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Actress Elle Fanning portrayed a live-action version of Aurora in the film Maleficent (2014), a retelling of the 1959 animated film Sleeping Beauty from the perspective of the title character. Fanning returned to portray Aurora in Maleficent: Mistress of Evil (2019), which is set five years later. The Sleeping Beauty Castle is an attraction at ...
In North America, Maleficent is the eighth-highest-grossing 2014 film. [130] Maleficent opened outside North America on the same weekend as North America, earning $20.1 million from 35 territories in its first two days (May 28–29, 2014). [131] During its opening weekend, the film topped the box office with $106.1 million from 47 territories ...
With Maleficent distracted, the Queen fires her crossbow. Maleficent saves Aurora, but is struck by the arrow, dissolving into ashes. Devastated, Aurora mourns over Maleficent's death. However, as Aurora's tears fall on the ashes, Maleficent is reborn as a Phoenix. Terrified, Ingrith throws Aurora off the tower to distract Maleficent and runs away.
During Aurora's christening, Stefan's friend and herald, King Hubert, attends the celebration, during which Aurora is betrothed to Hubert's son, Prince Phillip, so their marriage will unite their kingdoms. After Maleficent curses Aurora, he decrees that all spinning wheels in the kingdom burned and sees Aurora off as she and the fairies leave.
Borra captures the Queen, Maleficent turns her into a goat and Aurora and Phillip get married, uniting the kingdom of Ulstead and the Moors. And everyone lives happily ever after.
The character was animated by Marc Davis, who also animated Aurora in the film. She was aptly named "Maleficent" (an adjective derived from the Latin maleficentia, which means "doing evil or harm"), [7] and may have been based on earlier French and European myths and legends about the fairy Mélusine, especially in the 2014 live-action film of the same name. [8]
Maleficent is a live-action adaptation/retelling of 1959's animated film Sleeping Beauty, from the eponymous antagonist. [1] In 2003, [2] during Don Hahn's meeting with Disney's animation department, it was suggested to create an origin film about Maleficent from Disney's animated film Sleeping Beauty in the same vein as then just released Broadway musical Wicked. [3]
Maleficent prepares to leave but also decides to give a "gift" to Aurora by cursing her: before the sun sets on her sixteenth birthday, she will prick her finger on a spinning wheel's spindle and die. Merryweather then uses her gift to weaken the curse so that instead of dying, Aurora will only sleep until she awakens to true love's kiss.