#4: Maleficent – Sleeping Beauty (1959) & Maleficent (2014)
In 1959, she was a green villain with charisma and fury. Kind of plain but effective. However, when Angelina Jolie offered her a second life, Maleficent wasn’t just cruel anymore. Her coldness, her evil curse on Aurora, came from heartbreak. This new story showed her as fierce and maternal, and suddenly, the fairy tale felt more real.
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