Thursday, 3 March 2016

Research 10 - Sleeping Beauty

Sleeping Beauty is one of Disney's well known, princess classics. Story follows the princess, Aurora hiding away in a forest for her whole life because as a baby she was cursed to prick her finger on a spinning wheel needle and sleep for ever on her 16th birthday by an evil woman called Maleficent  She was hidden away in a deep forest and cared for by three blundering and loving fairies who bestowed gifts upon her to counter the curse, true loves kiss will awaken her from this curse. As she grows up she meets a young prince with whom she falls for in time but this doesn't last long as she then falls under the curse, so her prince must fight his way through the thorns and battle the evil Maleficent.

Personally I'm not all that interested in the movie or the story. The story is taken straight from the fairytale and its got pretty ok characters, except for Maleficent. An example of a very scary and overbearing villain with so much power and dominance. The backgrounds have a really nice geometric theme with overlapping layers of colour and shapes with a really appealing look to them.

Personally, the main reason i looked into sleeping beauty is for Maleficent as she is such an interesting character to watch through her actions. It shows just how blatantly evil and corrupt a character can be causing the audience to enjoy her presence yet despise and fear it.

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