#live action cinderella

[amanda2119]

Here are my reylo Cinderella AU pins! Love how they’re coming along! Art by michicholeto

[syeko]

Commission for the sweetest bestie @sketchy-panda 🥺 thank you so much loves!!

[coco-bean-1218]

Thank you for the tag @merriell-allesandro-shelton and @panzershrike-pretz !!!

10 Characters, 10 Fandoms

In no particular order:

1. Charles "Chuck" Grant- Band of Brothers

2. Eugene Sledge- The Pacific

3. Ahkmenrah- Night at The Museum

4. James Herriot- All Creatures Great and Small

5. Matthew Crawley- Downton Abbey

6. Daniel Jackson- Saving Private Ryan

7. Prince Albert- Victoria

8. Prince Kit- Cinderella

9. Tommy Shelby- Peaky Blinders

10. Dallas Winston- The Outsiders

[artist-issues]

Everybody’s missing Cinderella’s big point. Her superpower is “faith in kindness and courage.” Her superpower is not “ongoing desperate desire to be free.”

[zipadeea]

The disney live-action remakes are pretty hit-or-miss for me, but Cinderella is first and the best in my heart and in general. Everything is so pretty! Richard Madden is the hot beautiful prince! Lily James is so sweet and lovely and kind and courageous! The dress! Cate Blanchett eats the shit out of the evil stepmother role! no notes, it's perfect

[cjbolan]

On one hand, I’m happy Disney’s Little Mermaid remake is adding a bunch of new plot points and songs, so at least it won’t be a boring copy like The Lion King (2019).

On the other hand, I’m scared it might lose focus on the main point with pointless filler like in Cinderella (2015) or Beauty and the Beast (2017). Or worse, it’ll have a completely opposite message and morals with completely rewritten characters like Mulan (2020).

Best case scenario it’s like Aladdin (2019): mostly faithful to the original plot, with some new songs/characters/plot points that help emphasize the original’s themes and ideas instead of changing them.

[everyonesannoyedwithme]

no live action princess movie will ever do it better than mirror mirror. i yearn for the nectar of her skin, etc etc

[timaeusluver88990]

What the live action movie SHOULD have had.

[gryffindorconsultingtimelord]

Have courage and be kind. Our Cinderella episode is live now!

[yeehawesome]

Watching Cinderella (2015) to make myself feel both incredibly alone and like true love exists

[dolls-dolls-and-more-dolls]

💍Ella and Kit💍

[scurviesdisneyblog]

Actors Helene Stanley and Jeffrey Stone’s live-action reference footage for Cinderella (1950)

[baltharino]

Enchanted (2007) + References

[artist-issues]

With all due friendliness, @queenofhearts7378…

There is nothing prideful about the rightful heiress to an estate giving up her father, her home, time, effort, and dignity to the people who aren’t worthy of it. If you’re implying she was prideful to stay in a home where she was mistreated and could’ve left any time she wanted, you’re turning a blind eye to carefully-placed scenes like the one where a former staff member asks, “why do you stay there when they treat you so?” And Ella replies, “for my parents. They loved our house, and now that they’re gone I love it for them.”

Until she has the Prince, her only remaining sources of love, which are her parents, are in that house. The movie dedicates s great deal of time to building up who Ella is: she is taught by her parents to associate that house with their presence, and a queenly responsibility to watch over it. She doesn’t stay in a hard situation out of pride. She stays out of love and responsibility. And there’s an additional, very self-sacrificial hint that Ella wants to appeal to her new family members’ better natures, make their farmhouse life easier, and even feels pity for them.

“Pity? Self-sacrifice? Oh please,” you might be thinking, “She should not be pitying her abusers.” But here’s the truth. The Cinderella in Cinderella 2015 is a deep character because she knows who she is, and what is important in life. It might be hard for us, who see that the Stepmother and Stepsisters spend most of the movie getting their own way, demeaning someone so much worthier than them, and manipulating everyone they can for their own selfish gains, to feel pity. But it is not as hard for their victim, Cinderella. Because this Ella very clearly knows that power, which the stepmother and stepsisters have over her, is not nearly as valuable as love, which they can never have because they ruin it for themselves and one another.

That’s this Cinderella’s superpower—and it’s truer to the original fairy tale than the Animated Cinderella’s traits were—and it’s higher and better than “doing everything in her power to free herself.”

When are you and others ever going to get it into your head? How many centuries of Cinderella-like stories have to be told? It is not all that great to rescue yourself. It is actually truer and better and deeper to recognize that you can give up your own self-interests for others—and that superpower, known as kindness, is so much more valuable than providing for your own interests.

Also, what, Ella does not twirl in her tower “waiting to be rescued.” The narration specifically fills in the gaps, “Though Ella was sad, her spirit was not broken. She knew that the ball, and her time with the prince, would become beautiful, distant memories, like those of her mother and father and her golden childhood.” She’s not looking for a rescue. She’s never needed a rescue in this movie. She’s always found courage in things that are deeper than just “what situation do I live in and are people nice to me.” She just keeps on doing that even after the Stepmother smashes her glass slipper.

The only point you made that makes any sense with what values Cinderella’s story is supposed to communicate is: “og Cinderella was given the gift freely and COMFORTED at her lowest moment.” Well yeah, free love and comfort in a time of sadness is beautiful.

And it would have made sense, in the Live Action Cinderella, if the movie were not about Cinderella and her Superpower of Kindness. If the movie were about the Fairy Godmother, then sure, have her comfort Ella. That would show off how compassionate and timely and loving the character of the Fairy Godmother is.

But the movie’s not about the Fairy Godmother. The movie’s about Cinderella and her Superpower. The test was to prove to the audience that going to the ball was a direct result of Cinderella’s Superpower—and by the way, that actually makes her much more an agent of her own rescue than screaming at some mice.

While we’re on the topic, the “og Cinderella’s” Fairy Godmother did NOT just appear to give Cinderella comfort and a pretty dress just because she was sad and needed a pat on the head, which is what your tag implies. The OG Fairy Godmother’s very first words as she appears on screen are, ‘Nothing, my dear? Oh, now, you don’t really mean that. Nonsense, child! If you’d lost all your faith, I couldn’t be here; and here I am!”

My point is that even the OG Fairy Godmother appeared to remind Cinderella, and the audience themselves, of the movie’s main point and value: “Have courage and be kind and your dreams will come true.” That’s faith; acting on what you know is true regardless of circumstances, because a good result is promised. OG Cinderella and Live Action Cinderella exemplify that in the scenes where the Fairy Godmother come in; one through a line of explanation wrapped up in comfort, another through a hidden test.

Please come up with something more than a tired, old, broke understanding of Cinderella where you think she was helpless and her strength was in simply wanting to be free of her abusers, and jumping at the chances that she was given. That’s not how the story goes. The story goes, she was self-sacrificial and kind and brave even when she could have escaped OR made life worse for her abusers. And thanks to those values of self-sacrifice and kindness, she was saved.

It’s kindness and self-sacrifice, which take courage, that save Cinderella. That’s the story.

[vvalliu]

[cjbolan]

HOT TAKE: Conservative backlash made Disney’s 2015 Cinderella a success.

That movie coincidentally premiered during Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, which in turn spawned a rise of conservative backlash to decades worth of rising progressive values in society and especially in our media. This also spawned a growing outright hatred of feminism *cough*AntiSJWs*cough*, a return to embracing femininity (which itself isn’t a bad thing), a hatred of Action Girl characters, a desire for women to embrace traditionally “female” things (whatever that means, depending on how you look at it). If Kenneth Branagh’s Cinderella came out before or after 2015 I think it’d be much less widely acclaimed.