Release Date: 14 June 2017
La Bella Durmiente
(Sleeping Beauty), recounts the original story of Giambattista Basile.
A princess was born in Italy with a certain peculiarity. It is said that her destiny is to die due to some linen. So the king orders for all the linen to be burnt. And so his daughter (whose name is Talia), grew up normally. That is until one day she noticed an old woman just knitting by herself. She invites her home and wants to help her. The old lady asks her to knit some fabric, unaware of the curse. And so a little piece of linen gets stuck between her finger and nail, and then she dies.
And so the heartbroken father orders for her daughter to be left resting on an armchair in a tower. Later a neighboring king passed by hunting alongside his falcon near the tower. Suddenly his falcon enters Talia's room and the king decides to follow it. And so the king noticed the princess just sitting there. The king, not noticing any weird about the girl, decides to take her to her bed and, since she didn't object to anything he said... He decides to "Give her all his love". And so the king left her after he has done his job, but nine months later, Talia gave birth to twins. They were being taken care of by a pair of fairies that just showed up suddenly. One of the babies was hungry and so accidentally started sucking on Talia's finger. This removed the linen from her finger and she immediately woke up. The fairies explained those are her babies. Talia demands more answers, so then the king (who just appeared out of the blue) explains the situation to her... And she doesn't find anything wrong with it.
But turns out the king was already married. His current queen was obviously not happy that her husband was having an affair, so she decides to enact revenge. She arrests Talia to burn her at the stake later. But first, the queen takes Talia's babies to the kitchen and orders the cook to... Cook them. The cook can't bring himself to do it so he hid the kids and instead just cooked some lambs. That night at dinner the cook set everything. And in the middle of the meal, the queen lets the king know that he had just eaten his own kids and that the "bitch" is at the stake.
The king immediately orders the guards to save Talia and to take his wife to the stake instead. Then he orders the same punishment for the cook, but he manages to explain that his kids are safe, he just took them to his wife. And so the king decides that everything is good and dandy and the story ends.
- Protagonist-Centered Morality: Parodied. Once Talia is safe and the cook confirms that her kids are alive, the king declares that everything is settled, while a freaked-out Talia looks over her shoulder and sees how the previous queen is being burnt.
- Remarried to the Mistress: Implied, as the king really easily decides to burn his current wife at the stake to save his mistress.
- Spoof Aesop: The song, still with the most upbeat music, states that kids shouldn't be cooked and necrophilia is wrong.
- Woman Scorned: The queen outright orders Talia to be killed and her kids COOKED when she finds out about her husband cheating.
