Both Cinderella’s mother and her stepmother were devoted to their children. Both of them had the same goal of getting their daughter married to the prince and both of them were willing to go to any extreme to reach their goal (Panttaja, 2008, par.2). Both Cinderella’s mother and her stepmother were in a way at war and both were willing to do whatever it took to win. Both wanted the status and wealth for their daughter. Cinderella’s mother had a secret weapon, her magic, which she used to make sure that Cinderella was successful in marrying the prince.
They compete against other contestants for an award of money, pageant titles, trophies, and a big sparkly tiara. However I don't approve of the parents position to put their child through this, and how they treat their daughters throughout the competition. Not only are they exploiting their five-year-olds for their own personal gain, they are putting their child through so much misery to look beautiful. They live through their daughters fame and glory, and make their daughters look very high maintenance. The Toddlers and Tiara girls go through hours of make-up, to different hairstyles, and wearing big fake wigs.
For my movie analysis paper I chose to watch and analyze the movie “Cinderella.” This is a Disney movie released in 1950 about a young, poor girl who is treated harshly by her step mother and step sisters. Later in the movie, the kingdom is invited to a royal ball. Cinderella attends, dressed in a beautiful gown and glass slippers. She leaves, loses a slipper, and this sends the prince looking for his soul mate who lost the slipper. Eventually, the poor girl and the prince are reunited and get married (IMBD website).
In Perrault’s version of the fairy tale, Cinderella is the protagonist. She is a beautiful, hard-working girl who is mistreated by her stepsisters and stepmother “who employ[ed] her in the meanest work of the house” (Perrault). Cinderella’s hard work is not her choice, but only because her family forces her to do all of the housework. However, Cinderella has a godmother that is a fairy. Cinderella’s godmother gives Cinderella everything she needs to attend the ball by striking certain things with her wand.
The dwarfs are the comic relief and the Prince and Snow White propel the story forward. This two layered style is more common in animation films today. It allows for adults and children both to enjoy the production. The classic storyline in this film was taken from Grimm’s fairy tales and contains all the elements of a good vs. evil storyline. The evil Queen becomes jealous of her stepchild, Snow White, and finds out from her magic mirror that this exiled little girl has grown up to be a rival to her beauty.
Fairy-tale Practice Essay Which characters confirm/challenge stereotypical fairy-tale roles? Film- “Ever after – A Cinderella Story, Directed by Andy Tennant Characters- Danielle (Cinderella), Prince Henry (Prince Charming) and Marguerite (“Ugly” Stepsister) Stereotypes * Danielle: Dainty, beautiful, happy, waiting to be rescued * Prince Henry: Charming, strong, brave, wanting to take the crown, rich * Marguerite: ugly, cruel, rich The Film, Ever After- A Cinderella Story, directed by Andy Tennant, suggests that this is just one version of the iconic tale. Contemporary audiences experience a subverted version of events by “twisting” the physical and personality traits of key characters, modern audiences can relate to and fain a finer appreciation of the messages imparted of this fractured tale. Audiences expect the key character of Danielle, Prince Henry and marguerite to adhere to their conventional stereotypes; however, Tennant choose to the construct them in a distorted manner, thereby challenging audience expectations. Audiences traditionally perceive Cinderella as obedient, compliant and typically feminine.
Trying to keep up with the world’s ever-changing standards of beauty is exhausting and can be quite devastating to a young women’s self-esteem. Social expectations are sustained by a false sense of reality and place an unfair burden on innocent girls at a young age. Even before a girl child is born, parents decide to dress her in all pink. Young girls are covertly programed at a young age to conform to society’s beliefs on gender roles and responsibilities. As referenced in the first stanza of this poem: “This girl child was born as usual/ and presented dolls that did pee-pee/ and miniature GE stoves and irons/ and wee lipsticks the color of cherry candy” (Piercy, 2012,p.
These will include the evil step mother and Cinderella from Cinderella, Cruella De Vil from 101 Dalmatians, Mulan, Snow White and the evil step mother from Snow White. Presenter: Traditional Disney films will portray female characters one of two roles. She will either portray the pure and innocent damsel/princess, who is domesticated and in distress and in need of rescuing by her ‘prince’. This is a clear motif within all ‘princess’ Disney films, including Cinderella and Snow White. The other role that females take is the evil, jealous, vindictive woman who wants revenge, evident with Cruella De Vil and the ‘evil step mothers’ which are shown in many of the Disney films.
She is treated unfairly and is given the job of maid after the re-marriage of the father. Through the help of her fairy godmother, she goes to a royal ball where she meets her happy ever after husband, the prince. This picture however is comically, sarcastically and somewhat darkly flipped on its head by Anne Saxton. She introduces the reader to her poem with a bit of everyday life when the narrator talks about the milkman, the cleaner, the nursemaid and the plumber. These have all gone from zero to opulence in four seconds.
Black swan is a psychological drama that surrounds itself around the main ballerina, Nina, who is struggling by descending into the crazy world of ballet and the competitiveness that it brings. She has completely given her life to it and her mother did the same when she was her age. Nina played by Natalie Portman is very keen to learn both roles of the white and the black swan in order to win the lead for their upcoming production of “Swan Lake”. To please herself and her director she pushes herself to leave the “good girl” side and pursue something that she is not, because she fits in with the white swan completely. She has to take on the dark role of the black swan fully to make it look believable on stage.