marciabrady: get to know me meme: [1/10] favorite animated female characters → sleeping be

marciabrady: get to know me meme: [1/10] favorite animated female characters → sleeping beauty // briar rose // princess aurora“She is just a romantic teenager…yet to consider her so seems not quite to capture the mystery, the strange elegance of Aurora, who is the central figure holding the choreography together, the key in which the music is composed. The film is drawn in terms of Aurora, her angular/arabesque linearity, not the soft roundness of the fairies or the caricature of the kings. She gives the movie its enchanted, modernist atmosphere; for Aurora is not just beautiful, she is otherworldly…I think Prince Phillip was on the right track when speculating that Aurora was ‘some mysterious being’ like a wood sprite. Aurora is gifted from birth by four fairies; her beauty and singing voice are literally supernatural. She grows up ‘in grace and beauty, beloved by all who know her,’ raised by immortals, far from any humans, strolling barefoot as an elf through magnificent primeval forests with a coterie of animal companions. In her long vertical aristocratic glamour she is more like Maleficent than like any human. Aurora is a demi-fairy, touched by the spirits, half outside this world. Don’t think of Sleeping Beauty as a ballet, if you please; think of it as a ritual. Think of her name, think of her sleep; she dies and is reborn, the sun returned in glorious dawn, dancing among the clouds. Think of her enchanted dress in its endless cycle between the pink of morning and blue of evening…she is an aspect of nature, the circles of the sun, the flow of the seasons; she is the Persephone of the Disneyland.” x -- source link

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