was by legendary animator mark davis davis had also initially sketched her with a black and red robe which was changed to black and purple by another animator ivan earl who played a large role in the general look and feel of sleeping beauty very early in the story sessions the animators realized that maleficent would be difficult to work with if they didn't give her someone to work with although she is always a driving force in the plot a lot of the time she's watching from behind the scenes her scenes were falling flat mark davis decided to give her a bird sidekick to play off of first it was a hawk then a vulture until they finally settled on a raven later drafts added an army of little goblin creatures goons to do her bidding disney's version definitely gave maleficent's character a much more active role in the story the original version has the evil fairy more or less leave once she's put the curse on the baby princess disney has maleficent continuously keep watch over the kingdom not only to make sure the curse is fulfilled but to make sure it can't be broken she even transforms into a dragon as a final obstacle several plot points were lifted from disney's snow white including an idea that had been planned for snow white's prince which was cupped in early drafts of snow white the prince would have been imprisoned by the wicked queen and have to fight his way out of her castle this was finally used for prince philip meanwhile a deleted alternate version of the spindle scene would have had maleficent enticing aurora to touch the needle saying it was a magic wish-granting wheel you may remember the queen used the same trick to get snow white to eat the poison apple one other deleted idea had the fairies cast a protection spell over the castle that no evil thing that walks flies or crawls can enter undeterred maleficent transforms herself into a large purple fish that is caught in the moat gaining her access as in the fairy tale maleficent's entire motivation for cursing princess aurora is not being invited to the party unlike the fairy tale she was deliberately excluded a deleted earlier version of the scene has king steffen explicitly say that wherever maleficent goes sorrow follows one has to wonder what would have happened if they did just invite maleficent in the first place it's easy to imagine maleficent finding some other excuse to curse the baby or someone else who happened to look at her the wrong way she could have also given aurora some sort of ironically twisted gift one that would only be considered a blessing in maleficent's own evil eyes in other words whether the king did or didn't invite maleficent they were potentially looking at trouble after aurora is cursed the princess appears to be the target of all maleficent's wrath for the following NUMBER_TOKEN years although the curse is supposed to happen on aurora's NUMBER_TOKENth birthday she is hidden in the woods by the three good fairies flora fauna and meriwether maleficent is most likely so angry because if the princesses off the radar there's no way of ensuring the curse will be fulfilled i imagine if she was still in malevision's sight the whole time the evil fairy would be relatively more even-tempered although aurora is maleficent's main target along with
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