Сценарий малефисента на английском

Elizabeth Rudnick

Maleficent

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For my mother and Jameson, who have taught me the true meaning of unconditional love

Prologue

THE MOORS WERE QUIET. THE FAERIES WHO CALLED THE LUSH LAND HOME WERE SAFE AND PROTECTED. THEY SPENT THEIR DAYS PLAYING AND LIVING AMONG THE BEAUTIFUL TREES, FLOWERS, AND PLANTS THAT GREW IN ABUNDANCE. They gathered in harmony and danced under the moonlight. They no longer feared the world beyond the borders of the Moors — at least, not as much. They could sleep at night free from nightmares. They were free. They were happy.

Aurora had seen to that.

Five years had passed since Maleficent had bestowed the greatest gift of all on the beautiful young princess. Giving her the kiss of true love, Maleficent had awoken the sleeping beauty and brought her back to rule over the faeries, as had been Aurora’s wish. For five years, Aurora had ruled with grace and kindness. And under her rule, the Moors had thrived.

Maleficent, too, had found peace — as much as the winged fey ever could. She had been a steady presence in Aurora’s life and had spent her days happily flying in and around the Moors, watching with pride as Aurora transformed from a young girl to a young woman, from a hesitant princess to a strong queen. She also watched as Aurora and Prince Phillip grew closer, their bond deepening as their love became more real, more mature. Still unsure of humans, Maleficent kept Phillip at a distance. But bit by bit, even his presence had become a familiar — and almost welcome — one in the Moors. He spent more time there than in his own kingdom of Ulstead, which lay just across the river.

But where there is light, there is also darkness. And darkness was coming to the Moors. An unexpected evil that was only beginning to reveal itself…

Chapter One

NIGHT HAD FALLEN. INSIDE THE MOORS, FAERIES SLEPT, LULLED BY THE TRICKLING WATER OF THE STREAMS AND THE GENTLE RUSTLE OF THE WIND THROUGH THE TREES.

Suddenly, the stillness of the night was broken by a loud snap. Somewhere at the edge of the Moors, a twig broke.

Three human men, trespassers in the Moors, froze at the sound. Looking nervously at each other, they waited to see if the noise had woken anyone — or anything. When no faeries appeared, they collectively sighed with relief.

The youngest of the men sighed the loudest. Ben hadn’t wanted to come in the first place. He had heard the stories of the Moors. He had seen the huge winged fey who flew in the sky from time to time, and the sight always unnerved him. He thought the Moors were too close, even with the river separating them from Ulstead. “They can fly,” Ben told his family and friends when they teased him about his discomfort with the faeries, “which means they could fly over the river if they wanted.” It was hard to argue with that logic.

But his friend Colin had told him it would be a quick — and profitable — trip. So he had agreed. Only now he was beginning to regret his decision. From the moment they had entered the Moors, he had been covered in gooseflesh. He knew it was silly, but he felt as though the trees themselves were watching, the grass listening. Even at night, Ulstead was brighter, torches lining the streets and providing illumination in the darkest hour. Here the only light that shone was from the moon and stars hanging in the sky. And that night the sky was dotted with clouds obscuring the little light they had.

“Let’s turn back,” Ben whispered as Colin and the other man resumed walking.

“And lose good money?” the third man, Thomas, said, shaking his bald head. “Not a chance.”

Ben frowned. He didn’t know Thomas. They had just met that night. But Ben didn’t trust him. His eyes were calculating and cold. He was the one who had convinced Colin to embark on this expedition across the river, and Ben had a feeling it wasn’t going to end well.

“Stay close,” Colin said, looking over his shoulder at Ben. He didn’t say anything more, but he didn’t need to. Ben knew that look well enough. Colin was telling him to stay quiet and keep his head down. They both needed the money, no matter the danger.

Reluctantly, Ben followed the men farther into the woods. Deeper in, the sounds were more muffled, the night even darker. Coming to a stop in front of a tall tree, Colin nodded. “Here we are.” He pulled a small ax from his pack and began to hack at the trunk of the tree. The sound surprised Ben, and he flinched. Colin kept swinging until, finally, a huge chunk of bark came free. Behind it was a small woodland faerie. The creature was sleeping, slightly snoring, with its little eyes closed. Quickly, Colin reached out, wrapped his hand around the faerie, and stuffed the creature into a bag he had over his shoulder. Colin pulled more bark free and continued to plunder the tree of its faerie occupants. Next to him, Thomas was doing the same, his bald head bent as he focused on his mission.

Ben looked down and saw that the tree was covered in mushrooms. But soon the fungi began to move and squirm, and he realized the toadstools were actually faeries who looked like mushrooms. Taking a deep breath, he reached out and grabbed one.

“Ow!” Ben shouted as the mushroom faerie bit him on the finger. The creature was small, his teeth smaller still, so his bite wasn’t deadly. But it stung. “You’ll pay for that!” Ben said. The faerie bit down again, harder this time. Reflexively, Ben dropped the mushroom faerie, who immediately took off into the woods. Ben followed, exchanging insults with the faerie as they ran. In moments, they had left the thick, muffled stillness of the forest and raced into a clearing. Still shouting insults, Ben plodded into the wide-open space. Out there, he was no longer protected by the shadows of the trees. The other two men had disappeared from view, swallowed up by the forest. But Ben didn’t care. He was too focused on getting the faerie into the bag.

He slowed his steps and came to a stop. Like a predator on the hunt, Ben sank to the ground and quieted his breathing. Then he waited. Not hearing footsteps behind him, the mushroom faerie stopped, too. It was only for a moment, but it was just long enough. Shouting, Ben took a diving leap. He flew through the air and then landed on the ground, his hands wrapping tightly around the faerie. As the creature wiggled and squirmed, Ben laughed triumphantly. “I’ll get double for a mushroom,” he said. “In ya go.” Stuffing the faerie deep into the bag, Ben turned. Only then did he realize he was far from where he had started. He headed back toward the woods.

Meanwhile, Colin and Thomas continued to pluck faeries from the tree, oblivious to everything but the task at hand and the visions of money running through their heads. They didn’t hear the sound of wings flapping or the gentle rustling of leaves behind them. They didn’t realize anything was amiss until, suddenly, the sky went completely black — as if someone had turned off the moon.

Maleficent
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Robert Stromberg
Screenplay by	Linda Woolverton
Based on	Disney’s Sleeping Beauty La Belle au bois dormant by Charles Perrault
Produced by	Joe Roth
Starring	Angelina Jolie Sharlto Copley Elle Fanning Sam Riley Imelda Staunton Juno Temple Lesley Manville
Cinematography	Dean Semler
Edited by	Chris Lebenzon Richard Pearson
Music by	James Newton Howard
Production companies	Walt Disney Pictures Roth Films
Distributed by	Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures
Release dates	May 28, 2014 (El Capitan Theatre) May 30, 2014 (United States)
Running time	97 minutes[1]
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$180–263 million[2]
Box office	$758.5 million[1]

Maleficent is a 2014 American fantasy film directed by Robert Stromberg from a screenplay by Linda Woolverton. The film stars Angelina Jolie as the title character, with Sharlto Copley, Elle Fanning, Sam Riley, Imelda Staunton, Juno Temple and Lesley Manville in supporting roles. Loosely inspired by Charles Perrault’s original fairy tale, the film is a live action retelling of Walt Disney’s 1959 animated film Sleeping Beauty, and portrays the story from the perspective of the eponymous antagonist, depicting her conflicted relationship with the king and princess of a corrupt kingdom.^[3]

Walt Disney Pictures announced the film’s development in 2010, with Joe Roth as producer and Jolie, Don Hahn, and Michael Vieira as executive producers. Principal photography took place between June and October 2012. A special screening for the film took place at Kensington Palace in London on May 9, 2014.^[4]

Maleficent premiered at the El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood on May 28, 2014, and was released in the United Kingdom that same day. The film was released in the United States on May 30, 2014, in the Disney Digital 3D, RealD 3D and IMAX 3D formats, as well as in conventional theaters. The film received mixed reviews from critics, earning praise for Jolie’s performance, the costumes, visual effects and musical score, while criticism was aimed at the script and some inconsistencies in tone. Maleficent was a commercial success, grossing over $758 million worldwide, and became the fourth-highest-grossing film of 2014, as well as Jolie’s highest-grossing film. The film received an Academy Award nomination for Best Costume Design at the 87th Academy Awards. A sequel, Maleficent: Mistress of Evil, was released in 2019.

Plot[edit]

Maleficent is a powerful fairy living in the Moors, a magical forest realm bordering a human kingdom. As a child, Maleficent meets and falls in love with a human peasant boy named Stefan. On Maleficent’s 16th birthday, he gives her what he calls a true love’s kiss. However, as they grow older, the two grow apart; Stefan’s love is overshadowed by his ambition to be king, and Maleficent becomes protector of the Moors.

When King Henry tries to conquer the Moors, Maleficent mortally wounds him, forcing his retreat. As he lies dying, he declares that whoever kills Maleficent will be named his successor and marry his daughter. Stefan calls on Maleficent in the Moors; he drugs her, but cannot bring himself to kill her. Instead, he amputates her wings, presents them to Henry as ‘proof’ of Maleficent’s death, and is named the new King. While still processing the betrayal, Maleficent turns Diaval, a trapped raven, into a human, frightening away his captors. Diaval promises to serve Maleficent, and brings her news of the humans. Infuriated when she learns why her wings were taken, Maleficent, and the Moors she controls, become bitter and dark.

After some time, Diaval informs Maleficent that King Stefan’s newborn daughter, Aurora, is being christened. Maleficent arrives uninvited and curses the infant princess; on her 16th birthday, she will prick her finger on the spindle of a spinning wheel and fall into an eternal sleep. Maleficent mocks Stefan’s plea for mercy, but offers an antidote; the curse can be broken by true love’s kiss, something she and Stefan both believe does not exist.

Stefan orders three pixie-fairies to hide and protect Aurora until the day after her 16th birthday, and destroys every spinning wheel in the kingdom, hiding their remnants in the castle dungeon. Stefan sends his armies to find and kill Maleficent, but she surrounds the Moors with an impenetrable wall of thorns, protecting it. Over the years, Stefan obsesses over killing Maleficent and gradually loses his sanity, even refusing to see his own wife on her deathbed.

Maleficent and Diaval watch Aurora grow from afar, and secretly begin to take over Aurora’s care from the bumbling and neglectful pixies. After encountering Maleficent face-to-face several times, Aurora names Maleficent «fairy godmother». Maleficent realizes she hasn’t the heart to hurt Aurora, and privately attempts to revoke the curse, forgetting that she stated «no power on earth» can revoke it. Meanwhile, in the forest, Aurora meets a young Prince Phillip, and both are mildly attracted to each other.

On the day before Aurora’s 16th birthday, Aurora gains Maleficent’s permission to live in the Moors. When Aurora informs the Pixies of this, they reveal the truth about Aurora’s lineage and the curse. Angrily accusing Maleficent of being evil, Aurora runs to her father’s castle. Instead of welcoming Aurora, Stefan locks her in a room while plotting to kill Maleficent. The curse’s power draws Aurora to the dungeon, where she pricks her finger on a spindle and falls into a deep sleep. Maleficent, intent on saving her, abducts Phillip and infiltrates Stefan’s castle. The pixies encourage the reluctant Phillip to kiss Aurora, but this does not wake her. After Philip leaves, Maleficent tearfully apologizes to Aurora and kisses her on the forehead. This unexpectedly awakens Aurora, as Maleficent truly feels maternal love for her.

As Maleficent and Aurora attempt to leave, Stefan and his guards ambush them. Maleficent transforms Diaval into a dragon to help her, but both are subdued. Meanwhile, Aurora finds Maleficent’s caged wings and releases them. They fly to Maleficent and reattach themselves, but Stefan continues fighting. Maleficent carries him to the top of the highest tower; unwilling to kill him, she announces the fight is over and tries to leave him there. He tackles her from behind, dragging them both off the tower. Maleficent opens her wings to save herself, causing Stefan to lose hold and fall to his death.

With King Stefan gone, Maleficent returns the Moors to its former glory, and gives away her position to Aurora, who is crowned queen of the Moors, uniting the two kingdoms. Phillip also comes to visit them.

Cast[edit]

• Angelina Jolie as Maleficent, protector and the most powerful fairy of the Moors, who, in revenge for betrayal, casts a curse on the daughter of her ex-lover Stefan, Aurora. Over the course of the film, she goes from a hero to villain, following Stefan’s betrayal, and back to hero due to maternal feelings she develops towards Aurora. Jolie was announced to have been cast on February 11, 2012,^[5] although news of her potential involvement in the project surfaced back in March 2010.^[6] According to Don Hahn, Jolie was considered for the role as early as Tim Burton was attached to the project, and was always the only choice,^[7] while Joe Roth said the film would not have been made if Jolie had refused.^[8] Jolie’s desire to play Maleficent stemmed from her love of the character since she was little,^[9] as well as the persuasions of her children^[5] and brother.^[10] She was also «very moved by the script», although she initially doubted the possibility of making a film about «somebody who curses a baby».^[11] Jolie worked closely with Linda Woolverton to make sure that Maleficent would remain villainous enough, without losing her «wicked sense of fun»,^[11] while Woolverton leaned towards the more sympathetic side of the character, calling «keeping her both things: both the hero and the villain» the biggest challenge.^[12] Jolie described Maleficent as «slightly crazy, extremely vibrant, a little wicked, with big sense of humor, so she’s quite full on. It’s one of those characters that you couldn’t do halfway».^[13]
  • Ella Purnell as Teen Maleficent. Purnell was announced to have been cast on October 17, 2013.^[14] Initially, India Eisley was cast in the role in May 2012,^[15] but after producers decided to reshoot the opening scenes of the film, she was replaced by Purnell,^[16] who originally auditioned for the part of Aurora.^[17] Casting of Purnell was personally approved by Jolie,^[17] although the two have never met in person during film’s production.^[18] Anya Taylor-Joy also auditioned for the role.^[19]
  • Isobelle Molloy as Young Maleficent.
• Elle Fanning as Aurora, also known as Sleeping Beauty, daughter of Stefan and Leila, who becomes a victim of Maleficent’s curse and a key figure in her turning to the path of redemption. Fanning was announced to have been cast on May 7, 2012,^[20] while news of her negotiations with the studio surfaced two months earlier.^[21] Fanning’s candidacy was suggested by Roth after he watched Super 8, where she starred.^[22] While preparing for the role, Fanning rewatched the original 1959 film to pick up mannerisms of animated Aurora, but she also tried to make sure that her version of the character would feel like a «real person, not just an animated character».^[23] According to Fanning, the hardest part of the role were the scenes where Aurora falls into her death-like sleep, since she had to remain completely still all the time while these scenes were filmed.^[22] Fanning described Aurora as «very free spirited, and since she has been kept away from normal life, she’s very open to things and innocent»,^[23] while Robert Stromberg highlighted the «wonderful» contrast between Fanning and Jolie, calling Aurora the «beacon of light» that he was looking forward to blending with the darkness of Maleficent.^[24]
  • Vivienne Jolie-Pitt as 5-year-old Aurora. Vivienne is Jolie’s real-life daughter with Brad Pitt and was cast in the role as she was the only child on the film set who wasn’t frightened of Jolie while in full costume as Maleficent.^[10] Before Vivienne’s casting was approved, Jolie also offered the role to her other daughter, Shiloh, but she refused.^[25] Two other children of Jolie and Pitt, Pax and Zahara, make cameos in the christening scene.^[26]
  • Eleanor Worthington Cox as 8-year-old Aurora. Worthington Cox was announced to have been cast on October 4, 2012.^[27]
  • Janet McTeer as elderly Aurora, who serves as film’s narrator.
• Sharlto Copley as Stefan, a childhood friend and ex-lover of Maleficent, who cuts off her wings to become the king and eventually grows obsessed with killing her. Copley was announced to have been cast on May 7, 2012,^[20] while news of his negotiations with the studio surfaced a few days earlier.^[28] Jude Law was rumored to be considered for the role.^[29]
  • Michael Higgins as Young Stefan.
  • Jackson Bews as Teen Stefan.
• Lesley Manville as Flittle, a blue pixie-fairy. Manville was announced to have been cast on May 7, 2012.^[20] Judi Dench and Emma Thompson were rumored to be considered for the role.^[29]
• Imelda Staunton as Knotgrass, a red pixie-fairy. Staunton was announced to have been cast on May 7, 2012.^[20]
• Juno Temple as Thistlewit, a green pixie-fairy. Temple was announced to have been cast on May 17, 2012.^[30]
• Sam Riley as Diaval, a shapeshifting raven, who is saved by Maleficent and becomes her servant and confidant. Riley was announced to have been cast on May 7, 2012.^[20]
• Brenton Thwaites as Phillip, a prince from a neighbouring kingdom of Ulstead who befriends and falls in love with Aurora. Thwaites was announced to have been cast on May 30, 2012.^[31]
• Kenneth Cranham as King Henry, Stefan’s predecessor, whose efforts to conquer the Moors get him slain by Maleficent. Cranham was announced to have been cast on May 7, 2012.^[20] Patrick Stewart was rumored to be considered for the role.^[29]
• Hannah New as Princess Leila, King Henry’s daughter, Stefan’s wife and Aurora’s mother.

Production[edit]

Development[edit]

In 2003,^[32] during Don Hahn’s meeting with Disney’s animation department, it was suggested to create an origin film about Maleficent from Disney’s animated film Sleeping Beauty (1959) in the same vein as then just released Broadway musical Wicked.^[33] The film was originally conceived as animated, but got cancelled two years into development, because, according to Hahn, it was «too difficult», so it was decided to go for a live-action approach instead.^[34] In late 2005,^[33] Hahn met with Tim Burton to pitch him several projects for Disney, including Maleficent, which Burton agreed to helm,^[35] but did not start working on it until around the summer of 2009,^[36] when he was finishing Alice in Wonderland (2010).^[35] Around the same time, Hahn approached Linda Woolverton, with whom he had previously worked on Beauty and the Beast (1991) and The Lion King (1994), to write the script,^[35] and in March 2010 she officially joined the project,^[36] while the studio began negotiations with Angelina Jolie to star as Maleficent.^[37] Burton personally supervised the development of the film for six months to a year,^[33][35] until in May 2011 it was announced that he had left the project due to his commitments to Frankenweenie (2012) and Dark Shadows (2012).^[38][39] Following Burton’s departure, the studio considered David Yates,^[38] Darren Aronofsky,^[40] and David O. Russell to take over as director.^[41] Guillermo del Toro also expressed a desire to direct the film, citing Sleeping Beauty (1959) as one of his three favorite Disney films.^[42] In September 2011, Joe Roth joined the project as a producer,^[43] and in January 2012 it was announced that Robert Stromberg, the production designer of Avatar (2009), Alice in Wonderland (2010) and Oz the Great and Powerful (2013), would helm the project in his directional debut.^[44] A month later, during the 62nd Berlin International Film Festival, Jolie officially confirmed her involvement in the project.^[5]

Writing[edit]

Linda Woolverton’s screenplay went through at least 15 versions as the film progressed in production.^[12] Stromberg said: «I met many times with Linda Woolverton, the writer. We did lots of roundtable discussions and sort of cut out the fat as much as we could and sort of purified the storyline as much as we could».^[46] Paul Dini also performed rewrites on the project with Stromberg,^[47] and was credited in early press.^[48][49] In some earlier versions of the story, Stefan was the half-human, half-fairy bastard son of King Henry. The version of the screenplay that went into shooting originally included two characters called Queen Ulla and King Kinloch, the fairy queen and fairy king of the Moors and the aunt and uncle of Maleficent.^[20] Miranda Richardson and Peter Capaldi were cast and shot the Queen Ulla and King Kinloch scenes, but their roles were cut in the editing process together with more than 15 minutes of the first act of the film. Stromberg said, «We spent a bit more time originally in the fairy world before we got into the human side of things … we wanted to get it [the film] under two hours. So we cut about 15 minutes out of the first act, and then that had to be seamed together with some pretty basic reshoots.»^[50]

Stromberg later claimed in an interview that he employed an «age-old» emotional storytelling for the film and called it «the biggest thrill» against all technology advances.^[24] «And the way we play with that is we have somebody who’s perhaps in love but betrayed and doesn’t believe that true love exists. So the moral to it is we can all feel dark ourselves but not to lose hope because there is light in places where we might not be expecting», he explained.^[24]

Principal photography[edit]

Principal photography began on June 13, 2012, at Pinewood Studios.^[51][52] Some filming took place in the Buckinghamshire countryside near Turville.^[53]

Reshoots[edit]

John Lee Hancock assisted Stromberg with reshoots for the film. Hancock, who had just finished overseeing the final postproduction stages of Saving Mr. Banks, was approached by producer Joe Roth, with whom he had worked on Snow White and the Huntsman. Roth said: «He’s not directing. He wrote pages, and I hired a first-time director, and it’s good to have him on set.» Roth was asked why a «film of this magnitude was entrusted to a novice director», and he noted that Stromberg won Academy Awards for production design on Avatar and Alice in Wonderland. Roth said: «The movie is gorgeous to look at, and the last 75 minutes are really entertaining. The issue was the opening, which was reshot over eight days.»^[54]

Visual effects[edit]

As a previous production designer, Stromberg sought to balance the use of practical and computer-generated effects. For example, while Maleficent’s horns and facial prosthetics were created by makeup artist Rick Baker, Digital Domain took facial capture of Imelda Staunton, Lesley Manville, and Juno Temple for the three pixies to be generated with high authenticity with the help of special rigging by Disney Research in Zurich.^[24] For the visuals, Stromberg wanted to make it «a bit more grounded» and «not too surreal» because it could be distracting from the simplicity of the story.^[24] He also regretted not employing bigger sets and allowing actors to work in a more tangible environment, on «real sets with real lights».^[24]

Music[edit]

James Newton Howard was hired to score the film in October 2012. The film marked Howard’s first live-action Disney film score, as he had previously scored three films from Walt Disney Animation Studios which include Dinosaur (2000), Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001) and Treasure Planet (2002).^[55] On January 23, 2014, recording artist Lana Del Rey was announced as covering the song «Once Upon a Dream», from the 1959 film Sleeping Beauty, as the title song for Maleficent. The song «Once Upon a Dream» is based on the Grand Waltz from ballet Sleeping Beauty written by Russian composer Tchaikovsky.^[56][57] The single was released on January 26, 2014, during the 56th Grammy Awards and was made available for free for a limited time through Google Play.^[58][59] The soundtrack album, featuring Howard’s score and Del Rey’s cover of «Once Upon a Dream» was released on May 26, 2014, by Walt Disney Records.^[60]

Marketing[edit]

On August 10, 2013, as part of the live-action motion-picture panel of the 2013 Disney D23 Expo in the Anaheim Convention Center at Anaheim, California, Disney unveiled its first look of Maleficent by revealing the new logo of the film’s title and a one-minute clip from the film. Angelina Jolie made a surprise visit to the expo and talked with the attendees about her fascination with Disney’s Sleeping Beauty as a child, her working experience with the filmmakers on the film, and her love of Disney. She also remarked on how she scared little girls when she was in costume, makeup, and acting during shooting; this led to the decision to hire her own daughter, Vivienne Jolie-Pitt, for the role of the young Princess Aurora, since she would not be scared of her own mother during principal photography.^[61]

Walt Disney Pictures released the teaser poster for Maleficent on November 12, 2013, featuring Jolie in costume and makeup, akin to the character’s depiction in the original film.^[62][63] The first trailer was released the following day, on November 13. The first teaser trailer was attached to Thor: The Dark World, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, Frozen, and Vampire Academy: Blood Sisters.^[64] Two more trailers were released in January 2014, revealing Maleficent’s appearance. A third trailer featured Lana Del Rey singing «Once Upon a Dream».^[65] The final trailer was released on March 18, 2014.^[66]

Starting April 18, 2014, Disney’s Hollywood Studios and Disney California Adventure previewed the film inside the ABC Sound Studio and It’s Tough to Be a Bug! theaters, respectively.^[67] Disney Infinity 2.0 featured Maleficent as a playable figure using the look from the film.

Novelization[edit]

A tie-in novelization of the film written by Elizabeth Rudnick was published by Disney Publishing Worldwide on April 29, 2014.^[68]

Release[edit]

The film was originally slated for a March 14, 2014 release,^[69] before it was changed to July 2, 2014.^[70] On September 18, 2013, the film’s release date was preponed to May 30, 2014, as Pixar’s The Good Dinosaur faced production issues and delayed to 2015.^[71] In the United Kingdom, the film was released on May 28, 2014.^[72]

On November 22, 2018, a one-time special screening of the film is held in Sofia, Bulgaria at New Bulgarian University, where Bulgarian actor Peter Baykov does the dubbing for every character in the film by changing his voice from male to female live. He later performs part of the film trailer live during the semi-finals on the Got Talent show in Bulgaria in 2019 which leads him to the season finale.^[73][74] He later gets cast by Walt Disney Studios to play the role of Prince Phillip in Bulgarian for Maleficent: Mistress of Evil.^[75]

In September 2020, the film returned to theaters in the United Kingdom following their reopening from closure due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Box office[edit]

Maleficent earned a gross of $241.4 million in the US and Canada, and $517.1 million in other countries, for a worldwide total of $758.5 million against a budget of $180 million.^[1] Calculating in all expenses, Deadline Hollywood estimated that the film made a profit of $190.77 million, making it the sixth most profitable film of 2014.^[76] Worldwide, in its opening weekend, the film earned $175.5 million,^[77][78] $9 million of which were from IMAX locations.^[79] It is also the biggest debut among films starring Angelina Jolie,^[79] and the actress’ highest-grossing film of all time worldwide,^[80][81] as well as the fourth-highest grossing 2014 film (behind Transformers: Age of Extinction, The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies, and Guardians of the Galaxy), and the 15th Disney-distributed film to surpass the $700 million mark at the worldwide box office.^[82] The film is also one of four Walt Disney Studios releases in 2014 to gross over $500 million; the other titles being Guardians of the Galaxy, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, and Big Hero 6.^[83]

In North America, Maleficent earned $4.2 million in Thursday-night showings, surpassing the midnight or late-night grosses of previous live-action fantasy films, Alice in Wonderland, Oz the Great and Powerful^[84][85] and Snow White and the Huntsman. By the end of its opening day (including late-night Thursday earnings), the film earned $24.3 million, similar to Oz, but ahead of Snow White and the Huntsman and behind Alice.^[86] Maleficent finished its debut weekend at first place with $69.4 million^[77] ($6.7 million of which was earned from IMAX locations and 35% of which was earned from 3D showings),^[87][88] which exceeded Disney’s expectations of a $60 million opening^[89] and making it the largest opening-weekend performance for a live-action film starring Jolie (a record previously held by her 2008 film Wanted),^[87] as well as the third-highest opening weekend for a solo female star (behind the first two films in The Hunger Games series).^[90] Disney reported that 46% of ticket buyers in Thursday previews were male,^[84] while weekend reports said family audiences accounted for 45% of the film’s total audience, and couples and teens accounted for 38% and 18%, respectively.^[87][89] Female audiences and moviegoers over 25 years old held respective proportions of 60% and 51%.^[87] Dave Hollis, head of Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, attributed this success to «some momentum and great word-of-mouth.»^[89] During its first week, the film earned $93.8 million, ahead of Snow White yet behind Oz and Alice.^[91] In its second weekend, Maleficent dropped by 50.6% to $34.3 million, finishing in second place.^[77] It experienced a smaller second-weekend drop than Snow White,^[92][93] yet still bigger than Oz and Alice.^[94] In North America, Maleficent is the eighth-highest-grossing 2014 film.^[95]

Maleficent opened outside North America on the same weekend as North America, earning $20.1 million from 35 territories in its first two days (May 28–29, 2014).^[96] During its opening weekend, the film topped the box office with $106.1 million from 47 territories.^[78] Its largest opening weekends were in China ($22.2 million),^[97] Mexico ($14.0 million), and Russia and the CIS ($13.0 million).^[79] On the second weekend of release, Maleficent fell to $61.7 million, earning from 52 markets.^[98][99] It was in first place at the box office outside North America on three weekends, its first, third ($39.2 million)^[100][101] and fourth ($47.9 million).^[102]

Maleficent is the fourth-highest grossing 2014 film,^[103] and Angelina Jolie’s highest-grossing live-action film.^[80] In total earnings, the film’s top markets after North America are Japan ($57.6 million), China ($47.7 million), Mexico ($46.2 million), Russia ($37.7 million), Brazil ($33.2 million), the United Kingdom ($31.7 million), Venezuela ($24.5 million), and Italy ($19.1 million).^[104] It was also the most watched film at the Maltese box office in 2014, enjoying an eighteen-week run.^[105]

Commercial analysis[edit]

Dave Lewis, writing for HitFix, predicted that although Disney fairy tales and Angelina Jolie’s performance might attract audiences, Maleficent would not gross even as much as Oz the Great and Powerful, explaining that the film was released on the same time frame with competitive releases such as X-Men: Days of Future Past, Godzilla, and A Million Ways to Die in the West,^[106] though it outperformed those films later on. Boxoffice wrote that Maleficent had a successful marketing campaign, featured Jolie in the title role, and its «female-driven» themes and plot aimed at women. However, the site also noted that the film would have to compete with other summer releases, and the character of Maleficent may not attract young children.^[107] Todd Cunningham of The Wrap shared the same opinion, writing, «[the film’s] connecting with parents and that Jolie’s considerable star power is having a big impact.»^[108][109] Wells Fargo’s Marci Ryvicker predicted that Maleficent might be «too dark and scary to be profitable» and was likely to force Disney «into a write-down», as reported by The New York Times; while RBC Capital Markets’ David Bank commented that «It’s definitely in the ‘not a sure thing’ bucket.»^{[110][111][112]} Wall St. Cheat Sheet explained that the film approached to a more «grown-up» and «sinister» aspect of the classic, and targeted for an older audience like young adults. «It’s just too scary for younger children,» the site wrote.^[113] ScreenRant added that the PG rating of the film would «fill a void in the marketplace, which is currently without a traditional «family friendly» option.»^[114] Box Office Mojo primarily compared the film with 2012’s Snow White and the Huntsman (another film that also focused on a fairy tale villain), predicting that Maleficent «has a good chance» of matching Snow White‘s gross in North America box office.^[115] The film, however, ended up grossing double the amount projected.

Variety wrote that the film’s opening weekend outperforming initial box-office projections was later attributed by analysts in part to Disney’s successful marketing to the «potent demographic» (female audiences) much like the studio accomplished with Frozen, in which both films feature a strong female lead.^[116] Disney argued that a lack of family-friendly options in the marketplace would «bode well for Maleficent‘s [box-office] performance» in its two first weeks of release.^[116]

The cost of the film was offset by a rebate from the UK in the amount of £23,535,108 ($37 million in 2012, the period in which it was shot).^[117]

Home media[edit]

Maleficent was released by Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment on Blu-ray, DVD, Blu-ray 3D, and digital download on November 4, 2014.^[118] The film topped the home-video sales chart in its first week of release.^[119] As of February 2015, Maleficent has made over $74 million in total home-video sales.^[120] Maleficent was released on 4K UHD Blu-ray on September 24, 2019.^[121]

Reception[edit]

Critical response[edit]

On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 54% based on 273 reviews, with an average rating of 5.70/10. The website’s critical consensus reads: «Angelina Jolie’s magnetic performance outshines Maleficent‘s dazzling special effects; unfortunately, the movie around them fails to justify all that impressive effort.»^[122] On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 56 out of 100 based on 44 critics, indicating «mixed or average reviews».^[123] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an «A» grade on a scale of A+ to F.^[124][125] Jolie’s performance in the film was repeatedly singled out for praise.

The New York Times stated, «with two shorn wings and an astonishing maternal kiss, Maleficent demolishes stereotypes that were only tweaked in Frozen.»^[126] Kate Taylor of the Globe and Mail was very positive about the film, writing that «[it] surprises not for its baroque visions of a colourful woodland enlivened by joyous fairies and a forbidding castle peopled by unhappy humans, but rather for the thematic richness of its story gloriously personified by Angelina Jolie in the title role.» While criticizing the overuse of CGI and 3D effects, she particularly praised the positive message of the film and Jolie’s performance. She concluded her review with, «Long live the feminist revisionist backstory.»^[127] On the contrary, Keith Staskiewicz, writing for the Entertainment Weekly, awarded the film a «B−» and wrote that «there’s a lot of levitating cliffs and odd flora. But despite their bleeding-edge digital design, the backgrounds have all the depth of the old matte-painted backgrounds of the analog days,» which made the film «[feel] classical in nature.» He further commented that «The characters are boiled down to their essentials, the humor is timelessly broad.»^[128] Michael Philips of the Chicago Tribune gave the film two and a half stars, commenting that the recent «formula» that «a new angle on a well-known fairy tale appears in the light» «works» with Maleficent. He also said that the film «is all about second thoughts» since Maleficent «spends much of the film as Aurora’s conflicted fairy godmother.» Phillips particularly praised Jolie and Elle Fanning’s acting, Rick Baker’s makeup (for Jolie’s «angular, serrated look»), but criticized James Newton Howard’s «sloshy, pushy» musical score.^[129] Robbie Collin of The Daily Telegraph wrote, «This Disney reimagining of Sleeping Beauty lacks true enchantment, but Angelina Jolie saves the day.»^[130] Betsy Sharkey of the Los Angeles Times gave the film a positive review, writing «This is Jolie’s film because of the Maleficent she makes. Everyone else, even Aurora, fades in her presence.»^[131] J.C. Maçek III of PopMatters wrote, «Even at its silliest, Maleficent is a well-acted film, with Sharlto Copley turning in a memorable performance and Elle Fanning proving to be an inspired choice for Aurora/Sleeping Beauty. Jolie manages to steal her own show in most every scene. Jolie is excellent as the hopeful fairy, enjoying the world she flies through. She is also brilliant as the Dark Lady, who could be a perfect counterpart to any Darth Vader, as she malevolently takes her revenge on those who have wronged her.»^[132]

Ann Hornaday of The Washington Post awarded the film three-and-a-half out of four stars, commenting, «Still, for all its limitations, Maleficent manages to be improbably entertaining to watch, due solely to its title character.»^[133] Writing for Roger Ebert’s website, Matt Zoller Seitz awarded Maleficent three out of four stars, praising the themes of the film and the acting of Jolie. Seitz also called the scene in which Maleficent discovers the loss of her wings «the most traumatizing image I’ve seen in a Hollywood fairy tale since the Christ-like sacrifice of Aslan in 2005’s The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.»^[134] The review in The Globe and Mail further explained that «in the simple context of a fairy tale, Jolie does make both the terrifying horned creature and her gradual awakening heartfelt,» extolling the «emotional richness» behind her physical acts.^[127] Richard Roeper of the Chicago Sun-Times felt more negatively, assigning it a D. Although Roeper praised the visuals, he criticized the acting and writing, stating that «the story itself might well put you into the same type of coma that befalls the heroine.»^[135]

Mary Costa, who voiced Aurora in the 1959 animated motion picture, called the film, «a very good movie». She added that «the concept and perspective are totally different than the original film’s, which makes it new and interesting.» As for Jolie’s performance, she said, «No one could have played the part of Maleficent better,» concluding that «she was absolutely magnificent!»^[136]

Rape allegory[edit]

Multiple reviewers and commentators have opined that an early scene in the movie, in which Stefan drugs Maleficent and removes her wings from her unconscious body, is a metaphor for rape. Hayley Krischer of The Huffington Post interpreted the scene as an important reference to rape culture: «This is the horrific side of rape culture. We’re so enmeshed in it that it’s impossible to ignore a metaphoric rape that occurs in a Disney movie». She went on to praise the film for giving a positive and hopeful message to rape victims, ultimately allowing «the woman to recover. It gives her agency. It gives her power. It allows her to reclaim the story».^[137] Monika Bartyzel of The Week noted the scene’s implications in her review: «In its first act, Maleficent offers a dark, surprisingly adult exploration of rape and female mutilation».

However, Bartyzel went on to opine that the film portrayed Maleficent’s actions as «a rape revenge fantasy» and criticized the film for not following through on its early subtext, ultimately calling it less feminist and reductive compared to its 1959 counterpart: «In Maleficent, Aurora is the product of a cold and loveless marriage and a vengeful, unhinged rapist. Her safety relies on a trio of clueless and dangerously careless fairies, and her Godmother is the woman who cursed her—and who had, in turn, been violated by her own father».^[138]

Angelina Jolie addressed the issue during an interview with BBC Radio 4 on the Woman’s Hour programme and claimed that the subtext was intentional: «The question was asked: ‘What could make a woman become so dark and lose all sense of her maternity, her womanhood, and her softness?’ … We were very conscious, the writer and I, that [the scene] was a metaphor for rape». She further explained that the answer to the question «What could bring her back?» was still «an extreme Disney, fun version [of the story]», but «at the core it is abuse, and how the abused then have a choice of abusing others or overcoming and remaining loving, open people».^[139][140]

Capitalism and socialism[edit]

Jordan Shapiro of Forbes argued that the film’s main subtext was the detrimental effects of ultimata between capitalist and socialist societies. He pointed out that the Moors represented a socialist, nature-oriented, democratic society, while the human kingdom was one of capitalism, industry, and absolute monarchy. Shapiro further commented that the character of Stefan, his theft of the Moors’ riches (the jewel), and his mutilation of Maleficent’s wings for the sake of his ambition were references to the American Dream.

He conceived the wing-tearing scene as «a social commentary that any hierarchical rise to power inherently happens through the exploitation of others», explaining that it was the reason why «without her wings, Maleficent also becomes an oppressive ruler of the Moors. Everything she represents, believes, and stands for has been grounded», and «like most victims of oppression», «she takes it out on those who are smaller and weaker». He concluded that through the merge of the two kingdoms at the end of the film, it sought to weave together capitalism and socialism and let go oppositions: «It is time to leave the kingdom of familiar partisan oppositions: let’s replace either/or with neither/nor or both/and«.^[141]

Awards and nominations[edit]

List of awards and nominations
Award / Film Festival	Category	Recipient(s)	Result
87th Academy Awards[142]	Best Costume Design	Anna B. Sheppard	Nominated
Broadcast Film Critics Association[143]	Best Costume Design	Anna B. Sheppard
Best Hair & Makeup
Heartland Film Festival[144]	Truly Moving Picture Award	Robert Stromberg	Won
Hollywood Film Awards[145]	Hollywood Production Design	Dylan Cole and Gary Freeman
Hollywood Music in Media Awards	Original Score — SI-FI/Fantasy Film	James Newton Howard	Nominated
Nickelodeon Mexico Kids’ Choice Awards[146]	Favorite movie
People’s Choice Awards	Favorite Movie		Won
Favorite Family Movie
Favorite Movie Actress	Angelina Jolie	Nominated
Favorite Action Movie Actress
Phoenix Film Critics Society[147]	Best Live Action Family Film
Best Costume Design	Anna B. Sheppard
Satellite Awards	Best Costume Design	Anna B. Sheppard
Best Art Direction & Production Design	Dylan Cole, Frank Walsh, Gary Freeman
Teen Choice Awards	Choice Movie: Action
Choice Movie Actress: Action	Angelina Jolie
Elle Fanning
45th Annual British Academy Children’s Awards[148]	BAFTA Kid’s Vote — Film in 2014
Children’s Feature Film
Saturn Award[149]	Best Fantasy Film
Best Actress	Angelina Jolie
Best Performance by a Younger Actor	Elle Fanning
Best Costume	Anna B. Sheppard
Kids’ Choice Award	Favorite Movie
Favorite Actress	Angelina Jolie
Favorite Villain	Angelina Jolie	Won
Favorite Actress	Elle Fanning	Nominated
Visual Effects Society Awards (VES Awards)[150]	Outstanding Visual Effects in a Visual Effects-Driven Photoreal/Live Action Feature Motion Picture	Carey Villegas, Barrie Hemsley, Adam Valdez, Kelly Port, Michael Dawson
Outstanding Performance of an Animated Character in a Photoreal/Live Action Feature Motion Picture	Darren Hendler, Matthias Wittmann, Jeremy Buttell, Elliot Rosenstein
Hollywood Post Alliance Awards (HPA Awards)[151]	Outstanding Visual Effects – Feature Film	Carey Villegas, Adam Valdez, Seth Maury, Kevin Hahn, David Seager // MPC

Sequel[edit]

On June 3, 2014, Angelina Jolie hinted about the possibility of a sequel.^[152] On June 15, 2015, Disney announced the sequel with Linda Woolverton returning to write the screenplay and Joe Roth to produce the film.^[153] On April 26, 2016, it was confirmed that Jolie would reprise her role as Maleficent.^[154] On August 30, 2017, Disney hired screenwriter Jez Butterworth to rewrite the initial script by Woolverton.^[155] On October 3, 2017, it was reported that Joachim Rønning (Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales) is in talks on directing the sequel.^[156]

In January 2018, the sequel was reported to start filming in spring 2018,^[157] and that Patrick Tatopoulos had joined the crew as production designer.^[158] In April 2018, Ed Skrein was announced to play the film’s villain, and that Elle Fanning was set to reprise her role as Aurora.^[159]

On April 27, 2018, it was reported that Michelle Pfeiffer was in advanced talks to play a queen in the sequel, while the script’s most recent draft was written by Noah Harpster and Micah Fitzerman-Blue.^[160] On May 2, 2018, it was reported that Harris Dickinson had joined the cast as Prince Phillip, replacing Brenton Thwaites, who was unable to reprise the role due to scheduling conflicts.^[161] On May 4, 2018, it was announced that Chiwetel Ejiofor (who previously worked with Jolie in Salt), was in talks to join the cast of the sequel as a potential love interest to Maleficent.^[162] On May 17, 2018, Jenn Murray was announced to join the cast.^[163]

On May 23, 2018, David Gyasi was reported as joining the cast in an unspecified role.^[164] On May 29, the movie officially started filming as the cast and synopsis were revealed.^[165]

Principal photography concluded on August 24, 2018.^[166] The film was released on October 18, 2019.^[167]

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Этот кинофильм передаёт практически сказку спящая красавица. В этом фильме главной героиней является не милая молодая девушка – дочь царя, а сама Колдунья. Малифесента одна из самых могущественных существ в сказочном мире, которая живет на болотах.
Здесь также обитает еще масса сказочных созданий. Люди не понимают их и боятся, поэтому желают уничтожить волшебный мир. Малифисента в юном возрасте встречает мальчишку и влюбляется. В один прекрасный день, он предает их чувства ради трона и отрезает колдунье великолепные крылья. Обиженная девушка решает отомстить мужчине и проклинает его дочь. Она следит за тем, как девочка растет с феями в лесу и постепенно привыкает к ней.

This movie conveys much of the fairytale sleeping beauty. In this film the main character is not a sweet young girl — the daughter of the king, and the Witch. Malifecent one of the most powerful creatures in a fantasy world that lives in swamps.
There are still lots of fabulous creatures. People don’t understand them and I’m afraid, so I wish to destroy the magical world. The maleficent at a young age meets a boy and falls in love. One day, he betrays their feelings for the sake of the throne and the witch cuts off a magnificent wings. Offended by a girl decides to take revenge on the man and curses his daughter. She looks on as the girl grows with the fairies in the forest and gradually gets used to it.

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Режиссёр Роберт Стромберг.

Автор сценария Линда Вулвертон на основе сказки Шарля Перро и её мультипликационной адаптации по сценарию Джо Ринальди, Уинстона Хиблера, Билла Пита, Теда Сирса, Ральфа Уайта, Милта Банты, а также на основе сказки Якоба Гримма и Вильгельма Гримма (без указания в титрах).

Композитор Джеймс Ньютон Ховард.

Оператор Дин Семлер.

Жанр: фильм действия, приключенческий фильм, семейный фильм, кинофантазия, мелодрама

Краткое содержание
Малефисента ( Анджелина Джоли ), защищавшая Топкие Болота от посягательств короля Генри ( Кеннет Крэнэм ), оказывается подло обманута своим возлюбленным Стефаном ( Шарлто Копли ), который отрезал у неё крылья. В ответ могущественная фея решает отомстить избраннику, ставшему в награду наследником престола, и накладывает на его новорождённую дочь Аврору страшное заклятие. В день своего шестнадцатилетия девушка ( Эль Фэннинг ) уколет палец о веретено прялки и заснёт навеки…

Также в ролях: Вивьен Джоли-Питт (пятилетняя Аврора), Элеонор Уортингтон Кокс (восьмилетняя Аврора), Джанет Мактир (Аврора в старости / рассказчица, озв.), Джексон Бьюз (юный Стефан), Майкл Хиггинс (Стефан в детстве), Имельда Стонтон (Нотграсс), Лесли Мэнвилл (Флитл), Джуно Темпл (Фислвит), Сэм Райли (Диаваль), Брентон Туэйтес (Филипп), Ханна Нью (принцесса Лейла), Сара Флинд (служанка принцессы Лейлы), Энгус Райт (советник короля Генри), Лиам МакКенна (капитан королевской стражи).

Рецензия

Авторская оценка 5/10

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Малефисента в лесу

В гостях без приглашения

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1 – Между прочим, получившего от продюсеров приглашение и теперь, но отдавшего предпочтение (добавим от себя: к сожалению!) другим проектам.
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Мой любимый фильм малефисента.
МАЛЕФИСЕНТА / MALEFICENT
Фильм Малефисента начинается с того, что молодая фея встречается с мальчиком по имени Стефан. И у них начинается дружба перерастающая в любовь!
Потом они расстаются. Стефон хочет стать богатым и быть королем. Король же, нападает на царство, где правит Малефисента и терпит неудачу.
И уже при смерти обещает тому, кто убьет Малефисенту отдать свое царство! Стефан идет к Малефисенте и предупреждает об этом. Они вспоминают прошлые дни.
Малефисента засыпает вместе со Стефаном. Ночью Стефан, одолеваемый демонами хочет убить Малефисентау, но не может этого сделать!
Малефисента просыпается утром и понимает, что у неё отрезали крылья! И Малефисента из доброй феи превращается в злую колдунью!
В этом фильме играла роль малефисенты анжелина джоли, в роли стефона шарлто копли

My favorite movie is maleficent.
MALEFICENT / MALEFICENT
Movie Maleficent begins with a young fairy meets a boy named Stefan. And they begin a friendship develops into love!
Then they break up. ..Stefanie wants to become rich and to be king. The king attacks the Kingdom ruled by Maleficent and fails.
And with the death of promises whoever kills Maleficent to give up his Kingdom! Stefan goes to Maleficent and warns about it. They remember past days.
Maleficent falls asleep together with Stefan. Night Stefan, overcome the demons want to kill Maleficent, but can’t do it!
Maleficent wakes up one morning and realizes she cut off the wings! And Maleficent from the fairy godmother turns into an evil witch!
In this film, played the role of maleficent angelina jolie, in the role of Stefanie Sharlto Copley

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Maleficent [mə’lefɪs(ə)nt] — вредоносная; преступная; губительная

Прелестная юная фея Малефисента беззаботно живет в чудесном лесном королевстве, пока однажды армия враждебного государства не врывается в мирное течение сказочной жизни. Малефисента становится на защиту лесного народа, но безжалостное предательство превращает ее чистое сердце в камень. Затаившая обиду, одержимая местью, Малефисента предрекает дочери короля-предателя смерть от укола веретеном. Но годы идут и Малефисента понимает, что юная Аврора держит ключи от мира в королевстве — и, похоже, от счастья Малефисенты.

Чем объясняется выбор актрисы, почему она согласилась на такую, на первый взгляд, непривлекательную роль? Как объясняет Анджелина в своем интервью, она, как и многие из нас, выросла на Диснеевских мультфильмах, и особенно ей нравилась Спящая красавица (1959). Уже тогда Малефисента восхищала будущую актрису: элегантность, грация и завораживающий магнетизм злой колдуньи привлекали Анджелину. Джоли понравился и сценарий, и то, как был описан ее персонаж. Кроме того, сыновья и дочери Джоли и Питта, как родные, так и приемные, упрашивали Анджелину согласиться на роль.

Актриса приняла живое участие в разработке костюмов и грима: она не позволила режиссеру чересчур смягчить образ Малефисенты, убрав из ее облика пугающие черты. По словам Джоли, ее дочь, Вивьен Джоли-Питт, сыгравшая в фильме принцессу Аврору в детстве, была единственным ребенком на съемочной площадке, который не пугался, когда видел ее в образе злой колдуньи.

Интересные факты

Ошибка в фильме

Язык фей и волшебников

Существительные

Centaur [ˈsɛntɔː] — кентавр

Empire [ˈɛmpaɪə] — империя

Fairy [ˈfɛərɪ] — фея, эльф, волшебница

Goblin, Dwarf, Elf [ˈɡɒblɪn], [dwɔːf], [ɛlf] — гоблин, карлик, эльф (вымышленные персонажи)

Highness, Excellency, Majesty, My Lord [ˈhaɪnɪs], [ˈɛksələnsɪ], [ˈmædʒɪstɪ], [maɪ lɔːd] — (Ваше) Высочество, Сиятельство, Превосходительство, Величество, милорд (титулы, принятые в обращении к высокопоставленным особам)

Kingdom [ˈkɪŋdəm] — королевство

Knight [naɪt] — рыцарь, солдат королевской армии

Lord [lɔːd] — лорд, владыка, повелитель

Minotaur [ˈmaɪnətɔː] — минотавр (вымышленное существо с телом человека и головой быка)

Monarchy [ˈmɒnəkɪ] — члены королевской (монаршей) семьи

Nobleman [ˈnəʊbəlmən] — аристократ, вельможа

Spear [spɪə] — копье

Sprite [spraɪt] — фея, эльф, лесной дух, леший

Successor [səkˈsɛsə] — преемник, престолонаследник

Sword [sɔ:d] — меч

Vassal [ˈvæsəl] — подданный, вассал

Witch, sorceress [wɪtʃ],[ˈsɔrsərɪs] — колдунья, ведьма, ведунья

Wizard, sorcerer [ˈwɪzəd],[ˈsɔːsərə] — колдун, маг, чародей

Глаголы

To cast [kɑːst] (a spell) — наводить чары, заклятие, околдовывать, очаровывать

To conjure [ˈkʌndʒə] — призывать демонов, вызывать духов, колдовать

To conquer [ˈkɒŋkə] — завоевывать, покорять

To conspire [kənˈspaɪə] — устраивать (заговор)

To decimate [ˈdɛsɪˌmeɪt] — казнить, опустошать

To devise [dɪˈvaɪz] — задумывать, измышлять (план)

To impale [ɪmˈpeɪl] — пронзать, сажать на кол

To joust [dʒaʊst] — биться на турнире, сражаться на поединке

To slay [sleɪ] — убивать

To yield [jiːld], to surrender [səˈrɛndə] — сдаваться

Прилагательные

Benevolent [bɪˈnɛvələnt] — великодушный

Courageous [kəˈreɪdʒəs] — храбрый

Delicate [dɛlɪkɪt] — утонченный, изысканный, хрупкий

Depraved [dɪˈpreɪvd] — порочный

Equestrian [ɪˈkwɛstrɪən] — конный

Frail [freɪl] — хрупкий

Iridescent [ɪrɪˈdɛsənt] — радужный, переливчатый

Lowly [ˈləʊlɪ] — скромный, смиренный

Malevolent [məˈlɛvələnt] — злонамеренный

Narcissistic [ˌnɑːsɪˈsɪstɪk] — самовлюбленный

Resilient [rɪˈzɪlɪənt] — стойкий, несгибаемый

Scaly [ˈskeɪlɪ] — чешуйчатый

Stalwart [ˈstɔːlwət] — доблестный, отважный

Наречия

Courageously [kəˈreɪdʒəslɪ] — храбро, отважно, смело

Cunningly [ˈkʌnɪŋlɪ] — искусно, лукаво, умело

Heartily [ˈhɑːtɪlɪ] — искренне, от всего сердца

Humbly, modestly [ˈhʌmblɪ], [ˈmɒdɪstlɪ] — смиренно, покорно, почтительно

Unknowingly [ˈʌnˈnəʊɪŋlɪ] — невольно

Сцена крестин принцессы Авроры

Будучи сопродюсером фильма, Анджелина Джоли настояла на том, чтобы диалог Малефисенты и короля Стефана в сцене крестин Авроры точь-в-точь повторял оригинальный диалог из мультфильма. По мнению Джоли, именно в нем заключается главная трагедия и интрига фильма (к слову, в сцене снялись Пакс и Захара, приемные дети Джоли и Питта).

Приведем несколько реплик из этого диалога, интересных с точки зрения изучения английского языка:

Maleficent: Well, well, what a glittering assemblage, King Stefan.

Малефисента: Что за пышное собрание, король Стефан.

Royalty. Nobility. Gentry. How quaint. Even the rabble.

King Stefan: You’re not welcome here.

Король Стефан: Тебя здесь не ждали.

Maleficent (smiles sarcastically): Oh dear, what an awkward situation…

Малефисента (саркастически улыбаясь): Неужели? Какая неловкая ситуация.

I shall bestow a gift on the child.

Я должна наградить это дитя.

Maleficent: Listen well, you all! The princess will indeed grow in grace and beauty. But before the sun sets on her sixteenth birthday, she will prick her finger on a spindle of a spinning wheel, and she will fall into a sleep like death!

Малефисента: Слушайте хорошенько, слушайте все! Принцесса и в самом деле вырастет красивой и грациозной. Но перед тем, как солнце зайдет в шестнадцатый день ее рождения, она уколет палец веретеном прялки и уснет сном, глубоким как смерть!

glittering [‘glɪt(ə)rɪŋ] — блестящий, великолепный, пышный

assemblage [ə’semblɪdʒ] — собрание

royalty [‘rɔɪəltɪ] — член королевской семьи, королевская власть

nobility [nə(ʊ)’bɪlɪtɪ] — высшее титулованное дворянство, аристократия, знать

gentry [‘dʒentrɪ] — нетитулованное мелкопоместное дворянство

rabble [‘ræb(ə)l] — чернь

quaint [kweɪnt] — странно, оригинально

distressed [dɪˈstrɛst] — огорченный, расстроенный

welcome — прил. желанный, приятный, долгожданный

Oh dear! — Боже мой! Вот те на! Неужели?

awkward [‘ɔ:kwəd] — неловкий, нелепый

to bestow [bɪ’stəʊ] — давать, даровать, награждать

grace [‘greɪs] — грация, изящество, привлекательность

spindle [‘spɪndl] — веретено

spinning wheel [‘spɪnɪŋwi:l] — прялка

Но настоящая любовь разрушит чары: смотрите фильм с оригинальной звуковой дорожкой, наслаждайтесь великолепным видеорядом и учите английский! И не забудьте поделиться впечатлениями в комментариях!

Английский язык запись закреплена

Мелифисента (Maleficent): разбор фильма + сам фильм

Maleficent [mə’lefɪs(ə)nt] – вредоносная; преступная; губительная

Knight [naɪt] – рыцарь, солдат королевской армии

Lord [lɔːd] – лорд, владыка, повелитель

Vassal [ˈvæsəl] – подданный, вассал

Fairy [ˈfɛərɪ] – фея, эльф, волшебница

Sprite [spraɪt] – фея, эльф, лесной дух, леший

Witch, sorceress [wɪtʃ],[ˈsɔrsərɪs] – колдунья, ведьма, ведунья

Wizard, sorcerer [ˈwɪzəd],[ˈsɔːsərə] – колдун, маг, чародей

Spear [spɪə] – копьё

Goblin, Dwarf, Elf [ˈɡɒblɪn], [dwɔːf], [ɛlf] – гоблин, карлик, эльф (вымышленные персонажи)

Centaur [ˈsɛntɔː] – кентавр

Minotaur [ˈmaɪnətɔː] – минотавр (вымышленное существо с телом человека и головой быка)

Empire [ˈɛmpaɪə] – империя

Kingdom [ˈkɪŋdəm] – королевство

Successor [səkˈsɛsə] – преемник, престолонаследник

Nobleman [ˈnəʊbəlmən] – аристократ, вельможа

Highness, Excellency, Majesty, My Lord [ˈhaɪnɪs], [ˈɛksələnsɪ], [ˈmædʒɪstɪ], [maɪ lɔːd] – (Ваше) Высочество, Сиятельство, Превосходительство, Величество, милорд (титулы, принятые в обращении к высокопоставленным особам)

Monarchy [ˈmɒnəkɪ] – члены королевской (монаршей) семьи

To impale [ɪmˈpeɪl] – пронзать, сажать на кол

To joust [dʒaʊst] – биться на турнире, сражаться на поединке

To slay [sleɪ] – убивать

To cast [kɑːst] (a spell) – наводить чары, заклятие, околдовывать, очаровывать

To conjure [ˈkʌndʒə] – призывать демонов, вызывать духов, колдовать

To conspire [kənˈspaɪə] – устраивать (заговор)

To devise [dɪˈvaɪz] – задумывать, измышлять (план)

To yield [jiːld], to surrender [səˈrɛndə] – сдаваться

To conquer [ˈkɒŋkə] – завоёвывать, покорять

To decimate [ˈdɛsɪˌmeɪt] – казнить, опустошать

Scaly [ˈskeɪlɪ] – чешуйчатый

Iridescent [ɪrɪˈdɛsənt] – радужный, переливчатый

Courageous [kəˈreɪdʒəs] – храбрый

Narcissistic [ˌnɑːsɪˈsɪstɪk] – самовлюбленный

Delicate [dɛlɪkɪt] – утонченный, изысканный, хрупкий

Resilient [rɪˈzɪlɪənt] – стойкий, несгибаемый

Equestrian [ɪˈkwɛstrɪən] – конный, рыцарский

Lowly [ˈləʊlɪ] – скромный, смиренный

Depraved [dɪˈpreɪvd] – порочный

Malevolent [məˈlɛvələnt] – злонамеренный

Benevolent [bɪˈnɛvələnt] – великодушный

Frail [freɪl] – хрупкий

Stalwart [ˈstɔːlwət] – доблестный, отважный

Heartily [ˈhɑːtɪlɪ] – искренне, от всего сердца

Cunningly [ˈkʌnɪŋlɪ] – искусно, лукаво, умело

Courageously [kəˈreɪdʒəslɪ] – храбро, отважно, смело

Unknowingly [ˈʌnˈnəʊɪŋlɪ] – невольно

Humbly, modestly [ˈhʌmblɪ], [ˈmɒdɪstlɪ] – смиренно, покорно, почтительно

1.Maleficent: Well, well, what a glittering assemblage, King Stefan.

(Малефисента: Что за пышное собрание, король Стефан.)

2.Royalty. Nobility. Gentry. How quaint. Even the rabble.

(Особы королевской крови. Высшее и низшее дворянство. Как странно: и даже чернь.)

3. I really feel quite distressed not receiving an invitation. (Я огорчена, что не получила приглашения.)

4. King Stefan: You’re not welcome here.

(Король Стефан: Тебя здесь не ждали.)

5.Maleficent (smiles sarcastically): Oh dear, what an awkward situation…

(Малефисента (саркастически улыбаясь): Неужели? Какая неловкая ситуация. )

6. I shall bestow a gift on the child.

(Я должна наградить это дитя.)

7. Maleficent: Listen well, you all! The princess will indeed grow in grace and beauty. But before the sun sets on her sixteenth birthday, she will prick her finger on a spindle of a spinning wheel, and she will fall into a sleep like death!

(Малефисента: Слушайте хорошенько, слушайте все! Принцесса и в самом деле вырастет красивой и очаровательной. Но перед тем, как солнце зайдет в шестнадцатый день ее рождения, она уколет палец веретеном прялки и уснет сном, глубоким как смерть!)

glittering [‘glɪt(ə)rɪŋ] – блестящий, великолепный, пышный

assemblage [ə’semblɪdʒ] – собрание

royalty [‘rɔɪəltɪ] – член королевской семьи, королевская власть

nobility [nə(ʊ)’bɪlɪtɪ] – высшее титулованное дворянство, аристократия, знать

gentry [‘dʒentrɪ] – нетитулованное мелкопоместное дворянство

rabble [‘ræb(ə)l] – чернь

quaint [kweɪnt] – странно, оригинально

distressed [dɪˈstrɛst] – огорчённый, расстроенный

welcome – прил. желанный, приятный, долгожданный

Oh dear! – Боже мой! Вот те на! Неужели?

awkward [‘ɔ:kwəd] – неловкий, нелепый

to bestow [bɪ’stəʊ] – давать, даровать, награждать

grace [‘greɪs] – грация, изящество, привлекательность, милость (форма обращения к герцогу, герцогине, архиепископу)

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                                      My Favourite Film

My favourite film is «Maleficent». Disney Studio made it in 2014. This amazing fantasy film is based on the famous fairy-tale «Sleeping Beauty». In the tale Maleficent is a scary evil character, but in the film we feel sorry for her because we learn why she became so evil. We see Maleficent as a pretty girl at the beginning and quite a beautiful woman later in the story. Angelina Jolie played the role of Maleficent very well.

It is a beautiful film and I like it very much.

____

Мой любимый фильм «Малефисента». Студия Дисней сняла его в 2014 году. Этот удивительный фильм в жанре фэнтези основан на знаменитой сказке «Спящая красавица». В сказке Малефисента — пугающий злой персонаж, но в фильме нам ее жаль, потому что мы узнаем, почему она стала такой злой. Мы видим Малефисенту как симпатичную девушку в начале и довольно красивую женщину позже. Анджелина Джоли отлично сыграла роль Малефисенты.

Это красивый фильм, и мне он очень нравится.

Maleficent is a 2014 American dark fantasy film directed by Robert Stromberg and starring Angelina Jolie as the title character. The story takes inspiration from the 1959 animated classic, Sleeping Beauty, but from the perspective of the villainous Maleficent. It began filming on June 18, 2012, and was released on May 30, 2014 in 3D. It was produced by Joe Roth and directed by Robert Stromberg, from a screenplay written by Linda Woolverton. The song for the film is «Once Upon a Dream», which is performed by Lana Del Rey. The film received mixed reviews from critics, but was a box office and commercial success, grossing $758 million worldwide, making it Angelina Jolie’s highest grossing film to date.

A sequel titled Maleficent: Mistress of Evil was released on October 18, 2019.

Plot

In a faraway land, there were two kingdoms. One was ruled by the ruthless King Henry, while the other — known as the Moors — was home to magical creatures and fairies, whom had no ruler due to their intensely close friendship and trust in one another. The strongest and most powerful fairy of all was named Maleficent.

One day, the Moors was disturbed by the presence of a young peasant boy named Stefan, who tries to steal a jewel from the pool of jewels. As the Two Border Guards corner him, Maleficent shows up and tells him to hand over the stolen jewel, which he reluctantly does. After tossing it back where it came from, she escorts Stefan to the border of the Moors. They admit to each other that they are both orphans, and meeting each other is forbidden to both their worlds. However, the two of them eventually become the best of friends, and on Maleficent’s sixteenth birthday, Stefan shows her true love’s kiss (but in fact it was not).

Over the next couple of years, Stefan stops visiting the Moors because of his ambition and some other reasons, and due to the threatening attacks on Moors by King Henry, Maleficent becomes her homeland’s sworn protector. With the forest army by her side, she engages the King’s army in battle, defeating them and wounding the King. On his deathbed, the King demands to be avenged. He promises that whoever kills Maleficent shall become the new king and marry his beautiful daughter Leila. It is revealed that Stefan has become one of the king’s servants and, wanting to claim the throne, he journeys to the Moors to find Maleficent. She forgives Stefan for his folly and ambition and the two are reunited and spend the night together like they used to. Stefan tricks her into taking a drink that puts her to sleep and after she falls into her slumber, Stefan makes the attempt to kill. However, he hesitates and cannot bring himself to do it. Instead, he burns off her wings using iron (iron burns fairies) and presents them to the dying king, leaving Maleficent in agony. After creating a staff to help her walk, she journeys to an abandoned castle where she hides in the shadows, broken and alone.

One day, she comes across a farmer who has captured a raven. Taking pity on the small bird, she turns the raven into a man. After the farmer runs away in fear, Maleficent approaches the human bird, who introduces himself as Diaval. Since she saved him, he offers to be her humble servant and Maleficent assigns him his first task: to find Stefan. Diaval flies to the castle and witnesses Stefan being crowned king, with Leila as his queen. When he informs Maleficent of what he has learnt, she becomes enraged. She returns to the Moors as dark clouds loom across the forest, then, after roots form a throne, Maleficent sits there as the new Evil Queen of the Moors.

One day, Queen Leila gives birth to a daughter, and she is named Aurora after the dawning of the sun. A royal christening takes place at the castle and the three pixies Knotgrass, Thistlewit, and Flittle bless the infant princess with magical gifts. Then, just before Thistlewit could present her gift, Maleficent shows up. Still disgusted by what Stefan did to her, she curses the princess to fall into a death-like sleep by pricking her finger on the spindle of a spinning wheel on her sixteenth birthday. However when Stefan begs her to spare his daughter’s life, Maleficent softens and concludes that the curse can only be lifted by true love’s kiss. No power on earth can change it. Maleficent also makes an indestructible thorny border wall around the Moors to not suffer by humans’ access again. Stefan shuts himself behind the walls of his castle while his soldiers rode far and wide to hunt Maleficent down. He has every spinning wheel in the kingdom burned and locked away in the deepest dungeon of the castle. He also has the three pixies take Aurora into hiding. They take her to an old cottage in the woods and pose as her three human aunts.

As the years pass, Maleficent watches over the young princess and despite her initial hatred for the little «Beastie», she reluctantly takes care of her from afar when the Pixies are incapable and struggling to live like humans. In the meantime, Stefan becomes extremely darkened, further consumes by paranoia, vengeance and obsession for hunting Maleficent down. He has his blacksmiths work nonstop to produce iron armory as he knows iron is lethal to fairies. Unfortunately, Queen Leila becomes gravely ill and dies, but Stefan is so consumed by his desire to kill Maleficent that he shows no grief over his queen’s death. By the time Aurora is fifteen, she finally comes in contact with Maleficent, believing she is her fairy godmother as she recalled being watched over by her all her life. Maleficent allows Aurora to spend more time in the Moors with her and the two eventually develop a mother and daughter-like relationship. After returning her home and putting her to bed, Maleficent tries to remove the curse from her herself, but she is unable to since no power on earth can lift it but true love’s kiss as she mentioned before.

On the day before Aurora’s sixteenth birthday, Aurora has decided to stay in the Moors with Maleficent, which she happily accepts. As Aurora returns home, she meets Prince Phillip and it instantly becomes love at first sight. Diaval sees him as the key to lifting the curse, but Maleficent disagrees as there is no such thing as true love. However, after the three fairies reveal the truth to Aurora that she is cursed, she furiously returns to her father after Maleficent admits the truth of her identity. Feeling ashamed, she decides to take the chance that true love will be her only hope and goes looking for Phillip.

Even though he is happy to see his daughter after nearly sixteen years, Stefan is still furious at the pixies because they were supposed to bring her back the day after her sixteenth birthday. He has her locked up in her room and prepares for Maleficent to arrive. As the sun begins to set, the curse of eternal slumber begins to attract Aurora. She follows a whispering voice to the castle’s dungeon where all the spinning wheels in the kingdom were burnt, while Maleficent hurries to the castle with Phillip in a trance. However, her attempts to reach her are all in vain; Aurora pricks her finger on a spindle and falls into her death-like slumber. As night draws, Maleficent and Diaval sneak inside the castle with Phillip and bring him to the sleeping Aurora. She hides and watches as Phillip approaches her and leans over to romantically kiss her lips. Unfortunately, nothing happens and Aurora remains asleep. After the Pixies drag Phillip out to find someone else to kiss her, Maleficent comes out of hiding and looks upon what she has done. She was lost in hatred and revenge that she forgot about love and happiness until she met Aurora. In tears, she kisses Aurora on the forehead and bids her goodbye, but before she can even leave, a miracle happens: Aurora wakes up happy to see her fairy godmother. Maleficent’s close and strong motherly love for Aurora was enough to break the curse that she herself had cast.

As the three of them attempt to flee the castle, Maleficent is trapped in an iron net by Stefan’s men. Aurora tries to save her, but the castle guards overpower her and Diaval. Maleficent turns Diaval into a dragon, and he lifts the net off her and manages to fight off the guards. Aurora flees away from the orbit of skirmish and she accidentally finds Maleficent’s wings in the wings room and releases them. Diaval attacks the guards, but he is eventually chained by the soldiers. Maleficent is surrounded as Stefan enters the scene. Stefan brutally beats Maleficent and taunts her. Then, after pulling out his sword, he prepares to finish her off, but just before he can impale her, Maleficent’s wings reattach themselves to her after Aurora frees them. With her wings back, Maleficent is able to fly and she frees Diaval. She and Diaval easily take down Stefan’s guards. Only the treacherous king is left standing. Maleficent easily overpowers Stefan and carries him onto one of the castle’s towers. However, just as she is on the verge of killing him, she spares him, claiming, «It’s over.» However, Stefan refuses defeat and jumps on her. The two fall from the tower, but Maleficent manages to become airborne while Stefan falls to his death. With peace finally made between the two lands, Maleficent’s heart gets kind and bright again. She brings down her border wall and she passes her crown on to Aurora, making her Queen of both the human and fairy kingdoms, forever unifying them, as Phillip looks on. The story ends with Maleficent happily flying through the skies with Diaval by her side.

Cast

• Angelina Jolie as Maleficent
• Elle Fanning as Aurora
• Sharlto Copley as King Stefan
• Sam Riley as Diaval
• Imelda Staunton as Knotgrass
• Juno Temple as Thistlewit
• Lesley Manville as Flittle
• Brenton Thwaites as Prince Phillip
• Kenneth Cranham as King Henry
• Hannah New as Queen Leila

Production

On May 12, 2009, it was revealed that Brad Bird was developing a live-action film based on Sleeping Beauty, retold from the point of view of Maleficent with Angelina Jolie starring as Maleficent. In January 2010, it was rumored that Tim Burton was to direct the film. Reports surfaced online in May 2011 stating that Burton had left the project to focus on his other upcoming projects; Disney began to look for a replacement director, with David Yates being cited as a potential candidate due to his experience with the fantasy genre, having directed the final four Harry Potter films. Linda Woolverton, who previously collaborated with Tim Burton on Alice in Wonderland, was writing the script for the movie. Angelina Jolie said in an interview that she is definitely interested in the role. Don Hahn, a producer of the movie, confirmed that Disney was developing a film about Maleficent and that it was in active preduction. On January 6, 2012, Disney announced that Robert Stromberg, the production designer for Avatar and Alice in Wonderland, was to direct the film.

Sharlto Copley (District 9) was named as the male lead for Stromberg’s live-action retelling of the Sleeping Beauty tale. Heat Vision also reports that Imelda Staunton and Miranda Richardson (Harry Potter) had been cast for the film, along with Kenneth Cranham (Hot Fuzz), Sam Riley (Control), and Lesley Manville (Another Year).

According to the Hollywood Reporter’s blog article, Staunton and Manville would be playing the characters of Knotgrass and Flittle, respectively, «two of the three pixies that end up taking care of Aurora.» Meanwhile Super 8 starlet Elle Fanning had long been rumored as the choice to play the aforementioned Princess, and Heat Vision’s report confirmed her name as officially being onboard the project. In the role of Queen Ulla, Richardson would be acting as «a Fairy Queen who is Maleficent’s aunt with a dislike of her niece.» Meanwhile, Cranham would play the human king who plots to conquer the fairy kingdom, and Riley would portray Diaval, «a raven who changes into human form and is Maleficent’s right hand.» The source also mentioned Copley’s gig in the lead of King Stefan, describing his role as «the half-human, half-fairy bastard son of the human king.» On May 31, 2012, Deadline.com reported that Home and Away star Brenton Thwaites has been cast to the role of the charming Prince Phillip.

With a budget estimated at $180 million, filming began on June 18, 2012 in London with the first pictures from set emerging and the first official look of Jolie as Maleficent. Seven-time Academy Award winner Rick Baker designed the special makeup effects for the film. Post-production began on October 5, 2012.

The film’s official’s date was set for July 2, 2014, distributed by Walt Disney Pictures. Filming reportedly took place in the Buckinghamshire countryside. On September 18, 2013, the film’s release date was pushed up from July 2 to May 30.

On October 10, 2013, John Lee Hancock (director of The Blind Side and Saving Mr. Banks and writer of Snow White and the Huntsman) was reported to help Stromberg with the re-shoots for the film. Joe Roth said that «the film is not in trouble. The last half is great and it looks real pretty and stuff, it’s just that the beginning needs some tweaking. That’s all.» Hancock, who just finished overseeing the final post-production stages of Saving Mr. Banks, was approached by Roth, who the both of them had previously worked together on Snow White and the Huntsman. «We asked him to be on set,» producer Joe Roth said of Hancock. «He’s not directing. He wrote pages, and I hired a first-time director, and it’s good to have him on set.» Roth was asked why a «film of this magnitude was entrusted to a novice director», and he noted that Stromberg won Oscars for production design on Alice in Wonderland and Avatar. «The movie is gorgeous to look at, and the last 75 minutes (1hr 25min) are really entertaining,» he says. The issue is the opening, which is being reshot over eight days.» The new scenes did not involve Jolie, as she was in Australia prepping to direct her World War II drama Unbroken.

Release

International Premieres

• May 8, 2014 (London Premiere)
• May 28, 2014 (United Kingdom)
• May 29, 2014 (Israel)

Reception

Critical response

The film received mixed reviews from critics, who praised Angelina Jolie’s performance and the visual effects, but criticized its script. As of August 31, 2019, the film holds a 53% rating on the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes based on 264 reviews, with an average score of 5.73/10. The site’s consensus reads, «Angelina Jolie’s magnetic performance outshines Maleficent‘s dazzling special effects; unfortunately, the movie around them fails to justify all that impressive effort.» On Metacritic, the film has a rating of 56 out of 100, based on 44 critics, indicating «mixed or average reviews». CinemaScore gave the film an «A» rating on an A+ to F scale, based on polls conducted among audiences on its opening Friday.

Kate Taylor of The Globe and Mail was very positive about the film, writing that «[it] surprises not for its baroque visions of a colorful woodland enlivened by joyous fairies and a forbidding castle peopled by unhappy humans, but rather for the thematic richness of its story gloriously personified by Angelina Jolie in the title role.» While criticizing the overuse of CGI and 3D effects, she particularly praised the positive message of the film and Jolie’s performance. She concluded her review that «Long live the feminist revisionist backstory.» On the contrary, Keith Staskiewicz, writing for the Entertainment Weekly, awarded the film a «B-» and wrote that «there’s a lot of levitating cliffs and odd flora. But despite their bleeding-edge digital design, the backgrounds have all the depth of the old matte-painted backgrounds of the analog days,» which made the film «[feel] classical in nature.» She further commented that «The characters are boiled down to their essentials, the humor is timelessly broad.» Michael Phillips of Chicago Tribune gave the film two and a half stars, commenting that the recent «formula» that «a new angle on a well-known fairy tale appears in the light» «works» with Maleficent. He also said that the film «is all about second thoughts», as Maleficent «spends much of the film as Aurora’s conflicted fairy godmother.» Phillips particularly praised Jolie and Elle Fanning’s acting, Rick Baker’s makeup (for Jolie’s «angular, serrated look»), but criticized James Newton Howard’s «sloshy, pushy» musical score.

Angelina Jolie’s performance in the film has been repeatedly singled out for praise by critics. Robbie Collin of The Daily Telegraph wrote, «This Disney reimagining of Sleeping Beauty lacks true enchantment, but Angelina Jolie saves the day.» Betsy Sharkey of the Los Angeles Times gave the film a positive review, writing «This is Jolie’s film because of the Maleficent she makes. Everyone else, even Aurora, fades in her presence.» Ann Hornaday of The Washington Post awarded the film three-and-a-half out of four stars, commenting that «Still, for all its limitations, Maleficent manages to be improbably entertaining to watch, due solely to its title character.» Writing for Roger Ebert’s website, Matt Zoller Seitz awarded Maleficent three out of four stars, praising the themes of the film and the acting of Jolie. Seitz also called the scene in which Maleficent discovers the loss of her wings «the most traumatizing image I’ve seen in a Hollywood fairy tale since the Christ-like sacrifice of Aslan in 2005’s The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.» The review on The Globe and Mail further explained that «in the simple context of a fairy tale, Jolie does make both the terrifying horned creature and her gradual awakening heartfelt,» extolling the «emotional richness» behind her physical acts. Richard Roeper of the Chicago Sun-Times felt more negatively, assigning it a D. Although Roeper praised the visuals, he criticized the acting and writing, stating that «the story itself might well put you into the same type of coma that befalls the heroine.»

Accolades

Maleficent received a nomination for an Academy Award for Best Costume Design for Anna B. Sheppard, becoming Disney’s first live-action adaptation to receive a nomination, although it lost its win on the Best Costume Design category to Wes Anderson’s comedy-drama film, The Grand Budapest Hotel.

Differences from the 1959 film

• Flora, Fauna, and Merryweather are renamed Knotgrass, Thistlewitt, and Whittle.
• In the original film, Flora gives Aurora the Gift of Beauty, while Fauna gives her the Gift of Song. In the remake, while Knotgrass’s gift is the same as the original, it’s Wittle (the blue fairy) who gives the second gift instead of Thistlewitt (the green fairy), and her gift is that Aurora will never be blue.
• In the original film, Maleficent appears before Merryweather (the blue fairy) could give her gift; in the remake, she appears before Thistlewitt (the green fairy) could.
• In the original, after Maleficent casts a death curse on Aurora, Merryweather uses her gift to alter it into a deep sleep until she is awoken by true love’s kiss. In the remake, Maleficent herself alters the curse, and Thistlewitt never gets to give her gift.
• In the original, Prince Philip kills Maleficent in the final battle by throwing the enchanted Sword of Truth into her heart; in the remake, Maleficent survives.

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Trivia

• Jude Law was considered to play King Stefan before Sharlto Copley was cast.
• Emma Thompson and Judi Dench were considered for the roles of the pixies.
  • Thompson would eventually portray Mrs. Potts in the live-action Beauty and the Beast.
• Logan Marshall-Green, George Blagden, Gael García Bernal, and Jim Sturgess were considered for the role of Diaval, that eventually went to Sam Riley.
• The film had the largest budget ever for a first time director, Robert Stromberg, surpassing another Disney film, Tron: Legacy (2010).
• This is the first of many live-action adaptations of classic Disney animated films released in the 21st century (Pete’s Dragon doesn’t count as it is considered an adaptation of a live-action movie).
• The film’s release date, May 30, 2014, was the day of the 55th anniversary of Sleeping Beauty.
• It is revealed that Maleficent used to have wings until they were stolen from her in a ruthless betrayal.
• This is the second movie to have the cur-short Roth Films logo and the Disney (closing) logo at the end (after the closing credits). The first was Oz the Great and Powerful.
• Angelina Jolie’s daughter, Vivienne Jolie-Pitt, was chosen to play the younger Aurora because she was the only child that wasn’t afraid of her own mother in costume, since other kids in casting would run away in fear of Angelina’s appearance.
  • According to DigitalSpy website, Angelina Jolie’s adopted children: Pax and Zahra also made appearances in the movie as well as extras.

• To promote the film, Walt Disney Home Entertainment released a limited edition collection of Disney Blu-rays to selected UK stores nationwide on June 2. This limited collection includes 24 of Disney’s movies, each with cover art displaying the movie’s villain. The 24 films in the collection are: The Jungle Book, Cinderella, The Little Mermaid, Peter Pan, One Hundred and One Dalmatians, Aladdin, Mulan, Wreck-It Ralph, Pinocchio, Tangled, Alice in Wonderland, The Princess and the Frog, Lady and the Tramp, Pocahontas, Fantasia, The Emperor’s New Groove, Hercules, Robin Hood, The Black Cauldron, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Great Mouse Detective, Enchanted, Oz the Great and Powerful, and the live-action adaptation of 101 Dalmatians.
• It is revealed in the novelization that Maleficent’s parents were named Hermia and Lysander; that her parents were killed by humans when she was a baby.
• This is the first Disney movie to only show the studio’s logo (in the opening variant), in the beginning, and the main title and the closing credits (Including the cut-short Roth Films logo and the Disney [Closing] logo) at the end.
• Maleficent is somewhat similar to Frozen in that both of the villains in the source material are turned into heroines and both have a twist of «True Love» which were both not romantic as expected. Both of the heroines are at one point also betrayed by those who were they were seemingly in love with.
• This film is also similar to the Broadway musical Wicked in that both tell the villains of the source material that the story is based backstory and how they came to be (Elphaba for Wicked and Maleficent for Maleficent) making them more sympathetic and likable, and one particular good man is portrayed as the main villain, yet has a good public image (The Wizard of Oz for Wicked and King Stefan for Maleficent).
• This was the second Disney live-action remake to get a sequel. The first being 101 Dalmatians.
• According to the development documentary for the 2014 Maleficent film, «From Fairy Tale to Feature Film», Maleficent being depicted as good and sympathetic had been screenwriter Linda Woolverton’s idea, and Angelina Jolie attempted to reign in on Woolverton’s attempts at making Maleficent good and remind her that Maleficent is supposed to be a villain.^[1]

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