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The only other character to be renamed is Prince … Continue reading I’d love to see justice done to the real Flora, Fauna and Merryweather in live action, or at least for the attempt to be made. Not only are they my favorite characters in the movie, I consider them to be some of the funniest, most interesting and most complex female characters in Disney animation Probably because they’re some of the few female sidekicks as opposed to heroines or villainesses and I resent that Maleficent‘s premise required them to be made into villains, and not even cool villains but bumbling, petty, minor ones! Maybe the screenwriters actually felt this way too since they named their counterparts to these characters Knotgrass, Flittle and Thistlwit. Maleficent may be the coolest character for many people, but to me, the trio of good fairies is what ultimately makes Sleeping Beauty so great.
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Actually, what I’d really love would be a movie about Flora, Fauna and Merryweather. She’d simply be more of a tragic villain. She could still start out as a sympathetic character, though I don’t believe she’d have to do so, but her ultimate actions and fate in Sleeping Beauty would still be canon here. She’d be named in this hypothetical spinoff., King Hubert and his hypothetical wife as the heroes, explaining how they met and became so close, and with Maleficent as the villain. My preference would be a story with a younger King Stefan, his unnamed wife Unnamed in the original movie, I mean. Sleeping Beauty (1959) is one of my favorite movies and I’d love to see a good prequel to it. Make the Whole Thing a Prequel to Sleeping Beauty (In the animated movie, it’s a pale green.) It really feels like this film could have had something! So in this two part series, I’m going to propose ways the story could have been improved.
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And I appreciate that Maleficent’s skin isn’t lime green as it’s sometimes depicted. Some of the costumes and sets are beautiful too, even if they don’t stand out much compared to those in recent movies with similar settings. The eerie theme for the curse and the gentle, lullaby-esque one for Aurora are downright great. The musical score by James Newton Howard is pretty good. Elle Fanning is appealing as the Princess Aurora. She also has fun getting to be a melodramatic cartoony villain, which makes it more frustrating that script doesn’t let her do that in more scenes, but I digress. Whatever problems I have with the story, I always believe, watching her, that she found it compelling. I’d have liked to have seen a younger Anjelica Huston in it, but oh well.
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Angelina Jolie is pretty great in the title role. And there’s a difference between a cast of mixed quality and a terrible cast. I’ll even say the scene of her trying and failing to revoke her spell is a powerful fantastical image of being unable to undo one’s misdeeds. The idea of the fairy who cursed Sleeping Beauty growing to love her and regret what she’s done is dramatically intriguing, though I’d prefer they just based it on the fairy tale and didn’t brighten the bad name of the animated Maleficent. That being said…I can see Maleficent (2014)’s appeal. There’s an over reliance on voiceover narration, a cast of mixed quality and some big dramatic problems. Just pay us.” And even granting the premise, the execution of it leaves a lot to be desired.
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So the thought process behind the 2014 film amounts to “You know that character you love? Well, here’s a movie where she’s totally different! No need to thank us. A big part of the reason Maleficent from the 1959 animated movie, Sleeping Beauty, was a marketable enough character to have her own movie was that she represented pure unadulterated evil. Even if it weren’t already done, the idea has some innate problems, one of which I hope to write about later, another I’m going to explain now. We’re past the point where such iconoclastic storytelling is interesting. It’s been done well, badly and everything in between.
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Lewis does it with the Cupid and Psyche myth. One of my favorite books is Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold by C. While I enjoy seeing a fresh twist put on a familiar story, having the villain be the hero and vice versa is not a fresh twist. The central premise makes me want to groan and roll my eyes. Well, more like a like-dislike relationship, but it’s a pretty strong like/dislike. I have a love-hate relationship with the 2014 movie, Maleficent. Fauna: Well, perhaps if we reasoned with her.