Maleficent

The new “Ghostbusters”, released by Columbia Pictures and directed by the comedy expert Paul Feig (“Bridesmaids”, “The Heat”, “Spy”), is now part of those unnecessary remakes adulterated for the worse. The comedy, written by Mr. Feig and Katie Dippold, was adapted from Ivan Reitman’s 1984 original version, which starred Bill Murray (he has a brief appearance here too), Dan Aykroyd, and Harold Ramis as three paranormal savvies whose goal is to keep the Big Apple clean from mischievous ghosts and…

god. Between the time of February 1692 and May 1693 nineteen men and women , as well as two canines were convicted and put to death for practicing witchcraft. There was a vigorous credence satan had made the village of salem his main spot for his maleficent acts, as shown in europe. The inculpated witches and wizard had come to people in dreams or turned invisible to pester the people. Many historians have doubts any authentic witches subsisted they do believe a fungus growing on wheat crops…

Many say man is inherently either evil or good. It is to be said society is what keeps man from being evil. It is also to be said that man is born with a neutrality and it is society that influences man’s behavior. It seems to make more sense that man is influenced by society rather than inherit traits that could be recognized as good or evil because in the novel Lord of the Flies By William Golding the reader is introduced to a group of boys that are stranded on an island with no adults and no…

Vera Nazarian, a well-known American writer, once said, “Friends are a strange, volatile, contradictory, yet sticky phenomenon. They are made, crafted, shaped, molded, created by focused effort and intent. And yet, true friendship, once recognized, in its essence is effortless.” As we progress in our lives, we meet new people who become our friends; they often have their own distinct personalities and abilities that we admire. Similarly, people cherish various characters who are featured in…

Similarities In all three stories the gifts that are bestowed upon the princess are all desirable character traits for a woman> they are all things men would desire in woman > both the original and most famous versions are written by men, so these traits could be what men would desire in their perfect girl during that time. A similarity of all three is that as soon as the prince and princess look into each other’s eyes they fall instantly in love, this enforces the theme of especially…

the three different sources from which the event is retold do not concur entirely on what transpires. The Book of Kings in the Hebrew Bible tells of an angel that descended from heaven and smote the army of Sennacherib, driving him back into his maleficent capital of Nineveh (II Kings 19:35). Sennacherib’s Prism (Taylor’s Prism) tells of the great feats of the Assyrian king and how his siege of Jerusalem was just another piece in the expansion of his imperium. Nowhere within this Assyrian…

mother”. As the mother tried to force herself into the glass mold of the unrealistic mother, she nicked herself on the edges, leaving parts of herself behind and gaining a monstrous anger towards her child. The mother’s experience was scarred by the maleficent emotions she tried to hide; however, through all the resentment and frustration, the mother loved her child. She did not love her child because the manuals and experts instructed her. She loved her child because she was a mother, and…

Fairy tales live in the minds of their narrators and the audience, evolving slightly each time they are told. The same tales told six hundred years ago still lives in the minds of people after their authors have been long forgotten. Fairy tales hold a unique magic that allows them to grow, and to change, becoming fresh and relevant new generations. During the time the tales of the Grimm Brothers were created, people lived in fear of magic and witches. While Pentamerone, by the poet Giambattista…

Moana; A voyage with a chicken Disney has always had stereotypical villains. Take Maleficent, Ratcliff, or even the Evil Queen, what did they all have in common? They sought to kill, or hurt, the protagonists because they were all motivated by at least one of the seven deadly sins; Maleficent (wrath), the Evil Queen (envy), and Ratcliff (greed). The villain in Moana, Te Ka, is portrayed differently than other Disney villains. Although Te Ka is a goddess of destruction she is just not motivated…

the time. In the case of our four stories, for example, with the original Sun, Moon, and Talia and Little Brier Rose both literarily written but mostly orally told, to purely literary text The Lady of the House of Love, to the live-action film Maleficent, I see a world evolving with technology. Although one cannot change the content of a literary tale in print or that of a recorded film by simply changing their words, it is entirely plausible to reimagine the stories and express them through a…