Fairy tales seem to be plenty a la mode lately form witches to princesses to handsome princes, movie makers are happy to rehash the old fables and tell the tales that touch our moral fibres.
This may very well be in response to a wave of mass consciousness which has awakened recently in view of world events.
Although the cast generally (apart form the fabulous presence of Cate Blanchet as the step mom and the fairy godmother) isn't well known or highly regarded publically yet in terms of acting abilities, the film flows quite smoothly-slightly slowly at times, perhaps aimed at younger audiences for comprehension- and relatively subtly in its story telling ability.
I must admit that to me some scenes seemed overly clarified and not too complex in how they portrayed the characters and the story line ie not leaving much to the imagination and spelling it out for us almost too clearly but it is a Disney film after all and unlike Into the Woods this movie doesn't claim to be a multi layered dark fantasy style film at all. It's all in the light very lightly projected with even the ' baddies' seeming not so bad and with even the step mother played by CB who albeit being harsh and cruel also still has a past justifying her bad behaviour her a little bit and giving her moments of regret in her facial expressions if not her words to Cinders.
In my view the strongest aspects of the film lay not so much in the acting or story line or script as those are difficult to remake in an original fashion in fairytale, but what was very entertaining was the magical element portrayed by the fairy godmother (superb acting to the level we are used to as she did in Harry Potter for example) and projected in the colourful scenes where magic takes place through transformation, light explosions and happy coincidences.
The special effects and graphics in these scenes, for instance the portrayal of the footman, the pumpkin, the frogs being transformed etc were delightful to I believe all age groups.
Beautiful costumes and sets complete the magical element in the film and of course with Good showing kindness and courage and overcoming Evil in the end -as in all fables- thus emulating real life to a point but also giving pointers so to speak as to how Good may overcome.
This may very well be in response to a wave of mass consciousness which has awakened recently in view of world events.
But no matter what the reason, demand seems to be big for the old fables to be remade and Disney has done so quite successfully again with the latest released Cinderella.
Although the cast generally (apart form the fabulous presence of Cate Blanchet as the step mom and the fairy godmother) isn't well known or highly regarded publically yet in terms of acting abilities, the film flows quite smoothly-slightly slowly at times, perhaps aimed at younger audiences for comprehension- and relatively subtly in its story telling ability.
I must admit that to me some scenes seemed overly clarified and not too complex in how they portrayed the characters and the story line ie not leaving much to the imagination and spelling it out for us almost too clearly but it is a Disney film after all and unlike Into the Woods this movie doesn't claim to be a multi layered dark fantasy style film at all. It's all in the light very lightly projected with even the ' baddies' seeming not so bad and with even the step mother played by CB who albeit being harsh and cruel also still has a past justifying her bad behaviour her a little bit and giving her moments of regret in her facial expressions if not her words to Cinders.
In my view the strongest aspects of the film lay not so much in the acting or story line or script as those are difficult to remake in an original fashion in fairytale, but what was very entertaining was the magical element portrayed by the fairy godmother (superb acting to the level we are used to as she did in Harry Potter for example) and projected in the colourful scenes where magic takes place through transformation, light explosions and happy coincidences.
The special effects and graphics in these scenes, for instance the portrayal of the footman, the pumpkin, the frogs being transformed etc were delightful to I believe all age groups.
Beautiful costumes and sets complete the magical element in the film and of course with Good showing kindness and courage and overcoming Evil in the end -as in all fables- thus emulating real life to a point but also giving pointers so to speak as to how Good may overcome.
From ashes to aces, Cinderella shows that with great patience, kindness, forgiveness and courage, she fulfils her destiny as it should be.
If you watch it, look out for the mice, they may be terrible in real life but somehow very cute in Film, and that is the magic of movie making able to transform anything into anything.
Make believe and believe then make that's the Movies!
Make believe and believe then make that's the Movies!
You shall go to the ball!
No comments:
Post a Comment