Comments on: New Sleeping Beauty will turn the title character into a stalker

By: Quiche de Resistance

Quiche de Resistance — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 16:52:00 +0000

Not approving this kind of thing (obvious sexual assault fetish, just without the violence) but there’s a thing for this kind of thing, if one cares to google “sleep creep.” (them ladies are some heavy sleepers.)

I hate to admit this, but I can kind of understand the appeal, if only cause my wife, when she actually says yes at all usually says “fine go ahead, but I’m going to sleep.” :(

By: Jellodyne

Jellodyne — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 16:23:00 +0000

Giant MECHANICAL spider.

By: Quiche de Resistance

Quiche de Resistance — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 16:20:00 +0000

There’s a nice bit of Sleeping Beauty (Booty?) in Dan Simmons’ Olympos. A male character must awaken a hundreds of years sleeping beauty by, um, putting his chocolate in her peanut butter.

By: Red Tash

Red Tash — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 15:46:00 +0000

So sick of Sleeping Beauty. Ready for an ass-kicking version, and thinking of writing it, myself.

By: penguinchris

penguinchris — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 14:11:00 +0000

I’m not sure we’re supposed to understand all of the free-association stylings here but I really can’t figure out the dig against people who are aware of the excellent Bogart film noir The Big Sleep (based on a Chandler novel). I guess it’s supposed to be a joke, but…?

By: YamaraTheGod

YamaraTheGod — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 14:05:00 +0000

If I’d known you weren’t in a coma, I’d have never laid a hand on you!

http://www.rhymes-with-witch.com/rww05022011.shtml

By: wizardru

wizardru — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 13:31:00 +0000

You missed the joke. He’s referring to a famous story told by Kevin Smith about working on a Superman movie with Jon Peters. It’s a pretty funny story and is up on youtube.

By: Crashproof

Crashproof — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 11:49:00 +0000

Creeping Beauty, obviously.

By: rachel612

rachel612 — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 10:29:00 +0000

This is one of the best things Boing Boing has ever posted.

By: pKp

pKp — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 10:17:00 +0000

IIRC, the whole “impenetrable thorny bush” (snigger) thing was actually retained in the Disney version.

By: pKp

pKp — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 10:17:00 +0000

Yup, loved it.

By: Chentzilla

Chentzilla — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 08:58:00 +0000

>This BoingBoing website is not the same as the similarly-named Boing Boing zine.

…since this girl and her penis jokes appeared here. What is she trying, to beat Maggie’s four-pronged echidna dick?

By: comersuerte

comersuerte — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 06:58:00 +0000

I think it might make for a good dark romantic comedy actually. The prince is drawn to kiss this sleeping beauty (he realizes it’s creepy as hell what he’s doing) and runs when she wakes up rather than stick around. She then stalks him knowing he’s really her true love. Misunderstandings occur… they finally get together. It follows the romcom rules perfectly and taking a borrowed titled from the past but setting it in modern day…. is fine by me.

By: BruceMcBruce

BruceMcBruce — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 06:35:00 +0000

The text is still available at http://www.holycow.com/dreaming/stories/snow-glass-apples/

As you said, a great take on it – very creepy.

By: Gyrofrog

Gyrofrog — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 05:39:00 +0000

Well I, for one, am glad that We (the collective we) have found something better to do with tens of millions of dollars.

By: Tynam

Tynam — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 05:18:00 +0000

A thousand times yes! We need more bear-feeding women in our fairy-tale movies.

By: TWX

TWX — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 04:42:00 +0000

Honestly it’s been probably twenty-plus years since I’ve seen the Disney version of the story, and I never saw The Princess And The Frog as the story didn’t appeal.

I guess the flipside was the situation with the female lead in Kill Bill, where she’s in the coma at the beginning…

By: Daemonworks

Daemonworks — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 04:04:00 +0000

What part of “strange man walks up to sleeping-in-magical-castle-girl and kisses her” involves ‘true love’? Her quasi-necrophilia aside, the only way it would be love for her (of any sort), at the moment she is kissed is if the spell that put her to sleep actually enforces the love on her part. Or a reasonable facsimile thereof. This isn’t much of a stretch at all.

Also, and far more importantly… there’s more than one ‘traditional’ version of the story. Actually, there’s a lot of them, but as you seem to be borrowing the Disney version (as most people do), I’ll point out that Disney bases their fairy tales on the Perrault, who himself copied the tale largely from Basile, in which the lead character (named Talia in that verison) actually gets raped…

(Technically, Disney may have actually borrowed from Grimm on this one as they end in the same place. That said, the Grimm version is widely recognized to be itself derrived from Perrault)

By: kmoser

kmoser — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 03:22:00 +0000

This BoingBoing website is not the same as the similarly-named Boing Boing zine. Perhaps the website should be called something else? (No, I’m not serious.)

By: Daniel Friesen

Daniel Friesen — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 02:36:00 +0000

Set a precedent? ;) I think you mean “Slightly raise the precedent”. I remember an absolutely horrible Hollywood Live-Action adaption of a Japanese Manga/Anime.
Hollywood already has terrible precedents with adaptions.

By: John Harrison

John Harrison — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 02:26:00 +0000

Google that complete sentence. And make sure to watch the complete video.

By: Missy Pants

Missy Pants — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 02:19:00 +0000

This is the version I grew up with.

While we’re at it, can we address Snow White & Rose Red?It always bothered me that they just did away with her sister wholesale!

By: Missy Pants

Missy Pants — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 02:17:00 +0000

You mean allegory to horrible forced middle ages sex?
Where’s the giant thorny rose bush that grew up around the castle in 100 years and was only PENETRABLE by the prince with the MAGIC SWORD?

Disney left those parts out eh?

Don’t even get me started on the Frog Prince!

By: eldritch

eldritch — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 01:55:00 +0000

Not sure if you’re intentionally implying spiders to be insects, or…

*head scratch*

By: malindrome

malindrome — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 01:21:00 +0000

Paging Anne Rice …

By: Gtmac

Gtmac — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 00:58:00 +0000

Will It (culturally) Blend?

By: Nagurski

Nagurski — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 00:46:00 +0000

This would really set a terrible precedent for Hollywood by being unfaithful to the original story, and introducing logical inconsistency into fairy tales. It must never happen.

By: John Harrison

John Harrison — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 23:52:00 +0000

Spiders are the fiercest killers in the insect kingdom.

By: Ashley Yakeley

Ashley Yakeley — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 23:36:00 +0000

Looks like this is the one: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun,_Moon,_and_Talia

By: Stooge

Stooge — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 23:35:00 +0000

It seems churlish to criticise the new film for using the name ‘Sleeping Beauty’ when the Disney version would have been more accurately titled ‘Stepford Necrophile Re-Animator II’.