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How many of you seriously, and I mean SERIOUSLY paid attention to the music of the climax - the battle with Prince Philip and the Dragon. My opinion - Best Disney Thrilling Moment. George Bruns really struck gold with this track - again, that's just my opinion. Enough of what I think, what do you all think about this score?

Sleeping Beauty was George Bruns best score. Not just the climax, but everything is so perfect it's hard not to like it. Although I can't give him all credit. The music is based on a certain ballet (1/3 is an exactly from the ballet).

Flanger-Hanger wrote:Sleeping Beauty was George Bruns best score. Not just the climax, but everything is so perfect it's hard not to like it. Although I can't give him all credit. The music is based on a certain ballet (1/3 is an exactly from the ballet).

Right! I was going to say the movie overall, but I just wanted to focus on this part of the film. What do YOU think of it?

Yes, I certainly have paid close attention to the score during this scene, and I agree that it is amazing and makes the scene even more exciting! Every time I watch it, it still gets me very excited, even though I've watched it countless times.

lord-of-sith wrote:Yes, I certainly have paid close attention to the score during this scene, and I agree that it is amazing and makes the scene even more exciting! Every time I watch it, it still gets me very excited, even though I've watched it countless times.

That's the case with me! No matter how many times I've seen it, it leaves me at the edge of my seat - sometimes literally because of the score.

The score to "Sleeping Beauty" is genius in every way. I love it. It was a brilliant move on Bruns' part to work with the existing ballet instead of coming up with an entire new score, and to utilize parts of it in a new way (the score during the part where Maleficent lures Aurora to the spinning wheel is chillingly excellent).

I think this is the only Disney made before the 80's where I could listen to the whole score over and over again and never tire (though "The Rescuers" holds a soft nostalgic spot for me).

While we're on the subject of SB's score, I'd like to ask - how much of it is Tchaikovsky's? And how much of it is new material? If, as Flanger-Hanger said, 1/3 of it stems from Tchaikovsky's presently pretty dead brain cells, then doesn't that mean that the other 2/3 is an original score?

Or am I mistaken? I love SB but I never managed to get my hands on the DVD, so I can never feel dingly-dongly familiar with it.

2/3 is original but based on Tchaikovsky's style. What do I think of this particular scene? It is amazing and perfect, that's just all that can be siad aout it.