Cruella ISN'T Trash? | Explained 

"That's not true. That's impossible!"

@Cynthia Garcia puello Join me, together we can rule the fashion word, as mother, and daughter.

( x_x ) noooooo!

How did I miss that when she said in the plot twist?? Damn!!

She had the high ground in the end.

Talk about a total mood! 🖤🤍

@@trinaq Total mood indeed. This shall be my new life motto!

As long as you're not making art and trouble with a pallet from the local ASPCA, power to ya.

Words to live by

Doggos deserved it anyways.

Same I was shook with that scene it was perfection

It was the best.

That scene with the song in the background was so great

This scene had me gagged on the floor with a ransom sent out for more money than I'm worth.

RIGHTTT

wow this really gave me the tone & everything 😩😩😩 i love sokka

Thats rough buddy

@@privatehere3324 beat me to it

Cactus juice! It’s the quenchiest!

It strongly reminds me of "Music killed my grandma."

Wink was literally the mvp

I had a hard time liking him because of HOW MUCH THE PLOT RELIED ON HIM, but if I let go of that then yes, i agree

I love Wink,Patches and all the dogs in Cruella,too.Totally.

He was my boyfriend’s favorite character 😂

The rat scenes hahaha

I agree!

hell yes, I've been saying this the movie ended. Would been better as an original thing

Yeah honestly that’s what I was thinking! Like this is a terrible story for cruella as a character, but for someone else I think It would be just fine!

I probably wouldn't have seen it anyway because it just doesn't seem like my sort of thing anyway, but while watching this video, I couldn't help thinking that I would find this way more interesting if they just had the guts to make this an original film that wasn't about Cruella Devil.

That’s how I felt about the Joker movie as well tbh. (Though I’m not really a Batman person anyway so take that with a grain of salt lol)

Same

She used a red wig (the Baroness found it just before they tied Cruella up) I thought she had dyed it too until I saw that

I was thinking she died her hair when she was younger until she found wigs (because she wears a couple of them during the thieving montage) then just let her natural hair grow out 🤷🏼‍♀️

Lol same! I even said to my boyfriend as we watched the beginning, "there's no way in hell that would work."

She used wigs😀

THAT would have being awesome... but it wouldn't be Disney

Yeah don’t watch any Disney movie expecting that outcome. I loved the film!

I agree, I was looking forward to something like that as well. To be fair Cruella didn't seem mean towards Anita, like Anita was clearly a beautiful girl that Cruella knew well, I felt like they were dear friends when they talked, and I could understand why she was against Roger, because I felt that she saw the potential Anita had, and wanted her to live out her dream, and not be tied down by marriage. And tied down by marriage is what Anita is, she doesn't seem to have a job, and more towards being a house-wife, where it is Roger that plays music and persues what he wants to do. Not saying there is anything wrong in that, just that I could see where Cruella comes from, like a well-meaning friend who wanted the best for Anita. But also very uncareing for animal lives, which a lot of people are. The only thing Cruella did in the film that made her "cruel" was arrange a kidnapping, aka theft. Not murder of dogs. Which like the fashion industry, or real life market, happen on a wider scale as well. Would've liked a film to depict the morality in an interesting way, instead of just red-conning the "killing dogs" or using "animals" for clothing. I mean having it be more 3-dimensional, than just a "She was never actually evil, she never once did an 'evil' thing, so we're all good." I felt like the topic could've been explored, what entails a "bad person" how come some become "bad" or don't care about animal life. I mean everyone who eats meat also eat animals that were killed for that purpose, but I wouldn't consider them to be "evil", and is it only for food that it is morally acceptable to kill animals. Like it's a topic that sparks great debate, and felt it could've been explored interestingly. Not to offend anyone of course, this is purely my opinion.

Sooooo, the Baroness?

i feel like this is someone's passion project that wouldn't have been able to create it without it being a remake or revamp of one their established properties

Lol

Insinuating that the baroness has killed multiple people who she felt would be a threat to her success.

Same vibes as "Who. Are you?! -you killed my father... -Do you have the slightest idea how little that narrows it down ?"

@@LeoDBW literally the exact thing I thought of😂

seriously

I approve!

omg yesss

Seeing how good their "What If" series is, yeah they should do that

I agree, Cruella and Maleficent were excellent movies

Amanda I think there's a ton.

Maybe cats

But it's not fanfiction. It's an official Disney release written by Disney paid writers. It's more like Dragon Ball GT.

Precisely, even though absolutely NO ONE was wondering what made Cruella evil, you can deny that Emma was having an absolute blast with this role!

But why not create a movie about an amazing antihero designer without the Cruella "fanfiction" involved? It kinda distracted me because I kept remembering the cruelty of her future self towards dogs and animals in general

sweet home alabam- i mean london

Should've had 4 Dalmatians

Not surprising. Incest is common in dog breeding. Inbreeding allows breeders to wipe out variation and make a pure bred dog. It's why purebred dogs have so many health problems.

@@kaitokisser_ So Royal Family stuff huh?

THE INCEST TABOO ITS A HUMAN THING. DOGS NEVER HAD A PROBLEM WITH THAT. ITS NORMAL.

Context, pls??

@@blitva1 "We are the granddaughters of the witches you could not burn."

HE WAS BEST DRESSED! Winged eyeliner for days!!

My friend and I busted up laughing at that reveal scene. I loved Horace. 😂

The Baroness' character broken down to her bare essentials.

I love this phrase…I’m using it from now on 😂

I cracked up in my car alone waiting for my partner when I read this - I’m sure I looked nuts

Wait what? Gatekeep? Gaslit?

@@mattybrunolucaszeneresalas9072 english ain't my first language srry

And so does Joel Fry and Paul Walter Hauser.

Same I thought it was super fun and expected to hate it

It is! And I'm super down for that

Same

@China Life it’s 1970s London of course there’s punk rock it’s pretty obvious in the movie

Right? Its such a cool aesthetic

@China Life cool but I never said anything about new bands I just said that cruella takes place in the 1970 so of course there gonna be some punk rock

Search for punk on bandcamp and you won't be disappointed. There are tons of great local acts, you just gotta do the leg work to find them.

Oh thank goodness I'm not the only one seeing the Sia cosplay, especially on the child actress. 😆👍

oh I definitely see that too aha

@@DJtheBlack-RibbonedRose but is it Sia cosplay when Cruella came first? 🤔

Absolutely OBSESSED with this comment

@@HeidiWilde Ha ha good point, though in the cartoon it's much less blatant, more blended, whereas in the live-action the split hair color is much more noticeable, as is Sia's. 🤭🖤

:00 I like your analysis :0

Agreed, well put

Its like Luke, being offered the dark side and taking it instead of rejecting it. Cruella is Luke, the Baroness is Darth Vader.

@Elizabeth Impey how so?

@Elizabeth Impey why?

It took me a while to register that Roger and Anita were THE Roger and Anita

She's descended from the Darling family from Peter pan

@@Surreality22992 it took me till the MID- CREDIT scene to realize that too

Especially YA adaptions

It was like leverage the TV series

Finally someone who has the same thought as me. It is Devil Wears Prada meets Ocean's Eight!

Cruella movie is a mix of Joker, The Devil Wears Prada, The Favourite, Death Becomes Her, and Ocean's 8.

YES I thought the same thing with oceans 8!!

And if it took place in the late 2000s- early 2010s we could have had The Devil Wears Prada as a soundtrack

THIS !!! is such an interesting concept id love to see in a potential sequel

I was precisely thinking about this by the end of the film. Especially considering that in the animation, Cruella just rushes to the newly wed's house and searches for puppies shouting "where are they where are they?!" She'll just think she's in the right XD

I could see that but idk how Disney would do that. I think the scene at the fountain after she found out about the Baroness being her birth mother was a big key in the character.

No. Think of it this way, do you see Jasper going so far for her? Definitely not. Even if they did mess up the second movie (like they did with Maleficient 2), Cruella went from repressed to wild to balanced. That's her character arc, she learnt from her mistakes, if they suddenly make her evil it'll feel like a Daenerys twist and there's no way I'm accepting that bullshit as cannon. Besides come on she loves dogs.

Loving the idea and all butttt isnt it kinda implied by the fact they got a puppy from her at the same time that the puppies are from the same litter and therefore would be siblings so can't fall in love like in 101 dalmations??

i loved when cruella said that line in the movie

From what I’m seeing, most people think that it’s stupid in general and impossible to take seriously. But personally I’m glad that it’s not the actual reason for revenge or I would have to second guess all the people saying this movie is pretty good lmao

I thinks its because most people memeing that, only parrot other people on Twitter who only have read summaries and seen that one video of that one scene, without seeing the rest of the movie tho.

@@myownbravado yeah that reason is stupid, but they're acting like that is the reason in this movie when it isn't.

She didn’t even want revenge in the first place- she just was an entitled brat who thought she deserved everything she wanted, and she “lived for furs”- She legit did not hate Dalmatians- she just loved their coats

@@serperiorandtheanimator9216 I don't think you know what you're talking about

Reimagining works to a point then it just becomes deconstruction of a character which I think Disney is starting to borderline with that here where in maleficent she was still evil but she still had a bright spot in her heart but that gets old fast that's a problem with Disney with their live action movies a few work and are fun but others don't need to happen

SAME I was sure I would hate this movie but the acting of the 2 emmas was so good on the trailers I couldn't resist.

It really was GLORRRIOUS!

It was good, for what I can say most people who hate it haven't whatched it

It’s genuinely good. I was honestly more worried about the politics behind it. I would’ve hated it if it was all feminist pandering. AND THEN THE POSTER had the mfkn “A” of Anarchy. I went to see it ironically even, and absolutely fell in love. Great movie man. Haven’t felt this thrilled just watching a movie for like.... a good couple weeks tbh.... doesn’t sounds like a lot, but it sure feels like it

Just go into it with the thought that this is a completely new thing from the "main" universe of 101 Dalmatians where Cruella wants to kill puppies (because it technically is), makes the "Dalmatians killed my mother!" thing a lot easier to get by.

Where is this Dalmations killed her mom coming from? she literally never blames them

@@crazykillerchimera people who most likely didn't see the movie saw the spoiler about her mom being pushed off the cliff by the dogs and then just went with it

I agree, I really enjoyed it, and you could tell that Emma Stone had a blast the entire time! 🖤🤍

I think the besy way to enjoy this movie is pretending it's an original movie and ignore everything you know about Cruella in the original animation.

So then this would be a movie about a puppy killer which is everyone's main issue about this movie

@@misterminutes4504 I don’t understand that criticism at all. Some of the greatest movies of all time have very bad people as the main characters. In my opinion, the audience shouldn’t be rooting for Cruella by the end. But they went in the opposite direction.

@@misterminutes4504 I feel like dark humour could work. Make her seem less badass and more scary. Plenty of great movies have horrific leads.

@@naomisathyendra6973 You know, that's not a bad idea. And maybe her being scary and intimidating might scare the audience themselves too.

I KNOW!! I was so annoyed when they showed the dogs were alright, you make a movie about a puppy coat maker? You gotta go all the way

Granted, The Jungle Book still remains as one of the best and there's also good and decent live-action adaptations within Disney like Cinderella, Pete's Dragon, Beauty and the Beast, and Christopher Robin.

Sure, though the cgi Dalmatians look huge, more like spotted Great Danes....

they're very nasty dogs, tbh

SadButTrue but like... in this movie universe she doesn’t even kill the dogs, she says she’s okay with that rumor being spread after she wore a Dalmatian pattern dress to fuck with the baroness. She even keeps the dogs at the end of the movie, also why do you have to bring politics into this?

@@Reminiscent1990 Shut Up. What Does Politics Have To Do With This?

@@alexreith4877 my nwighbor has a dalmatian and is huge , like the ones in the movie

Then why call it Cruella?

@@SoWhosGae Exactly

Yeah, except, you know, the fashion, the half black, half white motifs, the Dalamatians, the name Cruella DeVil, the henchmen, the fact that she's into fashion, Anita and Roger existing and eventually getting Dalmatians named Perdita and Pongo. Aside from those teensy, tiny, infinitesimal things, this movie has absolutely nothing to do with previous iterations of Cruella DeVil and 101 Dalamtians.

@@47ratsinahoodie Cruella DeVil's defining characteristic is wanting to skin dalmatian puppies for a new coat. At least Maleficent actually cursed Aurora and wanted to hurt her at first. Cruella doesn't even care about the dogs in this one

@@akirasaito1551 As EP said, then why call it Cruella?

I ship her with Jasper XD. So did Emma Stone so-

Exactly

Yes, just like Cruella.

By friend you mean boy friend

@@googlesucks3163 Not sure how you got there, but no

@@RobertMischief the way we all got there lol It’s called the closet for you I think.

@@googlesucks3163 Coming From Someone Who's Gay, Maybe Don't Try Be Make Robert, Who's Most Likely Straight Sound Like He's Closeted

@@hailey-rosevintora6211 he’s gay to, calm down

We’re already stealing ideas for Halloween.

Or just love the villains. Cruella is one of the most iconic villains in Disney.

Yesss

Yes, and Shan Yu

But not like what they did to Jafar in the remake, that shit was embarrassing

There's a play from Jafar's perspective you might enjoy!

yessss i would love some exploration of their backstory and motivations

@Frodon't I was actually thinking of Twisted when I said it!

Well... with purebreds and the 60s... is it that surprising?

most peaple do that in real life

@Sharon Francis No they do not. Only backyard breeders do such horrible things.

Yeah. The trend of Disney villian origin stories is becoming as unoriginal as live action remakes are...

@@ambriaashley3383 ther were only two of them (if we count Maleficent)

But Then People Would Complain It's So Similar To Cruella

@@hailey-rosevintora6211 No... If it's a prequal there's no way it could be alike unless they literally made her do everything the same.

I concur, but I sort of got used to the British accent after a while, similar to "The Favourite!"

If you’re British then I can understand, but as an American that couldn’t really tell the difference, it never got bad for me.

@UCiKXbyxmi9dc310EGrIS-VQ I'm American and it sounded like a Prince Charles impression

Tbh I actually thought it was pretty decent. I mean yeah, if you know Emma Stone then you know it's fake and that could make it distracting but believe me, there's been *much* worse.

Emma's accent was self aware in cruella, but in favourite, everbody's accent were self aware cz of the time period(she blended right in) ✌️

Difference is that the Martha scene actually had meaning behind it beyond the same mother name that people are either refusing to see or are just burying it by memes.

@@bessieburnet9816 it was also really cringey

@@bessieburnet9816 don't defend the Martha scene because we all know it was cringy, lazy and bad

@@bessieburnet9816 it was not like do you call your mom by her first name

It was kind of a relief that the three Dalmations were okay, but at the same time, it would have been chillingly villanous

finally someone

Exactly. Maybe I'm heartless but I just don't care about the dogs that much. They're fake dogs.

Omg finally someone says it. Like why do people care more about animals (fake ones) over actual human beings? Like that really really concerning

Let's also not forget that in the comics, The Joker has skinned a man alive and then displayed him like a sideshow freak, not mention he blew up an orphanage with children still inside it

Yeah I've noticed this too. I follow the book side of twitter and so many on there love villains that are murderous maniacs but a woman who skins puppies was where they were drawing the line.

@@maldon3659 and his constant abuse of Harley

It wasn't a redemption arc or a sympathy backstory though. It was a completely new story starring Cruella in an alternate universe. Besides, is it really no different than any fairy tale retelling writers like to do these days?

@@bessieburnet9816 yeah this cruella was definitely different from the animated version. Or at the very least it's left ambiguous as to whether she'll grow to be more like her original counterpart

So even Once Upon A Time with its annoying habit of redeeming irredeemable villains knew better than this film.

@@Xehanort10 Yep.

I was always ok with it, but I see it as no different than any fairy tale retelling writers like to do these days.

@@bessieburnet9816 but 101 dalmatians is not based on a fairytale, it's based on a book.

@@bea4828 Same principle in the end

How do you think dog breeds are bred and kept "pure bred"? .. probably not from full sibling parents, okay, but they're ALL inbred.

A) Implied, so there’s enough wiggle room for that to not be the case. B) We don’t know if the original events of 101 Dalmations happen to any affect in this world. So for all we know those two dogs never meet.

Were there any actual hints that they were related?

@@rsfilmdiscussionchannel4168 in the video, at about 16:50 one of Cruella's dogs is pregnant, and then puppies Pongo and Perdita are sent to Roger and Anita respectively from Cruella. And as for B) well yeah, most likely a whole new story could come of this. 101 didn't follow the novel too back in the day.

I mean, they could easily pull a Lion King 2 "He's not even Scar's son!" if they actually do do another movie. I don't think they will tho. I think this is just a teaser for the movie fans, you know?

More like they wanted the actual character instead of a new character wearing the skin of a well established one.

Maybe that's why his own mother didn't come to his birth!

that's not a plot hole because they're different characters that are loosely connected. it's not a prequel.

@@lightishredgummi9654 yeah but, like, why? why make this at all then and not just a new, complex Disney character? most theories point to that it's surprisingly not because everything's being remade and they're being their usual money-hungry selves, but money-hungry in the sense that they want to keep the rights and this was how to do it. so it's not a good look and makes little sense to use an icon like Cruella if they were going to retcon everything anyway. if people liked it, that's fine, but it still feels weird with the direction they went with kind of like.. Joker but for Disney when it doesn't quite work that way for every villain or anti-hero to exist. Maleficent kind of worked but I don't think that formula can or should be applied everywhere.

@@washedblue because disney wants to bank on that nostalgia money

Only difference is Wicked was good.

Yes! More villianesses please! I will throw money at any movie like that. I dont even have to be on their side. Its just that the stories tend to me more creative because the writers have a challenge. I know Im more creative when I have more limitations/challenges. Freedom of money and options and time ironically puts you in a box

YAASSSS!! I legit actually CRIED with how happy this movie made me and Cruella’s character! I was super happy with it.

Yeah, that's not why people are complaining. Cruella didnt need this and nobody wanted this. They didnt give her character development because she ends up being s puppy killer in the end. This is a characger so divorced from the original, this might as well have been a different movie and her name might as well not have been cruella but just ella

@@BabyGirlTiny people complain about anything. They should just enjoy the movie, I rather have live actions that are original then live actions that are the same garbage as the original film.

@@carmenyeatts7601 i knoow! It was really good surprisingly

Making the proper live action Cruella a fake one in Maleficent Cruella De Vil Edition is really disrespectful IMO.

Same here. Lol

Even then it's the owners fault. 100%

Except they didn't, she doesn't kill dogs and actively likes the dogs that killed her mom by the end

she doesnt kill dogs in this movie

@@AmandaTheJedi Yes, and at the end, she gives the people from the Dalmations movies their puppies. . . . But then, if she isn't the Cruella from 101 Dalmations, is this really a villain origin story or a complete reboot? Might as well not have used 'Cruella' at all.

Seconded, Amanda with half black, half white hair would be incredible! 🤍🖤😍

that would involve dye touching my hair which won't happen till I start going white

@@AmandaTheJedi hear me out: wigs

@@Sabrina-sc1db wigs are expensive lol

@@AmandaTheJedi Fuck everything. I'm doing this when I get old. I don't care. I will absolutely rock the Cruella hair.

I hope you went into the movie with an open mind. Don’t think about the original movies.

@@ashleylane1xo It’s kind of impossible NOT to think about the original movies. Making a movie explicitly as a remake or a reimagining of a well-known character invites comparison all on its own. The only exception is if someone has never seen the original Sleeping Beauty or 101 Dalmatians. My main issue is that Disney is using rather unsympathetic characters and forcing trite backstories onto them rather than creating fresh new characters without any baggage. If their main goal is to create a narrative around a sympathetic and/or aspirational female character, the classic Disney canon offers very few candidates in regard to villains, and those candidates all require extensive retooling that just creates dissonance with the original characterization. It’s best to just create a new character if you are not going to even bother writing a character consistent with the original. And the sad truth is, the only reason why Cruella exists because Disney wanted to have their own Joker character. Why they didn’t pick a better liked character like Ursula or Yzma I have no idea, probably because you can’t jam in classic pop songs with those characters, which seems to be a main tactic these days into tricking people into thinking they actually like a movie. I really did try to watch these movies with an open mind. I actually liked some elements of the first Maleficent. Being a long-time comics fan, I’m used To characters being retooled all the time. The difference is that said retooling usually keeps the core of a character consistent with what came before. These movies do not do that; they are cash-grabs using recognizable characters that are so heavily rewritten that if you gave them a different name they would be an entirely new character.

Based

the typewritten news-headers were so hard to read on a big screen imo, it made my head spin.

I'm all for that actually. I like seeing villains reinvented every so often.

Completely makes her not a villain anymore.

@@novaangle2183 I cant tell if this is sarcasm or not???