Many early Disney princesses, including Sleeping Beauty, were passive, but Elle Fanning's Aurora is anything but in Maleficent.

Merryweather's original gift to Aurora was meant to be "happiness" before Maleficent intervened. A theory suggests ...

A beautiful, pure-hearted young woman, Maleficent has an idyllic life growing up in a peaceable forest kingdom, until the day an invading army threatens the harmony of the land. Maleficent rises ...