Cinderella or Ever After ?
which version do you like the best? Personally Ever After was my ultimate favorite, I felt with this version they didn't show much of the love between the prince and Cinderella. It was all very fast :(
shareI like both of them equally. I gave them the same rating.
Ever After avoids magic, this version uses a little bit of magic.
Both are very good versions, Lily is a bit cuter and Cinderella-like than Drew, but Drew is good and I like her independent streak.
Different movies, no need to rate one against the other, it is OK to like both about the same.
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Ever After shows what happens to the stepfamily and that's what makes me like it more. The 2015 film just mentions what happens and the 1950 story doesn't even do that.
share'Ever After' caters more to the revenge idea that is meaningful to some audiences, that is we hear what will happen and we see what actually becomes of the wicked stepmother and the evil daughter. We see that they got what we all figured was coming to them.
In 'Cinderella' 2015 we hear Ella say she forgives her wicked stepmom and stepsisters, it goes along with the theme of kindness that runs through the story. So it doesn't really matter what happened to them.
And there is another major difference. 'Cinderella' 2015 is closer to a classic tale with the fairy godmother and the magic that creates a beautiful gown and that changes the pumpkin and the animals, then the reverting at midnight.
'Ever After' is all realistic and remember it begins and ends with the great, great granddaughter of the real Cinderella telling the two authors that what they and most consider a fairy tale was in fact real people. And of course the portrait painted by Leonardo.
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Danielle also forgave her stepmother and sister. The quern was going to send them away to be slaves. Danielle requests her not to do this and instead have them be treated the way she was. Danielle did not have bitterness or vengeance in her heart because she said, "After today I will forget you and never think of you again".
shareDanielle did not have bitterness or vengeance in her heart because she said, "After today I will forget you and never think of you again".
That sounds pretty bitter to me...
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If she were bitter, she would be resentful for years afterward. But she chose to move on with her life; she was finally free of her stepmother. That sounds like a pretty "high road" thing to say to someone who has treated you so cruelly.
shareThat sounds pretty bitter to me...
I don't think that's bitterness. She was basically saying "I want to forgive you and I want to forget you. You won't have power over me anymore." share
Ever After, The Cinderella in this film was weak
shareYou call that forgiveness? She just changed punishments and we can only assume that having them treated the same way they treated Danielle was better than life in the Americas.
shareYou call that forgiveness? She just changed punishments and we can only assume that having them treated the same way they treated Danielle was better than life in the Americas.
Something was going to happen to the Baroness and Marguerite. You don't lie to royalty and just walk away. The Queen even says to choose her words wisely for they may be her last. Lying to royalty could carry a death sentence.
Danielle's mercy meant that her step-mother and step-sister lived, that they stayed in France, and the work they are assigned doesn't look like hard labor. They're laundry ladies. The other women working aren't dirty, look well-fed, and don't seem to be suffering. And what happens when their boss gets tired of them? She knocks them into the dye. The Baroness had Danielle flogged at one point.
At this point, their punishment is to no longer be the idle rich. They have to work.
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When Drew's Cinderella tells Angelica's stepmother that she will never think of her again, it gives me chills. That was SO well played. I would like it better just for that confrontation. The "I forgive you" was meaningless to me. The Ever After scene reminds me of my favorite version of Merlin, with Sam Neill, when he turns away and tells Mab that she's just not important anymore.
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If we ever meet, I will have to hug you! That is the best version of Merlin ever in my opinion. And I saw the parallel at once!
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