Maleficent and gendered power

Recently, I went to see Maleficent. It wasn’t a world changing movie – it’s not Frozen, or The Winter Soldier - but it’s good. And the more I think about it, the more I realize the movie does some interesting things with gendered power dynamics. Since Maleficent and Aurora (and the consent dynamics) have already been analyzed in http://archiveofourown.org/works/1781935, I’m going to talk about one of the male characters – Diaval, the sometimes-human raven.

 

( explosion of meta )