Fairy Tales: Sleeping Beauty
Sleeping Beauty, such a beautiful tale of love, dragons and magic. So happy, so gorgeous--so watered down. From rape, cannibalism and suicide, we now have Maleficent with no real threat factor and the worst CGI since Legolas defying gravity in The Battle of Five Armies.
Disney had Aurora falling asleep for a night and would be awakened by true love's first kiss. A nice, little teeny bopper story of boy meets girl, yes? Well go back further and this boy is raping a comatose woman over a hundred years old. The poor thing gets two kids out of it and one of the kids sucks the flaxen splinter from her finger and she wakes up.
In Grimm's version, the whole castle wakes up with her, but in the original from Basil of Naples, after she falls asleep, her dad locks her into a castle and leaves. That means everybody's dead when she wakes up a hundred years later. So now she's raped, alone and has become mistress to a nasty king with no sense of fidelity whatsoever to his wife. Maybe because his wife has cannibalistic tendencies? Instead of a nice, clean assassination of this innocent rape victim, the queen tries to boil her, the kids and cook alive so she can eat them up. Yum, yum, one of the gifts bestowed on Aurora, or Talia in this case, must have been to be quite tasty.
Speaking of gifts, there were supposed to be thirteen of them, but since the stupid king only had twelve plates for the feast, he couldn't invite one of the wise old women in the kingdom. She must've had some serious menopause that day because who gets so furious at not being invited that she curses a baby to die at the touch of a spindle? The twelfth old woman who hadn't give her gift "softens" it by saying the girl will only sleep for a hundred years... kind of like Aang in the Avatar cartoon. Only Briar Rose doesn't get to have Avatar powers when she wakes.
Anyway, go back some more and the spindle junk is actually a prophecy. Maleficent never existed, so when Disney put out her "untold story", it really was untold.
So, how does the rapist king get rid of his wife to save Briar Rose who probably wishes she were dead? Easy, he makes the queen commit suicide in a pot of boiling water that was supposed to be for Briar Rose. Then he lives happily ever after with his victim. Nobody cares for this girl's feelings. 115 year old people don't have feelings I guess.
Anyway, the story was supposed to teach girls about puberty, like the comatose rape means passive yielding to sexual maturity--which is a freaky symbol. That's why you've got Toys R Us Kids. The curse of blood at fifteen--the number of Lost Girls jumped in Neverland 60% after hearing that story.
Disney had Aurora falling asleep for a night and would be awakened by true love's first kiss. A nice, little teeny bopper story of boy meets girl, yes? Well go back further and this boy is raping a comatose woman over a hundred years old. The poor thing gets two kids out of it and one of the kids sucks the flaxen splinter from her finger and she wakes up.
In Grimm's version, the whole castle wakes up with her, but in the original from Basil of Naples, after she falls asleep, her dad locks her into a castle and leaves. That means everybody's dead when she wakes up a hundred years later. So now she's raped, alone and has become mistress to a nasty king with no sense of fidelity whatsoever to his wife. Maybe because his wife has cannibalistic tendencies? Instead of a nice, clean assassination of this innocent rape victim, the queen tries to boil her, the kids and cook alive so she can eat them up. Yum, yum, one of the gifts bestowed on Aurora, or Talia in this case, must have been to be quite tasty.
Speaking of gifts, there were supposed to be thirteen of them, but since the stupid king only had twelve plates for the feast, he couldn't invite one of the wise old women in the kingdom. She must've had some serious menopause that day because who gets so furious at not being invited that she curses a baby to die at the touch of a spindle? The twelfth old woman who hadn't give her gift "softens" it by saying the girl will only sleep for a hundred years... kind of like Aang in the Avatar cartoon. Only Briar Rose doesn't get to have Avatar powers when she wakes.
Anyway, go back some more and the spindle junk is actually a prophecy. Maleficent never existed, so when Disney put out her "untold story", it really was untold.
So, how does the rapist king get rid of his wife to save Briar Rose who probably wishes she were dead? Easy, he makes the queen commit suicide in a pot of boiling water that was supposed to be for Briar Rose. Then he lives happily ever after with his victim. Nobody cares for this girl's feelings. 115 year old people don't have feelings I guess.
Anyway, the story was supposed to teach girls about puberty, like the comatose rape means passive yielding to sexual maturity--which is a freaky symbol. That's why you've got Toys R Us Kids. The curse of blood at fifteen--the number of Lost Girls jumped in Neverland 60% after hearing that story.
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