After Snow White and Cinderella, it is finally time to comment on the last princess among the three princesses-Sleeping Beauty. This also means that we will officially enter the Renaissance era of princess movies starting from the evaluation of the lower princess movies, and there is no need to make a fuss about the terrible feminist performance of princesses who lack mobility.
However, in this article, we still have to be patient and comment on the princess movie that has the least amount of time to show her face in the film and is also the most sleepy princess movie as the name suggests-"Sleeping Beauty".
As we all know, the movie "Sleeping Beauty" is now the biggest dark history in the Disney princess movie series, so that Disney dared not get involved in the princess movie series for 20 to 30 years after Sleeping Beauty was brutally defeated in Waterloo. Therefore, the film has too many slots both in the historical sense and in the film itself. In order not to turn this article into a hostile criticism, at the beginning of the article, I plan to praise Sleeping Beauty. The part that is really worthy of praise.
First of all, Disney never disappoints in its art style. Perhaps inspired by the Disneyland castle project based on the Sleeping Beauty Castle during the same period, the scenes in this film are set to make people truly live in a magical country shrouded in curses and magic. Unlike the previous two princess movies, the backgrounds of the castles, forests, and barren mountains in "Sleeping Beauty" are mostly drawn in a realistic style. With the careful sculpting of Disney artists, this realistic style is highly saturated with the characters in the film. The degree of color matching just formed a wonderful sense of fusion . Therefore, among the three previous princess movies, "Sleeping Beauty" is also the one that makes people feel the atmosphere of the magic kingdom most immersively. Friends who are interested in the style of "Sleeping Beauty" can go to station B to watch a short documentary about the behind-the-scenes story of Sleeping Beauty "Four Artists Drawing a Tree" (av2117610), and then enjoy the background of "Sleeping Beauty" The trees must have a different feeling.
Secondly, Disney has established a villain in this movie that will be memorable for all children-Melly Fisent . Unlike Snow White’s queen who chased Snow White out of jealousy, Melly Ficent’s evil deeds in "Sleeping Beauty" were almost mostly motivated by "pure evil" . This unreasonable evil deserves her. Moody words and deeds-the first second seems to be talking to the subordinates, the next second is the thunder and the fire, the first second is grinning and said that I am going to give the little princess a gift and the next second will start to curse her death-more It makes people feel terrified as soon as they see her, for fear that they will become a sacrifice to her dark magic in the next second.
In the previous evaluation of "Snow White", I mentioned that the queen's transformation scene is one of the childhood shadows of many children, but compared to Melly Fiscent, it can only be regarded as a little insignificant. In the segment of Meli Ficent's appearance in the castle to lure Aurora to the tower, Meli Ficent's facial features flashed in the dark, even when I see it now, it feels like a chill. In most of the animations of that era, the villains would more or less have some funny and joking elements in their appearance to ease the fear of the children-such as Captain Hook in Peter Pan, and the Little Mermaid. Ursula, villains like Jia Fang also have the gloomy aura of the parrots who are responsible for selling cute parrots to dilute the villains themselves.
But Melly Fisent also continued her "pure evil" design policy in appearance design. The villain who makes people completely intimacy and only fearful is probably the only "Sleeping Beauty". Because of this, until now, in Disney's villain lineup, whether it is in performances at Disneyland or in other video game settings including Kingdom Hearts, Melly Fisent has been among the Disney villains. Number one.
In the live-action remake of Maleficent, in order to add personality to this villain in addition to “pure evil”, Disney boldly set the live-action heroine as Merrie Fisent (despite the female character in the original). The Lord is not the Sleeping Beauty), and added a world view complement, allowing Melie Ficent to transform from the crystallization of pure evil to a three-dimensional villain who is born of love and is ultimately influenced by love. As a result, Melly Fisent has completely secured the top spot among the most popular Disney villains.
Although Sleeping Beauty is mediocre in terms of plot and mediocre in creating an impressive image of a princess, at least it has left behind the two legacy of Sleeping Beauty Castle in Disneyland and the most popular villain Merly Fisent. It can also be regarded as a representative of the alternative contributions in the Disney princess movies .
Having finished talking about the two advantages of "Sleeping Beauty," let's now talk about the shortcomings of this movie, which is widely criticized.
The biggest problem with this movie is that the sleeping beauty's sense of existence is too weak . In the 75-minute movie, Aurora’s appearance time may be only about 20 minutes, and most of the shots that include her, she is either singing and dancing, or her behavior is controlled by Melie Fiscent. . Aurora contributed very few valuable dialogues in the film. Like Snow White mentioned earlier, when a nominal protagonist cannot make effective action choices in the main story of the film, This film does not say that the narrative is completely broken, at least it will make the audience lose part of the ability to keep up with the narrative rhythm in the process of identifying who the real protagonist is.
Corresponding to the marionette-like Aurora are the three fairies who have become the real protagonist(s) of the film . Whether it’s the origin of the film’s core conflict-the bargaining over Aurora's Sleeping Curse, or the outbreak of the first crisis-the fairies conflict when they use magic and they are discovered by Merrie Fiscent, and finally the crisis In terms of the solution-the fairies command the prince to defeat Melie Fisent. The clues of the fairies' behavior are undoubtedly the skeleton of the narrative of the entire film. This setting is obviously an absolute flaw in the princess film, and in the subsequent princess film. , Even if the movie adopts a dual protagonist setting (Rapunzel, Frozen, etc.), even Aladdin, whose hero is the first protagonist and the princess as the second protagonist, has never appeared in the role of a princess. The scene over which the real protagonist overrides. In this respect, the plot setting in which "Sleeping Beauty", a princess who is the biggest selling point, turned into a supporting role, is similar to the film fraud performed by today's "Love Apartment" and others who play tomb notes with an IP skin. The similarities are the same. Under the vicious fermentation of word-of-mouth, the box office violent death can be imagined.
Finally, a digression, when it comes to fairies, I have to mention Sleeping Beauty's costume . Although the sleeping beauty you see now is wearing a very representative pink princess dress when appearing on various occasions, in the film, the color of the princess's dress has always been in the dynamic change of pink and pink blue: Fairy The first version of the skirt we made was pink. After that, the blue fairy and the red fairy started arguing about the color of the skirt; when Aurora was lured to the tower by Melly Ficent, the skirt was pink; in the end In the ball scene where Aurora and the prince reunited, the color of Aurora's dress continued to change during the quarrel between the two fairies. Therefore, judging from the information given in the film, there is no official conclusion about the color of Sleeping Beauty's skirt. Even because the Sleeping Beauty’s skirt was fixed in pink-blue when she was asleep, it’s okay to think that its color was officially certified as pink-blue, but why is it now officially certified as pink? This is the biggest problem that puzzled me in the "Sleeping Beauty" movie. If anyone knows the whole story, please share and exchange in the comments.
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