A dream is a wish your heart makes, and if your wish is to see countless takes on the beloved fairy tale of Cinderella, then consider your dreams having come true many times over—including this year, with a new Cinderella by way of Amazon Studios. This latest adaptation seems to have combined qualities of many of its predecessors: it’s playfully anachronistic and eschews the traditional Disney or Rodgers & Hammerstein songs in favor of a tracklist of modern pop covers; it also engages with Cinderella’s career aspirations beyond fitting her foot into a glass slipper.
Read more Movies Cinderella Review: Amazon’s Adaptation Isn’t Afraid to Be Absurd By Lyra Hale Culture The Dark Origins of the Grimms’ Fairy Tales By Sarah Dobbs
But this Cinderella owes everything to the other soot-stained girls, animated and otherwise, who wished with all their hearts for decades before her. How...
Read more Movies Cinderella Review: Amazon’s Adaptation Isn’t Afraid to Be Absurd By Lyra Hale Culture The Dark Origins of the Grimms’ Fairy Tales By Sarah Dobbs
But this Cinderella owes everything to the other soot-stained girls, animated and otherwise, who wished with all their hearts for decades before her. How...
- 9/2/2021
- by Natalie Zutter
- Den of Geek
Universal Studios “Snow White and The Huntsman”
Fairy tales aren’t exactly a new thing.
They weren’t even new when the Grimm Brothers famously published them two hundred years ago, and creative twists on those folk tales are almost as commonplace as the stories themselves. The publishing world alone sees dozens of new fairy tales each year, rehashed and reinterpreted. Some authors, such as Gail Carson Levine (“Ella Enchanted,” “Fairest”) and Gregory Maguire (“Confessions of a Wicked Stepsister,” “Mirror,...
Fairy tales aren’t exactly a new thing.
They weren’t even new when the Grimm Brothers famously published them two hundred years ago, and creative twists on those folk tales are almost as commonplace as the stories themselves. The publishing world alone sees dozens of new fairy tales each year, rehashed and reinterpreted. Some authors, such as Gail Carson Levine (“Ella Enchanted,” “Fairest”) and Gregory Maguire (“Confessions of a Wicked Stepsister,” “Mirror,...
- 1/13/2012
- by Marissa Meyer
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
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