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Tchaikovsky named the princess "Aurora" in his ballet, whereas "Briar Rose" is the name of the character from the Brothers Grimm fairy tale. [10] Disney utilized both names in the film, [11] with the princess's birth name being Aurora, and her assumed name while living as a peasant being Briar Rose. [8]
Princess Aurora is the titular protagonist of the film and the third official Disney Princess. Maleficent , the evil fairy, casts a spell on Aurora as a baby that on her sixteenth birthday she will prick her finger on the spindle of a spinning wheel and die.
As Merryweather is about to give Aurora the gift of happiness, [1] Maleficent makes her appearance and curses the princess to die when she pricks her finger on a spinning wheel's spindle before sunset on her sixteenth birthday. Merryweather softens the curse so that instead of dying, Aurora will only sleep until she is awakened by true love's kiss.
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Sleeping Beauty is a 1959 American animated musical fantasy film produced by Walt Disney Productions and released by Buena Vista Film Distribution.Based on Charles Perrault's 1697 fairy tale, the film follows Princess Aurora, who was cursed by the evil fairy Maleficent to die from pricking her finger on the spindle of a spinning wheel on her 16th birthday.
Briar Rose, a pseudonym used by Princess Raisa in The Seven Realms series of novels by Cinda Williams Chima; Briar Rose (Ibara), a character in the anime show Otogi-Jushi Akazukin; Briar Rose, Aurora's mother's name in the TV show Once Upon a Time; Briar Rose, a character portrayed by India Eisley in the 2016 film, The Curse of Sleeping Beauty
The Queen gently persuades him to spare the innocent citizens, and he agrees. An elaborate waltz is performed and Princess Aurora arrives. [15] [16] She is introduced to four suitors by her doting parents. Aurora and the suitors perform the famous Rose Adagio. [17] Presently, a cloaked stranger appears and offers a gift to the princess: a spindle.
The franchise's titular protagonist, Aurora, is part of the characters in the Disney Princess franchise. [12] The main antagonist of the franchise, Maleficent, is included as a regular character of the Disney Villains franchise, [13] [14] [15] while her sidekick raven Diablo also has minor recurring appearances in said franchise. [16] [17]