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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Sleeping Beauty |
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One of the better Disney animations. After years of trying, King Stephan and his wife finally have a kid. They name their daughter Aurora and throw a huge party and betrothe her to the neighboring king's son, Phillip. Right as the three fairies are giving magical gifts to Aurora (to ensure she won't grow up to be a hideous tone-deaf beast), the evil witch, Maleficent, crashes the party. She's a little miffed because somebody "forgot" to include her on the guest list. Maleficent decides to bestow her own gift on the baby, but being an evil witch, you can guess it won't be a Hello Kitty pen set. Poor Aurora is cursed to prick her finger on the spindle of a spinning wheel on her sixteenth birthday and die. Since the last fairy didn't get to give her gift to Aurora (she was rudly interrupted by Maleficent's uninvited arrival), to lessen the evil curse she changes her gift(it can only be supposed from the way Aurora turns out that it was probably the gift of intelligence). Instead of dying, Aurora will fall asleep until her true love gives her a kiss and then she'll wake up and live hapily ever after. The three fairies carry Aurora off into the woods and raise her as their own. As fate would have it, Aurora and Prince Phillip meet on the eve of her sixteenth birthday and fall in love. Thank goodness for that, since the next day she pricks her finger on the spindle of a spinning wheel and keels over into a coma. Maleficent is still ticked off after sixteen years and decides she doesn't want Aurora to have a happily ever after, so she kidnaps Prince Phillip and locks him in the dungeon. The three fairies come to the rescue and Phillip escapes, chops through a forest of thorns, kills a dragon, kisses his true love and gets married all in the same night.
--sayruh, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of Sleeping Beauty |
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 30%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzle - 30%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 40%
**Fantasy or Science Fiction?**
- fantasy story on another world/distant past
Romance
Yes
Romance Plotlets:
- two lovers separated by conflict/reuniting
- destined love (predicted in dream/text)
If a cartoon...
- animated cartoon
Family Relations
Yes
Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Profession/status:
- Prince/Nobleman/King
Age:
- a teen
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
Hair color?
- blonde
Hair type
- (woman) medium/shoulderlng, wavy
Body type
- ample chest & buttocks (woman)
Events of movie makes character more...
- happy
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- soggy whimpering jelly muffin
Sense of humor?
- Strong but gentle sense of humor
Intelligence
- Dumb
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Hair color
- brunette (Brown)
Hair style
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- muscular (man)
How much in movie?
- 60%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Main Adversary
Age:
- long-lived adults
Profession/status:
- mage/magician
Has special powers?
Yes
Magical/mental powers of main antagonist:
- can change shapes
- can talk to animals
- fire/thunder/weather cntrl
- teleportation
- can cast all sorts of spells
Eccentric:
Yes
- obsessed
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 40%
Body type
- skinny (female)
Ethnicity
- White
Sense of humor?
- Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence
- Average Intelligence
Physical condition
- average physique
How sensitive is this character?
- mean, arrogant
Setting
Earth setting:
- during "Tolkien" (fairytime) times
Takes place on Earth?
Yes
Forests?
Yes
Misc settings
- prison
- fort/castle
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- moderately detailed references to deaths
Tone of movie
- upbeat
Comedy or somewhat funny movie?
Yes
Any profanity?
- None
Kinds of F/X
- Things that change shape/morph
If Soundtrack VERY NOTICEABLE...
- Orchestra/classical
Is this movie based on a
- book
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