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people are always so split when it comes
to Cinderella some say it's a Charming
fairy tale others say it's an incredibly
sexist story I guess I'm somewhere in
between I mean yeah did Cinderella
really have to stay with that family
could she have left at any time yeah
probably but if the story is done right
you focus on the things that are the
most important like how being hopeful
patient loving and a hard worker can
finally pay off this is the idea they
were trying to do with the new
Cinderella that in my opinion doesn't
really come across the story still seems
basically on track Cinderella is a young
girl who has a father that she loves
very much but he tragically passes away
leaving her with her stepmother and step
sisters the three of them don't like
Cinderella and immediately start to
treat her like a slave trying to be
optimistic she obeys all their commands
hoping one day to accept their love but
she slowly starting to realize it's
never going to happen she bumps into a
young man who happens to be a prince and
they start to hit it off until they find
out their situation and realize that
they're probably never going to be
anything more than friends if even that
but the father wants the prince to marry
and so they hold a great big ball for
him to socialize the stepmother and
steps sister don't let her go to the
ball but of course a fairy godmother
comes and shows her the way through
kindness and Magic she transforms a
pumpkin into a carriage and her Rags
into a beautiful dress her shoes into
glass slippers and she's off to the ball
she once again hits it off with the
prince but she needs to leave resulting
in one of her slippers being left behind
and thus the maiden who can fit the
slipper will marry the prince sounds
pretty standard to the traditional
Disney formula but there are a few
changes some good some bad let's talk
about the good stuff seeing how it's a
kab Brana film once again it looks
amazing the colors the sets the
cinematography it's like you're really
in a fairy tale there's a lot more
detail given to characters that didn't
get much attention in the original that
sorely needed it for example the prince
is much more fleshed out yeah he isn't
just a bit of hunk arm candy he's
actually a very interesting character as
is the king and even the stepmother has
a little bit more development as we
actually see her and the husband Tred to
get along try to have a little bit of a
life together but realized that they're
not quite meant for one another so you
see the seeds of how she would become so
despicable it's also kind of interesting
seeing the development of Cinderella
starting off as the stepdaughter then
slowly becoming the ma they don't just
immediately say go to the kitchen they
say oh would you like to help out would'
you like to make things easier leading
to a point where they don't even let her
sit at the same table anymore which is
the scene where she finally breaks down
it's emotionally effective you really
feel bad that she will never be a part
of this family I also kind of like the
idea that the Fairy Godmother is
disguised as a peasant but then when
Cinderella treats her with kindness
that's when she gives her the reward a
good lesson but isn't the idea that
she's being rewarded for kindness all
through her life it's kind of weird that
she's suddenly gets all this stuff just
for treating one person in a good way
but whatever you get the idea honestly
the film in many respects does do a lot
of good updates that is except for one
element that is kind of an important
element and that's Cinderella herself if
you watch the interviews they all talk
about how she's not a damsel in distress
and she's not a Wai and I really hate it
when they do that because it's like okay
we know what she's not what is she then
the answer is not very interesting
ironically in trying to make the
character more strong and independent
they actually make her more submissive
and more dependent in the original
cartoon her father dies when she's a
child so it makes sense that she would
be used to this way of living that she's
supposed to be the servant here he dies
when she's practically an adult so it
doesn't make any sense why she wouldn't
just leave in fact there's a scene where
friends are asking her why don't you
just leave and she's like oh it's my
father's place I would feel bad that
makes no sense and she ends up leaving
at the end anyway so it makes doubly no
sense and when it does show her
childhood it's some of the worst stuff
in the movie it actually starts off
showing how over-the-top pleasant her
life is and it is painful it is beyond
sappy it's like it's made for
three-year-olds which if the movie was
made for three-year-olds fine but it's
clearly not it's supposed to be made for
everybody it's supposed to make adults
feel like children and children like
adults just know if you're watching it
the first couple minutes is not a
reflection of the rest of the film and
following that over the top happy
childhood she herself is also over the
toop happy there's one scene where she
finally breaks down as a very welcome
scene but all the other times she just
kind of smiles and looks Pleasant and
I'm sorry that's not interesting I know
a lot of people remember the original
Cinderella as being just very Bland and
not very interesting but you know what
she had her limits she could get angry
she could get frustrated you could see
in the animation and the performance
that she's constantly telling herself
just get through it just get through it
so when it leads to the scene where the
dress is ripped apart and she has
nothing left it's genuinely
heartbreaking in this movie when they
rip the dress apart it doesn't mean a
thing yeah she cries and she feels sad
but it feels like we're going through
this simply because it's the Cinderella
story we kind of got to go through it it
didn't feel earned we already had the
big cry scene when she realizes she
isn't part of the family and it was very
effective but because of that you're
taking away from a moment that should
have been huge because you did it a
little too early on top of that there's
a scene at the end where she's locked in
the Attic now in the original she tries
to get out she's banging on the door
she's calling for help in this one she's
just so happy thinking about her prince
and also somehow so sad that she thinks
nobody would want to see her that she
does nothing she just spins around
singing to herself oh my God this is
supposed to be the stronger more
independent version a good strong
character is supposed to work with their
flaws you're supposed to see what their
problems are and see them work through
it the original Cinderella is trying to
work through a mindset that she's had
since childhood and see that she is
worth the effort she's worth breaking
out she's worth going behind her
stepmother and step sister's back here
much more than the original she waits
for someone to come and save her in the
original she's at least making an
attempt to get out I'm sorry these are
big problems with this character so does
that make it a bad movie uh kind of I
mean it is called Cinderella so you
would think Cinderella should be good
and interesting but it's kind of hard
seeing how they update all these other
elements the prince is more interesting
the king is more interesting the
stepmother is interesting there's less
of cute little mice and more Chemistry
Between the Romantic leads somewhere
between this liveaction version and the
anime version there's a really good
rendition of Cinderella that's waiting
to get out honestly if you want a good
one that actually has an interesting
character and tells the story in a
unique awesome way go see Ever After in
my opinion it's the most fun and
interesting rendition of the Cinderella
story with a smart interesting complex
lead with this one it is difficult to
like if you don't make your main
character relatable where the original
did have problems that were just kind of
problems of Disney fairy tales in the
day this one updates some but then makes
others a little worse I guess I'm glad I
saw it I mean it did look interesting
and it was very elegant and pretty it
obviously tried really hard it just
tried so hard in some areas that it got
lost and confused about what it actually
was getting across it's hard to say if
you're looking for just a nice little
fairy tale where women wear pretty
dresses and dance with princes and such
you'll like it fine if you want to feel
more emotion than you did in the
original Cinderella I don't know if
you're going to get much of that because
like I said it's just hard to relate
with this character I guess it's just
kind of a pick your poison grab a
pumpkin and see for
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