Dating and Disney: Real Life Applications

NOTE: I lost this, and then found it, so it's a re-post of an older one =D

 

For reasons that allude me, there's been an over saturation of Snow White on screen, including and not limited to "Once Upon a Time", "Snow White and the Huntsman", and "Mirror Mirror." Almost every girl has a favorite Disney Princess. Mine has always been Sleeping Beauty, which may seem an oxymoron considering how much I hate Barbies, but if one will look closely at the elements of the story, they far surpass Snow White in greatness, not only as far as storytelling goes, but in greatness of heart. There is an abundant amount of similarities in both stories, but it's the differences that prove that Sleeping Beauty is in fact the greater story and should be getting all of the hype. I think a lot of people mistakenly assume Sleeping Beauty is a boring story because all she does is sleep, but that's just ignorant. She doesn't sleep very long, and it's what happens before that makes the story so great - kinda like with Star Wars! Were I skilled enough, I would draw a Venn Diagram on here, alas a T-chart and lists will have to do. 

Similarities

1. Beautiful Princesses

2. Sleep induced by jealous woman

3. Saved by a Prince

4. Tricked by magic

5. Gifted with song

6. Animal whisperer

7. Awakened by true love's kiss

8. Both spend most of their childhood not living as princesses should.

9. Both approached by strangers

10. Both women villains either don't have hair, or don't like to show it? 

 

Differences

Mother and Father                                              Father only

Villain = Maleficent                                           Villain = Stepmother

Pricks finger on spinning wheel                          Eats poison apple

Maleficent turns into a dragon             Stepmother turns into old hag

Fairies help her                                                    Dwarfs help her

Why "Sleeping Beauty" is Better:

***Key: SB = Sleeping Beauty. SW = Snow White

1. Maleficent is the better villain. She: 

a. Goes and takes care of business herself, wasting no time. She shows up to a party, uninvited, puts a curse on SB, sends demons out to kill her, then makes SB prick her finger.

b. Has awesome magic powers and that staff? B.A.! What's coolest is that she turns into a badace dragon and fights the prince. 

c. Has her own villain lair of a castle and an entire army at her disposal without stealin' it from no man. 

The stepmother in SW lazily sends a huntsman, then gets all pissy when she has to go do it herself. And she runs from little people, c'mon!

2. Maleficent is smarter than the stepmother. She tricks the Prince into coming to the cottage, then kidnaps him and throws him in the dungeons. She also has to fight off the faeries and such. All the stepmother does is make an apple and fake bein' old. Tooough.

3. The Princes: First off, the Prince in SW plays such a small role in the story that he doesn't even have a name. Secondly, Prince Phillip is way more studly:

(Nice buns right?! I lol'd when I saw this. Apparently this is his dungeon outfit?)

4. Access to SW is easy. She's in a glass coffin. He walks through the forest, opens it, and gets the girl. The only way to get to SB is to cut through a forest maze of razor sharp brier thorns miles long to even get to the castle. Once he gets through that, he has to kill a dragon before he even gets to her.

5. SB is an actual love story. You watch them start betrothed, find each other years later without knowing who they are, and then are torn apart by the very same betrothal. You know what they don't and that's what makes it so rewarding when he finds her in the tower in the end and when they're announced together at the ball.

6. The time limit in Sleeping Beauty gives the story a "page turner" feeling. They have until her sixteenth birthday before she's supposed to die, only so long to get the Prince out of Maleficent's castle, etc etc.

7. The curse in Sleeping Beauty is death, while SW's curse, by a stretch, is her beauty. Death's a bit more final an ending than beauty.

8. Prince Phillip has magic and faeries to help him; much cooler than dwarfs who mine for diamonds.

 

9. The love in SW is love at first sight, while SB is about true love. Prince Phillip is willing to give up everything and go to hell and back and fight a dragon the death to save her. Hot.

10. SB has more characters and more humor.

11. SB's name is Aurora or Briar Rose, and then there's Snow. SB has a more beautiful name and while SW may be the fairest of them all in HER kingdom/relam, you can't argue when putting them side, who is the most beautiful. SB pwns SW, hence the title "Sleeping BEAUTY." 

 

12. SB's animation was the first of its kind and is still a marvel to look at with the intricate detail and gorgeous attention to medieval decor with the castle, clothing, and  amazing color! There's even a whole documentary out on the breaking phenomenon SB was.

13. SW ignoring the whole "don't talk to strangers" bit is worse than SB's because she takes candy from a stranger too, and not just any old stranger, a fugly hag. Apparently no one taught her the rules of trick or treat! With SB, it's more understandable that she talks to strangers because heellllooo, look at him! 

Which stranger would you talk to?! Hmm, tough decision...

 

14. Prince Phillip has an awesome steed that adds humor and makes him seem more princely/knightly when he goes to save her and fight.

15. Pretty easy "cutest couple" contest. Winners = SB

For these reasons and many more, I'm hoping to see more SB stuff. I'm pretty stoked about "Maleficent" in 2014 with Angelina Jolie!

It's always cool to see a story from another character's perspective - well, almost always, Edward's view in Twilight, not so much.

Maybe the real reason it's my favorite is because I can relate. I'm just a sleeping beauty (maybe the beauty part not so much), waiting for this:

True Love's Kiss

...Naaahhh. ;)