When production first started in 1950, Walt hadnвЂ™t yet decided to use the Tchaikovsky score.В Sammy Fain and Jack Lawrence were hired that year to write original songs for the story that was in development. Eyvind Earle changed the color to purple to make it stand out more (Fauna was also yellow in much of the concept art before being changed to green). His original color choice for the interior of her sleeves was red, like fire. He made the character beautiful and more interesting as a result. Davis was inspired by a renaissance painting where a womanвЂ™s headdress came to two points, like horns. Early storyboards show that the Disney version of the evil fairy would be an old hag in bat-like attire. In regards to Maleficent, Marc Davis takes sole credit for the design of the character. Milt Khal, who animated Prince Phillip, made similar changes to his character. Marc Davis, who animated Aurora and Maleficent, made tweaks to OrebвЂ™s design of Aurora to suit the needs of making the character move. Many of the animators felt OrebвЂ™s designs were too rigid to animate with fluidity. They not only fit the style of the backgrounds, but also fit with the modern UPA style that had become popular in the 1950вЂ™s. Tom Oreb was tasked with designing the characters that would inhabit Eyvind EarleвЂ™s world. The story men felt that Sleeping Beauty spent so much time in development because Walt was distracted with live-action films, television, and Disneyland.

Aurora now meets her prince before the curse through a memorable вЂњboy meets girlвЂќ sequence, the 100 year curse was shortened to a single night, 12 good fairies became a trio, and the wicked fairy evolved from an ugly old hag into a beautiful and intelligent villain with a name nobody can forget, Maleficent. Many changes were made to the story, including twists unique to DisneyвЂ™s version. This music is quite possibly what attracted Walt Disney to the story.Дevelopment on Sleeping Beauty started at the studio in 1950. However, the music lived on and became popular outside of the ballet. The show opened on January 3rd, 1890 at the Marinsky Theater and was a flop. The production was intended to be a throwback to court spectacles of the 18th century, which lacked a clear narrative but allowed Tchaikovsky to borrow that musical style for the orchestrations. In Russia, the trio of Pyotr Tchaikovsky, Maurius Petipa and Ivab Vesevlozhsky adapted PerraultвЂ™s tale to the stage as a ballet called The Sleeping Beauty. The Perrault version traveled from France to Germany and the story was updated by the famous Brothers Grimm in 1812 when it was known as Little Briar Rose. This version found itself in the hands of Charles Perrault, who in 1697 published La Belle au Bois Dormant (literal translation is вЂњThe Beauty of the Sleeping ForestвЂќ).В PerraultвЂ™s telling is the most well known written version, but it is quite different from the Disney film, including a 100 year curse and the princeвЂ™s wicked mother attempting to eat his bride and their children. Giambattista Basile had an Italian version of the story called The Sun, the Moon, and Talia from 1634. The earliest written version was in Perceforest, an Arthurian Romance that featured a more racy version of the tale in the 14th century.

Folktales from all over the world have parallels to this story (including the Norse mythology of Brynhildr) and historians have traced a path through many works of literature. Some fairy tales really are tales вЂњAs old as time,вЂќ which is the case with what we know today as Sleeping Beauty.

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