Fearsomely beautiful, and a little bit badass, Angelina Jolie is the perfect actress to create Maleficent, the villain-come-hero of Sleeping Beauty.
Add a pair of buffalo horns, black wings, leather jumpsuit, blood-red lips, and digitalised cheekbones that could cut ice -- this is one hell of a bad fairy.
This year's Disney version of Sleeping Beauty follows the literary trend for revisionist fairy tales -- in the vein of Wicked and Mirror Mirror; Maleficent tells the back-story of the 1959 classic Sleeping Beauty.
Maleficent is a good fairy growing up in the idyllic forest kingdom, the Moors, peopled with magic mushroom-like gnomes and tree people.
Maleficent rises to be the land's strong protector against the enemy human kingdom. Her downfall is a heartless betrayal by one of the humans, Stefan, who befriends Maleficent only to cut off her wings while she sleeps so that he can become king.