History Awesome / SleepingBeauty

* Meta Example: Why is no one talking about the animation and art design itself?! Music/VisualEffectsOfAwesome indeed. So beautifully crafted and the way the songs were orchestrated like a ballet (with actual sections from [[Music/PyotrIlyichTchaikovsky Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's]] world famous ballet to boot). One of the best aspects of the film.

* Meta Example: Why is no one talking about the animation and art design itself?! Music/VisualEffectsOfAwesome indeed. So beautifully crafted and the way the songs were orchestrated like a ballet (with actual sections from [[UsefulNotes/PyotrIlyichTchaikovsky Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's]] world famous ballet to boot). One of the best aspects of the film.

* Meta Example: Why is no one talking about the animation and art design itself?! SugarWiki/VisualEffectsOfAwesome indeed. So beautifully crafted and the way the songs were orchestrated like a ballet (with actual sections from [[UsefulNotes/PyotrIlyichTchaikovsky Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's]] world famous ballet to boot). One of the best aspects of the film.

** Maleficent is the first of only ''two'' villains in ''the entire Franchise/DisneyAnimatedCanon'' to drop a swear word. It wouldn't happen again until Frollo in ''WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame'' nearly ''forty years later''.

* Meta Example: Why is no one talking about the animation and art design itself?! VisualEffectsOfAwesome indeed. So beautifully crafted and the way the songs were orchestrated like a ballet (with actual sections from [[UsefulNotes/PyotrIlyichTchaikovsky Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's]] world famous ballet to boot). One of the best aspects of the film.

* Meta Example: Why is no one talking about the animation and art design itself?! VisualEffectsOfAwesome indeed. So beautifully crafted and the way the songs were orchestrated like a ballet (with actual sections from Pyotr Tchaikovsky's world famous ballet to boot). One of the best aspects of the film.

* Meta Example: Why is no one talking about the animation and art design itself?! VisualEffectsOfAwesome indeed. So beautifully crafted and the way the songs were orchestrated like a ballet. One of the best aspects of the film.

* '''Maleficent:''' Now shall you deal with ''ME'', O Prince, and all the powers of '''''Hell!''''' Cue the most iconic OneWingedAngel in Disney Canon, as well as a great OhCrap on Phillip's part, in which Maleficent bursts into the sky into a pillar of flames as her shadow becomes a draconic figure.

--->" ''Seize that creature!'' "

--->"Seize that creature!"

* Meta Example: Why is no one talking about the animation and art design itself?! VisualEffectsOfAwesome indeed. So beautifully crafted and the way the songs were orchestrated like a ballet. One of my favorite aspects of the film.

* Often overlooked, as it's just one line, but one has to admire King Stefan for [[DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu being the only person to stand up to a powerful and very angry sorceress]] [[PapaWolf in defense of his infant daughter.]]

* More or less everything Phillip does during the climax of the movie. Granted, he has the help of the fairies, but that doesn't change the fact that he jumps out of a window, rides through falling stones and other obstacles, takes on a giant wall of thorns, takes on a dragon, climbs a rock with one arm and finally emerges victorious, though a little bit worse to wear and (understandably) exhausted. Few princes have fought as hard for the woman they love as him.

-->'''Merryweather:''' Sweet princess, if through this wicked witch's trick a spindle should your figure prick, a ray of hope there still may be in this, the gift I give to thee. Not in death, but just in sleep, the fateful prophecy you'll keep. And from this slumber you shall wake, [[TrueLovesKiss when true love's kiss the spell shall break.]]

-->'''Merryweather:''' Sweet princess, if through this wicked witch's trick a spindle should your figure prick. A ray of hope there still maybe in this, the gift I give to thee. Not in death, but just in sleep, the fateful prophecy you'll keep. And from this slumber you shall wake, [[TrueLovesKiss when true loves kiss, the spell shall break.]]

** The fact that Aurora ''is'' able to resist mind control, even for a few seconds, from a supremely powerful sorceress is pretty awesome itself, though many miss it.

* Aurora has a subtle one that's hard to notice at first sight, due to to the ValuesDissonance. You know, in less than a day [[RagsToRoyalty the poor girl's life has taken massive spins]]. She has just found out that she's a princess when she has believed herself to be a mere peasant girl named Briar Rose, she has just [[LoveAtFirstSight met a guy she likes]] only to be told that she's [[ArrangedMarriage to be married to someone else]] ([[PerfectlyArrangedMarriage who's actually the same guy]], but she doesn't know it yet), ''and'' it turns out she'll have to leave the only place she knows as "home". Does Aurora throw a tantrum, whine, complain (and she's got quite the right to be angry), or bitch her "aunts" out? While she understandably [[HeroicBSOD cries for a while]], she still goes back to the Kingdom, to meet the parents that she has never seen and see the castle where she was born. Doing that right after finding out '''that her entire life is a lie''' requires quite the guts.

* Often overlooked, as it's just one line, but one has to admire King Stefan for [[DidYouJustFlipOffChtulhu being the only person to stand up to a powerful and very angry sorceress]] [[PapaWold in defense of his infant daughter.]]

* Aurora has a subtle one that's hard to notice at first sight, due to to the ValuesDissonance. You know, in less than a day [[RagsToRoyalty the poor girl's life has taken massive spins]]. She has just found out that she's a princess when she has believed herself to be a mere peasant girl named Briar Rose, she has just [[LoveAtFirstSight met a guy she likes]] only to be told that she's [[ArrangedMarriage to be married to someone else]] ([[PerfectlyArrangedMarriage who's actually the same guy]], but she doesn't know it yet), ''and'' it turns out she'll have to leave the only place she knows as "home". Does Aurora throw a tantrum, whine, complain, or bitch her "aunts" out? While she understandably [[HeroicBSOD cries for a while]], she still goes back to the Kingdom, to meet the parents that she has never seen and see the castle where she was born. Doing that right after finding out '''that her entire life is a lie''' requires quite the guts.
** And notice how quickly she pulls the pieces of the puzzle together and adjusts to her new life once the ordeal is over. Her huge smile when she wakes up and sees Phillip suggests that she instantly understands the situation as far as the guy she has to marry actually being the guy she likes after all. Flora is the brains of the film and even she had to falter, stutter, and comically tap her temple with her wand to make that connection. Aurora also manages, despite all of this being brand new information to her, to make a [[BigEntrance royal procession entrance befitting a princess]] and ballroom dance with the perfection of a princess raised and trained in court all her life. SilkHidingSteel? {{Genre Savv|y}}iness?

* Often overlooked, as it's just one line, but one has to admire King Stefan for being the only person to stand up to a powerful and very angry sorceress in defense of his infant daughter.

* When she casts a spell that causes thorns to sprout all around King Stefan's castle, Maleficent has this one particularly awesome line which can make anyone shudder with EmotionalTorque. It's so short, and yet it was one of the most memorable scenes of the movie.

!!Disney's ''Disney/SleepingBeauty''

* Aurora's singing is awesome; it charms every creature of the forest as well as Prince Philip.

* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: The entire soundtrack, courtesy of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (albeit rearranged and with added lyrics by George Bruns). Especially [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWsdd3ZgFxc Battle with the Forces of Evil]].

* Maleficent has this one particularly awesome line that just made me shudder with EmotionalTorque the first time I saw it as a kid and ''every time'' thereafter. It's so short, and yet it was one of the most memorable scenes of the movie for me. I was pleasantly surprised, when rewatching it as an adult, that its effect on me was not diminished in the least:

--> The years roll by... but a hundred years, to a steadfast heart, are but a day. And now, the gates of the dungeon part, and our prince is free to go his way. And off he rides, on his noble steed, a valiant figure straight and tall! To wake his love, with love's first kiss, and prove that [[DarkReprise true love conquers all]]! [[EvilLaugh Ahahahaha]]!

* The climax is as epic as animation -- indeed, film in general -- gets (and much imitated since): the three good fairies successfully breach Maleficent's castle, rescue Prince Phillip, and provide him with weaponry and armor; from there they assist his escape and protect him from everything Maleficent throws at him on the way to the castle -- boulders, a gigantic forest of thorns, and finally her OneWingedAngel form of a gigantic black dragon. When she knocks his shield away, the fairies respond by enchanting his sword to [[Main/ThrowingYourSwordAlwaysWorks make sure throwing it does her in]]. Think about this a moment -- how many Disney films include the heroines ''killing'' the villain?

* Maleficient. I know she was evil, but she was one seriously cool villain, elegant, commanding and so powerful all in a very evil way.
** There's a ''reason'' she's one of the OhCrap bosses on KingdomHearts. She comes in, and ''instantly'' owns every scene she's in.
* Aurora has a subtle one that's hard to notice at first sight, due to to the ValuesDissonance. You know, in less than a day [[RagsToRoyalty the poor girl's life has taken massive spins.]] She has just found out that she's a princess when she has believed herself to be a mere peasant girl named Briar Rose, she has just [[LoveAtFirstSight met a guy she likes]] only to be told that she's [[ArrangedMarriage to be married to someone else]] ([[PerfectlyArrangedMarriage who's actually the same guy]], but she doesn't know it yet), ''and'' it turns out she'll have to leave the only place she knows as "home". Does Aurora throw a tantrum, whine, complain, or bitch her "aunts" out? While she understandably [[HeroicBSOD cries for a while]], she still goes back to the Kingdom, to meet the parents that she has never seen and see the castle where she was born. Doing that right after finding out '''that her entire life is a lie''' requires quite the guts.
** And notice how quickly she pulls the pieces of the puzzle together and adjusts to her new life once the ordeal is over. Her huge smile when she wakes up and sees Phillip suggests that she instantly understands the situation as far as the guy she has to marry actually being the guy she likes after all. Flora is the brains of the film and even she had to falter, stutter, and comically tap her temple with her wand to make that connection. Aurora also manages, despite all of this being brand new information to her, to make a [[BigEntrance royal procession entrance befitting a princess]] and ballroom dance with the perfection of a princess raised and trained in court all her life. SilkHidingSteel? [[GenreSavvy Genre Savviness]]?

* Often overlooked, as it's just one line, but one has to admire King Steffan for being the only person to stand up to a powerful and very angry sorceress in defense of his infant daughter.

* More or less everything Phillip does during the climax of the movie. Granted, he has the help of the fairy, but that doesn't change the fact that he jumps out of a window, rides through falling stones and other obstacles, takes on a giant wall of thorns, takes on a dragon, climbs a rock with one arm and finally emerges victorious, though a little bit worse to wear and (understandably) exhausted. Few princes have fought as hard for the woman they love as him.