Lilani said:
VoidWanderer said:
zen5887 said:
Nurb said:
Like how Maleficent was a metaphor for rape
Yeah but, it is.
I would say more of a feminazi propaganda movie. Like a Disney movie if written by Anita Sarkeesian.
In terms of the op, Bob can say things that seem weird but ever since his gameoverthinker had a story, I stopped caring so much.
Feminazi propaganda, what? A story about a guy who betrays somebody and gets his comeuppance, and the person who he betrayed getting what was stolen from her back and allowing peace to be restored? At what point is it "feminazi?" It isn't anti-man, just anti-bad-people. That the bad people in the film are mostly two guys (the old king and Stephen) isn't a commentary against men. That'd be like saying the original Sleeping Beauty is anti-female because the hero is a male and the villain is a female. Prince Philip is brought in as a good guy and all that.
If anything, its anti-older-generation. A huge part of the resolution seems to be burying the sins of the past.
Well, Maleficent is the ONLY competent person in the movie. The scene where the ring burns her struck me as odd since that iron ring would be valuable in that setting, which to me seemed to indicate that strong women don't need relationships. There was the rapey scene when she gets roofied and suffers a crippling violation from the only male she cared about. Which leads me to my biggest gripe.
Instead of outing Stephan for what he did in front of all the nobility, not to mention his wife, Maleficent keeps it quiet. This was shocking to me. Imagine the scene where she bestows the curse and Stephan drops to his knees and begs. I would've written the scene so Maleficent says 'Yes, beg me for mercy like I begged you not to take my wings. Beg for the life of your daughter who you only got by betraying my trust. You drugged me and cut off my wings for your own selfish pride. So go ahead and beg, Stephan. Throw yourself upon the mercy of the person you betrayed.' To me, a much better scene.
How about the only other female characters are the moronic fairies whose negligence almost got Aurora killed, and that reminds me, why did Stephan trust the fairies? He had just met them, but entrusts his daughter to them. So the only competent person has to watch over her, but didn't the curse later on lead her to the locked room, which it unlocked and reformed a spinning cradle, couldn't it look after her instead of Maleficent having to stalk Aurora?
The scene where Maleficent tries to recant the curse was cool, and that should've driven her to master the Powers of Hell as it is not magic based on Earth. And why did she take the Prince Charming stand-in to the castle when he was already going there!?
To me, this film was screaming 'Only Women can get anything done by themselves'. The acting was brilliant, but the story forgot it was supposed to be about Maleficent, not 'Sleeping Beauty as told by Maleficent'.
And why didn't Stephan just wall off the access to her room, it is obvious he had enough iron for it? Oh yeah, Maleficent was dragging Prince Helium around for some arbitrary reason, so the plot had to let her through...
