I Watch Films: Cinderella (1950)
Cinderella (1950) Cinderella ’s step mother Lady Tremaine treats her as a servant; her step-sisters Drizella and Anastasia are more obviously nasty, due to their jealousy of her grace, good-nature and beauty. Cinderella ’s friends are the animals; birds, mice (who she dresses up), the hound and the horse; she sings to and with them as she does her chores. Not however Lady Tremaine’s cat Lucifer, who is always trying to eat the mice. The king, wanting his son the Prince to marry, invites every eligible maiden in the kingdom to a ball. Cinderella finds an old dress of her mother’s to wear, but her step-mother and step-sisters keep her too busy. The animals band together and make her an outfit, using things the step-sisters have discarded. When they recognise them they tear them off, ruining the dress, leaving Cinderella behind, in tears, out in the garden. Cinderella their encounters her fairy godmother* who transforms a pumpkin into a coach, the mice into horses, the ho...
