Sleeping beauty how long asleep

The theatrical release was accompanied by an experimental, Oscar-winning live-action short. More a live-action segment of Fantasia than an actual documentary short, it contained no dialogue or narration. Its boldness was rewarded, however, when it won an Academy Award. Walt was obviously a fan of the Grand Canyon; it debuted in Disneyland the year before Sleeping Beauty was released see above.

It was re-released 4 times. Sleeping Beauty would eventually make money; all in it wound up being the second most profitable movie of after Ben-Hur.

But this was only after several splashy theatrical rereleases in , , and This also explains why … 2. Share this article. Facebook Pinterest Twitter Tumblr. A: When they were both younger, Stefan was nice and he and Maleficent were friends. Later, Stefan grows up to become yet another really weird Sharlto Copley character who betrays Maleficent by poisoning her and cutting off her wings -- in what turns out to be a very creepy scene.

Or maybe even a quasar. A: By far. Sadly, the rest of the film comes nowhere near the quality of this scene. So, if at any point Aurora pricks her finger on a spinning wheel before the day after her 16th birthday, she will fall asleep forever. A: He has all the spinning wheels in his kingdom destroyed -- which is strangely smart for such a weird king — and sends Aurora off to live with three pixies in the countryside until one day after her sixteenth birthday.

A: I think the movie wants us to think they are good, loving pixie parents, but they are really awful. She was up so early in the morning, that she realized everyone else still slept. The Princess roamed through the halls trying to keep herself occupied until the rest of the castle awoke.

She wandered about the whole place, looking at rooms and halls as she pleased and at last she came to an old tower. She climbed the narrow, winding staircase and reached a little door.

A rusty key was sticking in the lock and when she turned it, the door flew open. In a little room sat an old woman with a spindle, busily spinning her flax.

The old woman was so deaf that she had never heard the King's command that all spindles should be destroyed. But she had scarcely touched the spindle when it pricked her finger. At that moment she fell upon the bed which was standing near and lay still in a deep sleep. The King, Queen and servants had all started their morning routines and right in the midst of them fell asleep too.

The horses fell asleep in the stable, the dogs in the yard, the doves on the roof and the flies on the wall. Even the fire in the hearth grew still and went to sleep. The kitchen maid, who sat with a chicken before her, ready to pluck its feathers, fell asleep. The cook was in the midst of scolding the kitchen boy for a mess he'd made but they both fell fast asleep. The wind died down and on the trees in front of the castle not a leaf stirred.

Round the castle a hedge of brier roses began to grow up. Every year it grew higher until at last nothing could be seen of the sleeping castle. There was a legend in the land about the lovely Sleeping Beauty, as the King's daughter was called, and from time to time Princes came and tried to force their way through the hedge and into the castle.

But they found it impossible for the thorns, as though they were alive, grabbed at them and would not let them through. After many years a Prince came again to the country and heard an old man tell the tale of the castle which stood behind the brier hedge and the beautiful Princess who had slept within for a hundred years.

He heard also that many Princes had tried to make it through the brier hedge but none had succeeded and many had been caught in it and died. The the young Prince said, "I am not afraid. I must go and see this Sleeping Beauty. The good old man did all in his power to persuade him not to go, but the Prince would not listen.