I agree with Myril. If I were to do it, the princess wouldn’t be misunderstood, or evil because pf something someone did to her. She would be the way she is because its her doing. She likes being wicked. She likes causing pain and turmoil for others. I would even go so far to say that she doesn’t even powers or magic so that her evil is more human and understandable. I’d start out with a traditional Disney villain type. This princess probably usurped the throne, or just made herself a princess where their previously was no princess like what Maleficent did. She’d cause bad things for everyone under her dominion and along the way she actually begins to feel remorseful for what she has done. Perhaps the movie would be her journey to making amends for the wrong she has done. The people wouldn’t be so willing to accept her. But she tries and tries to male up for her evil, owning up to it, facing it, and taking the consequences. There is a lot that can be done with this. The only problem is that the princess can’t be TOO evil. We have to see something redeemable in her in order to ‘like her, so she can’t kill her parents for the throne, or ya know, murder someone outright.
Oh….okk….so no true love, but someone just right off the top wicked with no sob story. That’s easy to think of….let their parents be evil people, aka, the real baddies of the film….and then just let being raised by wicked parents rub wickedness off on her. That way she gets it honestly, because she was raised to be bad….nine times out of ten, she’s going to have some form of magic or power, ala, a Disney trademark.
Perhaps it wouldn’t be through true love, she finds redemption from through the means of her best friend, who throughout the course of the film will start out as her mortal enemy because they come from two different upbringings, one is good, the other is wicked. But eventually they turn into very close best friends, and learn they’re the two sides of the same coin, and learn from one another, changing each other for the better. That would be a new Disney Twist where it involves absolutely no prince charming or princess to fall in love, and blah, blah, blah…. 🙂
Hint, Hint…. a different version of Wicked. 😛
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