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Recall the real story behind Sleeping Beauty’s curse - the story of how a powerful fairy girl was betrayed by a boy she loved, then how her hate for his daughter turned into love, canceling the curse.
Who plays the one and only Maleficent?
Angelina Jolie
Angelia Jolie plays Maleficent, the strong and powerful fairy. As a young fairy of the Moors, she meets and falls in love with a human peasant boy named Stefan from the corrupt human kingdom. Angelina Jolie is no stranger to this story. She worked very closely with the costume and make-up designers to develop Maleficent's menacing look. Disney executives objected, hoping to take advantage of Jolie's beauty in marketing the film, but the actress insisted that the character must maintain the scarier look of the animated incarnation from the 1959 Sleeping Beauty.
Carrie Underwood
Julia Roberts
Charlize Theron
How do Stefan and Maleficent first meet?
Stefan has stolen something and she investigates, as she is the protector of the Moors.
Stefan has stolen a jewel and the guards of the Moor have him cornered. He refuses to come out because the guards are scary and they are going to kill him. Maleficent tells Stefan they won’t kill him for stealing, if he gives her the jewel back. He does, and he is released. Isobelle Molloy portrays the Young Maleficent. Isobelle Molloy is an English child actress, best known for her portrayal of Amanda and later, Matilda Wormwood in the West End version of Matilda the Musical.
Stefan has lost his way and ends up spying on the beautiful Maleficent.
Maleficent strays from the Moors and finds Stefan on a quiet, lonely road.
None of the above.
What happens when the young Stefan and the young Maleficient shake hands?
She burns her hand on his metal ring.
When they shake hands, Stefan’s metal ring burns her. That is how he knows her weakness - metal burns fairies. Maleficent is impressed that Stefan immediately tosses his ring away when he has nothing to his name, because he wants to make sure he never hurts her. The young Stefan is portrayed by Michael Higgins, an actor known for Maleficent and The Wee Man.
She feels love down to her toes.
Nothing special.
Some of her magic escapes her hand.
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What does Stefan give to Maleficent when she is sixteen?
A golden apple.
A true love’s kiss.
In many of the Disney stories, a true love’s kiss is the power of love in its purest form. It will cure most every magical malady and curse. Because he gave her this kiss and then betrays her, Maleficent doesn’t believe in the power of this type of kiss. Maleficent as a teenager is portrayed by Ella Purnell, who has appeared in the films Never Let Me Go and Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children.
A picnic in the tree tops.
A locket.
Why doesn’t Stefan return to see Maleficent as they grow older?
He forgot where to find her in the Moors.
He didn’t like it when she dunked him in the water.
His ambition is to become king and he doesn’t want anything to interfere with it.
As they grow older, Stefan and Maleficent grow apart. Maleficent becomes the protector of the Moors while Stefan pursues his ambition to become king. Stefan as a teenager is portrayed by Jackson Bews, an actor known for his roles in Black Mirror and Social Suicide.
None of the above.
Why does King Henry want to conquer the Moors?
A. His subjects are jealous of the lushness and beauty of the Moors and want it for themselves.
B. King Henry wants to prove he is not afraid of the magical beasts in the Moors.
C. King Henry wants his own pair of wings and is going to cut them from Maleficent.
D. A & B
King Henry tries to conquer the Moors for his own gain and fights with Maleficent one on one. The outcome is not good for King Henry. King Henry is portrayed by Kenneth Cranham who is a Scottish-born film, television, radio, and stage actor. He is popularly known for his work in Hellbound: Hellraiser II and Valkyrie. He also won the 2015 Critics' Circle Theatre Award for Best Actor.
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After King Henry is fatally wounded in battle, what does he seek?
A worthy successor for his throne.
A brave solider to kill Maleficent.
A suitor for his only daughter.
All of the above.
After King Henry is fatally wounded during his battle with Maleficent, he declares that whoever kills Maleficent will be named his successor and marry his only daughter, Princess Leila. Princess Leila is portrayed by Hannah New, an English model and actress. She is known for her starring role on the TV show Black Sails and as Rosalinda Fox in El tiempo entre costuras, as well as the main role in Under the Bed.
Who portrays the adult Stefan?
Sharllto Copley
Sharlito Copley is a South African actor, producer, and director who has produced and co-directed short films that have appeared at the Cannes Film Festival, as well as commercials and music videos. He is perhaps best known for playing the roles of Wikus van der Merwe in the Oscar-nominated District 9, Howling Mad Murdock in the 2010 adaptation of The A-Team, Agent C.M. Kruger in Elysium, and James Corrigan in the horror film Europa Report. He also played the title character in the science fiction film Chappie.
Kit Harrington
Brad Pitt
Ben Aflack
Knowing what it will take to become the King’s successor, what is Stefan’s plan?
He knows he is the only man Maleficent will appear for.
He will bring a sleeping potion with him.
He will bring a knife with him.
All of the above.
Stefan will do anything to satisfy his dream of becoming King, even kill his true love. It’s interesting to note that the first true love of Sharlto Copley, who plays Stefan, was acting. However, his dream was put on hold for many years when his television production company was one of few in his native South Africa granted licensing to create content for broadcast. Rather than acting in front of the camera, Copley found himself the businessman running the production behind the scenes, becoming South Africa's youngest television producer at age 25.
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Does Stefan kill Maleficent?
Yes, he brings her head back to the king.
No, although he wounds her, cutting off her wings.
Although he doesn’t kill Maleficent, without her wings she feels as if she is dead, lost, and in pain, from both the cutting of her wings and the betrayal of her true love. Angelina Jolie, who portrays Maleficent, is an American actress, filmmaker, and humanitarian. She has received an Academy Award, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, and three Golden Globe Awards. She has been called Hollywood's highest-paid actress.
No, he can’t bring himself to hurt her.
None of the above.
What type of animal does Maleficent save from being killed?
A dog
A wolf
A bat
A crow
Maleficent watches as a farmer traps a crow, ready to kill it. She changes the crow into a man. Because she saves the crow’s life, he will be her servant for life. His name is Diaval and she needs his wings so he can spy for her. Diaval is played by Sam Riley, a model and actor best known for his performance in the 2007 biographical film Control, about the life of Ian Curtis. He modeled the fall/winter 2014 Stefano Pilati-designed couture collection of Ermenegildo Zegna. He was named one of GQ's 50 best dressed British men in 2015.
What does Diaval tell Maleficent of the doings at the castle?
A. That Stefan is getting married.
B. That King Stefan and Queen Leila had a child.
C. That the farmer is not paying the King the correct taxes.
D. A & B.
Maleficent uses Diaval as a crow to fly into the castle and learn the latest news, including Stefan's marriage and his child. Did you notice Diaval’s makeup as a human? The make-up consisted of "crow's feet" on his face and body, to reflect his true avian nature.
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Once she understands what Stefan did to her, what does Maleficent do to divide the Kingdom and the Moors?
She puts up a dense forest of thorny trees so no one can get in or out.
The hatred for Stefan and the world pours out of her. She turns the beautiful forest into a dense thicket of thorny trees to divide the Moors from the Kingdom. How well did you pay attention to the color of Maleficent’s magic? When she is good, her magic is gold, and when she is evil her magic is green.
She turns the Moors into ice so no one will want to enter.
She summons the monsters to stand guard at the barrier.
None of the above.
Maleficent is unhappy that she isn’t invited to the christening of the King’s newborn daughter. What does Maleficent do?
She attends and puts a curse on his daughter.
The christening is going well, with the fairies bringing gifts of love and beauty. But then Maleficent arrives and curses Princess Aurora. She says, “Before the sun sets on her sixteenth birthday, she will prick her finger on the spindle of a spinning wheel, and fall into a sleep like death! A sleep from which she will *never* awaken!” Did you know that to give the fairies a proper feeling of featherweight and agility, the three actresses who portray the fairies spent three weeks filming motion capture, while being guided by artists of Cirque du Soleil?
She sulks all night and then goes to bed.
She turns the crow into a dragon and tells it to burn the castle.
She attends and offers a rare and beautiful gift of magic.
What happens after King Stefan pleads to Maleficent?
She changes the curse a bit.
Maleficent relents a bit, but she doesn’t believe in a true love’s kiss since it was given to her by the man who cut her wings. She continues with the curse, “The princess *can* be woken from her death sleep, but only by... [Maleficent glares vindictively at Stefan] true love's kiss! This curse will last 'till the end of time! No power on Earth can change it!” In fact, later in the movie she tries to revoke the curse, but she cannot.
She scoffs at him and leaves.
She tells him, next time, simply invite her.
None of the above.
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What does the King enlist the good fairies to do?
To protect the castle from Maleficent.
To take their daughter and protect her for 16 years and a day.
After the curse is cast and Maleficent leaves, Stefan sends Aurora to live with three pixies - Knotgrass, Thistlewit, and Flittle - until the day after her sixteenth birthday, while he destroys all the spinning wheels in the kingdom and hides their remnants in the castle dungeon. You may recognize Knotgrass as Imelda Staunton, who also played Dolores Umbridge in the Harry Potter film series. She is an award-winning actress with four Olivier Awards - three for Best Actress in a Musical, a BAFTA Award, and a Primetime Emmy Award. She has also been nominated for an Academy Award, Golden Globe, and Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Actress.
To protect his wife, so they can have another baby.
To warn him whenever Maleficent heads towards the castle.
Who watches over Aurora while the fairies tend to her?
A. The crow, Diaval.
B. Maleficent.
C. King Stefan.
D. A & B.
The crow, Diaval, and Maleficent watch Aurora grow up. They take care of her as the fairies don’t know how to take care of human children. At one point Aurora falls off a cliff chasing a butterfly, but Maleficent has the trees catch her and place her back on land. Did you know that Angelina Jolie’s daughter played Aurora as a toddler?
What does Maleficent like doing to the fairies?
Hiding Aurora so the fairies go crazy looking for her.
Pranking them with a rainstorm inside the cottage.
When Maleficent pulls a prank on the fairies, creating a rainstorm inside their cottage, Diaval looks at her and Maleficent says, “Oh, come on! That's funny.” One of the fairies is Thistlewit, the blonde, who is portrayed by Juno Temple, an English actress. Temple has appeared in films such as The Other Boleyn Girl, Wild Child, Atonement, and The Three Musketeers. She also had a starring role in the HBO series Vinyl.
Moving the cottage when they leave it.
None of the above.
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Who portrays Princess Aurora, who will become Sleeping Beauty?
Dakota Fanning
Elle Fanning
Elle Fanning is an actress and singer. She is the younger sister of actress Dakota Fanning. Her breakout role in Super 8 is often cited as one of the film’s best aspects. She has also had starring roles in Phoebe in Wonderland, Somewhere, We Bought a Zoo, Maleficent, About Ray, and as Jesse in 2016's The Neon Demon. She received numerous award nominations, for a Saturn Award, a Young Artist Award, a Broadcast Film Critics Association Award, a Teen Choice Award, a Scream Award, and an MTV Movie Award.
Amanda Seyfried
Blake Lively
What is the name of the fairy with blue butterflies fluttering around her?
A. Flittle
Flittle is flighty and flits around like the butterflies. She is naive and absent-minded. She blesses Aurora with the gift of eternal happiness. Knotgrass wears red and is bossy and superior. She blesses Aurora with the gift of eternal beauty. Thistlewit wears yellow and is giddy, playful, and childlike. She does not have a chance to bless the child as Maleficent takes over the christening.
B. Thistlewit
C. Knotgrass
D. None of the above
Why isn’t Aurora afraid of Maleficent?
She doesn’t know Maleficent is evil.
Aurora thinks Maleficent is her fairy godmother.
Aurora hasn't learned yet that Maleficent cursed her.
All the above.
Despite her initial dislike for Aurora, Maleficent begins to have motherly feelings for the girl. She ensures thatthe fairies take good care of her and feed her properly. She also makes sure that Aurora doesn’t get hurt. After a brief meeting with the young Aurora, Maleficent watches over her from afar. When Aurora is fifteen, she encounters Maleficent. Knowing that she is being watched over, she refers to Maleficent as her "fairy godmother."
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Who does Aurora meet in the forest who might break the curse?
The tree border guards.
The King.
Prince Philip.
Aurora meets Prince Philip in the forest, as he is lost on the way to the Castle. The two are instantly smitten with one another. Prince Phillip is played by Brenton Thwaites, an Australian actor who first came to prominence with his portrayal of Luke Gallagher in the Fox8 teen drama series SLiDE. He has also starred in the soap opera Home and Away. Since moving to the United States, Thwaites has headlined films such as Blue Lagoon: The Awakening, Oculus, and The Giver, Gods of Egypt. Next he will star in Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales.
Maleficent.
What does the King have a conversation with in the castle?
Maleficent’s wings.
A guard interrupts the King because his wife, who is dying, needs him by her bedside. He dismisses the guard, telling him not to interrupt his conversation. The conversation is with Maleficent's wings. The King over the past 16 years has grown paranoid and obsessed with Maleficent. He knows that metal can burn her and he has built a fortress of metal to protect the castle. Later in the movie, until Aurora sees the wings beating, the viewer doesn’t know the wings are alive.
His own reflection.
The crow, Diaval.
None of the above.
Why does Aurora return to the castle?
She finds out she is the King’s daughter.
On the day before Aurora's sixteenth birthday, Maleficent invites her to live with her in the Moors. Aurora is so excited and practices saying goodbye to the fairies who raised her. When she does tell them, they inadvertently tell Aurora of her past and reveal Maleficent's true identity, and a distraught Aurora runs away to her father's castle. Maleficent is a fairy but notably resembles more of a harpy, the hybrid, winged creature from the Greek and Roman mythologies with the parts of a woman and a bird.
She is tired of living in the forest.
She wants to see King Phillip again.
The crow tells her to go there to seek her destiny.
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What happens at the castle for Aurora?
She has a brief reunion with the King.
The King locks her away in her room to keep her safe from the curse.
The curse is too strong and draws Aurora to the dungeon where she pricks her finger on a spinning wheel.
All of the above.
All of the above happens and Aurora falls into a deep sleep, fulfilling the curse. Maleficent, intent on saving Aurora, abducts Phillip and infiltrates King Stefan’s castle. Did you know that Maleficent’s horns were so heavy that Angelina would have neck pains right after wearing them? The horns were not appropriate for some of her scenes, such as her flight scene, battle scene and horse-riding scene. Hence, Angelina Jolie wore several headpieces with different weights.
What happens when Prince Phillip kisses the Sleeping Beauty?
A. A maid sees him and sounds the alarm, chasing him away.
B. Prince Phillip kisses her and nothing happens.
C. The fairies, seeing that Prince Phillip failed, set off to find another prince.
D. B. & C.
Prince Phillip, with encouragement from the fairies, kisses Aurora or Sleeping Beauty. When it doesn’t work, the fairies set off to find another prince. Did you know that all the actors and actresses in Maleficent were partly chosen to be in the movie based on their uncanny resemblances and/or likeness to their respective character counterparts in Disney's 1959 Sleeping Beauty?
How does Sleeping Beauty wake up?
The fairies find another Prince whose kiss works.
Maleficent apologizes to Aurora and tells her she loves her and kisses her forehead.
At Sleeping Beauty’s bedside, Maleficent apologizes to Aurora, tells her she loves her, and kisses her forehead. Aurora awakens, as the motherly love proves powerful enough to break the spell. Angelina Jolie based her character's speech and accent on the original Sleeping Beauty's Maleficent voice actor, Eleanor Audley. Her laughter in the film was also based on the best variation she tried in front of her children and chosen by them. Angelina Jolie admitted that she still has a pair of horns at home.
The Crow, Diaval, kisses her; he has loved her since she was a baby.
None of the above.
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What does Maleficent turn Diaval into, to help her escape the castle?
A rat.
A wolf.
A dragon.
Stefan and his guards spring an ambush on Maleficent. They have steel shields which they use to surround and trap her. Also, King Stefan and his army are covered head to toe with armor that will burn her. As her attackers close in, Maleficent transforms Diaval into a dragon, but they are driven back by the guards. Maleficent's crow companion is named Diaval, pronounced similarly to devil. In the Disney cartoon version of Sleeping Beauty, Maleficent's crow companion is named Diablo, which means the same. In Irish lore, crows are associated with the winged battle goddesses, the Morrigan (they sound similar, as well, to Maleficent). In most all other lore, crows are associated with death, the dead, and trickery.
An elephant.
What happens before Stefan can deliver the killing blow to Maleficent?
She escapes through a door and runs up to the top of a tower.
Her wings are freed by Aurora and they reattach to Maleficent.
King Stefan burns and taunts Maleficent, but before he can deliver a killing blow, her wings are freed by Aurora and fly back to Maleficent, reattaching themselves. Maleficent is fully empowered but is still fighting for her life. As a co-producer, Angelina Jolie insisted that the dialogue in Aurora's christening sequence to be written word-by-word and based exactly on the original animated film Sleeping Beauty because she felt it was the main core and setup of the entire film. But the new story does differ from the original scene, because Maleficent originally cursed Aurora with death after pricking her finger. Then, the final fairy uses her gift to change the spell from death to slumber.
The Dragon pushes the soldiers back with his fire and Maleficent jumps on the dragon’s back.
None of the above.
How does the story end?
Maleficent and Aurora escape on the back of the dragon.
Maleficent and King Stefan fight to the death and they both die.
While fighting they both plummet from the tower; Maleficent frees herself while Stefan falls to his death.
Maleficent carries Stefan to the top of the castle's highest tower. At the precipice, she cannot bring herself to kill him. Stefan attempts to kill her, however, and both plummet from the tower. Maleficent frees herself, while Stefan falls to his death. Did you know that Maleficent's prosthetics and make-up were inspired by singer Lady Gaga, particularly on her Born This Way album cover?
None of the above.
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How do the Moors and the Kingdom unite?
Maleficent passes her crown to Aurora, who is also princess of the Kingdom.
Maleficent gives up her crown as protector and Queen of the Moor. Instead, Princess Aurora is crowned Queen by Maleficent, unifying the two kingdoms in peace. And everyone lived happily ever after. In an interview, Angelina Jolie noted that "having a director (Robert Stromberg) coming from the world of production design really helped pull me into the fairy tale world. The film is beautiful but also has a sexy, dark edge, because the story is coming from the point of view of a villain."
The Kingdom decides not to have a ruler, just as the Moors do not have a ruler.
The townspeople and the creatures of the Moor make a pact to never take up arms against each other.
None of the above.
What did the critics think of the film?
Mixed reviews.
Maleficent received mixed reviews from critics. The film holds a 50% approval rating on the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, based on 201 reviews, with an average score of 5.7/10. The site's consensus reads, "Angelina Jolie's magnetic performance outshines Maleficent's dazzling special effects; unfortunately, the movie around them fails to justify all that impressive effort."
Favorable reviews.
They detested it.
None of the above.
What did the fans think of the film?
Mixed reviews but mostly positive.
The audience gave it a 71% on Rotten Tomatoes. It was a huge financial success. On a budget of $180 million it earned $758.5.4 million in box office sales. It was Angelina Jolie’s highest-grossing film of all time worldwide
They loved it.
They hated it.
None of the above.
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Which of these categories did the film win in the People’s Choice Awards?
Favorite Movie.
Favorite Family Movie.
Favorite Movie Actress.
The first two.
The film won the Favorite Movie and the Favorite Family Movie categories at the People’s Choice Awards. Did you know that Angelina Jolie was nominated for Favorite Movie Actress and Favorite Action Movie Actress? It was a good award show for the film.
How else can you enjoy Maleficent?
There will be a sequel.
Watch the 1959 Disney version.
Listen to the soundtrack for Maleficent.
All of the above.
Not only can you listen to the soundtrack and watch the original animated movie, there will be a sequel to Maleficent. Linda Woolverton will return to write the screenplay and Joe Roth will produce it again. On April 26, 2016, it was confirmed that Jolie will reprise her role as Maleficent.
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