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2007-02-09 05:23:20 · 13 answers · asked by blah blah blah 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Royalty
Prince Charming is a stock character who originates in a number of fairy tales. He is the prince who comes to the rescue of the damsel in distress, and typically must engage in a quest to liberate her from an evil spell. The name has been given to the heroes of a number of traditional folk tales, including Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, and Cinderella.
Prince Charming is typically a well groomed adolescent. He frequently wears a sash or ribbon around his princely uniform, and often sports a small, waxed moustache. In many depictions he speaks with a French or British accent.
The Walt Disney animated version of Cinderella that appeared in 1950 is the source of the name in English; in the Charles Perrault version of Cinderella, and in most pre-Disney versions, the prince is not specifically identified as Prince Charming; nor is the character of the Prince named Prince Charming — or for that matter anything else — in the earlier Disney animated feature Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937). Since that film appeared, the name has been bestowed upon the highly similar characters who appear in Snow White and Sleeping Beauty. In fact, the princely status of Prince Charming is more important to the plot of this latter tale, since it is his royal status that enables Prince Charming to break the curse that keeps Sleeping Beauty in her supernatural sleep. In Disney's "Sleeping Beauty" (1959) the Prince is named Phillip and never referred to as "Prince Charming". But a number of novels also use this name, as for example Oscar Wilde's work "The Picture of Dorian Gray".
The prominence of the character type makes him an obvious target for revisionist fairy tales.
The character of Prince Charming is deconstructed in the 2004 movie Shrek 2 (wherein he is a Bad Fiancé, he has a personality not unlike that of Gaston in Disney's Beauty and the Beast, although he is rather more metrosexual) and also in the comic Fables. "Prince Charming" is the title of a 1981 album and song by Adam and the Ants. Prince Charming is also the title of a 1999 movie starring Andy Lau and Michelle Reis. Meet Prince Charming is the title of a 1999 movie starring Tia Carrere and David Charvet.
Prince Charming is a prominent character in the Fables comic book; in that version, he successively married Snow White, Sleeping Beauty and Cinderella, each marriage ending in divorce due to his compulsive womanizing. He himself comments: "I always truly love a woman when I first pursue her...I'm just no good at the happily-ever-after part." He parlays his charm into election as the mayor of Fabletown, the underground "Fable" community, and finds the job more difficult than he had anticipated. This aspect of his character is also explored in the Broadway musical Into the Woods, where there are not one but two prince Charmings, brothers going after Cinderella and Rapunzel, then, later, Sleeping Beauty and Snow White after they marry their first loves. Cinderella's Prince even has an affair with The Baker's Wife, and when confronted about his womanizing, states "I was raised to be charming, not sincere."
2007-02-09 05:33:32 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Prince Charming is typically a well groomed adolescent. He frequently wears a sash or ribbon around his princely uniform, and often sports a small, waxed moustache. In many depictions he speaks with a French or British accent. At the ball, the Prince rejects every single girl, but when his eyes fall on Cinderella, he falls for her. jhr4games@yahoo.com
2007-02-09 09:43:52 · answer #2 · answered by jhr4games 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-04-21 23:48:53 · answer #3 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Let's see now. He's good looking. Cinderella wouldn't have fallen for some ugly guy, I don't think.
He believes in love at first sight. Otherwise, why would he have bothered to have his man search the kingdom for this pretty but strange girl.
He has parents who are extremely understanding, for Royalty. Once they found out Cinderella was a commoner who swept soot and ashes out of a fireplace, ordinary Royalty would have forbidden their son to marry her.
Must be more to him than that, tho...... Idk
2007-02-09 05:50:33 · answer #4 · answered by kiwi 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Actually I agree with all but one detail. Prince Phillip is the name of the Prince that saves Princess Aurora (Sleeping Beauty). We know his name because David Beckham was just photographed as him.
Here is the link.
http://www.themeparks.com/library/displayimage.php?album=69&pos=0
International soccer star David Beckham portrays the gallant Prince Phillip from Disney’s “Sleeping Beauty.”
2007-02-09 11:24:41 · answer #5 · answered by AdamKadmon 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
All i got to say is that i need to lose a glass shoe, and gain a dashing prince charming my self! :)
2007-02-09 13:32:04 · answer #6 · answered by Polish gal 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He was tall, dark and handsome, had all his own teeth and hair and knew how to treat a lady. Was he gay though? I think the only men around here that know how to be real gentlemen are all gay.
2007-02-09 10:57:41 · answer #7 · answered by sinned 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2017-02-17 09:16:24 · answer #8 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He has no mom, she died and his father looks after him, he likes dancing, fencing, and horseback riding. Has a foot fetish, and is a touchie feelie kind of guy. Has trouble meeting suitable women, and has his butler round up maidens for him to date!
Please take this with a grain of salt as it was intended!
Cheers...
2007-02-09 05:34:19 · answer #9 · answered by prairiegurrl 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
He was part of all the idiotic fairy tales where the woman gets rescued by a man.
2007-02-09 22:55:53 · answer #10 · answered by Debra D 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋