Notes on where we want to go!

Plot Broken Down

1. Arrival of baby
2. Female family member - unhappy/jealous - curses child
3. Child protected and watched out for excessively
4. Wandering. Tricked into doing something she didn't want to do. Coerced - naivety.
5. Finger pricks - curse activated
6. She and whole kingdom put to sleep
7. One hundred years pass
8. Handsome Prince rescues her. True loves kiss needs to happen to wake her (and the kingdom up)
9. Wakes up. Lives happily ever after.

-Slept as a child, woke up a woman.

Modern Day Context

1. Female junkie - gives child to sister who can't have children
2. What if  'Sleeping Beauty' went "offline."

-Think about WHY the girl doesn't rebel. 

-God = metaphor for Prince

Sleep

• Join a commune
• Depression
• Suicidal
• Holiday
• Runs away
• Leaves life
• Transition from girl to womanhood 
• Coma (medical)

-Play on cliche of Prince

-Non Linear narrative

-Characters Change ---> Ellude

****Romeo and Juliet - HOW it's changed through renditions. 

Modern film is more brutal - disguised brutality.

To Do

• List of films derived from books/inspired by books ---> how these managed to get key themes across.
• How fairy tales are translated
• What is modern society?
• How fairy tales are translated into modern context
• Folk Lore/legend precedent

Focuses

• Editing
• Colour
• Dialogue
• Characters
• Sets
• Costumes

Art Direction + Costume = Visual Narrative

Key Areas

• Film
• Recontextualising Fairy tales
• What is modern?
• Visual Narrative/set design/art direction

Could possibly look into a fashion designer and see if they are willing to donate clothing for costumes and be a part of our final piece.

 - Lady Gaga

 - Priscilla in the Desert

WHAT IN MODERN WE QUITE LIKE!!!!

Modern Retellings

Sleeping Beauty has been popular for many fairytale fantasy retellings. These include Mercedes Lackey's Elemental Masters novel The Gates of Sleep; Robin McKinley's Spindle's End, Orson Scott Card's Enchantment, Jane Yolen's Briar Rose, Sophie Masson's Clementine, andAnne Rice's Sleeping Beauty Trilogy.

• The curse of the fairy godmother, by itself, has been taken from the tale and used in many contexts. George MacDonald used it in his Sleeping Beauty parody, The Light Princess, where the evil fairy godmother curses the princess not to death but to lack gravity — leaving her both lacking in physical weight and unable to take other people's suffering seriously. In Andrew Lang's Prince Prigio, the queen, who does not believe in fairies, does not invite them; the fairies come anyway and give good gifts, except for the last one, who says that he shall be "too clever" — and the problems with such a gift are only revealed later. In Patricia Wrede's Enchanted Forest Chronicles, a princess laments that she wasn't cursed at her christening. When another character points out that many princesses aren't (even in the Chronicles' fairy-tale setting), she complains that in her case the wicked fairy did come to the christening, "had a wonderful time", and left the princess with no way to assume her proper, fairy-tale role.

• Angela Carter's "The Bloody Chamber" provides a postmodern retelling of Sleeping Beauty entitled "The Lady of the House of Love". Although she deviates significantly from the original subject matter she keeps intact what she terms the "latent content", for example though not actually asleep there are repeated references to the protagonist existing as a somnambulist . The story follows the life of a Transylvanian vampire condemned by her fate until a young soldier arrives who, through his innocence, frees her from her curse.

• Waking Rose is a modern-day take on the story. The heroine, Rose (named after Briar Rose), is put into a coma; she has to be saved by her boyfriend from two doctors who want to euthanize her after she had previously discovered that they illegally killed people to sell their organs off the black market. It is not posted on the Surlalune website, although other books of the series are.

• Annaliese Evans' "Night's Rose" continues to play on the same elements from part two of Sleeping Beauty. Where the heroine, Rosemarie Edenberg (the princess) has her mind set on wiping out the entire orgre tribe. Through her journey she is joined by her fairy advisor Ambrose Nuit and a Vampire Lord Gareth Shenley.

• The Puerto Rican writer, Rosario Ferré, has a story entitled, "Sleeping Beauty", in her collection of stories, "The Youngest Doll." The story deals with a lot of the elements found in the fairy tale.

Uses of Sleeping Beauty:

• One of the fairy gifts is sometimes misremembered as Intelligence. No such gift was however offered in Perrault's version: not appropriate in 1697, when a good ear for playing music appeared more essential. More modern versions of the tale might include, apart from Intelligence, Courage and Independence as fairy gifts. This can be compared with the gifts Moll Flanders apparently possessed, in the book with the same name that appeared precisely a quarter of a century after Perrault's Sleeping Beauty (1722).

• Freudian psychologists, encouraged by Bruno Bettelheim's The Uses of Enchantment, have found rich materials to analyze in Sleeping Beauty as a case history of latent female sexuality and a prescription for the passive socialization of those young women who were not destined for work.

• Eric Berne uses this fairy tale to illustrate "Waiting for Rigor Mortis", as one of the life scripts. After pointing out that almost everything in this story could actually happen, he singles out the key illusion that the story fails to recognize: that the time didn't stop while she was asleep, that in reality Rose won't be fifteen years old, but thirty, forty, or fifty. Berne uses this and other fairy tales as a convenient tool to puncture the script armor that captivates people.

• Joan Gould's book Turning Straw into Gold reclaims the story for women's agency, arguing that Sleeping Beauty is an example of a woman's ability to "turn off" in times of crisis. She cites a version of the story where the princess awakes when the prince enters the room, because she knows it's time to wake up.

• Terry Pratchett refers to several fairy tales in his Discworld series, especially in reference to witches who try to control the narrative potential of their world. In Wyrd Sisters the Lancre witches draw on the influence of Black Aliss, who moved a castle and its inhabitants one hundred years into the future, when Granny Weatherwax transports her own native kingdom seventeen years ahead to allow the proper heir to the usurped throne to reach adulthood abroad without having to wait. Later, in Witches Abroad, the same coven comes across a castle that has fallen under a curse that causes everyone to slumber while the forest grows into the courtyard; Granny explains that it's happened dozens of times. The servants wake up angry and determined to chase the witches away after they rouse the princess, not with a kiss but by pitching the spinning wheel out the window.

• Pamela Ditchoff's novel, Mrs. Beast, explores what happened to the famous Fairy Tales princesses including Sleeping Beauty after they said "I Do!".

• The Princess's sleeping attendants, waiting to accompany her when she wakes in the other world, even to the spit-boys in the kitchens and her pet dog, expresses one of the most ancient themes in ritual burial practices, though Perrault was probably unaware of the Egyptian burials, and certainly unaware of the royal tombs of Queen Puabi of the Third Dynasty of Ur, the courtiers that accompanied early emperors of China in the tomb, the horses that accompanied the noble riders in the kurgans of Scythian Pasyryk. The King and Queen are not included in this analogue of a burial, but retire, while the protective spectral thorn forest immediately grows up to protect the castle and its occupants, as effective as a tumulus.

• Anne Rice's erotic novel, The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty, written under the name of A. N. Roquelaure, is loosely based on this fairy tale.

• Sleeping Beauty appears as a character in the Fables comic book. She is one of the three ex-wives of Prince Charming, and is one of the wealthier Fables. She is still vulnerable to pricking herself, falling back into an enchanted slumber when this happens, along with all others in whatever building she is in. She is clearly identified as the 'Briar Rose' character and never referred to as Sleeping Beauty.

• The second half of Sleeping Beauty appears as one of the comics in Little Lit. The comic is written and drawn by famed comics author Daniel Clowes.

• In 2002 the Dutch-speaking author Toon Tellegen published Brieven aan Doornroosje "Letters to Sleeping Beauty"), leading, in 2005, to a year-long daily series of such letters, imagined to be written by the prince making his quest to Sleeping Beauty's castle, being presented at the Flemish classical radio station (Klara), every morning just before 7 h opening the day program.

• In the book Sisters Grimm she is one of the people who actually do not despise Relda Grimm. She is shown as a very kind person and she has cocoa colored skin.

• In Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child, Sleeping Beauty's depicted as a Hispanic princess named Rosita. She was under the spell for a century.

• The Sleeping Beauty (Live in Israel) is a live album by Tiamat.

• Angela Carter reinterpreted the tale for her collection of short stories The Bloody Chamber.

• Caitlín R. Kiernan's "Glass Coffin" is a retelling of "Sleeping Beauty." It appears in her collection Tales of Pain and Wonder. The story's title is a reference to P. J. Harvey's song "Hardly Wait", which is itself also a reference to "Sleeping Beauty."

• Sheri S. Tepper adapts the Sleeping Beauty story in her novel, Beauty. This novel also includes references to Cinderella and The Frog Prince.

• Bruce Bennett adapted Sleeping Beauty into a Children's Musical with Lynne Warren, which made its world premiere at Riverwalk Theatre

• Catherynne M. Valente adapted the story in The Maiden-Tree, in which she likens the spindle to a syringe.

• The computer game Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne uses Sleeping Beauty as an allegory to the game's own ending when Max kisses a dead Mona Sax on the lips—-according to Max, "...all this time we got the story of Sleeping Beauty all wrong." He theorizes that the prince, much like Max himself, is not kissing Sleeping Beauty to wake her up, but rather to wake himself from the hope and pain that brought him there—-Max states, "No one who's slept for a hundred years is likely to wake up." However, if one manages to beat the game on the hardest difficulty, Mona will wake up after the kiss, surviving in the alternate ending.

• In philosophy, the Sleeping Beauty paradox is a thought-experiment where Beauty is given an amnesiac and put to sleep on Sunday night. A coin is flipped and if heads occurs, she will be awoken on Monday and then put back to sleep. if tails occurs, she is awoken on Monday and Tuesday. Whenever she awakes, she will be asked what her subjective probability is for the coin having landed heads. Everybody agrees that she will answer 1/2 before the experiment, but some argue that during the experiment she will answer 1/3. If that is the case then she is said to defy the Reflection Principle, commonly thought by Bayesians to be a constraint on rationality.

• In Cardcaptor Sakura, Sakura's class performs Sleeping Beauty in the episode "Sakura and the Blacked Out School Arts Festival", with the characters chosen at random. Sakura gets the title of the Prince and Syaoran gets the title of Aurora, with Yamazaki earning the title of the witch in the manga. However, since Meilin took the role of the witch in the anime, Yamazaki became the queen which lead to Rika, who was the queen in the manga, to be one of the fairies instead of an unnamed boy.

• In Kaori Yuki's manga, Ludwig Revolution, the queen was infertile and had Princess Friederike after a fish relayed a prophecy. Rather than meeting a servant, the princess pricked her finger when the witch told her that there had been no prophesy; instead the queen had been raped and she was not the king's daughter. Friederike touched the spindle as a way to test if the witch was telling the truth and slept for one hundred years. When Prince Ludwig meets her in his dreams, he falls in love with her and his kiss breaks the spell. They do not, however, live happily ever after, as she dies the moment she awakens due to old age. She later returns as a spirit and lends her powers to help overthrow the false queen, Lady Petronella.

• In one chapter of Honey and Clover Morita threatens Ayumi that if she doesn't invite him to a Christmas party, he will curse her, that her future daughter, on her 15th birthday will prick her finger on a spindle and fall into a deep sleep, weirding out her and Hagumi.

• A segment of the 2005 Turkish anthology film Istanbul Tales made up of five stories inspired by popular fairy tales is based on this tale where an insane young woman is the Sleeping Beauty who lives in a Bosphorus mansion meets a young Kurdish man who has immigrated toIstanbul.

• Mattel Entertainment's (Universal Studios) Barbie as The Sleeping Beauty will be launched on March 28, 2009, features Barbie as the Princess Clarette, with music of Arnie Roth, based on Tchaikovsky's ballet, based on the story by The Brothers Grimm and Charles Perrault.

• This was spoofed on Hanna Barbera's The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo in 1985, Dreamworks LLC's Shrek the Third in 2007, Disney's own House of Mouse in 2002 and Disney's Inspector Gadget (film) in 1999.

• Walt Disney's Sleeping Beauty's main protagonist and antagonist were used in the Square-Enix/Disney collaboration PS2 games Kingdom Hearts, Kingdom Hearts 2, and will be featured in the upcoming prequel Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep for PSP. Aurora is one of the Princesses of Heart who are princesses that have no darkness in their hearts. Gathering all seven of the Princesses of Heart together will create a doorway to Kingdom Hearts, the heart of all worlds. She shares the title Princess of Heart with Cinderella, Belle, Alice, Snow White, Jasmine, and, the game's original princess, Kairi. Maleficent acts as a main antagonist in these games who helps the other Disney villains in their schemes while making her own come to fruition. Also featured in Kingdom Hearts 2 were the three good fairies Flora, Fauna, and Merryweather who give the main character, Sora, his new clothes and enable him to use his Drive Forms.

• This was also spoofed in the 1948 Popeye cartoon Wotta Knight with Olive Oyl as Sleeping Beauty.

• In the 1988 Muppet Babies episode "Slipping Beauty", while Piggy catches a case of the chicken pox, the gang cheers her up by telling her their version of the story of Sleeping Beauty over the walkie-talkie. During Piggy's imagination of the story, she plays the princess, while Kermit is the prince; Fozzie, Rowlf, and Gonzo are the three good fairies; Animal is the bad fairy, and Scooter and Skeeter are the king and queen. During the narration, Fozzie alters the princess's sleeping curse by having the princess (Piggy) step on a banana peel (since little kids shouldn't play with sharp objects) and "fall asleep" before her fourth birthday. At the same time, the "nice little cottage" is really Buckingham Palace, and Piggy only goes away to throw away the giant harp Rowlf gave her.

• In the "Sleeping Beauty" episode of Fractured Fairy Tales of the Rocky and Bullwinkle show, the narrator quickly gets through the story from the princess's birth to the point where the prince arrives at the castle. From there, rather than kiss her, the prince opens up Sleeping Beauty Land (a parody of Disneyland). While business booms, he is constantly interrupted by the bad fairy and disposes of her in many ways. Finally, at the end of the episode, after business goes downhill with fewer attendants, the princess cheers up the prince and bad fairy by waking up without true love's first kiss.

• A new book that tells the story of "Sleeping Beauty's Daughter" called "Alinda of the Loch" will be released tentatively in August 2009. It has been a multi-year writing collaboration of two teachers who each "live across the pond." Oonagh Jane Pope (UK Andover 3rd grade teacher) and Julie Ann Brown (US Santa Barbara College Professor) who each felt that it was time to tell the story of Queen Aurora of Inverness-Shire and her youngest daughter, Alinda. The Scottish fairy tale answers many a question as to why the land and the loch have held such mystery, adventure and magic throughout the passing centuries.

• Jane Yolen's novel "Briar Rose" reimagines the tale of "Sleeping Beauty" against the background of the Holocaust.

• In the Sixth/Last (depending on your viewing order) episode of The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya season one, while trapped in 'Closed Space' Kyon is given the mysterious message 'Sleeping Beauty' by Nagato Yuki via a computer.

• Joss Whedon's series Dollhouse uses this story as an extended metaphor in the aptly-named episode "Briar Rose", equating it both to the brainwashed members of the Dollhouse and a young character dealing with the after-effects of sexual abuse.

• Randy Lofficier has used Sleeping Beauty, awakened in the 1930s, as a crime-fighter nicknamed the Phantom Angel in several stories published in Tales of the Shadowmen.

• German photographer Herbert W. Hesselmann used Sleeping Beauties as title of a photo series, taken in 1983 in a bewildered French garden. The photos which show some 50 high-class classical cars in a dilapidated state covered with dust, moss and chicken dirt, caused quite a stir among car enthousiasts worldwide. The photos of the collection formerly owned by famous wine expert Michel Dovaz have been published in two books titled Sleeping Beauties and many magazine publications (Stern, Automobile Quarterly, Geo, Supercar Classics, Autoretro, ...). A new book titled "The Fate of the Sleeping Beauties" (September 2010) tells the backgrounds and the fate of the Sleeping Beauties collection.