Maleficent 1 🎥 2014 Movie Info

Plot Summary

Maleficent is a powerful fairy living in the Moors, a magical forest realm. As a child, she meets a human boy named Stefan, and they fall in love with each other. However, as they get older, they grow apart, with Stefan’s love overshadowed by his ambition to be king, while Maleficent becomes protector of the Moors. When King Henry attempts to conquer the Moors, Maleficent mortally wounds him. On his deathbed, he declares whoever kills her will be king and marry his daughter Leila. Stefan visits Maleficent and drugs her. Unwilling to kill her, Stefan instead uses a bracelet made of iron, which is lethal to fairies, to burn off her wings and presents them as “proof” of her death.

While distraught by her loss, Maleficent saves Diaval, a trapped raven, from a farmer by turning him into a human. Diaval offers his service and tells her of Stefan’s coronation. Infuriated over the betrayal, Maleficent grows cruel and bitter, ruling the Moors with an iron fist. Years later, Diaval informs Maleficent about the christening of Stefan’s newborn daughter, Aurora. Maleficent arrives uninvited while three pixies, Knotgrass, Flittle, and Thistlewit, are bestowing magic gifts, and places a curse on Aurora: before the sun sets on Aurora’s 16th birthday, Aurora will prick her finger on the spindle of a spinning wheel and fall into a death-like sleep.

Maleficent mocks Stefan’s plea for mercy, but states Aurora’s curse can be broken by true love’s kiss, which she and Stefan both believe is nonexistent. Stefan orders the pixies to hide and protect Aurora in a forest cottage until after her 16th birthday. He also destroys every spinning wheel in the kingdom, hiding their remnants in the castle dungeon; he then sends his army after Maleficent, but she surrounds the Moors with a wall of thorns.

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