I go on vcation, for my beautiful blonde cousin's wedding in a sparkly white dress no less, listening to vows how when she first met him she knew and felt something was special...and then this happens...
My first reaction, was, of course, !!!!!!!! OMG pure extreme joy and excitement.
My second reaction was NOOOO now I can't make MY live-action version of my favorite Disney film!!!!!!
But after reading it all, now I see, if this is being done by the director of The Devil Wears Prada and 27 Dresses...this will NOT be anywhere near the kind of version I wanted to make, and mine will still be different enough.
First, I heard 27 Dresses was bad, but I like The Devil Wears Prada and thought it was pretty good. However, none of them are considered really, really good, and after the hundreth time of doing the Cinderella story, you'd think by now they would hire a director that has made lots of Best Pictures or nominations for Best Picture to make a version that will be guaranteed good on at least a high level. Also, these films are just...the more modern, poppy, shallow kind, not the kind of serious substance you'd expect Cinderella to have.
However, I was thinking that, as I watched The Devil Wears Prada, Miranda is in some ways like the stepmother, and Andrea is like Cinderella. The way the boss treats her serving girl. The heroine even transforms into a vision with her hair up at a point, going to gala events, and Meryl Streep would probably make a GREAT Lady Tremaine.
The Cinderella story has been done so many times, it actually holds the record for the story most made into films, and Dracula is second. They even say that roughly, some kind of version of the basic story is made almost every year.
Cinderella is a classic, and just like any really good classic piece of art, it can be made and re-made, it can be updated for each generation, it can live on in much more than one incarnation.
If you really think it's been done and you can't do it anymore...it's not true, each new person in this world can think of new ways to do anything.
When people on this board can still name the kinds of things they would like to see done in Cinderella, you definately know there's still lots of room to make some really good, even better versions. In fact, I am still not satisfied with any CGI yet, it was really great in the Brandy version and I loved the ideas and concepts behind it, but the rendering itself is still not seamless with the live-action yet.
It seems Alice in Wonderland's overlasting money-making in theaters made Disney pick this up, just like Maleficent.
Ever After is really good, but it's not really the original fairy tale, it's not really Cinderella (otherwise the title would be "Cinderella"). It takes away the magic, and it even takes away a lot of the importance of the ball and the glass slipper! And the heroine does so much, she pretty much escapes her fate without needing any help from anyone or anything else in the story, and the Prince's importance is lessoned, too. It's just can't be the best or definative Cinderella when it's hardy Cinderella...
I think Disney's 1950 version is the definitive cinematic one, certainly. I hope someday I get to make my epic, artsy, psychological live-action version of Disney's 1950 Cinderella, but I'll just have to keep dreaming and believing in it till that day...
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