{"id":1672,"date":"2014-05-29T12:14:08","date_gmt":"2014-05-29T19:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moviesharkdeblore.com\/site\/?p=1672"},"modified":"2014-10-12T12:22:31","modified_gmt":"2014-10-12T19:22:31","slug":"maleficent-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/behindthelensonline.net\/site\/reviews\/maleficent-2\/","title":{"rendered":"MALEFICENT"},"content":{"rendered":"

By: debbie lynn elias<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Be she known as the \u201cevil fairy\u201d who casts a spell on the infant princess Aurora dooming her to die when she pricks her finger on a spinning wheel in Charles Perrault\u2019s\u00a0 La Belle au bois dormant<\/em> or in the Brothers Grimm\u00a0 Dornr\u00f6schen<\/em> (Little Briar Rose), or known as the mightiest and most beloved of all the Disney villains, MALEFICENT is a force to be reckoned with.\u00a0 And as beloved as Disney\u2019s 1959 animated classic Sleeping Beauty<\/em> is, making MALEFICENT a household name for new generations and generations to come, nothing has prepared us for the majesty and grandeur of Disney\u2019s\u00a0 new live-action MALEFICENT.\u00a0 Magical.\u00a0 Mesmerizing.\u00a0 Masterful.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

With script by Linda Woolverton and John Lee Hancock, and led by animator\/artist\/ production designer\/VFX legend\u00a0 Robert Stromberg who makes his directorial debut (finally!), Angelina Jolie IS<\/strong> MALEFICENT.\u00a0\u00a0 Nobody does fairy tales better than Disney<\/em><\/strong> and thanks to some great imagination and exquisite storytelling that adds a new twist to classic legend and lore, brought to life with breathtaking visuals that stun, immerse, dazzle with heart-stopping beauty and emotion, infused with an indelible powerhouse performance by Angelina Jolie, it won\u2019t take long before MALEFICENT wraps you in the most magical of spells.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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As the warm intonations of our narrator set the stage, we begin.\u00a0 \u201cLet us tell an old story anew.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 In this time and place there are two kingdoms; that of the humans and that of the moors.\u00a0 Ruled by King Henry, the human world has no tolerance for that of the moors, a land of enchantment where fairies flit and creatures of all shapes and sizes thrive in peace and harmony among Mother Nature\u2019s beauteous bounty.\u00a0 An unwritten agreement deems that \u201cnever the twains shall meet\u201d.\u00a0 While Henry protects and cares for his world and his people, a young fairy named MALEFICENT does the same for the moors.\u00a0 Kind, compassionate and fiercely protective of the Moors, the winged MALEFICENT is filled with life and love, a love that soon extends to a young human boy named Stefan.<\/p>\n

Initially meeting out of childlike curiosity, the two quickly become friends and Stefan sneaks into the moors to visit Maleficent while she comes to the fringes of the two worlds to meet with him.\u00a0 Over time, their friendship blossoms into love.\u00a0 But then, as first loves do, they fade and each goes their separate way.\u00a0 Only MALEFICENT\u2019s love doesn\u2019t fade and she pines for Stefan.\u00a0 Making life even more difficult, King Henry decides to attack the moors and claim them for himself.\u00a0 Henry is badly injured in the battle and on his death bed, now seeks a successor.\u00a0 Stefan, nothing more than a poor devoted servant to the King, desperately wants to be named successor and have all of Henry\u2019s power and wealth, but how to attain it?\u00a0 And then the answer to his problem arrives.\u00a0 King Henry wants revenge on MALEFICENT.<\/p>\n

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Seeing Henry\u2019s ravings as a way for him to secure the crown, Stefan returns to the moors and MALEFICENT.\u00a0 Under guise of true love, Stefan tricks MALEFICENT, committing the ultimate betrayal, turning her once loving heart into not just stone, but pure evil.\u00a0 Set on revenge for what Stefan has done to her,\u00a0 and to protect the moors which he has vowed to destroy now that he has his crown, MALEFICENT bides her time waiting for the perfect moment to strike.\u00a0 And strike she does.\u00a0 At the christening of King Stefan\u2019s newborn daughter Aurora, MALEFICENT appears, casting a spell\u00a0 dooming Aurora to fall into a deep sleep with the pricking of her finger on a spinning wheel before the sun sets on her 16th birthday.\u00a0 Of course, the only way to break the curse is by a true love\u2019s kiss.<\/p>\n

Determined to keep his daughter safe, Stefan sends her into hiding deep in the woods where she will be raised by three fairies – Flittle, Knotgrass and Thistlewit – until the sun sets on her 16th birthday.\u00a0 But just how hidden can you be from MALEFICENT?<\/p>\n

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No one could play MALEFICENT\u00a0 but for Angelina Jolie.\u00a0<\/em><\/strong> She embodies the very essence of the character, physically and emotionally<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0 Regal yet maternal.\u00a0 Hurt and hateful yet loving and forgiving.\u00a0\u00a0 Jolie lets us see the emotional battle of light and dark<\/em><\/strong> within MALEFICENT using facial expressiveness, nuanced movements and vocal inflection.\u00a0 A delicate and commanding dance.\u00a0 Her inherent statuesque nature fuels the character<\/em><\/strong> through her striding walk, the expansiveness of open arms and wings.\u00a0 Wonderful physicality<\/em><\/strong> to the character through minimal yet deliberate movement.\u00a0 But then look at her hands.\u00a0 Jolie makes the most expressive use of her hands.\u00a0 She is able to bring a rigidity to her long slender fingers with just the most incremental movements that are perfect for VFX to come in and dazzle us with pixie dust, not to mention energy streams.\u00a0\u00a0 Extremely powerful is the rage she conveys with her facial expressions in battle sequences.\u00a0 Wow!\u00a0 (Seeing this, I wouldn’t want to be one of Jolie\u2019s kids if I\u2019d been bad!)<\/p>\n

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Speaking of Jolie and her kids, a serendipitous casting is Vivienne Jolie-Pitt as the young Aurora<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0 This is a situation that\u00a0 benefits by the mother-daughter casting immensely as a key scene with MALEFICENT and the “Beastie” as she calls the child, solidifies not only the conflict of light and dark within MALEFICENT, but the true nature of her feelings towards Aurora. That one scene – especially the “Up, Up” from Aurora to MALEFICENT – is a pivotal moment in time that shifts the story and the film, as well as our hearts.\u00a0 The innocence and purity that Vivienne brings to the screen is almost angelic.\u00a0 So touching seeing the mother-daughter on camera together, it made my heart swell and smile.<\/p>\n

Key to the darkness that Jolie brings to MALEFICENT is finding an actress with a lightness as balance to play Aurora.\u00a0 For director, Robert Stromberg, Elle Fanning was the only choice.\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cShe exuded life and light. . .this light to contrast with the dark – and then to see how those cross-pollinate.\u00a0 That\u2019s the interesting concoction that you have to play with.\u00a0 But it was really about you could feel her spirit in the room and that\u2019s what we wanted.\u00a0 And she\u2019s beautiful.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Thanks to the creativity with the storytelling, another heart shines that helps propel the story and softens the harder edges of MALEFICENT – Diaval, raven turned human turned wolf turned dragon depending on MALEFICENT\u2019s mood.\u00a0 Sam Riley brings emotional nuance <\/em><\/strong>to the character, much of which is through his eyes and their expressiveness and movement.\u00a0 Thankfully, that same expressiveness is carried through to Diaval the Crow.\u00a0 You completely suspend disbelief when it comes to Diaval and the shape-shifting that MALEFICENT performs on him.\u00a0 Seamless.\u00a0 And this is a side of Riley that we haven’t seen.\u00a0 He gives Diaval a caring kindness with a touch of humor <\/em><\/strong>that is tender and sweet.\u00a0 Again, kudos to make-up and attention to detail as scarring on the face and neck appear, while Riley\u2019s human chest becomes that of an exoskeleton.<\/p>\n

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Interesting is Sharlto Copley’s Stefan.\u00a0 Such anger, such darkness, such slovenly disgust for life.\u00a0 Digging deep into his self-proclaimed \u201chappy persona\u201d, Copley delivers a level of intense hatred<\/em><\/strong> that he maintains and even intensifies, serving as a perfect counter to MALEFICENT’s softer moments.<\/p>\n

Adorable are Juno Temple, Lesley Manville and Imelda Staunton as our fairies, particularly Temple.\u00a0 Knowing her persona in real life, one does think of her as a happy flitting fairy!\u00a0 Nice casting with Staunton who is no stranger to the ways of magic thanks to Hogwarts and Harry Potter!<\/p>\n

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Screenwriters Linda Woolverton and John Lee Hancock have turned a classic on its ear<\/em><\/strong> (or curved horns) with a loving and maternal spin.\u00a0 Long my favorite villainess, it has been my contention since seeing Sleeping Beauty<\/em> as a small child that MALEFICENT was really a decent person and just not appreciated.\u00a0 It is with childish delight that I get to see my childhood visions now brought to life by others who obviously thought the same thing.\u00a0 MALEFICENT’s backstory is as painful and is it beautiful.<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0 Heartbreak is not something that Disney often tackles.\u00a0 Love, yes.\u00a0 But heartbreak, no.\u00a0 Woolverton and Hancock now give us heartbreak, something that will resonate with all and which is as easily at home in the real world in which we live as in the fantasy world of fairy tales.\u00a0 We sympathize.\u00a0 We empathize.\u00a0 We care about MALEFICENT.\u00a0 And the more we care about and understand MALEFICENT, the darker Stefan becomes with tables turning and the more we also see the old adage of “two sides to very coin” unfold.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Director Stromberg\u00a0 then gives us powerful\u00a0 visuals that succinctly show how anger and vitriol look if the emotions are given three-dimensional color and dimension.\u00a0 The metaphor of emotion through visuals is extremely well executed, visceral and evocative. <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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I seriously doubt that any director other than Robert Stromberg\u00a0 (even a visualist like Tim Burton) could have stepped in and brought MALEFICENT to life with such incredible detail, depth and texture, creating a tonal bandwidth that finds the perfect balance and discussion of good versus evil, love versus hate<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0 With Stromberg’s background in VFX, production design, art direction and even old school matte background, Stromberg puts every bit of skill and every element to use in the design of MALEFICENT, particularly with the creation of the moors. And toss in Dean Semler’s lighting and lensing and the moors in particular is pure ethereal beauty with a delicacy of light and life even when shrouded in the inky darkness of a heartbroken MALEFICENT.\u00a0 A delicate emotional and tonal balance that mirrors the delicacy of fairy spells.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Making Semler the perfect cinematographer for Stromberg is Semler\u2019s \u201cold school thinking and knowledge of lighting [which he ] applies to the newer equipment and digital photography. . .he understands the use of light, how that can emotionally affect the film.\u201d\u00a0 For Stromberg and Semler, and as they show us beautifully in MALEFICENT, \u201cYou follow an emotional journey of discovery in the environment the same way the character does<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0 In this movie we start with a very happy, bright place and the whole background, the whole world shifts with MALEFICENT\u2019s journey and her emotional journey through this world.\u00a0 We go darker when she\u2019s dark and then by the end of the movie we come back up and it\u2019s come full circle. . .It\u2019s important in the way [Semler] lights things to create different emotions that way and he understands that.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 Notable is his framing which goes wide within the happy carefree days in the moors, allowing us to feel a part of the magical world before us.\u00a0 Camera goes tight to mid as emotions intensify.\u00a0 Nice palette of blacks come into play within Stefan\u2019s\u00a0 castle as well as the thorn wall, creating a sense of negative space without physically being such.\u00a0 Interesting and effective perspective the end result of which is masterful.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Production designers Gary Freeman and Dylan Cole create dueling worlds<\/em><\/strong> that meet in the middle with as much attention to the brick, mortar and iron design of Stefan’s castle as to the moors.\u00a0 There are visual touchstones<\/em><\/strong> that incorporate the collective consciousness of multiple generations harkening to the literary world of the Brothers Grimm and their original story, the indelible visuals of Disney’s Sleeping Beauty<\/em> yet opens up a pantheon of delights with new imagery, new mythology<\/em><\/strong> – all of which is thanks to this wonderful new story.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Exciting for Stromberg and company was going into the Disney archives, back to the original 1959 drawings by Eyvind Earle who designed the first \u201cSleeping Beauty\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0 With Earle\u2019s drawings as a starting point, Stromberg then saw that \u201cit was a bit distracting for the story we were trying to tell but it was important for me to keep the essence of Eyvind Earle\u2019s design in the movie; sort of a photo-real version. . . There\u2019s definitely an important conscious attempt to capture the essence of that.\u201d\u00a0 Another huge influencer that can be seen particularly in the moors and in aerial sequences\u00a0 comes from neo-classical artists like Maxfield Parrish.<\/p>\n

Shot at Pinewood Studios, the filmmakers were able to build many of the physical sets, some 40 in all, allowing for more visual and emotional texture.\u00a0 One of the things that makes Stromberg the perfect director for MALEFICENT is his extensive skill set, giving him \u201can understanding of what needed to be built and what needed to be CGI\u2019d. . .I was able to sit down with the script and determine what needed to be built.\u00a0 I thought it was really important for some of the major scenes that the actors be able to physically touch things and to feel the emotion of real light lighting the set, there\u2019s something powerful – that\u2019s why the christening scene was an entire set because we wanted to feel.\u00a0 That\u2019s the center of the movie.\u00a0<\/em><\/strong> We wanted everybody to feel the energy of what it would be like to be there.\u201d<\/p>\n

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And when it comes to the christening scene, break out your Disney storybooks, break out the old VHS tapes and DVD\u2019s of Sleeping Beauty<\/em>.\u00a0 According to Stromberg, \u201cWe filmed the christening scene word for word verbatim except for a couple small changes from the Disney classic version.\u00a0 It\u2019s intentional because we now have all this back story and when we get up to that point in the movie, we wanted the fans to go, \u2018Oh, okay.\u00a0 I see that\u2019s the character and now I know why she is that way.\u2019\u00a0 Did we change some things?\u00a0 Yes, we did.\u00a0 We threw some curve balls but there was always a conscious effort to think about the fan base.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hand in hand with production design is the meticulous detail to the actual character of MALEFICENT through costume and make-up<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0 Fingernails are thick with a slightly yellow tint to them, sharpened to a talon-like point.\u00a0\u00a0 Her numerous “crowns” have details sometimes of snakeskin, other times crocodile, other times silken glossy feathers, other times, a furry touch.\u00a0 each design fits the emotion of a particular scene.\u00a0 As MALEFICENT grows ever darker and hurt, costume goes from muted browns and greens of the woodland to various shades of black, intensifying in hue with emotion and fabrication.\u00a0 Similarly, when touched by Aurora and as they grow closer, the neckline opens up more, the clothing is a bit looser\/freer, colors soften until the final scene and MALEFICENT is back to earthy browns, tinged with sunlit gold.\u00a0 Fabulous, fabulous work.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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What would a Disney movie be without a score!\u00a0 Beautifully lyrical <\/em><\/strong>and for the bulk of the film very subtle (except for the soaring and sailing through the moors and skies), James Newton Howard’s score feels like a cloud floating with the film, wafting alongside, never leading it.<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0 Over the final credits however, the score is vibrant and tremendous, capturing all of the emotions and beats of the film that just unfolded.<\/p>\n

To paraphrase the haunting signature lyric of the \u201cSleeping Beauty\u201d theme, we walked with her once upon a dream and now we know that visions are seldom all they seem.\u00a0\u00a0 MALEFICENT, a new vision in filmmaking that will make new dreams for generations to come.<\/p>\n

MALEFICENT is magnificent.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Directed by Robert Stromberg<\/p>\n

Written by Linda Woolverton and John Lee Hancock<\/p>\n

Cast:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Angelina Jolie, Elle Fanning, Sam Riley, Sharlto\u00a0 Copley, Juno Temple, Imelda Staunton, Lesley Manville, Vivienne Jolie-Pitt<\/p>\n

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