Term 3, Lesson 1

Today was the first day back and as last term we begun discussions of our next assessment which involves 'Disney' we than started watching one of Walt Disney's classics 'Sleeping Beauty'. That was the film that was decided upon between 3, the others being 'Cinderella' and 'Beauty and the Beast'. 'Sleeping Beauty was decided as it is a film that is extremely stereotypical with all of it characters and is changed drastically from the original written by the Grimm Brothers. Upon watching 'Sleeping Beauty we were asked to find out things that we may not have known, I found:

-  "Sleeping Beauty" is adapted from both the Charles Perrault and Brothers Grimm versions of the classic fairy tale. In Perrault, the princess's name is Aurora; in Grimm, it's Briar Rose. In the movie, she's born Aurora but takes on Briar Rose as an alias during the years she spends hiding out from Maleficent.

- Aurora's true love, Prince Philip, took his name from the British prince of the same name, husband of Queen Elizabeth II, then still new to the throne.

-  The cookies that the good fairies bake are shaped like Mickey Mouse's head.

- "Sleeping Beauty" cost $6 million to produce, making it the most expensive cartoon Disney had yet made.