Movie Classification: P13
Genre: Fantasy
Director: Robert Stromberg
Starring:
- Angelina Jolie (Maleficent)
- Elle Fanning (Princess Aurora)
- Sharlto Copley (King Stefan)
- Sam Riley (Diaval)
- Brenton Thwaites (Phillip)
- Imelda Staunton (Knotgrass)
- Juno Temple (Thistlewit)
- Lesley Manville (Flittle)
- Kenneth Cranham (King Henry)
Running Time: 1 Hour 38 Minutes
Released Date: 29th May 2014
Distributed by: Walt Disney Pictures
Language: English
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Maleficent Synopsis
Once upon a time, 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, such as fairies. The 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 had escaped there after stealing a precious gem from the human kingdom. As the Tree Warriors cornered him, Maleficent showed up and told him to hand over the stolen gem, which he reluctantly does. After tossing it into the water, she escorted Stefan to the borders 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 showed her true love's kiss.
Over the next couple of years, Stefan stopped visiting the Moors for some reason, and due to the threatening attacks on the Moors by King Henry, Maleficent becomes her homeland's sworn protector. With the forest army by her side, she engaged the King's army in battle, defeating them and wounding the King. On his deathbed, the King demanded 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. The two are reunited and spend the night together like they used too. 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. So instead, he cuts off her wings and presents them to the dying king, leaving Maleficent in agony. After creating a staff to help her walk, she journey’s 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 gives him his first task: to find Stefan. Diaval flies to the castle and witnesses Stefan being crowned king. 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. A royal christening takes at the castle. Three pixies - Knotgrass, Thistlewit and Flittle - bless the infant princess with magical gifts. Then, just before Flittle could present her gift, Maleficent shows up. Still disgusted by what Stefan did to her and a little distress of not receiving an invitation, she curses the princess to fall into a sleep-like death 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 also includes that the curse can be lifted by true love’s kiss. No power on earth can change it.
Stefan had every spinning wheel in the kingdom burned and locked away in the deepest dungeon. He also had the three pixies take Aurora into hiding. They take her to an old cottage and pose as her three human aunts.
As the years pass, Maleficent watches over the young princess as she grows up, being looked after by the bubbling pixies. Despite her initial hate for the little “Beastie”, she reluctantly takes care of her from afar when the Pixies are incapable and struggling to live like humans. Meanwhile, Stefan becomes extremely paranoid and obsessed in hunting Maleficent down. His wife becomes ill and eventually dies, but Stefan shows no grief over her death.
By the time Aurora turns fifteen, Maleficent saves her from Stefan’s soldiers and takes her to the Moors. After bringing her out of her trance, Aurora is delighted to meet Maleficent, who believes she is her fairy godmother. Over the next few days, Aurora visits Maleficent and Diaval in the Moors, spending time with them and the other fairies. Maleficent begins to warm up to the girl and comes to see her no longer as an enemy, but as a friend. After returning her home and putting her to bed, Maleficent tries to remove the curse from her, but she is unable to since no power on earth can lift it but true love’s kiss. This leaves her worried.
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 lift the curse, but Maleficent disagrees as there is no such thing as true love. However, after the pixies reveal the truth to Aurora, she sadly 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 after her sixteenth birthday. He has her locked up and prepares for Maleficent to arrive.
As the sun begins to set, the curse begins to call Aurora. She follows a whispering voice to the 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. Hiding in the shadows, she watches as Phillip approaches her and leans over to kiss her. 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 so blinded by hatred and revenge that she forgot about love and happiness until she met Aurora. Then, in tears, she kisses Aurora on the forehead and bids her goodbye, but before she can even leave a miracle happens: Aurora wakes up and is delighted to see her godmother. Maleficent and Aurora’s strong friendship was the truest love of all.
As the three of them attempt to sneak out of the castle and back to the Moors, Maleficent is captured by Stefan’s men. Aurora tries to save her, but the castle guards overpower her and Diaval. Maleficent turns him into a dragon and he manages to fight off the guards. Aurora flees as Maleficent and Diaval fight the guards, but they are pinned down as Stefan enters the scene. He takes his time killing her by brutally torturing her. Then, after pulling out his sword, he prepares to finish her off, but just before he can impale her, Maleficent’s wings return to her after Aurora frees them. With her wings back, she is able to fly and free Diaval. Maleficent and Diaval easily take down Stefan’s guards. Only the treacherous king is left standing. She easily overpowers him and just as she is on the verge of killing him, she spares him, claiming: “It’s all over.” However, Stefan refuses defeat and jumps on her. The two fall from a tower, but Maleficent manages to become airborne, leaving Stefan to fall to his death.
With peace finally made between the two lands, Maleficent passes her crown to Aurora, making her Queen of both the human and fairy kingdoms, forever unifying them, as Philip looks on. The story ends with Maleficent happily flying through the skies with Diaval by her side.
Maleficent Movie Review
The story line of <Maleficent> is awesome because the movie covered the fairy tale. Maleficent was a happy fairy when she is young until she met human called Stefan and love him. But she didn't expected that he will steal her wings because of want to be the king. From here, it's clearly shown the human is greedy and selfish to get anything that they want. And that time, she can't control herself because she want to revenge on King Stefan on his newly born daughter baby. She went to the ceremony and put the curse on the baby. Because of the curse, he asked the 3 pixies (Knotgrass, Thistlewit and Flittle) to bring the baby away and take care of her until she is 16 years old. Maleficent always follow the baby (called Aurora) where ever she goes. She know that the 3 stupid pixies can't take good care of Aurora, and she asked the crow that she saved to feed Aurora. When Aurora was turned 15 years old, Maleficent saved her from Stefan's soldier and bring her to the Moors. She believed Maleficent is her fairy godmother. Over the next few days, Aurora visits Maleficent and Diaval in the Moors, spending time with them and the other fairies. Maleficent begins to warm up to the girl and comes to see her no longer as an enemy, but as a friend. After returning her home and putting her to bed, Maleficent tries to remove the curse from her, but she is unable to since no power on earth can lift it but true love’s kiss. This leaves her worried. This showed that Maleficent is not evil at all and she can't control herself because of the revenge. We shouldn't curse someone who is innocent although he / she has the relationship with the person that we hate. The story ended when Maleficent get her wings back and making Aurora as her Queen. As a conclusion, the movie is a sad and touching movie for me and there are a lot of moral values where people should learn.
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