Sleeping Beauty
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Sleeping Beauty is a 1959 Disney film. A snubbed malevolent fairy casts a curse on a princess that only a prince can break, with the help of three good fairies.
- Directed by Clyde Geronimi. Written by Erdman Penner and Charles Perrault.
[edit] Dialogue
- [First lines]
- Narrator: In a far away land long ago lived a king and his fair queen. Many years had they longed for a child and finally their wish was granted. A daughter was born; and they called her Aurora. Yes, they named her after the dawn, for she filled their lives with sunshine. Then a great holiday was proclaimed throughout the kingdom so that all of high or low estate might pay homage to the infant princess. And our story begins on that most joyful day.
- Court Announcer: Their most honoured and exalted excellencies, the Three Good Fairies! Mistress Flora... Mistress Fauna... and Mistress Merryweather!
- [A storm blows up and a gust of wind blows open the castle doors. Maleficent magically appears from the green flames]
- Fauna: Why, it's Maleficent.
- Merryweather: What does she want here?
- Flora: Shh!
- Maleficent: Well, quite a glittering assemblage, King Stefan. Royalty, nobility, the gentry, and-- [laughs and looks at the Good Fairies] How quaint. Even the Rabble. [Merryweather charges at her but is held back by Flora] I really felt quite distressed at not receiving an invitation.
- Merryweather: You weren't wanted.
- Maleficent: No wa--Oh, dear, what an awkward situation. I had hoped it was merely due to some oversight. Well, in that event, I'd best be on my way.
- Queen: And you're not offended, Your Excellency?
- Maleficent: Why, no, Your Majesty. And to show I bear no ill will, I, too, shall bestow a gift on the child. Listen well, all of you. The princess shall indeed grow in grace and beauty, beloved by all who know her. But, before the sun sets on her sixteenth birthday, she shall prick her finger on the spindle of a spinning wheel, and die!
- Queen: [grabs the baby] Oh, no! [Maleficent cackles]
- King Stefan: Seize that creature!
- Maleficent: Stand back, you fools! [disappears in green flames with her crow while cackling]
- Narrator: But King Stefan, still fearful of his daughter's life, of then and that decree that every spinning wheel in the kingdom should on that very day be burned, and so it is done. [after the narrator spoke, all of the spinning wheels were burned by a bonfire. Flora watched the bonfire from a castle wall.]
- Flora: Oh, silly fiddle-faddle!
- Fauna: Now, come have a nice cup of tea, dear. I'm sure it'll turn out somehow.
- Merryweather: Well, a bonfire won't stop Maleficent.
- Flora: Of course not, but what will?
- Fauna: Uh, perhaps if we will reason with her.
- Flora: Reason?
- Merryweather: With Maleficent?
- Fauna: Well, she can't be all bad.
- Flora: Oh, yes she can.
- Merryweather: Ooh, I'd like to turn her into a fat old hoptoad!
- Fauna: Now, dear, that isn't a very nice thing to say.
- Flora: Besides, we can't. You know our magic dosen't work that way.
- Fauna: It can only do good, dear, to bring joy and happiness.
- Merryweather: Well, that would make me happy.
- Flora: I'll turn her into a flower.
- Merryweather: Maleficent?
- Flora: Oh, no, dear. The princess.
- Fauna: Oh, she'd make a lovely flower.
- Flora: Don't you see? A flower can't prick its finger.
- Merryweather: It hasn't any.
- Fauna: That's right.
- Flora: She'll be perfectly safe.
- Merryweather: Until Maleficent sends a frost.
- Flora: You're right. And she'll be expecting us to do something like that.
- Merryweather: Oh! Well, what won't she expect? She knows everything.
- Fauna: Oh, but she doesn't, dear. Maleficent doesn't know anything about love, or kindness or the joy of helping others. You know, sometimes I don't think she's really very happy.
- Flora: That's it! Of course. It's the only thing she can't understand and won't expect. Now, now, now, we'll have to plan it carefully. Let's see. The woodcutter's cottage. Yes, yes, the abandoned one. Of course, the king and queen will object. But when we explain it's the only way--
- Merryweather: Explain what?
- Flora: About the three peasant women raising a foundling child, deep in the forest.
- Fauna: Oh? Oh, that's very nice of them.
- Merryweather: Who are they?
- Flora: Turn around. [turns them into peasant women]
- Merryweather: Eww!
- Fauna: Why, it's us!
- Maleficent: [last words] Now, shall you deal with ME, oh Prince... and all the powers of Hell! [turns into a dragon]
- Merryweather: Do you really think we can?
- Flora: If humans can do it, so can we.
- Merryweather: And we'd have our magic to help us.
- Fauna: That's right.
- Flora: No, no, no, no, no, no! No magic! I'll take those wands right now. [takes away Fauna's wand] Oh, better get rid of those wings, too. [makes Fauna's fairy wings disappear with her wand]
- Merryweather: [attempts to hide her wand by flying as high as she can] You mean live like mortals? For sixteen years?
- Flora: Uh-huh. [makes Merryweather's wings disappear]
- Merryweather: Now, we don't know how. We've never done anything without magic.
- Flora: And that's why Maleficent will never suspect.
- Merryweather: But who will cook, and sew?
- Flora: Oh, we'll all pitch in.
- Fauna: I'll take care of the baby.
- Flora: Let me have it, dear. [Merryweather makes Flora's wings disappear before Flora takes away Merryweather's wand away] Now, come along. We must tell Their Majesties at once.
- Narrator: So the king and his queen watched with heavy hearts as their most precious possession, their only child, disappeared into the night.
- Maleficent: It's incredible!! Sixteen years and not a trace of her. She couldn't have vanished into thin air! Are you sure you searched everywhere?
- Minion: Yep, yep, uh, everywhere, we all did.
- Maleficent: And what about the town? The forest? The mountains?!
- Minion: Yeah, we searched mountains, uh, uh, uh, uh forests, and, uh, houses, and uh- Let me see. Uh, and all the cradles.
- Maleficent: Cradle?
- Minion: Yep, yep. Every cradle.
- Maleficent: Cradle? [to her raven] Did you hear that, my pet? All these years they've been looking for a baby. [laughs manically] Fools! Idiots! Imbeciles! [shoots lightning bolts at them all] Oh, they're hopeless. It's a disgrace to the forces of evil. My pet, you are my last hope. Circle far and wide, search for a maid of sixteen, with hair of sunshine gold and lips red as the rose. Go, and do not fail me.
- Narrator: And so, for sixteen long years, the whereabouts of the princess remained a mystery. While deep in the forest in a woodcutter's cottage, the Good Fairies carried out their well-laid plan. Living like mortals, they had reared the child as their own and called her Briar Rose. On this, her sixteenth birthday, the good fairies had planned a party and something extra special for a surprise.
- Rose: Berries?
- Fauna: Lots of berries.
- Rose: But I-I picked berries yesterday.
- Flora: Oh, w-we need more, dear.
- Fauna: Lots, lots more.
- Flora: Not don't hurry back, dear.
- Merryweather: But don't go too far.
- Flora: And don't speak to strangers.
- Merryweather: I wonder if she suspects.
- Flora: Of course not. Come on! Oh, will she be surprised.
- Merryweather: A real birthday party.
- Fauna: With a real birthday cake.
- Flora: Yes, and a dress a princess can be proud of.
- Merryweather: I'll get the wands.
- Flora: Yes, you can, uh-- The wands?
- Fauna: Oh, no!
- Flora: No magic!
- Merryweather: But the sixteen years are almost over-
- Flora: We're not taking any chances.
- Merryweather: But I've never made a fancy cake before.
- Flora: Oh, you won't have to, dear.
- Fauna: I'm going to bake the cake.
- Merryweather: You?
- Flora: She's always wanted to, dear, and this is her last chance. And I'm making the dress.
- Merryweather: But you can't sew, and she's never cooked.
- Flora: Oh, it's simple. All you do is follow the book.
- Rose: Oh, dear. Why do they still treat me like a child?
- Owl: Who?
- Rose: Aunt Flora and Fauna and Merryweather. They never want me to meet anyone. But you know something? I fooled them. I have met someone.
- Owl: Who? Who? Who?
- Rose: Oh, a prince. [birds twitter] Well, he's tall and handsome and-- and so romantic. [birds twitter] Oh, we walk together and talk together. And just before we say goodbye he takes me in his arms...and then...I wake up. [birds sigh] Yes, it's only in my dreams. But, they say, if you dream a thing more than once it's sure to come true...and I've seen him so many times.
- [Philip and Rose meet for the first time.]
- Philip: I'm awfully sorry. I didn't mean to frighten you.
- Rose: Oh, it, uh, wasn't that. It's just that you're a-- a--
- Philip: A stranger?
- Rose: Mm-hmm.
- Philip: But don't you remember? We've met before.
- Rose: We-- We have?
- Philip: Well, of course. You said so yourself. Once upon a dream.
- Merryweather: I think we've had enough of this nonsense! I think we ought to think of Rose and what she'll think of this mess. I still think what I thunk before. I'm going to get those wands.
- Fauna: [to Flora] You know, I think she's right.
- Flora: Quick, lock the doors. Uh, Fauna, you close the windows. Oh, block up every cranny. We can't take any chances. [passes Fauna her wand] Now, you take care of the cake.
- Merryweather: While I--
- Flora: [hands Merryweather her wand] Clean the room, dear. And I'll make the dress. Now hurry!
- Merryweather: Ooh! Come on, bucket, mop, broom. Flora says clean up the room.
- Flora: And now to make a lovely dress, fit to grace a fair princess.
- Fauna: Eggs, flour, milk-- Just do it like it says here in the book. I'll put on the candles.
- Merryweather: [sees the dress Flora has made] Oh, no, not pink! Make it blue. [changes it blue, magically]
- Flora: Merryweather! Make it pink. [makes it pink]
- Merryweather: [carries on magically mopping] Make it blue. [makes it blue again]
- Flora: Oh, pink!
- King Stefan: Well, it may come as quite a shock.
- King Hubert: [spits out his wine] "SHOCK"?! MY PHILIP A SHOCK?! WHAT'S WRONG WITH MY PHILIP?!
- King Stefan: Nothing, Hubert. I only meant--
- King Hubert: Why doesn't your daughter like my son?
- King Stefan: Now, Now--
- King Hubert: I'm not sure if my son likes your daughter!
- King Stefan: Now, see here--
- King Hubert: I'm not so sure my grandchildren want you for a grandfather!
- King Stefan: WHY, YOU, YOU, UNREASONABLE, POMPOUS, BLUSTERING OLD WINDBAG!
- King Hubert: "Unreasonable, pompous"...? EN GUARDE, SIR! [pulls a fish off the table]
- King Stefan: I WARN YOU, HUBERT: THIS MEANS WAR! [uses a platter as a shield]
- King Hubert: [starts fighting] FORWARD! FOR HONOR! FOR COUNTRY! FOR... [he and King Stefan realize that they're fighting over nothing, then they start laughing] What's this all about, anyway?
- King Stefan: Nothing, Hubert. Absolutely nothing.
- Flora: Bolt the door, Merryweather. Fauna, pull the drapes. [to Aurora] And now, dear, if you'll just sit here. This one last gift, dear child, for thee, the symbol of thy royalty: a crown to wear in grace and beauty, as is thy right and royal duty.
- [Aurora starts to cry]
- Fauna: Now, dear--
- Flora: Come. Let her have a few moments alone.
- Fauna: Poor King Stefan and the queen.
- Merryweather: They'll be heartbroken when the find out.
- Flora: They're not going to.
- Merryweather: They aren't?
- Fauna: But--
- Flora: We'll put them all to sleep until Rose awakens.
- King Hubert: [to King Stefan as Flora puts them under the spell] Well, just been talking to Philip. Seems he's fallen in love with some-- peasant girl. [falls asleep]
- Flora: Peasant girl? [flies back to him] Yes? Yes? The peasant girl? Who is she? Where did he meet her?
- King Hubert: Uh, just some peasant girl he met--
- Flora: Where? Where?
- King Hubert: [falling asleep] Once upon a dream.
- Flora: Once upon a dre-- Rose! Prince Philip! Oh! Oh! Come on. We've got to get back to the cottage.
- Maleficent: Well! This is a pleasant surprise. I set my trap for a peasant, and lo, I catch a prince. [laughs] Away with him. But gently, my pets. Gently. I have plans for our royal guest.
- Maleficent: What a pity Prince Philip can't be here to enjoy the celebration. Come, let's go to the dungeon and cheer him up.
- Maleficent: Oh, come now, Prince Philip. Why so melancholy? A wondrous future lies before you. You, the destined hero of a charming fairy tale come true. [shows Philip an image of a castle, using her wand] Behold, King Stefan's castle. And in yonder topmost tower, dreaming of her true love, the Princess Aurora. But see the gracious whim of fate. Why, 'tis the selfsame peasant maid who won the heart of our noble prince but yesterday. She is indeed most wondrous fair, gold of sunshine in her hair, lips that shame the red, red rose. In ageless sleep, she finds repose. The years roll by. But a hundred years, to a steadfast heart, are but a day. And now, the gates of a dungeon part and our prince is free to go his way. Off he rides on his noble steed-- [shows him walking slowly away on his horse, old and slumped] a valiant figure, straight and tall-- to wake his love with love's first kiss...and prove that "true love" conquers all! [laughs wildly]
- Merryweather: Why, you, you, y-- [Flora pulls her back into hiding]
- Maleficent: Come, my pet. Let us leave our noble prince with these happy thoughts. [at the door] A most gratifying day. For the first time in sixteen years I shall sleep well.
- [Flora, Fauna and Merryweather fly in]
- Flora: Shh! No time to explain. [they magically break his chains and he gets up to leave] Wait, Prince Philip. The road to true love may be barred by still many more dangers, which you alone will have to face. So arm thyself with this enchanted sheild of virtue, and this mighty sword of truth, for these weapons of righteousness will triumph over evil. Now come, we must hurry.
- Maleficent: A forest of thorns shall be his tomb, borne through the skies on a fog of doom! Now go with a curse and serve me well. 'Round Stefan's castle cast my spell.
- [Last lines. The fairies are watching Philip and Aurora dance; Fauna begins to cry.]
- Flora: Why Fauna, what's the matter, dear?
- Fauna: Oh, I just love happy endings.
- Flora: Yes, I do too-- t-- Ooh! [notices Aurora's dress] Blue! Pink. [turns the dress pink]
- Merryweather: Blue. [changes it back to blue]
- [The dress continues to change color as the couple dances into the clouds.]
- (Aurora's singing after meeting Prince Phillip)
- Fauna: She's in love of--
- Merryweather: Oh no!
- Flora: This is terrible!
- Aurora: Why? After all, I am sixteen.
- Flora: It isn't that, dear.
- Fauna: You are already betrothed.
- Aurora: Betrothed?
- Merryweather: Since the day you were born.
- Fauna: To Prince Phillip, dear.
- Aurora: But that's impossible! How could've I marry a prince? I have to be-
- Merryweather: A princess.
- Fauna: And you are, dear.
- Flora: Princess Aurora. Tonight we're taking you back to your father, King Stefan.
- Aurora: But I can't! He's coming here tonight, I'd promise to meet him.
- Flora: I'm sorry, child. But you must never see that young man again.
- Aurora: Oh no! No! I can't believe it! No! No!
- (She runs to her room crying)
- Merryweather: And we thought she'll be so happy.
[edit] Cast
Princess Aurora/Briar Rose (voice) - Mary Costa
Prince Phillip (voice) - Bill Shirley
Maleficent (voice) - Eleanor Audley
Flora (voice) - Verna Felton
Merryweather (voice) - Barbara Luddy
Fauna (voice) - Barbara Jo Allen
Stefan (voice) - Taylor Holmes
Hubert (voice) - Bill Thompson
[edit] External Links
Sleeping Beauty quotes at the Internet Movie Database
