I watched Sleeping Beauty (1959) just about 2 weeks ago, and upon re-visiting it, it is one of the most massive, incredibly ambitious, most pleasurable animated film I ever seen.
You ever just watch a film with the vibrant colors, cute characters, and didn't expect as an adult to relate to the emotional depth of the characters, and some symbolism and dark imagery?
Sorry to say but Disney rarely does that in their films in my opinion. I mostly found their movies to be more aimed at beginners who are looking for something to start being amused by. Moana, Tarzan, Aladdin, they're perfect for regular people but not for me.
Sleeping Beauty is just beautiful, simple as that. There's a purpose at least and there's a natural intelligence to the entire film that makes it likeable.
The start of the film is just perfect. So much power, my favorite bits are when The Three Fairies watch Aurora at birth and they grant gifts and we get to see these utterly cool effects.
Maleficent is truly wicked and her castle is just like her personality, I love the green color palette.
We get a glimpse inside of the castle.
What I notice is that the movies I like especially animated in this era, are not full on the dialogue. It's strange because movies I absoutely enjoyed that weren't fully animated are dialogue heavy to be honest, it's so weird. But maybe I just have certain tastes that fit the genre of the films best.
They did so good with the final act of the movie. The final fight of Maleficent's dragon transformation and everything.
Credits to FILMGRAB.
This movie was insane production-wise. It had taken nearly a decade to make. It was made during Cinderella's release and further releases like Alice In Wonderland and Peter Pan. There was alot of experimental elements to the movie, using the Cinemascope method like in Lady And The Tramp, the angular but still charming art style, and the rise of TV from Walt Disney's studio. It was alot, and luckily this film was confident enough to be released in January of 1959.
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