Fun fact having a white part of the hair is a genetic thing in reality I knew a girl in my school who had it an basically everyone thought it was so cool especially the anime kids So
I absolutely DESPISE how movies and how people portray feminism as if it's something like 'Oh we're women, we want rights, we are better, men SUCK!' Because that's not it AT ALL! Feminism is about equal rights, for example, man earns more money than woman, 'womanly' items cost more compared to men (pink tax), etc etc. A real feminist does not want to be superior unless everyone else is too, which just means equality. The message of feminism has been completely twisted and turned to a whole new meaning and it's so STUPID! The sad thing is, more and more movies (such as this one) keep coming out with the wrong portrayal, which keeps spreading the wrong message. I wish it would just stop so the actual women who are suffering can say their truth. I also don't understand how Cruella is tried to be pictured as a misjudged villian... She's JUST a villian who wants to harm dogs.
I mean the same could be said for any of the villains in these types of retellings, not just Cruella. Like this isn't specifically a HER thing. Except for Hook and maaaybe Maleficent (and thats more just due to knowing fae lore), pretty much all of the villains being used for these stories are one note (fun, but one note) and were JUST villains who wanted to do so-and-so terrible thing. Cruella isn't really an exception here.
I hate it because it used to be "Hey, woman can do it too!" To "See, women can do it MUCH BETTER THAN MEN EFF YOU ALL MEN!" like wtf? In the old Disney Mulan for example, it showed that Mulan STRUGGLED like every other man, she was told to LEAVE due to how bad she was but she refused to leave because at that moment she had taken the responsibility to defend her country when she replaced her dad. She worked hard and she is STILL inferior to some guys but she made it up with her wit and tricks that are superior to her enemies' wit and tricks. Making her EQUAL rather than superior. She showed that SHE, as the men, can do it too. She struggled too and she can overcome it too. The LA Mulan is just "She has chi which usually is for men, she's very special, she's stronger than all men in the war." That's not "Woman can do it too" that's just "this woman is godsend, special, strong, and better than anyone else especially men." I hate that. Fk that...
@@arthurmorganSUN EXACTLY! The worst thing is that most of this 'support for women' is written by men who just want praise for doing the bare minimum and not beating women like they used to! Beautiful example and wording of Mulan by the way, I completely agree! Feminism is never about being better than one another, it just means that we want to be loved just as much as the other sex.
TBH I actually enjoyed the movie. I just feel like it was okay as a story, but featuring CRUELLA is a sin. They could've slapped on a different name, given her a different reason for being bullied, and spawned a different dog breed.
@ not really… her name, hair and the dog breed the Baroness owns are not actually story-relevant at all. Neither Cruella nor the Baroness are even into fur……. it’s pretty clear that “Cruella” could’ve been absolutely anybody. it did not need to be a conveniently super marketable and known previous character. I mean. imagine for a moment that her name is some other “I’m evil” pun (something like Vanessa to Vilaness since she admired the Baroness), the dogs were some other high-fashion dog breed, and she was bullied because of her appearance in general, not just her odd hair colour. do you feel like the story and movie would have suffered as a result? orrrrr, would it have just been less of a cash grab?
@marshmallowsilk3789 yeah! youre not exacly supposed to simpathize with her, well, at least not excuse her behaviors. She's narcisistic, revenge seeking, buuuuut also entertaining to watch (imo). It's not the best movie Disney made recently, but not the worst. For me its fun, but its understandable why some people don't like it
Hollywood (especially Disney) loves lazy writing and the insufferable genius is one of their most overdone tropes (think Sheldon Cooper, Morty, Tony Stark, Sherlock, etc.). Disney seems to have decided that the insufferable genius trope wasn't enough for their female characters and decided to go full blown psychotic genius (think Maleficent, Ursula, Madame Medusa, etc.). Kinda shows you what Disney thinks about women that they are all either helpless & gullible or evil and cruel...
But Young Sheldon was acc rlly good, like we saw why Sheldon was arrogant, due to his m coddling him, and it showed the relationships with his family. My personal opinion though.
I dunno what other adaptations of the Sherlock Holmes books Disney did besides the Great Mouse Detective, but he's not even an insufferable genius in the books, he's an excitable, witty young man who thinks very highly of Watson & regularly lets criminals go because he's got a heart as well as an intellect. If Disney is putting him in the insufferable genius category, this more than anything shows me that they are being utterly lazy & stupid, because that's not who Holmes has ever been
@@BooksandBunsfrom what I've read so far of the actual books, he seems charismatic more than anything. He's quite polite to his clients, and actually considers their feelings and such. He's also quite polite to Watson. He's a bit odd and keeps to himself, that's for sure, but I wouldn't say he's "insufferable" by any means.
I think they should have just embraced that she’s a bad guy?? I think this was supposed to be a movie about her from inception but the reason why Maleficent worked and this didn’t is… Maleficent is retaliating to what was considered a MASSIVE slight- not being invited to a royal christening. She’s actively trying to make King Stefan suffer for looking down on her. That’s Fae behaviour. You can build on that. Cruella is just a lady so obsessed with herself and furs that she is willing to kill puppies. You can’t build on that in a sympathetic way unless you lean into WHY she’s so self-absorbed and obsessed with furs. Because it wasn’t fashion she loved, it was FURS. Also if Anita knew her before she was Cruella she would just call her Estella. Her name literally just was Cruella DeVil.
You said everything I wanted to say about this movie. I am so tired of Disney lacking creativity and reusing the same characters just to leech as much money from nostalgia as they can. Theyre don’t care about anyone, the only thing they look for is money. They don’t care about their own characters, their viewers, feminism, gay people, black people, etc. It makes me sad to see so many people truly believe that Disney is doing all this for good when really, it’s just to turn a profit. Disney is extremely manipulative and I wish more people saw it.
The theory my mom and I have for both cruela and maleficant is that they’re both alternate universes and they aren’t the same person from the original source material
If they wanted to pull a Wicked with Cruella Devil, they should have changed the story instead of trying to cram the original into a new story. The problem is that Disney wanted a remake but wanted to pretend that they could write new stories.
Ah, I didn't notice the movie was "woke" actually. I liked the movie, however... I looked at it with a specific way of viewing - 1. I skipped the childhood part, didn't watch it at all, it's a boring needless setup. 2. I completely detached the movie from the original Cruella, for me, this movie and the original animation have nothing in common. 3. I didn't expect to like the movie while watching it. The result is, that for me, the movie is pretty much about the fashion industry... Sort of an odd perspective upon how a fashion artist succeeds in the world... And yeah, the narcissism, weird behavior and various gestures seems fitting, it's not a child film. There's a reason why people keep mentioning the fashion part when saying they like the movie - That's the only part there that comes with direction, thought and actual effort. The movie would have benefited much more if it had nothing to do with Cruella, because these parts about the movie, the whole drama of her childhood/family/reverge story, these parts are terrible, because they have nothing to do with the core of the movie - The cutthroat fashion industry. Oddly enough, the fashion industry does have allot of dark backgrounds... I feel like this movie would have made a whole lot more sense if it focused on one of the prominent figures in the fashion industry around the years the movie takes part in. There's a very good movie hidden in the Cruella coat, the whole Disney act sets the core back in my opinion. The movie has a soul, it's trapped in Disney. Strangely enough, this type of movie, as a "woke" type of movie, fits to be one - it's the Fashion industry.
The movie is not trying to make her seem like a good person? The movie actually shows she was never a good person, she just happened to not only he naturally evil, but also have been treated badlu. The fact you think people who are evil cannot have sad stories is hilarious xD
same, i was so confused where she was coming from with 'we are meant to like her', in the movie itself isnt it acknowledged both her and the baroness and messed up and evil?
I like Cruella, i admit, so its hard to me hearing you crictize the movie. But you made good points here, and you are rigth. I kinda now see why the movie feels a little bit weird or uncomfortable for me. That bescause of Cruella apology scene! You see, Cruella just says sorry and tells her friends about her sad childhood, but she treat them bad for most of the movie, so i feel that apology wasnt enough to made up for the stuff she did for them.
You should read the book about Crulella, because it actually shows her character and gives her the correct context for her becoming a villain (along with being bullied, her father was the only one who actually loved her, and he died, her mother hated her so much, and the only man she ever fell in love with died in a fire. Also the woman from the movie was Cruelella’s childhood friend who Cruelella grew bitter and jealous so it gives her motive to take the dogs)
Sympathetic villains are okay, but they're not the only flavor of villains. You gotta spice up your characters so it doesn't seem like you copy pasted them in everything you do.
Personally, I think Cruella is a pretty neat movie IF you consider her separate from the 101 Dalmatians. I just hate the whole part where they made her befriend a bunch of dogs. Her whole character is based off of how she does not care for anyone or anyTHING she percieves as lower than her. Which is wonderful because it SHOWS in how entitled she acts and how her mother(that gets murdered by the dogs) ENABLES this behavior. Granted, she's dead, so she's also not able to correct this behavior, but you know. But yeah. The switch up from entitled woman to absolute villain overnight was definitely jarring. So was a buch of other things in this movie
It’s a good video but I don’t like how you’re pulling up narcissism a lot. I think it’s a misunderstood mental disorder but idk. I have no clue how they thought they can take a puppy k-ller and make her… likeable? They failed so hard. Though I’m kind of glad nobody likes Disney’s stuff anymore.
Idk how you view it but to me there's a difference between narcissism and a narcissistic personality disorder. Narcissism itsself to me is just a list of specific traits that a person can have 🤷
This movie was really unneeded in terms of trying to give Cruella any sympathetic features, considering we already have 101 Dalmatians 2, which presented Cruella from the more mentally unstable person angle and shows her like a person attempting to deal with but still giving into her addiction. I just genuinely find it both hilarious and sad that a modern Disney live-action movie has this simplistic and confused writting that doesn't make any sense while a Disney direct-to-DVD sequel from early 2000s managed to have a more complex but still faithful to the first movie and consistent characterization of this villain by giving the audience a few moments to have pity and a bit of sympathy for her messy state but still showing them that she's a dangerous and cruel person who should be judged for her unethical and illegal actions accordingly.
Said direct-to-video movie happens to be my all time favorite Walt Disney movie!(Alongside The Emperor's New Groove, Lily & Stitch, Toy Story 2, The Incredibles, Ratatouille, & WALL-E.)
@@MultifandomPlushie It just shows how much we took sequels for granted. Yes, we should ALWAYS tell original stories, but sequels & prequels can & have worked because they took RISKS. Good risks.
The moment i saw that they were trying to make cruella a good person with the trailer i said out loud "why are we excited to make a person who skins puppies for a coat a role model?" The way my friend at the time tried to justified it. I was like nah lol either go the whole mile to make cruella CRUEL and an actual horrid human being or don't do it at all. Cause then we get this trash.
ngl I really didn't see how this movie was abt feminism at all, I think that helped me like the movie also cuz I didn't associate it with the older ones. I thought Estella always felt envy for baroness and was fueled to do smthing after finding out about her mom. Shes always just been a bad person in this movie for me
tbh it sounds like you really wanna hate the movie. im not saying it's good and not all your points were bad, but many of your points are nitpicks and it just drowns out your good points. sounds like you don't know what you want from the movie
also for someone who seems so concerned with the potential damage of bad morals in media, you don't seem to mind the potential damage of you throwing around the word narcissist and using it to describe what you analyze to be an irredeemable remorseless one note puppy killer (not saying she is or isnt). kind of nasty video tbh and i dont even like the movie or the character or anything
@@yahi3885 I don't think that was her intention. It looks more like she was pointing out that Cruella was both a narcissist and a puppy murderer (which she is). The movie tries its hardest to explain away her actions, making light of the fact that she is an abuser by making her a girl boss. The movie constantly puts down men, elevates women, and then pretends like Cruella is a girl boss, even though the movie itself shows that Cruella is a narcissist and an asshole. Also being a narcissist is a bad trait, I don't know why pointing out that someone is a narcissist is somehow damaging, that part of your comment seems unnecessarily accusatory.
@@TheVhangkhitha having npd isn't a moral failure and being a "narcissist" (being a person suffering from narcissistic personality disorder) doesn't make you evil. my comment was a very necessary level of accusatory, as she's perpetuating that stigma with her pop culture understanding of an extremely mischaracterized mental illness. I understood well the point she was trying to make, and all i did was point out the hypocrisy in her morally-damaging media argument.
I think it makes more sense if you look at it through the lense of, they MEANT for her to be a narcissist and an unreliable narrator. Thats what I got from it when I first watched the movie. It was like "oh, she kind of sucks. I think thats on purpose" but also.... that's giving Disney too much credit that they're smart enough to write a character that complex. The movies a cash grab
ngl this movie mightve worked if it was just something on its own and not so badly written, or maybe like an au where she doesnt want skin puppies for a stupid fur coat
I went to this movie and left feeling weird and never desired to watch it again. The path of its logic didn't make sense and the only pass I gave it was that it showed she was self-centered and valued status and power above all else. She could be very cruel to get what she wants, and that lined up well with her future self. As you pointed out though, the direction of the film signalled that we should care about her, and that it all made sense why she bacame so angry and callous. It really didn't.... I thought they were showing that she'd forfeit or twist logic if it didn't suit her narrative to identify she's a narcissist, yet as you spoke on the behaviour of the other characters in the film, the more it seems like a narcissist wrote the bloody script itself. Her "friends" that she took for granted and used seemed to just play along at the end even though they didn't accept her behaviour at a core level. Seeing you rant about this film and break it down to its basics has helped me realize where my feelings leaving the theatre came from and why this movie had no impact on me. Thank you for taking the time to make this and vent to all of us about it! Unlike the movie, I really enjoyed your video about it.
2:25 See my other comment. Words like "narcissist" and "narcissistic" villify people with NPD for the simple fact that they have a disorder that warps their perception of the world. Having NPD does not automatically make you a terrible person and using these words to describe terrible people adds to the stigma that SAYS everyone with NPD is an abusive, manipulative, irredeemable villain.
Isn’t she supposed to be villainous and evil, I know it’s not everyone’s favorite cup of tea but it was a breath of fresh air, so here’s what I think, 2:23: I think the time line plays a huge role into this, don’t be fooled by your life right now, because a lot and I mean A LOT of people judge others simply because they’re different or look a little different from others. 2:28: well she isn’t going to say she’s a narcissist, is she? That’ll mean she’s aware of that, but she’s actually is not. 3:22: maybe it was the city that wasn’t so acceptable of it, since she got older and people started to not give a shit about her hair and actually did the same fashion in one scene 3:43: it actually happened to me, though yes that doesn’t make her any better or worse than anyone, it’s still her perspective, she’s not thinking rationally or from a third POV, she’s not analyzing she’s just filled with rage 4:17 : now THAT was weird and I too was caught off guard by it, though let’s be real some parents still think their kids are angels who could do no wrong.. I won’t write anything else but the moral of the story is we’re being read to by Cruella herself, a narcissistic, selfish antagonist who can’t be a reliable narrator, You shouldn’t judge from your perspective or your own experiences when you’re not really experiencing that, yes we might experience similar things, but the difference is how we react to it, and people like her could and do exist Thanks for listening to my rambling lol
Isn't she supposed to be a narcissist tho? The main problem of this movie is the sudden change in personality at 13:14 . Besides that, I think the audience should expect nothing less from an evil puppy killer.
2:40 I'm not even kidding you when i say i saluted at the "should've been born American" part before the visual gag! I'M NOT KIDDING!! HOW THE HELL DID I HAVE SUCH BEAUTIFUL TIMING?!?!?! HOW?!?!!!!!!
06:27 she lives on the streets of course she would want more wtf 08:01 said you as you put another woman down as you think you know better 09:41 it's a movie about a woman that in the future would want to the not so nice things to puppies kids shouldn't learn any lesson from her 10:05 "no reason" and then one minute later you said that she was always mean... Maybe the reason she did that was because she is mean 😐 ....I just can't....that's what I get for expecting some good criticism, but the thumbnail spoiled all for what this video is about
I actually like this movie… just not in the context of the way it’s made. I like the movie if I divorce it from the source material and viewing her as a villain I love to hate.
Disclaimer: I do not condone this. I own three cats. I love them so much. I just put my toes on them a lot. That being said! If Cruella had made clothes out of cats, she would have had way less of an issue I feel. Like girl picked the most difficult creature to make clothes out of. And she didn't even look into being a breeder. Flawed (not a compliment) villain. Flawed design. Flawed execution.
ngl this movie probably would've been 10x more enjoyable to watch if 1). it was inspired by cruella, rather than being a direct backstory of her, and 2). if it was 2d animated.
Whenever I watch cruella I always turn off the part in my brain that remembers that this is CRUELLA. I think if they made an original movie that didn’t have her name this could have worked better because they just don’t feel like the same character. Also the outfits in this movie devoured. I don’t care how bad anyone says the movie was, you can’t deny the genius wardrobe
Excuse you! The feminist movement IS a success. BAD MEDIA used to always be made by men. The main character was a man, strong, capable, bland, muscly. He alone could stop the bad guy, save the day and get the princess in the end and it was cringe the whole way. Now we have strong, capable, bland, muscly women characters. The fact that women are now represented in pandering culture as strong, bland, muscly MCs is proof that feminism is working.
I like the movie because it’s not supposed to make you feel bad for her you can even route against her she is supposed to be a bad person personally I like the movie because of that aspect but that’s my opinion you do you girl 😊
when you were talking about how this movie has loose connections to 101 Dalmatians, i couldn't help but think to myself but think how things could've been handled (and gone wrong) in revenge of the sith. so the cruella film wants you to believe how she's just misunderstood, has friends, a good home to live in, many more to make you think this film has a happy ending, right? imagine that's what we got from revenge of the sith. instead of Anakin being seduced by the dark side of the force by palpatine, causing him to lead the clone army to the extinction of the jedi and the jedi order, Obi-Wan severs Anakin's limbs and being set on fire via lava, causing the emperor to give him his suit of machinery, and the two kids being stranded apart from their turned father and deiced mother, the movie instead just plays out like the 'how it should have ended' parody. where Anakin just reports Palpatine to the jedi council immediately, the war is over, Anakin and padme live peacefully together on naboo with their kids, and they all lived happily ever after. the events of the final act of revenge of the sith are important and integral to the rest of the original trilogy for had it not, the events of the OT would never have happened. rots was and still is the movie to tie up loose ends to let the audience know how the events of one film would lead to another.
You know who could make a better role model than Cruella as a fashion designer? EDNA MODE Edna have so much potential for a spin off movie, but they chose an animal abuser and a narcissist and stole Joker's concept for her sad story. Like wtf????
It seems you are making stretches in order to make this movie into something bad. you seem to not want to interpret it in any other way, only seeing it in a bad light instead of looking at it from every angle. The movie was obviously not a prequel, but a different interpretation of the character Cruella, making her seem more human and slightly more relatable. I'm not saying there isn't room for improvement, but you seem to only see it from one perspective and have clung on to that, which made it impossible for you too see it as anything but trash.
She’s entitled to her opinion though just like you. If she thinks it’s trash that’s her opinion and that’s ok. I also didn’t like the movie, but I don’t think it was completely awful. But I also don’t like the messages that are portrayed throughout the movie. She may not be looking at it from every angle but she doesn’t have to. No one does. It’s not a crime to not like something everyone else did
Gravepost but.. This movie is almost perfect in how it takes a thing that is a very bad caricature of what a girl boss stereotype is and portrays it as something to be celebrated. I almost feel that the movie lands somewhere between subversive masterpiece (If you call being subversive to disney adults hard), Disney going completely mask off on how they feel about girlbosses, and some weird social experiment that capstones a trend of having increasingly badly written girl boss characters in their live action films being lauded for their bad girlbossiness. Was that the point? I just struggle coming to grips with how perfectly opposite each girlboss trait is represented, and that being lazy.
I could believe that the prequel movie was a sort of path for her to turn out the way she did in the animated movies, albeit imperfect. Even the Dalmatians attacking her was a perfect explanation and set up! But then she gifts puppies at the very end and it becomes confusing cause then is she implying she’ll be back for their puppies??
When I first saw the cutting-off-parts-of-a-dress scene without seeing the movie, I thought the Baroness was Cruela, not the red-haired girl who made the dress
Yeah the movie felt like it was written by a teenager who watched 101 Dalmatians a decade ago when they were a really young child who didn't remember 90% of the original movie when they were given a horrible creative writing assignment to give a villain a backstory, and the cruella movie is what was turned in. Visually there was some cool stuff, but it was like being served a sandwich stuffed with styrofoam in the middle, and they only left enough so it looks like a normal sandwich on the outside but on the inside it's all styrofoam
Disney back then had actual balls. they had compelling, ball grabbing, stories that would genuinely interest you and have you on the edge of your seat. I love all old disney films. except this one.
6:41 what an entry-level position at a big company working on something I haven’t gone to school and worked my ass off for I can’t believe it😱 those darn misogynist
I thought it was a rewrite like maleficent. Of course she is still vile, but she isn’t murdering dogs. I also agree with the commenters saying she’s an unreliable narrator. The movie feels like she’s in prison and writing the Wolf of Wall Street to gain more fame. Edit: accidentally wrote murdering people instead of dogs
16:25 i personally find it a red flag if someone watches the live action remakes… as an animation enthusiast its like a slap in the face every time another live action remake is made. even dreamworks is doing it now with httyd and im so mad about it lmao
Can we PLEASE stop using "narcissistic" to describe characters that are full of themselves. You are actively contributing to the stigma around NPD which does not automatically make people willing to skin puppies for their own pleasure.
As soon as I clicked this video I thought "Well, here goes another movie I thought I liked." Yeah, videos like this make me feel kinda stupid because of how surface level I viewed this movie. Coming into this, I THOUGHT I had reasons to justify liking it. I'm left wondering why I enjoyed this movie. It's really humbling. Like, I really liked this video, but I just feel bad for myself now. :,)
I think we do get to see her genius in her designs as the show progresses, and even a little at the start. The way she alters her school uniform shows her passion for design. She may have said she's a genius, but I reckon the film does show it too. And as the show goes on she does work for what she wants, she does work hard to create fabulous designs to outshine the baroness. Maybe its very subjective taste, but I think the window display she made does look better. Sure it's made of trash, but it has style, uniqueness, and a wild background that supports a wild theme for the mannequins pose and modified dress. In the world of art, standing out and being seen is one of the main goals. The window display certainly did that, it attracted a crowd. As for the bullying scenes, I think she was just bullied for being different with a bad temper. And yea it's not good but I doubt it was meant for us to sympathize with her. I believe the film was trying to showcase her defiant nature and how that made her both a target for bully and a brat that would punch back harder. I also didn't even really notice that most of the bad guys were men, I just thought those few characters were incompetent at their jobs or have the rich person mentality. I interpreted the fashion store manager's behavior as looking down on the poor and an arrogant bully, not just "some trashy man because he's a man". Besides, Arty, Horace, Jasper and the baroness' right hand are all good men in the show, with their own set of morals and empathy. I personally don't see this as the gross "girl boss" movies that slap you in the face with a bunch of feminist messages and an entire ensemble of terrible men. I just took this movie as one that focuses on two design rivals trying to one up each other, both of which are narcissists and cutthroat.
I always said when this trailer came out that this movie should have been about how the author of the original 100 Dalmatians novel was inspired to write her book based on a story of this version of Curella (obviously with a different name). This was a terrible movie.
My head cannon is that the movie is the story cruella tells to the judges when she gets arrested in the original movie, I like the idea that she’s an horribly unreliable narrator who made up all the tragic backstory and girlboss moments to draw attention and sympathy
the timeline of this movie makes zero sense! the fashion feels very 1970s but the original movie takes place in the 1960s cause the 1970s hadn’t even happened. cruella in the original movie was at least in her 50s, maybe even her 60s, so why in the cruella movie is she in her 20s??? this makes no sense to me at all! disney definitely forgot the fact that for the timeline to make sense, this would have to take place in like the 1930s or even earlier just going off of cruellas implied age in the original movie. make it make sense!!
I really enjoyed this, and you're so right, why create plot holes and inconsistences in your own content? Media depicting strong, empowered women really would benefit from the people around them being regular people and not idiots. Demonstrating that exceptionalism as exceptional, and not just slightly better than the poorly written, un-fleshed out dimwits. Another good video essay, Matty. You're wonderful.
@sailorsagittarius8526 eh didn't like them as a kid. Still don't care for v them now. However, the movies themselves were good at their time. When ppl say love action, Disney, they mean recent. Also, Mary Poppins has animation in it. It wasn't an animation. Since you want to be super specific.
Ps: i saw Beverly hill chihuahuas as a kid so im extremely bias for all three movies becus luv, puppies, and staying up all night as a 9-year-old girl does that, i have nothing to say i just wanted to point out its mention.
My aunt and mom definitely staunch enjoyers of mediocre movies as long as they have a basic message of female empowerment. I am not like them and I recognize movies for the narrative qualities and structure. I am all for female empowerment (duh, I am female) but we all know that one quote from Knuckles the Echidna, so I take a hypercritical approach to appreciating womens' stories. I don't want to be patronized or tossed meager scraps, I want a real story that treats women as humans with flaws and realistic challenges, I also want them to face consequences for their actions.
You have to think about it Cruella was supposed to be a narcissist character and so did her mother and if you think about the time setting this was when still men were in the social hierarchy more powerful than women sure there were women who had some power but more men had power in the social hierarchy so that's why more male characters acted bossy and arrogant that was because they knew that they were on top and they just discriminated women and to be honest there are many movies that do the same trip where someone does a bad deed and gets rewarded for it so I really don't see any reason to be mad at the Corella movie for this because so many good movies do it and they become masterpieces sure there are some things wrong with the Cruella movie and you shouldn't sympathize with her that's not what the movie is truly about the movie that Cruella is about is understanding why a character is how they are no one really sad for us to sympathize with her the real truth playing the movie starts to understand her and how she became who she is sure they use it but that's not really the main point of the story but that's just my opinion
The whole thing was a mess. Does the filmmaker know anything about Cruella DeVille or 101 Dalmatians? Why make it a heist movie when you can make a Devil Wears Prada like movie? The lady’s a fashionista.
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Fun fact having a white part of the hair is a genetic thing in reality
I knew a girl in my school who had it an basically everyone thought it was so cool especially the anime kids
So
I’ve seen a lot of people with white parts in their hair and they were never bullied for it.
Everyone thinks it looks cool.
I also think it’s cool, but now that I start having white hair at 26 I don’t know if I still think it’s cool.
Yeah, it's a form of vitiligo.
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white hair at young age?
that looks cool imo, probably instinctual because we think old = wise mostly since before we don't even get past 24
How the hell did Disney make the perfect Webtoons protagonist?
Idk🤷♀️🤣
I absolutely DESPISE how movies and how people portray feminism as if it's something like 'Oh we're women, we want rights, we are better, men SUCK!' Because that's not it AT ALL!
Feminism is about equal rights, for example, man earns more money than woman, 'womanly' items cost more compared to men (pink tax), etc etc. A real feminist does not want to be superior unless everyone else is too, which just means equality.
The message of feminism has been completely twisted and turned to a whole new meaning and it's so STUPID! The sad thing is, more and more movies (such as this one) keep coming out with the wrong portrayal, which keeps spreading the wrong message. I wish it would just stop so the actual women who are suffering can say their truth.
I also don't understand how Cruella is tried to be pictured as a misjudged villian... She's JUST a villian who wants to harm dogs.
Not only that but true feminism also advocates for stuff like destigmatizing men showing emotions.
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I mean the same could be said for any of the villains in these types of retellings, not just Cruella. Like this isn't specifically a HER thing. Except for Hook and maaaybe Maleficent (and thats more just due to knowing fae lore), pretty much all of the villains being used for these stories are one note (fun, but one note) and were JUST villains who wanted to do so-and-so terrible thing. Cruella isn't really an exception here.
I hate it because it used to be "Hey, woman can do it too!" To "See, women can do it MUCH BETTER THAN MEN EFF YOU ALL MEN!" like wtf? In the old Disney Mulan for example, it showed that Mulan STRUGGLED like every other man, she was told to LEAVE due to how bad she was but she refused to leave because at that moment she had taken the responsibility to defend her country when she replaced her dad. She worked hard and she is STILL inferior to some guys but she made it up with her wit and tricks that are superior to her enemies' wit and tricks. Making her EQUAL rather than superior. She showed that SHE, as the men, can do it too. She struggled too and she can overcome it too. The LA Mulan is just "She has chi which usually is for men, she's very special, she's stronger than all men in the war." That's not "Woman can do it too" that's just "this woman is godsend, special, strong, and better than anyone else especially men." I hate that. Fk that...
@@arthurmorganSUN EXACTLY! The worst thing is that most of this 'support for women' is written by men who just want praise for doing the bare minimum and not beating women like they used to! Beautiful example and wording of Mulan by the way, I completely agree! Feminism is never about being better than one another, it just means that we want to be loved just as much as the other sex.
TBH I actually enjoyed the movie. I just feel like it was okay as a story, but featuring CRUELLA is a sin. They could've slapped on a different name, given her a different reason for being bullied, and spawned a different dog breed.
oh yeah absolutely!
ngl thats just changing the whole movie
@ not really… her name, hair and the dog breed the Baroness owns are not actually story-relevant at all. Neither Cruella nor the Baroness are even into fur……. it’s pretty clear that “Cruella” could’ve been absolutely anybody. it did not need to be a conveniently super marketable and known previous character.
I mean. imagine for a moment that her name is some other “I’m evil” pun (something like Vanessa to Vilaness since she admired the Baroness), the dogs were some other high-fashion dog breed, and she was bullied because of her appearance in general, not just her odd hair colour. do you feel like the story and movie would have suffered as a result? orrrrr, would it have just been less of a cash grab?
I actually think she’s SUPPOSED to be a narcissist/unreliable narrator.
it's very logical but i feel like that wasen't what they were trying to do
@@saix_unicornher performance makes it very clear that that was explicit 😅
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@marshmallowsilk3789 yeah! youre not exacly supposed to simpathize with her, well, at least not excuse her behaviors. She's narcisistic, revenge seeking, buuuuut also entertaining to watch (imo). It's not the best movie Disney made recently, but not the worst. For me its fun, but its understandable why some people don't like it
Hollywood (especially Disney) loves lazy writing and the insufferable genius is one of their most overdone tropes (think Sheldon Cooper, Morty, Tony Stark, Sherlock, etc.). Disney seems to have decided that the insufferable genius trope wasn't enough for their female characters and decided to go full blown psychotic genius (think Maleficent, Ursula, Madame Medusa, etc.). Kinda shows you what Disney thinks about women that they are all either helpless & gullible or evil and cruel...
But Young Sheldon was acc rlly good, like we saw why Sheldon was arrogant, due to his m coddling him, and it showed the relationships with his family. My personal opinion though.
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I dunno what other adaptations of the Sherlock Holmes books Disney did besides the Great Mouse Detective, but he's not even an insufferable genius in the books, he's an excitable, witty young man who thinks very highly of Watson & regularly lets criminals go because he's got a heart as well as an intellect. If Disney is putting him in the insufferable genius category, this more than anything shows me that they are being utterly lazy & stupid, because that's not who Holmes has ever been
@@BooksandBunsfrom what I've read so far of the actual books, he seems charismatic more than anything. He's quite polite to his clients, and actually considers their feelings and such. He's also quite polite to Watson. He's a bit odd and keeps to himself, that's for sure, but I wouldn't say he's "insufferable" by any means.
I think they should have just embraced that she’s a bad guy?? I think this was supposed to be a movie about her from inception but the reason why Maleficent worked and this didn’t is… Maleficent is retaliating to what was considered a MASSIVE slight- not being invited to a royal christening. She’s actively trying to make King Stefan suffer for looking down on her. That’s Fae behaviour. You can build on that.
Cruella is just a lady so obsessed with herself and furs that she is willing to kill puppies. You can’t build on that in a sympathetic way unless you lean into WHY she’s so self-absorbed and obsessed with furs. Because it wasn’t fashion she loved, it was FURS.
Also if Anita knew her before she was Cruella she would just call her Estella. Her name literally just was Cruella DeVil.
You said everything I wanted to say about this movie. I am so tired of Disney lacking creativity and reusing the same characters just to leech as much money from nostalgia as they can. Theyre don’t care about anyone, the only thing they look for is money. They don’t care about their own characters, their viewers, feminism, gay people, black people, etc. It makes me sad to see so many people truly believe that Disney is doing all this for good when really, it’s just to turn a profit. Disney is extremely manipulative and I wish more people saw it.
That’s corporations for ya
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The theory my mom and I have for both cruela and maleficant is that they’re both alternate universes and they aren’t the same person from the original source material
its better to think of the movies as reimaginations then canon, its less of a headache.
@ exactly! Think of it as a world that could have been if different actions were taken
4:39 I almost thought you were going to use the Austrian painter as an example of someone who had a bad childhood.
Same
If they wanted to pull a Wicked with Cruella Devil, they should have changed the story instead of trying to cram the original into a new story. The problem is that Disney wanted a remake but wanted to pretend that they could write new stories.
You actually brought up a lot of points I never thought about. Great video!
Ah, I didn't notice the movie was "woke" actually.
I liked the movie, however... I looked at it with a specific way of viewing -
1. I skipped the childhood part, didn't watch it at all, it's a boring needless setup.
2. I completely detached the movie from the original Cruella, for me, this movie and the original animation have nothing in common.
3. I didn't expect to like the movie while watching it.
The result is, that for me, the movie is pretty much about the fashion industry... Sort of an odd perspective upon how a fashion artist succeeds in the world... And yeah, the narcissism, weird behavior and various gestures seems fitting, it's not a child film.
There's a reason why people keep mentioning the fashion part when saying they like the movie - That's the only part there that comes with direction, thought and actual effort.
The movie would have benefited much more if it had nothing to do with Cruella, because these parts about the movie, the whole drama of her childhood/family/reverge story, these parts are terrible, because they have nothing to do with the core of the movie - The cutthroat fashion industry.
Oddly enough, the fashion industry does have allot of dark backgrounds... I feel like this movie would have made a whole lot more sense if it focused on one of the prominent figures in the fashion industry around the years the movie takes part in.
There's a very good movie hidden in the Cruella coat, the whole Disney act sets the core back in my opinion.
The movie has a soul, it's trapped in Disney.
Strangely enough, this type of movie, as a "woke" type of movie, fits to be one - it's the Fashion industry.
Kinda like devil wears prada. Apparently that was based on Anna Wintour.
i agree with your opinion and you gave me a better perspective
*Exactly how I saw it too*
The movie is not trying to make her seem like a good person? The movie actually shows she was never a good person, she just happened to not only he naturally evil, but also have been treated badlu. The fact you think people who are evil cannot have sad stories is hilarious xD
Like its literally a villain origin story. They aren't trying to justify her wanting to kill puppies
same, i was so confused where she was coming from with 'we are meant to like her', in the movie itself isnt it acknowledged both her and the baroness and messed up and evil?
I like Cruella, i admit, so its hard to me hearing you crictize the movie. But you made good points here, and you are rigth. I kinda now see why the movie feels a little bit weird or uncomfortable for me. That bescause of Cruella apology scene! You see, Cruella just says sorry and tells her friends about her sad childhood, but she treat them bad for most of the movie, so i feel that apology wasnt enough to made up for the stuff she did for them.
You should read the book about Crulella, because it actually shows her character and gives her the correct context for her becoming a villain (along with being bullied, her father was the only one who actually loved her, and he died, her mother hated her so much, and the only man she ever fell in love with died in a fire. Also the woman from the movie was Cruelella’s childhood friend who Cruelella grew bitter and jealous so it gives her motive to take the dogs)
it’s because disney is (still) obsessed with “sympathetic villains” rn and it’s so bad
Sympathetic villains are okay, but they're not the only flavor of villains. You gotta spice up your characters so it doesn't seem like you copy pasted them in everything you do.
Cruella is supposed to be a villain. She isn't supposed to be relatable. Rather a narcissistic unreliable narrator...I still love her though.
Personally, I think Cruella is a pretty neat movie IF you consider her separate from the 101 Dalmatians.
I just hate the whole part where they made her befriend a bunch of dogs. Her whole character is based off of how she does not care for anyone or anyTHING she percieves as lower than her. Which is wonderful because it SHOWS in how entitled she acts and how her mother(that gets murdered by the dogs) ENABLES this behavior.
Granted, she's dead, so she's also not able to correct this behavior, but you know.
But yeah. The switch up from entitled woman to absolute villain overnight was definitely jarring. So was a buch of other things in this movie
This movie shoulda been a horror movie about a sadistic narcissist and then getting karma for it the way Scarface did
It’s a good video but I don’t like how you’re pulling up narcissism a lot. I think it’s a misunderstood mental disorder but idk. I have no clue how they thought they can take a puppy k-ller and make her… likeable? They failed so hard. Though I’m kind of glad nobody likes Disney’s stuff anymore.
Idk how you view it but to me there's a difference between narcissism and a narcissistic personality disorder. Narcissism itsself to me is just a list of specific traits that a person can have 🤷
@@tami7992 a ya there is a difference. I guess I default to associating the two
im just wondering where people are getting the 'they tried to make her likeable' angle from, because when i watched it i never got that.
This movie was really unneeded in terms of trying to give Cruella any sympathetic features, considering we already have 101 Dalmatians 2, which presented Cruella from the more mentally unstable person angle and shows her like a person attempting to deal with but still giving into her addiction. I just genuinely find it both hilarious and sad that a modern Disney live-action movie has this simplistic and confused writting that doesn't make any sense while a Disney direct-to-DVD sequel from early 2000s managed to have a more complex but still faithful to the first movie and consistent characterization of this villain by giving the audience a few moments to have pity and a bit of sympathy for her messy state but still showing them that she's a dangerous and cruel person who should be judged for her unethical and illegal actions accordingly.
Said direct-to-video movie happens to be my all time favorite Walt Disney movie!(Alongside The Emperor's New Groove, Lily & Stitch, Toy Story 2, The Incredibles, Ratatouille, & WALL-E.)
@splat-trainproductions This is awesome to hear! I love when genuinely good Disney sequels get the love and recognition they deserve!
@@MultifandomPlushie It just shows how much we took sequels for granted. Yes, we should ALWAYS tell original stories, but sequels & prequels can & have worked because they took RISKS. Good risks.
The moment i saw that they were trying to make cruella a good person with the trailer i said out loud "why are we excited to make a person who skins puppies for a coat a role model?"
The way my friend at the time tried to justified it. I was like nah lol either go the whole mile to make cruella CRUEL and an actual horrid human being or don't do it at all. Cause then we get this trash.
ngl I really didn't see how this movie was abt feminism at all, I think that helped me like the movie also cuz I didn't associate it with the older ones. I thought Estella always felt envy for baroness and was fueled to do smthing after finding out about her mom. Shes always just been a bad person in this movie for me
tbh it sounds like you really wanna hate the movie. im not saying it's good and not all your points were bad, but many of your points are nitpicks and it just drowns out your good points. sounds like you don't know what you want from the movie
also for someone who seems so concerned with the potential damage of bad morals in media, you don't seem to mind the potential damage of you throwing around the word narcissist and using it to describe what you analyze to be an irredeemable remorseless one note puppy killer (not saying she is or isnt). kind of nasty video tbh and i dont even like the movie or the character or anything
@@yahi3885 I don't think that was her intention. It looks more like she was pointing out that Cruella was both a narcissist and a puppy murderer (which she is). The movie tries its hardest to explain away her actions, making light of the fact that she is an abuser by making her a girl boss. The movie constantly puts down men, elevates women, and then pretends like Cruella is a girl boss, even though the movie itself shows that Cruella is a narcissist and an asshole. Also being a narcissist is a bad trait, I don't know why pointing out that someone is a narcissist is somehow damaging, that part of your comment seems unnecessarily accusatory.
@@TheVhangkhitha having npd isn't a moral failure and being a "narcissist" (being a person suffering from narcissistic personality disorder) doesn't make you evil. my comment was a very necessary level of accusatory, as she's perpetuating that stigma with her pop culture understanding of an extremely mischaracterized mental illness. I understood well the point she was trying to make, and all i did was point out the hypocrisy in her morally-damaging media argument.
I think it makes more sense if you look at it through the lense of, they MEANT for her to be a narcissist and an unreliable narrator. Thats what I got from it when I first watched the movie. It was like "oh, she kind of sucks. I think thats on purpose" but also.... that's giving Disney too much credit that they're smart enough to write a character that complex. The movies a cash grab
Cruella is a narcissist and i thought the movie narrator was basically gaslighting the audience by making Cruella a tragic heroine
The video editing is masterful, and that narrator girl is so gorgeous and intelligent.
ngl this movie mightve worked if it was just something on its own and not so badly written, or maybe like an au where she doesnt want skin puppies for a stupid fur coat
Yeah
The au would be cool 😎
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I went to this movie and left feeling weird and never desired to watch it again. The path of its logic didn't make sense and the only pass I gave it was that it showed she was self-centered and valued status and power above all else. She could be very cruel to get what she wants, and that lined up well with her future self.
As you pointed out though, the direction of the film signalled that we should care about her, and that it all made sense why she bacame so angry and callous. It really didn't.... I thought they were showing that she'd forfeit or twist logic if it didn't suit her narrative to identify she's a narcissist, yet as you spoke on the behaviour of the other characters in the film, the more it seems like a narcissist wrote the bloody script itself. Her "friends" that she took for granted and used seemed to just play along at the end even though they didn't accept her behaviour at a core level.
Seeing you rant about this film and break it down to its basics has helped me realize where my feelings leaving the theatre came from and why this movie had no impact on me. Thank you for taking the time to make this and vent to all of us about it! Unlike the movie, I really enjoyed your video about it.
2:25 See my other comment. Words like "narcissist" and "narcissistic" villify people with NPD for the simple fact that they have a disorder that warps their perception of the world. Having NPD does not automatically make you a terrible person and using these words to describe terrible people adds to the stigma that SAYS everyone with NPD is an abusive, manipulative, irredeemable villain.
Huh, women, am I right?🎉
Nooo that’s not…
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Isn’t she supposed to be villainous and evil, I know it’s not everyone’s favorite cup of tea but it was a breath of fresh air, so here’s what I think,
2:23: I think the time line plays a huge role into this, don’t be fooled by your life right now, because a lot and I mean A LOT of people judge others simply because they’re different or look a little different from others.
2:28: well she isn’t going to say she’s a narcissist, is she? That’ll mean she’s aware of that, but she’s actually is not.
3:22: maybe it was the city that wasn’t so acceptable of it, since she got older and people started to not give a shit about her hair and actually did the same fashion in one scene
3:43: it actually happened to me, though yes that doesn’t make her any better or worse than anyone, it’s still her perspective, she’s not thinking rationally or from a third POV, she’s not analyzing she’s just filled with rage
4:17 : now THAT was weird and I too was caught off guard by it, though let’s be real some parents still think their kids are angels who could do no wrong..
I won’t write anything else but the moral of the story is we’re being read to by Cruella herself, a narcissistic, selfish antagonist who can’t be a reliable narrator,
You shouldn’t judge from your perspective or your own experiences when you’re not really experiencing that, yes we might experience similar things, but the difference is how we react to it, and people like her could and do exist
Thanks for listening to my rambling lol
Isn't she supposed to be a narcissist tho? The main problem of this movie is the sudden change in personality at 13:14 . Besides that, I think the audience should expect nothing less from an evil puppy killer.
i liked the move but if you hate it that's cool
Same
2:40 I'm not even kidding you when i say i saluted at the "should've been born American" part before the visual gag! I'M NOT KIDDING!! HOW THE HELL DID I HAVE SUCH BEAUTIFUL TIMING?!?!?! HOW?!?!!!!!!
WHAT THE HEY IS A KILOMETEEEEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRRRR?????!!!!!!!!!
06:27 she lives on the streets of course she would want more wtf
08:01 said you as you put another woman down as you think you know better
09:41 it's a movie about a woman that in the future would want to the not so nice things to puppies kids shouldn't learn any lesson from her
10:05 "no reason" and then one minute later you said that she was always mean... Maybe the reason she did that was because she is mean 😐
....I just can't....that's what I get for expecting some good criticism, but the thumbnail spoiled all for what this video is about
I actually like this movie… just not in the context of the way it’s made. I like the movie if I divorce it from the source material and viewing her as a villain I love to hate.
Disclaimer: I do not condone this. I own three cats. I love them so much. I just put my toes on them a lot.
That being said! If Cruella had made clothes out of cats, she would have had way less of an issue I feel. Like girl picked the most difficult creature to make clothes out of. And she didn't even look into being a breeder. Flawed (not a compliment) villain. Flawed design. Flawed execution.
Random Headcannon: she’s allergic to cats
ngl this movie probably would've been 10x more enjoyable to watch if 1). it was inspired by cruella, rather than being a direct backstory of her, and 2). if it was 2d animated.
I don’t know how they thought making a movie about a woman who skins puppies, and then try to make her the sympathetic one??
Whenever I watch cruella I always turn off the part in my brain that remembers that this is CRUELLA. I think if they made an original movie that didn’t have her name this could have worked better because they just don’t feel like the same character. Also the outfits in this movie devoured. I don’t care how bad anyone says the movie was, you can’t deny the genius wardrobe
Excuse you! The feminist movement IS a success. BAD MEDIA used to always be made by men. The main character was a man, strong, capable, bland, muscly. He alone could stop the bad guy, save the day and get the princess in the end and it was cringe the whole way. Now we have strong, capable, bland, muscly women characters. The fact that women are now represented in pandering culture as strong, bland, muscly MCs is proof that feminism is working.
I like the movie because it’s not supposed to make you feel bad for her you can even route against her she is supposed to be a bad person personally I like the movie because of that aspect but that’s my opinion you do you girl 😊
Great video! I liked the part where
when you were talking about how this movie has loose connections to 101 Dalmatians, i couldn't help but think to myself but think how things could've been handled (and gone wrong) in revenge of the sith. so the cruella film wants you to believe how she's just misunderstood, has friends, a good home to live in, many more to make you think this film has a happy ending, right?
imagine that's what we got from revenge of the sith. instead of Anakin being seduced by the dark side of the force by palpatine, causing him to lead the clone army to the extinction of the jedi and the jedi order, Obi-Wan severs Anakin's limbs and being set on fire via lava, causing the emperor to give him his suit of machinery, and the two kids being stranded apart from their turned father and deiced mother, the movie instead just plays out like the 'how it should have ended' parody. where Anakin just reports Palpatine to the jedi council immediately, the war is over, Anakin and padme live peacefully together on naboo with their kids, and they all lived happily ever after. the events of the final act of revenge of the sith are important and integral to the rest of the original trilogy for had it not, the events of the OT would never have happened. rots was and still is the movie to tie up loose ends to let the audience know how the events of one film would lead to another.
You know who could make a better role model than Cruella as a fashion designer? EDNA MODE
Edna have so much potential for a spin off movie, but they chose an animal abuser and a narcissist and stole Joker's concept for her sad story. Like wtf????
I was not expecting a Krull cameo at the end there
Wait until they make the 100000’th first gay character in a Disney film 😂
It never ends
4:22 Baby Genius in the background! I haven't seen that movie since I was in 1st grade!
It seems you are making stretches in order to make this movie into something bad. you seem to not want to interpret it in any other way, only seeing it in a bad light instead of looking at it from every angle. The movie was obviously not a prequel, but a different interpretation of the character Cruella, making her seem more human and slightly more relatable. I'm not saying there isn't room for improvement, but you seem to only see it from one perspective and have clung on to that, which made it impossible for you too see it as anything but trash.
She’s entitled to her opinion though just like you. If she thinks it’s trash that’s her opinion and that’s ok. I also didn’t like the movie, but I don’t think it was completely awful. But I also don’t like the messages that are portrayed throughout the movie. She may not be looking at it from every angle but she doesn’t have to. No one does. It’s not a crime to not like something everyone else did
Gravepost but.. This movie is almost perfect in how it takes a thing that is a very bad caricature of what a girl boss stereotype is and portrays it as something to be celebrated. I almost feel that the movie lands somewhere between subversive masterpiece (If you call being subversive to disney adults hard), Disney going completely mask off on how they feel about girlbosses, and some weird social experiment that capstones a trend of having increasingly badly written girl boss characters in their live action films being lauded for their bad girlbossiness. Was that the point? I just struggle coming to grips with how perfectly opposite each girlboss trait is represented, and that being lazy.
The lack of understanding about how wills work in this movie reminds me of the confusion the writers of Gravity Falls have about deeds.
I could believe that the prequel movie was a sort of path for her to turn out the way she did in the animated movies, albeit imperfect. Even the Dalmatians attacking her was a perfect explanation and set up! But then she gifts puppies at the very end and it becomes confusing cause then is she implying she’ll be back for their puppies??
Finally someone who also hates this movie
When I first saw the cutting-off-parts-of-a-dress scene without seeing the movie, I thought the Baroness was Cruela, not the red-haired girl who made the dress
I more or less agree with you, as a stand alone movie I enjoyed it but looking at it as a "pre sequel" it doesn't make much sense.
and rather than it being a good movie, i felt it was fun
I've played the demo for that dalmatians game in the background. I wish I could have gotten the full game. I loved that demo.
Yeah the movie felt like it was written by a teenager who watched 101 Dalmatians a decade ago when they were a really young child who didn't remember 90% of the original movie when they were given a horrible creative writing assignment to give a villain a backstory, and the cruella movie is what was turned in. Visually there was some cool stuff, but it was like being served a sandwich stuffed with styrofoam in the middle, and they only left enough so it looks like a normal sandwich on the outside but on the inside it's all styrofoam
2:32 I gonna just leave this here...
Disney back then had actual balls. they had compelling, ball grabbing, stories that would genuinely interest you and have you on the edge of your seat.
I love all old disney films. except this one.
6:41 what an entry-level position at a big company working on something I haven’t gone to school and worked my ass off for I can’t believe it😱 those darn misogynist
Watched cruella on an 18 hour airplane flight, and I LITERALLY remember nothing
Ngl I really enjoyed the movie
I thought it was a rewrite like maleficent. Of course she is still vile, but she isn’t murdering dogs. I also agree with the commenters saying she’s an unreliable narrator. The movie feels like she’s in prison and writing the Wolf of Wall Street to gain more fame.
Edit: accidentally wrote murdering people instead of dogs
Looks like all your mentions of Scooby Doo might have jinxed us with the Welma show.
16:25 i personally find it a red flag if someone watches the live action remakes… as an animation enthusiast its like a slap in the face every time another live action remake is made. even dreamworks is doing it now with httyd and im so mad about it lmao
u guys know this isn't the same cruella from the classic movie , it's a reimagining of the character as an anti-hero in a different universe.
Can we PLEASE stop using "narcissistic" to describe characters that are full of themselves. You are actively contributing to the stigma around NPD which does not automatically make people willing to skin puppies for their own pleasure.
8:40 damn she went off 😭
THE CRUELLA MOVIE OOOOOOOOOOH i thought matty had beef with 101 dalmations for a hot sec XD
This is the best movie review I've seen of Cruella lol EVER
As soon as I clicked this video I thought "Well, here goes another movie I thought I liked." Yeah, videos like this make me feel kinda stupid because of how surface level I viewed this movie. Coming into this, I THOUGHT I had reasons to justify liking it. I'm left wondering why I enjoyed this movie. It's really humbling. Like, I really liked this video, but I just feel bad for myself now. :,)
4:37 "You know who else had a bad childhood?"
Yes, Adolf Hitler actually. Not even joking, he legit had a bad childhood.
I think we do get to see her genius in her designs as the show progresses, and even a little at the start. The way she alters her school uniform shows her passion for design. She may have said she's a genius, but I reckon the film does show it too. And as the show goes on she does work for what she wants, she does work hard to create fabulous designs to outshine the baroness. Maybe its very subjective taste, but I think the window display she made does look better. Sure it's made of trash, but it has style, uniqueness, and a wild background that supports a wild theme for the mannequins pose and modified dress. In the world of art, standing out and being seen is one of the main goals. The window display certainly did that, it attracted a crowd.
As for the bullying scenes, I think she was just bullied for being different with a bad temper. And yea it's not good but I doubt it was meant for us to sympathize with her. I believe the film was trying to showcase her defiant nature and how that made her both a target for bully and a brat that would punch back harder.
I also didn't even really notice that most of the bad guys were men, I just thought those few characters were incompetent at their jobs or have the rich person mentality. I interpreted the fashion store manager's behavior as looking down on the poor and an arrogant bully, not just "some trashy man because he's a man". Besides, Arty, Horace, Jasper and the baroness' right hand are all good men in the show, with their own set of morals and empathy. I personally don't see this as the gross "girl boss" movies that slap you in the face with a bunch of feminist messages and an entire ensemble of terrible men. I just took this movie as one that focuses on two design rivals trying to one up each other, both of which are narcissists and cutthroat.
I mean her name is literally Cruella “DEV IL”
I always said when this trailer came out that this movie should have been about how the author of the original 100 Dalmatians novel was inspired to write her book based on a story of this version of Curella (obviously with a different name).
This was a terrible movie.
My head cannon is that the movie is the story cruella tells to the judges when she gets arrested in the original movie, I like the idea that she’s an horribly unreliable narrator who made up all the tragic backstory and girlboss moments to draw attention and sympathy
2:33 “people” 😭
the timeline of this movie makes zero sense! the fashion feels very 1970s but the original movie takes place in the 1960s cause the 1970s hadn’t even happened. cruella in the original movie was at least in her 50s, maybe even her 60s, so why in the cruella movie is she in her 20s??? this makes no sense to me at all! disney definitely forgot the fact that for the timeline to make sense, this would have to take place in like the 1930s or even earlier just going off of cruellas implied age in the original movie. make it make sense!!
I really enjoyed this, and you're so right, why create plot holes and inconsistences in your own content?
Media depicting strong, empowered women really would benefit from the people around them being regular people and not idiots. Demonstrating that exceptionalism as exceptional, and not just slightly better than the poorly written, un-fleshed out dimwits.
Another good video essay, Matty.
You're wonderful.
The only Disney live action i will stand behinf is Cinderella 2015. And don't even get me on how angered about the new "snow white" uuudntdhgdgffbgd
What about the OG Mary Poppins and the OG 101 Dalmatina Live Action
@sailorsagittarius8526 eh didn't like them as a kid. Still don't care for v them now. However, the movies themselves were good at their time. When ppl say love action, Disney, they mean recent.
Also, Mary Poppins has animation in it. It wasn't an animation. Since you want to be super specific.
I love Cruella and hate the joker
3:39 and if they do it was secretly for the validation of a boy yep because accountability doesn’t exist in the feminist vocab
i said it this movie is literally joker(2019) for woman who also like to watch The Devil Wears Prada (2006) lmao
Ps: i saw Beverly hill chihuahuas as a kid so im extremely bias for all three movies becus luv, puppies, and staying up all night as a 9-year-old girl does that, i have nothing to say i just wanted to point out its mention.
I actually really liked it 👍
Matty: Everyone was bullied in grade school!
Me(the bully in grade school):👀👀
And your proud of that?
10/10 ragebait
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I like the 2021 movie she didn't want to hurt dogs in that movie so i like that i think she was friends with a dog in the movie too
Late to the party but they literally yassified her
My aunt and mom definitely staunch enjoyers of mediocre movies as long as they have a basic message of female empowerment. I am not like them and I recognize movies for the narrative qualities and structure. I am all for female empowerment (duh, I am female) but we all know that one quote from Knuckles the Echidna, so I take a hypercritical approach to appreciating womens' stories. I don't want to be patronized or tossed meager scraps, I want a real story that treats women as humans with flaws and realistic challenges, I also want them to face consequences for their actions.
You have to think about it Cruella was supposed to be a narcissist character and so did her mother and if you think about the time setting this was when still men were in the social hierarchy more powerful than women sure there were women who had some power but more men had power in the social hierarchy so that's why more male characters acted bossy and arrogant that was because they knew that they were on top and they just discriminated women and to be honest there are many movies that do the same trip where someone does a bad deed and gets rewarded for it so I really don't see any reason to be mad at the Corella movie for this because so many good movies do it and they become masterpieces sure there are some things wrong with the Cruella movie and you shouldn't sympathize with her that's not what the movie is truly about the movie that Cruella is about is understanding why a character is how they are no one really sad for us to sympathize with her the real truth playing the movie starts to understand her and how she became who she is sure they use it but that's not really the main point of the story but that's just my opinion
ironic how my openly narcissistic ex-friend got me to watch this movie, huh...
Cruella the movie:
Looking just at the figurine design n art directions stuff:(^ε^)-☆!!
everything else: (っ ̯ - )
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I don’t think it was good but I liked it because it was dumb fun for me atleast your a amazing movie reviewer
The whole thing was a mess. Does the filmmaker know anything about Cruella DeVille or 101 Dalmatians? Why make it a heist movie when you can make a Devil Wears Prada like movie? The lady’s a fashionista.
9:17 comment trope now a days that pisses me off
At least the dresses were nice. It has that and ari going for it, and there goes my list of nice things to say abou this movie