I love this film. Now, after some re-watching the actors for Cinderella and her father seem like the least well-acting performers, even though Lily James still shines to me, but Lily did a good enough job for me to rank as my third favorite Cinderella. Aside from that, and the use of the Painted Room for what is supposed to be a castle room for fencing and should have been a new set, and the "Getting to Know You" scene not being in, this film is almost everything I could have asked for. I say almost because it's not like it was written to have the best dailogue ever or the most complex Cinderella ever or the best developed romance ever, but really, this film gives me everything I
wanted. It's a dream come true.
That being said, I wonder what would have happened if an idea that Cate Blanchett came up with was used. She is actually not that old (she's only 48 and Sofie McShera is 32!) and she wondered when she was asked to be in the film if she would have played Cinderella and been CGIed to look younger (at least, she did mention CGI on her face and sounded like she meant that about playing Cinderella in an interview). Wouldn't it have been cool to have the best actress in the film played the stepmother
and Cinderella with CGI making her look different?
And I told someone that this film was supposed to be set in an imaginary Austrio-Hungarian kingdom, and I believe Kenneth Branagh did say it in an interview, but the castle I found from Wikipedia is actually based on one from Germany, called Zwinger. It looks really cool.
Finally, I wanted to post a picture of how maybe Cinderella's pink dress could have looked to look prettier and closer to the blue one since Cinderella's supposed to outshine the stepsisters when she appears at the top of the stairs right after Lady Tremaine says, "I dare say no one in the kingdom will outshine my daughters" and it getting destroyed is less sad when it's not that pretty and it only barely looked like the blue one. Here it is:
But actually I
do still like the one in the film.