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sidsinning · 1 year ago

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Seeing some push back on such an old post lol

Since I like talking about Cinderella:

"Stop putting the emphasis on how she was abused and wants freedom. That's not Cinderella."

?????? She...was abused...and literally....wants freedom...???? That's literally the story??? Freedom to fall in love, freedom to go out, freedom from her abusive household- idk how you missed it but freedom is a MAJOR theme in Cinderella, and is her greatest desire as a person. Its why the main event of the movie is her just going out to have a night of fun. She wants escape.

"Stop defining her by her abuse" bruh I'm not??? But obviously it's the central conflict of the story so it's gonna take up space 😭

2015 was weak bc it made changes that just deadass made no sense to the themes of the story

Why the heck is she dancing and singing in circles in her attic after getting the last bit of hope she has snuffed out

"She's just so good at persevering and having faith despite her circumstances"

No??? She's just being dumb??? They play it like this was so noble of her to do when it's not. Especially when we have the original 1950s Cinderella to look at. Clawing tf out of your prison despite what hardships have kicked you down for so long is perseverance, not just singing to escape from your situation (ofc its valid to get away from your worries by distracting yourself- but this is what she is doing here. Distracting herself. Not a big defining moment of what makes Cinderella so special)

"Cinderella is all about persevering no matter what circumstances she is placed in not that she's abused"

,,,yeah and the circumstance here is her abusive family. 😭 like idk how you can ignore talking about the elephant in the room here.

Maybe I didn't go into it here in this post but I have said this before- ofc what makes Cinderella great is her ability to remain kind and continue living despite what she's been through. Cinderella to me is about someone who remains kind and resilient in the face of hardships FINALLY getting to let loose and have fun-bc again, this is primarily a FAIRY TALE.

You see this girl going through it and cheer for her when she finally gets what she wants

I feel like just saying "oh Cinderella is so great bc shes nice to everyone and take care of people who don't deserve it and treats subjects with care" is a disservice to her agency as a human being. Throughout the story we follow Cinderella's life and are constantly aware of her PERSONAL desires and feelings aside from just being the best person for everyone else to be around. She wants to wear a pretty dress. She wants to get tf outta her ratty ass house to dance the night away. She swoons to herself about spending the night with the prince. She's not thinking of faith or being good to others. She just wanted some peace for herself for once.

This is why her fighting in the end is so so SO much better than what 2015 did. She had agency in her life and bc of her kindness to the seemingly insignificant mice around her- she is rewarded with their help in breaking out and is finally free. It's pretty fucking sick that Cindy from 1950s got to grab hold of her own happy ending through her own efforts and friendship. She got down and dirty and used her head to move. In the 1950s!!! All on her own!! That's huge!!!

2015 was just such a strange change bc while it did keep the kindness to the mice helping her in the end part, they just made her so weird 😭✋️ like who tf reacts like that to such a devastating revelation. Singing and dancing in the attic. Like she doesn't even bother thinking about her future besides welp just gotta deal with this shit again huh. 1950s Cinderella had the much more real reaction bc unlike 2015 she feels more human and grounded. Like you can say faith saved her or whatever but that can be kind of a smooth surface level excuse for any character that lacks agency. Lots of characters are kind despite their circumstances but aren't just defined by their ability to deal with people's shit.

It's smtg I am especially critical of with female characters bc its smtg ppl use as an excuse to not have them be an active part of the story. Authors will just have a super nice angelic girl who can do no wrong to friend and foe alike while not giving her anything substantial to do. Wouldn't go as far as to say 2015 completely merc'd Cinderella like this, but it really bothers me how I am supposed to accept her singing away her troubles as some kind of W for her. Especially when the narration is saying yeah she gave up on all her dreams but she's got nice memories to keep her going. It's great. NO. Can you please TRY. IT JUST MAKES NO SENSE SHE DEFAULTS TO SINGING INSTEAD OF ATTEMPTING ANY REAL ACTION. BC SHE STILL HAD OPTIONS IF SHE REALLY CARED ABOUT SEEING HER PRINCE AGAIN. IM JUST SAYING THIS CHOICE WAS CONFUSING BC LOGICALLY AND CHARACTER WISE IT MAKES NO SENSE 😭

Anything you wanna bring up with history on the aristocracy and other details of the fairy tale not given to us by the movies themselves are off the table to me. Like I should be able to just watch a movie and take what they give me without researching to make it better. Although it is interesting to learn more about Cinderella as a whole.

Idc what her dad said about leaving love in the house he would've wanted her to get tf out if he knew she was being abused and neglected bc she stayed there for him

Inheriting the house and those kind of plot details feel pretty irrelevant to me. It doesn't lessen the weirdness of the 2015 attic scene.

As for her godmother the new one isn't so terrible but 1950s still clears. She just makes more sense and is much more loveable and charismatic to me. Bippity boppity solos

Anyways despite all this I STILL think 2015 isn't so bad 😭 I promise it's fine like I would rewatch it and be chillin

Her dress goes hard

Although I am laughing that she asks her godmother to not change her torn up dress too much so she has a piece of her mother with her- only for the both of them to happily ignore how it turns into a completely different dress in every way LOL (it not even the og pink girl 😭)

UNNECESSARY AND UNHINGED RANT ABOUT CINDERELLA'S CHARACTER FROM CINDERELLA (2015) INCOMING

Lemme talk about Cinderella from Cinderella (2015) for a bit actually yeah because these changes to my girl completely baffle me

She has friends now

Goes outside on her own

Says the only reason why she's staying is because it's her parent's house- bruh.

All of this takes away (+ more reasons down the cut) from the true cruelty of OG!Cinderella's backstory and how it all connects so well to inform you of her character and the actions she takes

OG!Cinderella has been indoctrinated into accepting her life as a maid to her step family since she was a small child. She is never seen going outside of the house besides the night at the ball. The only friends she had were random animals around her she couldn't even fully converse with. She had no other human perspective on her situation or how to get out of it. It makes sense why she's just taking her stepmother's tyranny while holding everything in because this isolation and neglect is all she knows. This is the entire limited scope of her world. A sad reality to many cases of abuse in real life.

And they just. Erased all of this for some. Reason???

The night at the ball was a big deal because she literally NEVER gets to go out. This is the only time she interacts with the outside world aside from the ending. The impact of that was HUGE in the original movie. The new one just cheapened that imo by implying she goes out in town and talks to others regularly. This event was an impossible, fantastical dream come true to someone who is never treated as anything but a servant to everyone she knows.

Basically OG!Cinderella has it way worse which is what makes the ball such a huge deal in the first place.

Third point I don't think I need to explain how Cinderella staying in her abusive home bc the house is "hers to love now that her parents are dead" is not a good character change and doesn't make sense. I would understand if her dad was alive and insisting on staying, but he is GONE. It is a building you grew up in sure, but that's all it is. Not something you sacrifice your wellbeing for. So that's a shit reason they didn't need to make up to say why this character is stuck in her abusive household. The isolation and years of gaslighting were enough. (Also showing how much of a frightening presence and manipulative villain Lady Tremaine is.)

And she sure left it quick after getting hitched lol

The Fairy Godmother having the audacity to test Cinderella with that "oh I'm a poor old woman and I want some milk please" nonsense

Not very godmotherly of her in this version. 🥴 The Fairy Godmother appeared in the original to offer pure comfort to Cinderella in a time of desperate need, when this resilient and kind spirit finally reached her breaking point. The dress, slippers, pumpkin carriage, and magic were all given freely as a present to make her feel better at least for one night.

Meanwhile this goofy ass Godmother has the audacity to be like "hey is she gonna be nice or not even though she's crying in tattered, recently destroyed clothing- I need to see that or else she doesn't get the magic juice". Like why did this become a way to test her morality all of a sudden? Why did you need something from her to give up the magic goods?? It's not even a good test she just walked a couple steps and poured some milk in a bowl,,,

Idk man they made their relationship transactional for no reason which taints the original purpose of this scene imo. The original Fairy Godmother already KNEW Cinderella was kind without having to make sure by disguising herself as a rancid old lady. 😭 Weird and unnecessary addition.

Kinda nitpicky here but this film did not at all match the terror of the torn dress scene which really shows you how horrifying and humiliating it was to Cinderella

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AND THE BIGGEST OFFENDER: THE WAY SHE "ESCAPED".

I NEED TO TAKE A BREATH

BECAUSE LIKE. WHAT WAS THAT.

Original Cinderella, seeing a real chance of escape from her abuse, uses everything in her possession to do so. She's yelling for the mice to get the key, to get Bruno to chase away the cat, running down to meet the prince's attendants to make sure they get the proof of her identity from her- and that moment she oh-so-casually pulled out the second slipper??? SEEING HER STEPMOTHER'S SLACKED JAW??? GAGGED US ALL.

ICONIC

But 2015. Bitch. What is going on. She gets locked up and easily accepts her doom. She just twirls and sings in her prison like a dunce because cINDerELLa wAs aLReADy cONTenT wIth her sMaLL mOMEnts oF hAPPIneSs anD dREamS wItH thE pRinCE.

Just. Gives up.

Not the mice begging her to get up and save herself come on now

The mice have to do their best on their own to push open her window so the prince and his crew hear her on time.

And yeah, all she had to do was open a window.

WHAT. WHY. HOW. WAS THIS??? MORE EMPOWERING???

1950: use your brain to fight to the very end

2015: quit while you're still ahead, or don't try you just gotta dance and sing all pretty then someone will come along and save you

I'm sorry, but for a production that was so critical of the notion of "Cinderella just waited around for a prince to save her"...is that not literally what they changed the ending to?

You wanna talk about lack of agency in princess stories well here you go 😭

You know what's sad about all this in the end is this is still the best recent live action Disney remake imo LOL

Anyways hello if you've made it all the way down here I rest my case

#also you cant beat the face tremaine makes when cinderella whips out the other shoe right in front of everyone so yes 1950s solos #disney #cinderella #2015 prince definitely clears 1950s prince tho LMAO #until you watch cinderella 3 then the competition gets heated #sidrabbles

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urmomschocolatemilk · 3 months ago

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Coloring dates with the 141 (inspired by new hello kitty coloring book)

You're sitting in the breakroom at the deep wooden table, scribbling away at the pages in front of you when you feel a presence looming over your shoulder....

Simon 'Ghost' Riley watches you color in silence for a bit before asking what you were doing. He thinks its cute the way your face heats up when you realize you'd been caught, but he doesnt think you should be embarassed about your hobby.

When you invite him to join you and offer to make him a copy he just grunts in response and walks away with his fresh cup of hot tea.

Dont worry though, cause he'll take you up on that offer next time.

Captain John Price would watch you color from a distance and before you could realize he's there, he's slipping out of the break room to grab his 'adult' coloring book and pack of pencils from his office.

He accidentally startles you when he pulls out the chair next to you and drops the thick book in front of his seat. It takes you a moment to realize that he's joining you, but you couldn't be more excited about it.

The two of you spend the night coloring side by side in a peaceful silence.

John 'Soap' Mctavish will tease you about it to no end once he finds out you like to color in your pass time. He's pokes at you about it a lot, but with enough convincing he'll sit and color with you.

He gets a copy of the same book just so the two of you can be coordinated, and proposes a competition for who can color the picture better. He forces Ghost and Price to judge, and almost always looses because he cant pick color schemes

He doesn't take it to heart, and instead promises he'll beat you next time

Kyle 'Gaz' Garrick his first thought when he see's you coloring for the first time is that its neat that you like to unwind in such a calm way. He doesn't need any convincing to sit down with you and color. It actually gives you an opportunity to connect better since you're the two youngest on the force.

Coloring together becomes a scheduled thing with him, and you even get matching coloring books together when you finally finish the first one.

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