And towards the end, as Cinderella is meeting the prince when she was getting ready to try the shoe on, she introduced herself as, “I am Cinderella” instead of “I am Ella”, which is a moment that we love. Throughout the story, we see that Cinderella got that name as a joke because her stepsisters saw her with ash on her face, thus calling her Cinder-Ella.
We also love when the fairy godmother said, “The greatest risk that any of us will take-to be seen for who we truly are”. The enchantment, the getting to know each other, the falling in love, and seeing her friend, Kit, it was much more believable and magical. It was also fun seeing more of the ball and the experience of what they see in each other. Some of the politics going on behind in the movie were cleverly put, because in the Disney animated movie, all we see in the ball was Cinderella goes, she dances, the stepmother trying to figure out who she is. This is definitely one of the reasons why we love how this version portrayed Cinderella.
It was so neat the way they showed that even though Cinderella had given up, she can still be kind. We even saw a moment when Cinderella struggled with that a little bit when she said, “I don’t have any more courage,” which was refreshingly realistic because it was also the moment when she met the fairy godmother.
Moreover, one of the similarities of this version with the original tale was when her mother was dying, Cinderella was told, to be “be pious and good and God will always take care of you.” In this movie, however, they put it as, “have courage, be kind”, which seemed to be the central theme of the whole movie, as it was heard repeatedly through the entire movie. This version also didn’t have the gory details of cutting of the toes and cutting of the heels that the sisters try to do, in order to fit into the shoe, which Into the Woods had, but that was because Into the Woods was more raw when it comes to the story than this version of Cinderella.
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