Saturday, February 2, 2008

Disney's Cinderella - the movie

Well, I just finished downloading and watching Cinderella, the Disney version. It was exactly like I remembered it, but not really anything like any of the stories. In the beginning it said that it was adapted from Charles Perrault. There was only one ball and it never made any mention of the biological mother. The father dies within the first minute of the movie, too. The step-mother, though, totally looked the part of evil and the step-sisters were extremely dense. This version also shows the fairy godmother and all her magic.
Either I wasn't paying attention or I just missed it, but none of the stories make mention of the glass slipper, that is until you read the online readings with George Cruikshank's Cinderella and the Glass Slipper. The grand duke, durng the ball, made mention of how them at the ball was "real life" and that the prince finding and falling in love with one of the girls was a "fairy tale". It was kinda like they knew they were in one. I think the addition of the animals, the music and the real fairy godmother with her wand, was Disney's idea, to make it a little more, oh I don't know, disneyish, lol.

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