leah, and everyone else in the kingdom to wake up from their eternal slumber.
In the Grimms' “Briar Rose,” the original sleeping beauty, there is a suggestion of impulsive behavior on the Prince's part: “There she lay, looking so beautiful that he could not take his eyes off her. He bent down and gave her a kiss” (Ref. 2, p 105).
Because it was the only way to wake her up. Because he was a prince, and that's what princes do in fairy tales. Because the good fairy changed a spell that would have killed the poor girl into one that put everybody to sleep, in order to save her life, and the kiss was the price she paid.
Before falling asleep, King Hubert tells Stefan of his son being in love with a peasant girl, which the fairies overhear. The fairies realize that Prince Phillip is the man with whom Aurora has fallen in love.
Rather than coming off like an entitled male, Perrault's prince reads as almost suppliant to the sleeping beauty. Even when she's asleep, he looks at her “trembling with wonder and admiration” and the resulting kiss feels more like a tribute to a higher being than a seizing of a helpless body (Perrault 89).
In the first Maleficent movie, Stefan becomes Maleficent's first love, but after she fights against the King's Army the king orders for someone to kill her in order to become the heir to the throne.
She hated infant Aurora, and she called her "Beastie," and tried to scare her, but Aurora just smiled at her in response. Since watching Aurora over her childhood years, Maleficent soon grew a maternal love for her.
At Aurora's christening, it was decided that Phillip would one day marry Aurora to unite their fathers' respective kingdoms, and so the two were betrothed. Phillip presents a gift to the baby Princess but ironically is less than impressed when he sees her.
1. Phillip and Aurora Had an Arranged Marriage. I'm probably the only person who forgot this very important fact in the movie, but I really did not remember at all that Prince Phillip and Aurora were arranged to get married since she was born.
Her father sends him to perform tasks to prove himself worthy of her, and while he is gone, Zellandine falls into an enchanted sleep. Troylus finds her and rescues her after waking her up with a kiss. Then they conceive and when their child is born, the child draws from her finger the flax that caused her sleep.
Kleine-Levin syndrome (KLS), also known as “sleeping beauty syndrome” or “familial hibernation syndrome,” is an extremely rare condition that causes intermittent episodes where you sleep for long periods of time, which prevents you from staying awake during the day (hypersomnia).
One hundred years later, a prince makes his way to the castle, falls in love with her after hearing her story, and enters Beauty's bedroom just as she awakens. The two marry and have two children, Aurora and Apollo, but the prince does not tell his mother of his new family until two years later when the King dies.
Who woke up after a long sleep when Prince kissed her?
His version of the story is the first to have Sleeping Beauty woken up by a kiss from her prince and the infamous spinning wheel that causes her to sleep one hundred years. It is far darker than the tale that is most known today, called Briar Rose, written by the Brothers Grimm.
Disney's "Sleeping Beauty" is based on Charles Perrault's fairy tale "La Belle au bois dormant" (The Sleeping Beauty), first published in 1697. However, the story's origins can be traced back even further. The earliest recorded version is found in Giambattista Basile's collection of Italian fairy tales from 1634.
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs came out in 1937, debuting the very first Disney princess with Snow White herself. Voiced by Adriana Caselotti, she's incredibly of her time (i.e. dated af).
However, this rumor was proven untrue after a review of The Art of Walt Disney book which showed a definitive answer that Prince Florian being 31-ish years old, is fabricated.
