I wanted to share a picture, and talk a little bit about how my friends felt about the movie!
Maleficent recently came on TNT, and was followed by this
Cinderella, and then
Saving Mr. Banks. My friend had rented
Cinderella, this one, before, and her boyfriend was like "Oh man, really?", but he watched with her and got sad by and hated how Ella's parents kept dying and he hated how her stepmother was so mean, but he loved the fairy godmother parts, and he was wowed by them, as well as the stairs to the palace and the wedding dress. He wanted to be able to dance well like the prince, but he said he couldn't be like Cinderella (I don't know if he meant in the kindness or subserviant way). My friend said she liked the film. We then watched the remake of
Beauty and the Beast a lot when I bought it, and they both liked it a lot, but my friend felt Emma Watson was the wrong choice for Belle and the film wasn't as good as the
Cinderella remake. We agreed there. So this recent time when
Cinderella was on TNT, we just watched it and I felt kind of embarassed by both a film I thought her boyfriend would find too girly, and also the acting and the dialogue. It felt like the film sucked and was my guilty pleasure. But my friend's boyfriend (who's also my friend) got really into the movie, he even cried when Ella's mother died, though he does cry at a lot of sad things. He again said he couldn't be like Cinderella, but this time specified her kindness, he felt he would be more revengeful on the stepfamily. He didn't get why she became a servant to them, at least at first, maybe he kind of saw how she got forced into it. He loved the fairy godmother parts and whistled at the transformations. I think he said, "That was magical" when Cinderella transformed, and there was the question of why the glass slippers didn't disappear at midnight, and I explained it was because the fairy godmother made them new, he wondered why only Cinderella fit the slipper and I said because she had the tiniest feet, and he wondered how Cinderella would get out of her captivity and I told him to wait for it and he was like "Gotcha!" when the stepmother was going to get stopped by them hearing Cinderella singing, and he loved how the prince had been hiding as a guard. He said "Awesome!" and "I love this movie!" as it ended and well, I love it, too, despite me thinking it's boring and has some bad acting. It's still my favorite live-action movie ever, followed ever so closely by
The Wizard of Oz. So, yeah.
And here's the picture I wanted to show, from the "Staging the Ball" bonus feature! Isn't it gorgeous?
