If "Maleficent" is directly translated, it should be "Marin Ficent", which is the name of the vicious fairy in the story of Sleeping Beauty.
As the representative of the vicious stepmother in the "Princess Series", Marlene Fissen's life is extraordinary! She is the first villain to "turn over and sing a witch". Not only was he rehabilitated, he also became the protagonist!
This is an official redress!
The Maleficent series is a live-action version of the "Princess Series" with eight hundred seriousness. The shape, decorative elements, and picture tone are extremely restored to the original animated version.
For example, Marlene Fissen always wears a black robe and shows up in the green flames! As shown below
Another example is the three fairies who raised Sleeping Beauty Princess. Her clothing colors and pointed hat shapes have also continued. As shown below!
The Disney Princess series "has a long history, and the earliest Snow White can be traced back to 1937. But "Sleeping Beauty" has a special position in this series! (derogatory)
The film's box office revenue was second only to "Ben Xu", but he still lost money. Because it took 6 years to make this animated film, the cost of investment is much higher than the output!
I did an inventory of "Witches in the Disney Princess Series" before. The chronological order is briefly sorted out. By comparison, you will find that after "Sleeping Beauty", Disney has not made a princess movie for a full 30 years. Until "The Little Mermaid" in 1989. It can be said that the market performance of "Sleeping Beauty" has lost the biggest gap in this series!
He represents the end of an era. It also heralds the beginning of a new era.
Fairy tales must also have fashionable value!
Fairy tales also have a flow. Although they may seem wild, most stories can find their counterparts in reality. The story of each era will be branded with characteristics that belong only to that era.
If you think about it carefully, you will find that the story of "Sleeping Beauty" (I am referring to the version in "Mother Goose" and "The Grimm's Fairy Tales") is full of slots from the perspective of modern people! For example, the prince fell in love with the princess before seeing the princess's true face, and he did not ask for her permission before kissing the princess. As for the princess, shouldn't he slap him severely when he was kissed by a strange man, and then yelled at the "stinky hooligan"? How could it be easy to agree to marry him.
In fact, decadence writers in the 19th century have long discovered these slippages. They wrote a lot of derivative works to mock it.
(Refer to the decadent fairy tale "The Last Fairy")
Therefore, when Disney first adapted this story in the 1950s, it had already added modern elements to it. For example, in order to escape the bad luck brought by the "Slumbering Curse", Princess Arlo was taken to the forest by three fairy godmothers, where she worked like a farm girl, and met a prince who was out hunting by chance.
Yes, if they had already fallen in love before this kiss, then everything would be a matter of course!
Another characteristic of the era is reflected in the clothing design. The skirt of Princess Arlo in "Sleeping Beauty" adopts a new look that was very popular in the 50s. The slim waist and skirt set off the female figure like an hourglass, and the skirt length is like As Dior demonstrated at the press conference, it was accurately 20 cm above the ground.
In that era, people admired the slender beauty of women, and the curvy ankle was the most charming trait. I can be sure that Girl Fanning’s famous little thick legs would never play a princess in the 1950s.
It can be said that in the 1959 version of "Sleeping Beauty", the image of the princess is not a complete re-enactment of fairy tales. She is a hardworking and beautiful "little wife" who lived in the United States in the 1950s. And her three kind-hearted fairy godmothers are rumored to be inspired by "women shopping in supermarkets."
Very good, this is in line with Mr. Disney's own family concept. Women should be gentle and virtuous housewives! Should live in a glass cover and be protected by a man.
But how to put it, the long production cycle made this movie seem a little bit outdated at the beginning of its release. The tide of the commodity economy has swept across, and more and more machines have replaced people, taking on heavy housework. Education and vision enable women to re-recognize themselves. They have enough abilities to cope with more, not just around the family.
Ever since, in the 1960s when money was supreme, and in the 1970s when I let myself go, Disney's princess series stopped! It is completely outdated!
When he returned again, it was already 1989 "The Little Mermaid", in which the protagonist Ariel was closer to the image of a modern girl. She is capricious and brave, she doesn't need the prince to save, but can save the prince upside down!
Learning to solve problems by yourself is the first part of the evolution of the princess. But the real turnaround can only be her! The first princess Marlene Fissen evolved from a witch.
The evolutionary history of Marlene Fissen!
The image of Marlene Fissen was modeled on Hollywood voice actor Eleanor Audley in the original version.
Eleanor Audley is a frequent visitor to the princess series, as is Cinderella's stepmother in "Cinderella". Back then, she wore two heavy horns and made various hideous expressions in front of the painter. In the filming of "Sleeping Beauty," her chin was deliberately elongated and her face was painted an ugly purple. There is no doubt that in the original definition, Marlene Fissen is a total villain.
In the second decade of the new century, this situation was reversed. Disney launched the reality of the princess series. When they changed to the story of "Sleeping Beauty", they expected that the sluggish popularity of Princess Arlo could not support the box office. Ever since, I don't know where the idea came from, the classic evil villain Marlene Fissen took the lead.
Of course, this is just a means of gaining an eye. Disney won't really do anything deviant. It's still a children's company after all. All stories still have to revolve around "truth, goodness and beauty". In the first part of Maleficent, the evil forest witch Marlene Fissen has transformed into an "elf princess", and the confrontation with humans has become quite "environmentally friendly". Angelina Jolie's Marlene Fissen retains the weird horns and steep cheekbone lines. But her skin tone became normal, and her makeup became more beautiful!
As the protagonist, Marlene Fissen, the former "villain character", also has her own girlhood and first love.
After the film was released, some people questioned that this turnaround was not sincere, and "turning a witch into a princess" seemed a bit of a change. Um! What are you thinking about making Disney "change the dressing"? Adhering to the "right position" and "silly white sweet" are the consistent principles of this enterprise.
Marlene Fissen
In fact, she is just a lonely person!
As for the latest "Maleficent 2", I must first confirm its special effects and 3D technology, it is really three-dimensional. Unfortunately, he still "has no dressing change" in terms of plot. At a glance, the brainless plot and the overly powerful protagonist halo, the villain with serious facial makeup. Of course, there are also undocumented costumes that I always look down on, and the castle of hormones. Too much "silly white sweet", the common problem of Disney movies has not been overcome.
But one thing is that I am very moved. They got to the essence of the fairy tale character of Marlene Fissen, which is "loneliness". She is like many women living in modern society with slight fears and various urban diseases. I enjoy loneliness most of the time, but I am also afraid of loneliness. Looks like he doesn't need friends, he is cold and not easy to provoke, but his fragile heart is still eager to be accepted.
When she received the king's invitation, she practiced smiling nervously, for fear that she would behave badly. Watching her look at a plate of roast chicken with embarrassment. As a "mildly fearful crowd" and a "vegetarian deep cabinet". I almost want to shout in the theater, "I know how you feel, I know everything!"
Let us return to the fairy tale itself. In the records of "The Grimm's Fairy Tales" or "Mother Goose Tales". The reason Marlene Fissen cast the "Slumbering Curse" was because he did not receive an invitation to pray for the little princess.
If you compare it, it's like your neighbor has a birthday party and invites your whole family, but not you. If such a situation does happen, we may not make any extreme retaliation, but there will be no waves in our hearts. Marlene Fissen, even in the original version of the fairy tale, she was the one to be excluded. Essentially a lonely person who fears loneliness.
I was very happy to see that in the movie "Maleficent 2", the screenwriter found the same kind for the lonely Maleficent. She no longer needs to feel inferior for the weird horns and wings. Because this time a large group of people with "horns on their heads and wings on their backs" came. They are called the Night Race!
In the interaction with the Night Clan, Marlene Fissen regained his self-confidence! She found her own sense of belonging.
If we say that in the first half of the movie, the somewhat distorted mother-daughter relationship between Marlene Fissen and Arlo is largely due to excessive emotional dependence and "loneliness." (As an adopted daughter Arlo is probably the only emotional comfort of Marlene Fison.) So at the end, I saw Marlene Fison flying among the clans with a happy smile. She found her group and was accepted by humans at the same time! She is no longer alone!
The era characteristics of fairy tales!
If you let me evaluate this movie logically, I am afraid there are so many mouthless slots!
But do fairy tales need logic? It may be that only one theme is needed!
I have been thinking about this issue a lot these days. There are a lot of illogical fairy tales in our world. But most of them have a little "warning significance" or "education motif". Perhaps, he shouldn't have too high expectations for the story of coaxing children, as long as he doesn't teach the children badly.
Disney, or Hollywood, has been engaged in "eliminating differences" in recent years. For example, if you look at "Maleficent 2" from the perspective of some costumes and strong Gothic architecture, this story is very likely to take place in medieval Europe. However, the actors participating in the show have a collection of four continents, with all kinds of skins and hair colors! Just to bring a polar bear over to play!
A small group of people will not be discriminated against because of their unique appearance. Although this is not a profound subject, it is "correct" enough.
The fairy tales of every era belong to, and only belong to the theme of this era. Why can't we "eliminate differences" in our era?
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