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  • Essay / Queens in Disney Movies - 1038

    In the classic Walt Disney movies, Sleeping Beauty and Snow White. The antagonist, the evil fairy queen Maleficent, appears as if by magic in the middle of the princess named Aurora, daughter of King Stefan and the Queen. And Snow White's Evil Queen stalks her stepdaughter because of her beauty. The question is: do characters remain characters over time? There are many artistic values ​​of The Evil Queen and Maleficent. The Queen is a fictional character in the Brothers Grimm fairy tale Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, as well as the Disney animated film based on it. The Queen was often referred to as "Queen Grim Hilde" in Disney publications of the 1930s. Her appearance was inspired by the character Helen Gahagan in the film She (1935). The Queen is extremely beautiful, but very vain. She seduced and married a widowed king, who had a daughter called Snow White with his first wife. After the king's death, the queen sent Snow White to work in her castle and forced her stepdaughter to give up her princess title, similar to Cinderella's situation. Maleficent is the evil Black Fairy and main antagonist of Walt Disney's 1959 adaptation of Sleeping Beauty. . She was animated by Marc Davis and voiced by Eleanor Audley (who also voiced Lady Tremaine, Cinderella's stepmother). She cursed little Aurora to "prick her finger on the spindle of a spinning wheel and die" before sunset on her sixteenth birthday, after not being invited to the baby's baptism. Maleficent is responsible for “all the misfortunes that befall King Stefan’s kingdom. " (King Stefan is Princess Aurora's father.) Maleficent also possesses a range of magical powers and artifacts, such as using the crystal ball on her staff in the middle of a paper... and completely disregard for the well-being of others, over a period of years In this article, I simply stated whether the characters are still characters over a period of time My position was that the filmmakers moved away from the. original versions of the classic films by comparing the differences in how they changed two classic films over time The moral of the story has not changed over time: good will eventually defeat evil, but the. Snow White's character evolved from the unhappy girl to the empowered woman, evolving with time and the audience (Callow, 2013).ReferencesCallow, B. (2013). . The Artifice. Retrieved from http://the-artifice.com/fairy-tales-how-they-have-changed-over-time/Maleficent (2014). Disney villains. Retrieved from http://www.disneyvillains.net/Maleficent.php