Disney's Cinderella...

[shadowkat]

Is a very oddly told tale. And an incredibly beautiful piece of animation - considering no computers and all the cells were individually drawn, a feat.

But it is told mainly through the points of view of mice, birds, and the Prince's father. Cinderella and her Prince are sort of on the periphery. In fact 60% of the film is the mice trying to avoid the evil Stepmother's nasty fat cat Lucifer. The animals don't really talk though, well except for the mice.

The romance is dreamlike...told through lullaby like songs. But the main focus is on the comedic characters of the Prince's father, the King who wants grandchildren and his aide de camp, and the
Cinderella's pet mice who will do anything to help her.

It's so odd.

A clip:

An aside on Aladdin...Jonathan Freeman's voice is bit similar to Jeremy Irons in the Lion King...and Irons apparently has made a career of playing slinky voiced villains.

Comments

Re: Eh - this post wasn't about the message in Cinderella

[angearia.livejournal.com]

I was simply noting, prompted by your post, how the message results from the structure which protagonizes the magical creatures used for farce, as opposed to the romance between the prince and Cinderella. The outrageous farce of arranging Cinderella's meeting the prince drives it home.

Re: Eh - this post wasn't about the message in Cinderella

[shadowkat67.livejournal.com]

Noted. :-)