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| Sleeping Beauty, statue in Wuppertal – Germany |
Sunday, January 29, 2023
Sleeping Beauty: In art 4
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| Book cover for a Dutch interpretation of the story by Johann Georg van Caspel |
Sleeping Beauty: In art 1
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| Perrault's La Belle au bois dormant (Sleeping Beauty), illustration by Gustave Doré |
Sleeping Beauty: In video games
Kingdom Hearts is a video game in which Maleficent is one of the main antagonists and Aurora is one of the Princesses of Heart together with the other Disney princesses.
Little Briar Rose (2019) is a point-and-click adventure inspired by the Brothers Grimm's version of the fairy tale.
SINoALICE (2017) is a mobile Gacha game which features Sleeping Beauty as one of the main player controlled characters and features in her own dark story-line which follows her unending desire to sleep, as well as crossing over with the other fairy-tale characters featured in the game.
Video game series Dark Parables adapted the tale as the plot of its first game, Curse of Briar Rose (2010).
Sleeping Beauty: In music
La Belle au Bois Dormant (1825), an opera by Michele Carafa.
La belle au bois dormant (1829), a ballet in four acts with book by Eugène Scribe, composed by Ferdinand Hérold and choreographed by Jean-Louis Aumer.
The Sleeping Beauty (1890), a ballet by Tchaikovsky.
Dornröschen (1902), an opera by Engelbert Humperdinck.
Pavane de la Belle au bois dormant (1910), the first movement of Ravel's Ma mère l'Oye.
The Sleeping Beauty (1992), song on album Clouds by the Swedish band Tiamat.
Sleeping Beauty Wakes (2008), an album by the American musical trio GrooveLily.
There Was A Princess Long Ago, a common nursery rhyme or singing game typically sung stood in a circle with actions, retells the story of Sleeping Beauty in a summarised song.
Sleeping Beauty The Musical (2019), a two act musical with book and lyrics by Ian Curran and music by Simon Hanson and Peter Vint.
Hex (2021), an upcoming musical with book by Tanya Ronder, music by Jim Fortune and lyrics by Rufus Norris due to open at the Royal National Theatre in December 2021.
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| The Sleeping Beauty, ballet Emily Smith |
Sleeping Beauty: In literature
Sleeping Beauty (1830) and The Day-Dream (1842), two poems based on Sleeping Beauty by Alfred, Lord Tennyson.
The Rose and the Ring (1854), a satirical fantasy by William Makepeace Thackeray.
The Sleeping Beauty (1919), a poem by Mary Carolyn Davies about a failed hero who did not waken the princess, but died in the enchanted briars surrounding her palace.
The Sleeping Beauty (1920), a retelling of the fairy tale by Charles Evans, with illustrations by Arthur Rackham.
Briar Rose (Sleeping Beauty) (1971), a poem by Anne Sexton in her collection Transformations (1971), in which she re-envisions sixteen of the Grimm's Fairy Tales.
The Sleeping Beauty Quartet (1983-2015), four erotic novels written by Anne Rice under the pen name A.N. Roquelaure, set in a medieval fantasy world and loosely based on the fairy tale.
Beauty (1992), a novel by Sheri S. Tepper.
Briar Rose (1992), a novel by Jane Yolen.
Enchantment (1999), a novel by Orson Scott Card based on the Russian version of Sleeping Beauty.
Spindle's End (2000), a novel by Robin McKinley.
Clementine (2001), a novel by Sophie Masson.
A Kiss in Time (2009), a novel by Alex Flinn.
The Sleeper and the Spindle (2012), a novel by Neil Gaiman.
The Gates of Sleep (2012), a novel by Mercedes Lackey from the Elemental Masters series set in Edwardian England.
Sleeping Beauty: The One Who Took the Really Long Nap (2018), a novel by Wendy Mass and the second book in the Twice Upon a Time series features a princess named Rose who pricks her finger and falls asleep for 100 years.
The Sleepless Beauty (2019), a novel by Rajesh Talwar setting the story in a small kingdom in the Himalayas.
Lava Red Feather Blue (2021), a novel by Molly Ringle involving a male/male twist on the Sleeping Beauty story.
Malice (2021), a novel by Heather Walter told by the Maleficent character's (Alyce's) POV and involving a woman/woman love story.
Misrule (2022), a novel by Heather Walter and sequel to Malice.
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| Illustration to Tennyson's 1830 poem, Sleeping Beauty |
Sleeping Beauty Media
"Sleeping Beauty" has been popular for many fairytale fantasy retellings. Some examples are listed below:
In film and television
The Sleeping Princess (1939), a Walter Lantz Productions animated short parodying the original fairy tale.
A loose adaptation can be seen in a scene from the propaganda cartoon Education for Death, where Sleeping Beauty is a valkyrie representing Nazi Germany, and where the prince is replaced with Fuehrer Adolf Hitler in knights' armor. The short also parodies Richard Wagner's opera Siegfried.
Prinsessa Ruusunen (1949), a Finnish film directed by Edvin Laine and scored with Erkki Melartin's incidental music from 1912.
Dornröschen (1955), a West German film directed by Fritz Genschow.
Sleeping Beauty (1959), a Walt Disney animated film based on both Charles Perrault and the Brother's Grimm's versions. Featuring the original voices of Mary Costa as Princess Aurora, the Sleeping Beauty and Eleanor Audley as Maleficent.
Sleeping Beauty (Спящая красавица) (1964), a filmed version of the ballet produced by the Kirov Ballet along with Lenfilm studios, starring Alla Sizova as Princess Aurora.
Festival of Family Classics (1972-73), episode Sleeping Beauty, produced by Rankin/Bass and animated by Mushi Production.
Some Call It Loving (also known as Sleeping Beauty) (1973), directed by James B. Harris and starring Zalman King, Carol White, Tisa Farrow, and Richard Pryor, based on a short story by John Collier.
Manga Sekai Mukashi Banashi (1976-79), 10-minute adaptation.
Jak se budí princezny (1978), a Czechoslovakian film directed by Václav Vorlíček.
World Famous Fairy Tale Series (Sekai meisaku dōwa) (1975-83) has a 9-minute adaptation, later reused in the U.S. edit of My Favorite Fairy Tales.
Goldilocks and the Three Bears/Rumpelstiltskin/Little Red Riding Hood/Sleeping Beauty (1984), direct-to-video featurette by Lee Mendelson Film Productions.
Sleeping Beauty (1987), a direct-to-television musical film directed by David Irving.
The Legend of Sleeping Brittany (1989), an episode of Alvin & the Chipmunks based on the fairy tale.
Briar-Rose or The Sleeping Beauty (1990), a Japanese/Czechoslovakian stop-motion animated featurette directed by Kihachiro Kawamoto.
Britannica's Tales Around the World (1990-91), features three variations of the story.
An episode of the series Grimm's Fairy Tale Classics is dedicated to Princess Briar Rose.
A 1986 episode of Brummkreisel had Kunibert (Hans-Joachim Leschnitz) demanding that he and his friends Achim (Joachim Kaps), Hops and Mops enact the story of Sleeping Beauty. Achim first compromises by incorporating Sleeping Beauty into his lesson about days of the week, and then finally he allows Kunibert to have his way; Hops played the princess, Kunibert played the prince, Mops played the wicked fairy and Achim played the brambles.
World Fairy Tale Series (Anime sekai no dōwa) (1995), anime television anthology produced by Toei Animation, has half-hour adaptation.
Sleeping Beauty (1995), a Japanese-American direct-to-video film by Jetlag Productions.
Wolves, Witches and Giants (1995-99), episode Sleeping Beauty, season 1 episode 5.
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child (1995), episode Sleeping Beauty, the classic story is told with a Hispanic cast, when Rosita is cast into a long sleep by Evelina, and later awakened by Prince Luis.[51]
The Triplets (Les tres bessones/Las tres mellizas) (1997-2003), catalan animated series, season 1 episode 19.
Simsala Grimm (1999-2010), episode 9 of season 2.
Bellas durmientes (Sleeping Beauties) (2001), directed by Eloy Lozano, adapted from the Kawabata novel.
La belle endormie (The Sleeping Beauty) (2010), a film by Catherine Breillat.
Sleeping Beauty (2011), directed by Julia Leigh and starring Emily Browning, about a young girl who takes a sleeping potion and lets men have their way with her to earn extra money.[54]
Once Upon a Time (2011), an ABC TV show starring Sarah Bolger and Julian Morris.
Sleeping Beauty (2014), a film by Rene Perez.
Sleeping Beauty (2014), a film by Casper Van Dien.
Maleficent (2014), a Walt Disney live-action reimagining starring Angelina Jolie as Maleficent and Elle Fanning as Princess Aurora.[58]
Ever After High, episode Briar Beauty (2015), an animated Netflix series.
The Curse of Sleeping Beauty (2016), an American horror film directed by Pearry Reginald Teo.
Archie Campbell satirized the story with "Beeping Sleauty" in several Hee Haw television episodes.
Maleficent: Mistress of Evil (2019), a Walt Disney live-action sequel to Maleficent (2014).
Avengers Grimm (2015) portrays an adult Sleeping Beauty with superpowers.
Sleeping Beauty Interpretations
According to Maria Tatar, the Sleeping Beauty tale has been disparaged by modern-day feminists who consider the protagonist to have no agency and find her passivity to be offensive; some feminists have even argued for people to stop telling the story altogether.
Disney has received criticism for depicting both Cinderella and the Sleeping Beauty princess as "naïve and malleable" characters. Time Out dismissed the princess as a "delicate" and "vapid" character. Sonia Saraiya of Jezebel echoed this sentiment, criticizing the princess for lacking "interesting qualities", where she also ranked her as Disney's least feminist princess.[30] Similarly, Bustle also ranked the princess as the least feminist Disney Princess, with author Chelsea Mize expounding, "Aurora literally sleeps for like three quarters of the movie ... Aurora just straight-up has no agency, and really isn't doing much in the way of feminine progress." Leigh Butler of Tor.com went on to defend the character writing, "Aurora’s cipher-ness in Sleeping Beauty would be infuriating if she were the only female character in it, but the presence of the Fairies and Maleficent allow her to be what she is without it being a subconscious statement on what all women are." Similarly, Refinery29 ranked Princess Aurora the fourth most feminist Disney Princess because, "Her aunts have essentially raised her in a place where women run the game." Despite being featured prominently in Disney merchandise, "Aurora has become an oft-forgotten princess", and her popularity pales in comparison to those of Cinderella and Snow White.
An example of the cosmic interpretation of the tale given by the nineteenth century solar mythologist school appears in John Fiske's Myths and Myth-Makers: “It is perhaps less obvious that winter should be so frequently symbolized as a thorn or sharp instrument... Sigurd is slain by a thorn, and Balder by a sharp sprig of mistletoe; and in the myth of the Sleeping Beauty, the earth-goddess sinks into her long winter sleep when pricked by the point of the spindle. In her cosmic palace, all is locked in icy repose, naught thriving save the ivy which defies the cold, until the kiss of the golden-haired sun-god reawakens life and activity.”
Sleeping Beauty Variations
The princess's name has varied from one adaptation to the other. In Sun, Moon, and Talia, she is named Talia (Sun and Moon being her twin children). She has no name in Perrault's story but her daughter is called "Aurore". The Brothers Grimm named her "Briar Rose" in their 1812 collection. However, some translations of the Grimms' tale give the princess the name "Rosamond". Tchaikovsky's ballet and Disney's version named her Princess Aurora; however, in the Disney version, she is also called "Briar Rose" in her childhood, when she is being raised incognito by the good fairies.
Besides Sun, Moon, and Talia, Basile included another variant of this Aarne-Thompson type, The Young Slave, in his book, The Pentamerone. The Grimms also included a second, more distantly related one titled The Glass Coffin.
Italo Calvino included a variant in Italian Folktales. In his version, the cause of the princess's sleep is a wish by her mother. As in Pentamerone, the prince rapes her in her sleep and her children are born. Calvino retains the element that the woman who tries to kill the children is the king's mother, not his wife, but adds that she does not want to eat them herself, and instead serves them to the king. His version came from Calabria, but he noted that all Italian versions closely followed Basile's. In his More English Fairy Tales, Joseph Jacobs noted that the figure of the Sleeping Beauty was in common between this tale and the Romani tale The King of England and his Three Sons.
The hostility of the king's mother to his new bride is repeated in the fairy tale The Six Swans, and also features in The Twelve Wild Ducks, where the mother is modified to be the king's stepmother. However, these tales omit the attempted cannibalism.
Russian Romantic writer Vasily Zhukovsky wrote a versified work based on the theme of the princess cursed into a long sleep in his poem "Спящая царевна" ("The Sleeping Tsarevna" [ru]), published in 1832.
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| He stands—he stoops to gaze—he kneels—he wakes her with a kiss, woodcut by Walter Crane |
Sleeping Beauty Grimm Brothers' version
The Brothers Grimm included a variant of Sleeping Beauty, Little Briar Rose, in their collection (1812). Their version ends when the prince arrives to wake Sleeping Beauty (named Rosamund) and does not include the part two as found in Basile's and Perrault's versions. The brothers considered rejecting the story on the grounds that it was derived from Perrault's version, but the presence of the Brynhild tale convinced them to include it as an authentically German tale. Their decision was notable because in none of the Teutonic myths, meaning the Poetic and Prose Eddas or Volsunga Saga, are their sleepers awakened with a kiss, a fact Jacob Grimm would have known since he wrote an encyclopedic volume on German mythology. His version is the only known German variant of the tale, and Perrault's influence is almost certain. In the original Brothers Grimm's version, the fairies are instead wise women.
The Brothers Grimm also included, in the first edition of their tales, a fragmentary fairy tale, "The Evil Mother-in-law". This story begins with the heroine, a married mother of two children, and her mother-in-law who attempts to eat her and the children. The heroine suggests an animal be substituted in the dish, and the story ends with the heroine's worry that she cannot keep her children from crying and getting the mother-in-law's attention. Like many German tales showing French influence, it appeared in no subsequent edition.
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| Sleeping Beauty and the palace dwellers under a century-long sleep enchantment (The Sleeping Beauty by Sir Edward Burne-Jones). |
Sleeping Beauty Perrault's narrative
Perrault's narrative is written in two parts, which some folklorists believe were originally separate tales, as they were in the Brothers Grimm's version, and were later joined together by Giambattista Basile and once more by Perrault. According to folklore editors Martin Hallett and Barbara Karasek, Perrault's tale is a much more subtle and pared down version than Basile's story in terms of the more immoral details. An example of this is depicted in Perrault's tale by the prince's choice to instigate no physical interaction with the sleeping princess when the prince discovers her.
At the christening of a king and queen's long-wished-for child, seven good fairies are invited to be godmothers to the infant princess. The fairies attend the banquet at the palace. Each fairy is presented with a golden plate and drinking cups adorned with jewels. Soon after, an old fairy enters the palace and is seated with a plate of fine china and a crystal drinking glass. This old fairy is overlooked because she has been within a tower for many years and everyone had believed her to be deceased. Six of the other seven fairies then offer their gifts of beauty, wit, grace, dance, song, and goodness to the infant princess. The evil fairy is very angry about having been forgotten, and as her gift, curses the infant princess so that she will one day prick her finger on a spindle of a spinning wheel and die. The seventh fairy, who has not yet given her gift, attempts to reverse the evil fairy's curse. However, she can only do so partially. Instead of dying, the Princess will fall into a deep sleep for 100 years and be awakened by a king's son ("elle tombera seulement dans un profond sommeil qui durera cent ans, au bout desquels le fils d’un Roi viendra la réveiller"). This is her gift of protection.
The King orders that every spindle and spinning wheel in the kingdom be destroyed, to try to save his daughter from the terrible curse. Fifteen or sixteen years pass and one day, when the king and queen are away, the Princess wanders through the palace rooms and comes upon an old woman (implied to be the evil fairy in disguise), spinning with her spindle. The princess, who has never seen anyone spin before, asks the old woman if she can try the spinning wheel. The curse is fulfilled as the princess pricks her finger on the spindle and instantly falls into a deep sleep. The old woman cries for help and attempts are made to revive the princess. The king attributes this to fate and has the Princess carried to the finest room in the palace and placed upon a bed of gold and silver embroidered fabric. The king and queen kiss their daughter goodbye and depart, proclaiming the entrance to be forbidden. The good fairy who altered the evil prophecy is summoned. Having great powers of foresight, the fairy sees that the Princess will awaken to distress when she finds herself alone, so the fairy puts everyone in the castle to sleep. The fairy also summons a forest of trees, brambles and thorns that spring up around the castle, shielding it from the outside world and preventing anyone from disturbing the Princess.
A hundred years pass and a prince from another family spies the hidden castle during a hunting expedition. His attendants tell him differing stories regarding the castle until an old man recounts his father's words: within the castle lies a beautiful princess who is doomed to sleep for a hundred years until a king's son comes and awakens her. The prince then braves the tall trees, brambles and thorns which part at his approach, and enters the castle. He passes the sleeping castle folk and comes across the chamber where the Princess lies asleep on the bed. Struck by the radiant beauty before him, he falls on his knees before her. The enchantment comes to an end, the princess awakens and bestows upon the prince a look “more tender than a first glance might seem to warrant” (in Perrault's original French tale, the prince does not kiss the princess to wake her up) then converses with the prince for a long time. Meanwhile, the rest of the castle awakens and go about their business. The prince and princess are later married by the chaplain in the castle chapel.
After wedding the Princess in secret, the Prince continues to visit her and she bears him two children, Aurore (Dawn) and Jour (Day), unbeknownst to his mother, who is of an ogre lineage. When the time comes for the Prince to ascend the throne, he brings his wife, children, and the talabutte ("Count of the Mount").
The Ogress Queen Mother sends the young Queen and the children to a house secluded in the woods and directs her cook to prepare the boy with Sauce Robert for dinner. The kind-hearted cook substitutes a lamb for the boy, which satisfies the Queen Mother. She then demands the girl but the cook this time substitutes a kid, which also satisfies the Queen Mother. When the Ogress demands that he serve up the young Queen, the latter offers to slit her throat so that she may join the children that she imagines are dead. While the Queen Mother is satisfied with a hind prepared with Sauce Robert in place of the young Queen, there is a tearful secret reunion of the Queen and her children. However, the Queen Mother soon discovers the cook's trick and she prepares a tub in the courtyard filled with vipers and other noxious creatures. The King returns in the nick of time and the Ogress, her true nature having been exposed, throws herself into the tub and is fully consumed. The King, young Queen, and children then live happily ever after.
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| Sleeping Beauty is shown a spindle by the old woman. Sleeping Beauty, by Alexander Zick (1845–1907) |
Sleeping Beauty Basile's narrative
In Giambattista Basile's dark version of Sleeping Beauty, Sun, Moon, and Talia, the sleeping beauty is named Talia. By asking wise men and astrologers to predict her future after her birth, her father who is a great Lord learns that Talia will be in danger from a splinter of flax. The splinter later causes what appears to be Talia's death; however, it is later learned that it is a long, deep sleep. After Talia falls into deep sleep, she is seated on a velvet throne and her father, to forget his misery of what he thinks is her death, closes the doors and abandons the house forever. One day, while a king is walking by, one of his falcons flies into the house. The king knocks, hoping to be let in by someone, but no one answers and he decides to climb in with a ladder. He finds Talia alive but unconscious, and "...gathers the first fruits of love." Afterwards, he leaves her in the bed and goes back to his kingdom. Though Talia is unconscious, she gives birth to twins — one of whom keeps sucking her fingers. Talia awakens because the twin has sucked out the flax that was stuck deep in Talia's finger. When she wakes up, she discovers that she is a mother and has no idea what happened to her. One day, the king decides he wants to go see Talia again. He goes back to the palace to find her awake and a mother to his twins. He informs her of who he is, what has happened, and they end up bonding. After a few days, the king has to leave to go back to his realm, but promises Talia that he will return to take her to his kingdom.
When he arrives back in his kingdom, his wife hears him saying "Talia, Sun, and Moon" in his sleep. She bribes and threatens the king's secretary to tell her what is going on. After the queen learns the truth, she pretends she is the king and writes to Talia asking her to send the twins because he wants to see them. Talia sends her twins to the "king" and the queen tells the cook to kill the twins and make dishes out of them. She wants to feed the king his children; instead, the cook takes the twins to his wife and hides them. He then cooks two lambs and serves them as if they were the twins. Every time the king mentions how good the food is, the queen replies, "Eat, eat, you are eating of your own." Later, the queen invites Talia to the kingdom and is going to burn her alive, but the king appears and finds out what's going on with his children and Talia. He then orders that his wife be burned along with those who betrayed him. Since the cook actually did not obey the queen, the king thanks the cook for saving his children by giving him rewards. The story ends with the king marrying Talia and living happily ever after.
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| Sleeping Beauty, by Henry Meynell Rheam, 1899 |
Sleeping Beauty Plot
The folktale begins with a princess whose parents are told by a wicked fairy that their daughter will die when she pricks her finger on a particular item. In Basile's version, the princess pricks her finger on a piece of flax. In Perrault's and the Grimm Brothers' versions, the item is a spindle. The parents rid the kingdom of these items in the hopes of protecting their daughter, but the prophecy is fulfilled regardless. Instead of dying, as was foretold, the princess falls into a deep sleep. After some time, she is found by a prince and is awakened. In Giambattista Basile's version of Sleeping Beauty, Sun, Moon, and Talia, the sleeping beauty, Talia, falls into a deep sleep after getting a splinter of flax in her finger. She is discovered in her castle by a wandering king, who "carrie[s] her to a bed, where he gather[s] the first fruits of love."[10] He leaves her there and she later gives birth to twins.
According to Maria Tatar, there are versions of the story that include a second part to the narrative that details the couple's troubles after their union; some folklorists believe the two parts were originally separate tales.
The second part begins after the prince and princess have had children. Through the course of the tale, the princess and her children are introduced in some way to another woman from the prince's life. This other woman is not fond of the prince's new family, and calls a cook to kill the children and serve them for dinner. Instead of obeying, the cook hides the children and serves livestock. Next, the other woman orders the cook to kill the princess. Before this can happen, the other woman's true nature is revealed to the prince and then she is subjected to the very death that she had planned for the princess. The princess, prince, and their children live happily ever after.
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| An older image of the sleeping princess: Brünnhilde, surrounded by magical fire rather than roses (illustration by Arthur Rackham to Richard Wagner's Die Walküre) |
Sleeping Beauty Origin
Early contributions to the tale include the medieval courtly romance Perceforest (published in 1528). In this tale, a princess named Zellandine falls in love with a man named Troylus. Her father sends him to perform tasks to prove himself worthy of her, and while he is gone, Zellandine falls into an enchanted sleep. Troylus finds her and rapes her in her sleep; when their child is born, the child draws from her finger the flax that caused her sleep. She realizes from the ring Troylus left her that he was the father, and Troylus later returns to marry her. Another early literary predecessor is the Provençal versified novel Fraire de Joi e sor de Plaser [ca] (c. 1320-1340).
The second part of the Sleeping Beauty tale, in which the princess and her children are almost put to death but instead are hidden, may have been influenced by Genevieve of Brabant. Even earlier influences come from the story of the sleeping Brynhild in the Volsunga saga and the tribulations of saintly female martyrs in early Christian hagiography conventions. Following these early renditions, the tale was first published by Italian poet Giambattista Basile who lived from 1575 to 1632.
Saturday, January 28, 2023
Sleeping Beauty
Sleeping Beauty (French: La belle au bois dormant, or The Beauty in the Sleeping Forest; German: Dornröschen, or Little Briar Rose), also titled in English as The Sleeping Beauty in the Woods, is a fairy tale about a princess cursed by an evil fairy to sleep for a hundred years before being awakened by a handsome prince. A good fairy, knowing the princess would be frightened if alone when she wakes, uses her wand to put every living person and animal in the palace and forest asleep, to waken when the princess does.
The earliest known version of the tale is found in the narrative Perceforest, written between 1330 and 1344. Another was published by Giambattista Basile in his collection titled The Pentamerone, published posthumously in 1634 and adapted by Charles Perrault in Histoires ou contes du temps passé in 1697. The version collected and printed by the Brothers Grimm was one orally transmitted from the Perrault.
The Aarne-Thompson classification system for fairy tales lists Sleeping Beauty as a Type 410: it includes a princess who is magically forced into sleep and later woken, reversing the magic. The fairy tale has been adapted countless times throughout history and retold by modern storytellers across a variety of media.
睡美人改編作品
柴可夫斯基芭蕾舞劇《睡美人》
迪士尼1959年動畫片《睡美人》
迪士尼2014年真人電影《黑魔女：沉睡魔咒》。故事細述睡美人中的反派如何轉變成內心黑暗的女巫。由安潔莉娜裘莉主演，更由曾獲得奧斯卡金獎肯定的視覺特效藝術大師羅伯特史東博格執導。
睡美人女主角的名字
故事女主角的名字在不同版本中都不固定。《太陽、月亮和塔利婭》中是塔利婭（Talia，所生的孩子分別叫太陽和月亮）。佩羅和格林兄弟的版本則只是簡單地把她稱作「公主」。不過佩羅給公主的女兒起了「奧蘿兒」【法語】（Aurore，「晨曦」）的名字。後來柴可夫斯基在自己的芭蕾舞劇中將女兒的名字變成母親的名字，把公主稱作奧蘿拉【英語】（Aurora），迪士尼的《睡美人》亦是延用了這一名。
睡美人起源
雖然現今夏爾·佩羅的版本流傳最廣，但這一版本實際上改編自吉姆巴地斯達·巴西耳收錄於其《五日談》中的故事《太陽、月亮和塔利婭》。不過佩羅對巴西耳的故事進行了大幅改寫。
巴西耳的故事主要是寫給王公貴族以及成人的。故事中，塔利婭（睡美人）的沉睡不是因為詛咒，而是預言；甦醒過來不是因為王子的親吻，而是國王強暴了她，使她生了兩個孩子，之後其中一個吮吸了她的手指，將使她入睡的亞麻吸走；仇視她的亦不是國王的母親，而是國王的妻子。故事結尾論贊：「幸運之人縱使在床上安眠也有福氣降臨」。
《睡美人》的起源還可以上溯到比這更早的中世紀小說《佩塞福雷傳奇》（Perceforest）中。王子特洛伊勒斯（Troylus）與澤蘭丁娜（Zellandine）相愛，而澤蘭丁娜曾被女神忒彌斯（Themis）詛咒會在某一天沉入深睡，後來詛咒應驗。特洛伊勒斯找到了澤蘭丁娜並與之交合，使之懷孕。之後澤蘭丁娜生下的嬰兒吸出了她手指的亞麻。通過戒指澤蘭丁娜得知了孩子的父親是特洛伊勒斯，並最後嫁給了他。
在更古老的《沃爾松格傳說》（Völsunga saga）中也可以發現這則故事的影子。
睡美人故事內容
因為睡美人版本眾多，以下僅敘述夏爾·佩羅版本和格林兄弟版本的內容。
睡美人是一個王后所誕下的孩子。王后非常高興，邀請了人類和仙子族的各方好友前來盛宴。卻沒有邀請邪惡的仙子卡拉波斯。所以她就不請自來，以「公主會被紡織機的紡錘刺破手指而喪命」的詛咒作為禮物。幸而紫丁香仙子未獻上祝福，她把壞仙子的毒咒緩解，使公主不會死掉。但公主仍會沉睡，直至有一個真心愛慕公主的人前來獻上親吻，公主才會醒過來。
於是，國王下令禁止使用紡綞。然而公主十五六歲那年正好在一座古塔中碰到了一個正在用紡錘紡線的老婆子，公主一挨著紡錘即倒在了地上。詛咒成真，公主一直在林中沉睡，四周的藤蔓荊條成為公主睡牀的簾帳。
年復一年的過去，直至有一天，一個年輕的王子路過，兌現了仙子的祝福，把公主吻醒。城堡中的所有人都甦醒過來，繼續做著原先沒做完的事情。自始，王子公主就過著幸福的生活。
不過佩羅的版本並未就此結束。婚後公主生下了兩個孩子，分別取名晨曦（Aurore）和日光（Jour）。王子的母后是個吃人的妖精，一次趁王子外出打仗，她便想把公主和兩個孩子吃掉。但總管因不忍心而抗命，分別用羔羊和牝鹿矇騙了母后。不過母后最終發現了真相，正當她準備將公主和孩子扔進放滿癩蛤蟆和毒蛇的大木桶時，王子及時趕回。看到自己的行徑被發現，母后自己氣急敗壞地投進了木桶，被毒蛇吃掉。其他人則幸福快樂地生活了下去。
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睡美人
《林中睡美人》（法語：La Belle au bois dormant），通稱《睡美人》，在《格林童話》中稱《玫瑰公主》（德語：Dornröschen），是一則經典歐洲童話。這則童話擁有多個改編版本，其中最著名的是法國作家夏爾·佩羅於1697年出版的《鵝媽媽的故事》中收錄的版本，以及《格林童話》中的版本。不同版本的睡美人故事，傳至世界各地，成為耳熟能詳、家喻戶曉的童話故事之一。
該故事是AT分類法中的第410類故事。
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睡美人
08-07-2023 上映, 205 分鐘, ---(---)
故事簡介
《睡美人》絶對是皇家芭蕾舞團重要之作 – 不只是二戰後舞團於柯芬園重開後的首個演出作品，亦自2006年後開始再度公演，為觀眾帶來無數驚喜。《睡美人》由古典芭蕾大師Marius Petipa 及柴可夫斯基合力製作，編舞家Frederick Ashton 加以編排，使這齣深入民心的作品成為經典中的經典。Oliver Messel華麗的童話式設計伴隨柴可夫斯基那輝煌的交響曲調，觀眾必定會陶醉於此古典芭蕾魅力當中。
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[US]
THE SLEEPING BEAUTY
Opening on 08-07-2023, 205 minutes, ---(---)
Synopsis
The Sleeping Beauty holds a very special place in The Royal Ballet’s heart and history. It was the first performance given by the Company when the Royal Opera House reopened at Covent Garden in 1946 after World War II. In 2006, this original staging was revived and has been delighting audiences ever since. Frederick Ashton famously cited the pure classicism of Marius Petipa’s 19th-century ballet as a private lesson in the atmospheric art and craft of choreography. Be swept away by Tchaikovsky’s ravishing music and Oliver Messel’s sumptuous fairytale designs with this true gem from the classical ballet repertory.
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Thursday, January 26, 2023
Blue Is the Warmest Colour
Original title: La vie d'Adèle
2013, 3h
Adèle's life is changed when she meets Emma, a young woman with blue hair, who will allow her to discover desire and to assert herself as a woman and as an adult. In front of others, Adèle grows, seeks herself, loses herself, and ultimately finds herself through love and loss.
Director: Abdellatif Kechiche
Writers: Abdellatif Kechiche(scenario, adaptation and dialogue), Ghalya Lacroix(scenario, adaptation and dialogue), Jul Maroh(adapted from: the comic book "Le Bleu est une couleur chaude" by)
Stars: Léa Seydoux, Adèle Exarchopoulos, Salim Kechiouche
Genres: Drama, Romance
Details
Release date: February 14, 2014 (Taiwan)
Countries of origin: France, Belgium, Spain
Languages: French, English
Also known as: Blue Is the Warmest Colour
Filming locations: La Piscine Museum, Roubaix, France
Production companies: Quat'sous Films, Wild Bunch, France 2 Cinéma
Technical specs
Runtime: 3 hours
Color: Color
Sound mix: Dolby Digital
Aspect ratio: 2.35 : 1
接近無限溫暖的藍獎項
本片贏得了第66屆康城影展最高榮譽金棕櫚獎，還獲得了本次影展國際影評人獎。本片因在法國本地的上映日期不符2013年奧斯卡獎最佳外語片規定，因此無法報名，但個人獎項仍可報名。2012年作品《雷諾阿》代表法國競爭第86屆奧斯卡金像獎最佳外語片，但卻沒有獲得提名。獲得第39屆法國凱撒電影獎最佳影片、最佳導演、最佳女演員等八項提名。
接近無限溫暖的藍評價
在康城影展上，影片中大膽的女同性場面震撼了不少觀眾，有影評人認為影片要在影院公映，還需要進一步進行剪接。一些影評人把它列為金棕櫚獎的頭號熱門。
評審主席史匹堡表示：「影片講了一個很美的愛的故事，它的美感超越了其中某些性愛場景給人帶來的尷尬，它表現了一段非常有深度的愛，我們被影片獨特的魅力所吸引。」他表示這個獎既是給導演的，也是給兩位主演的，「因為很明顯該片的演員非常重要。導演選擇角色的眼光精準，演員的沉默戲很感人，有時候沉默比言語更重要、更有力」。評委丹尼爾·奧圖認為：「影片表現的是人類共通的情感，有一種人文的情懷」。評委克里斯蒂安·蒙吉表示：「該片有很強烈的真實感，在藝術創作時，就應該嘗試突破限制。」李安對記者表示，《接近無限溫暖的藍》獲得金棕櫚獎是九個評委全票通過的結果，這部片子也是他的最愛。
美國《綜藝》認為它「生動展現女同性愛戲，爆發力十足」；《荷里活報道》表示這是「一部兼具甜美、慘痛的愛情電影」；法國《電影觀察》則認為「該片的主題是愛，而非同性戀——愛以及伴隨着愛的一切：誘惑、渴望、背叛、痛苦；當然還有社會角色——家庭、教育、旁人的目光、教學、傳授、使命，以及生活的選擇」。
2013年10月於美國上映後媒體綜評88分，爛番茄新鮮度90%，媒體代表性評價：「表述方式美麗而明確，真相由情而生，浪漫即是永恆」，「導演的風格令人眩暈、具有強迫性、無情卻又充滿靈感，這部影片盡情地展現着艾瑪和愛黛兒的無畏與女性魅力」，「導演和他的女演員在無盡的情感中探索——入迷、思考、舒適、無聊的家庭生活、災難、痛苦的碎片、你一直在堅持的東西被徹底粉碎，當然還有她們近乎兇殘的性，而至於結論為何需要觀者自己去體會」，「這是一個簡單也不特別的愛的故事，但不論是角色塑造還是情節鋪陳都堪稱親密的史詩」，「本片是導演的一次探索，在這段艱辛的旅程中我們經歷了歡樂、有如爆炸的悲傷、憤怒、欲望和希望」。
接近無限溫暖的藍創作
導演柯西胥表示，創作本片的初衷有兩個：一是他本人很尊敬那些對待學生很誠摯的老師，他對於女教師題材的故事很感興趣，2003年他曾經寫過一個講述一個法國女老師的劇本，「希望把她的熱情傳達給觀眾，女老師所經歷的愛戀、喪親之痛、分手之傷都會影響到她的生活和工作」，不過最後這個劇本並沒有完成。第二點就是當他看到朱莉·馬洛的漫畫時，發現這是一個講述兩個女人的愛的故事，而其中一個女子成為了老師，於是他就決定將兩個劇本融合到一起。
關於選擇兩位主演，他認為蕾雅·絲端符合艾瑪這個角色所需要的外表、聲線、智慧、追求自由的決心以及社會責任感。飾演愛黛兒的阿黛爾·艾薩柯普洛斯，則是導演在陪她一起吃飯時，發現她吃東西的樣子和用嘴來咀嚼的方式很很適合影片的需要。這兩個女孩的嘴都是重要元素，「因為兩人的嘴可以刺激感官」。
柯西胥還表示：社會階層一直都是他的電影習慣表達的主題。「愛黛兒就是屬於工人階層的。而艾瑪則屬於精英人群，她才華橫溢。我的兩個女主角都有各自的歸屬。她們相處過程中所遇到的困難就是社會階層的差異，由於認知不同逐漸顯現最終導致分手、決裂。相比階層的差異難以相互理解，同性的戀情或多或少是普世可以認同並理解的。」
影片最初預計要在兩個半月完成拍攝，實際上花了五個月時間，從2012年3月到8月在里爾、魯貝和列萬取景。預算為400萬歐元。
接近無限溫暖的藍角色
阿黛爾·艾薩柯普洛斯（Adèle Exarchopoulos） - 阿黛爾（Adèle），生長於工人家庭，喜歡文學，成為一名小學老師；
蕾雅·絲端 - 艾瑪（Emma），生長於中產家庭，所學的專業是美術，夢想是辦展覽；
薩利姆·凱希烏什（Salim Kechiouche） - 薩米爾（Samir）
莫娜·瓦爾拉芬斯（Mona Walravens） - 麗絲（Lise）
熱雷米·拉厄爾特（Jérémie Laheurte） - 湯瑪（Thomas）
嘉芙蓮·沙列（Catherine Salée） - 阿黛爾的媽媽（la mère d'Adèle）
奧雷利安·雷克因（Aurélien Recoing） - 阿黛爾的爸爸（le père d'Adèle）
Fanny Maurin - 愛蜜莉（Amélie）
Sandor Funtek - 范倫亭（Valentin）
Aurélie Lemanceau - 莎賓（Sabine）
Baya Rehaz - 瑪麗詠（Meryem）
Benjamin Siksou - 安東萬（Antoine）
Alma Jodorowsky - 碧雅翠絲（Béatrice）
接近無限溫暖的藍
《接近無限溫暖的藍》（法語：La vie d'Adèle – Chapitres 1 & 2，英語：Blue is the Warmest Color） 是一部2013年法國電影，導演為阿必迪拉·堅志澈。根據Julie Maroh所著的法國繪畫小說 Le Bleu Est Une Couleur Chaude（"blue is a warm color"）改編而成。影片入圍第66屆康城影展主競賽單元，並獲得金棕櫚獎。本片被分級為NC-17。
本片是首部把金棕櫚獎同時頒發給影片和女主演的作品，阿黛爾·艾薩柯普洛斯和蕾雅·絲端並因此成為首兩名以非電影導演的身份獲得金棕櫚獎的演員。
接近無限溫暖的藍
19-02-2023 上映, 180 分鐘, 法語(中文、英文字幕)
故事簡介
作為首部獲得康城金棕櫚獎的女同志片，《接近無限溫暖的藍》同時亦是首部改編自漫畫的金棕櫚獎得主。儘管兩位女主角的情慾戲被盛讚「開創女同志情慾性愛的新境界」，但除了激情的場面，就如同漫畫原著作者?Julie Maroh?所說的，那些「痛苦、眼淚、爭吵、憂鬱和絕望，一場長長的青春告別儀式」更是讓人深刻感動。藍色，是最溫暖的顏色，也是年輕少女 Adele 最美好又令人感傷的同性愛戀。女孩應該與男孩約會，十五歲的?Adele?從不質疑；直到她在女同志吧邂逅了藍髮?Emma，怦然心動，一發不可收拾，就算被她那些恐同的朋友嘲笑。熱戀的?Adele?與?Emma?在激情下開展強烈性愛，並開始相互承諾並住在一起，然而階級差異的問題開始浮現；少女Adele在自我追尋、迷失與再找尋自我的過程中成長，青春是一段漫長複雜的道路。
導演: 阿必迪拉堅志澈
演員: 蕾雅絲端、愛黛兒顏茜彩寶露絲
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Blue is the Warmest Colour
Opening on 19-02-2023, 180 minutes, French(Chinese, English Subtitles)
Synopsis
At fifteen, Adele (Adele Exarchopolous) doesn’t question it: girls go out with boys. Her life is changed forever when she meets and connects with the young blue-haired Emma (Lea Seydoux) at a lesbian bar. Adele falls for Emma despite being ridiculed by her gay-bashing friends. Adele immediately finds herself in a passionate relationship and develops an intense sexual bonding with Emma. When they both become committed and live together, social class differences begin to emerge. Adele grows, seeks herself, loses herself and finds herself again. Loosely adapted from a Gallic graphic novel by Julie Maroh, director Abdellatif Kechiche captures extended long sequences of Adele and Emma both in and out of bed which had the Cannes audience and critics captivated for the full three hours and yearning for more.
Director: Abdellatif Kechiche
Cast: Lea Seydoux, Adele Exarchopoulos
Wednesday, January 25, 2023
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