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Cinderella - Who Is Your Real Family?
What does Cinderella (1950) teach us about recognizing our real family?
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Ichabod and Mr Toad - Is Punishment Just?
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What does The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad (1949) teach us about punishment? J. Draper video: ruclips.net/video/UJ0r0EBRgIc/видео.html I have a Patreon! Please consider supporting me at www.patreon.com/werothegreat Melody Time review: ruclips.net/video/7fKEBhLbyDE/видео.html
Melody Time - What is Indigenous Erasure?
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How does Melody Time (1948) propagate indigenous erasure? I have a Patreon! Please consider supporting me at www.patreon.com/werothegreat Fun and Fancy Free review: ruclips.net/video/unvA4ATSXgs/видео.html
Fun and Fancy Free - Is Ignorance Bliss?
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Does Fun and Fancy Free (1947) make a good argument for choosing to be ignorant? I have a Patreon! Please consider supporting me at www.patreon.com/werothegreat Make Mine Music review: ruclips.net/video/TGQREwalIb4/видео.html
Make Mine Music - Why Preserve Art?
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What can Make Mine Music (1946) tell us about art preservation? I have a Patreon! Please consider supporting me at www.patreon.com/werothegreat The Three Caballeros review: ruclips.net/video/3Muqrd78S4w/видео.html
The Three Caballeros - What is Surrealism?
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Why is The Three Caballeros (1944) so surreal? I have a Patreon! Please consider supporting me at www.patreon.com/werothegreat Saludos Amigos review: ruclips.net/video/VzBo20RJ_pk/видео.html A viewer has pointed out that one of the images used in the video was likely AI generated. I apologize for this lapse in diligence, and the image has been blurred out. I will strive to be more vigilant in f...
Saludos Amigos - Does Propaganda Work?
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Does Saludos Amigos (1942) work as propaganda? I have a Patreon! Please consider supporting me at www.patreon.com/werothegreat Bambi review: ruclips.net/video/YrsJE9vmzJQ/видео.html
Bambi - How do we talk about Death?
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How does Bambi (1942) help us discuss death? I have a Patreon! Please consider supporting me at www.patreon.com/werothegreat Dumbo review: ruclips.net/video/K-EmMlwSqhg/видео.html
Dumbo - What Good Are Unions?
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How did Dumbo's (1941) production shape the animation industry, and what role did unions play? I have a Patreon! Please consider supporting me at www.patreon.com/werothegreat Fantasia review: ruclips.net/video/DlFsT15-2cw/видео.html
Fantasia - Why Narrative?
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Does a film need to have a narrative in order to be good? I have a Patreon! Please consider supporting me at www.patreon.com/werothegreat Pinocchio review: ruclips.net/video/J9EZ9g81FN8/видео.html
Pinocchio - Who Is Good?
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Can Pinocchio (1940) teach us what it means to be a good person? I have a Patreon! Please consider supporting me at www.patreon.com/werothegreat Snow White review: ruclips.net/video/f_l8hpv-ad4/видео.html
Snow White - Skin Deep?
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Is Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) worth the watch? I have a Patreon! Please consider supporting me at www.patreon.com/werothegreat History of Disney Animation: ruclips.net/video/Ve41C7OX3XM/видео.html
Lorcana's 4th Set - Ursula's Return!
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WE CAN TALK ABOUT BRUNO-NO-NO-NO-NO
A Meandering, Clumsy, and Way Too Detailed "Summary" of the Disney Canon
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I plan to review the Disney Canon. So uh, what is the Disney Canon? Check out Unshaved Mouse: unshavedmouse.com/the-rankings/ I have a Patreon! Please consider supporting me at www.patreon.com/werothegreat Snow White review: ruclips.net/video/f_l8hpv-ad4/видео.html Pinocchio review: ruclips.net/video/J9EZ9g81FN8/видео.html Fantasia review: ruclips.net/video/DlFsT15-2cw/видео.html Dumbo review: ...
EN GARDE! Lorcana Gameplay!
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EN GARDE! Lorcana Gameplay!
EN GARDE! Ruby/Steel Challenges Deck!
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EN GARDE! Ruby/Steel Challenges Deck!
How Do I Lorcana? Locations!
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How Do I Lorcana? Locations!
Into the Inklands - First Packs!
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Into the Inklands - First Packs!
Into the Inklands - Predicting the Meta!
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Into the Inklands - Predicting the Meta!
Into the Inklands - FINAL BATCH!
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Into the Inklands - FINAL BATCH!
Floodborn LORE MONSTERS
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Floodborn LORE MONSTERS
Into the Inklands: Starter Decks Revealed!
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Into the Inklands: Starter Decks Revealed!
BIG POTATO!
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BIG POTATO!
Best Cards in Lorcana: Rise of the Floodborn!
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Best Cards in Lorcana: Rise of the Floodborn!
Vaults & Maps
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Vaults & Maps
Anti-Meta Discard - Lorcana Gameplay
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Anti-Meta Discard - Lorcana Gameplay
Lorcana - Anti-Meta Discard Deck!
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Lorcana - Anti-Meta Discard Deck!
KING OF ATLANTIS!
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KING OF ATLANTIS!
99 Puppies!
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99 Puppies!

Комментарии

  • @georgemiser
    @georgemiser 5 часов назад

    In Anastasia and Drizella's defense, the "Massive Feet" thing isn't exactly the turn-off it used to be. Nowadays, you have, like, 50+ feet/tickle artists swooning over their soles at any given time. :P (Mostly Anastasia though, on account of the whole Reformation Arc, I think.)

  • @gooeydude574
    @gooeydude574 8 часов назад

    I think the live action remakes are probably for people who think animation is for babies

    • @werothegreat
      @werothegreat 8 часов назад

      Those people need to get over themselves

  • @Cheetosadveture
    @Cheetosadveture 9 часов назад

    I sometimes rewatch your videos 3 times, I loved this movie

  • @0deadx21
    @0deadx21 10 часов назад

    I prefer the live-action movie. Characters actually do something in it instead of just standing there on autopilot.

  • @alexp.d3689
    @alexp.d3689 10 часов назад

    I wrote a rather lengthy comment and it kept getting deleted so here's the cliff notes , Perrault's narrative focuses on the relationship between Cinderella and the sister's, they were never described as physically inferior to her on the text ,in fact it's specified that it's their behaviour that makes them ugly ( a simple Google search of 18th/19th version illustrations will show you that they were in fact beautiful as well as Perrault's text specifying that the main moral is about how a beautiful soul is much more important than a beautiful face or hairdo, even as a child I thought depicting them as ugly seemed countertuitive to the message of the story , turns out I was 100% right ) . Her optimistic dreamer qualities were Disney additions,so was her father dying,her mother's dress and the climax ( which I theorise came first with the other two mice scenes serving as set up and build up. ) In terms of character's personalities, relationships, themes and even plot details Perrault's and Disney's are quite different , Disney's version has become the cannon version with every subsequent adaptation of the story being directly influenced more so by it than Perrault's which has never been faithfully adapted to screen as written by Perrault ( which is a pity cause his version is super interesting ). Great video, I'm glad someone else finally said it , keep up the good work.

    • @werothegreat
      @werothegreat 10 часов назад

      "Moral: Beauty in a woman is a rare treasure that will always be admired. Graciousness, however, is priceless and of even greater value."

    • @alexp.d3689
      @alexp.d3689 10 часов назад

      ​​@@werothegreatWhat's your thoughts on Perrault's telling of the story? It's personally my favourite interpretation of the story

    • @werothegreat
      @werothegreat 8 часов назад

      @@alexp.d3689 I mean it's fairly straightforward, and not particularly long. The godmother just kind of comes out of nowhere.

    • @alexp.d3689
      @alexp.d3689 Час назад

      @@werothegreat I meant more in terms of its themes but anyway , it's my fault for not specifying in my comment 😅😜 I'll have to admit, Perrault's version has so massive flaws ( not to the degree Grimm's does ,but still pretty big ) ... She makes zero attempts to convince them to take her with them to the festival literally telling them she wasn't interested in going, making her crying afterwards feel hollow and a bit overdramatic ( to me , when I read it the first time I was like: Stop crying,you drama queen ... 🤣 ), Disney's by contrast had quite a few good reasons to do so : her mother's only belonging was just destroyed as well as her hopes of going to the ball ( for which unlike her book counterpart she puts up a fight for ) , and she had just been assaulted ( also the godmother, in the Disney version,is theorised by many to be a physical manifestation of Cinderella's hopes and dreams and she literally says " If you had lost of all your faith I couldn't be here,yet here I am " meaning Cinderella manifested her into existence with her mind. In Perrault's she just appears out of nowhere, which personally as random as it is I find it so odd it makes it funny 🤣🤣🤣 ) . Her revealing the other slipper at the end and the godmother turning her fags into beautiful cloths is also an odd detail, you're telling me you could have been done with the whole thing long ago but just decided to sit back and watch ... ?! ( Then again what I love about this interpretation is the commentary, she literally tresspasses into an event she wasn't invited to, trolls the sisters back at home playing the fool when in fact she knows more than she lets out .) Disney's made it feel important and as If the character a triumphant victory for the hero , I love what an emotional rollercoaster Disney's film is ... Perrault's narrative comments on the belief that proper manners come with statues / " good breeding" ,we have the aristocracy ( represented by the stepsisters ) presented as the incredibly shallow, superficial and self obsessed villain of the piece , while the hero is a mere peasant who is kind hearted and of unparalleled goodness. The sister's not recognising her is a comment on how superficial they are and on Cinderella's kindness, Cinderella's kindness doesn't get affected by how she's dressed ( be it at home as a servant or as a princess at a ball ) ,it gets displayed Infront of the prince giving him a good reason to fall for her , the other ladies try to copy her look thinking that's what makes her attractive which is a comment on how some people in society blindly follow trends only cause it's popular and Cinderella, despite her lack of a "proper up bringing" ( these events historically speaking were incredibly formal and had a tone of rules of proper etiquette, also If you look at late 17th century noble women's footwear you'll realise why her slipper fell off, these style of footwear only covered the front and the bottom of the foot with a small hill at the back ) she managed to fit perfectly well amongst them showcasing the message that it doesn't matter where you come from but how you carry yourself. And finally, she fooled everyone into thinking she's a princess with the ending serving as a plot twist to the characters within the story ( we already know what's up , on a side note the stepmother could've hired more people to be servants ,they were incredibly wealthy though it doesn't specify statues // I hypothesize that her father's a Marquee since it says that " the slipper was first tried on the Princesses,then the Duchesses and THEN to the sister's , next in line in terms of rank are the marquees // wealthy households during Perrault's/Grimm's time were expected to have many servants and the fact that she doesn't really speaks about her hatered towards her and how she wanted to have sole control over her , to groom her to become an obedient servant ) In certain stories, like Snow White and Hansel and Gretel it eas originally an evil mother but the Grimm's changed it later on into stepmother's cause they held biological mothers to very high esteem ( father's though according to their writing, they can go f*ck themselves 🤣🤣🤣, ) It's not the most complex narrative in the world ,but I personally find it very charming and I like the messages it has ... Thanks for coming to my TedTalk 😜🤣🤣🤣🤣.

  • @gooeydude574
    @gooeydude574 10 часов назад

    28:42 I heard this in Ren and Stimpy

  • @kellystanton7378
    @kellystanton7378 10 часов назад

    I love this video! Thank you for deconstructing Cinderella and her step-family! Also, thanks for pointing out that she wasn't looking to be rescued - she just wanted to get her party on! When the clock struck midnight, she didn't say, "OMG, save me!" She was just like, "Hey, time's up - gotta go!"

  • @gooeydude574
    @gooeydude574 11 часов назад

    14:42 why did Gepetto make this?

    • @werothegreat
      @werothegreat 10 часов назад

      It was a different time, man

  • @gooeydude574
    @gooeydude574 11 часов назад

    When you were talking about adaptations that are better than the source material, my mind went to Captain Underpants. As a fan of the book series, I say the movie is better because it is simultaneously faithful to and also deviates from the books in certain aspects

  • @gooeydude574
    @gooeydude574 12 часов назад

    The “leave the sewing to the women” line weirds me out. How often is it in these movies that the woman is the sexist one?

  • @jamesa.romano8500
    @jamesa.romano8500 14 часов назад

    I can't remember what video it was where the top comment was "If Bill Clinton was the first black President, then Cinderella was the first black Disney Princess." Not literally, but in some way kinda yeah LOL

  • @oscarsimon1998
    @oscarsimon1998 17 часов назад

    Discovered your channel today and loving it so far! Can't wait for Sleeping Beauty essay!

    • @werothegreat
      @werothegreat 17 часов назад

      Look for that one sometime early next year! Next up is Alice in Wonderland.

  • @onbearfeet
    @onbearfeet 17 часов назад

    One note on "Keep Calm and Carry On": that campaign was never used! The materials were discovered decades after the war. Apparently they were intended to be deployed in the event of a German invasion. So "passive" might not be as good a description as "keeping civilians out of the SOE's way". British propaganda that was actually used during the war had a somewhat different tone.

    • @werothegreat
      @werothegreat 17 часов назад

      You learn something every day!

  • @Kiiriminna
    @Kiiriminna 17 часов назад

    I've never enjoyed watching Cinderella, but it was only once I grew older and (arguable) wiser that I realized why. Simply put, the family dynamics shown in the film hit little too close to the home. And not in the way you might think. No, I wasn't Cinderella, and neither was any of my sisters... instead, my mother was. Our father played the role of evil "stepmother" (always disgarding her opinions, always belittling her daily workload of caring for four children while also doing almost all the housework, always blaming her for everything that went wrong), while me and my sisters watched and then copied his actions - just like the stepsisters did. It's... unsettling to realize something like that about yourself; especially since it's still so very easy to slip up and return to those old behavioral patterns. And that's why I personally find this movie so very uncomfortable.

    • @werothegreat
      @werothegreat 17 часов назад

      I hope things have gotten better for your mother.

  • @ZephLodwick
    @ZephLodwick 18 часов назад

    I started watching your stuff with your reviews of the package films. Your review of Bambi is one of my favorite film reviews on RUclips I've ever watched.

    • @werothegreat
      @werothegreat 18 часов назад

      I'm glad to hear it, that's the one I'm most proud of!

  • @bexthewitch87
    @bexthewitch87 18 часов назад

    Thank you for putting respect on my girl, Cindy's name!!!! So many people don't understand the actual theme of this story and it shows. She's one of my favorite princesses and I think all the versions we have are great~

  • @lockedcow727
    @lockedcow727 20 часов назад

    The “Toy Story 2” story is not exactly correct. While most of what you said was true, they ended up scrapping that version of the movie anyway. Your larger point I believe is well taken though: Disney should put up this work on Disney+

    • @werothegreat
      @werothegreat 20 часов назад

      I did not know that! Still a shit move to lay her off, though.

  • @Eszra
    @Eszra 21 час назад

    Actually had she been Cinderella's mother by birth, she would have treated her 1000% better because she's everything Anastasia and Drizella aren't! She is physically attractive, talented, and graceful. She would be her pawn! Yes she would only love her for that, but if she raised her then Cindy wouldn't be Cindy.

    • @werothegreat
      @werothegreat 20 часов назад

      But Tremaine could have done all that with Cindy as a stepdaughter. She was her legal guardian, and could have just as easily climbed socially by trying to push her in addition to the other two. Instead she chose to be petty and cruel. You can find plenty of horror stories of birth mothers sabotaging their daughters out of jealousy.

    • @Eszra
      @Eszra 20 часов назад

      @@werothegreat She didn't because she wasn't her blood child. She would have more power over her as a blood child. If Cindy married in to a rich family, the Tremaine would end up also benefiting from it. But as her step mother she wouldn't. She wanted only the best for her girls. But if Cindy had been again she wouldn't be Cindy.

    • @ericlager4512
      @ericlager4512 19 часов назад

      ​@@Eszra Still means nothing. Look at The Sixth Sense. An example of a biological mother poisoning and eventually causing the death of her biological daughter due to Munchausen's by proxy.

  • @dmman33
    @dmman33 22 часа назад

    This video connects so many threads because Disney’s Cinderella is the basis for so many ideas. It was literally released at the midpoint of the 20th Century, and so sparked various cultural notions after its release. And, yes, played a role in popularizing the idea of Found Family that is rightfully the progressive conception of human relationships. Disney’s Cinderella’s moving from cinema to home video helped that process. How will streaming change it? How are younger generations responding to the Disney Animated Canon? The Disney Animated Canon ARE secured texts in the history of animation as an art form and in the lives of the children who grew up on them. But like all sacred texts, the DAC exists in time and context. Yes, they were created to be universal and timeless, and most view them that way. But all things exist in time! Thank you for your work and this series. This is some of the best analysis on RUclips!

  • @beastcity9651
    @beastcity9651 22 часа назад

    @10:01 "The shoe could have fit anyone!" The slippers were made of glass FORMFITTED to Cinderella's feet. People do not share the exact same foot shape.

  • @timothylyons1529
    @timothylyons1529 23 часа назад

    I thought lady tremaine hated Cinderella for she threat in social status climbing scheme

    • @werothegreat
      @werothegreat 23 часа назад

      Who knows why abusers abuse? They only ever have excuses, not reasons.

    • @timothylyons1529
      @timothylyons1529 23 часа назад

      @ not excusing lady tremaine just saying she has reason cause let’s be real she doesn’t even love her own daughters just seeing them as way to boost her status in life

  • @NuttersIncorporated
    @NuttersIncorporated 23 часа назад

    I work in a nursery and whenever I tell the children the story of Cinderella, I call the stepsisters cruel rather than ugly. While Cinderella faces the more obvious abuse in this movie, I’d argue that Lady Tremain abuses her biological daughters too. However, Anastasia and Drizella don’t recognise it because she abuses them in a different way to Cinderella. Anastasia and Drizella are selfish, petty and shallow but they don’t know any better because of how their mother raised them. They seem to have been raised in isolation. They only had each other, their mother (who shaped their world view) and their stepsister Cinderella, who they were encouraged to mistreat. They don’t seem to have friends and were raised with high expectations placed on them. Other than when they are bullying Cinderella, Anastasia and Drizella don’t even get to be on the same side. They always have to compete and, because of that, they are constantly putting each other down. Lady Tremain told her daughters they had to be perfect and marry well so that’s all they care about. Anastasia and Drizella don’t have any hobbies (they have lessons but not hobbies), skills or friends. They want to be rich and married to someone important. Outside of that, there have no interests. Lady Tremain treats her daughters as pawns to help her climb the social ladder. However, she was more obviously cruel to Cinderella and she didn’t make Anastasia and Drizella servants in their own home so they don’t recognise the abuse. They think she wants what’s best for them. Cinderella escapes her abusers at the end of the movie which is wonderful. Unfortunately, Anastasia and Drizella are left alone with their abuser at the end. Things are going to get worse for them because they’ve lost their servant/slave/the one thing they could agree on. In all likelihood, they will turn on each other even more than they already do.

    • @austinreed7343
      @austinreed7343 10 часов назад

      The sequels do explore this; Anastasia also gets to escape the abuse.

  • @KaminoKatie
    @KaminoKatie 23 часа назад

    The Unshaved Mouse's theory of The Fairy Godmother and The Blue Fairy being the same person while also being Cinderella's absentee mother is hysterical

    • @werothegreat
      @werothegreat 23 часа назад

      If Wish had been 10 minutes longer they would have found some way to make that canon

    • @KaminoKatie
      @KaminoKatie 23 часа назад

      @@werothegreat Like any god-like woman who had an unexpected baby and is fearing a potential scandal, The Blue Fairy/The Fairy Godmother goes out for a cigarette and never comes back

  • @MrXemnas1992
    @MrXemnas1992 23 часа назад

    alice is next? subscribing for sure.

    • @werothegreat
      @werothegreat 23 часа назад

      Alice is one of my favorites!

  • @matheus5230
    @matheus5230 День назад

    What you said about the depiction of magic in films is also how I feel about super-powers in super-hero movies. The iconic scene of Superman rescuing Lois Lane from an helycopter accident in Superman The Movie has so much awe and wonder, it really is about how wonderful the sight of a man can fly really is! That kind of awe is gone in nearly all modern super-hero movies.

  • @matheus5230
    @matheus5230 День назад

    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 imagery of the bubbles scene is one of the most 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.

    • @werothegreat
      @werothegreat 23 часа назад

      Cindy definitely feels more grounded than Snow, with more resignation leading to her breakdown. I like Snow, but she is a little too peppy lol

    • @matheus5230
      @matheus5230 23 часа назад

      ​@@werothegreatIndeed. If I'm not mistaken, Walt said something more or less like "with Cinderella, we had a better grasp of how to write women".

  • @m3rrys0ngstr3ss
    @m3rrys0ngstr3ss День назад

    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!

  • @matheus5230
    @matheus5230 День назад

    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.

  • @meogatopreto
    @meogatopreto День назад

    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.

    • @werothegreat
      @werothegreat 23 часа назад

      Oh absolutely, that fucker probably landed on his feet and scurried away.

  • @meogatopreto
    @meogatopreto День назад

    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.

  • @paraplegicleopardman
    @paraplegicleopardman День назад

    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.

    • @werothegreat
      @werothegreat 23 часа назад

      Yeah, the Disney Princess line has, I think, hurt more than helped the images of these films

  • @NewSonyWonderHappyMadisonFan
    @NewSonyWonderHappyMadisonFan День назад

    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?

    • @werothegreat
      @werothegreat 23 часа назад

      The plan right now is just the canon. I have a poll on my Patreon to determine what to do after that, but definitely I'll be taking a break from Disney when I'm done. I'm open to returning to other Disney projects after such a break, though.

    • @austinreed7343
      @austinreed7343 11 часов назад

      @@werothegreat Do you plan to also include the movies released over the course of these analysis videos, from Wish and onwards?

    • @werothegreat
      @werothegreat 10 часов назад

      @@austinreed7343 Absolutely. I already have some thoughts on Moana 2, though I won't get to it for a couple years. Once I catch up to the canon, I'll probably make irregular videos on the newest entries, but I want to avoid making snap judgment "should I see this in theaters" reviews - those will not age well. I want to take time to think about the films and give actual thematic analysis.

  • @Savannah_Simpson
    @Savannah_Simpson День назад

    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.

    • @KaminoKatie
      @KaminoKatie 23 часа назад

      Cinderella is multi-tasking

    • @matheus5230
      @matheus5230 22 часа назад

      There's nothing wrong with a woman wanting to meet a handsome guy to fall in love with. But Cinderella isn't boiled down to just that. The main reason she wants to go to the ball is to have a escape of her horrible life, to have fun. And she surely doesn't even think about meeting the prince and marrying him, it's her stepsisters who want to meet and marry him, and they only want to do so for the money. Cinderella didn't even realize that she was dancing with the prince.

  • @laezin2442
    @laezin2442 День назад

    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))

    • @werothegreat
      @werothegreat 23 часа назад

      Definitely, Twist in Time (which has no business slapping as much as it does) starts with Tremaine forcing her bio daughters to do all the things she used to make Cindy do.

  • @annatallamy2941
    @annatallamy2941 День назад

    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!

    • @werothegreat
      @werothegreat 23 часа назад

      Thank you! Feel free to keep the recommendations going!

    • @ladyangelsongbird
      @ladyangelsongbird 11 часов назад

      It's one of my fixations too :) glad to know I'm not alone. I love Disney movie analysis!

  • @woodencoyote4372
    @woodencoyote4372 День назад

    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.

  • @Roxanne13579
    @Roxanne13579 День назад

    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!

  • @TheCow-j1l
    @TheCow-j1l День назад

    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

  • @morbidsearch
    @morbidsearch День назад

    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"

    • @KaminoKatie
      @KaminoKatie День назад

      They should be called The Tar and Sugar Era and The Restoration Era respectively way more often

    • @werothegreat
      @werothegreat 23 часа назад

      "Golden Age" is less a statement on financial success, and more about artistic output. I absolutely agree that Snow White, Pinocchio, Fantasia and Bambi are the peak of the studio's artistry that it never managed to reach again. ...and Dumbo is here, too, I guess

    • @KaminoKatie
      @KaminoKatie 23 часа назад

      @@werothegreat Dumbo is the quirky low-budget mascot platformer in the midst of the high-budget AAA games of the Golden Age/The Tar and Sugar Era

    • @matheus5230
      @matheus5230 19 часов назад

      ​@@werothegreatDumbo still has tons of heart, especially in the animation of its central character. Bill Tytla was a master. Also, the Pink Elephants On Parade sequence really shows the animators so liberated, it's wonderful. And Dumbo would go on to be an inspiration for Lilo & Stitch, which was also a low-budget film with tons of heart and that pulled off some really unique things for Disney that it was allowed to because of the low-budget.

    • @werothegreat
      @werothegreat 19 часов назад

      @@matheus5230 I would comment, but I already put my thoughts on Dumbo into a video, and would recommend you watch that!

  • @loganmiller7827
    @loganmiller7827 День назад

    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

    • @werothegreat
      @werothegreat 23 часа назад

      Yeah, there will be... tangents when I get to Peter Pan and Lady and the Tramp...

    • @matheus5230
      @matheus5230 23 часа назад

      ​​​​I only think of the siamese cats as problematic in Lady And The Tramp. Otherwise, the film is very notable for how grounded it is. It's as close as Disney has ever come to a slice-of-life movie (though Bambi has a lot of that). It is also Disney's first attempt of writing an actual grounded romance, and it really succeeds in my opinion. About the native americans in Peter Pan, it's impossible to defend that. The only thing I could say to at least argue no malicious intent is that Neverland is really the playground of a kid's imagination (though kids playing stuff like cowboy vs. indians happened because of the already existing stereotypes), and I didn't realize it was racist when I was a kid. Also, the source material isn't really better when it comes to depiction of the indians. But the only good thing I take from that scene is how Wendy refuses to conform to traditional female roles dictating that she can't do something and has to do something else. When she tries to have fun dancing with everyone, an indian adult woman says she is not allowed to because she is a girl. The indian says she has to gather the piles of wood, and she stands her ground. She takes the task at first, but soon changes her mind and leaves. I have little doubt that Wendy wouldn't have a problem doing such task, instead of dancing and having fun, if the indian hadn't justified it as "girls have to do this". That's what pissed off Wendy. Wendy is such a fascinating character, especially in the original story. She is adventurous and very capable, but she's also really mature. She doesn't want to never grow up, she is the counterpoint to Peter Pan. Feminity in the original story is associated with not merely the role of mom, but also maturity. Which is why the Disney remake having lost girls completely misses the point that the original story had by having only lost boys, not girls. In the original story, she convinces all lost boys to leave Neverland, to grow up.

    • @KaminoKatie
      @KaminoKatie 22 часа назад

      @@matheus5230 Dumbo is also a slice-of-life movie for the most part

    • @matheus5230
      @matheus5230 22 часа назад

      ​@@KaminoKatieTrue

  • @prixydarobo
    @prixydarobo День назад

    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

  • @lukeperkins1024
    @lukeperkins1024 День назад

    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!

  • @seandudley556
    @seandudley556 День назад

    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 :)

  • @HappyDreameer
    @HappyDreameer День назад

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

    • @werothegreat
      @werothegreat День назад

      If I can get my shit together, it should be out by the end of the month.

  • @eerieeros1422
    @eerieeros1422 День назад

    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 💙

    • @werothegreat
      @werothegreat День назад

      Thank you so much! Comments like this are why I do it. I started making these video essays precisely because of all those 2-hour nothingburgers.

  • @ericlager4512
    @ericlager4512 День назад

    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.

    • @werothegreat
      @werothegreat День назад

      I was surprised myself when I watched it with a more critical eye for this video. This is a very well put-together and thought-out film.

  • @gabbyhaynes5394
    @gabbyhaynes5394 День назад

    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.

  • @ericlager4512
    @ericlager4512 День назад

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

  • @TheTrumpReaper
    @TheTrumpReaper День назад

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

  • @erikwagner8587
    @erikwagner8587 День назад

    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.