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Instead of hiding in the woods....

posted 13 years ago by ranafrog69
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Why didn't the King and Queen keep Aurora at the palace, raise her themselves, and simply keep her locked up on her sixteenth birthday? Milicent said Aurora would prick her finger on her sixteenth birthday, so to me it doesn't make sense to keep her away for sixteen years if only one day is of concern. The movie would've required some tweeking, but they still could've had Milicent lure Aurora to the spindle, the fairies put everyone to sleep, and of course the epic battle at the end. I think keeping Aurora at home and developing her relationship with her parents and Phillip would've made the film more interesting.

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[–] cobbcl87 13 years ago

I've been thinking about this for a while. It does seem like an obvious solution at first, but actually, the dialogue is a little unclear on this point. "Before the sun sets on her sixteenth birthday" could mean "On this day, before sunset," or it could mean "At any time up until this point." Obviously, the king and queen went with interpretation number two.

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[–] chefz2 13 years ago

Parenting 101: someone threatens to kill your child, you go to any extreme to prevent it from happening. Which is why the King decreed that all spinning wheels be destroyed, thus plunging his subjects to 16 years of nudity.

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[–] CowboyRider1847 12 years ago

Guess we know when knitting started in that universe.

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[–] a_rarden 13 years ago

I've always thought the same way as one of the other posters: "before the sunsets on her 16th birthday" could mean at any point in her life before her 16th birthday.

And we saw in the beginning that Maleficent can pop in and out, wherever she wants, whenever she wants. So guards in the castle couldn't do anything about M popping into her room at some point, grabbing her hand, and pushing it onto a spinning wheel.

The cabin in the woods kept M from knowing where she was...ever, which kept her from being able to pop in and out of where she was.

[–] roboh-1 11 years ago

They could have just cut off her hands. No fingers => no problem!

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[–] ricky_says_hi 11 years ago

The curse was active from the moment Maleficent cast it until the sun set on her 16th birthday. So it would mean guarding the princess 24/7 and keeping close watch on her. And even then Maleficent is still a force to be reckoned with. The fairies only left Aurora alone for a couple of minutes and that was enough for her to strike

The hiding in the woods plan banked on Maleficent's lack of knowledge about goodness. She couldn't comprehend that the fairies would give up 16 years of their lives to raise the princess as their own daughter. Though they needn't have bothered since Maleficent's servants spent 16 years looking for a baby

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[–] velcronewsletter 11 years ago

then her toes could have been in the firing line. there could be a loophole if no fingers were available

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[–] EerieForest 10 years ago

What I want to know is why didn't they bring her home after her sixteenth birthday instead of on the day of. What were they thinking?!

[–] jname96 10 years ago

What I want to know is why didn't they bring her home after her sixteenth birthday instead of on the day of. What were they thinking?!

It wouldn't be the fairy tale world, if they did it that way. Bringing her home on the day of, is far more symbolic and therefore romantic.

Plus, I'm sure her parents were thrilled to pieces and dying to see her again after all those years.

[–] annedoe 10 years ago

this is a lot better (idea-but still it wouldn't have worked-since there are deleted scenes from Sleeping Beauty where Aurora did grow up in the castle-but Phillip wasn't in it-and she (Aurora) changed clothes with her lady-in-waiting and a vulture (Mal's servant in that version) keeps an eye on her in the disguise of a bluebird-but she still ends up pricking her finger)-then someone's else idea of hiring guards to protect the house where Aurora was being raised (I thought that would be a big neon sign saying that someone important was living there).

[–] ricky_says_hi 9 years ago

In response to asking about why they didn't bring her the day after her birthday, I think they were at least not going to present her until after the sun had set. But if you want to get the paranoia fuel going, that was the curse influencing them. Maleficent's curse was powerful it forced them to bring her before the sun set, where Maleficent could strike.