5 Great Disney Princesses
It's hard not to love the Disney Princesses as we've met them over the years - in many ways, they define a classic Disney movie.
Disney movies are the stuff fairytales and dreams are made of, and the Princesses are part of that.
What little girl didn't grow up wanting to be a Princess when she was older - no doubt thanks to Disney! Let's take a look at 5 superb Disney Princesses! Snow White was the first ever princess, appearing in her namesake 1937 movie - Snow White and the Seven Dwarves.
Still ranked as one of the top 100 movies of all time - along with Fantasia - the movie is an animation based like most stories on an original tale by Brothers Grimm.
Snow White only becomes a princess toward the end of the movie, when a prince rescues her with a kiss.
In the original fairy tale, the prince does not kiss her, but carries the coffin back to his castle, and the piece of apple stuck in her throat gets dislodged.
Cinderella, a 1950s classic recently given the rare honour of a Disney sequel tells the heart warming story of an adopted girl who lives under the care of her cruel aunts - but after a sneaky night at the ball, she meets the prince and he falls in love.
We can all dream.
Princess Aurora is from Sleeping Beauty, the story of a beautiful princess that is cursed to sleep on on her sixteenth birthday and never awake unless she feels true loves kiss.
Raised as a peasant girl, the prince falls in love with her the moment they meet (by chance?) in the forest - but you know the rest of the tale.
Princess Jasmine, from the 1992 classic Aladdin and numerous sequels.
Based on an Arab fairytale, Jasmine - the Sultan's daughter - is bored of not experiencing life and her impending arranged marriage, and chooses to run away.
She meets a street urchin called Aladdin, and after a long and involved adventure, Jasmine ends up rescuing Aladdin from certain doom.
She is a wonderfully strong heroine, perhaps one of the first to bless a Disney movie.
Finally, Mulan brings it home for east-asia.
The story is based upon a Chinese folktale, about a girl who just doesn't fit in with the expectations of women of her time.
She is strong and independent, and initially suffers a lot of self loathing because of this.
However, she goes on to save China - no small feat, one presumes - which of course gives her a great deal of confidence as well as bringing honor to her family and country.
Disney movies are the stuff fairytales and dreams are made of, and the Princesses are part of that.
What little girl didn't grow up wanting to be a Princess when she was older - no doubt thanks to Disney! Let's take a look at 5 superb Disney Princesses! Snow White was the first ever princess, appearing in her namesake 1937 movie - Snow White and the Seven Dwarves.
Still ranked as one of the top 100 movies of all time - along with Fantasia - the movie is an animation based like most stories on an original tale by Brothers Grimm.
Snow White only becomes a princess toward the end of the movie, when a prince rescues her with a kiss.
In the original fairy tale, the prince does not kiss her, but carries the coffin back to his castle, and the piece of apple stuck in her throat gets dislodged.
Cinderella, a 1950s classic recently given the rare honour of a Disney sequel tells the heart warming story of an adopted girl who lives under the care of her cruel aunts - but after a sneaky night at the ball, she meets the prince and he falls in love.
We can all dream.
Princess Aurora is from Sleeping Beauty, the story of a beautiful princess that is cursed to sleep on on her sixteenth birthday and never awake unless she feels true loves kiss.
Raised as a peasant girl, the prince falls in love with her the moment they meet (by chance?) in the forest - but you know the rest of the tale.
Princess Jasmine, from the 1992 classic Aladdin and numerous sequels.
Based on an Arab fairytale, Jasmine - the Sultan's daughter - is bored of not experiencing life and her impending arranged marriage, and chooses to run away.
She meets a street urchin called Aladdin, and after a long and involved adventure, Jasmine ends up rescuing Aladdin from certain doom.
She is a wonderfully strong heroine, perhaps one of the first to bless a Disney movie.
Finally, Mulan brings it home for east-asia.
The story is based upon a Chinese folktale, about a girl who just doesn't fit in with the expectations of women of her time.
She is strong and independent, and initially suffers a lot of self loathing because of this.
However, she goes on to save China - no small feat, one presumes - which of course gives her a great deal of confidence as well as bringing honor to her family and country.
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