#i have a full plan for a rewrite up my sleeve too eheueh

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Some ideas I had

Hey so yanno that movie I'm totally obsessed with even though it's riddled with more problems than I am? I wanna toss a few coins into the well of "how could it have been improved?" I mean. Besides adding more Odette. Easy: set it over the course of a few years rather than a few weeks. It's so simple I don't know why nobody went with it in the first place! Think about it: she starts off as a total beginner 11 year old and we see her learn. And grow. And train. And struggle as she finds out ballet isn't as easy as she thought and there are times where she wants to give up but she refuses because Godammit this is what she wants more than anything else in life. And the movie ends with her at 16 performing in her first major role on stage. Wouldn't that have felt so much better than her struggling for like two seconds, mastering it in a day, barely training, being irresponsible and getting her disabled guardian evicted from her house (still not over that) and STILL being handed the role at the last second because her rival wasn't what the show needed? Plus setting it over the course of a few years means she won't suddenly be a master of pointework, which let's be honest, is one of the biggest sins in the film. ... Maybe an ending where her ankles snap mid-performance due to her not being ready for pointe could be included here. I mean if they were worried about an older Félicie not being relatable enough then... well most Disney Princesses are old enough to get fuckin' married so that argument is moot. Another idea would be to change the ending only, ie, have Félicie NOT get the role and have it go to one of the other girls. Preferably Nora because one, Camille getting the role is almost as predictable as Félicie getting it and two, she was awesome. And think about how they could've ended it like sure she didn't get the lead role but she still got to perform at some point and even better? She has a family. Or at least, she has Odette. And Mérante too because if I'm writing this story then you bet they'll be fully hooked up by the end. And the last idea is obvious. Delete Rudy and replace him with more Odette because her and Félicie needed more scenes together. This has been another episode of "Ellie is way too obssessed with kids movies" I hope you enjoyed :^)