wrolling · 2 months ago
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WAIT HEAR ME OUT
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sideblogdotjpeg · 2 years ago
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"Do not take the crimes of those who have manipulated us and put them at the feet of the world. "
i feel like this quote rlly aptly demonstrates the difference between cinderella and the stepmother
the stepmother - who comes to realise that all she is is a prop for someone elses story. barely a villain, and barely even a character in her own right. and in her rage against a world so unjust, failing to recognise the abuse she has inflicted onto her children by her own hand. who fights back against cruelty with yet more cruelty to anyone and everyone in her path. like - she cannibalises the very daughters that she had supposedly "truly loved". she devours the evil queen, another 'villainous woman' archetype who would, more than anyone else, have empathy for and solidarity with the stepmothers motivations. the only person she showed caring and kindness to (briefly) was pinocchio - in order to trap, manipulate and control him. the only way out of an unfair system is the violent and spiteful accumulation of power to destroy that system
vs cinderella - also realising that she barely has agency within her own narrative. that her story is barely even hers. adopting the same rage against her unnecessary suffering and the same mission to defy the authors. which, from what we know of her so far, she does through kindness and solidarity. she allies with snow white, and offers support and guidance to rosamund. she is still looking for the other princesses who are struggling the same way in the times of shadow. her way out of an unfair world is to band together with the people who have been mistreated - because they have all been mistreated - and working together to build something better. (in a way, perhaps it could also be about breaking out of the cycles of abuse - rejecting the idea that the world must be pain, escaping the person someone was trying to mould you into, and carving a way out for other people too. supporting and being supported). but the way forward is with other people, and blame is not laid at the feet of the world but the forces who made the world the way it is.
anyway. its making me a bit crazy that both of them realised they were one-dimensional characters: and one of them buried herself deeper into that role into fullscale pure-evil villainy, and one broke out of her role to become a hero and an agent of change.
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littlebitofdnd · 2 years ago
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Gerard and Rosamund's relationship is so FUCKING interesting to me.
Like. They're cousins (probably). They're both royalty. She exhausts him. She thinks he's funny in the sad way. He scared the shit out of her in the carriage. She takes notes when he's talking about her failed marriage because she wants her happily ever after.
AND!!! Both of them want Ylfa to be happy SO BAD because she lives at the intersection of their stories and that brings them closer too.
If Siobhan and Murph don't expand on their friendship by the end of the season I will write a fanfiction, bc GOD they're cute. They give me like,, Grumpy Middle Aged Uncle & His Teenage Niece who's visiting him in the city for the first time vibes and I adore them.
Yes, the training bra bit made me this emotional, stfu.
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princesssarisa · 1 year ago
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Non-English "Cinderella" adaptations that might have influenced Disney's 2015 live action remake
Rossini's La Cenerentola (Italian opera, 1817). In the opera, the king has died, and the prince's search for a bride is motivated by his pending coronation. (The 2010 German Märchenperlen version also makes this choice.) In the 2015 film, the king is mortally ill, and later dies after the ball. Thus the opera's Cinderella and her 2015 counterpart both ascend straight to the throne in the end. Also, the opera's "fairy godfather" Alidoro disguises himself as a beggar and rewards Cinderella for treating him kindly, just as the 2015 Fairy Godmother does. (Although the Fairy Godmother also does this in Prokofiev's famous ballet.) The opera's Prince Ramiro also has a constant male companion, his valet Dandini, much like 2015's Kit has the Captain of the Guard (although many versions of Cinderella's prince have similar companions). Last but not least, both princes disguise themselves as a servant at some point: Ramiro switches clothes with Dandini for the ball to observe the true characters of the ladies, while Kit disguises himself as a guard to secretly observe the slipper-fitting.
Three Nuts (or Three Wishes) for Cinderella (Czech/German, 1973). In both this version and the 2015 film, Cinderella steals a few moments of freedom by riding her horse into the forest, and there she meets the prince on a hunt and stops him from shooting a deer. (Although in the 1973 film she throws a snowball at him, he chases her, and they taunt each other, while in the 2015 version they share a philosophical discussion about kindness and tell each other a little about their lives.) Both of these versions also hark back to the Grimms' tale early on, with Cinderella's father figure (the manservant Vincek in 1973, her actual father in 2015) going on a journey, and Cinderella asking for the first branch that hits his nose (1973) or brushes his shoulder (2015) as a gift. (In 1973 the branch contains the three magic hazelnuts that take the place of the Fairy Godmother in this version, while in 2015 it doesn't serve the plot, but is poignantly brought to her by the messenger who breaks the news of her father's death.)
Sechs auf einen Strech ("Six at one Blow"): Aschenputtel ("Cinderella") (German, 2011). Cinderella repeats a mantra that she learned from her mother: "You must never lose courage." In the 2015 film, she has a similar mantra, also from her mother: "Have courage and be kind." She also first meets the prince while he's hunting in the woods in this version, and the end sees them about to become king and queen, though in this case the old king is still alive, he just chooses to retire.
Zolushka (Russian, 1947). Cinderella has blonde hair, which she wears in fluffy shoulder-length curls at the ball, while the prince has wavy chestnut brown hair. (These could be coincidences, though.) The Fairy Godmother first appears as a humbly dressed old woman (although not as a beggar in 1947), then reveals her true, magical and glamorous form. The prince is also portrayed with boyish vulnerability as well as with courtly charm, and he even cries in one scene. (The '47 prince in the woods when he thinks he's lost Cinderella forever, 2015's Kit at his father's deathbed.)
When I posted my review of the 2015 film, @ariel-seagull-wings noticed the parallels with the 1947 Russian version. She suggested that Kenneth Branagh might have been influenced by that version, since British viewers are more likely than Americans to see the adaptations from continental Europe. The more I think about it, the more I realize that Branagh and the 2015 screenwriter Chris Weitz might have been influenced by more than one European Cinderella.
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babyjapril · 1 year ago
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Cinderella//Grey’s Anatomy 10.13
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tnbc-thoughtsandheadcanons · 10 months ago
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Sally is just like Cinderella she has to overcome her abusive situation being trapped by the Dr overcome him telling her she is not good enough for anything or anyone. She is able to get the courage to leave and make a better life for herself. She then finds out that her King Charming feels the same love for her she Feels for him. ❤️‍🩹
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shiftingwithmars · 4 months ago
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it’s always “hate the evil stepmother” and never “hate the shitty dad for getting with such an evil stepmother”
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il-predestinato · 2 years ago
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Further proof that Charles Leclerc is a Disney princess. 👑
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recents · 11 months ago
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“sacrificial lamb” HIS HAIR. HIS WHITE FUZZY CURLY HAIR. MAN I HAD THIS THOUGHT BEFORE I DID NOT REALIZE THE METAPHOR WOULD BE CANON SACRIFICIAL LAMB IM GONNA BE SEASICK IN THE CLUB. HEY WHERE THE FUCK IS THE POEM ABOUT THE SACRIFICAL LAMB COMING BACK AS THE EXECUTIONER AND KILLING YOU HANG ON HANG ON HANG ONNNN
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iwasbored777 · 1 year ago
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Cinematic Parallels
(Cinderella 2015)
(Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse 2023)
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herstoriies · 2 months ago
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@reverdies [continued]
-- " i'm sorry for intruding. " They're more afraid of you than you are of them. The inner voice, usually represented by gargoyles he imagined could speak to him, remained formless when risking an audience. Somehow though the inner voice's message wasn't nearly as reassuring as he was accustomed to. He didn't want to know fear from any angle. Her apologetic look said it all even if he had missed her words. In spite of the intrusion on his very home, with only himself for stakes Quasimodo wasn't inclined to fight. Hands wringing like butterflies clinging to a twig, he did his best to shrink into himself, knowing the usual reaction to expect and still half believing it to be justified. His gaze fled everywhere but the figure before him. "I-it's alright," he assured her instead of asking for reassurance himself. "The bells don't get many visitors."
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Like a bird that fled its cage & landed in the arbor, Priscilla sought sanctuary within Notre Dame. Thoughts of her present predicament and exhaustion from her flight would continue on the morrow. For now her steps aimlessly wandered, through and up the Cathedral somehow finding her way to the bell tower.
She was only human. She couldn’t help but stare longer than she should have. And as her eyes fled momentarily from the bell-ringer to the bells to fixate, she inwardly berated herself. In a world devoid of compassion, she knew better than to judge books from covers, to at least try seeing people from their own eyes and not only her own. She took a soft deep breath, searching, perhaps for strength, sympathy, or something she couldn't quite name. Somehow too her concerns of earlier did not feel as burdensome as they did before.
“I see. I… had no idea anyone would be up here…” she curiously glanced around, “or…lived here.” — a beat. was she that intimidating? A delicate little English wildflower?
“Oh! By the way…” politely trying to lighten the tone, “I’m Priscilla.” she offered a smile, with that certain warm glow to her that wasn’t just how the light caught on her gold curls. “If the bells … and yourself … wouldn’t mind a visitor today — may I come in?”
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nerdasaurus1200 · 1 year ago
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I just noticed this parallel
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enchanted-keys · 2 years ago
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Marianela Nuñez and Vadim Muntagirov in ‘Cinderella’ (Royal Ballet 2023) - photo by Alastair Muir
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taylortweets · 9 months ago
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terrie-unattented · 1 year ago
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Has anybody made this post yet?
✨ Princesses go to Princeton ✨
We love a good parallel
(both pictures are from somewhere on Google - not mine)
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septembersghost · 1 year ago
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the lovely @lookingforrainbows tagged me to describe myself in four characters, thank you!!! i am calling this #musicaltheatreedition ☺️🎶💖
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