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What Merryweather would have given
Posted: Sun Nov 26, 2006 8:37 pm
by Disney Duster
Flanger-Hanger wrote:In the early drafts fro the movie Merryweather's gift was the "gentellness of spring rain" so it couldn't have been her job to give aurora some intelligence (to get that she probably would have been tought by a tutor in the castle)
How do you know this? I suppose the gift would have been the Gift of Grace eventually (gentleness and grace are similar, right?) I'm so glad I actually know what the gift might have been! It makes more sense than Happiness, actually, as happiness is a feeling while gentleness is an attribute, especially one desired in the stereotypical girl.
Re: What Merryweather would have given
Posted: Sun Nov 26, 2006 9:25 pm
by Disneykid
Disney Duster wrote:Flanger-Hanger wrote:In the early drafts fro the movie Merryweather's gift was the "gentellness of spring rain" so it couldn't have been her job to give aurora some intelligence (to get that she probably would have been tought by a tutor in the castle)
How do you know this? I suppose the gift would have been the Gift of Grace eventually (gentleness and grace are similar, right?) I'm so glad I actually know what the gift might have been! It makes more sense than Happiness, actually, as happiness is a feeling while gentleness is an attribute, especially one desired in the stereotypical girl.
The 1951 story outline for the film found on the DVD is probably where she got that from. That said, it's not that reliable of a source to determine what Merryweather's gift would've been. In the original draft, each fairy strictly controlled what their named suggested. Flora dealt with plants, Fauna with animals, and Merryweather with weather. When the story team found this too constricting, they abandoned that approach but kept the names. So, really, we may never truly know what that gift would've been had Maleficent never barged in.
Re: Aurora's (Briar Rose) outfit question
Posted: Thu Nov 30, 2006 1:17 am
by cat99
bradhig wrote:In a lot of pictures of her wearing it her waist looks thin. Is the black part a corset it looks like it is squeezing her and does Ariel have one on her blue dress?
usually a corset is worn UNDER the clothes, not over the top
Posted: Thu Nov 30, 2006 5:01 am
by Atlantica
As she is supposed to be poor, the 'corset' in question would probably be a shapeless peice of material with laces to make it fit.
As for her thinness, she was supposed to have been based on Audrey Hepburn, who was also that same shape.