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Cinderella (2015)
Midnight is just the beginning.
Everyone knows the story of Cinderella. If you don't then here is an overview of the story. The story is of a girl called Ella (Lily James) who's mother dies when she is young. When she is older her father decides to remarry. While her father is away he is taken ill and sadly passes away, leaving her at the mercy of her cruel step mother (Cate Blanchett) and her step sisters. Having been bought up to have courage and be kind, she does everything her step mother and sisters tell her to do, until one day her step sisters gives her the nick name Cinderella. Feeling upset she goes for a ride and meets a handsome stranger, who little to her knowledge is the Prince (Richard Madden). The Prince wanting to see Cinderella again invites all the maidens of the land to a ball, in which he is supposed to find a wife. Her Step Mother forbids her to go, however with the help of her Fairy God Mother (Helena Bonham Carter), she goes to the ball and sees the Prince again. At midnight she leaves to get home before the magic runs out but leaves one of her glass slippers behind, the prince then finds the slipper and demands that she is to be found.
So first things first, whoever's idea it was to make Helena Bonham Carter as the fairy god mother is a genius! She was amazing, I honestly couldn't think of a better match! I was very happy because considering that this is a film for children it was still really good as an adult. it was like reliving my childhood. I am 100% going to buy this film when it is out on DVD because I came out of the film smiling and happy.
It is every girls dream to be a Princess, so if all I have to do is bump into a stranger who just happens to be a Prince then I am all ears! PRINCE HARRY WHERE ARE YOU!?
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If I Stay (2014)
Live For Love.
So basically I am wondering why it took me so long to actually watch this film. I'll try to write this with no spoilers.
If I Stay is a film based on the book by Gayle Forman. It is about a girl called Mia Hall (Chloe Grace Moretz) and how her life changes after her whole family is in a car accident, leaving her in a coma. She is having an out-of-body experience and must decide whether to wake up and live a different life or to end it by not waking up. The choice is all down to her.
During her out-of-body experience, she see's her other relatives turn up, her friends and her love, Adam (Jamie Blackley). The film focus' a lot on their love and their journey, with the help of some flashbacks you kind of get how and why they fall in love. They are both into music but at different ends of the spectrum. He is a rock star in a band and she loves classical music and plays the cello (which whoever is playing her music double is AMAZING). It shows the trouble they go through when he goes away and starts to make it big, while she's at school applying for colleges, but there is one in particular college that she wants to go to and that is Juilliard, but that means leaving Adam behind. The flashbacks also show the relationship between her and her parents and her little brother, with her best friend Kate and into some of her memory's, like Halloween and New Year, where she is surrounded with people she loves. It's a true love story on so many levels.
I like this film because it has stayed true to the book and oh my it just made me feel all emotions all at once. I couldn't give this any more credit. So tissues at the ready because you will cry.
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Insurgent (2015)
Insurgent is the follow on from the film Divergent based on the books by Veronica Roth.
Insurgent is the follow on from the film Divergent based on the books by Veronica Roth. I was lucky enough to go to a pre screening of this film in 3D IMAX, the graphics are beyond unreal and the story line is pretty good too. They always say that the book is better than the film, but it feels like the book and the film are 2 completely different stories. As a fan of the books I have always stood by them, however I loved this idea of 'The Box'.
The basis of the film is that Jeanine (Kate Winslet) is trying to find all the Divergent to try to open a box that is believed to contain a message from the founders of the faction system. While she's doing that our main characters Tris (Shailene Woodley) and Four (Theo James) are on the run from the whole system, staying in the other factions trying to keep safe. In the book Tris is still on the run but she stays in the other factions much longer and develops other relationships with other characters. in the book there is also no mention of 'the box' but in an interview, Veronica Roth stated that the idea of 'the box' combines most of her favourite scenes within the book.
Don't get me wrong I really did like the film, I think it is amazing and I love the whole story but, I just came out of it feeling confused because I had already read the books and they are nothing alike. I now know what it means now when it says based because it has only got the underline of the book. I just know that the book fans aren't going to be best pleased, but I still came out of it happy and I enjoyed it.