As you may or may not know, I have a daughter. She, like many little girls, is into Disney princesses. She likes Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Ariel, Belle, etc etc etc. Not too long ago, we got her the Disney Sleeping Beauty movie.
One thing I just wanted to say about it. There is a gag in there dealing with drunkeness. In the movie, two kings – one Sleeping Beauty’s father and the other, the prince’s father – were talking about marriage of their children to one another. As they are talking and celebrating the arrangement of the marriage, wine was flowing freely. It so happens that a minstrel of one of the kings gets drunk by drinking a lot of wine. It’s kind of an amusing scene. However, I can not imagine something like that happening now in any children’s movie.
Just another interesting twist. As things get more explicit and raunchy in our pop culture compared to thirty or forty years ago, there are things that move in opposite directions as well.
