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The One Thing Wrong

posted 9 years ago by glitterfox
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With this film in my view was you didn't get to see much of a love story between Ella and the prince.You get more of a love story in Ever After which is a pity as the lead actors had good chemistry.

[–] Weber4278 9 years ago

They actually gave us more in the film then in the original Perrault story where the prince only shows up once at the ball. For this version they gave the two of them an extra scene together in the forest, which was nice. They also let us get to know the Prince a little more by giving him a name and showing us the relationship he had with his own father.

But otherwise he doesn't really matter that much because the story of Cinderella was never really suppose to be a love story anyway.

Its a story about never losing hope in life, of holding onto your dreams and remaining kind and compassionate in a very cruel world. The Prince is really just Cinderella's 'reward' for remaining a good person and never losing hope, that's why in so many versions he's not even given a name because his characters not really important.

Cinderella herself is the center of the story, not the Prince, and her journey is one of remaining kind and keeping faith in her belief that someday she will escape her miserable life. Love was just her reward for doing that, its not what the stories about.

If anything I'd say its more of a showdown between her Stepmother and Cinderella...whose going to win the battle between them? That's the heart of the story, not the Prince.

[–] luiz4200 9 years ago

I believe you should delete the repeat. And I don't see anything wrong with not much of a love story.

[–] rbuchsbaum 9 years ago

Biggest good - in one scene Cinderella is eating from a plate of leftovers in the attic. In the next scene she is about to sit to eat with her stepmother & stepsisters a d is told she can't sit with them anymore.
Backwards editing! GOOF!
But, I loved this version and actually know her mother and father!

[–] fatshieronymous 9 years ago

That wasn't a goof. Ella was eating her supper after she was finished with her chores for the day (down in the kitchen and not upstairs in the attic, for what it's worth). The following scene in which Ella's stepfamily mocks her takes place the next morning during breakfast. If you watch the film again you'll notice that what Ella eats for her supper (vegetables in a broth) is different from what she serves to her stepfamily the next day at breakfast (toast, cheese and meat slices). 

[–] rbuchsbaum 9 years ago

I think we'll agree to disagree. Maybe she wasn't in the attic - but she was eating scraps. Listen to the voice over. She says she has to eat the scraps.
In the scene where she's banned from eating with the rest of them, she first goes to sit down with them as she always has.
So I do believe they flipped the scenes.

[–] kenonw 9 years ago

No, they didn't flip scenes. How it was portrayed in the movie is how it was written in the screenplay.

[–] fatshieronymous 9 years ago

No, they didn't flip scenes. How it was portrayed in the movie is how it was written in the screenplay.

Thanks, kenonw! 😉

[–] julaerenee 9 years ago

I truly believed there was messed up editing with those scenes as well. First they say all she gets to eat are the scraps the others leave behind, and then the very next morning she expects to sit down and share the meal with the family at the table. Doesn't make sense.

[–] annedoe 9 years ago

maybe up until the day (who knows when) of the breakfast, she was allowed to eat breakfast with them but not supper?

[–] jerseyd1 9 years ago

But who the hell wants to see Cinderella as a butterface?

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