Saw a movie with some parallel to the parable of
Sleeping Beauty... that is, the
original text,
"Sole, Luna, e Talia" (by Giambattista Basile, in 1634), not to the sugarcoated Disney version (that itself comes from the original sugarcoated adaptation of Mr. Basile's version, in 1697). Actually, the original text isn't too off from what we know. If we ignore the minor edits to make it more accessible, and the fact that the original "prince charming" raped the princess during her sleep to conceive two bastard children, one of whom sucked on her finger - confusing it with her nipple - to wake the princess up, who then almost gets her children cooked and served alongside shredded lamb on the dinner table, its pretty much the same thing - they lived happily 'ever after'. Ah, fairy tales fill me with such intense excitement! In the movie I saw, though, the protagonist (or the antagonist?) - the prince charming - is jailed for the rape, and later kills himself by overdosing on Chyawanprash and Valium; it was a beautiful movie, though.
That also makes me wonder about Kill Bill: if Tarantino had allowed Uma Thurman to be finished by Buck (who was there to fuck).
"T3H Bride, fighting her assassins and an unwanted pregnancy." Having her water break in the last fight, and all...
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