48. Love Thy Villain
Sideways
The Sopranos and the Maleficent
Dr Margleta Bloon-Vaga is a senior lecturer in film at the University of Kent. Her main area of study is cognitive film theory, specifically how viewers like you and me engage with fiction. Maleficent stars Angelina Jolie in a retelling of the classic sleeping beauty tale directed by Robert Stromberg from the perspective of the villain. It was released in 2014 by Walt Disney Studios' motion pictures,. people flopped to the cinemas. There is something very appealing about a character who is a mix between a hero and a villain. That a conventional hero could be kind of flocked in a way. A huge port of the P.E.L.I
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