Maleficent is the villain in Disney’s Sleeping Beauty, but one theory changes her role in the story enough to make viewers root for her after all these years. Disney is home to some of the most popular and beloved animated classics in film history, and the studio is best known for its princess movies. Among them is Sleeping Beauty, the studio’s third official Disney Princess. Released in 1959 and directed by Wolfgang Reitherman, Eric Larson, and Les Clark, Sleeping Beauty is based on Charles Perrault’s 1697 fairy tale of the same name but with a couple of tweaks.
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