And take that dead girl away!
Shrek.
Google's translation is simple and clear: "a popular story about a princess who is cursed by a witch after their birth. She must stick to the spindle and fall asleep from time to time. The good fairy softens the curse for consultation."
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky wrote a wonderful ballet. Libretto by M. Petipa, I. Vsevolzhsky. They forgot to invite Fairy Carabosse to the christening. Princess Aurora expands with a knitting needle, which is hidden in a bouquet of flowers.
"The Sleeping Beauty is the daughter of the last king." Music, as usual, by Pyotr Ilyich, no words, staged by Yuri Vamos. Theater "State Prague Opera".
Some of the names by which our heroine is known: Briar Rose, Dornröschen, La Belle au Bois dormant, Princess Auroura, Princess Rosebud, Prinsessa Ruusunen, Sleeping Beauty, Tornerose.
Did you go to the cinema?
The film history of Sleeping Aurora is not as intense and rich as its sisters and, but nevertheless...
This time it was the Germans who were awake. There's a war all around, and they're making movies...
Dornroschen
Germany, 1917.
Director: Clyde Geronimi
Played by: Mabel Kaul
In one of the roles: Marie Grimm-Einodshofer 
They are filming.
Dornroschen
Germany, 1929.
Director: Carl Heinz Rudolph
Played by: Dorothy Douglas
Soviet art is breaking in.
sleeping Beauty
USSR, 1930.
Director: Georgy Vasiliev, Sergey Vasiliev
Role: Varvara Myasnikova
About the need to create new, proletarian art.
Varvara Myasnikova played Anka the machine gunner in Chapaev and the fairy godmother in Cinderella. 
And the Germans are filming everything...
Dornroschen
Germany, 1943.
Director: Ferdinand Diehl
First cartoon. 
Suddenly.
Princess Ruusunen
Finland, 1949.
Director: Edvin Laine
Role: Tuula Ignatius, Annika Sipilä (as a child) 
The Germans became wary and called in a director-storyteller.
Dornroschen
Germany, 1955.
Director: Fritz Genschow
Played by: Angela von Leitner
The director in the role of the father-king.
Dancer Gert Reinholm as the prince. 
Greedy American hands don't sleep either.
The Sleeping Beauty
USA, 1955.
Director: Clark Jones
Played by: Margot Fonteyn
Ballet. Music by P.I. Tchaikovsky.
Episode of "Producers" Showcase". 
The Sleeping Beauty
USA, 1958.
Played by: Anne Helm
An episode of Shirley Temple's Storybook. 
Sleeping Beauty
USA, 1959.
Director: Clyde Geronimi
Voice: Mary Costa
The Same Cartoon That Turned a Gothic Story into Cotton Candy.
The princess receives the name (according to Tchaikovsky) Aurora, the prince is now called Philip, and the uninvited old woman is Melifecent.
The image of the old woman (however, here she is young) becomes the image of all Evil in subsequent Disney studies. And not only in it (remember the Eye of Sauron in the Trilogy).
Singing animals. 
Well, our guys arrived in time.
Sleeping Beauty.
USSR, 1964.
Director: Apollinary Dudko, Konstantin Sergeev
Role: Alla Sizova
And, yes, this is ballet.
The premiere of the ballet “The Sleeping Beauty” took place at the Mariinsky Theater on January 3, 1890, and under the editorship of choreographer Konstantin Sergeev received a second wind on March 25, 1952. Twelve years later it was filmed.
Dornroschen
GDR, 1965.
Director: Katja Georgi
Cartoon.
States again.
The Magic Land of Mother Goose
USA, 1967.
Director: Herschell Gordon Lewis
Played by: Linda Appleby
Something surreal.
Fairy Tales for Old Children
USA, 1968.
Played by: Jane Powell
Episode of "The Red Skelton Show".
All fairy tales come to visit us. 
Woke up: Prince of a Guy(USA, 1968, Melody McCord, episode of the series "Bewitched"), Grimms Märchen von lüsternen Pärchen(Germany, 1969, Ingrid van Bergen, porn), Dornroschen(GDR, 1971, Juliane Korén, ballet), Once upon a Brothers Grimm(USA, 1977, Joanna Kirkland), Big Apple Birthday(USA, 1978, Rep Gurst), Fairy Tales(USA, 1978, Fred Deni, porn), American Ballet Theatre: The Sleeping Beauty(USA, 1979, Cynthia Gregory, ballet).
Jak se budí princezny
Czechoslovakia-GDR, 1978.
Director: Václav Vorlicek
Played by: Libuse Svormová 
Dornroschen
GDR, 1980.
Director: Dieter Bellmann
Played by: Marie Gruber
Sleeping Beauty
USA, 1983.
Director: Jeremy Kagan
Played by: Bernadette Peters
Episode of the series "Faerie Tale Theatre". 
Boszorkányszombat / Fairy Tale Ball
Hungary, 1984.
Director: Janos Rozsa
Played by: Eniko Eszenyi
It happens that the prince kisses the wrong Sleeping Beauty. This can cause trouble. 
That same year we held our own fairy tale ball.
Tales of the Old Wizard
USSR, 1984.
Director: Natalya Zbandut
Role: Anna Isaykina 
Sleeping Beauty
USA, 1987.
Director: David Irving
Played by: Tahnee Welch 
So that there is no doubt that the actress is a beauty: 
Sipova Ruzenka
Czechoslovakia-Germany-Italy, 1990.
Director: Stanislav Parnicky
Played by: Dana Dinková 
Into the Woods
USA, 1991.
Director: James Lapine
Cameo role: Maureen Davis
Broadway productions on screen. 
Sleeping Beauty
USA-Japan, 1995.
Director: Toshiyuki Hiruma, Takashi Masunaga
Cartoon. 
Several ballet adaptations:
The Sleeping Beauty
Great Britain, 1995.
Played by: Viviana Durante 
Törnrosa
1999
Director: Mats Ek, Gunilla Wallin
Played by: Vanessa de Ligniere 
La belle au bois dormant
France, 2000.
Director: Pierre Cavassilas
Played by: Aurélie Dupont 
Woke up: Sov sødt / Sweet dream(Denmark, 2000, Tina Guldmann, episode of the Christmas series "Pyrus i alletiders eventyr"), House of Genius(USA, 2002, voice of Jennifer Hale, episode of the animated series "House of Mouse"), Jack Milton: Fairy Tale Detective(USA, 2003, Jennifer Jarrett), Märchenland Reinhardswald(Germany, 2003, Natalie Schalkewitz, documentary), DysEnchanted(USA, 2004, Sarah Wynter), Dornroschen(Germany, 2004, Ramona Drews, horror-horror), Märchen-, Sagen- und Symbolfiguren: Märchenland Reinhardswald(Germany, 2005, Sarah Weber), Sesame Street(USA, 2006, Leslie Carrara).
Blanche-Neige, la suite / Snow White. Mating season.
Great Britain-Belgium-France-Poland, 2007.
Director: Picha
Voice: Cécile De France
The Prince kissed Beauty, but he was already married to Snow White, which Beauty doesn't care about. 
Shrek the Third
USA, 2007.
Director: Chris Miller
Voice: Cheri Oteri
Although S. Beauty herself is mentioned briefly in the tetralogy about Shrek, the plot of the first and fourth parts is based precisely on “someone must kiss and break the princess’s spell.” 
Disney Princess Enchanted Tales: Follow Your Dreams
USA, 2007.
Voice: Erin Torpey
Two cartoon stories in which Aurora and Jasmine extract eternal values from the universe. 
Dornröschen - Ab durch die Hecke!
Germany, 2007.
Director: Dominic Müller
Played by: Josefine Preuß
Episode of the series "Die ProSieben Märchenstunde". In the same series, a year earlier, our heroine appeared in the episode "Rapunzel oder Mord ist ihr Hobby" performed by Annette Frier. 
The Sword, the Wand and the Stone
New Zealand, 2008.
Director: Marama Killen
Played by: Daan Bolder
We don’t know what kind of film it is or what it’s about. There is a character named Thalia.
Sleeping Beauty
USA, 2008.
Voice: Elisa Paganelli
Cartoon. Episode of "Super Why!"
Sp. The beauty appears in three more episodes.
Granny O'Grimm's Sleeping Beauty
Ireland, 2008.
Director: Nicky Phelan
Cartoon. Oscar nomination.
Grandma O'Grimm tells her version of the fairy tale. It's scary. 
Dornroschen
Germany, 2008.
Director: Arend Agthe
Played by: Anna Hausburg 
Dornroschen
Germany, 2009.
Director: Oliver Dieckmann
Played by: Lotte Flack 
Nothing seems to be missing. It began with the Germans and ended with the Germans (as of today).
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Maleficent's Raven. The raven helped the witch carry out her curse; it was he who found the cottage where Aurora was hiding, through the magic that illuminated the forest. By the end of the film, he becomes overly fanatical in serving his mistress, in particular, trying to tell her about Philip's escape, and turns into stone thanks to the magic of Mariveza.
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A fairy tale character who brought news to the young fairy that the princess had fallen into a sound sleep.
Queen Leah
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Aurora's mother and King Stefan's wife.
Often referred to as Queen Beatrice in the French version of the cartoon. Tall, graceful, blonde, she is very similar to Aurora in appearance. Despite the fact that she practically does not speak in the film, and her role in the development of the plot is minimal, she appears before us as a person with a kind heart and an open soul. The Queen seems to be very devoted to her husband, as evidenced by her approach to him after their daughter was cursed by Maleficent. It seems that she would have been a loving mother for her daughter only if fate had given her a chance to be with her.
King Stefan
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Aurora's father. There is no doubt that Stephen is an excellent monarch and his kingdom seems to be prospering. But when Aurora's baptism turns into a curse for her, he becomes despondent and orders all the spinning wheels to be burned. His order is carried out, but only these three fairies know that this will not stop Maleficent. Therefore, he has to give his daughter to be raised by three good fairies. By agreeing to Aurora’s life in the forest, Stefan proves himself not only as a good father, but also as a magnificent monarch, for the people of the kingdom should not live without a future queen.
King Hubert
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He is the father of Prince Philip and best friend of King Stephen. The two kings had long dreamed of the reunification of the kingdoms; the birth of Aurora served as the reason for her engagement to Prince Philip. Hubert is small in stature, but very cheerful and often finds himself in comical situations and misunderstandings.
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In the Brothers Grimm version of the fairy tale, the queen predicted the imminent birth of her daughter.
Maleficent
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In the Walt Disney cartoon, she is an evil witch who cast a curse on Aurora. Maleficent is often considered one of Disney's greatest villains, and for good reason. She is dressed in a black and purple robe, similar to tongues of flame, and has colossal witchcraft power. It's no surprise that King Stefan didn't invite her to Aurora's christening. However, his decision plunged the kingdom into sadness for 16 years. At the end of the film, Maleficent turns into a huge dragon. She tries to kill Phillippe, but thanks to the magic of the fairies, she was wounded with a sword, she fell from the ledge, and only a shadow remained of her. Her prototype was the fairy Carabosse.
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The king's wife, an ogress. Character from a fairy tale by Charles Perrault.
Menestrel
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A character who does not play any role, only adding comedy to the plot. In the cartoon itself, he simply serves wine to the two kings, and later shows a plan of the castle. His lute, which he plays, allows him to offer the king's wine and steal it. The arrival of Prince Philip saves him from inevitable punishment.
Merryweather
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The third good fairy is a very cheerful and kind character, sometimes ready to enter into a magical duel not only with Flora, but also with Maleficent. With dark hair and bright blue eyes, she is portrayed in a more youthful light than her older "sisters". Favorite colors: blue. Meriveza's gift to Aurora was supposed to be happiness, but due to Maleficent's curse, she has to change her gift. The princess, pricking her finger on the spindle of a spinning wheel, will not die, but will sleep until the kiss of true love breaks the spell.
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The protagonist of the fairy tale, breaking the spell of the sleeping Princess.
In the Walt Disney cartoon, King Hubert's only son is engaged to Princess Aurora from the day she is born. Their fathers believe that a marriage between their children will unite the kingdoms. Years have passed, the prince meets “Wild Rose” at the edge of the forest, mistaking her for an ordinary peasant woman and falls in love with her, they promise each other to meet in the evening near the cottage. When he arrives at the appointed time, Maleficent kidnaps him and puts him in prison in her castle. Good fairies come to Philip's aid, giving him a sword and shield - weapons that will help him defeat evil. The prince makes his way to the castle through thorns and defeats Maleficent in the guise of a dragon. He finds his beloved in the highest tower of the castle and awakens her with true love's kiss.
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Little princess dog. Fairy tale character.
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The noble, white horse of Prince Philip. At first glance, you might think that he is a minor character, but his role in the film is no less important. He carries Prince Philip into the forest where he met Aurora and shows his valor in fighting the dragon.
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The main protagonist of the fairy tale. The princess is cursed to eternal sleep.
In the Walt Disney cartoon, she is the only daughter of King Stephen. Aurora was awarded two magical gifts at birth: voice and beauty. However, on her sixteenth birthday, she pricks her finger on the spindle of a spinning wheel and falls asleep for 100 years, only to wake up to the kiss of true love. In order to protect the girl from Maleficent's curse, three good fairies hide her in the thicket of the forest. Aurora grows up to be a very beautiful, shy girl with a kind and open heart, which helped her win the friendship of forest animals. She is very reserved, having learned that she is not destined to see her lover, she shows perseverance, despite the fact that life has lost its meaning for her. She does not need royal honors; ordinary human happiness is important to her.
Sleeping beauty syndrome(article written in October 2010)
Moscow is a city of active, enterprising, working, business women. And at the same time, in Moscow there is a huge number of “sleeping beauties”.
Do you remember the fairy tale about the sleeping beauty from childhood?
“Sleeping Beauty is a princess who was bewitched by an evil witch. The princess slept for 100 years, according to the witch's prediction, and everything around her slept, remaining unchanged: people, castle, objects. The castle was surrounded by thorny impassable thickets-fence and a large dense dark forest. One day, while hunting, the prince was driving through the forest and came to the place where the castle stood, and because... 100 years passed on this very day—the thorny thickets opened and he was able to go inside.
There the prince saw the sleeping princess, fell in love, kissed her - and then she and everyone around her came to life and woke up. The prince and princess got married, and together they lived happily ever after..."
But this all happens in a fairy tale. But what do we have in real life?
In real life, we meet many women who are outwardly very attractive, energetic, and successful. But at the same time, their inner Woman, the feminine soul, sleeps in a sound, deep sleep...
Sometimes the female soul sees dreams, beautiful and pleasant... She dreams, dreams, but does not wake up.
And most importantly, he avoids seeing reality. Avoids showing activity and her feminine strength and power in relationships with men.
What is the “sleeping beauty” syndrome?
-The sleeping beauty dreams of love, of the man of her dreams, but...does nothing to make her dream come true.
-May feel insecure as a Woman. She believes that she cannot influence relationships with men, that little depends on her.
-As a rule, the sleeping beauty hopes that someday everything will turn out well, she just needs to meet a “suitable” man. And then a woman’s happiness will come on its own, without her efforts and actions.
-She can engage in constant self-improvement (figure, diet, facial correction, wardrobe, outlook, success, etc.). According to principle: When I become good enough, the prince will definitely appear!
-She often refuses to meet those men who are trying to attract her attention, under the following pretexts: I didn’t like him, he said the wrong thing, he wasn’t active enough, I’m not worthy of him - anyway, then he will reject me and I will suffer, etc.
-Or she genuinely doesn’t notice men’s attention to her.
- Such a woman works a lot or devotes a lot of time and effort to some other activity: caring for loved ones, studying, career, communicating with friends, shopping, etc.
The bulk of her energy is spent not on building relationships with men, but on resolving other issues.
-Her attention begins to be occupied by thoughts that There are no normal men, all valuable specimens have already been taken over. Maybe I should stop hoping, nothing will work out anyway? And then the inner woman falls asleep forever, without hope of waking up.
-The most dangerous thing is if a woman decides: female happiness is not for me.
How does this syndrome develop?
Let’s imagine that a woman’s personality structure has at least 3 parts:
-female/feminine part (inner Woman)
-male/masculine (her Animus, “the embodiment of all masculine psychological tendencies in the woman’s psyche”)
-neutral, asexual Id (has intelligence, practical life skills, functions at home and at work)
The Sleeping Beauty Inner Woman is usually weak, insecure, or traumatized by past love experiences or early childhood events.
This part of her personality either did not have time to wake up and blossom in full force. Or she chose to fall asleep and not manifest herself, but simply passively wait for someone who would save her and wake her up to life...
As a rule, the “sleeping beauty” has an It that is awake and controls her life. Then the woman is perceived by others as psychologically asexual.
She perceives herself as an employee, a leader, a friend, a daughter, a mother, a sister, a colleague... It’s often not a woman’s turn.
And life in a big city with its rhythm and tasks pushes her towards this. The criterion for choosing clothes is comfort. At work there is a dress code, you need to be a sexless, well-functioning cog, at home you need to be a daughter or mother, in life there are a lot of problems and matters that need to be solved. There’s no time for the inner Woman here, there’s no time, there’s a lot to do...
In some women, in addition to the id, the animus is also very active. A woman, in the course of her life and career, struggling with difficulties, can fly into a strong identification with her Animus, give it power—and then she is perceived as a “man in a skirt.” In this case, it often happens that men, attracted by a charming, flirtatious, feminine appearance, fly to such a woman like flies to honey - having flown closer and starting to communicate, they meet a fellow man under this feminine shell... And this inner man can also be very aggressive and competitive, he begins to measure himself against an unlucky admirer: who is smarter, who is more important, who is cooler, who has more of what...
Further options for the development of events are possible. But more often than not, the fan, having recovered from the shock, quietly crawls back.
Such a “sleeping beauty” (whose inner Woman has fallen asleep) passively waits for the moment to come when that handsome prince appears in her life, who, seeing how beautiful she is in her deep sleep, will love her and kiss her. And then she will feel like a real Woman... Everything around will become bright, alive, warm - and then they will live together happily ever after. And she doesn’t have to make any effort, everything will happen on its own...
But, thinking in this way, she makes 2 important mistakes, thinking that the prince:
-will fall in love only if he sees the beauty sleeping (and not awake and active)
-that we must continue to sleep (otherwise the prince will not appear and fall in love).
At the same time, sleeping beauties forget that: there are not enough princes for everyone, on the way a prince can be grabbed by a more active girl, and it is only in a fairy tale that you can maintain your beauty and youth unchanged for 100 years.
But for the prince, sleeping beauty is a relative of his great-great-great-grandmother? And in a few years the young princes will be looking not for their sleeping great-great, but for their peers...
What happens in reality to the princes while the beauty is sleeping?
Modern princes have a hard time. To “make a fairy tale come true,” the prince must:
-Overcome obstacles (dense thickets, thorns). Not every modern man wants to deal with difficulties at all—why go into such an impenetrable forest? It is more convenient to walk along the usual paved paths. Or in general it’s better to sit at home, warm and comfortable. If you were still in a car, sitting behind the wheel and with air conditioning, you can’t drive a car into a dense forest!
-Don’t turn left on the road to the castle—there are a lot of temptations! Beautiful and brave girls walk in the forest, Amazons gallop, Little Red Riding Hoods sing their songs, there are fairies and sorceresses. Even Baba Yaga greets good fellows: she feeds them, gives them something to drink, and washes them in the bathhouse. Each one captivates in its own way. There is something to distract yourself with.
-Fall in love with this beauty. But the prince may not like the sleeping beauty—well, she’s just not his type!
-Do what is expected of him. Suppose the prince liked the girl. Here he stands in front of the sleeping beauty and thinks: do I need this? What is her character like? I’ll break the spell, I know how—but it’s not written in the fairy tale how to put the spell back! One kiss and then a commitment for life! I'll go back, I won't wake him up, let him continue sleeping. She slept for 100 years and will sleep again. There will be another prince for her...
What do we want our prince to be like?
The answer to this question is known: kind, smart, strong, attractive, courageous, successful, enterprising, active, understanding me, generous, attentive, caring, broad-minded and highly intelligent, etc.
If the beauty does not see at least one of the listed qualities in the prince, it means that this is not a real prince! And then he won’t be able to kiss and wake her up!
And this prince, who did not pass the selection, will leave unsalted, and the beauty will continue her interrupted sleep and dreams of an ideal handsome prince and a wonderful life with him...
In general, the chances of the fairy tale coming true are somehow slim...
A modern man who aspires to the role of a prince can also roughly distinguish 3 parts in his personality structure:
-male/masculine part (inner Man)
-neutral, asexual Id (has intelligence, practical life skills, functions at work and at home, solves problems and tasks)
-Anima (“the embodiment of all feminine psychological tendencies in the male psyche, such as vague feelings and moods”).
Recently, a certain trend has been noticeable in Moscow, about which women are complaining :
“most men are passive”, “they do not behave like men”, “they have feminine characters”, “they are not brave, enterprising and responsible, but flexible, indecisive, evading responsibility, loving to talk rather than act”, “they have difficulty making decisions and do not want to take responsibility or take initiative”, “at work 90% of employees are men, of which only a few people have a masculine character, the rest are either neutral or have a feminine character”, “if you meet with a masculine character, then a newcomer, but Muscovite men don’t behave like men...”
And then we can assume that in men of this type the masculine part of the personality, the inner Man, is not sufficiently active and developed.
In everyday life and at work, in order to cope with tasks, the asexual Id is enough for them. Some men have a strong and active Anima, which largely determines their behavior.
It turns out that now we have many “sleeping princes” waiting for an active, feminine, self-confident woman to come and awaken their male part of their personality, the Man in a man, from sleep?!
Why did it happen that many potential princes fell asleep and turned into “sleeping handsome men”?
There are many reasons and they are different.
For example:
-absent father with strong masculinity
-lack of male behavior in the immediate environment
- the dominant and suppressive masculinity of the boy's mother
-egocentrism
- stuck at the teenage stage of personality development
-initiation as a man not completed in youth for the formation of a distinct male identity
-corporate cultures of business organizations and government agencies that suppress personal manifestations of employees, their initiative and activity
-fatigue from the demands and rhythm of life in a big city...
For a modern woman in this difficult situation, when the “sleeping beauty” strategy has stopped working for quite objective reasons: conditions and lifestyle have changed, men have changed...
- the main thing and the first thing: you need to wake up and see that there are men around and they are all different (including those with a strong masculine component).
-accept the truth that every person is the architect of his own happiness, including women’s
-change your strategy of behavior with men
-master different attraction and dating strategies
- pay attention to your inner Woman, develop your feminine part, femininity.
-clarify the relationship with your Animus, take away some of the power from it
A woman who wants to see a “real man” next to her has a choice of 2 paths:
1. attract a man with strong masculine character traits.
2. be able to awaken the Man in the “sleeping prince”.
The stronger and brighter the femininity in a woman, the more in touch she is with her inner Woman, the more men with a strong masculine part of their personality, with a “masculine character,” are attracted to her. It is usually the opposite that attracts and fascinates.
A woman with strong femininity, mastering the skill of influence and seduction, will be able to awaken the Man in a man. Even if this part of the personality is asleep or temporarily resting...
And then instead of the “sleeping beauty” and the “sleeping prince” there will be a Woman and a Man nearby.
Elena Kuzeeva is a psychotherapist, Gestalt therapist, author and presenter of the training series “Elena Kuzeeva’s School of Women’s Skills” at the Institute of Group and Family Psychology and Psychotherapy.
Once upon a time there lived a king and a queen. They had no children, and this upset them so much that it was impossible to say. They made so many vows, they went on pilgrimages and to healing waters - it was all in vain.
And finally, when the king and queen lost all hope, they suddenly had a daughter.
You can imagine what kind of celebration they organized in honor of her birth! All the fairies that could be found in the country were invited to visit the little princess. The fact is that fairies in those days had a wonderful custom: to endow their goddaughters with various wonderful gifts. And since there were seven fairies, the princess had to receive from them no less than seven virtues as a dowry.
Fairies and other invitees gathered at the royal palace, where a festive table was set for the honored guests.
Magnificent dinnerware and a box of cast gold were placed in front of the fairies. Each drawer contained a spoon, a fork and a knife - also made of pure gold of the finest workmanship, studded with diamonds and rubies. And so, when the guests sat down at the table, the door suddenly opened, and an old fairy entered - the eighth in a row - whom they had forgotten to invite to the christening.
And they forgot to call her because she had not left her tower for more than fifty years and everyone thought that she had died long ago.
The king ordered that the device be given to her too. The servants did this in an instant, but the golden box with a spoon, fork and knife was not enough for her share. Only seven of these boxes were prepared - one for each of the seven fairies.
The old fairy, of course, was very offended. She thought that the king and queen were impolite people and were greeting her without due respect. Pushing the plate and cup away from her, she muttered some kind of threat through her teeth.
Fortunately, the young fairy who was sitting next to her heard her muttering, and, fearing that the old woman might decide to give the little princess some very unpleasant gift, she, as soon as the guests rose from the table, made her way into the nursery and hid there behind the canopy of the crib. She knew that in an argument the one who has the last word usually wins, and she wanted her wish to be the last.
When lunch ended, the most solemn moment of the holiday arrived: the fairies went to the nursery and, one after another, began to present their gifts to the goddaughter.
The youngest of the fairies wished that the princess would be more beautiful than anyone else in the world. Another fairy rewarded her with a gentle and kind heart. The third said that her every move would cause delight. The fourth promised that the princess would dance excellently, the fifth - that she would sing like a nightingale, and the sixth - that she would play all musical instruments with the same skill.
Finally it was the old fairy's turn. The old woman leaned over the crib and, shaking her head more from frustration than from old age, said that the princess would prick her hand with a spindle and die from it.
Everyone shuddered when they learned what a terrible gift the evil witch had in store for the little princess. No one could stop crying.
And then the young fairy appeared from behind the curtain and said loudly:
Be comforted, king and queen! Your daughter will live. True, I am not so strong as to make what is said unsaid. The princess will have to, no matter how sad it is, prick her hand with a spindle, but she will not die from this, but will only fall into a deep sleep and will sleep for exactly a hundred years - until the handsome prince wakes her up.
This promise calmed the king and queen a little.
However, the king decided to still try to protect the princess from the misfortune that the old evil fairy predicted for her. To this end, by a special decree, he forbade all his subjects, under pain of death, to spin yarn and keep spindles and spinning wheels in their house.
Fifteen or sixteen years have passed. One day the king, queen and daughter went to one of their country palaces.
The princess wanted to explore the ancient castle, and, running from room to room, she finally reached the very top of the palace tower.
There, in a cramped little room under the roof, an old woman was sitting at a spinning wheel, calmly spinning yarn. Oddly enough, she had never heard a word from anyone about the royal ban.
What are you doing, auntie? - asked the princess, who had never seen a spinning wheel in her life.
“I’m spinning yarn, my child,” the old woman answered, not even realizing that she was talking to the princess.
Ah, this is very beautiful! - said the princess. - Let me try to see if I can do it as well as you.
The princess quickly grabbed the spindle and did not have time to touch it when the fairy’s prediction came true: she pricked her finger and fell dead.
The frightened old woman began to call for help. People came running from all directions.
They did everything: they splashed water in the princess’s face, slammed their palms on her palms, rubbed her temples with the fragrant vinegar of the Hungarian Queen - nothing helped.
They ran after the king. He went up to the tower, looked at the princess and immediately realized that the sad event that he and the queen had so feared had happened.
With sadness, he ordered the princess to be taken to the most beautiful hall of the palace and laid there on a bed decorated with silver and gold embroidery.
It's hard to describe in words how beautiful the sleeping princess was. She didn't turn pale at all. Her cheeks were pink and her lips were red like coral. And although her eyes were tightly closed, you could hear that she was breathing quietly.
Therefore, it really was a dream, and not death.
The king ordered not to disturb the princess until the hour of her awakening came.
And the good fairy, who saved her goddaughter from death by wishing her a hundred years of sleep, was at that time very far from the royal castle.
But she immediately learned about this misfortune from a little dwarf walker who had seven-league boots (these are such wonderful boots that if you put them on, you will walk seven miles in one step),
The fairy immediately set off on her way. Not even an hour had passed before her fiery chariot, drawn by dragons, had already appeared near the royal palace. The king gave her his hand and helped her off the chariot.
The fairy tried to console the king and queen as best she could. And then, since she was a very prudent fairy, she immediately thought how sad the princess would be when, a hundred years later, the poor thing would wake up in this old castle and not see a single familiar face near her.
To prevent this from happening, the fairy did this.
With her magic wand she touched everyone who was in the palace (except the king and queen). And there were courtiers, ladies-in-waiting, governesses, maids, butlers, cooks, cooks, walkers, soldiers of the palace guard, gatekeepers, pages and lackeys.
She touched with her wand both the horses in the royal stable and the grooms who combed the horses' tails. I touched the large palace dogs and the small curly dog, nicknamed Puff, who lay at the feet of the sleeping princess.
And now everyone who was touched by the fairy’s magic wand fell asleep. They fell asleep for exactly a hundred years in order to wake up with their mistress and serve her as they served before. Even the partridges and pheasants, which were roasting on the fire, fell asleep. The spit on which they spun fell asleep. The fire that was roasting them fell asleep.
And all this happened in one single moment. Fairies know their stuff: wave a wand and you're done!
After that, the king and queen kissed their sleeping daughter, said goodbye to her and quietly left the hall.
Returning to their capital, they issued a decree that no one should dare approach the enchanted castle.
But this could not have been done, because in just a quarter of an hour so many trees, large and small, grew around the castle, so many thorny bushes - thorns and rose hips - and all this was so closely intertwined with branches that neither man nor beast could not get through such a thicket.
And only from a distance, and even from the mountain, could one see the tops of the towers of the old castle.
The fairy did all this so that no one’s curiosity would disturb the peace of the sweet princess.
A hundred years have passed. Many kings and queens have changed over the years.
And then one fine day the son of the king, who reigned at that time, went hunting.
In the distance, above the dense dense forest, he saw the towers of some castle.
Whose castle is this? - he asked. - Who lives there?
Each one answered him what he himself heard from others. Some said that these were old ruins where ghosts lived, others said that all the witches in the area celebrated their Sabbath in the abandoned castle. But the majority agreed that the old castle belonged to the cannibal. This cannibal allegedly catches lost children and takes them to his tower to eat without interference, since no one can follow him into his lair - after all, he is the only one in the world who knows the way through the enchanted forest.
The prince did not know who to believe, but then an old peasant approached him and said, bowing:
Good Prince, half a century ago, when I was as young as you, I heard from my father that in this castle the most beautiful princess in the world was sleeping soundly and that she would sleep for another half a century, until her betrothed , the son of some king, will not come and wake her up.
You can imagine how the prince felt when he heard these words!
His heart began to burn in his chest. He immediately decided that it was his fate to awaken the beautiful princess from her sleep!
Without thinking twice, the prince pulled the reins and galloped in the direction where the towers of the old castle were visible, where love and glory attracted him.
And here in front of him is an enchanted forest. The prince jumped off his horse, and immediately tall, thick trees, thorny bushes, thickets of rose hips - everything parted to make way for him. As if along a long straight alley, he walked towards the castle, which was visible in the distance.
The prince walked alone. None of his retinue managed to follow him - the trees, having let the prince through, immediately closed behind him, and the bushes again intertwined their branches.
Such a miracle could frighten anyone, but the prince was young and in love, and this is enough to be brave.
Another hundred steps - and he found himself in a spacious courtyard in front of the castle. The prince looked to the right, to the left, and the blood ran cold in his veins. Around him lay, sat, stood, leaning against the wall, some people in ancient clothes. They were all motionless, as if dead.
But, peering into the red, shiny faces of the gatekeepers, he realized that they were not dead at all, but were simply sleeping. They had goblets in their hands, and the wine in the goblets had not yet dried, and this clearly showed that a sudden sleep had overtaken them at the moment when they were about to drain the cups to the bottom.
The prince passed a large courtyard paved with marble slabs, climbed the stairs, and entered the hall of the palace guards. The men-at-arms slept standing, lined up, with carbines on their shoulders, and snored with all their might.
He passed through many chambers full of dressed-up court ladies and smartly dressed gentlemen. All of them were also fast asleep, some standing, some sitting.
And finally he entered a room with gilded walls and a gilded ceiling. He entered and stopped.
On the bed, the curtains of which were thrown back, lay a beautiful young princess of about fifteen or sixteen years old (not counting the century she had slept through).
The prince involuntarily closed his eyes: her beauty shone so much that even the gold around her seemed dull and pale. Trembling with delight, he approached and knelt before her.
At that very moment the hour appointed by the good fairy struck.
The princess woke up, opened her eyes and looked at her deliverer.
Oh, is it you, prince? - she said. “Finally!” You've kept yourself waiting for a long time!..
Before she had time to finish these words, everything around her awoke.
The horses neighed in the stable, the pigeons cooed under the roof. The fire in the oven roared as loud as it could, and the pheasants, which the cooks had not had time to finish frying a hundred years ago, turned brown in one minute.
The servants, under the supervision of the butler, were already setting the table in the mirrored dining room. And the ladies of the court, while waiting for breakfast, straightened their hair, which had become disheveled over a hundred years, and smiled at their sleepy gentlemen.
In the hall of the palace guard, the men-at-arms again went about their usual business - stamping their boots and rattling their weapons.
And the gatekeepers sitting at the entrance to the palace finally drained the goblets and filled them again with good wine, which over the course of a hundred years had, of course, become older and better.
The entire castle - from the flag on the tower to the wine cellar - came to life and began to rustle.
But the prince and princess heard nothing. They looked at each other and couldn't stop looking at each other. The princess forgot that she had not eaten anything for a whole century, and the prince did not remember that he had not had poppy dew in his mouth since the morning. They talked for four whole hours and did not have time to say even half of what they wanted.
But everyone else was not in love and therefore died of hunger.
Finally, the eldest maid of honor, who was as hungry as everyone else, could not stand it and reported to the princess that breakfast was served.
The prince shook hands with his bride and led her into the dining room.
The princess was superbly dressed and looked at herself in the mirror with pleasure, and the loving prince, of course, did not say a word to her that the style of her dress had gone out of fashion at least a hundred years ago and that such sleeves and collars were not worn from the time of his great-great-grandmother.
However, even in an old-fashioned dress she looked better than anyone in the world.
The bride and groom sat down at the table. The most noble gentlemen served them various dishes of ancient cuisine. And the violins and oboes played for them lovely, long-forgotten songs of the last century.
The court poet immediately composed a new, although slightly old-fashioned, song about a beautiful princess who slept for a hundred years in an enchanted forest. Those who heard it really liked the song, and since then everyone, young and old, from cooks to kings, began to sing it.
And those who did not know how to sing songs told a fairy tale. This tale passed from mouth to mouth and finally came to you and me.
Retelling from French by T. Gabbe
Many European nations have a fairy tale about an evil witch and a princess in an enchanted dream. Over the past 400 years, the legend has been retold under various names about 1,000 times. Novels have also been created based on this fairy tale. The first of them is “Perseforest” by an unknown author, dating back to 1527.
However, the most famous version was the story of a beauty sleeping in the forest from the collection “Tales of Mother Goose” by Charles Perrault. The great storyteller wrote it in 1697.
Charles Perrault was the first to introduce into the legend a handsome prince, whose kiss breaks the spell of enchanted sleep. So there were three main characters in the fairy tale: the witch, the princess and the prince.
About "Sleeping Beauty"
For the first time on screen, the sorceress Maleficent, the princess and the prince were shown by Disney in 1959. The cartoon was called “Sleeping Beauty” and became the 16th animated project of the Disney film studio.
Disney's animated film Sleeping Beauty stands in stark contrast to the Brothers Grimm and Charles Perrault's versions of classic fairy tales. The main contradiction is that the total length of the German and French fairy tales takes up about three pages. Disney studio writers needed to create a film that was 80 minutes long.
Filming took about ten years and more than $6 million was spent. The film became the most expensive of all that had been shot at the Disney studio up to that time.
The cartoon received a worthy musical accompaniment, based on P. I. Tchaikovsky’s music for the ballet “The Sleeping Beauty”. In particular, 2 songs “Once upon a dream” and “I wonder” are based on a waltz-allegro. It is the music, organically woven into the course of the narrative, that creates an allusion to medieval life of the 14th century.
Still from the cartoon "Sleeping Beauty"
About Maleficent
Filming began on June 11, 2012 at the famous English studio Pinewood Studios. Most of the film was filmed on the sites of this studio. Over the course of five months, there were six pavilions, several square kilometers of outdoor sites, as well as some other production areas.
About 40 decorated sites were created for filming - starting from a small room of 3x3 meters and ending with a large hall with an area of 464 m2.
One of the natural sites was an ancient castle - an exact replica, both inside and outside, of the majestic building that the animators drew in 1959. The floor was covered with real marble slabs, and the interior used genuine antiques.
It took 250 builders and 20 artists about 14 weeks to build and decorate the site.
The scenery of the nondescript house in which Aurora spent her childhood was built on location at the London film studio Pinewood Studios. The house itself was made of timber, and the roof was thatched by hand using the technology used by professional roofers. In the whole of Great Britain there are no more than 1,000 specialists who earn money from such an exotic craft.
About fairytale makeup
The prosthetic makeup team was led by seven-time Oscar winner Rick Baker. Several specialists worked exclusively on Maleficent's false horns and ears. Other makeup artists spent several hours each morning applying makeup to the remaining characters.
Baker and his assistants sculpted three different sets of horns, inspired by the original design.
The horns were made of polyurethane, a fairly light but very durable material.
To ensure that the plastic overlays exactly matched the curves of Angelina Jolie's face, the make-up artists first made a cast of the actress's head and cast a plaster bust. It was subsequently used to adjust the rubber pads on the cheekbones and ears. The procedure for applying complex plastic makeup took about four hours every day.
Still from the movie "Maleficent" Photo: WDSSPR
About fairy costumes and spinning wheels
Costume designer Anna Sheppard and her team are literally hand-crafted.
Angelina Jolie worked a lot with professional hatters, selecting a headdress design that would hide her heroine's horns. Six different hats were designed, including a summer version made from python skin. When Maleficent appeared at the christening, her horns were covered with a headdress that emphasized the unnatural whiteness of her skin.
Prop designer David Balfour assembled dozens of spinning wheels for the scene in which the king imposes a massive ban on the use of spindles throughout the country. The spinning wheel is the only key element of the tale that has been repeated in all variations, from the very first legends to the present day. Pricking a finger with a spindle meant for all the princesses to fall into a deep, uninterrupted sleep.
Still from the movie "Maleficent" Photo: WDSSPR
About actors and consultants
Sam Riley, who played the werewolf Diaval, rehearsed the movements that should be characteristic of a raven under the guidance of special trainers. Riley admits that the hours he spent with the instructors were the most embarrassing of his entire acting career. He felt especially awkward when he had to run around the room, waving his arms and trying to croak. Even in human form, Riley as Diaval had animal features - crow feathers stuck out in his hair, and his eyes were completely black contact lenses.
Played by Imelda Staunton, Juno Temple and Lesley Manville, performance capture technology was used. According to the plot, the height of the heroines did not exceed half a meter, but all the nuances of facial expressions were recorded and conveyed with the utmost care. The visual effects team used 150 markers attached to each actress's face to convey the slightest grimaces of the digitized characters. The fairies turned out to be very comical - with large heads and wide eyes. Many other proportions were also purposefully violated.
