Cinderella produced by Disney in 1950 is an animated movie. It was first released on February 15, 1950, followed by 1957, 1975, 1973, 1981 and 1987. This version of the story was derived from “Cinderella”, Grimm’s Fairy Tales. It is directed by Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson and Hamilton Luske. The script writers are Charles Perrault, Bill Peet, Erdman Penner et al. Ilene Woods is the voice of Cinderella. All the releases created the domestic value of $ 93,141,149, which occupied 96.6% of the total value, and the international value $3,242,181, 3.4% of the total.
Movie Review – Cinderella (1950) by Rodney Twelftree reviewed this movie. He first summarized the story, secondly mentioned the background of the movie and thirdly talked about the techniques used in production aesthetically. Then with the discussion of the depiction of the characters, he claims that now the critics place excessive harsh words on the “anti-feminism” contents in the film. He maintains that the movie is just for superficial entertainment and should not be taken too seriously.
Though Twelftree thought we should not dive too deeply into the movie, Cinderella did exhibit the ideology of society to some extent at the time: women were hinged to household chores, looking forward to a man to love them, and this was a common standard for women at the time. From the lyrics “Have faith in your dreams and someday\Your rainbow will come smiling through” in the song “A Dream Is A Wish Your Heart Makes” (00:05:00) and Cinderella looking at the castle, we can easily conclude that her dream is just to enter the castle, be chosen by the prince, and escape from the household chores. Also, she has to bear all the maligns, complaints from her step-family and satisfies her family’s requirements, forming a so-called “kind” figure. Though she is fortunately rescued by the prince and the story has a happy ending, I have to say the character Cinderella is poor: she has neither career (not a romantic career) nor freedom. Most importantly, from the movie, I can reasonably infer that model women in mid-19th Century were like servants, spinning around family, depending on husbands and swallowing all the sorrow.
Cinderella "kindly" takes all the household chores.
Cinderella in 2015 is relatively progressive. More plausible, the later movie adds a buildup of the relationship between the prince and Cinderella before the Ball, which values the progress in the development of affections more than the older one. This gives more credits to gender equality to the original story.
-Tianai
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