Maleficent 2 Trailer

[Samtemdo8_v1legacy]

Are Maleficent and Aurora now a Lesbian Couple?

How did you get that from their one line between eachother?

I just thought they were ripping off Frozen with Maleficent and Aurora's relationship in the movie and would think they would go even far as to make them a lesbian couple.

But lets drop it here.

Aren't they sisters in Frozen though? Haven't seen the movie.

Yeah. Both frozen and maleficent both teach the "true love doesn't have to be romantic" lesson.

In frozen, Anna is cursed to turn to ice without an act of true love. She initially seeks out the prince she had fallen in love with at the beginning of the movie but it doesn't work when it turns out he was only using her. So the act of true love comes from a hug from her sister.

In maleficent, Aurora's cursed to sleep forever without true loves kiss. The fairy godmothers push the prince she had taken an interest in earlier in the movie to kiss her, but it doesn't work. The spell only breaks when Maleficent, who had raised her like a daughter and was essentially her godmother, and who had come to love her like a daughter, gave her a maternal kiss on the forehead. Thus true loves kiss. (Because she truly loves her like a daughter)


It's really not hard lessons to grasp

That's nice but then why does everybody go on about lesbianism in these movies if "love" ends up being a "we're family" thing?

Because people are emotionally stunted fucking morons who can't conceive of the word love being separated from the concept of lust

I already understood that Frozen's love was not romantic or lustful in the slightest. I fully get what they were going for.

But current internet movie gender role politics made me think of something else with Maleficent hence I thought the youtubers Geeks & Gamers are gonna think its a lesbian romance angle.

Your post gave me much needed enlightenment is dispelling all these illusions I had with the movie.

 

[Squilookle]

It took me years to get around to seeing Maleficent mostly because I couldn't see them committing to her being pure evil. And they didn't- just giving her a 'woe is me, here's MY side of the story where I'm the hero' version. What a cop out.

It's a Disney princess movie.

That's true, but it didn't have to be. Not every Disney movie is a princess story, and not every princess has to be 'the good one.'

Uhh.. What Mobster movies make me have empathy for them? This is the first I have heard of this.

Pretty much most of them? Remember empathy is separate from allegiance. You can understand a character's motivations without agreeing with them or their actions.

 

[Lil devils x_v1legacy]

It took me years to get around to seeing Maleficent mostly because I couldn't see them committing to her being pure evil. And they didn't- just giving her a 'woe is me, here's MY side of the story where I'm the hero' version. What a cop out.

It's a Disney princess movie.

That's true, but it didn't have to be. Not every Disney movie is a princess story, and not every princess has to be 'the good one.'

Uhh.. What Mobster movies make me have empathy for them? This is the first I have heard of this.

Pretty much most of them? Remember empathy is separate from allegiance. You can understand a character's motivations without agreeing with them or their actions.

m?pa?thy
/ˈempəTH?/
noun
noun: empathy
the ability to understand and share the feelings of another.

I have always understood empathy to mean to share the feelings of another. While understanding their motive, I would think to share those feelings, I would have to somewhat agree with them on some level. From what I have seen of Mobster movies, they think, feel and do the opposite of what I do, so I guess I pretty much view them as mindless Neanderthals for the most part rather than what I would call "empathizing " with them. Mobsters always came across to me as being dumbasses for the most part. They are ignorant, abusive, selfish, careless, gluttonous, jealous, vengeful, greedy.. all the worst in one package taking no care of their impact on the world. It makes it difficult for me to empathize with that mindset.

 

[Squilookle]

m?pa?thy
/ˈempəTH?/
noun
noun: empathy
the ability to understand and share the feelings of another.

I have always understood empathy to mean to share the feelings of another. While understanding their motive, I would think to share those feelings, I would have to somewhat agree with them on some level. From what I have seen of Mobster movies, they think, feel and do the opposite of what I do, so I guess I pretty much view them as mindless Neanderthals for the most part rather than what I would call "empathizing " with them. Mobsters always came across to me as being dumbasses for the most part. They are ignorant, abusive, selfish, careless, gluttonous, jealous, vengeful, greedy.. all the worst in one package taking no care of their impact on the world. It makes it difficult for me to empathize with that mindset.

Those are the two main associations of empathy, but empathy can appear as one or the other without both.

I'll admit mobsters are an extreme case. But look at it this way- have you ever watched a crime film, let's say a heist film, where you feel like you fully understand the robbers' motivations for doing a robbery, even if you yourself would never rob a bank? How about a Darth Vader figure- fights for the wrong side, but you can understand how they ended up there? A supervillain who genuinely believes that a genocide might prevent something even worse from happening? If it's something you would never do yourself, yet you can honestly see clearly why that character behaves the way that they do, then you have empathy for that character, even if you don't agree with them. Edward Norton once put it quite well:

"I've always thought of acting as more of an exercise in empathy, which is not to be confused with sympathy. You're trying to get inside a certain emotional reality or motivational reality and try to figure out what that's about so you can represent it."

The actor doesn't just have to empathise with a character that may be totally unlike the actor themselves, but they have to do it in such a way that the audience will empathise with that character, too.

 

[Hawki]

But current internet movie gender role politics made me think of something else with Maleficent hence I thought the youtubers Geeks & Gamers are gonna think its a lesbian romance angle.

Geeks and Gamers? You mean the guy who made around 130 videos on the Captain Marvel "controversy?"

Let them stay on the fringe.

 

[Casual Shinji]

Because people are emotionally stunted fucking morons who can't conceive of the word love being separated from the concept of lust

How dare you insult shippers!

 

[Cicada 5]

Wait I thought this movie was a flop?! They made another?

It wasn't a flop.

 

[Samtemdo8_v1legacy]

But current internet movie gender role politics made me think of something else with Maleficent hence I thought the youtubers Geeks & Gamers are gonna think its a lesbian romance angle. .

I say this with compassion and caring Sam

Stop getting your news/cultural information from YouTube.

I have been. But this was one misinformation I had for years. Never had it challenged.

Because people are emotionally stunted fucking morons who can't conceive of the word love being separated from the concept of lust

How dare you insult shippers!

Shippers shipped Danny Phantom and Vlad Plasmius in Fanfiction as a gay couple....even though it makes even less sense then Maleficent and Aurora because they are arch enemies and Vlad is trying to get it on with Danny's Mom.

 

[Majestic Manatee_v1legacy]

Wait I thought this movie was a flop?! They made another?

You thought wrong.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maleficent_(film)

Maleficent earned a gross of $241.4 million in the USA & Canada, and $517.1 million in other countries, for a worldwide total of $758.5 million against a budget of $180 million. Calculating in all expenses, Deadline Hollywood estimated that the film made a profit of $190.77 million. Worldwide, in its opening weekend, the film earned $175.5 million, $9 million of which was from IMAX locations. It is also the biggest debut among films starring Angelina Jolie, and the actress' highest-grossing film of all time worldwide, as well as the fourth-highest-grossing 2014 film (behind Transformers: Age of Extinction, The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies, and Guardians of the Galaxy), and the 15th Disney-distributed film to surpass the $700 million mark at the worldwide box office. The film is also one of four Walt Disney Studios releases in 2014 to gross over $500 million; the other titles being Guardians of the Galaxy, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, and Big Hero 6.

Middling critical reception shouldn't be confused with box office reception.

 

[Casual Shinji]

Shippers shipped Danny Phantom and Vlad Plasmius in Fanfiction as a gay couple....even though it makes even less sense then Maleficent and Aurora because they are arch enemies and Vlad is trying to get it on with Danny's Mom.

Don't you know the #1 shipping rule? The more two characters hate/fight eachother, the more they actually want to bone.

 

[Hawki]

...how the fuck did this turn into a shipping conversation?

I mean, if you want to discuss ships I'm all game, but apart from that...

 

[Tireseas_v1legacy]

Wait I thought this movie was a flop?! They made another?

You thought wrong.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maleficent_(film)

Maleficent earned a gross of $241.4 million in the USA & Canada, and $517.1 million in other countries, for a worldwide total of $758.5 million against a budget of $180 million. Calculating in all expenses, Deadline Hollywood estimated that the film made a profit of $190.77 million. Worldwide, in its opening weekend, the film earned $175.5 million, $9 million of which was from IMAX locations. It is also the biggest debut among films starring Angelina Jolie, and the actress' highest-grossing film of all time worldwide, as well as the fourth-highest-grossing 2014 film (behind Transformers: Age of Extinction, The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies, and Guardians of the Galaxy), and the 15th Disney-distributed film to surpass the $700 million mark at the worldwide box office. The film is also one of four Walt Disney Studios releases in 2014 to gross over $500 million; the other titles being Guardians of the Galaxy, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, and Big Hero 6.

Middling critical reception shouldn't be confused with box office reception.

Indeed. It also feels like a movie that had the throne room scene from the original animated movie [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8a7qDKL2Yc] shot as a proof of concept and then had the rest of the plot built around it.

Still, I liked it, and it worked as a rewriting of a classic that was far more interesting than the original (which, while iconic, is kind of uninspiring in retrospect, especially stacked up with the Sword in the Stone, Beauty and the Beast, and The Black Calderon).

Are Maleficent and Aurora now a Lesbian Couple?

At the end of the original movie, it's a tad ambiguous. While there definitely are some gay undertones to their relationship, it could just as easily be interpreted as maternal or platonic love.

Assuming this is an actual sequel (and not, say, taking place in the middle of the previous movie), methinks something pissed her off, which, given that she's still probably a tad peeved about everything other than Aurora from the previous movie, is probably not exactly buried that deep, which has her likely go on a Karrigan-grade tear through the kingdom for revengeance.[footnote]I will forever believe that Revengence should have been the subtitle to Starcraft II-2 rather than that MSG spinoff.[/footnote]

 

[Tireseas_v1legacy]

Shippers shipped Danny Phantom and Vlad Plasmius in Fanfiction as a gay couple....even though it makes even less sense then Maleficent and Aurora because they are arch enemies and Vlad is trying to get it on with Danny's Mom.

Don't you know the #1 shipping rule? The more two characters hate/fight eachother, the more they actually want to bone.

Hence the sizable amount of Adora-Catra shipping in my Twitter feed...