I am a thousand times against any such movie this Maleficent film sounds like it could be...
BUT I would love to see it and I have started to just say "The world's f-ed up, everyone will just keep doing what they want, and hey, if they creatively want to make something, why not?" So I'm just gonna let it go if it happens.
But I still think it's quite wrong to make such a thing.
A DTV Sleeping Beauty sequel that continues the original Perrault story with Maleficent after Aurora and her kids instead of an ogre mother...
that would be a great thing. Maleficent could even turn huge to be like an ogre. They could do it and it would be kind of legit. Finishing the rest of the original story.
lord-of-sith wrote:Sure her motives weren't that great, but that just makes her more evil! I mean, lets look at some of the other villain's motives:
Queen - Mad because there is one person more pretty than she is.
Cruella - Wants a coat but can't use one specific person's puppies for it.
Tremaine - basically, see "Queen"
There are others, but those are three other much loved villainesses with pretty shallow motives.
But, Maleficent still has the best design and preformance that has possibly ever been put to animation. The design of her costume and headress is very satisfyingly gothic.
She is also quite possibly the most powerful villain, as all the powers of hell seem quite limitless
Actually Lady Tremaine seems to hate that her stepdaughter is more pretty and charming than her own daughters, and she wants her daughters to have a chance at a happy, if greedy and superficial, and perhaps not what would make them truly happy, life.
Though you are right, the film narrator says she is jealous of Cinderella's chamr and beauty. Still, she could be jealous that Cinderella has it and not her daughters. But it's still jealousy which is weird and quiet f-ed.
I agree though that Maleficent's lack of motive means she is just that evil and probably is the point. She's more evil than the stepmother, that's probably intended, she's the Mistress of all Evil.
But Tremaine's performance could be said to be better than Maleficent's as she has a bite which stops and scares the characters and the audience (or at least Frank Thomas said it scared him!). Maleficent's eyes are more scary than Tremaine's visually, but because of Lady Tremaine's character and what she has done, she strikes more fear when you see hers. She controls and harms without magic, powerful as a mere human.
I would be more scared if I met Maleficent in real life, but scary doesn't mean best. Tremaine's performance is great, she even has humorous moments. Maleficent has that "disgrace to the forces of evil" line that could be taken as humorous but in a different way, it relies more on that we never think of disgrace to evil as something bad. But Tremaine could be said to be the best performance put to animation. She is more than a speech maker like Marc Davis said of Maleficent. She does more, feels more like a moving force, though she has some moments where she lets her words be powerful while she's still, as well. She also has great design, the shape of her hair almost like horns. It's true, she and Maleficent actually look very similar. I think Maleficent's design is more interesting and possibly greater, but Tremaine's is perfect for the film she's in as is Maleficent's. It should be about performance with design, not just design, though.
I don't know a lot about the parks (Like you know-I was just at Disneyland Paris in fall 2001 and since it was fall almost everything was close,no characters (I so wants picture with Ariel,Giselle,Aurora,Cinderella,Jasmine,Maleficent,Jafar and more 
),no It's A Small World,but there's was still the Sleeping Beauty Castle,Pirates Of The Caribbean and more),what's Pirates and Princesses? you also take picture in this?.
This is one project I'd love to see, I just wouldn't get my hopes up so soon.
