*FUN FACT*: Jolie's little daughter was chosen to play the young Aurora because she was the only girl Maleficent didn't scare her since she knew she was her mother.
To be fair, that was a change Disney made for Sleeping Beauty. Every version I've seen of the original fairytale involves Sleeping Beauty living with her parents. Some versions involve the whole castle/whole kingdom falling asleep along side her, while others involve her grieving parents sealing away her tower/castle. ... And one version also involves infidelity, rape, and attempted cannibalism.
@ANNABELL CANNON Thankful that it led to her waking up anyway. In that version, one of her twins sucked the splinter out of her finger and that's what broke the curse (nothing about true love in that one).
Here's the thing that I actually appreciated with this Sleeping Beauty remake: It was an actual remake. They changed things and went with a different storyline. Like…brought new stuff to the table, not just remade the scenes.
@@christophercampa6777 …exactly. The people were innovative and told the story from the opposite side instead of Aurora's. Even though she's the narrator. Lol
yeah that's what i think they are doing with cruella too! there's gonna be a second movie so it's very likely going to be a retelling of 101d since motivations and characters in the cruella movie don't really match the original 101d.
I just realized, when Maleficent was casting the curse, she said that Aurora would be "loved by all". Which would include MALEFICENT. So that probably means her own curse backfired on her and made her the key to breaking the spell.
I think I’m just stupid but I just realized that Mal made the curse for Aurora’s 16th birthday which can only be lifted by true love’s kiss to mock Stefan because he gave her false true love’s kiss on her 16th birthday 🤯
@@hanaomer4419 yes but the that's why the third fairy did not do anything which is annoying a bit, that part of it was that fairie's doing in the original which makes sense because they are the actual ones who find a way to lift the curse.
@@hanaomer4419 true loves kiss part. It is supposed to be added by the third fairy since Mal interrupts the fairies after the second one. So after Mal curses Aurora and leaves, the third fairy adds the "the curse can be broken by a true loves kiss" part, but since they gave that to Mal, the third fairy does not grant anything to Aurora in this film.
The fact that the cutting of her wings (while having been drugged by someone she trusted) was a confirmed representation of women being drugged and waking up to find they've been r*ped, and honestly...having been in that moment myself, Angelina Jolie's acting was impeccable. This was, and still is, the best adaptation of that moment for me without it being explicitly about r*pe. That part hits my heart every time.
@@kateelario6235anyone can be raped regardless of gender, but this specific representation is talking about women being deceived and taken advantage of by men.
I loved the movie when at the end they interpreted true love kiss not as a cliché which is a result of superficial “love” between two strangers but a motherly love which was built up through the movie
To be honest though, name a type of love that is truer than that of a parent’s love for their child. Go on, I’ll wait. Answer, nada. The love a parent has for their child is what the Greeks would call Agape, which means unconditional love, AKA the strongest form of love there is. I remember watching this movie when it came out with my mom, and we both cried because of how beautiful that scene was.
@@Leo18rodz yes it was. She started off the spell by saying that she would have beauty forever and everyone would fall in love with her. Go watch it over. She finished by saying that she would go into a coma by pricking her finger. Maybe not tell other's what's right when you yourself don't know.
Dylan: No bodies on the battlefield?! Disney: Of course not. This is a Family film. Disney 5 minutes later: Woman gets roofied by her ex and he mutilates her body for personal profit.
Fun fact: when they were filming the scene where Maleficent picks up Aurora as a child, they had to use Angelina Jolie’s daughter because all of the other children that age were terrified of her in the costume. Angelina’s daughter was able to see that it was her mom though which is why she wasn’t scared.
I thinks she couldn't grow wings back because after that she couldn't emotionally grow. In the end when her arc is done she gets them back because she mentally healed.
This is definitely the symbolism behind her not being able to get her wings back. If she had showed up to the Christening whole, like she used to be, it would be denying him the knowledge that he hurt her. Stephan would be able to say "Well I took her wings for the crown, but look! She got them back. I didn't do anything wrong, nothing changed, I was justified to do what I did." I think part of the thought process on this was her wanting to tell Stephan, "Look what you've done, you did this to yourself. You hurt me, you took a part of me, you violated me, and now I will do the same to you." But because she wants to remind him of the harm he caused her and to truly get revenge, she's also not able to truly let this go, to heal from it.
Well, no. They're wings. Do any of us grow back limbs? No. Some things the bidy can't do. Magically making wings is just short of creating animate creatures with a whole body and see can't do that level of complexity
I liked how Stephen gave Maleficent the "gift" of what he said was"true love's kiss" and Maleficent was so bitter about his betrayal she made that the key to ending the curse.
yes since stefans give of the true love kiss never was a true loves kiss to her so she probbaly did not believe in like "true love" so she used it as the key to ending the curse, as she believed there is no way it can be ended.
and she said it to her own daughter too lmaoo all other kids were scared of her when trying to shoot the scene so her own daughter was there - the reason she was all smiley touchy.
@@PeyloBeauty I remember from another clip but she doesn’t say the line to her daughter and says it to no one as they don’t want her to actually say it to her daughter since it can cause confusion
Fun fact: The little girl that played as Child Aurora was Angelina Jolie’s 5-year-old daughter Vivienne, because she was the only little girl who wasn’t frightened by Angelina Jolie in her Maleficent costume.
I read a comment saying that scene represented women being drugged and assaulted/taken advantage of in their sleep (I'm not sure if it's true but they said that Angelina talked about it in a behind the scene video or something)
Are we just going to ignore the fact that Dylan guessed the plot of the second movie PERFECTLY!? like, down to the details of marriage and war, WHAT THE ACTUAL FUUUUUU-
The reason why Stefan sent Arouca away as well as burning all of the spinning wheels was because that he felt that Maleficent would come after the kid but in actuality, Maleficent ended up raising his kid to be kind and everything Stefan was not since he wasn’t there to teach her that Maleficent was evil.
Maleficent said in the curse "beloved by all who meet her" she never excluded herself from that, that's why she ended up loving aurora more than anyone cause she's also the one that spent the most time with her so she was destined to love her the most
(This has more to do with the second movie than the first) I feel like maleficent also comes to see herself in Aurora. She wants to hate her because she's a human but more importantly the daughter of someone who hurt her deeply, but they're pretty similar. She watches Aurora enjoy the outdoors and interact with animals, which is all thing maleficent used to do, and later she watches her grow up and fall in love similar to her. I think she grows to want a better future for Aurora in the end
Angelina said the specific scene where Maleficent's wings are taken is a metaphor of sexual assault, being drugged and having something taken in ur sleep. Sleeping beauty the original versions the darker side was about assault as well and Maleficent is about recovery, taking her power back, reclaiming the story and it was important to tell❣
@@ayaashraf-wr8ki It's really dark. That assault OP talked about is because sleeping beauty doesn't get woken up after the kiss, or anything that follows that the King does to her.
AγA AγA A king decides to rape and impregnate a sleeping princess. King leaves not knowing she is preggers. She gives birth to a boy and a girl while she is still asleep. 2 fairies arrive to take care of the babies. She wakes up when the fairies are trying to get the babies to breastfeed on the sleeping girl and one of the babies sucks so much that a flax splinter comes out and she wakes up. She picks up the babies and continues breastfeeding. Then the king returns and he and the baby mama fall in love and she becomes his mistress. The end.
I never noticed this before but the reason that Phillip and Aurora had such an instant connection and the reason Maleficent loved her was because at birth she was given the gift of being loved by all who met her
The rape symbolism behind maleficent losing her wings hit me like a ton of bricks the first time I saw this movie. The pain she feels when she wakes up…. It made me tremble.
Something I love: Maleficent took care of Aurora in the beginning not because she wanted her to live but because she wanted her curse to be the only thing that killed Aurora. Petty to the max.
TW: I really enjoy this movie because of its symbolism. Maleficent getting her wings stolen is a metaphor for her being raped, she hides away and hates the world. She forgets how to love and curses anything that has to do with her offender, she slowly learns how to love again through aurora and forgive him which is the acceptance. She brings down her thorn wall symbolizing her learning to love and opening up again
A movie star said it's a rape metaphor to get publicity for the movie, but that doesn't make it a good metaphor as she gets her wings back, but rape victims cannot be unraped and virgins don't get their virginity back. She only cursed an innocent baby, but leaves her ex-boyfriend all his power, wealth and kingly title (the reasons he betrayed her) for 16years to enjoy. She waited over 15years before even trying once to remove the curse, so she obviously didn't care for baby/toddler/pre-teen Aurora at all. If she had forgiven Stefan then she would have used her magic (telekinesis, etc) or wings to save the life of Aurora's father for Aurora. Even at the end she cared more about her revenge than forgiveness or what Aurora may want.
@@PyroDrew i think the reason she didnt toutch any of his wealth and power is cause she wanted him to slowly be driven mad with fear of what she could do and the inevitability of her curse. It was a very drawn out revenge plan for the sake of causing Stefan as much pain as possible i believe.
@@lucyandecember2843 Maybe, but her curse has a paradox problem to it too. If Stefan was suffering from the curse because he truly loved his daughter (which would explain a lot of his scenes in the movie) then that means he could also break the curse by kissing Aurora, but if he didn't truly love his daughter then the curse didn't really make him suffer that much. We can't say cursing his daughter hurt his pride because he gave up his pride before the curse when he begged Maleficent on his knees in front of everyone for mercy for his daughter. Apparently, Maleficent also got extremely lucky that Aurora's birth mother didn't truly love Aurora either. Maybe Stefan was driven mad out of fear of her, but that makes him look real stupid as a villain because he knew her and yet still knowingly put himself in that position. He knew she was not a weak nobody. Super human strength, rapid healing, vast powers, supernatural friends, and she's the leader of a huge undefeated army while the human army lost horribly. He had no reason to believe she and her legions of armies couldn't destroy the entire human kingdom. Seeing the villain be such an underdog was odd. It was like watching the RU-vid video of Bambi vs. Godzilla. Stefan won't win any evil mastermind awards.
The toddler was Angelina Jolie's daughter. They needed a child that wouldn't be afraid of her in that headdress, so that's why they casted Angelina Jolie's daughter for that part.
Maleficent spell on Aurora was her downfall, she literally said in the curse, Everyone who meets you will love you. Maleficent met her and basically watched her grow up and now loves her like her own.
Maleficent was so specific of the how and when of the spell but literally couldn’t add the word, “except me” in the spell LOL (but again then not adding that showed that true love is more than a romantic relationship, just like Frozen’s sisterly bond 😭)
When you are angry and curse someone-you don't give a fuck about the logic. That is why there is so much violence in the real world. So it makes sense that she didn't think about how it will affect her. Just wanted to harm a bastard.
14:48 Fun fact: the child in this scene is actually Angelina's REAL daughter. All the toddlers they tried to use in this scene would cry because they were afraid of the horns/outfit. Except for Angelina's own daughter, because she recognized her mom and wasn't afraid 🤣
12:00 She's not evil. Not only Stefan took her wings, but betrayed her. She loved him and trust him. When she founded out that he has a daughter she was still in love with him. That child meant to her that he betrayed her even more because, after all he was with another woman. That hurts.
Sorry bro but she's pretty evil lol even if it hurts it doesn't justify all the hurt _she_ caused to blameless people. Cursing a newborn for the sins of her father? Yikes. She's cool af being evil at least.
Had her revenge been directed at Stefan, sure. But she IS evil because she chose to hurt not him directly but an innocent child. Using an innocent, particularly a child, as a pawn for your revenge with no thought of the effect on the innocent is evil.
I feel like no one talks about how the colour of her magic changes over time. Like when she’s young is yellow then when Stefan betrays her its green and when she starts to love aurora it goes back to yellow.
I think it depends on what she uses her magic for. Because halfway through the movie she uses it to heal a tree, and then it's yellow, but a bit after that when she is toying with the soldiers it's green again.
Enchanted is an amazing movie and super original. Though for live action movies Cinderella has to be my favorite. It's the only one where I actually prefer it any day over the original
Dylan's reaction to the scene where she gets her wings cut off is why i love and support this channel. I just watched billybinges' video on this movie yesterday and was seriously disturbed and honestly hurt by the way he laughed at her and cheered stefan on. Anyways just came back to this video to say this is why i love Dylan
22:33 "I wanna do more than kiss her" Well, funnily enough there's a version of this fairy tale from 1600 where the sleeping beauty gets pricked by a thorn and she falls asleep, and the entire kingdom with her, after a fairy casts a spell on everybody, and makes a forest grow around the castle. Many years later a king, who was hunting in the vicinity, finds the castle and the sleeping beauty (still "dead", or asleep whatever) rapes her and leaves. Nine months later she gives birth to twins, and when reaching for her breast for feeding themselves, one of them sucks her finger, pulls the thorn out and she finally wakes up. The story ends with sleeping beauty raising her children all by herself. You're welcome.
There was a continuation of that I think. Apparently the king went back and happily agreed to take care of the children and the mother, thing is he's married to another woman. The Queen was obviously outraged, so she decides to kill the twins and make the king drink their blood and eat their meat. Pretty sure it continues but I can't remember the rest of it
That's like one of the most iconic, if not the most iconic, thing I could remember from the film. The way she said that added a depth to her character and flashbacks the viewer to the time she was betrayed
Honestly, this might be Angelina Jolie’s best movie. I watched the original right before this one and it’s really impressive how well she portrays the character. If you shut your eyes and just listen to her dialogue, you can’t tell if your listening to the original from the 50’s
"Why Don't More People LOVE This Movie??" RIGHT? i always felt i was the only person in the world who liked this movie. what's more, among the live action disney movies, i think this is the best one
@@diamondbaker1419 i didnt watch that one! gotta say i dont LOVE it, í dont think its one of the best movies i've ever seen, not even close. just saying that among the disney live actions based on classic that i've seen, this one is very very good in comparison imo
Everyone I knew loved this movie too! In fact, the reason why I watched this movie originally was because of so many people raving about it. I’m so glad Dylan enjoyed it too 😊
A nice parallel I never noticed until now: when Maleficent meets Diaval, she saves him from a farmer's net. When she turns him into a dragon, he returns the favor and frees her from the king's net.
Eh, I was annoyed that maleficent wasn't a dragon and that Stephan was boring and stupid. I wish she hadn't been maleficent. I wish it had just been called sleeping beauty and she was a different character filling the evil fairy roll.
Umnia for real I used to tell people that tangled was underrated and then I saw his tangled video. And this is one of my favorite movies and now I’m like this guy knows his stuff. Lol
It’s actually my favourite disney remake. It actually adds more to the story and the world, unlike the other Disney remakes they are just live carbon copies. The only other remake I genuinely enjoy is Cinderella
Just 30 minutes ago or something I remembered Dylan would upload today but then I thought “Wait he’s actually doing Movie Commentary Monday on Monday’s now, gonna gave to wait another day :/“. But I’m glad this is here, as it should.
I love when maleficent said “iron burns fairies” Dylan goes “don’t tell him that” and Stephen throws the iron bracelet then Dylan goes “don’t throw it!!” 😂😂😂😂😂😂 like who side you on😂😂😂
2 of The kids that played the young Aurora are Angelina's actual children Thank you for the top comment I'm gonna take this opportunity to say wouldn't it be nice if Dylan did a collab with trin.
This man's undying love for Flynn Rider is to live for haha here goes some underrated movies with pretty good characters: -Sinbad the legend of the seven seas (2003) -Shakespeare in love (1998) -Pride and Prejudice (2005)
I honestly think that Maleficent cursing Aurora was justified in this movie. Stefan was Maleficent's childhood friend. He became her friend, and he gave her true love's kiss and threw away his ring, because the ring burned her and caused her pain. Then he comes back, as a man, and warns her that the King is planning to kill her...He creates the illusion that Maleficent is safe with him, but when Maleficent wakes up the following morning, she discovers that he didn't take her life, but he DID take her wings. I think that is even worse....because she loved him and trusted him and he not only betrayed her love, he broke her trust, and he did it for the most selfish of reasons - to become King. And then, he makes the insult worse by choosing to marry another, and he has a child with his new Queen. So not only did he betray Maleficent and violate her in the worst way he could, he then cast her aside, like she was nothing, to satisfy his selfish desire to gain power and become King. When Maleficent invokes her curse on the princess at her christening, I think her doing this, was Stefan's worst nightmare, because really, she's hurting him in the worst way possible....she's robbing Stefan of what he finds most precious - his daughter - just as Stefan robbed Maleficent of her wings...in essence, her very identity as a Fairy. When she sees Aurora in the forest, with the Fairies, while she initially despises the child and wants nothing to do with her, as the years pass, Maleficent sees Aurora as the daughter she might have had with Stefan, had their love endured and so, she finds herself bonding with Aurora, and even loving her and adopting the princess as her own daughter. That is why she was able to break the curse in the end....Stefan broke Maleficent's heart, but her love for Aurora allowed Maleficent's heart to be healed.
people are FINALLY acknowledging Maleficent, to me it always felt underrated compared to the other disney films edit: 2:17 i'm surprised dylan didn't realise that the fairy is umbridge from harry potter
They could only get Angelina’s daughter to play young Aurora bc she was the only kid who wasn’t scared of her and just wanted to play with her 😭🥺❤️ it’s so wholesome
I actually preferred the curse in the cartoon movie, where she says Aurora will die and then the last pixie changes is to this sleeping blabla kiss thing. I really love the backstory they gave maleficent. In the first part I was like "What? I thought this was about the witch from sleeping beauty?" and then like "oooh okay it is" XD
Fun fact: The scene when Maleficent wakes up after her wings are cut off , her reaction is meant to imitate how women feel after being drugged and assaulted and waking up and knowing what’s happened. Angelina Jolie did an interview I think where she explained the scene and why it was shot this way. Edit: I get it guys, it’s not actually a ‘fun fact’ I’m not trying to say sexual assault is cool or anything just..that’s what I say before saying random facts I know
College Struggles ohhhhhhhh. That makes so much sense. That scene is super emotional. I know she’s a great actress, but man. Gotta give her props for that amazing scene
@@aintgonnaletuknow5758 in the movie she is ofcourse because yeah her wings are cut off and we don't know any different but it was just the meaning of that he took advantage of her when she was asleep actually drugged by that little bottle that layed on the grass. And when you are sexually harassed you also don't want it ofcourse and are taking advantage of so that was just a little extra something
14:59 just realized the reason maleficent liked her was because she gave her the gift of being loved by everyone she comes across and didn't say "not me" 🤦♂️
Mik Kat wow i had never thought of that! - but then shouldn’t the kiss of the prince have worked since everyone she comes across would love her? or i guess it makes sense because she didn’t love him back.
i just thought of this but like the wing cutting off scene kind of made me feel like it was a metaphor for like sexual assault? like he gets her to trust him and then drugs her and takes away a part of her she probably will never get back
I compared it to literal mutilation like breast mutilation or sth like that that really messes victims up bc they are literally losing defining parts of themselves or just parts and period, but yeah
The idea of a villain being good, relatable, or having meaning to the reason for their villainy just doesn’t sit well with people I guess. Personally I like it. Really focuses on empathy. This film most of the characters had flaws or did something wrong. There wasn’t many “heroes” per say. Which is refreshing.
And also her wings where literally a physical part of her identity when she lost those she lost herself combined with the hatred of betrayal she felt from the one person who showed her affection of course she became evil but she was raised to look after the lord which is why she never ever harmed the people of the mores and her daughter Aurora.
“Yeah, you’re married to Brad Pitt.” Me: “Dylan, Queen Angelina is no longer married to Brad Pitt. They’ve been divorced for 3 years now, thank you very much.”
He probably realizes we all love Disney movies so much and he’s getting more views? Or he’s just genuinely enjoying Disney because they’re movies are mostly very good lol
@@alexiamelo644 Aladdin didn't really need to be added depth and meaningfulness to it. it was already pretty great! I still liked the remake, but i don't preffer it to the animated one. This one on the other side added what the movie needed
Not gonna lie, I thought I was gonna hate this movie when I watched it on HBO a couple of years back. However, I actually ended up liking it. It was nice to see a back story to why Malificent acted the way she did. The special effects were done nicely too so that was a plus.
I think that the reason She didn’t use her magic at the fight scene was because she was completely surrounded by the iron and that might have made her magic less powerful
