If you decide to react to the 1950s Cinderella cartoon (and I hope you do). Here are a few facts about the film: 1. The version you're talking about is the Brother's Grimm version Ashpotle. Actually, the 1950 film, and the one you just reacted to, are based on the 1697 version by Charles Perrault, which is also called "The Little Glass Slipper." In that version, the father is still alive, a rat is made into a coachman, the lizards are made into footmen, Cinderella goes to two balls at the palace (it's the second one she where she doesn't get back in time), the slipper doesn't break, the grand duke is not a character in the story, and, she forgives her stepfamily. The live-action film, which is directed by Kenneth Branaugh, is closer to the 67 version but did add some elements from the cartoon. In the 1950s film, Walt added more animals (with the mice and Lucifer being the main focus), reduced the number of balls to one (he felt it would be repetitive), the grand duke is not an evil character, and have the slipper the Prince has break before Cinderella produces the other one. 2. This film saved the Walt Disney studio. Prior to Cinderella, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was Walt's only hit. When Americans went to war during WWII, he was no longer allowed to release his films overseas. As a result, Pinocchio, Fantasia, and Bambi all failed in the box office. Dumbo was successful enough to keep them afloat, but not by much. They tried everything to keep going, including taking a bunch of short cartoons and combining them into one full-length film (ex: Make My Music and Melody Time) and making live-action films and propaganda films for the war effort. While they all did well, it wasn't enough to save them. In fact, by the time of Cinderella, the studio laid off a bunch of people, including animators, and they were on the verge of filing for bankruptcy. Walt chose Cinderella because, as he states, "we need a story about a girl who is in trouble. That always works." He also picked it because it was relatable as he believes everyone, including himself, has gone through a cinderella story at some point in their lives. 3. Ilene Woods, a little-known actress mostly known for her radio show The Ilene Woods Show, did the singing and speaking voice to Cinderella. She got the part after recording the song demos for Mack David and Jerry Livingston, the songwriters for the film and friends of Ilene. Walt heard them and immediately asked her to play the part, making it one of the first times a person doing the demos got the lead role (this would be repeated in Pocahontas when Judy Kuhn got the singing role of the lead). William Edward Phelps, a B-list actor and producer, did the speaking voice of the prince while Mike Douglas, host of The Michael Douglass Show, did the singing voice, making it the first time the prince character had two people playing him. Eleanor Audley, a well-known actress at the time, does the voice of Lady Tremaine (she would later go on to voice Maleficent in Sleeping Beauty). Verna Felton, a voice actress that Walt constantly uses in his films, does the singing and speaking voice of the fairy godmother (she would later do the voice of Flora in Sleeping Beauty). 4. The animators used live-action references to better capture the movement of the human characters and make it more authentic. Helene Stanley was the model for Cinderella (she would later become a model for Aurora in Sleeping Beauty). Eleanor Audley did the live-action references herself, making her one of the few actors to do both the voice and model. They did not use live-action references for the animals (which is interesting considering that they did use it for Bambi). 5. This is the first film whose soundtrack was released under the Walt Disney Music Company. Prior to this, Walt would release the songs under other production companies, like Bourne Co. Music Publishers, who owned the publishing rights to them. Creating a music company allowed Walt to have full ownership of his songs, including publishing and royalty rights. 6. It's the first film to have songs written by professional songwriters outside of Walt Disney Studio. Originally, Walt hired Larry Morey and Charles Walcott (two songwriters who worked at Disney) to write the songs but felt none of them worked with his vision of the film and looked for new songwriters outside of the studio. Apart from Mack David and Jerry Livingston, Walt also hired Al Hoffman. They all came from the Tin Pan Alley circuit, a place in New York where a bunch of songwriters and publishers create music. The soundtrack hit number one on the billboard pop charts. 7. It was the first soundtrack to use multi-track vocals, in which Ilene Woods had to record the same song multiple times so they can edit it to sound like multiple voices were singing with her. They mainly did this for the song "Sing Sweet Nightingale." 8. This is the first animated film to have an A story and a B story. The A story is about the stepmother and step sisters. The B story is about the mice and Lucifer the cat. Because Cinderella is in both stories, they made her the link that keeps these two storylines together. 9. The movie was a big success. On a 2.2 million dollar budget, the film made $93 million dollars domestically and $182 million dollars worldwide. By the time Cinderella was made, the war had ended, so Walt was allowed to release his movies internationally again. The film also made $4.28 million dollars in distributor sales (their share of the box office revenue). It was the fifth highest-grossing movie in the US and UK and the sixteenth highest-grossing film in France. To this day, many experts believe had it not been for Cinderella's success, The Walt Disney Studio would have shut down that year, causing them to not make any more movies again. While this movie did not do as well as Snow White, it did make enough money to save the studio and continue making movies for years to come.

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Please do Peter Pan 2003 live action next

So far, I think I agree. It feels familiar and authentic without being exactly the same - Sam

The chemistry is so off the charts. When she enters the ball and Richard sees her for the first time, he captures “love at first sight” so perfectly. I was amazed in the theatres and I still am every time I watch it.

Same

the dress is the most beautiful thing ive ever seen it makes the beauty and the beast one even more dissapointing cause i was expecting something like this

My too

Snow White’s prince’s name is, believe it or not, is Florian.

@@jakemurphy7956 It can be both

Great details.

@@Mike90317 Thx, there is much more :D The stepsisters DID cut off part of their heel or toes to fit into the shoe and right when the prince was on his way to the castle with them (yes, he did not recognize his mystery princess), the doves, who were always guarding the tree, warned him that it was a false bride, that there was blood in the shoe. He always returned them, even angry by the second time, till Cinderella came along.

@@Danisachan I think they used that version in the musical/movie Into The Woods which mixes up several fairytales into one story

Then I think Into The Woods was really accurate to the source.

Tbh that’s the Grimm Brothers’ version, the Disney animated one is based on Charles Perrault’s version

Whoever dyed the fabric should have gotten awards simply for that.

@@ameliecarre4783 YESSS, If only the same effort was put in Belle's dress...

@@bella.m266 …Belle’s dress does not exist within the realm of Ba Sing Se.

better than that fuckin atrocious Belle dress. they dropped the ball on that one fr.

The shoes were made by Swarovski. I only swan the miniature version while working there, but a client saw the life size in another store and she said it was glorious (the miniature itself was already very beautiful, as the Cinderella's "doll"). It really made you enter the dream aspect of the movie. This movie has an amazing desing *.*!

Ikr I liked it much more than the original even

@@na9640 Me too!

I think it’s because Kenneth Branagh is just so amazing as a director, so he knew how to make this movie good and memorable

True, really enjoyed them both here - Sam

@@themoviebudz1988 They really have! Just love the costumes from this movie too they are absolutely stunning! Also wanna share while this is a Cinderella story, that one of the best Cinderella movies I know probably is Cinderella 3 a twist in time. Its onestly så good, you wont regrett watching it! ^^

Have you seen the 2016 Branagh Theatre Live: Romeo and Juliet with them as the title characters? It’s my new favorite adaptation!

@@themoviebudz1988 can you guys reacg to Promising Young Woman ?

You got this.

I didn’t know that!! Thank you!

I found that so funny!

😂😂😂

technically Ella comes from an aristocratic family.

I dunno. I really enjoyed Maleficent, Beauty and the Beast and Cruella. Also the 1996 live action 101 Dalmatians.

@@BeeKee404 Maleficent and Cruella are really good. Maleficent and Cruella are very different to their main source material so I didn't really count them in my ranking. I was really thinking more on the field of retellings and the recent batch of live actions (so I didn't count 101 Dalmatians, which is also a good film). I should have specified it better. Nonetheless, Beauty and The Beast 😬😬😬 that one wasn't good.

Nah, I also love Alice In Wonderland (2010). Also vey well done.

Beauty and the Beast live action was horrid. They should've chosen an unknown for the lead and got better voice actors for the castle characters. I loved Cruella and Maleficent but those aren't true remakes of their originators: 101 Dalmatians and Sleeping Beauty, respectively. @@BeeKee404

Alice in Wonderland was another well done remake. Certainly true when compared to the dreck that is Cinderella (2021 version), The Little Mermaid, and soon Snow White. @@iamayanakuzunoha430

Yeah I saw it as a kind of nice 'f*ck you' to the stepmother as well. Cinderella's reached a point where she knows she's about to embark on a better chapter of her life and she's done everything to try to make it work with the stepmother. She knows she's not as terrible as the stepmother has tried to make her feel and she actually feels sorry for her because like you say, now the stepmother is being given a chance to face herself (and the image isn't pretty), as well as be given a chance to do better, though the road will probably be a long and tricky one.

That scene and the one where she breaks down at the well before meeting Godmother were the two pivotal moments where the movie's mantra "have courage and be kind" is truly tested.

Literally this!! Corsets were actually extremely comfortable and weren't meant to cut off breath. I don't think that happened until later on in Victorian era maybe where everything was wack.

Tysmmm. As much as I love this movie, that scene was the only drawbacks for me in this lol

@@lemontree666333 Yeah tightlacing. But even so it wasn’t really common practice. The hourglass shape was done by well constructed garments and padding :D Fun Fact: Victorians were the og photoshop user, altering their photographs by painting over it. (Like blemishes and shrinking waistlines)

@@LPSCANDY10 Honestly I love the Victorian era. They had lovely clothes that were tailored to you. I miss that. Though I find it hilarious that they were painting over their pictures. I love it 🤣

TBF tightlacing was a thing, but was considered extremely tacky (although lacing a little tighter for very special occasions was OK, the equivalent to super high heels these days). The tight lacing of the sister does fit this, as she IS extremely tacky. Ella is also corseted and is running / dancing just fine.

Haven't seen it yet, but we do love this one! - Sam

@@themoviebudz1988 you’re going to hate it in the best way 😂😂😂

you mean 2021?

It really is great dress 😋 - Sam

That's a cool breakdown, i hadn't even realized!

@@drariet9190 costume design and analysis is totally my alley lol. And Sandy Powell is one of those costume designers who intentionally does everything for a reason.

I like to think that the lavender, blue, and green in the lyrics of the “Lavender’s blue” lullaby manifested into her gown as another homage to Cinderella’s mother. There’s something so wonderfully harmonious and whimsical about the holographic green and lavender peeking through the topmost blue layers of her dress, almost like watercolor. If we stick to the theory that the Fairy Godmother planned for everything to happen the night of the ball, she predicted how opulently warm and golden the atmosphere of the ballroom would be, and would choose the complementary color blue to make her stand out (and match with the prince!)

My favorite Disney princess are : Cinderella, Snow White,Rapunzel ,Pocahontas and Ariel are my favorite 👍👍👍. Snow White ,7 dwarfs and beautiful girs,sing beautiful 👍🎶🎶 Cinderella, her dress (,beautiful dress),when she leaves the ball, lost her glass shoe,and princ find shoe,godmather fairy,speaking animals 🎶👍🤩🤩

They've both been on the list for awhile, not sure when we'll be able to do them tho - Sam

@@themoviebudz1988 please do never been kissed 😂 so many cringe/good moments 😊

Yeah, no disrespect but I love Ever After more. But I was a teen when it came out.

@@floppsymoppsy5969 You are right.

Ever After also has a better comeuppance that they guys were looking for. ;)

It's pretty interesting, you know, because you're right, it reminds of Beauty and the Beast, but there's actually german Cinderella (written by Grimms themselves) where she as well, as her stepsisters, ask her father (that's just an a**hole and just lets his stepdaughters and second wife mistreat Cinderella) something from his next trip: her stepsisters pearls and gems, she ask for the same branch. She then plants it on her mother's grave, it blossoms in a nice little tree... and that's the fairy godmother of this version!!! Yes, her beautiful dress and shoes, in Germany, are provided by a tree blossomed on a grave. 😂 And the part about Helena challenging Ella before showing herself as her fairy godmother, is a reference to another Charles Perrault's fairy tale, "The Faeries", about a kind girl helping a fairy masked as an old wretch to drink water from a well, and then being prized for her kindness.

It’s actually a part of some telling of Cinderella. She plants the branch in her garden and goes there everyday to cry. He tears water the branch and makes it grow into a tree. The enchanted tree then grants her a dress and shoes to go to the ball.

Ah I didn’t realize versions of Cinderella had it too! Good to know

Totally agree on the first part. On the second part, it's not that she's anti-feminist, it's that she comes across as a doormat; a cheerful doormat who's happy to be walked on. She's not really but it's still frustrating.

@@ameliecarre4783 she's not a door mat. She lives in an abusive household.

@@ameliecarre4783 I can see that, I think that's definitely something that can be perceived, but people are kind of cruel with Cinderella, specially. There's positives about her too! I like to think they made her go through hardships to make her kind personality be a contrast. Maybe to show that she didn't lose her "essence" even in an abusive relationship.

One of my favourite things about Cinderella (especially the orignial animated one) Is that despite living in an extremely abusive household where at the time she HAD to be as submissive to her stepmother as possible in order to maybe end up in a good marriage (because at the time the head of the household would be ensuring the advantageous marriages of the three ladies), Cinderella still remains sweet and kind. She didn't' even go to the ball to specifically meet the Prince. She wanted a night off to dance and have fun. She happened to meet the prince and fall in love with him. And honestly if your options were a prince or a potentially more abusive husband, I'm going with the prince.

well if its a folk tale then someone heard vair and told others it was verre and it ended up being messed up. thats how we end up with many different versions :D

i love the idea that in the original she just had squirrel fur on her feet, like that was probably normal but im just picturing her with a ballgown and actual squirrels on her feet 😭

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👠 I've also seen "Not Cinderella's Type" (2018) and definitely agree about really liking the fact that they go further in depth with her abuse than other adaptations I've seen. The acting was kind of awkward though and as you said, the budget was clearly small, but otherwise, considering it's only a movie to view for free on youtube, it was pretty mediocre I'd say and could've been worse. As for "The Slipper and the Rose" (1976), I actually really enjoyed that one. It's in no way perfect and Cinderella's character was a bit lacking in places, but I loved that they dove into the prince's side just a little more and the politics surrounding everything. I also loved how there was a surprisingly large amount of comedy in it, whether it was in a song or a character's dialogue, so it gave the film almost a kind of romantic-comedy feel to it at times. Although I think a lot of the jokes may go over many people's heads, because in older movies the jokes were indirect or more subtle. For me, that just makes the witty and/or sarcastic characters more hilarious. This version also has Richard Chamberlain, who was a really good actor, so that definitely gave it a nice edge for me personally. My only complaints about it would be that because of Cinderella's character writing left some to be desired, the chemistry wasn't as strong. It wasn't bad, but I think some of the magic was missing because the movie seemed to focus a lot more on the prince (which isn't necessarily a bad thing) and created a sort of imbalance in the relationship. My second complaint would be that I think a couple of the musical numbers went on a little longer than necessary. Also, sorry, I'll stop talking about this particular version now. I have not seen most of the adaptations on your list, however, "Three Wishes for Cinderella" (1973) sounds intriguing, so I'll definitely be checking that one out. I may also check out "Cinderella The Cat" (2017) because that brief synopsis you gave sounds _wild._ Anyways, thanks for taking the time to write your list, it gave me a couple of interesting things to look into. Stay safe and best wishes for your future! P.S. I edited my wording in a few places using Google Translate, so hopefully it makes more sense on your end than it did originally.

3 Wished For Cinderella (1973) is the one I watch every Christmas since childhood. I may be biased because of nostalgia but I thinks it’s one of the best adaptations I’ve seen. I agree with the girlboss analysis and that’s one of my favourite things about the movie💅🏽✨. I also love the costumes😍

@@RENwood4 You understood correctly, "Cinderella The Cat" (2017) is wild, if you do watch it, share your impressions, I'm very interested) It's not the best and not my favorite Cinderella, but it's definitely unique. The "Slipper and the Rose" (1976) is the story of a prince, and that's okay. I think if the movie was a little shorter, and if the costumes were better, I would have had a more positive impression. It's just that in this version, Cinderella's dress blends in with the other dresses at the ball. I was interested in the more historical style they chose, but the fact that Cinderella, like most of the other women, wore pastel pink is what ultimately turned me away from this movie. I think this dress also illustrates the underdeveloped and average character of Cinderella in this movie. Although I like the prince here, and sometimes I listen to his song in the cemetery (in the family vault) "Three Wishes for Cinderella" (1973) is a movie I religiously watched every day for over a month when I was 13) I loved everything I saw so much the first time I watched it I just couldn't stop watching it. It's a Cinderella story with an interesting twist, so I highly recommend it to everyone. Especially for those who think that all Cinderellas are the same. And like I said, the 2021 remake is pretty good too, and I loved it, which is amazing because it's hard to imagine a bigger fan of the original than I am. When watching the remake in the cinema, other people's children asked me to be quiet, because I reacted too emotionally) Thank you for sharing your impressions. I'm glad it was useful, and that my endless hours of watching and comparing Cinderella were useful to someone)💙💛

Im sorry to hear about your upbringing, but I hope things are improving for you! Thanks for the feedback and support 😊 - Sam

Wait, so when one of the stepsisters afterwards says "I don't know what she said I speak French not Italian" in the English script as a joke for the audience, that's actually legit in the french version? I love that!

YES! Oh my God, "Ever After" is SO GOOD!

The reviews for it were pretty good though. 83% on Rotten Tomatoes. (Though I don’t always care about RT reviews) Personally, though I really like Ever After, there were some parts that I felt really bored compared to 2015’s Cinderella. But hey, this is just my silly opinion.

It's great! - Sam