Ever After: A Cinderella Story | MOVIE REACTION!! (PATREON REQUEST)
Added 2021-11-30 04:38:49 +0000 UTCMy movie reaction to Ever After: A Cinderella Story
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Yes... Ever After is absolutely a fantastic choice after The Man in the Iron Mask! I haven't heard anyone compare the newest trainwreck of a Cinderella movie to Ever After, and I've never seen the movie myself because I have no desire to watch. But I can't imagine that one being anywhere near as incredible as this version of Cinderalla. There's no comparison in the slightest. Ever After will forever be the best version of thsi beautiful story by far!!! If there is any one version of Cinderella that might come close... I do also really love the 2015 live action version with Lily James and Richard Madden as well. It's artisically beautiful. And I also love the original Disney animated movie of course too. And yes... I love that we do so a bit of a softer side to the Baroness as well, and we do see that she did to some degree, love Danielle's father. Sadly, it just wasn't enough at all for Rodmilla to show kindness to the stepdaughter she would never love, but hate simply because Danielle took away all of her father's love. Heidi
Heidi Elizabeth Marcum
2021-11-30 17:46:10 +0000 UTCOf course! After The Man in the Iron Mask, he just had to watch this one. I agree with pretty much everything you said. I also like how they made the stepmother evil but not pure evil. She does have a softer side that we see a bit of right when the father died and again when she was reminiscing about him with Danielle by the fireplace. She's also not constantly serious with her meanness. She's funny as well. I couldn't believe some people are actually comparing that Camilla Cabello Cinderella trainwreck to THIS. Smh.
Olivia
2021-11-30 17:40:04 +0000 UTCEver After: A Cinderella Story- I'm so happy that I could watch this movie again with you as you watch it for the first time. Thank you again, so much for another fantastic movie reaction, Mangual!!! I am happy you enjoyed this movie so much! I absolutely love, love, love this movie!!! This role for Drew Barrymore is by far her best role she has ever played. I love her as Danielle, because she's strong and fierce, and her chemistry with Dougray Scott (Prince Henry) is so beautiful. I love him in this movie too, so much. I also love Jacqueline... the good stepsister, Leonardo Da Vinci, the King and Queen, Gustave, the three other servants in the household, and of course... I love Angelica Huston as the Evil Stepmother. She's so evil and horrible, but I love to hate her. Angelica plays Baroness Rodmilla de Ghent marvelously. The music is absolutely so beautiful for this movie too, as are the story, the dialogue, the costumes, and all of the sets and scenery. This movie is beautiful all throughout. In my eyes, there are no flaws. Also... I love that this story isn't the traditional Cinderella story we've seen and read so many times. But that it feels so real and believable too. In regards to this movie in comparison to the original Cinderella fairytale... Cinderella was originally written by the Brothers Grimm... who were the two gentlemen established in this movie to be the writers who come to speak with the Queen about their story of the "little Cinder girl" as the Queen calls her. As you might imagine, the original fairytale by the Brothers Grimm is quite different from the story in this movie, as are the Disney movie of Cinderella, and all other Cinderella stories. The settings are roundabout the same in them all, with the exception of the few movies where their Cinderella story is set in modern times. And the stories are all similar, but also very, very different. Ever After in particular, and it's so beautiful! Ever After is a beautiful period piece set within the Renaissance period, when Leonardo Da Vinci was alive and famous throughout all of France. And this movie is also written and directed to allow us to feel as though this movie could be based on a true story. Sadly, it isn't, but I feel that it could be. Especially in regards to how they have the Queen talk with the Brothers Grimm who wrote Cinderella. Which is exactly what the creators wanted for the audience to feel. Also... the character, Pierre Le Pieu... the scum who buys Danielle from the Baroness upon her selling her to him, is a character not in any other version of Cinderella, He was an original character created just for this movie. This overall storyline between Danielle and him is only in this movie. As for the rest of this movie's story... while the basic storyline of a lonely servant girl with an evil stepmother and two stepsisters, meeting her Prince at a ball, and then they fall in love is all taken from the original story of Cinderella, from the Disney movies, and from all other Cinderella story movies, Ever After is a completely different take on the overall storyline, making it completely its own, which I absolutely love and appreciate about this beautiful movie. Also... in the rest of the Cinderella stories, Cinderella has two stepsisters who are both rotten and treat her just like Rodmilla and Marguerite are. However, this is the first time that one stepsister is made to be kind and good to Cinderella, as Jacqueline is good and kind to Danielle and the others. I do believe that in two sequels made from the animated Disney movie of Cinderella... that one of the stepsisters is made to become good in time as well, but I believe those movies came out after Ever After did, so this is the first time one of the stepsisters is actually a loved character too, and I do love Jacqueline throughout this movie very much. Like I said above... I love Danielle and Henry together. Drew Barrymore and Dougray Scott are phenomenal throughout this beautiful movie! And I love how this movie both begins and ends with the Brothers Grimm and Danielle's great great great granddaughter, the present day Queen telling the true story behind Cinderella. I wish this movie was based on a true story, but even though it isn't, this story makes it feel like it could have been. I love this about Ever After, and because it's so different from any other version of Cinderella we've ever had before. My favorite scenes... I love the fight scene between Henry, Danielle, and the gypsies in the woods, especially when Danielle carries Henry off across her shoulders to save him after the gypsies' leader tells her she can take whatever she can carry, and then all of the gypsies all burst out laughing. So hilarious. Also... I love the moment between Jacqueline and Henry's Captain at the ball upon seeing them both dressed as horses and hearing them make horse noises upon meeting and becoming drawn to one another at the buffet table. Most of all... I absolutely love Henry's proposal to Danielle in the end once Danielle saves herself from Pierre Le Pieu. This moment Danielle and Henry is so beautiful and romantic. And it even makes me cry. I love it so much! And in the end... I love seeing Jacqueline stick up for herself to her mother as she tells her she is only there for the food. So fabulous! And lastly... seeing the Baroness and Marguerite get what they deserve in the end after Danielle saves their lives before seeing them becoming servants as Danielle was, is absolutely satisfying. Not only are they stripped from their titles and are made servants, but they are absolutely humiliated in front of the entire kingdom and its rulers. Poetic justice for sure. Sadly... having servants who waited on you, especially if they were Royals and all who were wealthy, was the way of the world then. It didn't make it right, but it was how everyone in the world lived at the time. So for the King and Queen to free all of their servants and set them free, it wouldn't have been realistic or very plausible for this movie. But at least we do learn that Henry had asked his father to set the slaves who had been bound to the Americas early on in this movie free, which makes me love Henry all the more. Marvelous! :) Thank you so much once again!!!! I am so happy you enjoyed this movie. Ever After is one of my all time favorite movies. Just so, so beautiful, and beautifully acted. If you're ever interested in watching another Cinderella movie that is closer to the original story, then I would highly recommend you watch the live action version of Cinderella from 2015 starring Lily James, Richard Madden, and Cate Blanchett. Another beautiful movie, and a lot of fun too. And thank you too, Olivia! For choosing this movie for Mangual to watch!! I was gonna request this movie for him soon myself, but you beat me to it! But thank you all the same!! :) As always... I enjoy your reactions very much, Mangual. You're just so enjoyable to watch and to listen to. I love your commentaries. I can't wait for many more movie reactions. Until then, dear friend... Stay healthy, and be happy! :) Sincerely, Heidi
Heidi Elizabeth Marcum
2021-11-30 15:35:42 +0000 UTCBest version of Cinderella I've ever seen. It's funny, it's smart, it's well-written. The chemistry between the leads was amazing, the setting and dialogue was beautiful. So glad you enjoyed it. Thanks for the reaction!
Olivia
2021-11-30 06:17:41 +0000 UTC
