watched maleficient last night. has anyone explored the economic and material ramifications of getting rid of all your spinning wheels in one blow. you’re back to drop spinning now, and it takes roughly 6-10 hours of spinning for the yarn to allow a single hour weaving. everyone ought to be spinning, kids included. the housekeepers should be spinning. people waiting for their wares to sell should be spinning. guards on duty should be spinning. i must believe the only reason we don’t see all this spinning on screen is bc the camera loves watching the king’s descent into madness, which i agree with. that man is spinning something, but it ain’t fiber.
Any version of Sleeping Beauty that includes the lines "they outlawed spindles" or similar is one where the kingdom suddenly has an economic crisis because no one can make cloth or rope and they have to import it from outside at great expense.
The 1987 Cannon Movie Tales: Sleeping Beauty adaptation did actually address this, the kingdom’s clothes were falling to tatters, there’s a dance sequence in a ballroom where you can hear the fabric tearing, and they discuss needing to import fabrics from other kingdoms.
