Directed by Robert Stromberg (production designer of Avatar and Alice in Wonderland ) and starring Angelina Jolie, Maleficent is a revisionist retelling of Sleeping Beauty from the villain’s perspective. It was a box office smash, grossing over $758 million worldwide.
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The film’s most radical gesture is its redefinition of evil as a wound. The young Maleficent, a powerful fairy of the Moors, is betrayed by Stefan—a human peasant boy she loved, who cuts off her wings to ascend a throne. This sequence is explicitly framed as an act of bodily violation. Unlike the cartoon’s unexplained malice, this Maleficent becomes “evil” only after experiencing a trauma that robs her of flight, freedom, and trust. In this way, the film functions as a feminist critique of how patriarchal ambition (Stefan’s desire for power and status) mutilates the feminine, natural world. Her subsequent curse on the infant Aurora is not random cruelty but the calculated vengeance of a survivor. Directed by Robert Stromberg (production designer of Avatar