The movie consistently shows the audience Cinderella’s own generosity and patience, even in the face of her stepmother’s vitriol, and it’s an effective way to get the audience rooting for Cinderella. Still, in this movie, her sole reason to go to the ball is to have a nice night out and perhaps meet a handsome prince, but it’s hard to condemn her for that when all she knows of life is an attic, demands, and a lack of love.ĭreaming of a better life-or at the very least, a night out-is a sign of her resilience. The animated tale is far less nuanced than later adaptations, but nonetheless, it depicts her as someone who finds strength in her own kindness and resolve. Yet “through it all, she remained ever gentle and kind.” Disney’s princess culture receives all kinds of criticism-plenty of it valid-but one thing it excels at is its compassion for their heroines. Though Disney’s final version of the film is far less exciting, it still offers glimmers of the woman described by Rapf, and a good introduction for what Cinderella faces and her potential.Īs the narrator explains at the beginning of the movie, Cinderella lives a “tormented and abused” life at the hands of her stepmother and sisters.
I don’t think anyone took (my idea) very seriously.” She revolts, so they lock her up in the attic. So I had a scene where they’re ordering her around and she throws the stuff back at them. “So in my version, the Fairy Godmother said, ‘It’s okay till midnight but from then on it’s up to you.’ I made her earn it, and what she had to do to achieve it was to rebel against her stepmother and stepsisters, to stop being a slave in her own home.
You’ve got to earn it,” he’s quoted as saying in David Koenig’s 1997 book Mouse Under Glass: Secrets of Disney Animation & Theme Parks. “My thinking was you can’t have somebody who comes in and changes everything for you. Screenwriter Maurice Rapf, whose work on the movie went uncredited, discussed his version of Cinderella as more rebellious.
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