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So there's this:
It looks pretty good. And then I read the plot synopsis...
UGH. Why? Why do they have to ruin a perfectly awesome villain by trying to make her "sympathetic" and "misunderstood"? The whole point of Maleficent is that she's not sympathetic. She curses Princess Aurora out of spite. Her final form is a black dragon. She invokes the powers of hell when battling Prince Phillip. She styles herself the Mistress of All Evil! Why on earth would you water down the character by giving her a backstory? It's like finding out Sauron decided to conquer Middle Earth because the elves used to make fun of him millennia ago. (This is, incidentally, the reason I dislike Wicked. Oz the Great and Powerful gets a pass because one of the witches was evil from the beginning.) Just let Maleficent be evil and awesome, dangit! And judging by the synopsis's last sentence, it sounds like they're going to change the story's ending, and I really hope they don't.
It looks pretty good. And then I read the plot synopsis...
Maleficent is the untold story of Disney's most iconic villain from the 1959 classic Sleeping Beauty. A beautiful, pure-hearted young woman, Maleficent has an idyllic life growing up in a peaceable forest kingdom, until one day when an invading army threatens the harmony of the land. Maleficent rises to be the land's fiercest protector, but she ultimately suffers a ruthless betrayal - an act that begins to turn her pure heart to stone. Bent on revenge, Maleficent faces an epic battle with the invading king's successor and, as a result, places a curse upon his newborn infant Aurora. As the child grows, Maleficent realizes that Aurora holds the key to peace in the kingdom - and perhaps to Maleficent's true happiness as well.
UGH. Why? Why do they have to ruin a perfectly awesome villain by trying to make her "sympathetic" and "misunderstood"? The whole point of Maleficent is that she's not sympathetic. She curses Princess Aurora out of spite. Her final form is a black dragon. She invokes the powers of hell when battling Prince Phillip. She styles herself the Mistress of All Evil! Why on earth would you water down the character by giving her a backstory? It's like finding out Sauron decided to conquer Middle Earth because the elves used to make fun of him millennia ago. (This is, incidentally, the reason I dislike Wicked. Oz the Great and Powerful gets a pass because one of the witches was evil from the beginning.) Just let Maleficent be evil and awesome, dangit! And judging by the synopsis's last sentence, it sounds like they're going to change the story's ending, and I really hope they don't.
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