Part of a long running and popular series is my "Real World Sequel" for well known Disney movies. Below is the third installment.
3. Cinderella
<u>Summary of Original Movie</u>
When Cinderella was young, her mother died and her rich father remarried a woman who already had two girls of her own. Shortly after getting married, I guess, her father died and the step mother treated her own two daughters much better than Cinderella. In fact, they all treated Cinderella terribly and made her their slave. I am not sure if her father died or not but I would assume so because the old lady and her daughters were really bad to Cinderella.
Anyway, Cinderella had to do all the chores and didn?t get to go to the good parties and stuff. One day the guys who took care of the local Prince really wanted to find him a wife. They threw a huge ball for all the young eligible ladies to attend so that the prince could meet someone and get married. Of course Cinderella was not allowed to go because she had to clean the bathrooms in the East Wing and then mop the attic ceiling and she was pretty upset. Her fairy Godmother appeared and turned some animals and vegetables into people and automobiles and away to the ball went Cindy.
At the ball the Prince hung out with Cinderella and ignored the other ladies. They spent all night talking but Cindy had to leave to be home by midnight, a deadline established by the Godmother.
The Prince?s handlers saw how happy he was with Cinderella so they set out to find her. Using a shoe the lovely young housemaid left behind, they went door to door looking for a foot to fit the shoe.
<u>Ending of Original Movie</u>
Miraculously there was only one person in the entire town who had what is probably the most common shoe size on the planet. Guess who that was? Yup, Cinderella. The Prince and Cinderella get married and live happily ever after.
<u>Real World Sequel</u>
There are two interesting sub-plots to the sequel. The first is that while Cinderella was busy cleaning the dining room floor with her tongue, the resentment was building inside her. When we thought she was talking to mice and birds, she was talking to herself, plotting her revenge. There was NO freakin WAY she was going to let her stepmother and the brats get away with how they treated her for so many years. Now that she was rich and had the Prince to back her, it was payback time.
3. Cinderella
<u>Summary of Original Movie</u>
When Cinderella was young, her mother died and her rich father remarried a woman who already had two girls of her own. Shortly after getting married, I guess, her father died and the step mother treated her own two daughters much better than Cinderella. In fact, they all treated Cinderella terribly and made her their slave. I am not sure if her father died or not but I would assume so because the old lady and her daughters were really bad to Cinderella.
Anyway, Cinderella had to do all the chores and didn?t get to go to the good parties and stuff. One day the guys who took care of the local Prince really wanted to find him a wife. They threw a huge ball for all the young eligible ladies to attend so that the prince could meet someone and get married. Of course Cinderella was not allowed to go because she had to clean the bathrooms in the East Wing and then mop the attic ceiling and she was pretty upset. Her fairy Godmother appeared and turned some animals and vegetables into people and automobiles and away to the ball went Cindy.
At the ball the Prince hung out with Cinderella and ignored the other ladies. They spent all night talking but Cindy had to leave to be home by midnight, a deadline established by the Godmother.
The Prince?s handlers saw how happy he was with Cinderella so they set out to find her. Using a shoe the lovely young housemaid left behind, they went door to door looking for a foot to fit the shoe.
<u>Ending of Original Movie</u>
Miraculously there was only one person in the entire town who had what is probably the most common shoe size on the planet. Guess who that was? Yup, Cinderella. The Prince and Cinderella get married and live happily ever after.
<u>Real World Sequel</u>
There are two interesting sub-plots to the sequel. The first is that while Cinderella was busy cleaning the dining room floor with her tongue, the resentment was building inside her. When we thought she was talking to mice and birds, she was talking to herself, plotting her revenge. There was NO freakin WAY she was going to let her stepmother and the brats get away with how they treated her for so many years. Now that she was rich and had the Prince to back her, it was payback time.
But like many things, the pain she felt while being a slave dissipated with time. Like being slapped, the sting goes away, and distance can wash away a lot of bad feelings. After she went from living like a slave to living like a princess, her animosity was not nearly as strong as it was when she was being denied simple things like access to the family hot tub. She even started to feel empathy toward the three bee-atches who treated her like that. After all, Cinderella knew she was a good person deep down inside, but you cannot fault others for not having the same humanity. Her solace was in knowing that the stepmother was a miserable and crabby old crank who was stuck with two idiot daughters who couldn?t find an ounce of grace if their lives depended on it.
Meanwhile, the stepmother and the two stepsisters tried to use Cinderella?s new position in the community for their betterment. They kept calling and tried to become best friends with the new young bride. Cinderella decided that her revenge would be to completely ignore the three women and treat them like Fredo ? they were dead to her. Being completely ignored by Cinderella was more of a living hell than any physical payback would ever have brought.
The second sub-plot to this sequel is about Prince Charming. One thing that viewers probably didn?t notice during the ball scenes in C1 was that the Prince was into Cinderella because he loved her beautiful blond hair, her lovely evening gown, she had gorgeous blue eyes and he especially loved her shoes. Yep, Prince Charming was gay. The reason he made such a fuss over the shoe Cinderella left behind was not because he was interested in the owner of the shoe, but because it was a Manolo Blahnik. They go for 500 bucks a pair. And the reason the king couldn?t find a wife for the Prince was not because he was picky, but because he wasn?t into women.
So the Prince went through the wedding because he knew that back then there was no way around it. He had to. If he came home to his father and his father?s friends and said he wanted to marry a man, it would have gone over like a fart in church. This was middle-age Europe, not Massachusetts. So Prince Charming went through the ceremony and reception with Cinderella while his ?friends? silently fumed in the shadows.
Cinderella knew something was wrong on their honeymoon. The Prince never touched her. She thought they would spend the entire honeymoon locked up in the cabana but they spent it shopping and getting facials. After 6 months of nothing even coming close to intimacy, Cinderella and the Prince talked.
The movie ends with the two having a long heart-to-heart. The Prince comes clean and admits that he is gay and apologizes to Cinderella about putting her through all of this. She is so grateful to be out of the horror show with her stepfamily that she doesn?t care. They agree to live together as friends, like Will and Grace, and see what happens.
I see a TV series following.
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