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...once upon a dream....
I grew up on classic Disney movies. Snow White, Cinderella, Peter Pan, etc. For the record, Little Mermaid wasn't released on video until I was in the 7th grade. And while I loved it dearly and had a huge crush on Prince Eric until he was dethroned by Aladdin, it was Golden Age Disney that truly influenced my young little mind. And people wonder why I have a thing for men who can sing.
An unusual movie was in my collection of classic Disney: Sleeping Beauty. You see, Disney released Sleeping Beauty on video in 1986. My father rented the tape and recorded it for us. It seemed almost no one had a copy of this release (illegal or otherwise...) but I cannot tell you why. *shrugs* I remember I was working at Blockbuster when the movie was released again on official video in 1997, and my coworkers were completely astonished that I could sing along and recite the lines perfectly when we played it for the first time on the store tv system. =3
Now, the recording from 80s contained the original line of dialogue by Maleficent when she faces off the Prince at the very end: "Now you face ME, oh prince! And all the powers of HELLL!!!!!!!" This was changed in subsequent releases of the film to: "Now you face ME, oh prince! And all the powers of my imagination!!!!!" Oooooh, scary. Young minds must be protected from naughty four-letter words, after all. Even if they hear the full gamut of them at school and on the street every day. *snorts*
Anyway, I bring this up b/c one thing from that movie terrified me. Not the dragon, not Maleficent's curse, not the strangeness of how the three good fairies could raise the baby to a teenager without magic and yet still not be able to cook, clean, or sew by her 16th birthday. No, what terrified me was when Princess Aurora (then Briar Rose the peasant girl) told her forest friends about her dream of the romantic young man. She tells them, "But if you dream something more than once, it's sure to come true. And I've dreamed of him so many times."
I thought I was so screwed. O.o After all, I dreamed of the same horrible life-threatening nightmares over and over so many times. And look at the Princess! Her Princely repetitive dream came true! How nice for HER!!! *hides* This concept seriously disturbed me from the first time I watched the film. In the back of my mind I constantly worried that the girl-eating Tyrannosaur I always dreamed of would really appear and eat everyone in my family, saving me for dessert. Or that huge cliff I always had to climb but never ended in a Twilight-zone-esque infinite loop would manifest itself in front of me and I'd spend the rest of my days climbing and climbing and climbing. Or all those horrible dreams of going to school buck-naked. *shudders in terror* I have no idea how many times those nightmares would jolt me awake in the middle of the night, and I'd be left terrified that THIS time was the qualifying repetition to invoke said dream into reality. Ghaaa!
Kids are funny. A movie with nasty black magic, a killer dinosaur-sized dragon, dark curses, dresses that cannot be left in one color for more than 10 minutes, arranged marriages, and of course the horribly scarring and life-ruining scream of the word "HELLL!!!!!!" and I latch upon a sweet little comment to scare the crap out of me. *snicker*
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An unusual movie was in my collection of classic Disney: Sleeping Beauty. You see, Disney released Sleeping Beauty on video in 1986. My father rented the tape and recorded it for us. It seemed almost no one had a copy of this release (illegal or otherwise...) but I cannot tell you why. *shrugs* I remember I was working at Blockbuster when the movie was released again on official video in 1997, and my coworkers were completely astonished that I could sing along and recite the lines perfectly when we played it for the first time on the store tv system. =3
Now, the recording from 80s contained the original line of dialogue by Maleficent when she faces off the Prince at the very end: "Now you face ME, oh prince! And all the powers of HELLL!!!!!!!" This was changed in subsequent releases of the film to: "Now you face ME, oh prince! And all the powers of my imagination!!!!!" Oooooh, scary. Young minds must be protected from naughty four-letter words, after all. Even if they hear the full gamut of them at school and on the street every day. *snorts*
Anyway, I bring this up b/c one thing from that movie terrified me. Not the dragon, not Maleficent's curse, not the strangeness of how the three good fairies could raise the baby to a teenager without magic and yet still not be able to cook, clean, or sew by her 16th birthday. No, what terrified me was when Princess Aurora (then Briar Rose the peasant girl) told her forest friends about her dream of the romantic young man. She tells them, "But if you dream something more than once, it's sure to come true. And I've dreamed of him so many times."
I thought I was so screwed. O.o After all, I dreamed of the same horrible life-threatening nightmares over and over so many times. And look at the Princess! Her Princely repetitive dream came true! How nice for HER!!! *hides* This concept seriously disturbed me from the first time I watched the film. In the back of my mind I constantly worried that the girl-eating Tyrannosaur I always dreamed of would really appear and eat everyone in my family, saving me for dessert. Or that huge cliff I always had to climb but never ended in a Twilight-zone-esque infinite loop would manifest itself in front of me and I'd spend the rest of my days climbing and climbing and climbing. Or all those horrible dreams of going to school buck-naked. *shudders in terror* I have no idea how many times those nightmares would jolt me awake in the middle of the night, and I'd be left terrified that THIS time was the qualifying repetition to invoke said dream into reality. Ghaaa!
Kids are funny. A movie with nasty black magic, a killer dinosaur-sized dragon, dark curses, dresses that cannot be left in one color for more than 10 minutes, arranged marriages, and of course the horribly scarring and life-ruining scream of the word "HELLL!!!!!!" and I latch upon a sweet little comment to scare the crap out of me. *snicker*
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