This is Disney's first film photographed in an ultra-widescreen format (the Super Technirama 70 frame was over twice as wide as that of early Disney classics like Snow White).
This is Disney's first film photographed in an ultra-widescreen format (the Super Technirama 70 frame was over twice as wide as that of early Disney classics like Snow White). To experience the finale where Maleficent (a menacing villain who makes slashers look like punks) casts a spell that covers a castle in acres of thorns, then transforms herself into a dragon the size of a skyscraper—all set to the thunderous, swirling, brass-heavy Tchaikovsky-infused orchestral score—is to fully appreciate one of the most spectacularly realized and exciting action-adventure set pieces ever staged. Seriously, it escalates like Die Hard.