![]() This restoration brightened colors and erased delicate line art that you can now only see in special features made before the restoration. You could argue that Cinderella is worth rewatching in 2019 for the animation - which truly is gorgeous - but that also gets you into some quagmire thanks to the poor 2005 Diamond Edition restoration that Disney continues to re-release in its subsequent editions, including this year’s Anniversary one. ![]() Kids these days have no idea how lucky they are to have Moana. (Which isn’t to say my Disney Princesses are perfect. Sure, she had a pretty dress, some nice songs and a cadre of extremely annoying animal friends, but compared to dreamy, determined Ariel? Brave, bookish Belle and tenacious, outspoken Jasmine? No, thank you. A girl with no agency, who endures her stepfamily’s abuse and cleans up after them without complaint, who only becomes a princess when a cardboard cut-out prince rescues her, was not the kind of girl I wanted to be. When I was 4 years old, I had Ariel and Belle and Jasmine before I had Cinderella, and some part of me must have clued in on the difference between Classic Disney Princesses and Golden Age Disney Princesses that early because the classic ones just weren’t interesting. Were they, like mine, people-pleasers who put the needs of others (particularly their husbands) in front of their own to the point that it chipped away at their health, slowly and then all at once? That’s the patriarchy for you, and Cinderella fits squarely into it. Just look at your grandmother or great-grandmothers. You can’t even really blame Disney for continuing that narrative in 1950, because it still existed in real life. That’s what makes them so virtuous, you see. Things just happen to them, and they are expected to suffer through them. Cinderella is a victim from the start thanks to her wicked stepmother, and her story is set during a nebulous time when women were not proactive. As a child, I thought it was boring, and as an adult, I know why: Cinderella is the most passive of the Disney Princesses. Despite this truly adorable Halloween costume, Cinderella was never my favorite Disney movie.
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