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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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?
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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.
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 🤷
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?!?!!!!!!
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.
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 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.
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 😊
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
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
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.
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. :,)
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
@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 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
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.
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
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
This movie came out at a time in my life where I was first starting to understand my own identity, and ngl I really liked it (despite its inconsistency and lack of respect for the original). I think all the outfits in the movie are quite cool and they gave me inspiration. Yeah now I can see how mid it is, but I think it was a necessary movie for me to see, as strange as that is
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.
first of all, it give ppl skinning baby and young animals for profit IN REAL LIFE and sec i liked this film cruella......so say first in this vid thats only you own opinion
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.
SHUT UPPPPPPPPP. NO ONE ASKEDDDDDDDD. AUGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH i love cruella. idc it was fun, can things just be fun?? its a cool movie. SHUSH/hj
Maybe this is a nitpick but I just hate the movie simply for messing up the timeline of the original. I love the original is genuinely so early 60s because that's when it came out and she's an old lady in it so it annoys me so much to see young Cruella in the fake 60s.
I actually think she’s SUPPOSED to be a narcissist/unreliable narrator.
100% agree. That was how I interpreted it too. She's a bad person trying to win the audience's sympathy.
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 😅
500th liek
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
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.
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
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!
How the hell did Disney make the perfect Webtoons protagonist?
Idk🤷♀️🤣
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.
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
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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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.
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.
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
4:39 I almost thought you were going to use the Austrian painter as an example of someone who had a bad childhood.
Same
You actually brought up a lot of points I never thought about. Great video!
This movie shoulda been a horror movie about a sadistic narcissist and then getting karma for it the way Scarface did
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.
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.
Huh, women, am I right?🎉
Nooo that’s not…
😂😂😂
Cruella is a narcissist and i thought the movie narrator was basically gaslighting the audience by making Cruella a tragic heroine
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.
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??
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
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?
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
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
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
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
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 😎
@@Thelastunicornlover ye
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.
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.
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 🤷
@@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.
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?!?!!!!!!
i liked the move but if you hate it that's cool
Same
The video editing is masterful, and that narrator girl is so gorgeous and intelligent.
Cruella is supposed to be a villain. She isn't supposed to be relatable. Rather a narcissistic unreliable narrator...I still love her though.
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.
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 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.
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 😊
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
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
Great video! I liked the part where
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
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 CRUELLA MOVIE OOOOOOOOOOH i thought matty had beef with 101 dalmations for a hot sec XD
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. :,)
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
4:22 Baby Genius in the background! I haven't seen that movie since I was in 1st grade!
This is the best movie review I've seen of Cruella lol EVER
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 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
Finally someone who also hates this movie
Watched cruella on an 18 hour airplane flight, and I LITERALLY remember nothing
I mean her name is literally Cruella “DEV IL”
Ngl I really enjoyed the movie
Matty: Everyone was bullied in grade school!
Me(the bully in grade school):👀👀
And your proud of that?
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.
I love Cruella and hate the joker
Late to the party but they literally yassified her
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
8:40 damn she went off 😭
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
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.
ironic how my openly narcissistic ex-friend got me to watch this movie, huh...
10/10 ragebait
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I actually really liked it 👍
2:33 “people” 😭
Cruella the movie:
Looking just at the figurine design n art directions stuff:(^ε^)-☆!!
everything else: (っ ̯ - )
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.
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
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
I don’t think it was good but I liked it because it was dumb fun for me atleast your a amazing movie reviewer
personally i love this movie as a standalone, but as a prequel it is horrible
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
This movie came out at a time in my life where I was first starting to understand my own identity, and ngl I really liked it (despite its inconsistency and lack of respect for the original). I think all the outfits in the movie are quite cool and they gave me inspiration. Yeah now I can see how mid it is, but I think it was a necessary movie for me to see, as strange as that is
YEAH This movie is SO BAD... Great video!
9:17 comment trope now a days that pisses me off
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.
first of all, it give ppl skinning baby and young animals for profit IN REAL LIFE and sec i liked this film cruella......so say first in this vid thats only you own opinion
18:32 isn't this... the plot of that one Barbie movie?
A forced me to watch that in first grade; I hated it
Comment for the algorithm, since this is a good video
1:50 90% of todays media
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.
SHUT UPPPPPPPPP. NO ONE ASKEDDDDDDDD. AUGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH i love cruella. idc it was fun, can things just be fun?? its a cool movie. SHUSH/hj
Maybe this is a nitpick but I just hate the movie simply for messing up the timeline of the original. I love the original is genuinely so early 60s because that's when it came out and she's an old lady in it so it annoys me so much to see young Cruella in the fake 60s.
welp i loved the movie and her and hated the joker movie
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