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Fantastic video, and the criticisms against Cinderella's character really boil down to "let's blame the victim". Whether the film gives too much running time to the mice or not (and I can understand how some people really don't like them), their existence is key to show how kind Cinderella is. It would definitely be wrong to cut them from the film altogether. The bubbles scene is one of the visually inspired and magical in the Disney canon, same for the dress transformation and the dance with the prince. I also really agree with Walt's own feelings that Cinderella's character was, both in the animation and in the writing, an improvement over Snow White's character.

I remember getting that "Gus" joke years down the line, and yes, it was funny, but I also thought it was a good bit of characterization - Ella's not stupid, she'd had an education!

I think there is a society bias with bad stepparents like there is with bad news in general. The bad stepparents get talked about a lot more.

I also love cats and here's a (not) fun fact: there's a high chance that Lucifer survived that fall. Aparently every fall taller than a specific height is survivable by cats.

I firmly believe that the reason we underestimate the older Disney princesses (SPECIALLY Snow White, Aurora and Cinderella) is because we watched all the time when we were little, so "of COURSE i know then!" but at the same time we were too young to catch half of it (and what we could catch got distorted by foggy memory) me and my sister decided to rewatch Cinderela just because and man it was a COMPLETELY DIFFERENT MOVIE. We were so shocked that we rewatched Sleeping Beauty and Snow White, and yep, very different movie. Everyone shoud rewatch those after adulthood.

I think a reason why Cinderella gets the antifeminist accusations thrown at it is proximity, It came out around the same overall time as Snow White and Sleeping Beauty, which are films that don't really hold up to the scrutinies of a feminist lens all that well, especially compared to films from later eras. There are parts about snow white in particular highlighted in the first essay that say about as much. But also, there's a bit of a branding issue, as well. Remember "Disney Princesses", the actual franchise that Disney created in the 00's? That marketing campaign actually did lump all the films together, when they are all from completely different eras, and kind of blanketed a ton of gendered language onto all of them. Even the princesses that weren't in traditionally feminine rolls. All that coupled with the fact that a lot of people just not really watching any of the films in a long time ay be part of why that ends up happening. Disney as a company sort of did it to themselves by lampshading the trope itself more than actually preserving the memory of the film.

Love these silly little Disney retrospectives. Btw are you also gonna cover the theatrical non-animated canon Disney animated movies (stuff like A Goofy Movie, The Nightmare Before Christmas, the stuff based on TV shows, James and the Giant Peach, and a bunch of other stuff I can't list) and movies that mix live-action and animation (the Mary Poppins movies, the original Pete's Dragon, the Tron movies, and the Enchanted movies) in this series?

Kind of disagree that Cinderella wants to go to the ball “because it would be fun”. The movie opens with her describing a dream she had where she’s meets a handsome guy. It’s definitely a least implied she wants to go to meet a guy. Be I do agree though that there’s a bit more going on with her personality than she gets credit for. I also don’t agree that a throw away line about the shoe fitting any number of people actually addresses the issue. Also doesn’t make the Prince seem any less dumb for not just using his eyes to find her. He spent several hours with her. He should know what she looks like.

This movie is genuinely so good i love it. But on the topic of abuse and your take that it wouldn't matter if Tremaine was related to her, Yeah Absolutely, we see it in the sequeals that after Cinderella leaves her focus shift to Anastasia and Drizella. I guess that is not a point for this movie, or era since they were made long after, but still fits the theme (also Cinderella III is just so fun, you can even ifnore that it doesn't fit the canon of the first movie(besides y'know the time traveling))

I discovered your channel recently through a recommendation of the Mr toad video, and I’m thoroughly enjoying what I’m seeing. RUclipsrs going through every canon Disney animated movie + their direct to dvd sequels is kind of a fixation of mine, and I really like the approach you’ve taken of applying a certain cultural/political theme or idea to each individual film. You’re engaging, and also very funny to boot. Keep up the good work!

Thank you for touching on something a lot of the contemporary audience of Cinderella miss. A woman in this situation had virtually no legal status in France during this time period. After the husband's death everything - money, property, etc. - went to the surviving spouse. This created a very real second-class of children, especially women and girls, entirely dependant on their step-parent's goodwill. Marrying them off would mean paying a dowry, which is expensive, or they could be kept waiting while providing free labour. The beginning of the film, as well as many stage and operatic adaptations, say that the step-family had also squandered their fortune, and couldn't afford servants.

I feel like people like cinemasins and the nostalgia critic really muddied the waters for a lot of people's media literacy. Why watch a movie when you can have a youtuber do it for you, and if they say that Cinderella is just waiting for a man to come and save her, then that must be true. I'm happy to see videos like yours, arguing otherwise!

Tbh I think you thought it was girly because it didn't have that much adventure fantasy stuff like little mermaid or sleeping beauty, it's just about a girl that goes to a party, so wouldn't be appealing for you a boy Not saying that was a correct assumption, just I believe that was probably the assumption you made

5:15 This is why it's disgraceful that 1937-1942 is called Disney's "Golden Age" while 1950-1967 is called the "Silver Age"

This is a really good video. I'm glad to see people are more and more starting to shake off the bad faith hate for this movie and starting to realize how good it is. It's absolutely top tier of the Disney movies. Everything just comes together so well. And very few of the old Disney movies can claim to be as unproblematic as this one

Your analysis always brings out an alternate angle to these films that I usually never consider previously. So I appreciate you helping me reconsider films that I'm more blase towards like Cinderella

Fun Fact: The same songwriters behind “Cinderella” also wrote the iconic theme for The Bugs Bunny Show, “This is it” (or “Overture, Curtain Lights”). Talk about a Resumé!

I haven’t even seen this yet, but I am in love with this series. These videos are so well put together and entertaining to watch while being genuinely inquisitive and informative. Thank you :)

24:32 I can’t wait for your video on Alice in Wonderland.

with so many 2-hour video essays with nothing to say, your channel is truly a hidden gem!!! watching all your videos rn and i'm obsessed, keep being great 💙

Oh wow. I had always focused on the runtimes of the parallel plots. I never minded, but I never realised just how much they reinforced each other.

Yet another banger. Thank you for taking down the common complaints about Cinderella- I always felt the interpretation of it as just "being a girl waiting for a man to rescue her" completely overlook the abuse aspect of the story. Your further analysis of its themes elevate this above many of the other reviews I've seen of the film, you've found a great voice to this series and each entry really builds on the previous ones meaningfully.

Within the first 30 seconds... "There are multiple penises..." Me: spittake

Props for reminding me to set the Notification Bell to "All" for this channel.

I am obsessed with this series. I am obsessed with you. Both shits slap! I've always wondered why he's nicknamed Gus! And in your surprise turn about found families and telling those of blood who don't show you love to fuck of took my breath away and gave me new strength heading into this holiday season.

Banger after banger, instantly tapped the bell when I found you, RUclips queen

Great work as always! Cant wait for Alice, both the books and movie are some of my favs for sure!

I have no memory of subscribing to this channel whatsoever, but I'm really glad that I did. This is fantastic, and your sass is greatly appreciated.

A timely message.

Hey! just noticed you hit 2,000 subs! so congrats!

Dang, this is deep even for an old cartoon.

I love your Yu-Gi-Oh impression

Followed your advice and checked the video I never watched this one as a child ironically, it was until i was in college, bit this movie is such a delight to the eyes, it fills you liek a big sniff of cologne that reach you to the tears of the eyes I think the choice to go for a very surreal style for the movie, the colors, the movements, the weird things such as dancing cactus, it just somehow explain better this excitement the latinoamerican culture lives by better than any speech would, even if we get exaggerated to the extremes of it, it is also true to our dramatic asses that will bring a full band to play the same songs for both a wedding, a birthday and Funeral (Also, even if speedy was originally voiced by a white dude, never doubt that en nuestro corazon, el es nuestro hermano 🎉)

i'm mexican, so i live in the extremely wonky line of "yo check out this caricature about how awful you guys are? oh yeah? dare you to do it twice worse!" our relationship with stereotypes and caricatures, while sharing some aspect with the black community, is ultimately extremely different at the end of the day, but is interesting seeing where both connects and disconnect too i personally love dumbo, both as a character but also as a movie, it is an extremely mean movie true and the historical context cant be ignored, but cant help to feel such intense identification to it as a whole, i was born with a walking problem (rare) and ginger (twice the rarer here) so legitimately having such mean story ending with such sweet note was very important for me, and even the image of the crows to this day is weirdly comforting, the visual style of them is indeed a caricature of black culture, but also for the mind of a Mexican child, basically exchangeable with how we self represented in cartoons and comics both in look and attitude (dont recommend you to check them tho, you gonna get an STROKE MAN) but yeah, that why even with all that wait over it heads, the mixmatch of cultural translation can ultimately give you such different perspective of a work that you might never be able to shake it off i dont even know anymore what i was aiming to say on this comment, but anyways, i fel you did a very interesting video critic here!

You're finally done with the package era! On to the 50s, my favorite Disney decade!

Speaking of "Night on Bald Mountain," I am more a fan of "Tamara" by Mussorgsky's and Rimsky-Korsakov's friend and mentor Mily Balakirev, a piece about an evil princess who takes in travellers and gives them a night of passionate sex then murders them and throws their bodies in the Terek River.

I have read Bambi, but I recognized almost nothing read from the book! I think it was a very shortened translation I read, and I need to find another.

Oh hey, Brazil entered WW II at my -55th birthday! That is an odd coincidence, especially, since I am a german.

People always talk about how Shadow the Hedgehog loves latinas, but they never talk about how Donald Duck loves them even more.

I Used to watch Melody Time a lot as a Baby. These Disney videos are fun to watch. 😂

18:47 Who's gonna tell him? 😢

Europe still has guilds myguy. Chimney sweeps, cobblers, stonemasons, cabinet makers, whatever charpentier is in English. You don't have to join a guild, you can go to a craft school but for some jobs if you are not in the guild, you aren't working.

Sometime this year, I saw a short documentary about a therapy group within a prison that rehabilitated the men through children’s books, and it was largely based on the program director’s empathetic view on the prisoner’s genuine care for their families. I bring that up because it reminded me that teaching criminals through knowledge and understanding is what we really need more of now in this day and age.

33:57 I have a book recommendation: lessons in chemistry. Not perfect but the last third....

Just discovered your videos tonight, I was so surprised by the view count. Your videos are so well put together, it feels weird to be this early to something.

I sincerely think Meet the Robinsons started the Revival Era of Disney. It was the first Disney Movie in the theatrically released canon to be labeled under the Walt Disney Animation Studios catalog, it was the first film following Disney’s acquisition of Pixar, which leads me to my next point where it was the first Disney movie under John Lassiter and Ed Catmull’s involvement as they became the heads of Walt Disney Animation Studios.

My favorite part of Melody Time is when Mickey said "It's Melody Time" and started melodying all over the place

Me as a child: Haha! They say "I love you" with a slap! Its funny because is stupid Me now: Oh dear...

This was really interesting and well researched. Thank you

Haha I kind of like vague titles sometimes. A modern one I can think of is Everything Everywhere All At Once.