So, Princess Lada is quite of the age to get married - and one of her suitors, the only one we see in the movie, is King Kazisvět, whom the princess does not want to marry, but decides to give him what she obviously thought an impossible task - to make her different dresses, one with colours of morning, the others with colours of noon and the last one in colours of the night. Each of these dresses is showed off with a swirl of dance, and music that fits the time of the day - but of course, Lada is not content and claims that King Kazisvět didn't fulfill his part of the deal, which I always thought damn unfair towards him (and really, we women obviously do not know what we want).
So, what is the next best way how to proceed with the plot? Have the King declare war, if she doesn't agree to marry him, and have the Princess escape while wearing a masquerade, while the plot continues, to have her meet another King, who is in search of a wife, and poof, he want to marry the masqueraded princess, who lays her masquerade off only for th evening. Of course, there is a happy ending, and King Kazisvět looks like an idiot, but hey, Princess married the other King and everything ends well, no? This is the only fairy tale that was made that the dialogs rhyme the whole time - not sure about translations, but in original, it's a bit like one long poem.
Not bad, but ever since I watched that movie for second time as a kid, I always thought that poor King Kazisvět had been cheated on.
So, what is the next best way how to proceed with the plot? Have the King declare war, if she doesn't agree to marry him, and have the Princess escape while wearing a masquerade, while the plot continues, to have her meet another King, who is in search of a wife, and poof, he want to marry the masqueraded princess, who lays her masquerade off only for th evening. Of course, there is a happy ending, and King Kazisvět looks like an idiot, but hey, Princess married the other King and everything ends well, no? This is the only fairy tale that was made that the dialogs rhyme the whole time - not sure about translations, but in original, it's a bit like one long poem.
Not bad, but ever since I watched that movie for second time as a kid, I always thought that poor King Kazisvět had been cheated on.