Maleficent is based on the classic fairy tale: Sleeping Beauty. However, this time, the protagonist is not Sleeping Beauty, but the Dark Witch. This film made up a justifiable reason why the witch cast a spell on the princess, from love to hate. So the witch's heart is not bad, but she has a revenge mentality after being hurt. Now that the tone of people's goodness has been formed, the story will not arrange for Angelina Jolie to become worse and worse. In the end, she was defeated by a gentle knife. Everyone is happy. The true love kiss of Sleeping Beauty is not the prince of one-sided relationship, but Angelina. Najolie's own kiss woke her up. I figured this out when I watched the prince kiss the princess, because it fits so well with Disney's recent filming. For example, in "Frozen", it was the sister's true love that allowed her to recover her body from a frozen person. Recently, Disney's films don't follow the happy ending route of princes and princesses. Instead, they have turned into family and friendship. In this regard, it is also a new attempt at the time when romance films are flooding. It's just one after another. Will it be too aesthetically fatigued to follow the same style route without being discouraged?
On the contrary, after I got home and watched "Snow White and the Huntsman", I felt that the previous work still had the sincerity of a dark fairy tale. Because I heard that this "Maleficent" is because Disney got the sweetness of filming "Snow White and the Huntsman", there is a wave of fairy tale renovations. Since it is positioned in a black fairy tale, it should have the appearance of a black fairy tale. The pictures in "Maleficent" are too beautiful and clean, "Snow White and the Hunter" is a really dark series, whether it is the shape of the characters, the darkness of the whole film, and the structure of the story, there is a little shot Out of the epic style of "The Lord of the Rings", and Charlize Theron, as a witch stepmother, really played the dark side of the dark and confused inside (she has played the devil's head, she is too good at controlling the negative role), bad It's completely bad, and it's bad to death in the end. This is right. How can there be a witch like Angelina Jolie who is good at the beginning, bad in the middle, and good at the end. Snow White is no longer the weak and weak woman. For the safety of her country, she also took up the spear and went to the battlefield (although Kristen Stewart was still paralyzed), and the Seven Dwarfs also subverted the previous kind of The image of the little good man in the fairy tale.
The plot of the whole film is quite reasonable. The dark tone from beginning to end reminds me of several fairy tale books I read when I was a child, "Blue Fairy Tale", "Red Fairy Tale" and "Yellow Fairy Tale". These fairy tales were in my childhood. It left a deep impression on my heart, because they are not traditional sunshine fairy tales, but very weird, mysterious, dirty, and subversive stories. I didn't know what it was when I was a child, and now I know All I see is - dark fairy tales.
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