That’s very deceptive if you think about it. Basically that means you have to create some glamorous facade until your real toxic self slowly starts to creep in .
Greetings. I still can relate to Cinderella. It's just life for some of us. While others later find out that they were themselves the "Wicked" step mother in your life. I love this version of Cinderella and the old cartoon disney version.
Bernadette played the yaaassified version of the evil stepmother just in her dramatics alone and I'm HERE FOR IT 😂😂😂 Bernardette's hand over her head as she pretends to pass out while singing is sending me!!!
I have seen and read many different versions of the Cinderella story and I have to say that this version of the stepmother is probably one of the most complex. If you pay close attention, there are many subtle hints as to why she treats Cinderella the way she does. Every time I watch this movie, I can't help but notice that whenever they bring up the subject of Cinderella's father, you can tell that it hits a very noticeable nerve in the stepmother. So, it's quite obvious that Cinderella's father is a very tense subject for the stepmother. I think that they all were a real family at some point but something happened between the stepmother and Cinderella's father that caused her to become bitter and emotionally distant. I think the stepsisters are also interesting characters as well. I think they did or at least want to embrace and accept Cinderella as a sister if it wasn't for their mother's domineering influence over all of them. I'm studying psychology, so I couldn't help but notice these things.
i think the song is about her first husband, the one whom she had her daughters with if you do some VERY detailed research there's a story about the stepmother and her first husband, and about how she loved him but he died. In my opinion i think she thought it was his fault he died and maybe it was i don't know. But i think when she met cinderellas's father she didn't love him she just wanted a father for her children and a husband because back then women were looked down upon in society if they didn't have a husband hence the line "it isn't about love its about marriage." I think the reason she hates cinderella is because she didn't fit into the family and she wanted all the attention on her and her daughters.
This version and '''Ever After'' with Anjelica Huston both are complex versions. You make a great point! Perhaps you should do a Psychology piece on it! haha
That's why I love this version so much too. The Stepmother seems more like an actual character and not like "Oh, I hate you because you're pretty and I'm evil." Even the scene where she's dancing with all 3 of them in "Lovely Night" before she recognizes Cinderella, says so much about her.
I think the beginning of this scene shows that the stepsisters aren't really evil on the inside. Cause after Cinderella says, "Then he'd smile and kiss my hand. And in an instant, we'd know we were meant for each other," Minerva says, "That sounds so romantic!" and the other stepsister says, "Say it again, Cinderella!"
Anybody notice how when the driver snapped the reigns for the horses it almost sounds like clapping after she hits that BOMB note!? Its the applause she definitely deserved after that one lol
I kind of feel bad for the stepsisters... “That sounds so romantic” “Say it again Cinderella”. It seems they were good deep down but their mother was manipulating them. I hoped they would get a chance in the end, but they didn’t.
I know right! I feel the same way! I feel bad for them, cause they really seemed like good people deep down, their mother just forced them to act the way she wanted them to. They wanted someone who loved them for who they are, just as Cinderella did
That was my favourite film as a child, 1997 was a great but sad year, because my mum’s mother had recently died from a stroke as of May 15th, that very year
You know you've watched this movie a lot when you can say/sing every line without missing one. Being in tune while singing, however... thats another story 😂😂😅
I only had just recently realized Bernadette Peters also played the Evil Witch from the play version of Into the Woods. I have to say, that queen aged like the finest of wines. Disney missed a huge oppertunity to have her replay the role of the Evil Witch in their movie adaptation of Into the Woods. Not to say Meryl Streep didn’t do a good job, but Bernadette Peters absolutely killed it and would still kill it. I’m looking at pictures of her today and, I’m telling you, that queen ages like the finest of wines. Disney, what were you smoking when you made your adaptation of Into the Woods, bringing all these celebrities, and decided to NOT have Bernadette Peters? Even the movie Les Miserables brought Clom Wilkinson to play the priest. If no one else, at least have Bernadette play Riding Hood’s grandmother, Cinderella’s mother or even Jack’s mother. She’d kill those roles. Just saying.
@@alwaysnew189 Me too!! 😪 I remember watching this movie back to back on VHS as a kid and being so in love with Brandy and the songs. Why is the OST not available anywhere its a tragedy...
Diversity done right, with no incessant whining. Top talent from all different worlds coming together to make one of the best versions of the story ever seen.
If they cast a film this way today, the right wing would be whining endlessly about how "unrealistic" it was as though they weren't singing and dancing and doing magic.
This song is for the girlies in their 30s reminded of young love and being jealous that it last. Its okay if it last. Love might fall out but it can still continue
I weave with brightly colored strings To keep my mind off other things; So, ladies, let your fingers dance And keep your hands out of romance Lovely witches Let the stitches Keep your fingers under control Cut the thread but leave Your whole heart whole Marry maids can sew and sleep; Wives can only sew and weep! Falling in love with love is falling for make believe Falling in love with love is playing the fool; Caring too much is such a juvenile fancy Learning to trust is just for children in school I fell in love with love one night when the moon was full I was unwise with eyes unable to see I fell in love with love, with love everlasting But love fell out with me Falling in love with love is falling for make believe Falling in love with love is playing the fool; Caring too much is such a juvenile fancy Learning to trust is just for children in school [ADRIANA] I fell in love with love one night when the moon was full I was unwise with eyes unable to see I fell in love with love, with love everlasting But love fell out with me
somehow. someway. i always come back to this. it was burned into my brain as a child when i moved into my stepfathers home. i’m sorry but it’s even more alive than Julie Andrew’s rendition. and i feel like it’s because. it is TRULY A PERFORMANCE. Even in how Bernadette transforms. it’s so tugging. it’s so telling. and as a man who is also pretty. put on your dress and move on. even in love falls out with you. because truthfully. “love is. a game. for fools. to play” iykyk.
pipey61 no, I believe it’s from Those Damn Yankees. Peters was supposed to be perform it and for some reason didn’t (I don’t remember why), so the director let her do it here to 1. let her sing it and 2. give the stepmother a song of her own
It is from "The Boys from Syracuse" by Rogers and Hart. But you're right in that it does give the stepmother something to sing, and may add to character development. (I haven't seen the whole work since it first came out.)
Sorry to rain on your parade but the song was written in 1938 (10 years before Ms Peters was born) for the Rodgers & Hart show "The Boys From Syracuse (a musical take on Shakespeare's A Comedy Of Errors). Will agree its a brilliant song (one of Lorenz Hart's finest lyrics) and an excellent fit for Ms Peters and for this remake.
