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mythicalgeek · 27 days

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Ariel & Eric 🤝 Ella & Kit

The two time's when the disney live action remakes understood the value of love stories did the romance right.

#disney plus #disney princesses #disney #the little mermaid #chinderella #Ariel and Eric #ella and kit #Disney Couples

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artist-issues · 1 year

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And while we’re on the subject of Cinderella 2015, The Prince’s debate with his dad about Cinderella is so good. He’s like, “you would have married her even if she wasn’t a princess,” and the dad argues, “I would never have seen her, because it wouldn’t have been appropriate!”

So why did the Prince meet a poor honest country girl instead of a Princess? Because in this movie Kit’s character traits are that he is good and brave. While an entire hunting party of noble men are focused on chasing a stag, Kit notices a young lady alone out of the corner of his eye and immediately abandons the hunt to see if she’s okay on her runaway horse. None of those other guys noticed or did that. It’s not just brave to chase a stranger’s frightened horse, either— It takes a certain level of subconscious bravery in a Prince who’s been brought up on “what’s appropriate” his whole life to just ditch the Royal Hunt without telling anyone what he’s doing to interact with a commoner.

Basically what I’m saying is, not only does Cinderella get to go to the ball as a direct reward for her kindness, but Kit gets to marry a good woman he never would have otherwise met as a direct reward for his courageousness. And the theme of the movie is “Have courage and be kind, and your dreams will come true.”

#Cinderella 2015 #cinderella #ella and kit #kit #ella #lily james #the Only good Disney live action remake #disney #live action #meta #analysis

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my-lady-galadriel · 5 months

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No offence, but at the present moment Disney isn't capable of telling love stories like these 👇

#cinderella 2015 is the only romantic live action #ella and kit are wonderful 😍#the other remakes aren't so touching #in my opinion there's no chemistry between the characters 😕#animated aladdin and jasmine are better than aladdin and jasmine of the remake #and willabeth is the best couple in disney universe 💖#cinderella 2015 #aladdin 1992 #pirates of the caribbean #willabeth #will x elizabeth #aladdin and jasmine #princess jasmine #cinderella #ella and kit #fairy-tale love #i miss fairy-tale love #let me dream #disney

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rambleonwithrosie · 3 months

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I genuinely believe the live action Cinderella is not only the best live action Disney has made but also it's one of the best films of the last 20 years period!

Gif credit: @omniavincitamor

Now there's many reasons for this but on my latest rewatch I was struck by how perfectly it balances between being a children's movie for little girls to watch at their pajama parties with friends and being the kind of movie like Pride and Prejudice that grown women sit together and drink wine while they watch and swoon over the hero and the dresses and cry at the emotional parts.

It is simultaneously a film any adult can appreciate while still capturing all of that wholesome childhood joy and Innocence. And Ella perfectly captured those two things too. She keeps her child's heart that believes in goodness and magic but also she's growing up. Lily played the part perfectly, all those little moments where she's kinda astonished by her proximity to the prince and what that's making her feel. She calls herself "just a girl" but she's also feeling woman feelings and her portrayal of growing up is really beautiful because it doesn't make it seem like a bad thing. So much media makes the end of childhood seem sad but Ella brings the best of childhood with her into her unfolding adulthood as we watch her grow up.

Also the foley artists/sound editing also did a MAGNIFICENT job with the sound effects. Because while they could have just had the sweeping score for the waltz with none of the ambient sound, instead you get all those swishes of the skirt and caught breaths which adds so much texture and intimacy to the dance. Like the sexual tension between Ella and Kit is at 11 in all the scenes at the ball and afterwards (Richard's blue eyes doing 80% of the work there) but it's still innocent. This isn't a children's film trying to "get away" with mature themes. It's the kind of film you could use to explain adult feelings to children coming up on puberty in a way that wouldn't make them feel shameful or dirty. It's Wholesome Sexual Tension. Which is something there is far too little of in modern cinema.

It's both a film for grown ups and a film for children and it didn't cut corners to accomplish both. It's equally both and they didn't kiddie-ify the adult parts like the abuse or the grown-up feelings Ella and Kit have for each other but nor did they try to make it an adult themed film. It is still a princess movie but it's one for grown ups as much or more than it is for little girls and that's beautiful. I for one find it deeply healing for my inner child and my adult self and I feel I'm not the only one.

Also the costuming is immaculate even on background characters with no speaking roles. Literally could not get better costumes. I could talk about this movie forever but I'll stop now and probably make more posts about it in future

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cowboypossume · 3 months

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the swing and cinderella 2015

ok hi :3. i got a hyperfixation in art history last year because i had a rough go of it teacher wise and had to basically teach myself and entire ap course! yippie!! (i did have a lot of fun but AH). so i'm going to take what i loosely remember from that class (alongside being an aide for it this year). and ive had a specail interest in cinderelaa 2015 sense 2015. so we get to put these ideas together into that one scene in one of the best live action cinderella.

in art history i learned this painting.

the swing.

i saw a post calling out disney for always using it, and if i find it i'll credit it here, but in Cinderella 2015, I think it's actually referenced to quite well.

Before i get into how, a brief context on some of the themes in this painting (we think. this is art history and almost everyone is dead so what can't ask if this was how they intended it or pretentious people reading too much into things):

a woman in a vivid pink dress is married and is having an affair

pink pink dress + floofy skirt + swing = wealth and class (historical context)

husband is kinda hidden and affiar is "brought to light"

the swing is breaking so maybe marital troubles? finical stress? both?

ankle exposed = sexual

she's looking at not the husband so odds are she doesnt like him that much. especially because she's doing this in FRONT OF HIM

but disney takes this idea and flips it in a way that really works for these characters.

if you want to watch the scene here you go

(sorry for the quality i am eepy and not gonna find better photos)

"I've never shown this place to anyone." "A secrete garden? Oh I love it."

instead of like a 'secrete' affair the original painting is trying to show, there's more of an innocent wonder to it in the movie. this is the price's space. his. in choosing to let her in and let her see this, he's choosing to show cinderella parts of himself so maybe he'll get something from her, like a name even.

he shows her his space, and she reciprocates by looking back and forth between him and the space saying "i love it." because she loves him!! and he loves her, and they're figuring out what that means.

which is why the eye contact here is so important here and the painting. because it's showing who she (the subject) chooses, and in this moment, cinderella chooses the prince.

"I shouldn't" "You should" [it repeats for a bit] "I shouldn't." "You should." "... I will :)"

look at her little smileeeeee. you kind of see this in the painting, but here it feel so much more genuine. she is choosing to get on the swing. she is choosing him and his lifestyle, the wealth, the support (literally. that swing is not going ANYWHERE) which is so much different than what she has, that it takes a second of reassurance that she's not a burden for wanting this nice things.

she looks at him !!! "may i?" "please"

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they're literally infatuated with each other are you kidding me. look at how dgew6g6qud adg6ew7udhjawosdk'sl

this isn't something she's ashamed of or trying to hide. he is taking up more of the screen than her (unlike the painting) and you can tell she doesn't mind

also. he asks for consent. he doesn't assume it's his right to push her or support her or anything; he wants this to be as much her choice as his, and with the 'please', it is. so he does.

the camera changes showing that he is The Pusher

if we were back in the painting it's meant to show that the husband is kind of clueless. some might argue that in this scene he really doesn't know much about her, so that's why the shadow is next to her, and i will!!

he's going into this kinda blind, hoping to learn about her, but in this moment he doesn't.

the shoe falls!!

so the movie is shot here to more focus on the emotional beats of their faces, so this is the best we're gonna get to get my point across. this part helps to do three things.

the first is kinda a "duh": its cinderella so obviously a shoe's gotta fall or something (an ipod) is gonna fall. secondly, the shoe is flying in the original painting, which is an ohmage to what this is referencing my most favorite though: we get a transition!!!! he's established that he likes her, she's shown interest by making eye contact with him and giggling, so now he's taking a dramatic step. he's going to try to have a relationship with her.

it's small, and they have a cute little banter, but then The Moment comes to make his move and...

[there's not a good screencap you have to just trust me]

"wont you tell me who you really are"

GAH I JUST DSAIFGERWDG they SO could have made this a wink wink sexual thing (that's literally the painting) but like! they didn't!!! she swings towards him, kinda laughs and blushes, and when there's a pause that almost any other media would have!

its all the right beats and all the right pauses, but instead he wants to know her. he doesn't want to rush ahead, as we saw with the idea that pushing the swing and putting on the shoe requires moments of pause and a "is this ok?", kissing would be too much. it's too soon. not without some kind of opening up first on her end. so i think that's part of the editing of this scene.

he's NOT the guy "ruining a marriage" or having a casual affair with a married woman. he's a man of honor trying to become at least freindly with a woman he likes

AND THEN HEENDS THE SCENE BY ON THE SWING DEGW67GD78shn

he sees them as equals and he's smiling !!!! he got something !! it makes no sense but he knows a little more now

#cinderella #disney #cinderella 2015 #ella and kit #art history #the swing #the true hero was me not hitting save ONCE while making this #my analysis

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darklinaforever · 3 months

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Bonus of my favorites couples / Ships disney (which are not really classics but still belong to Disney) :

Maleficent and Diaval.

Ella and Kit.

Giselle and Robert.

Kiara and Kovu.

Alice and Tarrant.

Nick and Elizabeth.

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miasmultifandomdump · 8 months

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"Cinderella is weak"

Remaining kind and loving when you're repeatedly put through abuse and trauma is one of the bravest and strongest things you can do actually, but go off I guess

#cinderella #cinderella defense squad #pro cinderella #cinderella 2015 #ella x kit #all queued up with nowhere to go

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omniavincitamor · 1 year

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Kit & Ella in Cinderella (2015)

#kit #prince kit #kit x ella #ella x kit #cinderella 2015 #ella #cinderella #disney #disney live action #disney movies #disneyedit #lily james #richard madden

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accidental-spice · 2 months

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@monthly-challenge 2024 | Day #15: Dancing

Some of my favorite dance scenes in fiction

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s0mewhereweaknessis0urstrength · 8 months

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Love them 😍💙

#cinderella #lily james #cinderella 2015 #richard madden #kitella #prince kit #ella x kit

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mockscreens · 8 months

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please like/reblog if you save!

more cinderella lockscreens here!

#cinderella #cinderella 2015 #lockscreens #wallpapers #ella #prince kit #ella x kit #lily james #richard madden

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kylowanderer · 3 months

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People always ask, so.. yes the dress is heavy, it weighs about 12 kg altogether! 😄

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artist-issues · 10 months

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I’d like to say something about how well animals are used in Disney’s Cinderella 2015.

Reminder: the point of the movie is “Have courage and be kind and your dreams will come true.”

Cinderella and Kit both believe this principle and both act on this principle, through thick and thin and the hardest of circumstances. So the way they live their lives and the decisions they make in the story all make that “kindness and courage” point perfectly.

The whole movie treats kindness and courage like a superpower. It’s this beautiful cause and effect, repeated over and over.

Because Ella is kind, she gets to go to the ball. And that’s the big one. So I think sometimes we overlook other areas where she’s repeatedly kind. Like with the animals. I shall explain.

In the opening of the movie, the Narrator compares Ella to a princess watching over a kingdom. Who’s the kingdom? Her animal friends, and the house they’ve lived in with their people for generations.

But specifically, the animals. Little Ella picks up, not kittens or puppies, but mice. (She’s kind to all animals, but the lowest, like mice and lizards, are the ones she most often comes into contact with and helps. And then they, the humblest of creatures, get “a night at the ball” where they’re transformed.)

And her mom specifically says that their job is to “look after” the animals. Throughout the whole movie, Ella never scolds her wicked stepsisters. She never reprimands them or snaps back. But she does reprimand who?

Lucifer, the cat. The mouse family (especially Gus.) She’s not just kind to them. She mothers them. She takes care of them. Like they’re the subjects in her kingdom. They all have to get along, on her watch. They all have to get enough to eat. They all have to stay safe and happy.

When she has nothing, she’s taking care of them. So, when, at the end of the movie, she calls the Prince “My Kit,” and he calls her “My Queen,” they’re both acknowledging the other person’s true self. Kit is a King in Training, not just THE PRINCE—but Ella is a Queen, not just CINDERELLA. And how do we know she’ll make a good Queen? Because we’ve seen how well she takes care of the lowest, humblest creatures.

And she’s rewarded for taking care of others. She’s rewarded for self-sacrifice and kindness. Obviously, the mice help her when she’s locked in the attic, and they pull her carriage as horses.

But that’s not the only example of her kindness to animals leading to dreams coming true. After all, when she meets the Prince, it’s not just because she’s running from how cruel her stepsisters are. The horse doesn’t spook for no reason—it spooks because a Stag startled it.

What Stag, you ask?

The Stag that Ella saved from the hunting party. She’s never met it before, and it had it’s horns lowered to her, right in the middle of interrupting her one—of only two—moments of despair. But she responds by warning it and telling it to run—her own troubles forgotten in a second, acting out of kindness.

Then her horse spooks. And then the courageous Prince notices, abandons the propriety of the Hunt, and meets/falls in love with her.

See? Cause and effect. She only meets the Prince after her kindness to one animal directly leads her to being noticed by him.

In fact, the whole conversation they fall in love over is about how he should be kind to the stag, and have the courage to do what’s right rather than just “what’s done.”

So anyway. In conclusion. This movie’s a masterpiece. And it uses animals as 1) an object lesson of how the humblest of creatures are worth caring for, and 2) how kindness and courage to those who have the least chance of rewarding you will be rewarded. Whether they’re wicked stepsisters incapable of love, or mice and geese incapable of speech.

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pernillecfcw · 1 month

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New kit unlocked 🔓🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

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rambleonwithrosie · 3 months

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I'm sure there's more but these are some of the really notable nods to other classic children's stories and Disney princesses that they put in the live action Cinderella

An old beggar woman

This scene with the fairy godmother first appearing like a haggard beggar before revealing herself as a beautiful enchantress is such a nod to the opening of the Beauty and the Beast cartoon. She's got the heavy hood like the stained glass crone-enchantress does and you somehow know what's at stake from the moment she asks for the milk. Cinderella of course shows the kindness that the young prince failed to do even though she's having the worst day ever and this lady is not just haggard but uncouth and a little bizarre. She passes the test and looks beyond the externals to the heart.

A prince in the forest

Handsome prince riding his horse through a forest and comes across a beautiful and mysterious girl... Is it cartoon Sleeping Beauty or live action Cinderella? I love that they not only gave Prince Charming/Kit a personality and a plot but that when doing so they mapped a lot of Prince Philip onto him (the best actual royal Disney prince imo) he's got a good relationship with his dad but also stands up to him on things like marrying outside of his class and having different visions for the future but you can tell Philip and Hubert care for each other and have a similar relationship to Kit and the king. Both the king and King Hubert say almost the same lines about "you can't marry a girl you just met once in the forest" they even give him some Hubert-esque facial hair and Kit gets to do a bunch of gallant horseback riding scenes just like my fav prince Philip

A Secret Garden

Now this isn't a princess nod but most children have read the Secret Garden or watched one of the many film adaptations. What I love about this being part of the story is that without explicitly stating it, anyone who's familiar with the Secret Garden, will know the backstory it's inclusion implies. It's their way of telling us Kit spent time with his mother here and it's special to him and he's sharing that with his mystery princess because he trusts her. "I've never shown this to anyone" plus the carryover of what we all associate with a "secret garden" gives us all the subtext we need to know that the garden was his mother's. Add to that Ella's hesitation to get on the swing it's almost like she knows too. It's just woven into the film where this all is so self evident without anything having to be said overtly. Absolutely masterful storytelling weaving in all these elements from the staples of childhood stories to add a texture to this adaptation where you know more than is said due to the cues they give the audience that tie in with other familiar stories

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littletofuna · 11 months

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i figured out what the formula to a great disney princess live action remakes; the chemistry. because i believe ella and kit are in love when i watched cinderella. i believe ariel and eric are in love when i watched the little mermaid. and the end of their movies, im so happy to know they’re together after all those hardships they went through. the actors’ chemistry are off the chart for those two movies so in the next remakes, they better find those who can act in love and actually believeable at it

#so sorry for beauty and the beast & aladdin #i think its bad that we cant really see beast's expression #the little mermaid #ariel #princess ariel #eric #prince eric #ella #cinderella #kit #prince charming #disney #disney princess #disney remakes

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