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The character was animated by Marc Davis, who also animated Aurora in the film. She was aptly named "Maleficent" (an adjective derived from the Latin maleficentia, which means "doing evil or harm"), [7] and may have been based on earlier French and European myths and legends about the fairy Mélusine, especially in the 2014 live-action film of the same name. [8]
Actress Elle Fanning portrayed a live-action version of Aurora in the film Maleficent (2014), a retelling of the 1959 animated film Sleeping Beauty from the perspective of the title character. Fanning returned to portray Aurora in Maleficent: Mistress of Evil (2019), which is set five years later. The Sleeping Beauty Castle is an attraction at ...
Maleficent prepares to leave, but also decides to give a "gift" to Aurora by cursing her so that before the sun sets on her sixteenth birthday, she will prick her finger on a spinning wheel's spindle and die. Merryweather then uses her gift to weaken the curse so that instead of dying, Aurora will only sleep until she awakens to true love's kiss.
Maleficent maintains her composure after Ingrith tauntingly mentions Aurora's sleeping curse and Stefan's death. She openly claims Maleficent killed two human fairy poachers last seen near the Moors. When Ingrith carelessly dismisses Maleficent's maternal bond with Aurora, Maleficent reacts angrily and seemingly curses John, who suddenly falls ...
She places a sleeping curse on her husband, King John, to turn Aurora against Maleficent. All the while, Queen Ingrith has been plotting with engineer Gerda to create a poison from tomb blooms ...
Disney’s first live-action Maleficent film, starring Jolie as the evil fairy who curses Sleeping Beauty, earned $759.9 million worldwide in its 2014 release, while “Maleficent: Mistress of ...
On the day before her sixteenth birthday, Aurora gains Maleficent's permission to live in the Moors. When she attempts to inform the pixies of this, they reveal the truth about Aurora's lineage and curse. Heartbroken, Aurora rides off to her father's castle. Instead of welcoming her and still intent on killing Maleficent, Stefan locks her in a ...
No one's sure exactly why this woman had a story to tell, because this woman lived as many as 6,000 years ago. We can still imagine her intoning scary scenes with foreign howls. A charming man's buttery voice might've won over a reluctant, longhaired princess; a beguiling forest creature's dry cackle a smoke signal for danger.