One of the most elaborate animated features ever produced, this enchanting epic tells the spellbinding tale of a lovely princess cursed by an evil fairy to fall into a sleep that can only be broken by love's first kiss from a handsome prince.
Sleeping Beauty was the first animated film to use the Super Technirama 70 widescreen process and was the second full-length animated feature filmed in anamorphic widescreen, following Lady and the Tramp (1955).
Sixty years later, 'Sleeping Beauty' is regarded as one of the great masterpieces of animation, and one of the crown jewels of Walt Disney Animation. Many cite it as some of the most beautiful animated images ever captured on film, a level of graphic sophistication and beauty that has never been matched since.
The voices, the animation, the story, Sleeping Beauty is the most romantic fairy tale that anyone could easily fall in love with. If you are a Disney fan, this is a must see, it's a great family film or if you're just a film buff in general, I'm a grown up and I still tear up when I watch Sleeping Beauty.
Based on a timeless fairy tale, The Sleeping Beauty is one of the world's most beloved and captivating ballets, featuring incredible music by Tchaikovsky, gorgeous costumes, lavish decor, and exquisite variations for nearly every character.
Why The Sleeping Beauty is a classic for The Royal Ballet
What is the hardest part of The Sleeping Beauty ballet?
The toughest of all is Rose Adagio. It is a seven minute dance that begins from the moment she comes down the stairs on the stage in the first act, and it ends with the dancer on pointe for 43 seconds as she is twirled around by four male suitors.
Sleeping Beauty is no different, drawing influence from French writer Charles Perrault's story with the same name. Here are just a few differences we found between Disney's Sleeping Beauty and the Grimm fairy tale on which it is partially based: “Briar Rose.”
Perrault actually provides a moral for Sleeping Beauty at the end of his story. He mentions that people should wait for love rather than rush into it or be in a hurry to find it. Since it took the princess over a century to find her true love, the moral of the story seems clearer after reading that.
used to refer to someone who has been asleep for a long time OK, Sleeping Beauty, time to get up. From the European fairy tale about a beautiful girl who sleeps for a hundred years and is woken up when a prince kisses her.
The original "Briar Rose" or Sleeping Beauty story composed and compiled by the Brothers Grimm and Charles Perrault centuries ago has long been criticized for the unsettling nature of its central plot point: a prince comes upon a castle and kisses an unknown, comatose woman without her consent, which is framed as the ...
The most common criticism against Sleeping Beauty was that it was too similar to Snow White. As a result, it only earned $5.3 million domestically. Another aspect of Sleeping Beauty's failure that gets overshadowed by its legacy is how it was a bad turning point for Disney.
100 Years of Storytelling. In 1937, Walt Disney Animation Studios released its first fully animated feature film, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, pioneering a new form of family entertainment.
Walt Disney was excited about Sleeping Beauty. He envisioned it as his masterpiece. It took almost a decade to produce, and the process cost six million dollars, making it the most expensive Disney animated film yet.
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.
Angry over not having been invited, Maleficent casts a spell, promising that before sunset on Aurora's 16th birthday, she'll prick her finger on a spinning wheel's spindle and die.
In the traditional Italian version of this fairy tale, Sleeping Beauty is named Princess Talia. In the ballet she is Aurora. In the German version, she is named Briar Rose. The film incorporates both names by having Princess Aurora use the name Briar Rose while undercover.
15The original voice actress for Aurora was Mary Costa. 16Aurora is part of the official Disney Princess lineup. 17Sleeping Beauty was the last Disney animated feature to be based on a fairy tale for almost 30 years. 18Aurora's personality is gentle and kind.
Sleeping Beauty is asleep for practically the whole entire tale and when she does awake she falls in love with her awakener right away and the story ends with them living happily ever after.
Parents need to know that, for most kids, the scariest part of Disney's classic, Sleeping Beauty, will be the prince's fight with the dragon; he fights with a sword and almost falls from a cliff. Other scary moments involve the witch Maleficent and her ogre-like goons; Maleficent kidnaps the prince, and the…
A recent BBC Panorama investigation exposed an alleged toxic culture of bullying, body shaming, and eating disorders behind the pointe shoes and pirouettes of ballet. The issues bear a striking similarity to those uncovered in British Gymnastics.
The story of Giselle is a romantic tale of innocent love and betrayal; of philandering Count Albrecht and a trusting peasant maid, Giselle. Although she has a weak heart, Giselle loves to dance. Her beauty has enchanted Albrecht.
The “Dark Age” is an unofficial term used to describe Disney from the 1970s to the 1980s. After the death of Walt Disney in 1966, the company was in disarray and began to struggle financially. Their animated films surprisingly began to underperform as the market declined in relevance.
