#Belle au bois dormant

[alaynasansa]

In the original Sleeping Beauty (Belle au Bois dormant) tale by Charles Perrault, the actual antagonist is the princess' step-mom (since the old fairy isn't mentioned once after the seventh fairy changes her threat)

The queen is an ogress trying to eat her stepdaughter and grandchildren while the prince is at war

I'm surprised Cat antis aren't comparing Jon to Sleeping Beauty yet

[philoursmars]

Je reviens à mon projet de présenter la plupart de mes 55000 photos (nouveau compte approximatif. On se rapproche du présent !).

2015. Marseille à Noël.

Au Cours Estienne-d’Orves, à la MAMA (MAison de l’Artisanat et des Métiers d’Art), une expo “Un Monde Merveilleux”. Beaucoup de figurines de Liliane Guiomar.

On y retrouve Peau-d’Âne, le Petit Chaperon Rouge, les Contes des 1001 nuits, la Belle au Bois Dormant...

[lepetitdragonvert]

The Sleeping Beauty

Artist : Henry Meynell Rheam (1859-1920)

[illustratus]

The Sleeping Beauty by Gustave Doré

"Reclining upon a bed was a princess of radiant beauty."

The Sleeping Beauty, La Belle au Bois Dormant, The Beauty in the Sleeping Forest, The Sleeping Beauty in the Woods, Dornröschen, Little Briar Rose.

[bubulleslime]

Aizawa as ✨️The Sleeping Beauty✨️

(Sorry i can't stop laughing..)

[adarkrainbow]

People frequently talk about the presence of a dragon in Sleeping Beauty - wondering if it is was the Disney movie that invented this concept, if there were cultural precedents to it, or what were Disney's influences if any they were.

Well here's a little piece to add to the puzzle if you want: there was a famous French adaptation of Sleeping Beauty where the prince had to fight a dragon to wake up the Beauty. Well, it was famous back then, today most people don't know about it, but it still is an important piece of fiction because it is tied to someone everybody still knows today: Sarah Bernhardt

Sarah Bernhardt, THE great and famous theater actress of France, the one and only super-star of the second half of the 19th century/early 20th century. She acted as the main actress and stage director of a Sleeping Beauty adaptation that was created in 1907 in her theater: "La Belle au bois dormant" by Jean Richepin and Henri Cain (a duo who had previously worked on Massenet's Cendrillon stage adaptation). This play (a "féerie lyrique" in verse, one prologue, two parts, fourteen tableaux ; all in alexandrins but switching between singing parts and talking parts) was a HUGE success of the time, beloved by both the audience and the critics (Sarah Bernhardt's presence certainly did help, as anything she was in was bound to be a success). It was remember as one of this works that tried and managed to bring a "féerie totale", this desire to create a féerie show where the literary aspect would be just as important and powerful as the musical and theatrical aspects.

In fact, this is what has been doing the success of the play, as some people analyzed: it both spoke to the audience who was in need of huge marvels and powerful supernatural on stage, desiring big-budget "féerie" shows (the play had TONS of singers, dancers, actors, etc, and the sets and props were done by famous craftsmen of the time) ; and to a certain part of people who were complaining that shows were becoming purely "visual" entertainment and "ocular" performances without any actual quality writing or literary effort in there. This show was both a big-budget special-effect feast, AND an effort at being a literary and cultured creation (it gathered and synthetized the many stage-adaptations of Sleeping Beauty of the 19th century - as it had been frequently adapted in theaters - with references to Shakespeare, La Fontaine, Banville and more... (Some have pointed out how the over-saturation of tropes, references and inspirations might have played a part in the show being forgotten, because once Bernhardt was out, it felt like a kitch performance mixing too-obscure references with a superficial fairytale melting pot... anyway).

The prince in this play (played by Sarah Bernhardt herself, since she adored playing "cross-dressing" roles) doesn't just cross the briar forest, he actually has to face three different trials (people have noted an influence of Wagner's creation in the sequence, like his Siegfried and Parsifal). And the first of these trials is a huge dragon. It is the eighth tableau: in "le bois des épouvantes" (the wood of terrors), under loud thunder, in the "half-day of a sinister and greenish twilight"), the prince fights and kills a fire-spitting dragon (later the text evokes a "green dragon spitting red fire", seemingly continuing from the visual color clash).

If you are curious about the other trials, the prince then is literaly englued in a soporific darkness (it is compared to pitch and glue), and as he falls asleep a Demoness/Enchantress appears. She tries to distract him away from his quest by invoking "nymphs with bodies of flowers" and "nymphs with bodies of flames", who perform a flower-fire lascivious ballet representing the "venomous wine-dreams" they send the prince, the Enchantress trying to snatch a kiss from him - but the prince shakes off the lustful illusions and the demoness and her nymphs disappear.

The last trial is at "le lac de désespérance" (the lake of despair - or rather "the lake of despairing"). There, he encounters grey, aetherial women formed out of the mists and fogs over the lake - they are alternatively called "undines" and "the sirens of oblivion", and they perform a sorrowful, sad and haunting melody, with a song about despair, death and eternal rest, inviting the prince to... well to suicide. But the prince refuses the call, refuses to get in the water. The undines disappear in the fog - and when the mist gets away, the Sleeping Beauty's castle is revealed in the light of dawn. The prince then just walks on the waters of the lake like some sort of new Jesus, to go save the princess...

[mythical-art]

The Fairy casts a spell on the inhabitants of the castle by Henri Thiriet (Engraving)

[transparentgentlemenmarker]

Ne pas confondre la belle et la bête

Et la belle au bois dormant

[seacavepuzzle]

La Belle au bois dormant (1908)

[lepetitdragonvert]

Sleeping Beauty

Artist : Donn Philip Crane

[helene-tolden]

🇫🇷 A Drawing A Day Juillet 2024 Jour 4.

Aujourd'hui voici Aurore, la blonde par excellence du conte de La Belle au Bois Dormant, connue pour être la princesse qui a le moins de dialogues de tous les films Disney.

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🇬🇧 A Drawing A Day July 2024 Day 4.

Today here is Aurore, the quintessential blonde from the tale of Sleeping Beauty, known for being the princess with the fewest lines of all the Disney movies.

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🇪🇦 Un Dibujo Al Día Julio 2024 Día 4.

Hoy aquí está Aurore, la rubia por excelencia del cuento de La Bella Durmiente, conocida por ser la princesa con menos diálogos de todas las películas de Disney.

[princesssarisa]

Sleeping Beauty Spring: "La Belle au Bois Dormant" ("The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood") (1908 French silent short)

This 14-minute silent film was produced by the most famous French film studio of the silent era, Pathé. Directed by Albert Capellani and Lucien Nonguet, with an uncredited cast, it was filmed partly at the Pathé studio, and partly at the Château de Pierrefonds, an authentic medieval castle in Hauts-de-France that had recently been restored. Like many other French films of the era, it also serves as an early, primitive example of color film, via the process of stenciling. As a result, it has the look of an old-fashioned illustration – slightly crude, yet richly detailed and pretty all the same – come to life.

The story is told in a straightforward manner, easy to follow despite a lack of intertitles. The Princess, her royal parents, and their court wear medieval dress, while a hundred years later, the Prince and his companions wear clothes of the Cavalier era. The six good fairies are beautiful young women in slender, sleeveless gowns, and in a detail that seems inspired by Tchaikovsky's ballet, the fairy who softens the Princess's curse from death to sleep is portrayed as their leader and dressed in lilac. Meanwhile, the Evil Fairy is old and hunched yet still slightly glamorous, in a rich, pale blue gown and a tall witch-like hat. At the christening party, the Evil Fairy shows the court a vision of the Princess pricking her finger on a spindle and dying – a more effective choice in silent film than if she had just spoken the curse. Sixteen years later, we meet a bored and restless Princess confined to her bedroom by her protective parents, with guards at every door and only a devoted nurse for company. But when her nurse falls asleep, the Princess steals the key from her, evades the guards, and sets out to explore the castle... soon finding her way to a tower where an old women sits at a spinning wheel. As in most retellings, the old woman is the Evil Fairy in disguise.

While it's not emphasized, this seems to be a rare Sleeping Beauty that follows Perrault's version regarding the King and Queen's sad fate, where they don't join their daughter in sleep, but continue ruling the kingdom and eventually die before she wakes. They're last seen leaving the Princess's bedside after the Lilac Fairy puts the rest of the castle to sleep, and they don't appear in the finale. A hundred years later, on a hunt, the Prince learns of the sleeping Princess from an old man, and then finds that the forest of hedges surrounding the castle – the work of the Lilac Fairy – miraculously open to let him in. After wandering through the castle and seeing various members of the sleeping court, he finds the Princess and wakes her with a modest, gallant kiss on the hand. The Lilac Fairy then appears to bless their union, and the film ends abruptly with the newly awakened court and the other good fairies greeting the young couple.

Is this a definitive Sleeping Beauty? Far from it. The storytelling is basic and the filming techniques and special effects are primitive. But all the same, it's an intriguing and charming early example of an early cinematic fairy tale. The scenery and costumes are luxuriant, and even without sophisticated effects, some of the filmmakers' stylistic choices do enhance the fantastical atmosphere. For example, the superimposed image of a spider's web over the sleeping Princess's bed, indicating the long passage of time, which finally vanishes when the Prince enters the room.

This film can be viewed in several uploads on YouTube, most without music, but at least one set to the music of Tchaikovsky's ballet.

If you're eager to see what the earliest screen versions of classic fairy tales were like, then this short Sleeping Beauty is definitely worth your time.

@ariel-seagull-wings, @thealmightyemprex, @faintingheroine, @thatscarletflycatcher, @reds-revenge, @the-blue-fairie, @autistic-prince-cinderella, @paexgo-rosa, @comma-after-dearest

[frutillincesa]

˚*𐐪𐑂 Princess Aurora 𐐪𐑂*˚ 🎀

[jackbatchelor3]

Throwback Thursday to Disneyland Paris twelve years ago today.

Mon 18e Anniversaire à Disneyland Paris il y a douze ans aujourd’hui.

🎢🏰🎁🎂

[booksaesthesic]

-sleeping beauty playlist-

[khalidom]

Il était une fois une fille dont le récit de sa vie était ambigu.

Après avoir été plongée dans un sommeil enchanté, elle s'était éveillée dans un monde où les nains l'avaient comblée de mets délicieux, ce qui avait laissé son empreinte sur sa silhouette et des rondeurs qui se reflètent. Cependant, son charme intérieur brillait toujours aussi intensément que sa beauté extérieure.

Elle avait finalement croisé le chemin d'un prince charmant, un homme qui avait été captivé non seulement par sa beauté, mais aussi par son cœur bienveillant.

Seulement à minuit, elle n'avait pas perdu une chaussure et cela a créé une cassure dans les événements.

Ainsi, le prince a fini par ce marier par l'une de ses belles sœurs.

Triste et célibataire, notre héroïne avait dû continuer à vivre sous le poids de son passé enchanté, mais sans la récompense d'un mariage heureux.

Elle consacra sa vie à aider les autres, apportant sa générosité et son charme à tous ceux qui avaient la chance de la rencontrer.

Par la même occasion, elle devint grosse et obèse et à jamais, auucn homme n'a voulu l'épouser.

Elle fini par accepter comme mari, le nain "grincheux", vécurent heureux et eurent un seul enfant qu'ils nommerent "Gargamel", plus connu sous le nom de "Charchabil".

Fin de l'histoire.

Septembre 2023