The original sleepy princess tale is here and in Goodtimes form! But beware the terrifying origins of this fairy tale... it's pretty messed up. phelous.com / phelous
I actually kind of love Odelia's design, or at least the base concept. Other fairies are inspired by butterflies, and she resembles a wasp. That's pretty cool.
To defend the Disney version, all Maleficent says is “Before the sun sets on her sixteenth birthday,” so Aurora could’ve pricked her finger at any point before then to activate the curse.
Let me get this straight, Prince Richard here is a blonde hair, blue eyed, sword wielding young teen who wears a green tunic with a super smart horse and needs magic to save a princess and gets help from a talking fairy? Huh... I see no connections here.
It's ironic that Goodtimes/Golden Films, who tend to use public domain orchestra scores in their animated fairy tale adaptions, didn't bother to include Tchaikovsky's "Sleeping Beauty" ballet score for this adaption.
Maybe they didn't want to risk getting sued by Disney for plagiarism as they also use Tchaikovsky's music albeit rearranged, but if they use the original music they should've been fine, but it's more likely they just didn't know about it and didn't bother.
Reminds me of when Disney tried to sue them for their mockbusters being released around the same time as the video release of their adaptations. They lost because the stories were public domain.
* keyboard theme plays, backed up by the usual castanets * Tuxedo Kamen Richard: *Getting in the way of a couple's Felicity, is the manifestation of a black heart unable to nurture love! Sarabada!* (oh wait, I am supposed to kiss the sleeping one, that's right)
Gründer Honestly is there a way to watch anime in ANY capacity without being called a weeb? It’s really gotten to the point where I can’t even eat sushi without being called a weeb. Call me old fashioned, but I thought weeboo was described as someone so obsessed with Japanese culture and media that they rejected their own natively. Now even to those who a passing interest or like anything from Japan, you’re a weeb...
Also, Primrose says the sleep will last "100 years and a day". Then she says "On that 101st day..." It's 100 years. That would be a lot more than 101 days.
@@TheBranMan100 And then breaks the internet with help of fairy tale princesses. When I think of it, Ralph and Shrek are similar. Both are considered to be monsters and want to be something more. And also both have Disney/Fairy tale princesses for sidekicks in one of their movies.
"She will have music wherever she goes" - damn, that means she has her own soundtrack constantly accompanying her? That's not a gift, that is a curse... imagine trying to do anything while always being accompanied by music. Like sleeping...
I used to have a Sleeping Beauty book that included the seven fairies thing, and the reasoning used for the sleep being 100 years was that the seventh fairy was the weakest and therefore couldn't totally undo the curse. It actually makes sense... y'know, when it's explained. Also, the ogre mother thing is great and it's a shame it's never used. My favorite version ends with the mother being thrown into a basin of poisonous snakes that they just had lying around.
I thought every castle had a basin of poisonous snakes lying around just in case they needed it. Because I mean that is the most essential thing to have in your castle.
But after 100 years military technology had advanced significantly and the kingdom was soon conquered by a neighboring warlord. They had the Royal Family killed...
They did not kill the entire royal family...the undying sleeping princess became a top attraction at the museum they built to celebrate their kingdom's latest expansion
The original fairy tale(s) included either the kingdom or the castle being protected from the world by either a wall of fire, or an almost impenetrable hedge. It even has princes killed by thorns until the 100 years are over. In the Pentamerone, it was also just the princess that fell asleep, not anyone else - and the king built seperate a castle to house her from then on.
To be fair (not that it excuses him ) he did genuinely love her and her kids as well as she loved him. He was also very protective of them. ( Of course it doesn’t excuse his actions, but maybe back in the Middle Ages, it was a redemption? )
@@ember9361 I may recommend 2015 "Tale of Tales" as a movie that adapts some fairy tales sticking to their original darker tones, which is why the movie is R rated.
@@DeepEye1994 I think it says it all when the promo poster is Salma Hayek chowing down on a giant heart *shudders* yuck! I do love what that movie did with adapting the darker tales though.
Honestly the best part of the movie is Odelia’s dress design. Seriously her dress is the most interesting thing in the movie...I don’t even remember anything else.
Considering Prince Richard and the narrator are clearly the same person, it's obvious this story was being told by him and he just made all the other princes seem incompetent. Which also means more typecasting since that's the same prince as in Cinderella and Snow White, just as Snow White and Cinderella are the same voice as Felicity and I'm sarting to think there's some kind of Triforce-ish reincarnation scheme going on. Guess Odelia, Stepmother and Evil Queen are Ganon.
Also, with the way the curse is worded, it could even be making her completely immortal until that day, so she would need protection from *absolutely nothing* for those first 16 years.
The one plothole that seems to persist across all versions of the Sleeping Beauty tale seems to be the fact that, despite being told the exact date the curse will take effect, everyone always deals with it by carefully protecting the princess the whole time _leading up_ to the deadline, only for her to somehow end up unattended on the day-of. So what if there was a Sleeping Beauty story where, instead of being cursed at birth, the princess (or whoever) angers the evil fairy herself _as an adult,_ and when the fairy curses her with death, it starts taking effect immediately, causing her to slowly fade away and get weaker over the course of days or weeks, with the fateful day being when it overtakes her completely. In the meantime, her family tries everything they can to cure her, but nothing works. Then the good fairy arrives and says they can help, but the best they can do is soften the enchantment from one of death to 100 years of sleep and yadda yadda the rest goes on as usual.
I have another idea! What if the reason the “death” curse takes effect from the spinning wheel is because Sleeping Beauty took a page from Arachne’s book and boasted to the evil fairy about how much a better weaver she is than her, and this is what causes her to be cursed? Great, now using both of these ideas, I wanna write my own version of the Sleeping Beauty tale, if you give permission that is.
i mean or if the witch didn't give a heads up about the date of the death, that would explain the preventive measures instead of taking more active ones
So... is the movie going to explain WHY they thought Odelia is dead? I mean... they seemed so sure, it is almost like they might have had a hand in it.
@@TheSeptet I mean sure, but the other fairies seemed perfectly content to sit on their butts for a good 100 years and a day. Their social calendar can't be that full.
I remember reading in one version that she hadn't left her house on some far off secluded mountain in over 50 years, and that was why the humans thought she was dead. As king, I personally would have asked the other fairies if they too thought she was dead, just to be on the safe side
Very funny review! And thanks for the great introduction to the sleeping beauty lore! I think the line from the prince about him and princess Felicity being happy together was a reference to the name Felicity which stems from Latin Felicitas meaning happiness. Regarding the stupid reason the evil fairy was not invited. In an old East German Sleeping Beauty movie they even had a better reason to not invite the evil fairy. The king only had 12 golden plates and 12 sets of golden cuttlery, thus he couldn't invit the thirteenth fairy, because he didn't want to offer her a common plate and cuttlery.
Yeah, it was definitely referring to her name meaning but it's still a silly assumption that means she'd be happy with him, haha. Sounds like the king should have just used different plates and utensils for everyone then. Silly King.
My favorite version of that scene is where they didn't invite her on purpose (because evil curses tend to always work out), but she ended up having such a great time at the party that she decided not to lay her curse. Much to the parent's dismay.
And this King who owns a whole country with an army, a huge castle with thousands of peasants to tax, couldn’t have just gotten another golden plate and cutlery?
@@brandonlyon730 The royal blacksmith requires a 3 months notice previous to any gold based work, also he is the only one on the kingdom allowed to work gold for economy reasons...what is that? too much sense? ok then
“Odelia, you don’t understand! We would have invited you but we had already used the fancy China on your coworkers!” “OH SO *THEY* GET THE FANCY CHINA! YOUR DAUGHTER SHALL BE *DOUBLE* CURSED!”
I gotta say, I'd like to see the concept of a man falling for a sleeping enchantress done right. It's all in the execution. For instance, give the sleeping one the power to intrude in dreams, where the relationship would start by pure coincidence and build up. It's nice and all, but the man resists as he thinks it's all a fantasy of his mind, so one day the enchantress discloses her secret location despite the high risk of being spotted by her evil, possessive captor who is also in love with her. Upon seeing how her body instinctively react at his approach, the chosen one is finally convinced that this love relationship real, so he kneels, grabs her hand and weep for being so lacking in faith. But before he can make any further move to wake her up, the captor interrupts the scene and there is a climactic fight between the two. Yeah, I think the only way to have this work out as not too creepy, is if the sleeping one is initiating the first move in some magical way.
It's kinda like the first arc in Clannad works, but more in a platonic way: Fuko, a girl who got in a coma after she got into an accident, projects herself into the school, befriends people, and gives everyone carved wooden sea stars so they do not forget her, else she disappears. Again, nobody sexually assaults her sleeping body, I guess it's the key to make a story like that work.
I'm under impression that Perrault version of Sleeping Beauty does actually have the princess dream of the prince while she is sleeping. That said, still pretty weird, but I guess its still step up from "complete strangers!" part most versions of the story has
@@KasumiRINA Clannad is visual novel/Nakige junk set in high school instead of a setting fit for a powerful tale. To boot, it ultimately concludes with emotionally manipulative melodrama later on. Even if we only taking into account this angle in the very first arc, it's still a macguffin that is not the core concept of the narrative * shrugs *
Great idea. Would it be too comedic if the Prince winds up tripping and falling on her thus making the kiss accidental? It would be another way to make it less creepy
That's actually an interesting idea, to have a group of fairies or magical science whatevers, alter a baby's or person's emotional spectrum to have traits and character, and the clashing of it could warp the baby's mindset where all those good things could have altered into corruption or even give them higher potential. Though that's kinda like Ella Enchanted who was given the "Gift of obedience"
At least the princess in the Disney version had an excuse for her poor decisions - none of the fairies gave her the gift of brain cells. Though that doesn't explain everyone else. Like, if the last fairy can just change the curse, couldn't she have changed it to "She will prick her finger, say ow, and get on with her day"?
Some people are saying it's the giant's nose Richard pokes with his sword but it really doesn't look like how his nose is drawn to me, plus he grabs at his eye afterwards. Maybe it is supposed to be his nose but it's weird it seems to blind him momentarily afterwards.
I think it's a nose, but just like anything else in these movies, it's not all that well drawn. The bump to the right side looks to be one of his nostrils, but in the close up shot it seems way more round than in the wide shot where it looks more pointy. *shrugs* I don't know if it's really worth debate. lol
"I, Aura, grant her the gift of beauty... 'cause we all know she ain't gonna get that from her genetics!" I know, right? That baby is ugly! Another hilarious review! So interesting that you took the time to delve into the... rather screwed up origins of this story. Golden Films also did their own take on Sleeping Beauty if you'd like to check that out at some point.
Y'know, it was a very weird decision to draw a realistic baby in line art style, surrounded by all those stylized anime fairies. That baby looks hideous!
Am I the only one who actually thought the idea of an evil fairy creating a gauntlet of traps... and seeing how each generation learned how to circumvent them and passing on that knowledge to the next... would have been FAR more interesting then just... The evil fairy had the "Anti-trap potion" next to the trap? I am honestly disappointed because I wanted to see how the last Prince cleverly got past the traps.
I feel like a lot of these kinda "weird curse rule" plots could be improved by just mentioning that the fairies and etc just have a strange sense of logic and pride over these things, and justify it by the fact theyre not human. Like for exampme here say that Odelia cant just blow up the castle cause not winning "properly" would feel worse than death to her.
Considering one fairy still had to bless the princess after she got cursed, why wouldn't this fairy bless her with stuff like enough intelligence to avoid touching pointy things ? Sounds like the problem could easily be fixed/avoided.
I read somewhere that the word "ogre" might be derived from a derogatory French word that refers to Hungarians, so imagine that instead of the prince having a child-eating ogre as a mother, she's a cannibalistic Hungarian. Does that make the story better or worse?
7:22 Coincidentally, this bit reminded me of a story very similar to Sleeping Beauty called "The Light Princess"(by George MacDonald). The princess there is literally cursed to be lighter than air, so she always has to be tethered to something on the ground so she doesn't float away.
I read the Zenescope comic version of Sleeping Beauty, and a few men tried to wake the princess with kisses, but because they did not love her, they instead melted. A servant who did love her manages to wake her and becomes engaged toh er, but the princess did not love him back and was cheating on him so when he found out he declared he no longer loved her, which caused him to melt and the princess fell back asleep. After that no man risked kissing her and she woke up much much later as an old woman.
What's funny is that in the disney version, The king and queen did in fact send Malificent a invite, but it got lost in the mail. This is according to some book of Disney Villains they released in the 90s.
13:29 Holy crap, that adlibbing Phelous did here with the princess had me gasping for breath I laughed so hard. I'm giggling so much right now just remembering it.
15:33 - 'I'm mean, I was ageing like a normal person, but now I have extra 100 years of life as eternal beauty and I know that nothing can kill me. Who cares if that bimbo get Her Prince or not, I already win. '
Yeah, the entire castle being put to sleep is pretty bad for anyone with loved ones outside the castle, but I think I feel worse for said loved ones. For crying out loud, in one day the entire royal family, royal court and probably a huge chunk of the bureaucracy and military were effectively killed! That's gonna be one heck of an invasion from all sides at once...
He still hasn’t done Britannica’s Sleeping Beauty or Cinderella. I’d love to see both. (In their Cinderella, Cinderella and her stepfamily live in a New York-ish city.)
Oh my, you actually referenced a cartoon from the Encyclopedia Britannica's Familiar Tales Around The World. I think, you possibly can review those short cartoons (I saw your review on Beaty and the Beast from this series and I like it). Honestly, I like this series. It's interesting to know about various fairy tales from the world and the Encyclopedia Britannica made a good project. I think the most interesting aspect of this series is variety. You know, they hired various animation studios, and imho they did pretty decent work animating them. Those short cartoons are an interesting example of 90's fairy tale adaptations. Well, I like your review and I love all the work you have done. I discovered so many obscure animation films. So, Thank You :D
Sprite is specifically the character from the animated series (and Miff from the Nintendo Comics System). You know those two fairy fountains that heal you in the first Legend of Zelda game? Those fairies are named Miff and Sprite, according to these adaptations, and Sprite has a crush on Link.
So, um, this looks familiar in a different sense. A blond man in a green tunic risking his life to save the endangered princess from a powerful, dark magic, being. ....huh
When I was really young I read a version of the story where the prince was actually the son of the evil fairy and a random king she enchanted. Tbh I'm disappointed no other retelling seems to have done this.
Actually, in the original story of Snow White she was more comatose than asleep, also the "curse" - it was less of a curse and more of just the poison kept her in a coma and the apple got trapped in her throat making hard for her to breath so she seemed dead-was "broken" when the Prince had his servants take her coffin to be buried but one tripped and the coffin fell down a hill which removed the apple from Snow's throat. It was changed by Disney to be more family friendly more love based and this has become the version most people know about
I can't believe some guy made Sleeping Beauty have twins only for the babies to get stolen by a random harpy and was like "Yep this is good. I'm a great author. Alexa send post. "
Hahaha! Agreed, but I tend to think it's by those folk who like to get the desired exclusiveness and the first sex and the preggers/proof of virility/fertility/adulthood and then think... "Wait, this isn't fun. Let's ret-con and write One More Day instead."
I always really liked the baby party scene in the Disney version; you don't see her as an infant, you just assume there's a baby there and that she's beautiful. It makes the Prince's reaction to seeing his future bride especially funny - he looks so weirded out. Here, she looks like a little goblin.
She was blessed by the Gift of Besuty, which gave her golden hair, rose-red lips and violet eyes. We'll never what she would have looked like without that gift.
Personally, I feel the opposite, I always disliked that the Disney version didn't show her as an infant. Whenever an animated production doesn't show the actual baby and instead just shows the swaddling or whatever, it usually feels like a lazy cheat. I get why it was done in the case of Disney's The Hunchback Of Notre Dame, and I wouldn't mind if that sort of thing was done in live-action, but with animation, I find it interesting to compare how a character looks and acts at different ages, like with the main character of Tarzan. So unless it was budgetary reasons or something like that, there isn't really much excuse as to why the talented artists at Disney couldn't have done at least one little scene showing her as an infant, just so we can see what she looks like compared to her older self, or even why Philip reacted the way he did. Even putting that aside, we don't even hear her crying or making noises or see any indication that she's moving or even there. For all we know, they could have been holding a flour sack wrapped in cloth. At least in Hunchback, we could hear the child so we actually knew he was there. In Sleeping Beauty, it's almost like she doesn't even really exist until we skip forward to sixteen years. But yeah, I do agree that the Jetlag version has a really ugly looking baby that falls right into the Uncanny Valley.
@@0deadx21 True, but it's weirder to me that they showed us the baby here and then her appearance stays the same after the spell, I suppose assuming that it works over time. Granted I get why people find the gift giving scene problematic, I'll always enjoy my early Disney days.
@@maniacaldude "Uncanny valley baby", haha well put. I understand that perspective on the Dinsey version, they did have some budgetary limitations in the 1980s but I wonder if in the Sleeping Beauty production, it was just an artistic choice? Maybe laziness as well. I just find Prince Philip's reaction to be hilarious and relatable at the age where you don't find babies cute, and I can't imagine he was impressed being betrothed to an infant. We also do see much of the baby in Lady and the Tramp either - maybe people were uncomfortable with a baby being threatened in animation? I have no idea.
In my opinion, if you are reading/watching a fairy tale you should really suspend any logical thinking and just go with it, or else you'll only get a terrible headache (or a really funny review, if you are Phelous).
Weirdly and sadly, there is precedent for this in the real world. There was just recently a report of a woman who was in a years long coma who suddenly gave birth after having been raped months before by her nurse. It's not "sleeping" as we would know it, but it is very similar to this story line.
@@IreneShardaForever I always assumed the "magical sleep" IS a coma, but fairy tales generally don't focus on their literal meaning, rather being metaphors for Freudian conflicts... That's why they are full of Oedipal themes, cannibalism and murder. So the sleeping beauty's sleep represents something different. Some psychoanalysts I read (I think it was Eric Berne) interpreted the story as the wait for climax of an unmarried woman.
By that same token, how could you swallow a bit of poisoned apple, but be brought back to life by the small chunk you bit being dislodged from your throat via unintentional Heimlich Maneuver? Classic fairytales normally weren't very big on logic...mainly because most of them were written during a time when Science was seen as the work of the Devil.
I liked it when Terry Pratchett joked about this fairy tale in Wyrd Sisters. How "Black Alice" didn't put the whole kingdom to sleep, she just messed with time and moved the kingdom into the future because it was easier. She later bosted about sending the kingdom to sleep to pat her ego.
12:46 everyone's afraid she'd die of loneliness when she has over 1 minute alone time. She's not as tough as the Beast who can survive 1 week without Beauty.
