The Origin
"SurLaLune Fairy Tales: The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault." SurLaLune Fairy Tales: The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault. N.p., n.d. Web. 25 Oct. 2014.
There have been many interpretations of the fairy tale Sleeping Beauty, with the original stemming from a french romance printed in 1528, Perceforest. In 1697 Charles Perrault wrote his version entitled Sleeping Beauty in the Wood. In Perrault's story, Maleficent was an unnamed old fairy that felt cast out from the christening of the princess and would present a "mischievous gift" to the child. Later, the Grimm Brothers wrote Little Brier Rose which became the most popular version of the story until Disney produced Sleeping Beauty. It was in the 1959 animated movie that the evil fairy, Maleficent, was portrayed as both a wicked sorceress and a fire breathing dragon. The most recent 2014 Disney version, Maleficent, tells the back story of Maleficent and how she came to be the evil mistress.
The following YouTube video, "Sleeping Beauty Uncensored", shows a modern day satire of the original Sleeping Beauty story by Giambattista Basile titled, Sun, Moon, and Talia.
The most well known version of Sleeping Beauty is Disney's 1959 version. In Disney's interpretation Maleficent was only viewed as the villain.
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