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[itoohavesomethoughts]

ok so going on a whole rant made me want to rewatch cinderella 3 and i jUST HAVE TO ADD THIS WONDERFUL SCENE: when the prince and cinderella were finally reunited and were about to get married, lady tremaine used magic to make anastasia look exactly like cinderella while the real one was cast away far from the castle. during the wedding, anastasia was hesitating on saying "I Do", and the prince held her hand, and ONE TOUCH, one touch was enough for him to figure out that the "cinderella" in front of him wasn't the real cinderella AJDBJQNSJW MAN that's what i've been talking about—even if the slipper fits someone else, even if somebody else looked exactly like cinderella, the one the prince loves is cinderella.

as the prince said, "it's not about the slipper, it's the girl in the slipper."

ok ok ok this time im done.

you know what never makes cinderella adaptations completely satisfactory to me, no matter how good or creative they may be? it's that none of them ever replicated how cinderella and the prince actually met for the first time. it's always 'cinderella walks in and grabs everybody's attention with her beauty or her dress or her attitude and whatever else', but in the 1950 animated film, cinderella actually came in so quietly, barely anybody in the hall paid attention or even saw her at all — not a single person but the prince, who saw only her, as she stood at the back looking around in wonder of the castle, because the only reason she was actually there was because she finally had a chance to leave the manor.

and the prince, barely caring about the event itself, instead of waiting for cinderella to come inside, actually walked all the way to the back of the hall himself, greeted her, and asked to dance. he brings her to the middle of the floor, uncaring of everything and everyone.

and it's just so lovely how it happens because cinderella wasn't there for the prince, in fact, she didn't even know he was the prince that night. she was there for herself, and the prince who had so many people trying to get in his good graces, or have his hand in marriage, was there not because he was keen to find a wife, but because his father, the king, wanted him to find one.

its a small detail really, but i find it to be so significant because i personally am not all that reluctant or against the idea of love at first sight. i think it does exist — maybe not love immediately, but that strange little feeling you get sometimes when you see someone or lock eyes with them for the first time, and you just know. you just know that there's something about this person. you just know that you're gonna end up liking or loving this person somewhere down the road (and it doesn't necessarily have to be romantic), and you don't exactly know or understand why, but that's how it feels.

i just think that the love story of cinderella and the prince is actually a bit of a quiet, humble, and private one — it was a connection shared just by the two of them in that moment at the back of the hall, and when they danced, and when they went to the garden. it wasn't an all too grand or showy love, really. the only thing that suddenly made it so was that in the prince's desperation to find her, they conducted a search throughout the kingdom.

i personally just loved how cinderella didn't have to be such a grand, majestic presence who caught everybody's attention. i loved how the prince walked all the way to the back to ask her for a dance without uttering a word to anyone else. i loved how they somehow met in the middle, rather than cinderella completely walking all the way by herself to him. i loved how they didn't even have any prior connections that could've led to them meeting at all somewhere down the road, so it really was in fact, that single, beautiful, magical moment that changed everything. and it's even lovelier how cinderella's song about dreams being wishes that your heart make and will come true, can also be related to the fact that the dance itself happened at a time that's usually when people are asleep and dreaming.

and i know the whole glass slipper thing might be ridiculed at times, but i think we can look at it another way; this glass slipper (that was made of magic and could only fit cinderella), let's take the magic thing away, there's probably hundreds of other girls in the kingdom who had the same shoe size as her. but not taking it at face value, the story somehow shows how so many people could be just like cinderella, but at the end of the day, the one the prince loves is her.

(and a major bonus: in cinderella 3, when the prince was under a spell that made him forget her, it seemed to crack, even if only in the slightest, the second he locked eyes with cinderella again for the first time, and even more so when she touched his hand. even under a spell, when he hadn't even met cinderella yet after forgetting her existence, he knew something was wrong when he saw anastasia, felt nothing, touched her hand, and continued to feel nothing. cinderella 3 supremacy. i could gush about that film for ages.)

i dont know if that's how they intended for things to be seen, but that's how i see them, and i love seeing them that way. i mean a fairytale is a fairytale, i really don't want to ruin it with logic. magic is already a part of the story, so what's the point of seeing things with logic anyways?

this became a whole rant, but i said what i said T_T

on a side note, i'm not saying the adaptations were terrible, they just weren't completely satisfactory for me i guess, but it's fine, i still enjoyed some of them :> i personally liked of course the OG, with hilary duff, and the ones with selena gomez, lucy hale, and bailee madison.

[itoohavesomethoughts]

you know what never makes cinderella adaptations completely satisfactory to me, no matter how good or creative they may be? it's that none of them ever replicated how cinderella and the prince actually met for the first time. it's always 'cinderella walks in and grabs everybody's attention with her beauty or her dress or her attitude and whatever else', but in the 1950 animated film, cinderella actually came in so quietly, barely anybody in the hall paid attention or even saw her at all — not a single person but the prince, who saw only her, as she stood at the back looking around in wonder of the castle, because the only reason she was actually there was because she finally had a chance to leave the manor.

and the prince, barely caring about the event itself, instead of waiting for cinderella to come inside, actually walked all the way to the back of the hall himself, greeted her, and asked to dance. he brings her to the middle of the floor, uncaring of everything and everyone.

and it's just so lovely how it happens because cinderella wasn't there for the prince, in fact, she didn't even know he was the prince that night. she was there for herself, and the prince who had so many people trying to get in his good graces, or have his hand in marriage, was there not because he was keen to find a wife, but because his father, the king, wanted him to find one.

its a small detail really, but i find it to be so significant because i personally am not all that reluctant or against the idea of love at first sight. i think it does exist — maybe not love immediately, but that strange little feeling you get sometimes when you see someone or lock eyes with them for the first time, and you just know. you just know that there's something about this person. you just know that you're gonna end up liking or loving this person somewhere down the road (and it doesn't necessarily have to be romantic), and you don't exactly know or understand why, but that's how it feels.

i just think that the love story of cinderella and the prince is actually a bit of a quiet, humble, and private one — it was a connection shared just by the two of them in that moment at the back of the hall, and when they danced, and when they went to the garden. it wasn't an all too grand or showy love, really. the only thing that suddenly made it so was that in the prince's desperation to find her, they conducted a search throughout the kingdom.

i personally just loved how cinderella didn't have to be such a grand, majestic presence who caught everybody's attention. i loved how the prince walked all the way to the back to ask her for a dance without uttering a word to anyone else. i loved how they somehow met in the middle, rather than cinderella completely walking all the way by herself to him. i loved how they didn't even have any prior connections that could've led to them meeting at all somewhere down the road, so it really was in fact, that single, beautiful, magical moment that changed everything. and it's even lovelier how cinderella's song about dreams being wishes that your heart make and will come true, can also be related to the fact that the dance itself happened at a time that's usually when people are asleep and dreaming.

and i know the whole glass slipper thing might be ridiculed at times, but i think we can look at it another way; this glass slipper (that was made of magic and could only fit cinderella), let's take the magic thing away, there's probably hundreds of other girls in the kingdom who had the same shoe size as her. but not taking it at face value, the story somehow shows how so many people could be just like cinderella, but at the end of the day, the one the prince loves is her.

(and a major bonus: in cinderella 3, when the prince was under a spell that made him forget her, it seemed to crack, even if only in the slightest, the second he locked eyes with cinderella again for the first time, and even more so when she touched his hand. even under a spell, when he hadn't even met cinderella yet after forgetting her existence, he knew something was wrong when he saw anastasia, felt nothing, touched her hand, and continued to feel nothing. cinderella 3 supremacy. i could gush about that film for ages.)

i dont know if that's how they intended for things to be seen, but that's how i see them, and i love seeing them that way. i mean a fairytale is a fairytale, i really don't want to ruin it with logic. magic is already a part of the story, so what's the point of seeing things with logic anyways?

this became a whole rant, but i said what i said T_T

on a side note, i'm not saying the adaptations were terrible, they just weren't completely satisfactory for me i guess, but it's fine, i still enjoyed some of them :> i personally liked of course the OG, with hilary duff, and the ones with selena gomez, lucy hale, and bailee madison.

[itoohavesomethoughts]

"They're soulless beings who exist to kill. Be it humans, animals... or hope."

- excerpt from a book I'll either never write or will write later.