Sleeping Beauty

Hello and welcome to the 28th episode of Tooncast

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I'm your host TF2 and Mike and today I am joined

once again by Kevin, Professor Boss K Dog Thompson.

Hello. How's it going? It's going, how are you?

I am good and I'm ready for some Disney action.

Yes. We're going to be starting the Disney Animation

Spotlight with Sleeping Beauty. The Disney Animation

Spotlight, the first part of it for Tooncast

will run, I believe it's eight episodes, nine,

seven, eight episodes. However, it is actually

going to be broken up. This episode and the next

episode, 29. Will be two movies episode 30 will

be our holiday show We're only doing one holiday

show since this podcast will only last until

2011 Each year in 2010 we're gonna just basically

refer back to that that holiday episode that

was from this year and I'm gonna try to keep

that recording very very just overall generally

Christmas not like oh what are you doing this

year or you know whatever I don't know I think

we're actually gonna have four people on that

episode correcting traffic again good lord so

what have you been up to? Let's see, the big

thing this week was that I put up Christmas lights

outside. Outside around the roof and the garage

and all this nonsense. So I spent a lot of time

yesterday doing that. But it's done, I don't

have to worry about it anymore. All I have to

do is plug it in now. Now you're not one of those

types of people that leaves their damn lights

up all year long, are you? Oh no, no. It goes

up after Thanksgiving and it comes down right

after the New Year. If I had my way my tree would

go up December 23rd come down December 26th It's

not that it's just I Just never got the whole

point and especially now I'm a single guy You

know I don't have a lot of family here in Kentucky.

You know outside of my mom you know and it's

like I'm not putting the tree up because I've

got two cats and I don't think they would let

it stand upright. Well, Steve, our other friend,

Steve Megatron from the co -founder with me of

Geekcast Radio Network, they have a fake tree

and his male cat likes to jump up in the fake

tree and bend the branches. Yeah, all I've ever

had is a fake tree but I think mine would. bring

it down and break all the ornaments. I don't

want to have to deal with it. So I have no decorations

inside, but I got lights outside. Why is it every

time people bring up Christmas trees and cats,

I always think of... from Christmas vacation

when the cat electrocuted. Exactly. Cats and

Christmas trees don't mix. Exactly. Yeah, there's

not that much going on here We're just actually

in year -end high gear as far as recording and

stuff like that So yeah, we've got the as I said

before M wire has the holiday shows coming up

And of course we've got our a little animation

spotlight here with disney and then the holiday

show and then more disney and then whatever else

is down the line so we will be right back with

sleeping beauty Sleeping Beauty. Sparkling with

colorful spectacle. Brimming with gay music and

delightful new songs. Filled with fascinating

new Disney characters. You'll meet lovely Princess

Pryor Rose. to sing to. Hot boy! You'll meet

handsome Prince Philip and Samson, his noble

steed. You'll meet the most delightful fairies

who ever wafted a magic wand. Flora? Follow me.

Fauna, and Merryweather. You'll share the fun

with King Stefan and King Hubert, and you'll

see Maleficent work her wondrous witchcraft.

Stand back, you fools! The fine art of animation

becomes magnificent entertainment as Walt Disney

brings one of the world's favorite stories to

the screen. It's filled with magical fun. It's

spectacular in its beauty. And there's adventure

to excite every emotion. We're shot! Kill him!

No! It cannot be! The management of this theater

is proud to recommend this magnificent motion

picture to every member of every family everywhere.

We are back, and it is time for the history lesson.

Take it away, Professor. All right. For today's

history lesson, we're traveling back in time

to 1959. 1959 was the year where Sleeping Beauty

was produced by Walt Disney, obviously based

on fairy tale. Here goes my French here. I have

to do the French. LaBelle Boyd Norman. by Charles

Pearl. It was released to theaters on January

29, 1959 by Buena Vista Distribution. And it

is number 16 for animated features by Walt Disney

in the animated classic series. It was also the

last fairy tale produced by Walt Disney after

his death. The studio went back to fairy tales

in 1989, kind of the rebirth of Disney in my

opinion when they started with The Little Mermaid.

So, big break between Sleeping Beauty and Little

Mermaid films as far as fairy tale Disney movies.

The film was based on the fairy tale, like I

said, and the musical score and song feature

the work of the Berlin Symphony Orchestra, our

arrangement for adaptations of numbers from 1890

Sleeping Beauty by Tchaikovsky. Sleeping Beauty

was the first animated feature. to be a photograph

in the technical wide -screen process and the

film was presented in super technical family

and six -channel there's on in first -run engagement

uh... only one other enemy film which is the

black hole in the shot in texas all right that

does it for the history lesson what you want

to show you actually forgot something there i

was going to bring that up later when you talk

about character uh... moving on to the general

memories and you know we are starting a a spotlight

on on disney animation but honestly i i never

knew these films were as old as they are incident

same thing with like the jetsons when stones

I always thought because the Flintstones was

in syndication in the 80s that it was actually

you know new episodes in the 80s when in fact

it wasn't. Jetsons was they did produce new episodes

for that in the 80s but you know these are the

same thing you know you know when I was younger

I Disney mania was everywhere back in the 80s.

I think Disney did a really good job of keeping

enough stuff consistent, and when I mean stuff

I mean like graphics, logos, like intro, you

know, that type of stuff where if you're a kid

and you're watching this stuff, especially since

when you're a kid your parents are probably showing

you every Disney movie in the world to try to

keep you occupied or whatever, but you just assume

that they're all from the exact same time period.

Now, did they look old? Maybe they did, but as

a kid, for some reason you didn't like most kids

if they see something old like if they see something

in black and white they're gonna completely shut

off to it but for some reason the Disney stuff

does not have that effect on anybody that I know.

There's only one thing that I disagree with that

and there's only one black and white instance

that I would disagree with you on that and that

is of course the three stooges. Yeah, but I mean

there's so much stuff that if it's in black and

white or whatever kids will just be like no I

can't watch it blah blah. It's old. It's from

forever ago But I never can remember one time

watching a Disney movie and being like this is

too old Neither yeah, I can't even I gotta I

gotta say that Even though this one's called

sleeping beauty which completely makes it sound

like a I don't know how you want to say it, but

like a girl Disney movie. You know, you have

your titles that just shout that this is more

for a girl audience. Snow White, Cinderella,

Sleeping Beauty, that type of stuff. But out

of all those, this is the most maybe fun for

a guy out of all those movies, I think. Because

you have so many guy elements in here that would

just like, you know, you have the dragon, you

have the you know all the obstacles and you know

the conflict going on. I think the title of this

one's very misleading. Yeah I would tend to agree

you know you do have the Dungeons and Dragons.

You know of course you know the whole hero complex

with the prince having to save her and everything

else you have I actually almost equate this to

not really count as part of it but a type of

Arthurian legend where it's it's not it has nothing

to do with King Arthur or the Knights and Round

Table or Camelot but it's a medieval movie is

what it is and actually today when I was well

by the time this airs one week from when we're

actually recording yeah I don't know I think

it's December ninth is when this is supposed

to air uh... i don't remember hell yeah uh...

anyway uh... i actually watched this today with

the commentary with uh... uh... crap lettered

malton and two other guys uh... forget what their

names are i've got the dvd right here let me

see uh... uh... uh... it doesn't say uh... i

know it's one in malton the move though that

the entertainment site movie guy and into other

people that were associated with disney uh...

and it's very interesting uh... what they say

that I believe, well Snow White was the first

ever Disney animated feature and then Cinderella

was after. Cinderella was basically before Sleeping

Beauty and they wanted with this film what they

said in the commentary was that Walt Disney wanted

completely different. Oh yeah, it's like the

polar opposite of Cinderella. Yeah. I mean, Cinderella

is what you think it is. It's got that name,

and you think, this is going to be a movie that's

all about the things that girls like to watch.

It's going to be about what is traditional girl

-type stuff like clothes and that type of work

and all that, the big love story and all this

type of stuff. And that's exactly what Cinderella

is. But then you hear Sleeping Beauty, and I

think a lot of people just think, oh, it's the

same type of thing. complete opposite. So I think

that's one reason why I tend to like Sleeping

Beauty even more maybe than I like Cinderella

and I don't know if I'd say I like it more than

Snow White but I don't know. There's a lot of

parts that I think talk to a guy more in Sleeping

Beauty than they do in either of those other

two. Well like I said, you know, alright. You

know and we're gonna get to Cinderella eventually

on Tooncast because we're gonna have two volumes

of the Disney Animation Spotlight I just have

to actually get the DVD. It's one of the ones

I don't have But you know comparing the two films

between Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty Cinderella

you have a prince who is hunting for his missing

one -night stand even though okay i know that

sounds bad but come on this is disney they had

a dick for a little mermaid tower on on a on

a vhs case or what you know i mean i know it

sounds bad but in sleeping with the poor but

that is a famous for their for their uh... bernie

influx uh... you know so there uh... anyway fucking

jeff jeffrey catzenberg anyway uh... uh... uh...

uh... all right simply track that was looking

for his one night stand or his one night party

guest or whatever the hell you wanna call her

in sleeping beauty you have someone who falls

in love with somebody at basically at first sight

who is a prince You could almost call him a knight

as well, I mean, hell, he rides a horse called

fucking Samson for Christ's sake. You know? So

he's actually going to try to save this person,

so it's more of a hero knightly film, whereas

Cinderella, he's just stalking her. Right. We'll

get to that eventually, way down the line as

far as Cinderella goes, but yeah. you know just

even with just watching with the commentary in

certain parts they would I hate to say this but

they would shut up and let the audio play through

even then it's I could still understand what

was going on and I actually watched it about

a week ago well again by the time this airs it

would be two weeks ago I would agree with that

except I would put a qualifier on it because

as much as I'm a fan of The original stuff and

you know all that type of stuff. I think it's

the best of its era I would say it's one of the

number one It was the number one fairy tale movie

out of this era, but I'm biased. I don't think

any of the originals can compare to the 90s Disney

movies That's just me. Well all right well It's

timeless pretty much Yeah, I mean I I'm just

biased I guess I think I think Aladdin Lion King

and Little Mermaid are probably three best Disney

movies ever and that's fine I mean, you know,

I don't disagree with you I think they are very

good Disney films and you know once we get to

those we can elaborate on that but All I think

out of the original this is the best. Oh, yeah.

Oh, yeah You know and you really can't You really

can't compare Outside of Sydney, you really can't

compare Sleeping Beauty to anything other than

Snow White and Cinderella. Right. Obviously,

because... You can't compare it to the Jungle

Book and that stuff. You can't compare it to

the 90s stuff. It's just... Disney has its different

eras, and you gotta stay within that era if you're

gonna talk Disney films. So I guess moving into

the characters and the cast, you had Princess

Aurora. Also known as Briar Rose, voiced by Mary

Costa. Mary Costa actually did both the, according

to the commentary track, she did both the talking

voice and singing voice. Apparently she was going

to school or learning to be, or going to be an

opera singer. And she eventually did go through

with that, is what Leonard Malton said on the

commentary. You know what I just realized? But,

you know, doing the Sydney Spotlight, which we'll

be doing, obviously, like you said, for these

next two episodes, you know, five or six episodes

after the Christmas special, it's going to be

one of the first times during Tunecast where

we're not going to be familiar with all the voice

cast. I know it. Because, obviously, most of

them are coming from 1950s and stuff like that,

where it's like the first time where it's not,

you know, there's no Chuck McNeal, there's no...

You know, Frank Walker, so an interesting voice

cast. I'm going to be unfamiliar with most of

the breathing ones. Yeah, but I mean, even though,

you know, even that being said, honestly, it

doesn't really... I don't know how to say this

gently. I'm not trying to, you know, stick a

hole in... I'm not trying to poke a stick into

a hole here, but mostly I didn't really care

about who voiced who. in the Disney films. Of

course the later films like Oliver and Company,

I mean come on, you got Huey Lewis, you got Billy

Joel, Bette Midler, a lot of those late 80s,

early 90s musical stars. I agree with you. I

don't think I ever thought about who's behind

the character or who's doing the voicing in a

Disney film. until... I don't think I even thought

about it until Aladdin. I think that was the

first time where I was like actually conscious

of, you know, I know the people that are doing

these voices are, you know, I recognize the voices.

Which is testing it, I think, to actual voice

actors that did do any films because it didn't

matter who it was, they just did their job and

they did a good job. Yeah, exactly. You know,

and as I said a second ago, for me it was Oliver

& Company because you have all of these big name

80s music stars, you know, Huey Lewis, Billy

Joel, Bette Midler, a bunch of people. I don't

remember it off the top of my head at this point.

Of course, we'll get to that once we get to it.

But that was for me when I started recognizing

voice actors in in Disney films and the earlier

for the the earlier films like this one in Snow

White and Cinderella I just that you know okay

that's the female voice for Cinderella cool you

know yeah although I would like to mention that

the voice director for this was Andrea Romano

no I'm just kidding shut up yeah actually it's

funny One of our upcoming episodes upcoming in

the thirties for Tooncast, the GoBots episode,

she was the voice director on that. Love it.

I'm actually looking forward to that episode.

I will say that the one voice actor that I do

recognize on this list right off the bat, I'm

not saying that these other voice actors aren't

famous and aren't well known for what they did.

I'm just saying that I'm not familiar with them,

but the one I am familiar with is the Owl. The

Allison McKinnon. uh... had done also a lot of

stuff i think some of the other people might

have been might have been a whole lot to work

i wish i could think of our role that i am familiar

with the doubt mckinnon i'm not a hundred percent

sure which one there are but i've seen his name

a lot of different places if you listen now did

you watch the film before we recorded this uh...

i i haven't watched it recently and i watched

it a ton in previous years but i haven't watched

it recently I don't own it, I'm sorry. He can't

even live up to his recording abilities, folks.

He drops the ball on the scripts, he loses his

internet connection, then he watches fucking

movies! Hey, who spent 20 minutes searching through

my TV guide so I could record all the Christmas

shows beforehand? That's until the Christmas

episode, that's... Actually, what I plan on doing

is, in a couple days, I'm going back home for

a little bit. And I think I'm going to raid,

luckily I don't think my sister ever listens

to this because she's in Australia right now,

but I'm going to raid my sister's room because

I believe she has just about every Disney movie

on either VHS or DVD. So I will be set for the

Disney spotlight in two days. Good. Um, no, what

the? Oh, um, no. Well, yeah, but no. You remember

the voice of Melissa? Maleficent, right? You

were hearing that voice? That is the stepmother

from Cinderella. Okay. That makes sense. And

when I was doing the research in a lot of the

Disney films I found out that Disney reused a

lot of animation. Oh yeah. And I know this is

kind of, I mean we're kind of pretty much breaking

off into the behind the scenes segment now, but

Disney films back in that, back in the 50s and

60s, you know, before the 80s and stuff, I would

assume, like a lot of the films, Alice in Wonderland,

Robin Hood, Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, a lot

of the animation is reused. uh... and a lot of

characters cross over yeah and a lot of times

ideas that didn't work in other movies reappear

i think in future movies or stuff like that will

get more into that i think that will a little

bit later in this for this actual episode um...

but i have a question for you real quick that

if it comes where one last thing about the characters

since we're looking over the list of characters

and actors and stuff like that uh... you do you

have a favorite least favorite character in this

movie No, it's not really putting me on the spot.

I like a couple of characters, but I really don't

have an overall favorite. I think that Maleficent

is the, to this point, outside of the Queen from

Snow White, she is the scariest Disney villain.

Just at this point of when Disney was making

their movies, you know, I mean, Christ, she turns

into a giant fucking dragon, for Christ's sake.

And of course, I like Prince Philip because he's

standing up to his father for what he, you know,

he believes he's in love with this girl, but

of course, the king doesn't, you know, his father,

I forget what the hell, King, no, King Hubert.

was was Phillips father I doesn't realize that

the girl he fell in love with was Stefan's daughter

I did like King Stefan I I like the two of them

playing off of each other in that scene where

the the jester gets drunk when they're arguing

about who's marrying who and where the wedding's

gonna be the two kings are arguing amongst themselves

and in the background the court jester is getting

drunk out of his ukulele or whatever he's got

I think my favorite, which is odd for me to choose

a character like this, but I think my favorite,

even though she's not present for most of it,

is Princess Aurora. And the reason I say that

is because If you're just going on where Disney

is at at this point, and if you're watching Disney

movies in chronological order, like we mentioned

before, you've seen Snow White and you've seen

Cinderella. And not that I didn't like those

two characters, but as the lead female in those

two characters, they just didn't capture me to

a point. I don't know if it was, you know, as

a kid you're not, it's not like you're attracted,

you're not attracted to them or stuff like that,

but I just didn't care for Snow White as, you

know, the lead female so much. And, you know,

the next step was Cinderella that I didn't care

about either. But in Sleeping Beauty, this was

finally a leading lady in a Disney movie that

I actually, like, had interest in, if that makes

sense. One of the, um, one of the other things

that was said on the commentary track for this,

uh, because I have the, um, The 50th anniversary

2 -Disc Platinum Edition that came out, I believe

it was the end of last year, 2008, or middle

of last year. This is actually the first time

I've ever actually owned Sleeping Beauty on DVD.

On the commentary track, they actually are commenting

about how beautiful the animation on her is how

beautiful her character design is and the commentators

actually thought that she was probably at the

time of these films that were taking place back

before we were born that she was the most beautiful

out of the three of them. I agree. I know people

always say Snow White's this image of perfection

and beauty and stuff like that. I'll take my

Princess Aurora over Snow White any day. We should

also mention that it's actually very funny. Princess

Aurora, the film's main character, appears fewer

than 18 minutes in the entire film, excluding

the time she appears as an infant in the beginning.

which is an amazing, amazing statistic. Goat

is me. Goat is me. Name a movie, Sleeping Beauty,

have the entire movie be about Conan, and then

put them in 15 minute footage. One thing, I understand

they had to change the name of the character

when she went into hiding. Because they are actually,

the fairies are hiding her own identity from

her. um but I didn't like that I didn't like

the whole Briar Rose thing and blah blah blah

you have three names for one friggin character

that's like you know giving your kid two middle

names it's like Michael, Alan, Joseph, Blanchard

it's like crap you're gonna curse the kid with

four fucking names I never had to curse her because

she was such a sweet hero. Well, alright. You

get what I'm saying, though. Yes, I do. Do we

have any other thoughts on the voice cast? No,

I don't have a least favorite character. I like

basically all the characters. I think they each

had qualities that you could like about them,

even if they were because it was scary. The Green

Fairy, I didn't dislike her but she just didn't

have that much to do. I mean whereas Flora and

Merriweather were always fighting with each other,

red, blue, red, blue, red, blue, Flana, she basically

had nothing to do outside of... Yeah. Luckily

she was part of that trio so you can kind of

deal with having a one that's kind of a nobody.

Yeah, true. uh... so going into the uh... behind

the scenes segment uh... as far as the uh...

some notes on the overview in the art direction

sleeping beauty spent nearly the entire decade

of the nineteen fifties in production the story

work began in nineteen fifty one voices were

recorded in nineteen fifty two animation production

took from nineteen fifty three until nineteen

fifty eight the stereo phonic musical score partially

based on Tchaikovsky's Ballet of the Same Name

was recorded in 1957. The film holds a notable

position in Disney Animation as the last Disney

feature to use hand -inked cells, beginning with

the next feature, 101 Dalmatians. Disney would

move to the use of... Yeah, xerography. It's

basically photocopies to transfer animated drawings

from paper to celluloid. It's art which Walt

Disney wanted to look like a living illustration

which was inspired by medieval art was not the

typical Disney style because Disney Studio It

had already made two features based on fairy

tales, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, and Cinderella

and Walt Disney wanted this film to stand out

from its predecessors by choosing a different

visual style. eschewed the soft, rounded look

of earlier Disney features for a more stylized

one. Since Super Technorama 70 was used, it also

meant the backgrounds could contain more detailed

and complex artwork than ever used in an animated

movie before. That's one thing I do have to bring

up. The backgrounds on this movie and just the

details in the backgrounds. Just amazing. Yeah,

it says that the guy painted them usually took

seven to ten days to paint in contrast with it

usually only taking about one work day. So he

was spending seven to ten times the amount of

time on these things and you can tell. Right.

Of interesting note is the fact that Chuck Jones,

who gained fame as an animation director with

Warner Bros. Animation, did some work on the

film. He worked with the studio during a brief

period when Warner Bros. closed its animation

department anticipating that 3D film would replace

animation as a box office draw. When the studio

was reopened following the failure of 3D, Jones

ended his work at Disney and returned to Warner

Brothers. His work on Sleeping Beauty, which

he spent four months on, remained uncredited.

Ironically, during his early years at Warner

Brothers, Jones was a heavy user of Disney -style

animation. I honestly don't think anyone can

argue that point with me. Disney was the first.

Hell, Looney Tunes and Mary Melonies is not really

a direct copy, but it's based off of Disney's

Silly Symphonies. Yeah. I mean, that's just the

way it is. I mean, that's just like, you know,

people nowadays copying off of stuff that came

out in the 80s. It's the same thing, but, you

know... I mean, Warner Brothers did their thing

and, you know, They obviously became very good

at certain aspects of doing, you know, certain

things, but it all, yeah, it all started. So

you've got to understand that. Right. So, a couple

other things I've noticed from here, which is

what we were kind of talking about earlier on,

several story points for this one came from discarded

ideas for Disney's previous fairy tale involving

a sleeping hero and obviously Snow White and

the seven boys. including Malfur's capture of

the Prince, as well as her mocking him, and the

Prince's daring escape from the castle. Disney

discarded these ideas from Snow White because

his artists were not able to draw a human male

believably enough at the time. So they show up

in the comic book version of Snow White, but

didn't really make it into a film until Freaking

Beauty. So it's kind of interesting, some of

the stuff that might have been planned in other

movies before this, but didn't really come to

fruition until Sleeping Beauty. As far as the

live -action reference footage, before animation

production began, every shot in the film was

done in live -action reference, version with

live actors in costumes serving as models for

the animators. The role of Prince Philip was

modeled by Ed Kemmer. who had played Commander

Buzz Corey on television's Space Patrol five

years before Sleeping Beauty was released. For

the final battle sequence, Kimmer was photographed

on a wooden buck. Among the actresses who performed

in reference footage for this film were Spring

Biggerton, Francis Beaver, and Helene Stanley.

Helene Stanley was the live -action reference

for Princess Aurora, the only known surviving

footage of Stanley as Aurora's live -action reference.

is a clip from the television program Disneyland,

which consists of the artist sketching her dancing

with the woodland animals. It was not the first

or last time Stanford worked for Disney. She

also provided live -action references for Cinderella

and Anita from 101 Dalmatians, and portrayed

Polly Crockett for the TV series David Crockett,

King of the Wild Frontier. An episode of the

Mickey Mouse Club television series features

Stanley re -enacting scenes from The Sleeping

Beauty. For the Mouseketeers to watch, a clip

from this episode is included in the special

feature on the Cinderella Platinum Edition DVD.

Oh, that's cool. I'm going to find that actually.

Yeah. I think that's kind of interesting that

they did that. I didn't realize that they had

done that kind of stuff for some of the early

Disney movies. But I think it's cool to use these

live actors as a model for the animators and

the drawers to try to get as close as possible.

So I think that's very cool that they did that

to make it as close to live action as possible.

Yes, very much so. So I guess we can move on

to the actual plot of the film. Why don't you

try to summarize this without... I am not going

to read you the entire plot. You should think

later. The best way we can summarize this is

that princess is born, evil sorceress cast a

spell on her, fairies try to save her, prince

finds her in the forest, falls in love with her.

Fairies screw up. Fairies screw up and let people

know where she's at. She gets lured into, obviously,

the tower and the spinning wheel, which is going

to fulfill the curse made in the beginning of

the whole film. She, you know, goes into her,

luckily, deep sleep instead of death because

of the fairy's magical powers. And basically

then it's just an issue for the rest of the movie

of trying to get the prince to her to kiss her

so that she can wake up. Yes. I did like a lot

of the Prince scenes. I like how they animated

in the courtyard when the King is coming out

to meet him. And as the King is walking, he's

basically hobbling along and his stomach is doing

more walking than his feet are. Because he's

a fat old King. I'm a fat guy myself, but I just

found it very funny the way that they animated

that character to Basically, his stomach is doing

the walking for him even though his feet are

like, you know, hopping up and down. I gotta

say that since we're talking about basically

the overall movie and the plot and stuff like

that, that I think one of the most memorable

Disney scenes of all time for me, and this is

saying a lot because I'm not necessarily, as

much as I've been saying Sleeping Beauty is a

great film, it was great for that time, it probably

wouldn't rank in my top. But I think it does

have one of the most memorable scenes of all

time for a Disney film, and that's the spinning

wheel scene. That scene, it didn't, I don't know

what the right word is for it. It didn't gross

me out necessarily, it didn't freak me out, but

it bothered me so much. Like, it was just such

a great scene, but as a kid you were just, I

don't know, I'm not one that likes needles anyway,

so. Just the fact of her pricking her finger

on the spinning wheel just stuck with me. That

scene I can just picture in my head at will if

I wanted to. You can't say that about every scene

of a movie that you see, especially when you've

seen a thousand Disney movies, but that scene

just sticks with me. And I think the reason why

it probably sticks with you is because of the

way that that scene is lit. I mean come on, it's

eerie green lighting. I mean, that's like Halloween

type scary shit right there. And I think most

kids don't like needles. Oh, yeah. I mean, you

know, most kids don't like needles. They don't

like the idea of getting tricked. They don't

like the idea of, you know, getting the blood

from it or anything like that. So this whole

thing that this is how she's going to get, you

know, this is how she's going to, you know. be

thrown off, of course, and it's just like, ah.

You know, it's not like you don't have that.

You bit into an apple. No kid is afraid of apples.

Like, you know, it doesn't bother you as much,

but the fact that she's been picked in her finger

just shows me. It's like nails on a chalkboard

or something. I do want to read the last paragraph

of the plot synopsis. They arrive at the ballroom

where Aurora is heavily reunited with her parents

and she and Prince Philip dance in waltz. They

do not notice as they dance, Merriweather and

Flora have resumed their disagreement over the

color of her dress and continue to change it

from blue to pink with their magic. As the book

closes, Aurora's gown continues to change colors.

One of the greatest things about these older

Disney films is the fairy tale storybook type

opening and closing. Yeah. Really enjoy that.

Oh, and I guess we kind of, when we were doing

that two -second synopsis of the entire movie,

we left one thing out, so I'll mention it real

quick, which I shouldn't have to because if anybody

hasn't seen this movie, I don't know what happened

in your life. You know, it's like, if he needs

a spoiler alert for a movie that was made in

1959, live and if you're a rock uh... we've we've

we forgot to mention at the beginning of the

film that uh... that the prince and and for those

are basically uh... or their marriage is arranged

at the beginning of it you know basically promise

to each other and that when he falls in love

with uh... brya rose he doesn't realize i think

that that's the print that so he does not want

to miss a couple of minutes briar road and and

the kind of a whole being throughout the movie

of him not realizing that or she realizing that

there one in the bank it's kind of like the whole

clark kent superman thing without glasses really

exactly uh... going through some of the i'm not

going to read all this trivia it's just I'm not

going to read any of it because I don't have

it. I don't have it, so actually we could technically

really skip all the damn trivia, but a flamethrower

was used to create the dragon breath sound effect

for the climax of the movie. Castanets were used

for the sound of it snapping jaws. Oh, that's

kind of cool. Yeah, I didn't realize that. The

elaborate background paintings usually took seven

to ten days to paint. By contrast, typical animation

background takes one work day to complete. Second

only to Dumbo in 1941, who didn't speak at all,

this Disney title character has very few lines

of actual dialogue throughout the entire film,

which is actually about the three fairies who

protect her, not about the Sleeping Beauty herself.

Rose Aurora is only featured in the film, very

few scenes, and hardly ever says anything. She

doesn't utter a single word in the second half

of the film, neither before or after she falls

under the spell. Her first line comes 19 minutes

into the film and her last line comes 30 minutes.

39 minutes into the film. However, she doesn't

sing two songs during that time Castle was named

for this film even though the park opened four

years prior to the film's release The hell's

name at damn castle I don't know. It's not magic.

I know Magic Kingdom is the Disney World. I don't

know The little -known second half of the original

Sleeping Beauty fable involves the prince's attempts

to protect Sleeping Beauty and their children

from his mother who is an ogres. In the end,

of course, she is thwarted and jumps into a pond

of live serpents to avoid being killed by her

own son. That would have been awful! I don't

think I ever want to read that. It wasn't bad

in a future movie. That's a part left out of

that one that they'll incorporate into a future

movie. Um, let's see. Uh, you already mentioned

that. Uh, after she is told that she is betrothed,

Princess Aurora has no lines whatsoever. So bizarre.

In the original fable, Princess Aurora is the

result of a spell cast on the Queen by a magical

fish that she had thrown back into a pond after

it wound up f***ing on the bank. Uh, hmm. Can

you say strek anybody? That's awful. uh... and

honestly don't no i'm not going to read any of

the continuity groups because it's you're supposed

to enjoy the film you know i understand where

we're reviewing it here but you know to cast

is more about remembering it than actually dissecting

the damn thing uh... review all right wants plotholes

A spinning wheel that put Aurora to sleep was

not real, but the shadow of one. Technically,

because of that, she shouldn't have activated

the curse due to false properties. And again,

as we said before, the entire musical score was

done by the... Yeah, the Berlin Symphony Orchestra.

Much of the music score also is based on Tchaikovsky's

Ballet Sleeping Beauty. So going into the legacy

segment here. For the theatrical release, Disney's

distribution Arm Buena Vista Distribution originally

released Sleeping Beauty to theaters in both

standard 35mm prints and large format 70mm prints.

The Super Technorama 70 prints were equipped

with 6 -track stereo phonic sound. Some CinemaScope

compatible 35mm Technorama prints were released

in 4 -track stereo. On the initial run, Sleeping

Beauty was paired with the short musical documentary

film Grand Canyon, which won an Academy Award.

During its original release in 1959, Sleeping

Beauty earned approximately 48 million dollars,

making it second only to Ben Hur and costing

an enormous budget of 6 million dollars. often

citing the film being slowly paced and having

little character development. Nevertheless, the

film has sustained a strong following, obviously,

and it's today hailed as one of the best animated

features ever made, thanks to the painting and

its music score and its stereophonic sound presentation.

And there's no shortage of releases for this

one. Not only did we have the 1959 re -released

theatrically in 1970, 1979, 1986, 1993, 1995,

and 1998. Not wrong. I'm sorry, 2008. In 2008,

when adjusted for ticket price inflation, the

domestic total gross comes out to... $478 .22

million, placing it on the top 30 of adjusted

films. As far as the home video releases, Sleeping

Beauty was released on both VHS, Betamax, and

Laserdisc in 1986, in the Classics collection,

becoming the first Disney Classics video to be

digitally processed in Hi -Fi stereo. The film

underwent a digital restoration in 1997 and that

version was released to both VHS and Laserdisc,

again as part of the masterpiece collection.

The 1997 VHS edition also came with a special

commemorative booklet, included with brief facts

in the making of the movie. In 2003, the restored

Sleeping Beauty was released to DVD in a two

-disc special edition. Now, alright, people need

to pay attention when they're listening to these

releases for DVD. The 2003 version is the two

disc special edition which included both a widescreen

version formatted at 2 .35 colon 1 and pan and

scan version as well. A 50th anniversary Platinum

Edition release of Sleeping Beauty as a 2 -disc

DVD and Blu -ray disc was released October 7,

2008 in the U .S., making Sleeping Beauty the

first entry in the Platinum Edition line to be

released in High Definition Video. This release

is based upon a new 2007 restoration of Sleeping

Beauty from the original Technicolor negatives.

Intra -positives, several generations removed

from the original negative, were used for other

home video releases. The new restoration features

the film in its full negative aspect ratio of

2 .55, wider than both prints shown at the film's

original limited Technorama engagements. The

Blu -ray set features BD Live, an online feature,

and extras include a virtual castle, multiplayer

games. The Blu -ray release also includes disc

one of the DVD version of the film. In addition

to the two Blu -ray discs, the DVD was released

on October 27, 2008 in the UK. The Blu -ray release

is the first ever released on the Blu -ray format

of any Disney DVD feature produced by Walt Disney

himself. Sorry about that ding. I got a notification

from my wireless mouse saying that the batteries

are low. Obviously, you can see Cinderella everywhere.

She has basically filtered through pop culture.

Most notably, probably for today's youth or even

today's 20 -year -olds like us, you can see a

lot of it in the Kingdom Hearts games in different

versions. Kingdom Hearts, Birth by Sleep, the

regular Kingdom Hearts, Kingdom Hearts 2. There's

just all kinds. Actually, Kingdom Hearts Birth

by Sleep will feature a world based on just this

movie. Confirmed characters are Aurora, Malphys

and the Three Fairies, Prince Philip. So you

can see a lot of those characters show up in

that video game. Yes. Princess Aurora, Prince

Philip, Flora Fauna, and Merriweather were featured

as guests in Disney's House of Mouse, and Maleficent

was one of the villains in Mickey's House of

Villains. Maleficent's goons appear in the Maroon

cartoon -steal lot in the film Who Framed Roger

Rabbit. First all -new story featuring the characters

from the movie appeared in Disney Princess and

Chanted Tales Follow Your Dreams, the first volume

of collection of the Disney Princesses. It was

released on September 4th, 2007. Various characters

from the film also appear in the board game of

the same name. There was actually theme parks.

Sleeping Beauty was made while Walt Disney was

building Disneyland, hence four -year production

to time. To help promote the film, Imagineers

named the park's icon Sleeping Beauty Castle.

Honestly, for me, I know that Disneyland out

in California is the first park that he built.

But Walt Disney World in Florida is the only

one I recognize. An indoor walkthrough. Honestly,

I really don't care about any of these damn parts.

You can see them in all kinds of different parts.

That's all there is to it. Yeah, pretty much.

So, going into the closing and final thoughts,

what are your final thoughts on this? Like I

said before, I think you can sum it up for me

like this. As far as the original fairy tale

Disney movies, this is the best one because it's

more enjoyable for the male audience. It might

not be the favorite one for females out there.

I don't know. I'd have to poll them. But even

though it's the best out of the original fairy

tales, I wouldn't put it up there. I'm a guy.

I like my Jungle Book. I like some of the other

later Disney movies better. It was what it was

at the time and I think it's better than Snow

White. I think it's better than Cinderella. How

beautiful. and you like Disney films, I would

recommend this one. I would highly recommend,

before it goes out of print and you have to end

up paying over $50 for it, I would recommend

you get the 50th Anniversary Platinum 2 -Disc

Edition. It's got tons of bonus features on it.

It's very cool. I'm looking at it right now.

You know how a lot of these DVDs have that It's

not really lenticular packaging, but it's that

it's that slip case. It's the sleeve this one.

It's Embossed like the like the wall like the

castle is embossed the dragon and the fire coming

out of the dragon The fairies are embossed on

it. The title is embossed on it It's just a very

very cool cover I mean, you know, of course most

people don't buy DVDs just for the cover obviously

but Two disc editions are the way to go unless

you're going to go blue. Which, yeah, I have

yet to go blue yet. But anyway, that's another

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