Cruella - Another Failed Gender Obsession Movie? | Film Perfection
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Cruella is Disney's new villain origin story along the lines of Joker, only far from going as far with it. But the other thing Cruella is is another Hollywood female empowerment movie which we got a bad vibe from movies like Charlie's Angels and Birds of Prey. Weirdly though, Cruella seems to improve on them a lot in a way that Hollywood should learn from it going forward. So today, let's see how Cruella does the same female led movie things as Charlie's Angels and Birds of Prey but actually pulls it off a lot better.
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Disney’s Cruella (2021)
Academy Award® winner Emma Stone (“La La Land”) stars in Disney’s “Cruella,” an all-new live-action feature film about the rebellious early days of one of cinemas most notorious - and notoriously fashionable - villains, the legendary Cruella de Vil. “Cruella,” which is set in 1970s London amidst the punk rock revolution, follows a young grifter named Estella, a clever and creative girl determined to make a name for herself with her designs. She befriends a pair of young thieves who appreciate her appetite for mischief, Charlie's Angels - How Gender Obsession Can Ruin a Film | Anatomy Of A Failure Birds of Prey - The Impostor Deadpool Jack Sparrow | Anatomy Of A Failure cruella ending cruella official trailer cruella - movie review cruella honest trailer everything wrong with cruella watch cruella full movie online free 4k clip cruella best scenes cruella all scenes cruella 4k clip hd cruella dalmatians joker cruella estella becomes cruella cruella death scene Cruella - Why? Cruella - Everything Wrong With Disney Cruella Pitch Meeting and together they are able to build a life for themselves on the London streets. cinemasins cruella joker how to make evil likable One day, Estella’s flair for fashion catches the eye of the Baroness von Hellman, a fashion legend who is devastatingly chic and terrifyingly haute, played by two-time Oscar® winner Emma Thompson (“Howards End,” “Sense & Sensibility”). charlie's angels flop birds of prey flop But their relationship sets in motion a course of events and revelations that will cause Estella to embrace her wicked side and become the raucous, fashionable and revenge-bent Cruella.
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I don't think Hollywood writers know how art works, let alone know how to write. You can't force an agenda of any kind into your writing, because forcing anything in writing forces you to jump through logical hoops. I would much prefer if they tried exploring the negatives of their agenda, and ask as many questions as possible, rather than try forcing an obsession into a positive light.
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Best live action Disney film in years.
Captain Hook's origin story be like... Peter Pan actually being a little shit, cutting off his hand and throwing that hand to a crocodi- oh, wait. That actually IS the origin story.
In modern Disney's perspective it more likely would be: Captain Hook met some lookalike father figure, killed him and stoled his personality. Han Solo and Cruella style.
Actually, his origin story is in peter pan in scarlet, how he was a school boy, and the trophies, etc..
Hook would be one of the few villains with an interesting origin story, if handled well.
There's already been theories for years that the pirates were former lost boys who escaped from getting killed by Peter after they grow up. Peter Pan in the original novel was pretty much a dick who didn't care for anyone and kills people for fun, so it's quite easy to build Hook's backstory based on that.
@@srehh5529 and the crocodile was really a female, and hook cut his way out and wore a knitted outfit that was always unraveling and when the lost boys returned to neverland as kids, when hook asked one of them what they wanted to be when they grow up, they would instantly age if they answered. And because toodles borrowed his daughter's clothes he turned into a girl and flirted with Pan.
In 2034: Darkseid, a movie where you notice that maybe Darkseid isn’t so bad because his mom is sick and the only way to cure her is by finding the Anti-life equation
That's would so funny and laughable
Expecting that
It is almost his true motivation in the comics.
His ideology is that life is caos, caos is misery. Anti-life is order, absolute order is good.
@LTNetjak he didn't have the omega effect in that battle other wise earth would have ended
Actually his mom killed his wife which caused him to be that way
I can't wait to see the "Gaston" origin story, where it's discovered that Gaston hates smart women because his mother was killed by a bookshelf!
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Excellent!
Or seeing Bambi decorating his antlers with shotgun shells.
Ursula
@@bunnywithakeyboard7628 didnt the Rock made a parody of that a few years back?
Ever feel bad, just remember that a literal origin story of one of Disney’s most darkest villain has a more positive female empowerment message than a film about female spy’s saving the world.
Why are women so weak that they need constant messages of empowerment?
Why is she one of the most darkest villains?
@@sataricon111 She wants to skin puppies just for fashion... Literally.
@@74keo48 that is not soo bad
We skin cows for fashion don't we?
@@sataricon111 Found the sociopath
I can’t believe the writers actually wrote Dalmatians killing Cruella’s mother
😂yep. Instead of her just hating dogs in general we had to make Dalmatians the bad guys here
That was the stupidest thing I had ever seen.
They didn’t even bite her
Dalmatians didn’t kill her mom though? The baroness is very much alive
...under the command of the Baroness, who is the real mother of Cruella.
"You're short, you're fat... Your revenues are down 15%. Your turn" Is cold as hell
Basically, they were some crooks.
She also really specifically dropped the number of the bank account where he was putting the money he embezzled, and it was such a sick burn
Filmento. Why the fluff do you not do your research by just watching the Cartoon-Movie before you make this Video here? Why? Just Why?
-Just a general question.
The main complaint that I’ve heard about this movie is that it’s just “not Cruella de ville”. And people who just haven’t seen the original generally like this one.
intro me, I haven't seen the original one and, as much as I can recognize flaws, I liked it and it was fun to watch lol
Srysly, I think I saw all 101 dalmatians movies when I was a kid and this just doesnt make sence to Cruellas character, the hair eg. I always assumed she just dyed half of it white, now she was born with it? How? Why? Or her parents getting killed by dalmatians, like wtf? What were they thinking. I wrote on another comment, take out the happy ending, everything with 101 dalmatians but keep the concept of "Woman becomes what she was fighting against" and give it some half competent writers, that sounds like a good movie
I watched the original, the live action remake from the 90s (I think) and liked this one.
I watched 101 Dalmatians as a kid and even sat through most of Glen Close's version... and tbh I love this 2021 version the best. I don't view this as a prequel to either of the previous movies, but as a complete hard reboot. They made the character better, with a far better story.
I can see enjoying this one if you haven't seen the original, for sure. Or if you just don't care about, like, corporate profiteering (which it's fine to not care about; do you).
But I just can't bring myself to watch a movie that's, "Remember that villain who was obsessed with murdering puppies for her fashion line? What if we made _her_ the hero in her own movie and presented her in a sympathetic light to profit off of name-recognition and girl-bossism?" Like the idea is so blatantly cash-grabby and so contrary to the spirit of the source material that I just can't bring myself to separate it from that corporate baggage.
If you watched and enjoyed the movie, power to you.
Pro-tip, just don't go in this with the whole "this is the villains origin story". I think the movie stands much better on its own
Yeah agreed, this is not an origin story, this is retelling a story with different twist, and Disney has been doing this since they started but many ppl are mad about this film
I watched it without watching any of the Dalmatian movies, and I love it
Can confirm. I haven't seen any previous Dalmatians or Cruella movie. And I loved this movie
yup. this would actually be a much better-received movie if it's labeled as a reimagined movie instead of a prequel movie cuz it actually is good when you think it that way
I've seen al Dalmatians movie but I still think it's good
I think the issue was less "gender obsession" and more "watered down villian we want you to like" instead of having a brutally honest critiqe of the world like joker did resulting in a 50/50 agree/disagree split by audiences,disney said lets just make a likeable character and ignore the villanry of the original. Cruella is at the end of this film an odd, dog loving, robinhood style, fashion icon. All oppisites of what she is in the original.
And I think that's the main problem with this movie
It's not garbage in the sense of Charlie's Angels which can't even stand on its own, but its still upsetting because it walks over preestablished mythos in order to make money.
It's by no means a completely terrible film, but it could've easily been made into an original film. They just needed Cruellas name to nostalgia cash cow people.
But trying that is bad? If it's for the better and it doesnt affect that much other than the nostalgia then I guess I prefer this Cruella before Ghostbusters or MIB International IF I ever was forced to watch any of this movies
@@lvvylwy961 yes....
why is that an issue though? i think you're aware of the fact this movie isn't a prequel to the animation (unlike many people who believe it is), which in my opinion was such a good take rather than trying to recreate classics, they got inspiration from the cruella we already knew and made a fresh new character/story. 101 dalmatians isn't exactly one of the most loved disney classics also, everybody knows it but i see most people in here haven't even watched it, why not reuse the og material then?
@@teotlcipactli7530 I agree with this for sure its just frustrating in the same way other disney live action films are, they have painted themselves in a corner trying not to piss anyone off with todays climate which leads to a lot of bland, boring films that feel like they are verge of predatory with how much they prey on the nostalgia and goodwill they earned over the past 30+ years
"I've never seen the original movie"
a little voice somewhere inside me: how dare you
To be fair: neither did the people who wrote Cruella, and it shows.
@@bunnywithakeyboard7628 lol, that is also true
I have seen it, and to be fair, anything BUT the dalmations was intersting. Like there was this game show where criminals win prices if they guest cannot guess what he was sitting in for XD
Filmento review it as the person that doesn't know it's origin and just critique it solely on what he see and never understood why it happened
it's would be a better movie if it wasn't associated with 101 dalmatians
but we know how Disney works and Filmento is just a reviewer of recent movies
this movie is basically "the joker wears prada"
😂😂😂😂 I felt the same way
Problem is that "Empowerment", to me, a female, means absolutely nothing anymore.
It's been so overused and corrupted that in "empowerment" movies do nothing.
In a time where empowerment is most important, no one really knows what it means anymore, much less the people it's supposed to inspire.
Imagine them trying to do a female equivalent to the movie Rocky, where the main character fails and has to train up and get better to win on her own merits. You would absolutely never see that in the modern day.
I can only imagine how pathetic little girls who compare themselves to these icons of unrealistic perfection have to feel.
@@bunnywithakeyboard7628 Werll then the problem is more of bad parenting rather than media to blame, because media is a syntomph rather than a cause of "illness in society"
@@teotlcipactli7530 There’s definitely two-way interaction going on. Far too many people get told “this is normal” their entire lives and it becomes normal for them.
Drinking game take a shot every time Filmento says empower, Good luck
@@bunnywithakeyboard7628 So it's up to Disney to educate the kids from all continets? Or what are you trying to say¿
Imagine praising a story just for functioning as an actual story.
Actually imagine having to do so because it's about a woman
@@alfonsohr02 If this is a troll, it's a good one. The message is aggressive, but not specific enough to bbn indicate a specific viewpoint
@@alfonsohr02 Also imagining to do it with a story about a woman because lately an actual story starring a woman is as rare as hens teeth as opposed to a lecture starring a woman lately.
Thats what movies are. Either The Function Properly or they don’t. Most nowadays don’t. Thats why he was praising this movie’s story.
I mean... what else should stories be praised for? Other than a good plot
so what I'm hearing is that this could've been a cool movie about fashion if Disney just changed the names didn't tie it to 101 Dalmatians and Cruella's origin
No. This IS a good movie that some people THINK is bad because it's about a teenager that is not yet completely evil and those people think she should have always been evil like she ultimately became in earlier incarnations.
But how would that made it cooler? It's a reimagining of Cruella, just roll with it
Lol it Disney I'm surprise they even promoted it, considering the director tricked them into funding the movies.
@@aperson4640 ow yeah nice but everything and every person that tied with 101 dalmatian makes no sense, cruella works mostly as one dimensional Character that doesn't have to be explained because her goal is just for skinned a dog to make an coat from it that's it,and why is she giving the dog to Anita and Roger(wich if i'm not mistaken that Cruella doesn't have any interaction at all with him)
And yeah they're swapping Anita's race what a surprise
@@terrybohart it doesn't make sense because it's not tied up to the 101 dalmatians movies that came before, it's not a prequel. The movie is stablishing its own sequel. Take it as a reboot
So this is another case that the movie would have been liked more if it was not based off of a previous story.
Yea but it also wouldn't got made if it wasn't based off a previous story, that's just the sad truth of hollywood nowadays, no major studio will throw in the money unless it is a sequel, prequel or a spinoff of an established IP.
@@cw1206 which truly is unfortunate 😔
One can enjoy the movie by ignoring the fact that it's based on 101 DAlmatians
@@LuisSierra42 how tf are we supposed to do that
@@Kev7035 Well, you know that Tim Burton's batman is different from Nolan's and those are different from Snyder's and all those are different from Reeve's. They are all different cinematic versions of the same character. This principle could apply to this movie as well
I feel like if this movie wasn't about cruella andcwas a totally new character alot more people would like it
it's called "the devil wears Prada"
This was me !!!!
Yea I skipped this movie because I pre-judged it was trying to make a Harley Quinn clone. Also Harley Quinn has been such a awful character, I wasn't looking to see more of that..
@@NicholasMarshall I saw this first day only because my wife wanted to but damn I was genuinely surprised just how good it was
That would hurt Disney's branding and they wouldn't be able to bank on the nostalgia
Personally I liked the movie, it was better than Disney’s other remakes at least. Although it could be credited to me having low expectations for the film, I was very surprised how well it was. I will firmly stand by the statement that Disney didn’t make Cruella the hero in this, I felt like they very careful outlined that she still isn’t a good guy, they simply humanized her character in my opinion which I really appreciate. I also liked the comparison the film tried to create between cruella and the “new future” of fashion and pop culture as a whole, hence they funky 70s music and Rock vibes
I'll go a step further and say it was amazing! To be fair to the people criticizing it, I wanted to slap someone when I saw the "Mother killed by dalmatians" scene, and by the time she was working for that department store, I was resigned to an uninspired villian-is-a-victim story, but as soon as it turned into a revenge plot I was hooked. The goal isn't to kill the Baroness, or steal from her, or upstage her. It's to make her suffer, and because there's so many ways to do that, the main character can keep changing gears and prevent the story from getting stale or predictable. An added benefit of a revenge plot is that the character still seems cruel. I could never reconcile this character as the same one from 101 dalmatians, but since I already saw "Malifacent" I knew not to try.
It was okay to me my family watched it with me but we just got back from swimming so everyone was tired and asleep for most of the movie it did have flaws but to me it really isn’t a female empowerment movie it’s just a movie that gives you an origin story
The scene where cruella just burns her upper clothes yeah it was perfect
If you set your expectations low enough, you'll always be pleasantly surprised
@@funny4052 Comparing to what disney puts this one if far one of the best they released recently.
I'm deeply disturbed by the lack of Fur in her costumes.
the reason behind that is because the movie is nothing but a dumb money machine
IKR I was waiting for her to embrace the fur
Wouldn’t wanna get cancelled by PETA mobs😂😂
PETA 🕵️♂️🕵️♀️
Disney: let’s make a Cruella movie where she doesn’t want fur coats or smoke.
Or kill puppies.
Impossible. Cruella lives for fur and worships fur
So not cruella
What a nice Cruella-look-a-like
The real Cruella is probably on her way to the slaughter house
In this day and age Emma Stone would be stoned and not by smoking, if she wore fur. I know that because I hate anyone who wears real fur and doesn't live in Siberia. Yeah she could wear fake fur, but.. what's the point. This movie shouldn't exist at all.
"People are more than just their gender, race, or religion." PREEEACH!!! 'Strawmen' don't make good villains
Probably the best thing to take from this review.
Based!
Around of 👏👏👏👏👏. Finally someone said it.
Finally some good fucking take
@@Xlllth What is this new slang I am unfamiliar with? By NPC do you mean non-player Character? Is this an insult to people who have no personality?
do not flame me on this but, i saw a comment where they said that cruella's attitude or whole personality in this movie makes sense. where they explained that since she basically took the baroness' title, being fashion itself, maybe the title/status got into her head too much, that she became the one she despised the most (being like the baroness).
in the movie we can already see the lengths she would do and take for her to achieve the vision she has. i mean, we saw her already sewing insects in a dress. who knows, maybe overtime her ambition and passion in fashion grew to much, to the point where she would skin 101 dalmatians just to achieve the perfect dress/coat in her late 40's or 50's.
i don't know, it doesn't sit right to me that people are saying that the cruella in the movie is not the cruella they know. when the cruella they "know" was a 40 or 50 something year old lady, while the cruella in this movie is in her 20's. people can change drastically when they grow old. cruella can be a "non-evil" character in her 20s, and can, might be a dog skinner in their 40's.
also pointing at the people who are discrediting filmento's opinion about how good the movie is by saying "it's not the cruella we know!!!". filmento's point in this video was how the movie cruella did a good job presenting female empowerment in a film, not how good the movie was in terms of being "accurate" to the source material. if it were that, then this would be a whole different video.
(and before you fact check on me, yes, i know in the book she isnt poor, that her family were shady people and that she was already an evil bastard of a child herself. but since a lot of people are referring to disney's animated version, which didn't include cruella's family and childhood background, the ideas and argument that me and the comment i saw, can still stand.)
i get your point but as a lot of people, her not following the source material is what really annoyed me. i’m really glad that the message this movie has is actually well done but i think cruella wasn’t the best character to pick for it
obviously it can happen that she wasn’t like she is in her 40s-50s but it felt really weird and out of place? (what really made me annoyed was that she loves puppies and actually has one! but isn’t he original movie she wants them dead for their fur)
it just pisses me off that disney wants to stay in their safe family friendly zone and not take a step further to show for example her actually having some not some good thoughts about her dog or baroness’s dogs to show us that she isn’t mentally not sane
it would’ve been a completely new character i’m sure i would’ve loved this movie but unfortunately i think cruella as the mean character of this one doesn’t fit well
but that being said that’s just how i view this movie and i still agree with most of your points!
Probably the most sensible comment in this video yet has one of the lowest likes, hmm. But since this is Disney and seeing what they did to Maleficent, I’m not sure your brilliant concept was what they were going for.
Unless Disney will actually make her descent into evil madness as a sequel to this. How fashion consumed her to the point she was willing to kill puppies who she previously loved. Instead of a more hopeful movie like the first one, it will be a downward spiral into the callous character that she will be in the 101 Dalmatians movie. I’d love to see that but I’m not sure how it can be made family friendly 😔.
havent watched the movie, but have watched the first live action & original movie, & im also watching this review. idk if disney was trynna be like "hey this is cruella when she was young & not old!" cuz it kinda just looks like "hey this is the new & young cruella now 😎"
cuz if it was "hey this is supposed to be cruella before she became old like the first two movies!" then yea I'd agree w/ you. now that you mentioned on how different ppl can act when they age, im now wondering, how come there's barely any young disney villans/bad guys? & im gonna say cruelle doesnt count cuz apparently this makes her look slightly less than an anti hero lol. young ppl would sure as hell be capable of doin bad shit.
@@bubblesbinxs024 the original animated movie didn't follow the source material actually most of the Disney movies barely if at all follow the source material. So I hope you don't like them or you can be a hypocrite.
hey, you're allowed to defend the movie. lots of people are taking the dogs killing her mother completely out of context and they think that's why she 'hates' them. not to mention a lot of misogynists are hating on the film for having powerful women, and saying 'but she's a puppy killer', when no one said 'but he's a killer' when we were asked to sympathise with joker
Imagine how good this movie could have been if it had nothing to do with "101 Dalmatians"
I agree with that. Now it looks like Disney wants to glorify animal abusers.
I don't think that the movie is worse, because it has a little bit to do with the other movie. It is questionable, that Disney titled this movie "Cruella" even though this version barely resembles the original character. But I wouldn't say, that I would like it less because of that fact. If you would change the title and name of the character the movie wouldn't be better, people just would like it way more.
@@janmuller3246 I would argue that in this case being tied to another franchise automatically muddles the audiences expectations for the main character, which inherently makes the film worse. If you were to remove the dalmatians, the name and the hair then you have an original film concept that works independent of anything else. The purpose of "Cruella" was as an origin story, and in that respect, it does NOT work because it doesn't actually explain the origin of the character Cruella De Vil from either the animated classic or the later live-action film.
Zoolander did it better. At least derelicte was a complete pisstake, this sells that as not only dead serious, but a climactic power statement
@@AllyStevenSeveri you're the kind of person that thinks that joker causes violence
This definitely feels like a movie that was originally written to be a throwback to those old 60s/70s crime comedies...that Disney forced to a Cruella movie.
Yeah, I actually prefer Birds of Prey before Cruella because of that. BOP was murdered by political correctness, I think even Margot Robbie was pissed about that, but it belongs to its superhero/over-the-top universe. Cruella doesn't belong to the 101 Dalmatians universe, doesn't feel like 101 Dalmatians anywhere. It would've worked better as a standalone movie, with its own ludicrous universe.
I still can't stand that "women can do everything without effort" thing, but by removing the 101 Dalmatians scenery, and without taking so much from Harley... I would've liked it.
@Talun Karku I'm not saying Emma is not a good actress... In fact, I'm saying she deserved better.
@@justanotherchannel13 She had an amazing role wdym? And it's not like Disney forced her to to take it, she wanted the role and she bloody got it. Heck, it's her best acting yet if you ask me, and what better way to make a comback in Hollywood than to be hired by a world renown company such as Disney?
@@Aberrantly Ok.
disney forced their own movie to be a cruella movie? you guys are literally insane
The only thought I had while watching Cruella was "Why do I feel I've seen this movie before?"
Because all female protagonist villain stories are practically identical.
Kind of like how the plot of half the rom coms out there is, “Two people meet each other but have X keeping them apart, but they learn to overcome it and fall in love.”
Even that offers a lot more variance.
Devil wears Prada
Because you've probably seen "The Devil Wears Prada".
Wait really? Why would you think that, I've never seen a film with the same plot and characters or even similar, can you be more specific?
I'm not into fashion or anything but I thought this was one of the best disney live action movies in my opinion.
Definitely. It was so good I found myself thinking, wow, I'm watching disney?
Same
Disney today seems to believe that we can never fathom having our main character be an antihero. In maleficent, an evil witch who cursed a young girl is suddenly transformed into a forest guardian trying to protect her land. In Artemis fowl, what was originally an apathetic and cold young man looking for wealth turns into a goody-two-shoes who wants to save his dad.
Disney has to realize that it’s ok for your main characters to not only have flaws, but for them to maybe not always be the good guy
Something else that came to my mind later on, while some may give the argument that maleficent is a reimagining of the story and therefore not necessarily bound to keeping maleficent as the villain, the same can not be said about Cruella and Artemis. Artemis Fowl is meant to be an adaptation of the first book, where the character in the book is arguably at his worst. And with cruella, this is meant to be a prequel, so by definition of the term, it is obligated to establish what made the character turn into the character we originally introduced to.
I agree it was way better than Lion king and Peter pans live action movies
The movie wasnt really about fashion tho
“My mother was killed by Dalmatians.”
Me, a Dalmatian owner: 👁 👄 👁
Not true
If you're female and you got kids watch out !
If you're male ,tell your mom to watch out !
@@ajitsen6927 wtf are you smoking?
@@RedFloyd469 wtf are you smoking?
Don't walk your dogs near any balconies or they'll start drop-kicking people off them
Disney actually did have balls back in the day..
They killed a child at the beginning of pirates of the carribbean at worlds end lol
That was the most craziest and badass movie intro ive ever seen
Wait what?
@@swinelias yup... Dath was cool
@@swinelias look it up it was pretty badass
also beginning of Dead Mans Chest... dragging people to being tortured and throwing coffins in the sea...
I frequently forget that Pirates of the Caribbean is a Disney property. Dark stories, fantastic casting, phenomenal CGI. It's a shame they've dropped their standards since.
You know, this movie may have worked perfectly fine if it wasn't about a canonical puppy killing woman.
Why didn't they just make an original movie about a fashion designer? Why did it need to be the lady who in established canon wants to murder puppies to skin them?
muni
I think it's a bit hard to create something original that will attract a lot of attention.
Disney had many original live action films that not many people watched. Its too niche, too simple, nothing out of the ordinary. They eventually stopped making those disney originals.
When you look at this movie for a second time, an eccentric person for a certain hobby, wants to be big in that field, is beaten down by schoolmates and their first boss because they were weird, then was picked up by some top shot in the industry where they use that opportunity to make it big as well, eventually defeating that said top shot or rival. It's clichéd. I'm even reminded of Devil Wears Prada for half of it but the main character was super eccentric.
If it wasn't for the fact that this was that puppy killing villain, no one would probably turn an eye on it aside from Disney fans.
While I loved the movie, I think the only way they could do a sequel justice is by showing how Cruella's need for attention consumes her and those she loves. As the bills pile high and competition heats up heading into the gloriously excessive 1980s, Cruella & Co. become more and more immoral in their quest to be London's best... culminating in her attempting to skin the very puppies she claims to love so much.
Assuming the director and cast carry over (and I sure hope they do), that'd be an absolute *blast* to see brought to life.
A rise to glory followed by a fall from grace. Yes, I would love that.
@@River_Frost It'd be a blast for sure. Sadly, I don't think Disney would go for that these days...
Cruella: when the bar is so low, you can step over it.
I think you meant "when the bar is so low, you can walk on it".
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same
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Oh yeah, this channel is really helpful. I'm currently writing a book and also using Filmento's tips. Good luck with your script!
Last I checked, her gender wasn't an issue when she manipulated a series of men throughout the whole series with he mere presence. 😔😔
I don't quite know how she did it beyond a decent wage, but she sure as Hell had some menservants.
@Gregor Heisenhorn IMAFO
Ironically, despite the whole "men strong and dumb, women weak and smart" angle some movies take, Cruella was very tough in the original. I mean there's a scene where Jasper and Horace talk back to her and she rips a bottle of booze out of Jasper's hand, tosses it into the fireplace and stands there as it explodes just to make a point. And she isn't even fazed by the fact a firey explosion almost blew her away. And she did all that just to scare the shit out of her hired goons.
@@darklord884 EXACTLY! you can make a powerful character without having to force it. And that's what alot of these newer ones are missing
@@TheBroughamGamer Agreed. Especially with the conceptually flawed idea of "making a puppy killing fashionista the good guy." It's going to be blander than the original because they have to make Cruella the good guy, meaning she can't be as strong and entertainingly insane as she was in the original and it's not going to work either because the kids who watch it are then going to go "Oh, this is a prequel to something? Let's watch it!" and they will then be greeted with the lovely image of their beloved Cruella acting like a maniac and pursuing her goal of massacring dalmatian puppies to make a single coat.
As someone who was inspired by Cruella de Vil to study fashion and become a fashion designer, I enjoyed this movie very much, I'm not going to lie.
Honestly, as much as I want to trash this film, where it was lacking in story it more than made up for with the actors' performances. Unfortunately, the concept of making Cruella DeVille into a sympathetic antihero is just too stupid to take seriously.
Filmento. Why the fluff do you not do your research by just watching the Cartoon-Movie before you make this Video here? Why? Just Why?
-Just a general question.
As much as I agree, she was not Cruella, I would need to say that I think this was one of the only enjoyable movie Disney made in the past few years....
The problem is that the villains from old Disney movies were just plain evil. It must be hard to try and write those one-note evil villains into anti-heroes. Conceptually, it may sound like an interesting idea, but it really doesn't work.
@@eddie4013 it could have worked if we see her growing up in an aristocrat's estate being a complete ass to the servants and animals, then her family losing all their money so she joins the underworld, and restores her wealth through an illegal fur coat making operation
Man i liked the movie kinda the story did have good twist in it ill give it credit it was a good movie but well it shouldve not been anout cruella
Heres th problem, cruella basically becomes the thing she was fighting by the end of the film and the thing she was fighting was horrible but we are supposed to somehow root for that? Like we WANT to see a seemingly decent person become a thief and a villain and abandon her better virtues to win at all costs?
Joker was dofferent because Arthur was a mentally damaged loser that fell even further and rather than rooting for him to become a killer it was more of a witnessesing of his falling apart to the point he feels happy with destruction. Youre not supposed to celebrate his journey, but be warned by it
Yeah, I hate when I'm supposed to root for clearly virtueless and villainous characters.
Thing is she doesn't. She admits she's gone a bit mad, pulls herself together, delivers justice to her mother and adopts the dalmatians. It's not a prequel, she never would and never will skin the puppies. It's not the same Cruella we knew, that one was unredeemable, but she's complex and rootable, and overall it works.
@@infjelphabasupporter8416 If it's not the same cruella, why call her Cruella at all? The literal name means cruel and vile. Again, if you're going to just write a different character why not just make a different character ?
@@infjelphabasupporter8416 they literally said in interviews that this movie is a prequel to canonical Cruella and how she became that iconic villain. It’s not an alternative version like in Maleficent and that’s the point
@@sweetserieskiller If you watch the movie, it's quite clear it is. They sometimes advertised it as a prequel because that's what the audience asked for, and technically most of the story does take place before the alter universe "dognapping", so it could be *also* considered a sort of prequel. Unlike Maleficent, where most of the story takes place after the curse. But mainly it's a reimagining.
Disney today seems to believe that we can never fathom having our main character be an antihero. In maleficent, an evil witch who cursed a young girl is suddenly transformed into a forest guardian trying to protect her land. In Artemis fowl, what was originally an apathetic and cold young man looking for wealth turns into a goody-two-shoes who wants to save his dad.
Disney has to realize that it’s ok for your main characters to not only have flaws, but for them to maybe not always be the good guy
Something else that came to my mind later on, while some may give the argument that maleficent is a reimagining of the story and therefore not necessarily bound to keeping maleficent as the villain, the same can not be said about Cruella and Artemis. Artemis Fowl is meant to be an adaptation of the first book, where the character in the book is arguably at his worst. And with cruella, this is meant to be a prequel, so by definition of the term, it is obligated to establish what made the character turn into the character we originally introduced to.
it's disney, they will never make a story like that
@@rafaelantoniobazzanadossan9451 That would be fine but the fashion stuff, Cruella treating her friends and everyone around her like crap, always being the best at everything without any struggles or having to learn and practice like everyone else, always getting lucky, those are all reasons she not a likeable or relatable character, nor is she evil enough to be the bad guy in the original movie. It might work better as a different IP but I still don't think the character and writing were good.
@@rafaelantoniobazzanadossan9451 That would be fine but the fashion stuff, Cruella treating her friends and everyone around her like crap, always being the best at everything without any struggles or having to learn and practice like everyone else, always getting lucky, those are all reasons she not a likeable or relatable character, nor is she evil enough to be the bad guy in the original movie. It might work better as a different IP but I still don't think the character and writing were good.
your grammar is amazing
Agree. I honestly surprised that this movie is actually not what I expected. I really wish this isn't a Cruella movie just that.
Alternate title: Why Cruella succeeded where Birds of Prey failed.
birds of prey wasnt even supposed to be a typical girlboss film to hop on the wave, it was just a fun female-driven that was badly promoted
Birds of Prey was great though? I’m confused
Birds of prey was great.
It didn't seem to me like birds of prey was meant to be a "girl power" film, as far as I remember it was just mostly created by women (I think ?) and people didn't like that Harley wasn't as " sexy " in it in their opinion so they looked for a reason to hate it. maybe it was promoted in a "girl power" way, idk, but that wasn't really the impression I got watching the movie.
Would agree with other responses to OG's comment that BOP didn't "fail". BOP was poorly promoted and had to make up for lost ground after the god-awful Suicide Squad. That and by default has to overcome comic-bro outrage set off by simply producing female-driven superhero movie. Sophomoric critics miss the point when they say either BOP / Cruella are solely "girlbossing" or "girl power".
I still don’t like how this movie tried to justify one of the most sadistic animated villains in history by essentially making her the exact opposite of what she once was, but it’s nice to finally hear that there is a good feminist movie that I wouldn’t mind watching when my Mom inevitably makes me watch it when it no longer carries the $30 surcharge.
Can we even call it a feminist movie, though, if the conflict seems to revolve more around the struggles of undervalued/underpaid workers and have almost nothing to do with Cruella being a woman? If anything, this is an argument against blaming all of your problems on the fact that you were born in a less-than-ideal lot in life and argues you can still achieve amazing things if you put in more hard work and speak up more than others. That’s obviously far more empowering to everyone everywhere and teaches the importance of being assertive and firm if you want to ever be more than a cog in the machine, but it does heavily counter a lot of arguments suggesting that minorities cannot possibly succeed unless society as a whole makes it easier for their group to do so. They may have to work harder and take more risks to break through the ceiling, sure, but that’s true of anyone that wants to be groundbreaking-there are a lot of forces in various industries preventing creativity and upward mobility in all but the most passionate and hard-working individuals.
Hold on, I need to lie down after questioning my own deeply-held beliefs. Great video, I’ll keep it in mind if I ever want to write a story encouraging people to fight climate change for their own safety and stability.
I'd encourage you to look outside the little capitalist box we're generally born/raised in. Maybe you end up questioning the fetishiation of "hard work" we especially have in the US
Wasn't the dalmatian fur coat idea introduced by Anita in the first place? In the live action at least. So who's really the villain here???
I feel like we have different opinions, though you seem understanding.
I have a different opinion, the movie's goal (well, empowerment for any group) is to inspire them through example, the thing is that for an audience to really understand the character in question, they need to relate to them, now, you will need to put them in a realistic world (through which I mean that the world needs to have clear sets of rules in fantasy places where the protagonist uses the rules provided to them and fair against the odds. Real life already does that for you so you don't really need to do anything.)
What the protagonist did was to set an example that in a world similar to ours, on equal grounds which managed to capture the interest and emotions with our protagonist. women are very well capable of vast sums of potencial similar to how men may be, in a sense, the movie is proving this WITHOUT having direct competition with men. We don't live in a world where its always a man vs woman (I do acknowledge that many countries still face the issues and thats where the feminists should actually do their protests instead of America where woman are already given the chance like men.) The real world is a competition between people both genders and examples can be set by either one of them.
You just discovered why feminist movies are stupid
feminist and masculine movies are two heads to the same coin
Spending millions to say women are looked down on by men when that is not true just makes the whole thing cringy
Just make a good movie which is written about true struggles that are exclusive for women and vice versa
And the movie will be enjoyable
And make a character which is empowering because of their actions not cause they should be empowering and perfect humans aren't perfect that just how it is
This man vs momen thing is stupid and boring to watch
Jesus Christ bro get a life
Disney trying to do a dark edgy movie is laughable at best.
If the movie is a failure?... why did he wrote "Film perfection " in the title???
@@leroyvermilion7708 When did he mention Failure? He just said that the idea of Disney making a dark edgy movie is laughable, which it is.
I'm sure Cruella is a good movie and improved a lot of things compared to Charlies Angels or Birds of Prey, but that has nothing to do with this.
Disney is for kids, is extremely politically correct, and takes 0 risks... and obviously all of its products are like that. So Cruella suceeds (a bit more, in comparison) on the gender empowering topic, but it fails as a dark villain origins movie.
@@leroyvermilion7708 the series is called film perfection or failure not because the entire movie is perfect or a complete failure, it is just meant to explore the good things and bad things about movies, for example here it is about gender empowerment done properly, not about this movie being perfect. The movie wasn’t bad but the context and the way it is made, a Disney movie, really takes away a lot
@@leroyvermilion7708 "or ur a smart fella or a fart smella"
@@EdgeOspina The title literally says its a failed movie...what are you talking abour bruh
Listen I'm no conspiracy man but I totally think Disney did gorilla marketing to try and sell Cruella as "women joker" which is insane but i mean come on.
It's "guerilla"
@@ryyb_himself Not with a race-swapped Anita Darling.
It's "woman" not "women"
@@ryyb_himself I am trained in gorilla warfare and I'm the top sniper in the entire US armed forces. You are nothing to me but just another target.
@@ryyb_himself being this new
I'm kind of baffled at how many of the commentators of this video don't seem to have seen the video. Filmento doesn't mock Cruella for being an attempt of an origins story. It's analyzing its writing and praising it where it is due. I'm seeing a lot of comments with the format "I can't wait for the next (enter disney villian name here) origin story where they make us empathize with (villian motivations)", and they are funny but missing the point. Once you get on board with the premise, Cruella is a good movie.
That being said, I understand why'd some people just not vibe with seeing a different Cruella than the one in 101 dalmatians. That happened to me for Maleficent. I think it's a good movie but I don't like because of the licenses it took in regards of the source material.
Of course we're not happy with seeing a different Cruella. It's an *origin story*. It's literally supposed to be the same person.
If they had made this a regular movie about a lady that likes fashion, that would have been fine. But the combination of the complete 180 of an iconic, irredeemable villain, along with the female emporwerment message being shoved down our throats, is a bit too much.
@@lucheng1945 it's a different universe 😬😅😂🤣.... don't be stressed about it..lol
@@lucheng1945 did we just not watch a 19 minute analysis on why the movie is not *just* a female empowerement movie but actually an empowerement movie that anyone can relate to, regardless of gender, race or religion?
I suppose it's a bit like the -Artemis Fowl movie- *THAT TOTALLY NEVER HAPPENED, THERE IS NO WAR IN BA SING SE.* On its own, it's a decent movie. The problem, the reason why everybody has dunked it in mind bleach and buried it at the bottom of the Mariana trench, is that _it isn't an Artemis Fowl movie._ It borrows a few elements from Artemis Fowl, but takes such huge liberties as to be almost unrecognizable.
This wasn't Cruella. This was a completely different person.
Much like Joker movie wasn't Joker.
@@GeneralTantzu Obviously he wasn't the established Joker maniac we all know yet. The movie was showing what led him down that dark path you dumb ass. Whereas Cruella was nothing like the og Cruella who mistreats her henchmen and is obsessed with skinning dogs. They completely changed her to seem less like the og evil slag who skins puppies to try "empower" women cause, ooh, fancy dress mother.
@@DlcEnergy Was the "you dumb ass" necessary? maybe misdirected anger?
@@spiderjeranimo4992 "Was the "you dumb ass" necessary? maybe misdirected anger?"
Maybe he said that because : a) he wanted it b) he meant it c) he felt like it?
Maybe it was necessary?
Who knows? Probably internet psychologist like you.
@@PlayChaosVoices was the "Who knows? Maybe internet psychologists like you." Really necessary? Do you have repressed Anger issues and utilize passive-aggressive wordings to try and direct that Anger against something without beeing TOO Destructive?
/J
Who’s ready to get a live action Gaston origin where’s he’s a repressed gay man who acts so alpha male because he doubts his own masculinity cause of his sexuality?
Well, there's...
Oh
Right
You meant a MOVIE
Got it
XD
Lol i know its a joke but this is how they literally come up with ideas now
Lmao. And he likes Belle not in a romantic sense, but he admires her for being unabashedly who she is. He wants to just be as open and as honest as her with the things he love, and that "likeness" was miscontrued as romantic love because that's what society told him so.
Even though he "loves" Belle, he envies her deep down. He wants Belle as his "wife" cuz he wants her to conform to what society wants like what they did to him, and he can't fathom how happy she is with the life she leads despite being "different."
Disney, my DMs are always open.
Yup if he does get a movie it’s going to be like that cause Disney wouldn’t be caught dead making a Origin for a straight white man
I woukd love to see that
Aside from the name, the Dalmatian thing and the half hair;
This is pretty much a new character.
Why didn’t they just make this an entirely new character?
She doesn’t even want to do the thing that the character is known for which is skinning animals to make clothes.
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🐍 no step on Snek! 🇭🇰🇺🇸
Ive been wondering a similar thought for a while now, why do they keep digging up classic and beloved films / shows and the taking a massive dump on them?
Is there no new ideas?
I barely watch anything these days its all tripe!
Plot twist: This is a new character, the Cruella identity is being stolen by the Cruella in the cartoon, and needs the Dalmatian coat to sell that she's the same person, because of the stupid backstory.
They pretty much did the same thing with maleficent, they just take an old disney villain and give them a reason for being the way they are while simultaneously changing nearly everything about what they were
@@phutureproof it's not about a lack of new ideas, exactly. Like you said, this is a new character. It's about marketing. If you have a new idea that can be packaged in an old, established property, you can leverage that old property's name recognition and nostalgia to sell tickets.
Why does it even matter if they made a new character? Clearly, knowing the character form the original film isn't even necessary to watch and enjoy this. Also, people who say no step on snek are so cringe lmao. Makes sense why you'd pose such a stupid question, clearly you have minimal awareness of how stupid you sound and look.
The soundtrack and setting in this film is bussin aswell, the song choice and 70s london setting makes it so much better, good film
70s London, although I do hope the sequel takes place in the 80s. Give me a bloody montage of Cruella murdering puppies for their fur set to Duran Duran's "Hungry Like the Wolf," Disney!
It's sad to see brainwashing like this
They literally use meme songs that are in a thousand Walmart commercials every year😂😂😂😂!
Thumbnail: failure
Title: Film perfection
Is this quiet place all over again?
Guys how am I suppose to feel bad for someone that kills dogs for their skin and fur
@@Crash_bandicoot56 She literally doesn't in the new movie.
Filmento. Why the fluff do you not do your research by just watching the Cartoon-Movie before you make this Video here? Why? Just Why?
-Just a general question.
@@slevinchannel7589 do you even watch the video?? He said he only gonna talk about how this movie is good at making 'female empowerment' he dont give a fuck about how this movie is not accurate to the original cartoon series
@@ilikenougat8892 oh but she will. She will...
See when you make a female character actual character, smarts and skill instead of jus their traits being a woman. Cruelly wasn’t the best movie, but it shows that characters can actually be powerful without needing to just remake something super political.
You know its the truth: Hyper-Bad Movies are the product
of social Unrest. Sutff like the Doctor Who Franchise burning
alive... know what i mean?
But the world in 2021 being a mess doesnt mean
people dont try to make it better.
But you know what? Not wanting to be random, but: i know many people try to make the world a better place. I know cause I'm one of them.
I made it my hobby to be the 180 Degree Opposite of Cancel-Culture:
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And honestly? Its even Fun, i'd say.
So i ask you: Wanna join this fun or at least hear more about the concept?
“Cruelly” lol
no female character has 'just the trait of being a woman'. you mea they acknowledge that they're women, which isn absolutely fine. cruella even does it at one point. it's not super political, it's female empowerment. and even if it was 'super political', it wouldn't be a bad thing. anti-sexism isn't politics, unless you're a misogynist.
@@DANIELGORMANN you clearly didn't see the charlie's angels movie they made, they literally try to say that women are good at everything while men are all bad, stupid and can't go anything well
@@Jean-ii8cg you’re so mad about men being portrayed as ‘bad, stupid and can’t do anything well’ while perfectly embodying that description- you seriously think that anyone who doesn’t agree with you hasn’t seen the movie they’re talking about? YOU are the reason men are portrayed like that, even though it’s not nearly as extreme as you’re making it out to be, and not harmful in the slightest because men aren’t oppressed, they just like playing the victim. i’m a man btw, i’m just not a fuckin idiot, unlike you
Considering all the usual criticism it is refreshing to see that “empowerment” movies are improving when it comes to writing characters. It’s a shame that the plot doesn’t make any logical sense.
If it was not Cruella, it would of been much better, but there is a bit of dissonance with me, cause I want to like her and feel for her story and struggle, but I can't care cause I know she is a puppy killing psycho
It isn't good that the artistic merit of these movies are improving. It just allows their messaging to be pushed harder.
@@BigfootUnibrowMan No one really had a problem with strong female characters or having girls some role model character coming from films. Feminazis are just deluded about the problems they made up, and suck at writing as if they had no professional writing experience outside of a fanfic website. Most of their agenda is nonsense already, if they were to fix any of it, it will just roll back to normalcy and common sense.
@@madensmith7014 Awomen to that
@__ i don't think that's the point. Joker has been always a killer and a lunatic, but this movie is triying to justify a puppy killer as making her look like a "misunderstood person"
Is obvious that human and animal lives are both worth equally (even if from a evolutionary point make sense to state our existence as more meaningful)
Don't be problematic my guy
And yet, after all that, you still have to remember the whole puppy coat thing. So much for being a role model.
If the movie was serious, it might be an important point. Basically, hero goes on a justifiable ruthless revenge plot using every provocative method possible, but never stops, and when her creativity runs out, all that's left would be a desire to one-up the fashion and moral norms. And there wasn't really anyone who could actually restrain her destructive urges in a comforting way while it was possible
I mean the way she ends up in the cartoon is not too contrary to what's portrayed in this movie, which is nice for an origin story
PS. So the role model would be "show them, but this is how you end up if you go overboard"
@@evennot 😐
GENUINELY shocked it isn't called "Cruella: How to Fail at Joker"
Did you even watch the video? Cruella wasn’t trying to be the Joker
@@mychannel-rt2gn Did you watch the movie? It even had a female rendition of the Smile song from Joker lol
@@seanibarra-loredo7290 Some people just jump straight to being rude. 🤣 Like, Filmento compares the two films multiple times.
@@creecher1118 Average Cruella fan vs. Average Joker enjoyer, amirite lad?
Oh yeah what about "Cruella: How to succeed at Suicide Squad"
imagine if this movie tittled "The Prada wears Devil" and not based by already established OC
"The Prada wears Devil"? I think it's called "The Devil wears Prada"
@@rosangelac.deoliveira7769 "The Devil wears Prada" already exists.
......................so another already established OC
Excellent analogy
@@rosangelac.deoliveira7769 r/whooosh
I didn't see it as a gender obsession film because unlike Birds of Prey where it is "cool females vs. bad males," Cruella is "females vs. females"--The Baroness vs Estella's mother and Cruella vs the Baroness. Yes, it is centered around female characters just like how some movies are centered around male characters. I never hear people call a male-dominated movie as a gender obsession film but why is it that when a film is female-dominated it suddenly becomes a gender obsession film??
The original live action showed her that she's a fashion addict. She's financially fine and is a respected person but her fashion addiction played her downfall, if she hadn't had that illegal fur coat, then her having those Dalmatians would've been fine also.
Lets be honest, she was basically the Baroness but with furs by the time of 101D live action. She seemed to be very rich considering she could throw away millions just because she changed her collection idea. I have a feeling she didn't steal all the puppies in that film but it was a case of trying to source 99 puppies in the limited time she had before the next fashion season.
"You know Amy when someone calls attention to the breaking of gender roles it ultimately undermines the concept of gender equality by implying that this is an exception and not the status quo." -Knuckles Sonic Boom
DISNEY before today-what does he mean that?
vs
DISNEY now-we'll take notes
I had some issues with this movie. Like, she's magically born with black and white hair perfectly split down the middle and for some reason people act like she's hideous? The mom getting yeeted by the dogs was so unintentionally hilarious my friends were choking from laughter. Her taking on the name De Vil from overhearing them talk about a car was super dumb and super cliché (why can't people just have names?). And for the ending, I joked that she probably stuffed a parachute in her dress in case she gets pushed over like her mom (because that would be super dumb) and that's exactly what happened. Overall, her character felt like the polar opposite of how Cruella should be and I can't see at all how they're gonna transition her into a puppy skinning maniac.
Also, the post-credits scene implies that the 101 dalmatians are a product of incest and I'm not entirely sure they thought that through. One of the dalmatians Cruella stole was pregnant, and then Roger and Anita gets sent a dalmatian puppy each from Cruella. I know inbreeding is a thing with dogs, but I don't think Disney wants to condone that either.
Aside from what you listed - I was also really annoyed with how passive her friends were. The more she escalated into mania and madness / villiany the more they noticed and whined only to fold over like oragami and then instantly forgive her with the slightest bit of work. I would have loved to see her really LOSE the very thing that elevated her...
Its still interesting that, in my mind, she still turns INTO the Baroness herself. So we kind of see our heroine (anti-hero?) turn into the villian at the end... idk.
OVERALL??? The movie, as its own, would have been a better story to tell in my opinion. Those issues - at least - could have been cleared up by erasing the "need" to throw in the "101 Dalmations" lore.
oh fun fact, most purebred dogs are incestous
@@kbeanu2039 That's an understood fact in the real world. In the world of fiction, especially concerning a movie based on a series of movies and animations where the dogs talk and act like humans, the incest can be a little disturbing.
@@sakulaeyr9819 no, like seriously. why do you think purebred dogs look the same ? just like the hapsburgs
@@kbeanu2039 I'm not refuting the real world truth though. I'm stating that Disney was tone-deaf in its inclusion.
I actually liked this movie. It kept me thoroughly entertained. It's it a master piece? No. But it's good. I never even thought of this as a "woman empowerment" movie. Nowhere near close to Birds of Prey or Charlie's Angel
Same. I didn't see it as a women empowerment movie. It just happens that the important characters were females just like how most movies have male protagonists and antagonists. Do people call Batman a male empowerment story just because the mc and the main villain are males?? No. It seems that people just find it hard to adjust to movies like Cruella and instantly view it as a gender obsession film.
@@shoshishoshi127Bruh Cruella literally spells out "Girls can't be X" IN THE BEGINNING. You are stupid to believe this is anything but a female empowerment movie
Okay, I wanna give justice to my Dalmatians. They didn't write them as the ones who pushed her over because "hohoh I'm like the movie it's why she hates dogs" They gave her enemy a vicious tangible form, then that cute part where one of the dudes was hanging out with the dogs shows that they aren't the enemy they were just following orders. And that part where the baroness thought she killed her dogs to make a coat was not only good comedy and a nod to the original film, but I think it's a metaphor of how she's taken the baroness' power over the whole industry and fixed it.
What was the point of this movie honestly. Cruela is a animal/dog killer that is extremely disturbing. This new character might as well have been called Joana or Michelle because that isn't Cruela.
@@marinodejesus8024 she has Cruella’s fashion sense
@@marinodejesus8024 And Adolf Hitler wasn't born a mass murdering dictator.
You're allowed to consider people complexly. Even villains. Especially villains.
@@lonestarr1490 You made my point. There is in no way this woman will ever become Cruela. What are they going to show in the next movie the Dalmatian tearing up her baby? That being the reason why she turns into a sadistic puppy killer? Lmao
@@marinodejesus8024 just like maleficent, they are gonna do it the other way around and make it seem like the other people are the antagonist, unless they probably put in another unkown villain, but thats just my guess
someone: how u make a villan more likable?
the director: just make the untagonist more evil
One way of many that both Wandavision and Lovecraft Country both utterly failed.
effective cliche to be honest...
I didn't watch the movie but here I am 😎
SAME.
Same
Same. Filmento analyzes movies real well.
Same as an aspiring film maker I'm going to learn all I can
Did anyone?
Honestly, you gave me the wrong idea about the film, it's not bad it's actually pretty good for a Disney film
@Rita 25 y.o - check my vidéó why not tho? It's a cool character. Cruella could be a great villain if Disney would actually allow her to skin the dogs. Empowerment of females simply comes from good written female characters. And Cruella The-Puppy-Killer had all the potential to be one.
Seems like a good movie weighted down by a legacy tucked onto it then.
Literally. If it weren't tied to cruella then more people would see it as the fun heist-style it is
a legacy that they could've avoided if they just named it differently
I have a hard time relating to a woman who wants to skin puppies
They could just make it original. Make something new once in awhile...
@@bemotivated8443 well maybe this is a different version of cruella like alternate universe.
The only flawed of this movie is that it's a slave to it's own prequal. In away, it poisons the movie by forcibly adding of what it's meant to be...
But is not a precuel, it only has too many references for everyone with nostalgia for the previous live action or the cartoon movies/series
@@teotlcipactli7530 Yeah, but if is not meant to be a prequel, then why do they give their main character the name and the aesthetic of an established villain who wants to skin puppies? The main character of this film didn't need to be Cruella De Vil.
That's like making a Star Wars film about a young Imperial Officer being a good guy and then it turns that it was Grand Moff Tarkin. The man who ordered the destruction of an entire planet and then being, Well, in THIS continuity he didn't actually do that.
@@wjzav1971 Is easier to relate with a character you're familiar (or an archetype of one) just like Tony Stark not having the same exact story like in the original comics and got it's own cinematic adaptation with the entire MCU franchise, we can even see that in failed atempts like the DC cinematic universe
@@wjzav1971 And Cruella main thing isn't suposed to be the killer of dogs, that's the cherry on top, the Narcisictic actitudes still are there, like an archetype with a brand name so that people talk about it, otherwise you will say that is just a copy of 101 dalmatians if she was called Francisca for example, so: Is the issue that you don't like Disney because it's popular to dislike Disney? or is it that this Cruella isn't faithfull to the source material?
And if is bad to attempt diferent things to a previously established FICTIONAL character¿
@@teotlcipactli7530 Yeah, I get it. Name recognition and all. And especially comic book characters go through different interpretations.
But its important to stick to the character's core values even in a different adaptation (which is what also bit the DCEU in the ass). And with Cruella De Vil, they picked one character that does not exactly offer much room for differences in interpretation.
You can of course always fudge your character a little. Thano turned from a manic who wanted to kill live because he had a crush on Death to a well-meaning maniac who wanted to solve overpopulation (but he was still a villain!). But note how even the MCU got shit when it went too far with changing its characters, like what they did with the Mandarin in Iron Man 3.
Instead of trying to get us to like a puppy-murder or retconning pre-established canon, both approaches not exactly popular, they should have tried their luck with an original character.
And that's not to mention that Disney really has exhausted all the good will of movie-goers and is currently broadly reviled for their bullshit of live action remakes and running Star Wars into the ground.
If it wasn't based on a pre-existing character whose background story is known for decades, it would have had a better chance of not bombing.
Exactly
But this literally is her background story and has been since 1956. They did add characters like the Baroness but other than that, this is accurate. They didn't change her. The whole story of her growing up poor, being bullied in school etc. is in the original novel.
@@sessaku9361 She never grew poor.
@@universalspaceexpeditioner8259 did you read the book
@@sessaku9361 'Being in the original novel' means nothing. The Cruella most people know is the Disney adaptation. And the differences between both the new adaptation and the novel, and the old adaptation and the novel, are vast.
I think the whole character was lost. Remember, Cruella DeVil was an evil character, period. She skinned puppies. I don’t want to empathize or understand her. She used puppies for making her coats. I don’t want to feel bad for Maleficent. I don’t want to humanize Cruella. Evil is evil. I really despise this Disney trend of understanding and excusing evil.
cough cough joker cough cough
"recent" female empowerment blockbusters that i can remember: Kill Bill, Black Swan, Mad Max and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. I love these movies.
Enola Holmes
Hidden Numbers, Harriet, Radioactive
The Edge of Tomorrow too, Emily Blunt was great as always
Oh please, if Kill Bill was made today they’re definitely call her a Mary Sue and whine about strong women and how she’s too strong and feminism, how she doesn’t need a man and on and on.
@@oatlaskennedy1308 she takes a beating in the film. Uma Thurman's char has many struggles and losses. Not a mary sue at all. Everyone's a little overpowered in that film, men and women alike. It's stylistic.
The movie does not fail in the "empowerment" department, but on the "not being true to the original character" department. Watching the original films we see a woman wanting to skin dogs alive to wear them in a fashionable way, proud of her wicked ways without having her gender being the main focus.
If only the movie had a different name just like the character we wouldn't have a problem.
Overall it's a pretty decent movie, only in we wipe out of memories of the true heartless Cruella.
I wonder: I do support you on removing the name, but in that case it'd end up as one of those girls in the fashion world flicks imo, where I have to ask: why are there so many movies about girls and fashion?
@@xxMpEGxx There aren’t many tho. Also the idea of a designer trying to overthrow her boss with an alter ego is completely original, I even dare say it’s the best part of the movie.
@@xxMpEGxx cause girls like fashion? and the movie industry wants to capitalize on that
Filmento keeps torturing me by putting Tom Cruise in 99% of his videos, and not analyzing Oblivion, Magnolia, or Vanilla Sky.
Yeah
Yes. Yes and YEEEEEAAAAAHHSSSSSS
Now I want this.
I honestly wasn't expecting this from a Disney movie about empowerment, but it's so cool how they actually made one set in a reality. Thanks for the message, I'll be watching this movie!
It's dumb asf to try and give a villain like Cruella Deville any redeeming qualities or any excuse for being the way she is, her name is a play of "Cruel Devil" for crying out loud, can't we just have a villain that's evil without some tragic backstory for once
Yeah, I want one dimensional characters too.
@@Jonwithace sometimes, there is nothing wrong with 1 dimensional characters
@@Jonwithace original cruella is not one-dimensional, she is a result of wealth and privilege and toxic dog-eat-dog (pun intended) fashion industry, where shock value and profits are more important than ethics or empathy. But sure, it's sooooo much more complex when instead, her mom was killed by dalmatians #sodeep lol.
An improvement over "Charlie's Angels" or "Bird of Prey?" I mean, could it have been any worse?
You never now. We said the same thing when prequel trilogy in star wars came out. Now we have the sequels. When we reach the bottom, somehow morons manage to push down even further.
@@CataStudies Haha - I hadn't thought of it that way, yet it's so true. I can't even imagine what that would be like, yet, I'm sure that someone in Hollywood is capable of making something far worse than anything we can imagine.
I don't want my eyes to mutiny, but I bet it can be worse.
@@TheKing-qz9wd If the movie is a failure?... why did he wrote "Film perfection " in the title😐
@@leroyvermilion7708 What The King is talking about isn't about how Cruella is bad(I think), rather that the extremely low standards of Charlie's Angels or Birds of Prey could possibly not be the lowest standard for making movies, and that those would be atrocious to watch.
This channel is such a good mix of positive and negative criticism, its quite uplifting and you get a real sense of how to improve at universal film principals
Im gonna comment some more cuz this channel is so much fun.
In film channels theres a few catagories, some only give negative criticism, and then its like... oke what DO you want then?
And then theres channels that praise well liked movies, and then im like yeh theyre good movies, WE KNOW.
This channel is right in the hot spot. Doenst try to protect himself by making his point unneccesarily complicated so noone can critisice him, no. He makes it simple, easy to digest, because he believes in it. Thats the shit you like to watch.
The only mild criticism I have for this channel is that Filmento sometimes goes a little to hard on its rules, making it seem like your story will for sure suck if you dont apply.
Im a strong believer in breaking rules ones you understand them, to keep experimenting, which Filmento doenst really mention I think.
But in the last couple videos this point has improved somehow so im very happy.
Uh...don't you mean "Disney film principles"?
@@davidhoffman6980 no I dont mean that, talking about the whole channel experience :)
The fact they didn't show all her evil is what makes it so good. They never showed it, but you could clearly see the seeds being planted and that just made you enjoy the older movies more.
When I saw the trailer first thing I thought was "Cruella was such an evil character but this gal just feels like some spoiled rebel teenager".
It's like they got the obsession with fashion down to a T but her insanity... Where is the evil?!
EDIT: The Baroness actually felt more like Cruella than Cruella.
There's a very intentional cca. 20 year gap between events of this movie and the 101 dalmatians. In this movie, Cruella lives on the street, works her way up and ends up inheriting Baroness' wealth, takes over her job and learn she's her daughter. It's fairly reasonable to assume that she'll become more like Baroness by the time 101 dalmatians happen.
I think it was a fairly clever way to both; avoid the issue of the hero being someone as despicable as Cruella; and at the same time provide answers for how it will happen eventually off screen, after the movie concluded. They avoided the need for complete and thorough retcon, like they had to do with Maleficent to make her a hero in her movie.
@@KohuGaly I've been thinking about this comment all morning. I understand what you say but from the "Villain origin story" bit we are missing the VILLAIN. Hear me out wouldn't you rather see "little girl in orphanage is fashion genius and everyone loves her but she then gets adopted by parents that think is a waste of time and bully her into being inside the box so she leaves and has to work cleaning toilets wondering if she ever be who she wants to be then gets wasted and everything starts. Only to realize that her boss is her mother and the reason she has been putting her down once again is because she has deep rooted insecurity and wanted to be the only one. Goes to jail after Cruella exposes her then proceeds to take everything she ever cared of. Her job. Her place. Her fortune. And lastly her home zoo that she will use for a fur collection ending with her favorite dalmatians". It's just makes much more sense to me. We have a goal. And it's to make Cruella. This movie is like explaining how Frolo became a judge without explaining why he is a baby slaughter gypsy obsessed psychopath.
@@ANGST.ARGENTINA evil parents orphanage did you watch the movie?
@@KohuGaly The problem is that it's all off-screen--though, honestly, they could have also had her being just "I don't want to become somebody like the Baroness" and left on the table a possible sequel where we see her manage that (and derail 101 Dalmatians, which could give a hilarious credits gag where this!Cruella is outright "That is a STUPID plan, fake fur and black dye and done" about what 101D!Cruella's goals were) or...not, and we get her downfall.
@@KohuGaly they kinda ruined that trajectory by having her send the beloved pair of Bongo and Perdita to their respective owners me thinks🤷🏽♀️.
Years later she wants the puppy fur?
This movie tries and fails to be an edgy version of the Devil Wears Prada and Joker.
The thing being it didn’t need to but gives a good result in trying anyway
@Kael How was the Joker cringe? As someone who works in the mental health field I found the Joker movie to be pretty dam good and showed a forgotten side of mental illness and tried to respect the subject best it can.
Kind of yeah, but it is surprisingly not bad. It's an okay movie on it's own.
No one would be on the side of a person who skinned dogs, so of course, they had to change that. You really wouldn't think there'd be so much uproar about reinventing a d-tier Disney villain.
Idk about d-tier, but she’s definitely not top 5. Give her c-tier, man
there's a disconnect between the cruella we saw in all the 101 dalmatians franchise and this one.
@@endor8witch There is no disconnect. They are both based on the original novel. The new Cruella movie covered a part of her story that only existed in the original (bullied in school, grew up poor, started her own label). They said themselves this story is a prequel to 101 Dalmatians. It's her backstory and it's connecting well to both the original story and the 101 Dalmatians story. This is before she married the furrier. Her obession with skinning dogs didn't begin until the birth of Pongo's puppies, which is going to happen in the sequel in this movie. The movie ends with Pongo himself being born first.
@@sessaku9361 No. There IS a disconnect. I don't know where you heard that it is a prequel (most likely the IMDB page - it's wrong, they didn't fact-check it), but it isn't. It's a reimagining, a reiteration. It exists in its own universe, independently of the book, the animation or the movies with Glenn Close. Many have compared it to "Joker" , and that's an appropriate comparison. Think of it this way: Cruella De Vil, played by Emma Stone, is not the same Cruella De Vil, played by Glenn Close. Just like Arthur Fleck, the Joker in "Joker", played by Joaquin Phoenix, is not the same character as Jack Napier, the Joker in "Batman", played by Jack Nicholson, nor are either of them the same character as Heath Ledger's Joker (whose real name we never even learn) in "The Dark Knight".
Three different iterations to the same concept of a character - the Joker, each in its own separate universe.
Napier is a mobster who is disfigured by chemicals, turning his hair green and his skin chalk-white;
The Joker in "The Dark Knight" is strongly hinted to be an ex-soldier, and he wears makeup as war paint;
Arthur Fleck is a failed comedian and clown performer with a condition that causes outbursts of uncontrollable laughter, unrelated to his current emotional state (it's a real condition called "the pseudobulbar effect").
Same applies to Cruella:
The original version is a narcissistic psychopath who goes to extreme lengths to get what she wants, with an absolute disregard for any other living creature. An absolute monster, cannot be justified or excused.
The version seen in "Cruella" is a quirky, eccentric, extravagant woman with a passion, and talent, for fashion. Think of her as a...female Jack Sparrow or Deadpool. She's bad, she's rebellious, she breaks the norm, but she's not evil. The movie goes to great lengths to prove that. This Cruella has a dog of her own, her relationship with Jasper and Horace is much more down-to-Earth, and she doesn't treat her allies like mere means to an end, but as friends. The Baroness is the one who fills the role of the original Cruella - that of a cold, narcissistic, ruthless woman. Making THIS Cruella a "Baroness 2.0" will not happen, if there's a sequel. Need I remind you that "Star Wars" is owned by Disney, too?
There's a parallel to be drawn between Emma Stone's Cruella and the Baroness, and Rey and Sheev Palpatine. The Baroness is Cruella's biological mother, whereas Sheev is the man whose DNA was used to create a "strand-cast" (sort of like a clone, a person made from a single person's DNA) that was Rey's father, which makes Sheev Rey's pseudo-grandfather. In both instances, the main character is related to a villain whose actions cannot be justified. It's a tale as old as time - your bloodline does not define you. You are your own person and you shape your own destiny. Rey may have been created from Sheev, but she considers the Skywalkers her family, after her parents died. The Baroness may have given birth to Cruella, but she considers Catherine Miller, her adoptive mother, to be her true parent. "Cruella" is a female empowerment movie. To make Emma Stone's Cruella into a narcissistic, unscrupulous monster, like the original Cruella, and thus, like her biological mother, would be to essentially teach young women that they cannot escape their generational curses. If your biological mother or grandfather are evil, whatever you do, you too will become evil. And that goes against the lesson this movie is trying to teach young women. And before you bring up the "Estella Vs. Cruella" symbolism, that's something else. "Estella" is her "trying to fit in" personality. "Cruella" is the one where she embraces her desires to chase her dreams, unbridled by society, but not to the psychopathic extremes that the Baroness does it. That's what she means by "Cruella gets things done, Estella does not" - not that Estella has moral scruples and cares about people, while Cruella is an unscrupulous psychopath who'd drown countless humans and animals in their own blood for the fulfilment of slightest whim. Rather, that Estella is told to shut up and do what she's told. Her boss tells her to clean toilets - she cleans toilets, even though she really wants to chase her dreams and offer her ideas to the world. Cruella wants to be a fashion designer and she's a fashion designer. There's a ball with a black-and-white dress code, and she shows up in a red dress. It's a story about not letting society push you into a box, not a story about a descent into moral insanity and evil. Think of Estella and Cruella not as...Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, but rather as Magikarp and Gyarados, respectively. An evolved version. She takes what she has and evolves it, rather than regressing into a carbon copy of her biological mother.
I'm not a dog person, so it probably wouldn't bother me.
"Hey, y'all remember that crazy old lady that tried to kill dozens of puppies over a coat? She's nice. We should show people that she's nice."
Disney trying so hard to make sure everyone knows about gender.
but forgets about their past productions that are sexist racist and violent.
It's like Disney wants us to forget how they got where they are now.
Most powerful people do, because they had to sin to win!
Disney doesn't give a single flying fuck about gender. Disney cares about one thing and one thing only. Money. And if pushing some sort of gendered narrative is going to get them money, they'll do just that. Maybe this film will turn a decent profit, maybe it won't, but either way Disney's going to learn from it to keep doing what it does best: making money and buying up all the interesting IP to squeeze into, you guessed it, more money.
@@twiztidsidfreak13 i got your point and i agree, but your argument kinda weak dude. if they want to forget (or make us forget) their horrible past, it's not a bad thing tho. why should an entity that (let's assume) want to change for the better have to constantly remind themselves how horrible they are in the past. that's kinda self-harm. but yeah, fk disney (due to the money reason that destroy souls of every movie they produced).
Cruella is the first movie to have a woman in it,prove me wrong.
Except in China
Cruella: "You killed my mother."
Baroness: "No, I am your mother."
That's a thing that happen in movies so it may as well happen in this one too.
Nooooooooooo...
Im surprised she made it out of this movie with both her hands
Things that happen in movies are TIGHT!
Disney owns Star Wars, so everyone is a Skywalker now
And TELENOVELAS
XD
Detail: to transition Cruella into an adult Cruella, she dyed her hair, but later on we learn that it is a wig. WTF?
I assume she made a wig later in life but at first she dyed it.
@@sombramemer1230 That's what I thought
@@sombramemer1230 I just assumed she dyed her hair red, but when confronting the Baroness for the fisrt time, she somehow undye it and after that got a wig to wear while working.
I think that Disney’s allowed to reinvent a character. It’s their character. Comics do it all the time. I like this Cruella. I also like the original movies. People really don’t like change
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I feel like before she was the typical villain, now it seems she is more defined as a character.
It's not as much as "I don't like change" as it's "I like consistency throughout my cinematic universes".
Exactly. So they made a new version of their character, what's so hard to understand about that? They already did it with Maleficent, and considering it was much worse I don't understand why people didn't get so angry back then.
@@ohc1492 how tf about many characters? Aren't there like 100 different good and bad versions for one side character in basically all comic book companies
Cruella: It looks better than Lion King 2019.
True, at least it didn't copy the original movie, almost word for word!
That’s like saying trash looks better than sewage.
FACTS!
At least it was more original than a cash grabbing rehash of a remake.
@@WoodyandDaffyDuck If the movie is a failure?... why did he wrote "Film perfection " in the title😐
@@leroyvermilion7708 Just go watch the video yourself and you understand what he means.😉
Hey! That's my meme trap remix of Hans Zimmer's "No Time For Caution" at 12:40
It's an honor being a small part of this video :) Thank you Filmento.
Came for the movie breakdowns, stayed for the irresistible humour
I like ur pfp fam. Is your room clean?😉
@@JohnJP1016 well... not exactly but comparing to what it was like yesterday, yes definately. Hail lobster. (also gold and black liberty)
U just read my mind 😅
@@kyrohowe3156 there are many of us lobster acolytes
@@JohnJP1016 lobster acolytes?
Christ, that comparison with Harley and Charlie's was a bigger stretch than anyone that genuinely thought Disney was looking to make a raw Cruella movie lol
as an empowering movie is ok, very good if you compare it to other mainstream "empowering" pieces.
as a revenge movie is lacking, but if you don't have expectations you have a nice time, a regular and enjoyable movie.
as a Cruella origin story is awful, disney chose the "dalmatians killed ma' momma so imma take revenge" path.
(I started writing the flaws and differences but ended up deleting it all, a little too much negativity)
If the movie were it's own original story instead of a "villain origins" one it would carry more weight and flavor, the "empowering" moments are for once in a lifetime not cringe (or at least they don't physically hurt) and overall a nice story if you don't know or care about og Cruella.
Cruella was a scary, unrelenting, crazy and fantastic villain seeking nothing but self gratification seemingly just because, and in my opinion she didn't need an origin story.
Disney needs to stop rebooting there old movies and make something new,on another note I don’t think any of there male villains are going to get there own movies
You sound pretty ignorant so you opinion is pointless because she never held grudge for the dalmatians at all 💀 if only people realized that this movie is not canon but a spin-off of a character who actually loves dogs and takes care of them her whole life.
@@joshuaramon123 except this movie is considered a prequel to the 101 dalmatians movies so...
This isn’t an origin story
What I think is so utterly bizarre in the whole, toning down of the evil of the original character from, as you a put it, a smoking dog killer into a non-smoking dog lover and the notion that this was necessary because of the Disney brand, that they can't have Cruella so irredeemably disgusting and unhinged etc is that...they recently did!
The Disney animated series that aired a couple of years ago 101 Dalmatian Street is a squeal to the original movie set in the present and features Cruella, now in her 80's, who in the preceding decades has gotten far more evil, deranged and psychotic.
How it is that this recent animated series, that is aimed at kids, is allowed to get away with a crazy and evil Cruella while this allegedly 'adult' and 'mature' live action film is not?! It really boggles the mind. I guess it's that, due to the far lower budgets the suits at the top are not obsessed with micromanaging the animated series Disney have been putting out over the last several years, which has only been to their benefit.
How to make a female empowerment movie: DON'T
Just make a movie like aliens.
Or like Mad Max: Fury Road (Furiosa for those who don't know)
@@madurcrazy2990 That one was OK, but the plot was kinda dumb. The action scenes, acting, and world building were great, though.
Have a badass character that happens to be a woman
And thats it
Write a good character, that happens to be female, just take any anime female leads for example
@@Hhhh22222-w ehh... It depens on the show
The thing is that the Cruella was a bad idea from the start.
You can't redeem a character, whose only characteristic is that she wants to murder puppies. That's literally the definition of evil.
And you can't redeem her by saying that Dalmatians killed her mom.
THAT'S NOT HOW THE FORCE WORKS
Can we all cheer at Filmento's conclusion ? That's something filmwriters and filmmakers need to take into consideration : Films are designed for humans, not a group of people.
This title is the most confusing thing I have ever heard
Same
no because it has a question mark and should be easy to get.
lol agreed
"I am a woman"
"Why? because I'm a woman?"
"Mah gender!"
(That's gender obsession). That's inferiority screaming.
@@hossingerapelio7551 Jesus Christ, no one is talking about that crap or saying that right now. Take that obnoxious whining somewhere else and stop bringing it so you can cry baby whine about it.
There is no “inferiority screaming” than your post your doing.
It stuff becoming a problem when you fools stop talking about it every second.
The real discrimination has always been money
The only color Disney cares about is green
I also don’t care about 101 Dalmatians so I loved the movie. Also yes, This is how you empower, not dragging others down but lifting everyone up!
Gender obsession? Did we watch the same movie?
Cruella fails because she never actually reaches the state of the villain we know
He said in the beginning he hasnt watch the original for a long time so he cant compare them.
Filmento is only basing his opinion on the movie because he hasn't watched 101 dalmatians
I actually loved the fact that it wasn't complete copy of Disney movie, they changed the whole plot with a little gist of original Cruella and atleast it's better than the lion king 2019
When you forget it’s villain orgin story and treat Cruella as new stand alone character it’s pretty fun movie with amazing music and great performances from both Emma Stone and Thampson
But now you’re just delusional. You forget that, it is a villain origin story.
Lmao suure
Irving Zarate how am I delusional? I know what it is but too enjoy it I choose to treat it like more of an alternative version of the characters. Because yeah if you’d watch the movie you would know that it makes no sense that Emma’s version of Cruella would became a puppy skining villain as her character literal childhood friend is a dog and she basically adopted the dogs that SPOILER killed her mother. So..
@@manuelirvingzarate you're the delusional one here lol
@@Karaetify Once people accept that the multiverse exists, they'll be a lot happier.
Cruella was a pretty decent movie with two exceptions for me:
1. It created some plot holes and weirdness when you know what must happen to her really soon (in 101 dalmatians).
2. The soundtrack seemed a bit excessive to me. It felt more like a flex of "look what we can afford" than a carefully picked soundtrack. But that's just a personal opinion.
I read a theory that the next movie, which they plan to start making soon I think, might have the Baroness try to frame Cruella for skinning dogs or something similar and try to keep this "new" Cruella "good" which is odd so idk where they are really going with everything. Also yes the sound track did seem to be a bit much with how they shoved as many songs in as they could.
So it’s a class empowerment movie, not a female empowerment movie. As in, hard work and the ability to take risks can lift a person out of their undesirable station. Nice.
That's a fair criticism
It is a female empowerment as well
@@stanisawzokiewski3308 it could have been a guy and the story wouldn’t change very much, if at all.
@@Mr_Case_Time i doubt it would work the same with a fashion guy. The way its presented it looks a like a woman that tries to outwoman enouther woman. Cruella has a very powerful feminine presence to her
@@stanisawzokiewski3308 yes but “outwomaning” each other doesn’t sound like empowerment. When a man stands up to, and outdoes, his male boss, I wouldn’t think that they were trying to “outman” each other. Maybe I’m not an expert on movies focusing on female empowerment, but Cruella seems like more of a “rags to riches” story to me.
If This movie was about a original character I could probably get behind it but just the fact that It's about someone who wanted to skin puppies for a coat just isn't for me.
Relax bro. It s just a movie.
@@nerychristian Yes, a movie, which could be about a character that doesn't want to skin puppies
@@marcinkrz3140 this movie is about a character that has not skinned any puppies, might do it later? perhaps but its outside the scope of this movie and therefore pointless bringing it up
@@sgtkort97 then what's the point of using her ? They could crate a new character
@@marcinkrz3140 money
The movie itself is decent without taking in the franchise contextual stuffs, but it's simply cringe once you look at how the Cruella going to be from 101 Dalmatian movies.
This movie should have been its own series, its own franchise. It will surely give a much more room for creativity & also growth of its own.
Just think of it as a spin off really
I don't think she will be. The dognapping and her being accused of skinning puppies already happens in this movie. It's more of a reimagining than it is a prequel.
That's because...it IS its own thing. Many people fault this movie for not working as a prequel, having continuity errors or attempting to justify the actions of a narcissistic psycho (the original Cruella)...and that's just not the case. This movie is not a prequel, but a reiteration. It exists in its own, separate universe, completely independently. DC and Marvel do that all the time. Like "Joker" - Arthur Fleck is not Jack Napier, nor is he the Joker from "The Dark Knight". Those are three different individuals in three different cinematic universes. Same applies here. This Cruella is not that Cruella. If you want to have an enjoyable experience watching this movie, treat it like it happens in a world where "101 Dalmatians" never existed. Look at it with a fresh pair of eyes. Because that's the idea.
@@petervitkov361 Exactly
Honestly, I really like the Cruella film. It was enjoyable and one of my favorites. That is if you detach it from the original movie. Don't get me wrong, 101 Dalmatians is a classic. But Cruella deVil is not a character that should be redeemed. The character in the movie felt entirely different from the puppy skinner in the original movie. It doesn't give cruella any reason to hurt Dalmatians and I feel sorry that Estelle had to turn into Cruella because it makes the film seem so much sillier. It tries to redeem Cruella, but it comes up with the most basic way of doing it. If Cruella had a differently named protagonist, who turned into a different character, it could have turned out so much better than what it is. Because being connected to the original makes the plot kind of fall apart.
well yes, emma stone's cruella is different from the cruella in 101 dalamtions, but you have to remember that cruella in 101 dalmations is way older than emma stone's. and all we see in 101 dalamations is that cruella is evil and she likes dogs. i feel like emma stone's cruella doesn't try to make her different than this cruella, they just humanize her more. showing her background and why exactly she is evil. because she doesn't change. she still ends up evil. because she is a villian. estella also is cruella's "good, innocent" past. and that's why she makes the change to be cruella. it shows the build up to the 101 dalmations older cruella, but not exactly.