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So, for the past week we had Sleeping Beauty playing on some of our display tvs at work. This wasn't necessarily a bad thing, because it happens to be my favorite Disney animated film. Mostly because I think that Maleficent is arguably the best animated villain ever. But it has also been putting thougts in my head.
I really, really, really want to write Maleficent as a tragic figure. I want to write her, not necessarily as good, but sympathetic. I want write her as the beautiful kind of insane that Lady Macbeth was. ("Out, out damn spot") I want her to be the last of the Unseelie, or the unaging queen of a court long fallen into ruin, or the last sister of the four fairy sisters who was disowned for her dark powers, or...you get the picture. If you watch the movie in the near future, pay attention to her castle. It was obviously beautiful once. And it is a castle, not a tower. It has fallen into ruin though, the walls tumbling down, only her throne room, the dungeon, and her personal tower still enclosed.
I also want to expand on the idea that each one of the magical beings (the three fairies and Maleficent) seemed to have one truly powerful spell that they cast on Aurora, but after that couldn't do anything further directly to her.
And I want to know what Merryweather was going to gift Aurora with if she hadn't had to counter the curse.
And I want to see different possible countercurses. Like stopping her from aging past her fifteenth year. Because if she couldn't get older than than, she would never get a sixteenth birthday and therefore, never hit the curse.
And I want to yell at the fairy women, because seriously, you give her the gifts of song and beauty?! What about happiness, or love, or freedom? Or the gift of leadership? She is heir to the throne, and is going to marry the heir to another. She needs to have some leadership, even if her husband becomes queenking. Or what about the gift of family? Or children?
ps: I watched Across the Universe the other night, and I am in love!
I really, really, really want to write Maleficent as a tragic figure. I want to write her, not necessarily as good, but sympathetic. I want write her as the beautiful kind of insane that Lady Macbeth was. ("Out, out damn spot") I want her to be the last of the Unseelie, or the unaging queen of a court long fallen into ruin, or the last sister of the four fairy sisters who was disowned for her dark powers, or...you get the picture. If you watch the movie in the near future, pay attention to her castle. It was obviously beautiful once. And it is a castle, not a tower. It has fallen into ruin though, the walls tumbling down, only her throne room, the dungeon, and her personal tower still enclosed.
I also want to expand on the idea that each one of the magical beings (the three fairies and Maleficent) seemed to have one truly powerful spell that they cast on Aurora, but after that couldn't do anything further directly to her.
And I want to know what Merryweather was going to gift Aurora with if she hadn't had to counter the curse.
And I want to see different possible countercurses. Like stopping her from aging past her fifteenth year. Because if she couldn't get older than than, she would never get a sixteenth birthday and therefore, never hit the curse.
And I want to yell at the fairy women, because seriously, you give her the gifts of song and beauty?! What about happiness, or love, or freedom? Or the gift of leadership? She is heir to the throne, and is going to marry the heir to another. She needs to have some leadership, even if her husband becomes queenking. Or what about the gift of family? Or children?
ps: I watched Across the Universe the other night, and I am in love!