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Cinderella - 09 - HD
🕑 Added 2025-01-07 05:01:02 +0000 UTCNot at all wickedly motivated
I don't intend to change up the preview image text all the time (particularly if there's tone clash), but the amount of negative space created by height difference BEGGED for it here.
Commentary
In the animated Disney version of Cinderella, the father had passed on by the time the real story began. This is a change from the original in which the father was alive, and basically did nothing but marry the stepmother, then... Exist? And was assumed to be oblivious to what his daughter was going through, up to and including missing that she didn't have a proper bed to sleep in?
I think Disney made the right call not keeping him around in their version, as short of him keeping the movie from happening, he'd have had to have been kind of terrible.
Fortunately for this version of Edward, his (sort of) being around is fine for the story.
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Comments
Some Ed
For what it's worth, I found it useful to be the one to do the cleaning when I was growing up. Times I was in trouble for having left something compromising around the house: 0. Times my siblings were: I lost count.
Mark
Perhaps being transformed into several creatures simultaneously would be even better.
Dan Merget
A lack of mice is a non-issue with Ashley around. GODMOTHER: I need some living beings that I can transform int... ASHLEY: Me! Me! I volunteer! Pick me!
Jenora Feuer
I'll admit I like the 1998 Drew Barrymore 'Ever After' movie for its take on the story. Mostly because it made Cinderella a more active character even as it eliminated any need for magic. It also gave the stepmother more of a rationale than LOL evil: she was a bit of a spoiled brat, yes, a widowed trophy wife who didn't have a lot of good choices, and when her new husband also died and left her stuck out at his little country estate, she got desperate to marry one of her daughters to a 'proper' noble so she could go back to an easy life, and she treated Danielle/Cinderella as a constant reminder of why she was stuck in this dumpy little place. Leonardo da Vinci being a character was amusing and historically valid given that he did actually spend the last few years of his life in the French court. The framing story added its own bits of historical interest, too, even if it was most of three hundred years later...
Foradain
OH NOES!! If she eats all the mice, what will the Faerie Godmother do about horses for the Pumpkin Carriage? In the one almost example* of The Ella Cinders Story from Mercedes Lackey's 500 Kingdoms, the Father died within a year of marrying the Step-Mother, which left the Step-Mother legally in charge of Ella even though Ella was over twenty when the Step-Mother and The Horrids skipped town. Life for women in fantasy/medieval settings was often horribly unfair. Actually, anything before the twentieth century, and some of that too. *I don't consider Isabella Beauchamps' story to be "almost Ella Cinders". Things like taking the stepsisters to crash the Guild Ball and then covering for them with the parentals had pretty well squashed that Traditional Trope in her case. ^_^
Stephen Gilberg
AIUI, sitting in the cinders was actually a position of privilege in the old days, so Cinderella was treated nicely enough by her parental figures but badly by jealous stepsisters. Of course, that dilutes the rags-to-riches aspect.
