mistress of all evil a tale of the dark fairy

Maleficent's likeness in the eponymous 2014 film was inspired by Lady Gaga's appearance in her ' Born This Way' (2011) music video. Walt Disney was subsequently able to find archival documents corroborating Nurmi's participation as a 'live-action reference' model for the character. In 2014, entries were discovered in Nurmi's journals describing sessions for Walt Disney in November of 1956. It was long rumored that Maleficent's likeness was inspired by actress Maila Nurmi, best known for her character Vampira, a camp icon of the 1950s. Animators Ollie Johnston and Frank Thomas, in their book The Disney Villain, describe animating Audley's voice as 'a difficult assignment but a thrilling one, working to that voice track with so much innuendo mixed in with the fierce power.' In addition, dancer Jane Fowler performed some live-action reference for Maleficent. Audley also provided some live-action recording for both of these characters, to inspire the animators. She was voiced by Eleanor Audley, who had previously performed Lady Tremaine, Cinderella's evil stepmother, in Cinderella. In determining Maleficent's design, standard depictions of witches and hags were dismissed as Davis has opted for an elegant, sinister, green-skinned beauty, depicted as 'vain femme fatale, utilizing a classic archetype of a bad woman.' According to Davis, Maleficent 'was designed like a giant vampire bat to create a feeling of menace.' She was aptly named 'Maleficent' (an adjective which means 'doing evil or harm'). The character was animated by Marc Davis who also animated Aurora in the film.

This version of Maleficent is portrayed as a sympathetic character, who is misunderstood in trying to protect herself and her domain from humans. Ī revision of the character appeared as the protagonist in the 2014 live-action film Maleficent, portrayed by Angelina Jolie, who reprised the role in the 2019 sequel Maleficent: Mistress of Evil. She was originally voiced by Eleanor Audley, who earlier voiced Lady Tremaine, Cinderella's evil stepmother, in Cinderella (1950). Maleficent is based on the evil fairy godmother character in Charles Perrault's fairy tale Sleeping Beauty, as well as the villainess who appears in the Brothers Grimm's retelling of the story, Little Briar Rose. She is represented as an evil fairy and the self-proclaimed ' Mistress of All Evil' who, after not being invited to a christening, curses the infant Princess Aurora to 'prick her finger on the spindle of a spinning wheel and die' before the sun sets on Aurora's sixteenth birthday. Maleficent ( / m ə ˈ l ɛ f ɪ s ən t/ or / m ə ˈ l ɪ f ɪ s ən t/) is a fictional character who appears as the main antagonist in Walt Disney Productions' 16th animated feature film, Sleeping Beauty (1959). Hades (in House of Mouse and Descendants) The evil fairy from Charles Perrault's fairy tale

Linda Gary ( Fantasmic! & Disney's Fantillusion).

Mistress of all evil a tale of the dark fairy