Those lines are lovely! How do you know about Noémie and those extra narration lines though? How do you know all this stuff?! lol I am ok with some narration as it fits that it is a fairy tale and it's like it's being told to us, I just feel they could have used less of it and I feel that movies are better when you show more than tell...except
Into the Woods...for some reason that worked both in the play and film, to me!
As for when Cinderella becomes a servant, I must say this film does it so well. First she helps her family out of kindness. Then they move her to the attic. Then they take her helping them as either for granted and they're mean despite her kindness, or they make her serving them a requirement to live in the house. It actually seems to be the first one, that they are simply mean to her and make her do everything but not necessarily to live there. It is in "The Mourning" that when they say she is "another mouth to feed" that it may be they use her servitude to pay them to live there. Oh, and the other reasons are she does all the work because they had to dismiss the staff, and to "keep her distracted from her grief". Rather clever, well-crafted stuff.
But, I like how in
The Slipper and the Rose, everything is done quite plainly and not...drawn out? As soon as they come back from the burial, the stepmother, who we can soon guess was not that nice even when Cinderella's father was alive, comes out and tells Cinderella she will throw her out or make her the servant, and she must choose. And Cinderella reveals she hated the stepmother and thought she tricked her father into loving him. Then she sings about her lost familial love.
I feel like that way when Cinderella moves to a crappy room to live in, there's no question why the stepmother makes her do it. In
Cinderella, the stepmother making Cinderella go to the attic is a little odd. It's like
The Slipper and the Rose is the no bullcrap version, if that makes sense? Everything's out in the open? And I feel it's done more dramatically. But not so...sentimental?
By the way, have you ever seen the Faerie Tale Theatre version of Cinderella? It's great! I highly recommend it. It shows Cinderella getting the news of her father's death, and how she becomes a servant. It does it well, too, though not as dramatic and well as
Slipper and the Rose, in my opinion. The Faerie Tale Theatre version is also full of personality. It's quite good.
By the way everyone, Nostalgia Critic Doug Walker did three videos on the new 2015 Cinderella, all of which compare it to the original 1950 one!:
Cinderella (2015) - Disneycember 2015)
Sibling Rivalry: Cinderella (2015)
Old vs New: Cinderella - Nostalgia Critic
And by the way
tsom, since you like
Ever After so much, I think you'll like the first and second videos a lot!