I wanted to see Ella and Char sliding down the staircase more than anything. I was the pivotal moment in their relationship that bumped them past just friends. And they left it out of the movie. Grrrrr....
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the beautiful letters char and ella wrote back and forth about her being too -blank- to marry... so perfect
MrSyntax- "If I was a funeral director, I'd be a necrophile for sure!"
The fact that they changed the Ella-Char romance into a hate-each-other-then-grow-to-love-each-other story instead of sticking to the book's friends-turned-into-more angle. Usually I LOVE a good hate each other until they fall in love story (it's all very Pride and Prejudice), but Char and Ella's friendship in the book was just so sweet and well-done in the book that they should have kept it in the movie.
"And then he started cheating...especially at magnetic travel scrabble."
The letters. Particularly the one when Char tells Ella the story of when a man threw a tomato at his father, and he talked it out with the man instead of getting angry. I think that letter defined Char's character so well. Like it said in the book, he wasn't above laughing at himself, or owning up to what he thought wasn't a good-natured thing to do/say...like how he stuck up for his sister when her tutor made her cry, even though he felt bad for the tutor because he knew he was just doing his job.
I'll join you when hell freezes over.
Dumbledore's Army!
The end where Ella wears a mask to the ball and pretends to be Lela; then the part when Char finds out it's really her and runs after to her back to her house. And basically the entire scene that follows. I was definitely disappointed with this film. I feel like the writer and director just used the skeleton of the book and chucked out all of the best parts. I think the only thing i enjoyed was the music.
shareThe whole book. The movie (which I liked at first and I did buy the DVD) was a very poorly written adaptation. I want this movie REDONE and use someone like Anna Sophia Robb or another young actress, not Anne Hathaway.
Also, I want to know whose idea was it to have Char's father dead??!?!?
I agree the whole book. I really wanted to see the actual characters especially Ella's actual father, the elves, and the fact that Ella was a linguist. Oh and the dances. I reaallly wanted to see the dances.
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No, you're wrong. The movie was wonderfully written. And no one can beat Anne Hathaway
shareThe sliding down the staircases was one of the things I was looking forward too, to. Being an avid reader reading books before the movies makes it hard to like some of the movies. I enjoyed the movie but agree it should have been written more along the lines of the book. What I wanted to see was not only the sliding down the staircases, but them finding the glass shoes, her going to finishing school, stealing Hattie's wig, seeing the Orange Carriage she came up in for the balls, seeing lucinda turn into a squirrel, the list goes on and on... Maybe instead of redoing the movie with actors Disney should right it in a animation.
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Lilyanrose, I think that's an interesting idea: making an animated Disney feature out of it. None of this CG crap though - classical 2D all the way. And no songs.
Then again, I'm having trouble thinking of a Disney 2D animation movie that isn't a musical...
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Then again, I'm having trouble thinking of a Disney 2D animation movie that isn't a musical...Off the top of my head - 101 Dalmations, Lilo and Stitch, Brother Bear. share
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The bit at the beginning where she's at the zoo and talking to the little ogre, and the centaur present and her and the stepsisters being at school!! I enjoyed the movie as a bit of light hearted entertainment, but it missed so much of the book that made it so interesting.
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