I really enjoyed this remake. One thing I loved about it is the focus on Ella and the human characters rather than the chase scenes of the mice and Lucifer. They also did a great job on making the animals silent and taking on a more dramatic route for the film.
Oh, yes! I did appreciate the minimum cat/mouse involvement of the remake's plot! Even when I watch the original, I sometimes skip/fast forward past those parts. 😅 I used to think I was the only one who didn't care for those parts, but it turns out many people don't care for it. Though, I do love the scene in the original where they're singing while making alterations to Cinderella's dress.
@@WondrousJoJo yes! The dress making scene is important to the plot but having too much of the cat/mouse chase scenes make me feel like I should watch Tom & Jerry instead. But I guess they were added there for entertainment purposes for younger audiences 😊
@@WondrousJoJo It's almost like they didn't know what to do with the human characters, and that's why they wasted half the runtime on cat and mouse shenanigans. Cinderella's backstory is told to us instead of shown to us. What was anyone's personality through any of it? Why should I care? Cinderella doesn't get a Cinderella moment, the prince and her just dance and walk with a song in the background to avoid dialogue and chemistry. They don't even reunite at the end; she just fits the slippers and cuts to the wedding already. If the animated movie was more like the live-action movie, that would have been one hell of a Cinderella adaption. But it was the 1940s and animation takes quite the time, so no surprise they took so many shortcuts.
@@shanelocsin9906yah nit Cinderella was made inn1950 (the Diseny version) so in those times it’s understandable why they be similar to other shows like Tom and Jerry
@@lessismore8533 yeah, I thought so too. I am aware that Tom and Jerry would have came out around the same time as well so I guess Disney wanted to have their own take on it 😅
One thing that bothered me in live action is the glass sliper scene at the ending. In the original Cinderella asked the mouses to call the dog to stop Lucifer and she had the second sliper to save her self. In the live action they just faund her because she was singing and her sliper was already broken so it take away her smartness and her proactivety (ironic). I love however the "Have courage and be kind" message. Gorgeous costume btw!
You're right! She DID save herself in that scene! That reminds me how I used to always laugh at Lady Tremaine's jaw drop when Cinderella pulled the other slipper out and realized she was the mystery girl at the ball the entire time. It's definitely a shame that moment was taken from Cinderella herself. And thanks for the compliment! 💜🦋 It was probably my favorite one of all. Anytime I choose to discuss anything related to "Cinderella," I am going to go all-out in some kind of way (to the best of my ability at that time of production).
I mean yah I LOVE how Cinderella had the other slipper in the original BUT her slipper wasn’t “already broken” in the 2015 movie. The stepmother broke it
Cinderella (2015) desrrves so much more attention. It's the greatest remake for me, despite not being a musical. Heck, it's the best Cinderella film, period!
Ariel's costumes are definitely not a contender. Belle's were disappointing, too. I have yet to see Maleficent, but I did sneak a peek and look up the dress. Definitely gorgeous.
This movie is proof that modern remakes can work!! While I never was a fan of Cinderella, I really liked the life action version. Especially the first scenes with Ellas mom and dad were very well done and you could feel the love they all had for each other and the heartbreak after the moms passing. Also the transformation scene of the dress was brilliant and the dress truly stunning. I never thought that they would go with a blue dress in the life action, but for me it worked. Let me explain that: In the original version of the movie her dress was originally silvery white, but the film was reworked and scrubbed to restore it. During this process, they messed some of the colors and lineworks, thats why the more modern Cinderellas is blue. I completely agree on the male characters. Finally the prince isn’t just an „Accessoire“, but a character with his own thoughts and worries. I also really liked the transformation scenes with the fairy godmother, for example when she transforms the mice into horses. Some of the horses have mouse ears for a short while and one even still has a mouse tail for a while, and when the carriage starts to transform back into a pumpkin you can see the flesh and seeds inside and I really like such attention to detail. But the original is a beloved classic for a reason, and even if the new one is pretty good by itself, I don’t think it will be ever considered a classic as the original one. But yet its still a good and pretty faithful adaptation and it boggles my mind, how Disney made this and then managed to completely butcher the other live actions so far
I agree with you on all this. Cinderella my favorite princess. But I got to say this is your best outfit especially the sparkle effects when you flick the wand the small detail just makes it all the better.
"Ever After" is still my favorite Cinderella retelling. Less because she "saves herself" -- the prince wants to be the knight in shining armor, but is just kind of bad at it -- but because that version has Cinderella love others and open to being loved in spite of her struggles and the enduring cruelty. I think you'd really like if you haven't seen it yet :) (cosplay is really cute btw 💟)
I 100% agree with you. Cinderella (2015) is the best Disney remake, but it's still a shadow of the original. But wow is it better than the other junk they've put out. Cinderella is a very special story to me and she always reminds me that no matter how my heart is grieving, to keep on believing.
What fucking shadow could the 1950 film possible cast on the 2015 film. It anything it's the other way around. The 2015 film is spectacular with rich and believable visuals and costumes, and the fact that it's live-action and not drawings makes it all that more remarkable. Like they would have ever made an animated movie that looks that good, especially in the mid-20th century.
@@0deadx21 Looks aren't everything. One could say Beauty and the Beast 2017 has better visuals because it's live action (and they'd be wrong). Cinderella 2015 is far above the other live actions and is my favorite by a longshot, but it will never touch the status of the 1950 film.
@@saintfighteraqua What fucking status are we talking about? Is that status even remotely worth it, because the 2015 film is doing remarkably well as it is. When it comes to fairy tale movies, visuals are a giant and important part of the whole thing. You can show the dress, slippers, carriage, clock, and castle, but it won't mean much unless you execute it well. If the animated movie was live-action, it'd be one of the laziest Cinderella films ever made, with the only interesting things about it being the bizarre choice of having half the runtime taken over by the animals, and depicting the palace as a giant, inconvenient and almost empty place.
@@0deadx21 I'm not knocking the newer film, I love it...but trying to claim it's more iconic than the original is not true at all. The 1950 movie has issues but it is iconic and what everyone thinks of when they think of the fairy tale or even name Cinderella. I love both films a lot, almost an obsession.
@@saintfighteraqua There's a difference between being iconic and being better. The 2015 film is objectively the best of all the Disney _Cinderella_ movies. It's the actual 'good one'. We have the animated movie in which almost nothing happens, and its sequels, the 1997 film that looks and feels like a stage show, and then there's the 2015 film which is executed exceptionally well in all departments.
This movie is an example that of when Disney wants to make a quality remake they can. This version will always rank third to me as my favorite Cinderella movie. My favorite is the animated version, the Rogers and Hammerstein's version with Brandy. This version ranks third. However as a live action version it is so apparent that when they want to make Disney can absolutely make a movie that puts our childhood on screen with all the glitter and magic. The changes made were important but didn't retract from the story unlike the Beauty and the Beast or Little Mermaid remakes. That dress tho😍 it is a clear cut example of true Disney magic. It shows when effort is put in versus the costumes they had Ariel in we can see the differences. Also continue making videos and I'll keep watching. I loved your analysis of this movie.
I really loved this Cinderella remake. The costumes were amazing and I appreciated how they added depth to the original characters. But now you got me thinking, did they lose that dreamer quality at the core of Cinderella’s character? You inspired me, I’ll be rewatching both versions. Great analysis as always! I hope you got that spider.
I resonate so deeply with the dreamer themes in the original film. By the time I finish watching the original, I feel inspired to keep believing and to continue having faith. When I finished the remake, I was like: "Oh, nice. They got married and she can have her house back now. 🫥" Thank you!! And no... sadly, it was totally out of sight by the time I was done recording. 😩 It got lucky.
I think you’re right; the music was a big let down in the remake. “So This is Love” is *so* magical, and the remake’s waltz is so generic. As a remake, this one was the least offensive, but it still lacked the magic. C’est la vie.
What a ridiculous thing to say. The live-action film isn't a musical, the music that they made for the movie is spectacular. The soundtrack is outstanding. Lacked the magic? Lacked the magic of what? Limited 40s animation and overly humongous and very inconvenient drawn architecture? Who the hell wants any of that? Did you forget you're watching a believable live-action film or something?
This is the only live action remake I can appreciate aside from the 1996 101 Dalmatians. It felt like the creators actually cared about doing justice to the art of the original, even if I have a few quibbles about their story decisions. It was honestly refreshing that Ella's character was allowed to remain gentle and feminine, as opposed to so many other remake princesses, and I liked fleshing out of the prince's character, too.
Ah, yes! 101 Dalmatians was one of the earliest remakes before this current era. From what I remember, that movie respected its animated counterpart! I enjoyed it as a kid! And yes, thank GOODNESS 2015 Cinderella was allowed to stay gentle and feminine. 2015 was also before this current super-PC culture era that we're in now, so that may be why Cinderella could keep that part of her identity.
@@lessismore8533 One of the biggest ones is that in the animated version, Cinderella saves herself by fighting to get out of that room and producing the other glass slipper after the one the royals had broke. The live action took that agency away from her and it bugs me. I also didn't love the whole bit with the hunting party.
When my little girl was born her baby song ( i sing it to her) was so this is love in holland is dit is het dan my wish was her now she is 11 and sometime,s she asks mom can you sing my baby song and we sing it together ❤i have then tears in my eyes ❤ that movie and the other old disney movie,s gave me hope and a escape from my bad chilhood so thank you disney ❤
As always you make really good points. My favorite Cinderella will alway be (ok yes Disney nerd) Rogers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella with Leslie Ann Warren. I love the score to that one as I grew up watching it every year on CBS. Would love to see you compare Disney’s version with “Ever After” and this one. Each brings a unique perspective to the story.
At first, I thought you were talking about the one with Julie Andrews lol. Also, you are maybe the 3rd or 4th person to bring up Ever After. I've never seen it, but I do know who Drew Barrymore is. I might add it to my list of movies to see. 🙂
Cinderella 2015 was the last disney remake I seen. It was pretty good, to be honest I wasn't a huge cinderella fan, don't get me wrong I loved the original I would watch it to this day. Yet, Belle will always be my favorite princess. So, when i watched the original I did miss the songs, I did like how they fleshed out the prince it was good they met before the ball, and I did like the line of the stepmother still trying to stop Cinderella from leaving saying she was Ella's mother and Ella saying you were never my mother, that was a good line. Though I didn't feel she was as trapped as she was in the original, in the remake she could leave but stayed because of a promise. I liked seeing scenes of her and her dad getting to know the man a bit, seeing her mom. Even more so I liked getting to know the stepmother, I could tell at first she was trying to fit into the family, yet being compared to the first wife even if ella and her dad were unaware she was listening, I could understand her bitterness, it seemed to make more sense. Honestly I thought the original stepmother was a tad dumb. She knew cinderella was kind and pretty, if she had tried to be nice to Cinderella, then her life would have been way better. yet spite and bitterness can blind people. This remake was good definitely would watch it again, a lot better then the beauty and the beast remake that's for sure. At least the actress playing cinderella knew how the character was portrayed. great analysis keep up the good work.
Hey there! Belle is my favorite, too! 💛 I did enjoy the backstory and time spent with her family. THAT is an example of what I mean by making a remake better or expanding on existing material without disrespecting the original! Same with how they treated the stepmother - fantastic job! And now that you mention the OG stepmother, you have a good point. Had she allowed Cinderella to be great, she (AND her daughters) would have immensely benefited by proxy, haha. Oh well, that's the drawback of jealousy, I guess. You get blinded from the beauty in things. And thank you! I'll try to keep up the good work.
Hi, found your channel recently and love it! You are not only criticizing but being respectful, also your talking is soo soothing to the ears👍 My fav princess is Aurora, but people are so disrespectful to "traditional" princess like her. Hope you could make a vid about Sleeping Beauty one day🤗
Aww, thank you so much. That compliment means a lot to me. 💜 I agree that people are very disrespectful towards the more traditional princesses, and they're being written out and suppressed. As far as an eventual Sleeping Beauty video, hey, anything can happen! 😊
@@WondrousJoJo Yeah, right?😭 Many people says Aurora is boring (Big no! she's modest and responsible) and the movie sucks bc Aurora and Philip almost don't talk in the latter half. IMO, they should remember that it was based on ballet. I also love that kind of express, it is the pure art👑
run were? What is she supposed to do? Where is she supposed to go? The Story plays in a time, where there were no social services or options she could take. The whole house and everything belonged to her stepmom, she had nothing. Her mom could have reported her for theft for the clothes on her back.
Even nowadays with us having places like shelters etc it’s still easier to stay in a familiar environment even if it’s an abusive one rather then venture out into a wild unknown. I can attest to that since I grew up in an abusive household like Cinderella. She’s USED TO THIS and people might be surprised to learn that when you’re used to abuse you take these things into yourself rather than see it as an affront to your personal humanity. You feel you deserve it as wild as that can seem from an outside perspective. Until you’ve experienced it you won’t ever truly understand it but you can be empathetic to it which is how I hope people would view Cinderella
@@WondrousJoJo thank you ☺️ I love the little guy too he’s trying so hard lol Cinderella is def one of my hot button topics so I’m glad I could provide additional context!
I wouldn't call _Ever After_ a fairy tale film. Doesn't look like it. It's barely even an adaptation. More like historical drama with Cinderella elements in it.
@@WondrousJoJo How come _Cinderella_ (2015) is the only Cinderella movie that takes anything seriously? In most adaptations the characters don't matter, the story doesn't matter. It's just stuff that happens with no real weight. _Cinderella_ (1997) pretty much looks and feels like a stage show. We're not watching characters, we're watching actors, so nothing in it matters.
@@0deadx21doesn’t matter. It’s all about personal TASTE. I personally LOVE the 1997 Cinderella and this is coming from someone who’s not a huge musical fan.
Oh! And the final sequence with the mice and the key and the stairs! Brilliant suspense sequence, and so much fun! The remake didn’t have any tension, and Ella didn’t even seem bothered-she’s just singing at her window, and that’s how they find her?! I didn’t feel any sense of urgency *shrug*
It is the corrective version because it gave what the all the animated characters lacked - personality and development. It wasn't because what Cinderella did or didn't do, it was because she was a flat character, they all were. Half the runtime was spend away from the human characters, so all we were left with are stereotypes and archetypes. It seems like they were making up Cinderella's personality as they went along; it's like Cinderella got her personality altered for the latter half of the movie. She went from being somewhat annoyed from being inconvenienced to outright being a crybaby from being inconvenienced. Are there seriously people who are demanding complete bullshit like a "mice and key up the stairs race" in a fucking believable-looking live-action film? What idiotic logic did they use into thinking this will in any way benefit the live-action film? Who the hell do you think is the protagonist? Cinderella or the mice, because it can't be both?
Well I tell you one thing I’m impressed with your fairy Godmother outfit especially the butterfly 🦋 addition Disney should use this👏😊👏 also as a Cinderella fan I would have love the instrumentals as long as they are tasteful and your view point where very thoughtful 👌
I love your outfit so much! I love the butterflies! you look so amazing! also loved how you put in those little wand edits! thanks for sharing! this was interesting! im subscribing!
Thank you so much! I put a lot of thought into the concept, and I'm glad it has been so well received! It warms me that you thoroughly enjoyed the video and that I've earned your subscription. 😊
As always I love the outfit and I agree with your sentiments. I kinda remember seeing this film in theatre as a kid and found it a little boring. Also the coloring was jarring to me. The original coloring of her dress the grey and periwinkle is so much prettier than the blue in the final version.
Thank you! You know, at first, I didn't care for how the unedited dress looked. But looking back at it now, it's not that bad, and it reminds me more of the OG 1950 dress color. I will admit that although I do like the blue, it is definitely SUPER blue, and they really just went crazy with the dye job, haha.
Sorry to disagree but the 2015 Cinderella made me LOVE the color blue Not even cartoon Cinderella’s dress is white/periwinkle in merchandise/pics. They just make it blue in the pictures Only the 1950 MOVIE they’ll show the dress as that silver color I don’t get it
So glad that you finally made a Cinderella Remake video! I enjoyed your perspective and never really thought about the dreamer concept. After listening to you and thinking about it, I 100% agree. It is an aspect that they didn't really touch on. It would have made the movie closer to the original. All that said, they did a very good job in attempting to recreate the magic of the original animation. Nothing is ever gonna match the OG thought
At first, I didn't care for the dress transformation scene. But then, I played it a few more times, and I changed my mind. I actually think it's very beautiful and I kind of love it now. And yes, the dreamer concept should have stayed. She doesn't have to spin around in her room and sing with the birds and mice, haha, but she could have aspired towards some kind of dream. Thanks for watching!
Agree, 100%!! Both for the reasons to like it and the gripes!! I am not only a book nerd like Belle, I am a dreamer like Cinderella and taking that out did irk me. Plus the part about giving her more freedom than in the cartoon. It just didn't make sense. But it was still a much better live action than later ones as there was enoough of a change to make it stand on its own with such lovely callbacks to the original that didn't make it seem like they were looking down on it. For the most part, anyway. Not every girl has to be a "girlboss", nor does every girl want to be. With all this fuss about diversity, you would think that they would consider the diversity of desires and wants as well as the surface level diversity, but some days it seems that's too much to ask. Anyways, lovely video!! And you can't go wrong with the Fairy Godmother!! Can I just say, you did it better than the Netflix Cinderella or Wish!! 😜
Hahaha, thank you! I never watched the Netflix Cinderella, but I do know that Billy Porter is the Fairy, and I know how he looks. I personally would always prefer to see a FGM as a woman in an actual movie production/film. A random guy filming himself wearing a costume inspired by a FGM in a UA-cam video - that's totally fine (😂). I liked Asha's cloak, but it's unfortunately in a not-so-great movie.
i love this live action movie like y'all dont understand I've seen the live action, beauty and the beast and that shit was horrible. It was so dark and gloomy like it was just boring and then I seen the live action Aladdin in theaters and I didn't really like it that much either. Like I even have the Cinderella 2015 movie on DVD and I'm so glad I do. Like I don't care what anybody says but the 2015 in the 07 version of Cinderella is the best movies. Like they actually gave Prince charming a name and characteristics. And the scene where she transforms into her blue dress. GOD the dress is gorgeous the way that they dance at the ball have chemistry this whole movie warns my heart. I just watched it a few months ago on Disney+.
I went to the movies and saw the Cinderella remake it was really good probably one of the best Disney remakes........ some of the ones that just released weren't so good I just hope that Disney doesn't mess up Pocahontas remake😊😊😊
Just because they "can" doesn't mean they "should". Personally? I would really rather they didn't. I'm tired of Hollywood acting like Animation is a lesser art form and that Live Action is the pinnacle of fiction and something all stories aim to become 🙄
great cosplay🤩 I love the butterflies 🩷🦋 and Lily james sings a dream is a wish your heart makes in the credits and she did pretty good you can find it on UA-cam if your interested😉
Thank you! 💜🦋 Yes, while making this video, I looked it up. I originally had a sample of the instrumental in the video during the part where I talked about how Disney could have incorporated the song during Cinderella's time in the house/in her room. I showed some footage along with the music to help my viewers imagine how nice it could have been. But... this is UA-cam, so I had to take it out before premiering this final version. 🫤
I think every live action remake has literally created the very scenarios and perceived character flaws that people complained the loudest about when it came to the originals, even when those dynamics were not present or problematic in the originals, while at the same time removing the magic that makes the originals such timeless classics.
Cosplay on point yet again! Astute observations... I think Cinderella is the second-best remake after Jungle Book. The latter edges it out simply because the original film wasn't THAT great to begin with and they completely rewrote it from the ground up. Cinderella was competing with such a good film to begin with that it ends up doing less in comparison. However, what it does and how it adds to the original was done very well. Thankfully it predates girlbossing, and I remember it getting criticized for emphasizing a message of having courage and being kind, which was only starting to be derided by, I guess, cowardly and mean people 😆 I also liked how they made the prince an actual character, as opposed to the kind of generic symbol of the princess' self-actualization that he was in the original. Good film all round. Too bad everything after that went off the rails 😆
Thanks, Cory! For now, this is the last video I'm doing on Disney remakes for a while. I want to branch out and talk about other things. Plus, the remakes I've seen (with most of them being a disappointment) put me in a headspace to complain or rant a lot of the time, lol. I enjoy discussing issues in films, but Disney's issues are getting very exhausting. 😅 Cinderella is ok... I just lost all of the things that personally resonated with me. For example, Cinderella isn't a dreamer anymore. That's a huge loss for me. Yes, I gained the butterfly symbolism (which I really do love)... but I'd rather have the dreamy themes and tones if it had meant losing that over the butterflies.
I do think the live action Cinderella remake is one of the better remakes, but as for Ella being more "proactive", I will agree for the most part until right at the very end. I, to this day, cannot stand how they made it so she just sat there singing to the closed window and the mice had to open it for her. Like, really? She's doing all this stuff to have as much life of her own as she can and then doesn't even open the window to get in some fresh air while she's singing? The mice had to do that and I don't even remember if they knew the prince was there themselves, meaning that they would have literally just done it to do it. It completely undermines Ella's character built up through the movie, in my opinion.
Yes!! I felt the same way!! I guess they were trying to give a nod to the original Cinderella being trapped and helped by her animal friends? They could have done so much better than that.
I mean WHY would Ella need fresh air to sing? If she felt suffocated, she would’ve open psd the window herself. As for the mice not knowing (or knowing) about the Prince, I suppose the writers could’ve made that more clear
@@lessismore8533 but the point is that they have her all this self agency throughout the movie and in the smallest thing that could have made the biggest difference to her, they have the least, most strange (maybe not nonsensical, but definitely strange) course of action that then makes it look like she's not done anything for herself and is actually fine with the way things are. It doesn't make sense.
I know that I’m in the minority here, but I loved the butterflies flying around Cinderella…I just didn’t like them on the dress. Love the dress (best of all the live-action Disney dresses), just didn’t like the butterflies on it. But that’s just me. I love how you describe it, though!
Aww, that's ok. I'm probably biased because I love butterflies so much. I also appreciate that they put them on her slippers as well. If the butterflies were only on the neck/shoulder line of the dress, yeah, that might not have been as enjoyable. I appreciate them completing the look/theme.
Butterflies symbolize transformation, freedom, and growth. They're Cinderella's motif throughout the film. They're simple, sweet, and discreet. The bertha of Cinderella's dress is tastefully decorated with them; she doesn't have too many or too few, and the glass slippers have a gold butterfly to match them with the dress. I also love the fact that each butterfly is unique. There's no repeating butterfly design.
Have you seen Cinderella's gown before the cgi blue was added? I love the one we see in the final film, but the original version, which is a soft periwinkle silvery blue is beyond beautiful and looks closer to her animated gown.
@@WondrousJoJo Thank you so much for your comment! I didn’t have time to do more than just like your comment when you wrote it, but I’ve had a revelation since then and now think that the butterflies aren’t the issue aren’t the issue. I thought they were, but there were other problems with the styling and I blamed the poor butterflies. Sorry JoJo. 🦋 I explain a little bit more below, if you can be bothered to read a super long comment. This comment is kind of a response to everyone who has replied, but I thought it best to reply to you, because it was so nice of you to reply to my little comment, and because that way everyone is more likely to see this. Everyone who has responded has made really good points. I love @0dead’s comment, and I have seen exactly what @saintfighteraqua is talking about regarding the dress. Anyway, I found this really great channel that redesigned all of the live-action Disney Princess dresses, and of all of the “recreations” I’ve seen, he did the best job! He even gave Halle Berry gorgeous red hair (like Ariel should have had!), and gave her a bunch of extra outfits from the animated movie, including the meaningful sparkly dress at the end that is NOT a sign of materialism, but rather, a father’s love for his daughter - and acceptance of her growing up. He basically redid all of the live action Disney Princess dresses, including Belle’s awful one (Hermione, I’m a feminist too, but like, we don’t need to make everything about feminism, and feminists can wear corsets and pretty dresses. All of the first feminists did!). I loved all his designs, except his redesign for Ariel’s bikini, which was made out of some ugly fish scales and fins that kind of creeped me out lol, and the colours looked washed out. I want to see vibrant purple like the cannon animation! Putting pale lilac on Ariel, when that is Ursula’s colour isn’t good. Colour theory is so important in the classic Disney animations. The vibrant purple of Ariel’s sea shell bikini helps juxtapose her with the dull violet colour of Ursula. Putting that same pale violet on Ariel removes this juxtaposition. Ariel is supposed to be vibrant and younger, and her shade of purple in the animation represents that; while Ursula’s almost sickly, more mature colour is supposed to represent her age and internal bitterness. The contrast of the two shades of purple helps juxtapose the protagonist from the villain, so putting pale purple on Ariel defeats this important - albeit, subliminal - colour coding with which the genius makers of the animated version confronted us (also, I just noticed while writing this that JoJo’s pfp is Ariel’s exact vibrant, young, beautiful shade of purple!). Nevertheless, one of the highlights of this guy’s video was his Cinderella gown! I honestly didn’t think that anyone could top the one in the movie…except by removing the butterflies (sorry guys. I don’t know, it really felt like overkill for me and I didn’t like it…that is, before I saw his video). However, this guy, totally fixed the problem! I watched his video after I commented here, and he softened Cinderella’s dress to the natural, lighter shade that @saintfighteraqua is talking about, without the deep blue CGI colour added (although I do think that shade of blue is very pretty) - and you’re right, it looked so much better! He also put her hair up in a way that was both modern, and similar to the original (instead of the complicated style that they had in the original, which I now realise is what clashed with all of the butterflies and made it look like TOO MUCH…especially since she is such a naturally beauty who doesn’t need much embellishment to make her beautiful. Some women look better with lots of embellishment. However, some women are so beautiful that they don’t need that embellishment - it takes away from their beauty instead of enhancing it. Side note: people actually said that about Anne Boleyn, but they said the opposite about the woman who Henry VIII married afterwards, who was considered to be very plain-looking). Anyway, this guy then added a diamond choker around live-action Cinderella’s neck, as in the original animated film Cinderella is wearing a black choker. And all of a sudden, seeing the completed look that this guy had created, the butterflies weren’t a problem for me! I actually thought that the outfit looked stunningly beautiful. And I realised that the butterflies had never been the problem…it was just the way that they were executed with the hairstyle and everything. It was too much going on all at once, in one place. Anyway, if anyone has actually read to the bottom of this comment…first of all, thank you! And secondly, if you’d like, I’ll try to go back through my videos and find the name of the video for all of you so you can watch it! Anyway, butterflies approved! 😊
Hey it’s our boy again serving looks and facts! I’m about to get real deep with this and this might trigger people so warning ⚠️ but I am a multiple abuse survivor, in particular people in my family have hurt me and Cinderella has always been MY princess far more than any other. I love them all for different reasons but Cinderella speaks to me. When her dress gets ripped that felt like a violating scene to me, some people have compared it to SA and I can see that, and when she cries and says there’s nothing left to believe in it breaks my entire soul in a way no Disney film not even Lion King or that one scene in Dumbo or Bambis mom can do. I have the same temperament as her, sweet with some sass. And I will not stand for any Cinder slander near me! She may be a cartoon but she deserves to be hailed as one of the greats. The fact that she could be so kind and loving and optimistic and internally beautiful after suffering for at least ten years of her life being a servant in her own home right after her father died like ughhhh. I’ve played the scene in my head of after the funeral the step mother pulling her aside and telling her she needs to pay her dues and earn her keep now and even when Cinderella learns that this is wrong awful toxic abusive behavior she doesn’t leave because she’s that girl. It annoys me that people ask why doesn’t she leave as if it’s just so simple for someone being hurt like that to leave especially by trusted people or family. Whether romantic or platonic or familial abuse is hard to escape from. And where would she go? I guess she would just work the streets? Like what do y’all want her to do? And what’s funnier is when she’s girl-bossified people complain about that then because there’s no winning. Personally Disneys version is my favorite but I’ve enjoyed other versions and unlike most this isn’t my favorite. I’m still of the opinion that every live action remake is bad, with the exception of some parts of Maleficent because it’s more like a retelling it isn’t trying to be Sleeping Beauty though even that suffers from the “Were trying to fix what Disney tumblr blog posters said was broken about our films” thing they do with every movie. It started here and hasn’t ended, actually do be fair it started well before here with movies like Frozen but I’m specifically talking live action. The problem is the movie is called Cinderella and if Cinderella isn’t right to me then the entire movie fails. A beautiful dress, some themes, a overused quote and “fixed problems from the original” does not a good movie make. There’s 3 Cinderella films most of those problems were fixed by then. Prince Charming has a personality of a lovable Himbo, love is earned, happily ever after is fought for more, Cinderella is more proactive, she gets more dresses, themes are expanded on and we get more fleshed out character development for the step mother and sisters, especially Anastasia! (I still don’t fully forgive her but I can understand why Cinderella would, she redeemed herself). Side note: Wish only Lady Tremaine got the bad ending and Drizella was given a second chance, she was under her mothers rule too, she was abused too, she was taught wrong and showed signs of regret in the second film. She could have changed but they went the other direction and hammered down harder on her spiteful nature and made her just plain evil. She literally didn’t care if her sister, her real blood sister, got ended by the wand! Geeeeeesh Anywho, I think the movie is okay, it’s the lesser evil but it didn’t do anything that the Cinderella movies we already have didn’t except expand on her love for her mother which they try to make super important but it doesn’t work for me. Also if her dress is that important they could have just made the iconic silver (Yeah I said it’s silver! Get it right Disney!) dress gave bits of pink in it. Like it has a shimmer but it seems more like random shiny fabric not adding actual parts from her mothers dress. Also it’s very mother heavy her father was important too, at least in the Disney version. I actually always though Lady Tremaine ended him personally to get his wealth and when saddled with Cinderella she seized an opportunity for a free maid. So yeah, while the movie isn’t horrendous it robs Cinderella of so much personality and charm and dreamy nature as you said and if you’re going to tear down the main character to prop up the prince, because let’s be real he’s pretty much the second main character, I’m not for it. Also I don’t like the new fairy godmother, her actress yes but this version isn’t good to me. She missed the warm grandma vibes the old one had and I hate that she tests this woman to see if she’s pure enough or deserving enough for a miracle when she just suffered so much. Like literally don’t test me at my wits end, you know I’m a good person. I do believe that Cinderella was dreaming of freedom, that’s what her heart was wishing for, freedom and love. Actually that’s confirmed in the sequel she said she dreamed of love. Now I don’t think she means romantic love but that’s what she got. She just wanted to be loved and made to feel worthy of that and of life and of happiness. She wanted one night to feel like a woman, to experience love, to experience freedom. That’s what she wishes for, it’s why birds are usually connected to Cinderella and to that end most of the princesses because birds are graceful and beautiful and free.
Thank you so much, haha! I always appreciate your support! I've always been in a kind of awe with the dress ripping scene... I can't explain it. Something about it just pulls my attention. I can totally see how someone could get SA vibes from it! I love OG Disney Cinderella. The dreaming aspects and then imagining finally receiving a long-awaited blessing resonates so deeply with me. I love how her dress is *silver*, which is a dress color not seen all that often, and made her stand out so much. As for the remake, I wasn't thrilled about the new FGM either. I wanted her to look a bit more motherly with a more....maternal physique. I actually never watched the animated Cinderella sequels, but I have seen some clips, and from that alone, I can see why you say that many of the "problems" have been fixed. I do think it was kind of silly to have the mice open the window so that Cinderella could be heard. She could've done that herself. There was nothing really heroic or brave about what they did.
I'm sure I'll eventually do a video on that version as well, haha! I LOVE Whitney Houston!! 💜 Speaking of Whitney, stay tuned for a soon-to-come update!
It's a good thing _Cinderella_ (2015) is not a musical. Not only would it have made the movie feel juvenile because those were never Broadway style songs in the first place, and they would have felt like time wasters and padding, but they would have horrendously clash with the rest of the movie. _Cinderella_ (1950) is a cartoon and that's how it was treated. _Cinderella_ (2015) is live-action with historical realism incorporated into its visuals; the rules of a cartoon do not and cannot apply to it.
Hello there! This is why I said they should have done *instrumentals*. Instrumentals can work regardless if it's a live-action or cartoon film. A waltz version of "So This Is Love" during the ballroom scene would have worked just fine. You can keep the most memorable songs in without making it a musical. The same goes with "A Dream Is A Wish Your Heart Makes". Playing an instrumental version of that would've worked and would have been a beautiful wink/nod to the fans.
@@WondrousJoJo In the animated movie there was zero reason to be playing "So This Is Love" other than to avoid giving Cinderella and the prince dialogue. In the live-action film, that song wouldn't go well with the dancing so might as well not have it at all. The Sleeping Beauty waltz-like music they made was much more fitting. Despite not being a musical _Cinderella_ (2015) has fantastic music - it's beautiful, enchanting and cozy, and it made me have the same feeling of having watched a 90s animated musical, like 1997's _Anastasia_
I disagree. "So This Is Love" would have been fine as an instrumental for the ballroom dance. I even played a small snippet of a waltz version of the song in my video, and it literally fit perfectly with the dancing in the scene. I didn't even have to do any editing to the movie footage whatsoever. Only fans would recognize the song playing. To everyone else, it would just be a waltz song, and people wouldn't think anything deeper into it or question it, just like the waltz song they chose for the movie. I'm sure no one genuinely remembers it thoroughly or how it went exactly (I know I don't). Maybe a few music buffs or an afficionado... but to many of us, it was just a waltz song. I have nothing against the soundtrack they went with in the final product. I just feel that they could have tied in a few more iconic subtleties from the original film. If you absolutely loved the music, that is wonderful, and I love that for you. Also, you've left several comments in the comments section, which is great. However, I take issue with your tone in some of your replies. You come off as kind of snobbish in several of your replies, as if you're talking down to us for the things we love and enjoy. It's ok to express our opinions (that's what I love about this platform), but on my channel, I promote having respect for one another.
@@WondrousJoJo Who dances like that to "So This Is Love"? The dance choreography doesn't match the song at all, but it does match the new music they made for the film. There should not be a disconnect between the music and the dance! There needs to be a better reason and explanation for anything other than "It was in the animated movie." The 2015 film is already so radically different from the 1950 film right from the get-go, that complaints about some song not being in a non-musical film feels rather silly and ridiculous. I couldn't even think of a reason why any of the songs should have been in it. She did sing a little of "Sing Sweet Nightgale" to herself at one point.
@@0deadx21umm the “so this is love” in the 1950 version was ALSO used in the scene where Cinderella is humming to herself and the evil stepmother found out she went to the ball
I really enjoyed this remake. One thing I loved about it is the focus on Ella and the human characters rather than the chase scenes of the mice and Lucifer. They also did a great job on making the animals silent and taking on a more dramatic route for the film.
Oh, yes! I did appreciate the minimum cat/mouse involvement of the remake's plot! Even when I watch the original, I sometimes skip/fast forward past those parts. 😅 I used to think I was the only one who didn't care for those parts, but it turns out many people don't care for it. Though, I do love the scene in the original where they're singing while making alterations to Cinderella's dress.
@@WondrousJoJo yes! The dress making scene is important to the plot but having too much of the cat/mouse chase scenes make me feel like I should watch Tom & Jerry instead. But I guess they were added there for entertainment purposes for younger audiences 😊
@@WondrousJoJo It's almost like they didn't know what to do with the human characters, and that's why they wasted half the runtime on cat and mouse shenanigans. Cinderella's backstory is told to us instead of shown to us. What was anyone's personality through any of it? Why should I care? Cinderella doesn't get a Cinderella moment, the prince and her just dance and walk with a song in the background to avoid dialogue and chemistry. They don't even reunite at the end; she just fits the slippers and cuts to the wedding already.
If the animated movie was more like the live-action movie, that would have been one hell of a Cinderella adaption. But it was the 1940s and animation takes quite the time, so no surprise they took so many shortcuts.
@@shanelocsin9906yah nit Cinderella was made inn1950 (the Diseny version) so in those times it’s understandable why they be similar to other shows like Tom and Jerry
@@lessismore8533 yeah, I thought so too. I am aware that Tom and Jerry would have came out around the same time as well so I guess Disney wanted to have their own take on it 😅
One thing that bothered me in live action is the glass sliper scene at the ending. In the original Cinderella asked the mouses to call the dog to stop Lucifer and she had the second sliper to save her self. In the live action they just faund her because she was singing and her sliper was already broken so it take away her smartness and her proactivety (ironic). I love however the "Have courage and be kind" message. Gorgeous costume btw!
You're right! She DID save herself in that scene! That reminds me how I used to always laugh at Lady Tremaine's jaw drop when Cinderella pulled the other slipper out and realized she was the mystery girl at the ball the entire time. It's definitely a shame that moment was taken from Cinderella herself.
And thanks for the compliment! 💜🦋 It was probably my favorite one of all. Anytime I choose to discuss anything related to "Cinderella," I am going to go all-out in some kind of way (to the best of my ability at that time of production).
@@WondrousJoJo What a juvenile movement. No wonder you only see that in animation and silly live-action adaptations.
I mean yah I LOVE how Cinderella had the other slipper in the original
BUT her slipper wasn’t “already broken” in the 2015 movie. The stepmother broke it
Back in 2015 I WANTED those Cinderella slippers so BAD😂
They are very beautiful shoes.
Cinderella (2015) desrrves so much more attention. It's the greatest remake for me, despite not being a musical. Heck, it's the best Cinderella film, period!
You’re so RIGHT dude! Cinderella is one of the few GOOD live actions! Gotta thank the director
No other Disney live action film could compare to Cinderella’s costume designs (especially the ball)…..maybe Aurora’s wedding dress is close
Ariel's costumes are definitely not a contender. Belle's were disappointing, too. I have yet to see Maleficent, but I did sneak a peek and look up the dress. Definitely gorgeous.
I love your outfit. And I love the effects you did with the wand. Super magical. I love it! :)
Thank you so much!! It was a labor of love! The wand effects took HOURS, but I'm glad I went for it. 😊
This movie is proof that modern remakes can work!!
While I never was a fan of Cinderella, I really liked the life action version. Especially the first scenes with Ellas mom and dad were very well done and you could feel the love they all had for each other and the heartbreak after the moms passing.
Also the transformation scene of the dress was brilliant and the dress truly stunning. I never thought that they would go with a blue dress in the life action, but for me it worked. Let me explain that: In the original version of the movie her dress was originally silvery white, but the film was reworked and scrubbed to restore it. During this process, they messed some of the colors and lineworks, thats why the more modern Cinderellas is blue.
I completely agree on the male characters. Finally the prince isn’t just an „Accessoire“, but a character with his own thoughts and worries.
I also really liked the transformation scenes with the fairy godmother, for example when she transforms the mice into horses. Some of the horses have mouse ears for a short while and one even still has a mouse tail for a while, and when the carriage starts to transform back into a pumpkin you can see the flesh and seeds inside and I really like such attention to detail.
But the original is a beloved classic for a reason, and even if the new one is pretty good by itself, I don’t think it will be ever considered a classic as the original one.
But yet its still a good and pretty faithful adaptation and it boggles my mind, how Disney made this and then managed to completely butcher the other live actions so far
I agree with you on all this. Cinderella my favorite princess. But I got to say this is your best outfit especially the sparkle effects when you flick the wand the small detail just makes it all the better.
"Ever After" is still my favorite Cinderella retelling. Less because she "saves herself" -- the prince wants to be the knight in shining armor, but is just kind of bad at it -- but because that version has Cinderella love others and open to being loved in spite of her struggles and the enduring cruelty.
I think you'd really like if you haven't seen it yet :)
(cosplay is really cute btw 💟)
Thank you so much! Hey, a fairy godmother/parent is still a type of mage/magician, and I love mages/magicians/wizards/warlocks/and witches! 😊
@@WondrousJoJo magic rules
This is by far the only live action remake I enjoy and you point out all the reasons why! Great analysis
I 100% agree with you.
Cinderella (2015) is the best Disney remake, but it's still a shadow of the original.
But wow is it better than the other junk they've put out.
Cinderella is a very special story to me and she always reminds me that no matter how my heart is grieving, to keep on believing.
What fucking shadow could the 1950 film possible cast on the 2015 film. It anything it's the other way around. The 2015 film is spectacular with rich and believable visuals and costumes, and the fact that it's live-action and not drawings makes it all that more remarkable. Like they would have ever made an animated movie that looks that good, especially in the mid-20th century.
@@0deadx21 Looks aren't everything.
One could say Beauty and the Beast 2017 has better visuals because it's live action (and they'd be wrong).
Cinderella 2015 is far above the other live actions and is my favorite by a longshot, but it will never touch the status of the 1950 film.
@@saintfighteraqua What fucking status are we talking about? Is that status even remotely worth it, because the 2015 film is doing remarkably well as it is.
When it comes to fairy tale movies, visuals are a giant and important part of the whole thing. You can show the dress, slippers, carriage, clock, and castle, but it won't mean much unless you execute it well.
If the animated movie was live-action, it'd be one of the laziest Cinderella films ever made, with the only interesting things about it being the bizarre choice of having half the runtime taken over by the animals, and depicting the palace as a giant, inconvenient and almost empty place.
@@0deadx21 I'm not knocking the newer film, I love it...but trying to claim it's more iconic than the original is not true at all.
The 1950 movie has issues but it is iconic and what everyone thinks of when they think of the fairy tale or even name Cinderella.
I love both films a lot, almost an obsession.
@@saintfighteraqua There's a difference between being iconic and being better. The 2015 film is objectively the best of all the Disney _Cinderella_ movies. It's the actual 'good one'. We have the animated movie in which almost nothing happens, and its sequels, the 1997 film that looks and feels like a stage show, and then there's the 2015 film which is executed exceptionally well in all departments.
This movie is an example that of when Disney wants to make a quality remake they can. This version will always rank third to me as my favorite Cinderella movie. My favorite is the animated version, the Rogers and Hammerstein's version with Brandy. This version ranks third. However as a live action version it is so apparent that when they want to make Disney can absolutely make a movie that puts our childhood on screen with all the glitter and magic.
The changes made were important but didn't retract from the story unlike the Beauty and the Beast or Little Mermaid remakes.
That dress tho😍 it is a clear cut example of true Disney magic. It shows when effort is put in versus the costumes they had Ariel in we can see the differences.
Also continue making videos and I'll keep watching. I loved your analysis of this movie.
Thank you!! I really appreciate your support! 😊
YASSS%! That Brandy one was my childhood! 1997
I really loved this Cinderella remake. The costumes were amazing and I appreciated how they added depth to the original characters. But now you got me thinking, did they lose that dreamer quality at the core of Cinderella’s character? You inspired me, I’ll be rewatching both versions.
Great analysis as always! I hope you got that spider.
I resonate so deeply with the dreamer themes in the original film. By the time I finish watching the original, I feel inspired to keep believing and to continue having faith. When I finished the remake, I was like: "Oh, nice. They got married and she can have her house back now. 🫥"
Thank you!! And no... sadly, it was totally out of sight by the time I was done recording. 😩 It got lucky.
I love the sparkle effect you added to your magic wand. Nice little detail ✨
Thank you!!! I appreciate that! It was a last-minute idea... one that took HOURS to do, lol. But hey, it was out of love for the arts.
Love the outfit and the sparkles. Also good reminder that not all remakes are bad
Appreciated! 🙏🏽
I think you’re right; the music was a big let down in the remake. “So This is Love” is *so* magical, and the remake’s waltz is so generic. As a remake, this one was the least offensive, but it still lacked the magic. C’est la vie.
What a ridiculous thing to say. The live-action film isn't a musical, the music that they made for the movie is spectacular. The soundtrack is outstanding. Lacked the magic? Lacked the magic of what? Limited 40s animation and overly humongous and very inconvenient drawn architecture? Who the hell wants any of that? Did you forget you're watching a believable live-action film or something?
This is the only live action remake I can appreciate aside from the 1996 101 Dalmatians. It felt like the creators actually cared about doing justice to the art of the original, even if I have a few quibbles about their story decisions. It was honestly refreshing that Ella's character was allowed to remain gentle and feminine, as opposed to so many other remake princesses, and I liked fleshing out of the prince's character, too.
Ah, yes! 101 Dalmatians was one of the earliest remakes before this current era. From what I remember, that movie respected its animated counterpart! I enjoyed it as a kid! And yes, thank GOODNESS 2015 Cinderella was allowed to stay gentle and feminine. 2015 was also before this current super-PC culture era that we're in now, so that may be why Cinderella could keep that part of her identity.
Out of curiosity what didn’t you like about the story choices? It’s basically the same plot as the cartoon. Not that many changes
@@lessismore8533 One of the biggest ones is that in the animated version, Cinderella saves herself by fighting to get out of that room and producing the other glass slipper after the one the royals had broke. The live action took that agency away from her and it bugs me. I also didn't love the whole bit with the hunting party.
When my little girl was born her baby song ( i sing it to her) was so this is love in holland is dit is het dan my wish was her now she is 11 and sometime,s she asks mom can you sing my baby song and we sing it together ❤i have then tears in my eyes ❤ that movie and the other old disney movie,s gave me hope and a escape from my bad chilhood so thank you disney ❤
As always you make really good points. My favorite Cinderella will alway be (ok yes Disney nerd) Rogers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella with Leslie Ann Warren. I love the score to that one as I grew up watching it every year on CBS. Would love to see you compare Disney’s version with “Ever After” and this one. Each brings a unique perspective to the story.
At first, I thought you were talking about the one with Julie Andrews lol.
Also, you are maybe the 3rd or 4th person to bring up Ever After. I've never seen it, but I do know who Drew Barrymore is. I might add it to my list of movies to see. 🙂
@@WondrousJoJo I also have the one with Julie Andrews and the one with Brandy.
Cinderella 2015 was the last disney remake I seen. It was pretty good, to be honest I wasn't a huge cinderella fan, don't get me wrong I loved the original I would watch it to this day. Yet, Belle will always be my favorite princess. So, when i watched the original I did miss the songs, I did like how they fleshed out the prince it was good they met before the ball, and I did like the line of the stepmother still trying to stop Cinderella from leaving saying she was Ella's mother and Ella saying you were never my mother, that was a good line. Though I didn't feel she was as trapped as she was in the original, in the remake she could leave but stayed because of a promise. I liked seeing scenes of her and her dad getting to know the man a bit, seeing her mom. Even more so I liked getting to know the stepmother, I could tell at first she was trying to fit into the family, yet being compared to the first wife even if ella and her dad were unaware she was listening, I could understand her bitterness, it seemed to make more sense. Honestly I thought the original stepmother was a tad dumb. She knew cinderella was kind and pretty, if she had tried to be nice to Cinderella, then her life would have been way better. yet spite and bitterness can blind people. This remake was good definitely would watch it again, a lot better then the beauty and the beast remake that's for sure. At least the actress playing cinderella knew how the character was portrayed. great analysis keep up the good work.
Hey there!
Belle is my favorite, too! 💛
I did enjoy the backstory and time spent with her family. THAT is an example of what I mean by making a remake better or expanding on existing material without disrespecting the original! Same with how they treated the stepmother - fantastic job! And now that you mention the OG stepmother, you have a good point. Had she allowed Cinderella to be great, she (AND her daughters) would have immensely benefited by proxy, haha. Oh well, that's the drawback of jealousy, I guess. You get blinded from the beauty in things.
And thank you! I'll try to keep up the good work.
Hi, found your channel recently and love it! You are not only criticizing but being respectful, also your talking is soo soothing to the ears👍
My fav princess is Aurora, but people are so disrespectful to "traditional" princess like her. Hope you could make a vid about Sleeping Beauty one day🤗
Aww, thank you so much. That compliment means a lot to me. 💜
I agree that people are very disrespectful towards the more traditional princesses, and they're being written out and suppressed. As far as an eventual Sleeping Beauty video, hey, anything can happen! 😊
@@WondrousJoJo Yeah, right?😭 Many people says Aurora is boring (Big no! she's modest and responsible) and the movie sucks bc Aurora and Philip almost don't talk in the latter half. IMO, they should remember that it was based on ballet. I also love that kind of express, it is the pure art👑
run were? What is she supposed to do? Where is she supposed to go? The Story plays in a time, where there were no social services or options she could take. The whole house and everything belonged to her stepmom, she had nothing. Her mom could have reported her for theft for the clothes on her back.
Thank you!! You get it!
Even nowadays with us having places like shelters etc it’s still easier to stay in a familiar environment even if it’s an abusive one rather then venture out into a wild unknown. I can attest to that since I grew up in an abusive household like Cinderella. She’s USED TO THIS and people might be surprised to learn that when you’re used to abuse you take these things into yourself rather than see it as an affront to your personal humanity. You feel you deserve it as wild as that can seem from an outside perspective. Until you’ve experienced it you won’t ever truly understand it but you can be empathetic to it which is how I hope people would view Cinderella
@Zelda00Gamer Thank you for your piece and adding to that part of the conversation.
Side note: The Pikachu pull-ups in your pfp are darling 🫠😍☺️
@@WondrousJoJo thank you ☺️ I love the little guy too he’s trying so hard lol Cinderella is def one of my hot button topics so I’m glad I could provide additional context!
EXACTLY!
Tell that to Kerry Knightly who doesn’t understand Cinderella at all victim blaming her because she couldve “found a way out”. UmmmNOZ
My favorite Cinderella adaptation is the movie ‘Ever After’ with Drew Barrymore. Been really enjoying your videos
Thank you so much! I appreciate you saying that. 🙏🏽
I wouldn't call _Ever After_ a fairy tale film. Doesn't look like it. It's barely even an adaptation. More like historical drama with Cinderella elements in it.
I just love these outfits you’ve been wearing!! :D ✨
Thank you so much! I really do try to be festive and fun. If I had the budget of a successful UA-camr, I'd be able to push my creativity even further!
Roger and Hammerstein is still my favorite Cinderella
The one with Brandy? I loved that one, too! I'm sure I'll eventually do a video on that version as well lol.
@@WondrousJoJo How come _Cinderella_ (2015) is the only Cinderella movie that takes anything seriously? In most adaptations the characters don't matter, the story doesn't matter. It's just stuff that happens with no real weight. _Cinderella_ (1997) pretty much looks and feels like a stage show. We're not watching characters, we're watching actors, so nothing in it matters.
@@0deadx21doesn’t matter. It’s all about personal TASTE. I personally LOVE the 1997 Cinderella and this is coming from someone who’s not a huge musical fan.
YAS! That Brandy/Whitney Houston one was my freaking childhood
Oh! And the final sequence with the mice and the key and the stairs! Brilliant suspense sequence, and so much fun! The remake didn’t have any tension, and Ella didn’t even seem bothered-she’s just singing at her window, and that’s how they find her?! I didn’t feel any sense of urgency *shrug*
I agree. She didn't fight for her freedom at the end in the remake... which is so odd considering this was supposed to be a "corrective" version.
It is the corrective version because it gave what the all the animated characters lacked - personality and development. It wasn't because what Cinderella did or didn't do, it was because she was a flat character, they all were. Half the runtime was spend away from the human characters, so all we were left with are stereotypes and archetypes.
It seems like they were making up Cinderella's personality as they went along; it's like Cinderella got her personality altered for the latter half of the movie. She went from being somewhat annoyed from being inconvenienced to outright being a crybaby from being inconvenienced.
Are there seriously people who are demanding complete bullshit like a "mice and key up the stairs race" in a fucking believable-looking live-action film? What idiotic logic did they use into thinking this will in any way benefit the live-action film? Who the hell do you think is the protagonist? Cinderella or the mice, because it can't be both?
Well I tell you one thing I’m impressed with your fairy Godmother outfit especially the butterfly 🦋 addition Disney should use this👏😊👏 also as a Cinderella fan I would have love the instrumentals as long as they are tasteful and your view point where very thoughtful 👌
Thank you so much. I appreciate that!
I love your outfit so much! I love the butterflies! you look so amazing! also loved how you put in those little wand edits! thanks for sharing! this was interesting! im subscribing!
Thank you so much! I put a lot of thought into the concept, and I'm glad it has been so well received! It warms me that you thoroughly enjoyed the video and that I've earned your subscription. 😊
As always I love the outfit and I agree with your sentiments. I kinda remember seeing this film in theatre as a kid and found it a little boring. Also the coloring was jarring to me. The original coloring of her dress the grey and periwinkle is so much prettier than the blue in the final version.
Thank you! You know, at first, I didn't care for how the unedited dress looked. But looking back at it now, it's not that bad, and it reminds me more of the OG 1950 dress color. I will admit that although I do like the blue, it is definitely SUPER blue, and they really just went crazy with the dye job, haha.
Sorry to disagree but the 2015 Cinderella made me LOVE the color blue
Not even cartoon Cinderella’s dress is white/periwinkle in merchandise/pics. They just make it blue in the pictures
Only the 1950 MOVIE they’ll show the dress as that silver color
I don’t get it
So glad that you finally made a Cinderella Remake video!
I enjoyed your perspective and never really thought about the dreamer concept. After listening to you and thinking about it, I 100% agree. It is an aspect that they didn't really touch on. It would have made the movie closer to the original.
All that said, they did a very good job in attempting to recreate the magic of the original animation. Nothing is ever gonna match the OG thought
At first, I didn't care for the dress transformation scene. But then, I played it a few more times, and I changed my mind. I actually think it's very beautiful and I kind of love it now.
And yes, the dreamer concept should have stayed. She doesn't have to spin around in her room and sing with the birds and mice, haha, but she could have aspired towards some kind of dream.
Thanks for watching!
Agree, 100%!! Both for the reasons to like it and the gripes!! I am not only a book nerd like Belle, I am a dreamer like Cinderella and taking that out did irk me. Plus the part about giving her more freedom than in the cartoon. It just didn't make sense. But it was still a much better live action than later ones as there was enoough of a change to make it stand on its own with such lovely callbacks to the original that didn't make it seem like they were looking down on it. For the most part, anyway. Not every girl has to be a "girlboss", nor does every girl want to be. With all this fuss about diversity, you would think that they would consider the diversity of desires and wants as well as the surface level diversity, but some days it seems that's too much to ask.
Anyways, lovely video!! And you can't go wrong with the Fairy Godmother!! Can I just say, you did it better than the Netflix Cinderella or Wish!! 😜
Hahaha, thank you! I never watched the Netflix Cinderella, but I do know that Billy Porter is the Fairy, and I know how he looks. I personally would always prefer to see a FGM as a woman in an actual movie production/film. A random guy filming himself wearing a costume inspired by a FGM in a UA-cam video - that's totally fine (😂). I liked Asha's cloak, but it's unfortunately in a not-so-great movie.
@@WondrousJoJo precisely why you did it better. 😉😁🤣
i love this live action movie like y'all dont understand I've seen the live action, beauty and the beast and that shit was horrible. It was so dark and gloomy like it was just boring and then I seen the live action Aladdin in theaters and I didn't really like it that much either. Like I even have the Cinderella 2015 movie on DVD and I'm so glad I do. Like I don't care what anybody says but the 2015 in the 07 version of Cinderella is the best movies. Like they actually gave Prince charming a name and characteristics. And the scene where she transforms into her blue dress. GOD the dress is gorgeous the way that they dance at the ball have chemistry this whole movie warns my heart. I just watched it a few months ago on Disney+.
AMEN
Love 2015 Cinderella!
I remember wanting her slippers SO BAD😭
Love your enthusiasm and spirit, the costume is 10/10 pls never change ❤
I appreciate that! Thank you.
I went to the movies and saw the Cinderella remake it was really good probably one of the best Disney remakes........ some of the ones that just released weren't so good I just hope that Disney doesn't mess up Pocahontas remake😊😊😊
Just because they "can" doesn't mean they "should". Personally? I would really rather they didn't. I'm tired of Hollywood acting like Animation is a lesser art form and that Live Action is the pinnacle of fiction and something all stories aim to become 🙄
I agree. Animation is art. It has no age limit, no maturity level, and no restrictions on who may enjoy it. It's for everyone.
great cosplay🤩 I love the butterflies 🩷🦋 and Lily james sings a dream is a wish your heart makes in the credits and she did pretty good you can find it on UA-cam if your interested😉
Thank you! 💜🦋
Yes, while making this video, I looked it up. I originally had a sample of the instrumental in the video during the part where I talked about how Disney could have incorporated the song during Cinderella's time in the house/in her room. I showed some footage along with the music to help my viewers imagine how nice it could have been. But... this is UA-cam, so I had to take it out before premiering this final version. 🫤
Jojo has such a soothing voice.
Thanks ☺️💜
I think every live action remake has literally created the very scenarios and perceived character flaws that people complained the loudest about when it came to the originals, even when those dynamics were not present or problematic in the originals, while at the same time removing the magic that makes the originals such timeless classics.
Yes, or they create a new problem by trying to overly fix a previously perceived problem.
I mean sure but Cinderella 2015 is almost perfect unlike the other remakes
Cosplay on point yet again! Astute observations... I think Cinderella is the second-best remake after Jungle Book. The latter edges it out simply because the original film wasn't THAT great to begin with and they completely rewrote it from the ground up. Cinderella was competing with such a good film to begin with that it ends up doing less in comparison. However, what it does and how it adds to the original was done very well. Thankfully it predates girlbossing, and I remember it getting criticized for emphasizing a message of having courage and being kind, which was only starting to be derided by, I guess, cowardly and mean people 😆 I also liked how they made the prince an actual character, as opposed to the kind of generic symbol of the princess' self-actualization that he was in the original. Good film all round. Too bad everything after that went off the rails 😆
Thanks, Cory!
For now, this is the last video I'm doing on Disney remakes for a while. I want to branch out and talk about other things. Plus, the remakes I've seen (with most of them being a disappointment) put me in a headspace to complain or rant a lot of the time, lol. I enjoy discussing issues in films, but Disney's issues are getting very exhausting. 😅
Cinderella is ok... I just lost all of the things that personally resonated with me. For example, Cinderella isn't a dreamer anymore. That's a huge loss for me. Yes, I gained the butterfly symbolism (which I really do love)... but I'd rather have the dreamy themes and tones if it had meant losing that over the butterflies.
The best and perfect live action! ❤
Definitely one of Disney's best live actions!
I think this and the Jungle Book remake got it.
No. The Jungle Book remake was a tonal trainwreck with a boring cast of characters and Mowgli was turned into a Gary Stu.
I do think the live action Cinderella remake is one of the better remakes, but as for Ella being more "proactive", I will agree for the most part until right at the very end. I, to this day, cannot stand how they made it so she just sat there singing to the closed window and the mice had to open it for her. Like, really? She's doing all this stuff to have as much life of her own as she can and then doesn't even open the window to get in some fresh air while she's singing? The mice had to do that and I don't even remember if they knew the prince was there themselves, meaning that they would have literally just done it to do it. It completely undermines Ella's character built up through the movie, in my opinion.
Yes!! I felt the same way!! I guess they were trying to give a nod to the original Cinderella being trapped and helped by her animal friends? They could have done so much better than that.
@@WondrousJoJo yep. Agreed. Leaving the animals working on the dress, as you pointed out, would definitely have fit far better.
I mean WHY would Ella need fresh air to sing? If she felt suffocated, she would’ve open psd the window herself. As for the mice not knowing (or knowing) about the Prince, I suppose the writers could’ve made that more clear
@@lessismore8533 but the point is that they have her all this self agency throughout the movie and in the smallest thing that could have made the biggest difference to her, they have the least, most strange (maybe not nonsensical, but definitely strange) course of action that then makes it look like she's not done anything for herself and is actually fine with the way things are. It doesn't make sense.
I know that I’m in the minority here, but I loved the butterflies flying around Cinderella…I just didn’t like them on the dress. Love the dress (best of all the live-action Disney dresses), just didn’t like the butterflies on it. But that’s just me. I love how you describe it, though!
Aww, that's ok. I'm probably biased because I love butterflies so much. I also appreciate that they put them on her slippers as well. If the butterflies were only on the neck/shoulder line of the dress, yeah, that might not have been as enjoyable. I appreciate them completing the look/theme.
Butterflies symbolize transformation, freedom, and growth. They're Cinderella's motif throughout the film. They're simple, sweet, and discreet. The bertha of Cinderella's dress is tastefully decorated with them; she doesn't have too many or too few, and the glass slippers have a gold butterfly to match them with the dress. I also love the fact that each butterfly is unique. There's no repeating butterfly design.
Have you seen Cinderella's gown before the cgi blue was added?
I love the one we see in the final film, but the original version, which is a soft periwinkle silvery blue is beyond beautiful and looks closer to her animated gown.
@@WondrousJoJo Thank you so much for your comment! I didn’t have time to do more than just like your comment when you wrote it, but I’ve had a revelation since then and now think that the butterflies aren’t the issue aren’t the issue. I thought they were, but there were other problems with the styling and I blamed the poor butterflies. Sorry JoJo. 🦋 I explain a little bit more below, if you can be bothered to read a super long comment. This comment is kind of a response to everyone who has replied, but I thought it best to reply to you, because it was so nice of you to reply to my little comment, and because that way everyone is more likely to see this.
Everyone who has responded has made really good points. I love @0dead’s comment, and I have seen exactly what @saintfighteraqua is talking about regarding the dress.
Anyway, I found this really great channel that redesigned all of the live-action Disney Princess dresses, and of all of the “recreations” I’ve seen, he did the best job! He even gave Halle Berry gorgeous red hair (like Ariel should have had!), and gave her a bunch of extra outfits from the animated movie, including the meaningful sparkly dress at the end that is NOT a sign of materialism, but rather, a father’s love for his daughter - and acceptance of her growing up. He basically redid all of the live action Disney Princess dresses, including Belle’s awful one (Hermione, I’m a feminist too, but like, we don’t need to make everything about feminism, and feminists can wear corsets and pretty dresses. All of the first feminists did!). I loved all his designs, except his redesign for Ariel’s bikini, which was made out of some ugly fish scales and fins that kind of creeped me out lol, and the colours looked washed out. I want to see vibrant purple like the cannon animation! Putting pale lilac on Ariel, when that is Ursula’s colour isn’t good. Colour theory is so important in the classic Disney animations. The vibrant purple of Ariel’s sea shell bikini helps juxtapose her with the dull violet colour of Ursula. Putting that same pale violet on Ariel removes this juxtaposition. Ariel is supposed to be vibrant and younger, and her shade of purple in the animation represents that; while Ursula’s almost sickly, more mature colour is supposed to represent her age and internal bitterness. The contrast of the two shades of purple helps juxtapose the protagonist from the villain, so putting pale purple on Ariel defeats this important - albeit, subliminal - colour coding with which the genius makers of the animated version confronted us (also, I just noticed while writing this that JoJo’s pfp is Ariel’s exact vibrant, young, beautiful shade of purple!).
Nevertheless, one of the highlights of this guy’s video was his Cinderella gown! I honestly didn’t think that anyone could top the one in the movie…except by removing the butterflies (sorry guys. I don’t know, it really felt like overkill for me and I didn’t like it…that is, before I saw his video).
However, this guy, totally fixed the problem! I watched his video after I commented here, and he softened Cinderella’s dress to the natural, lighter shade that @saintfighteraqua is talking about, without the deep blue CGI colour added (although I do think that shade of blue is very pretty) - and you’re right, it looked so much better! He also put her hair up in a way that was both modern, and similar to the original (instead of the complicated style that they had in the original, which I now realise is what clashed with all of the butterflies and made it look like TOO MUCH…especially since she is such a naturally beauty who doesn’t need much embellishment to make her beautiful. Some women look better with lots of embellishment. However, some women are so beautiful that they don’t need that embellishment - it takes away from their beauty instead of enhancing it. Side note: people actually said that about Anne Boleyn, but they said the opposite about the woman who Henry VIII married afterwards, who was considered to be very plain-looking).
Anyway, this guy then added a diamond choker around live-action Cinderella’s neck, as in the original animated film Cinderella is wearing a black choker.
And all of a sudden, seeing the completed look that this guy had created, the butterflies weren’t a problem for me! I actually thought that the outfit looked stunningly beautiful. And I realised that the butterflies had never been the problem…it was just the way that they were executed with the hairstyle and everything. It was too much going on all at once, in one place.
Anyway, if anyone has actually read to the bottom of this comment…first of all, thank you! And secondly, if you’d like, I’ll try to go back through my videos and find the name of the video for all of you so you can watch it!
Anyway, butterflies approved! 😊
Hey it’s our boy again serving looks and facts! I’m about to get real deep with this and this might trigger people so warning ⚠️ but I am a multiple abuse survivor, in particular people in my family have hurt me and Cinderella has always been MY princess far more than any other. I love them all for different reasons but Cinderella speaks to me. When her dress gets ripped that felt like a violating scene to me, some people have compared it to SA and I can see that, and when she cries and says there’s nothing left to believe in it breaks my entire soul in a way no Disney film not even Lion King or that one scene in Dumbo or Bambis mom can do. I have the same temperament as her, sweet with some sass. And I will not stand for any Cinder slander near me! She may be a cartoon but she deserves to be hailed as one of the greats. The fact that she could be so kind and loving and optimistic and internally beautiful after suffering for at least ten years of her life being a servant in her own home right after her father died like ughhhh. I’ve played the scene in my head of after the funeral the step mother pulling her aside and telling her she needs to pay her dues and earn her keep now and even when Cinderella learns that this is wrong awful toxic abusive behavior she doesn’t leave because she’s that girl. It annoys me that people ask why doesn’t she leave as if it’s just so simple for someone being hurt like that to leave especially by trusted people or family. Whether romantic or platonic or familial abuse is hard to escape from. And where would she go? I guess she would just work the streets? Like what do y’all want her to do? And what’s funnier is when she’s girl-bossified people complain about that then because there’s no winning. Personally Disneys version is my favorite but I’ve enjoyed other versions and unlike most this isn’t my favorite. I’m still of the opinion that every live action remake is bad, with the exception of some parts of Maleficent because it’s more like a retelling it isn’t trying to be Sleeping Beauty though even that suffers from the “Were trying to fix what Disney tumblr blog posters said was broken about our films” thing they do with every movie. It started here and hasn’t ended, actually do be fair it started well before here with movies like Frozen but I’m specifically talking live action. The problem is the movie is called Cinderella and if Cinderella isn’t right to me then the entire movie fails. A beautiful dress, some themes, a overused quote and “fixed problems from the original” does not a good movie make. There’s 3 Cinderella films most of those problems were fixed by then. Prince Charming has a personality of a lovable Himbo, love is earned, happily ever after is fought for more, Cinderella is more proactive, she gets more dresses, themes are expanded on and we get more fleshed out character development for the step mother and sisters, especially Anastasia! (I still don’t fully forgive her but I can understand why Cinderella would, she redeemed herself). Side note: Wish only Lady Tremaine got the bad ending and Drizella was given a second chance, she was under her mothers rule too, she was abused too, she was taught wrong and showed signs of regret in the second film. She could have changed but they went the other direction and hammered down harder on her spiteful nature and made her just plain evil. She literally didn’t care if her sister, her real blood sister, got ended by the wand! Geeeeeesh
Anywho, I think the movie is okay, it’s the lesser evil but it didn’t do anything that the Cinderella movies we already have didn’t except expand on her love for her mother which they try to make super important but it doesn’t work for me. Also if her dress is that important they could have just made the iconic silver (Yeah I said it’s silver! Get it right Disney!) dress gave bits of pink in it. Like it has a shimmer but it seems more like random shiny fabric not adding actual parts from her mothers dress. Also it’s very mother heavy her father was important too, at least in the Disney version. I actually always though Lady Tremaine ended him personally to get his wealth and when saddled with Cinderella she seized an opportunity for a free maid. So yeah, while the movie isn’t horrendous it robs Cinderella of so much personality and charm and dreamy nature as you said and if you’re going to tear down the main character to prop up the prince, because let’s be real he’s pretty much the second main character, I’m not for it. Also I don’t like the new fairy godmother, her actress yes but this version isn’t good to me. She missed the warm grandma vibes the old one had and I hate that she tests this woman to see if she’s pure enough or deserving enough for a miracle when she just suffered so much. Like literally don’t test me at my wits end, you know I’m a good person. I do believe that Cinderella was dreaming of freedom, that’s what her heart was wishing for, freedom and love. Actually that’s confirmed in the sequel she said she dreamed of love. Now I don’t think she means romantic love but that’s what she got. She just wanted to be loved and made to feel worthy of that and of life and of happiness. She wanted one night to feel like a woman, to experience love, to experience freedom. That’s what she wishes for, it’s why birds are usually connected to Cinderella and to that end most of the princesses because birds are graceful and beautiful and free.
Thank you so much, haha! I always appreciate your support!
I've always been in a kind of awe with the dress ripping scene... I can't explain it. Something about it just pulls my attention. I can totally see how someone could get SA vibes from it!
I love OG Disney Cinderella. The dreaming aspects and then imagining finally receiving a long-awaited blessing resonates so deeply with me. I love how her dress is *silver*, which is a dress color not seen all that often, and made her stand out so much.
As for the remake, I wasn't thrilled about the new FGM either. I wanted her to look a bit more motherly with a more....maternal physique. I actually never watched the animated Cinderella sequels, but I have seen some clips, and from that alone, I can see why you say that many of the "problems" have been fixed. I do think it was kind of silly to have the mice open the window so that Cinderella could be heard. She could've done that herself. There was nothing really heroic or brave about what they did.
Are you going to compare it to the Rodgers and Hammerstein version they made on ABC.
Ooh, yes!! Whitney Houston ftw!!
I'm sure I'll eventually do a video on that version as well, haha! I LOVE Whitney Houston!! 💜 Speaking of Whitney, stay tuned for a soon-to-come update!
YAS! That was my childhood
That and Cinderella 2015 are my favorite live actions
Agree 💯
It's a good thing _Cinderella_ (2015) is not a musical. Not only would it have made the movie feel juvenile because those were never Broadway style songs in the first place, and they would have felt like time wasters and padding, but they would have horrendously clash with the rest of the movie. _Cinderella_ (1950) is a cartoon and that's how it was treated. _Cinderella_ (2015) is live-action with historical realism incorporated into its visuals; the rules of a cartoon do not and cannot apply to it.
Hello there!
This is why I said they should have done *instrumentals*. Instrumentals can work regardless if it's a live-action or cartoon film. A waltz version of "So This Is Love" during the ballroom scene would have worked just fine. You can keep the most memorable songs in without making it a musical. The same goes with "A Dream Is A Wish Your Heart Makes". Playing an instrumental version of that would've worked and would have been a beautiful wink/nod to the fans.
@@WondrousJoJo In the animated movie there was zero reason to be playing "So This Is Love" other than to avoid giving Cinderella and the prince dialogue. In the live-action film, that song wouldn't go well with the dancing so might as well not have it at all. The Sleeping Beauty waltz-like music they made was much more fitting.
Despite not being a musical _Cinderella_ (2015) has fantastic music - it's beautiful, enchanting and cozy, and it made me have the same feeling of having watched a 90s animated musical, like 1997's _Anastasia_
I disagree. "So This Is Love" would have been fine as an instrumental for the ballroom dance. I even played a small snippet of a waltz version of the song in my video, and it literally fit perfectly with the dancing in the scene. I didn't even have to do any editing to the movie footage whatsoever. Only fans would recognize the song playing. To everyone else, it would just be a waltz song, and people wouldn't think anything deeper into it or question it, just like the waltz song they chose for the movie. I'm sure no one genuinely remembers it thoroughly or how it went exactly (I know I don't). Maybe a few music buffs or an afficionado... but to many of us, it was just a waltz song.
I have nothing against the soundtrack they went with in the final product. I just feel that they could have tied in a few more iconic subtleties from the original film. If you absolutely loved the music, that is wonderful, and I love that for you.
Also, you've left several comments in the comments section, which is great. However, I take issue with your tone in some of your replies. You come off as kind of snobbish in several of your replies, as if you're talking down to us for the things we love and enjoy. It's ok to express our opinions (that's what I love about this platform), but on my channel, I promote having respect for one another.
@@WondrousJoJo Who dances like that to "So This Is Love"? The dance choreography doesn't match the song at all, but it does match the new music they made for the film. There should not be a disconnect between the music and the dance! There needs to be a better reason and explanation for anything other than "It was in the animated movie." The 2015 film is already so radically different from the 1950 film right from the get-go, that complaints about some song not being in a non-musical film feels rather silly and ridiculous. I couldn't even think of a reason why any of the songs should have been in it. She did sing a little of "Sing Sweet Nightgale" to herself at one point.
@@0deadx21umm the “so this is love” in the 1950 version was ALSO used in the scene where Cinderella is humming to herself and the evil stepmother found out she went to the ball