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Disney's Cinderella | Oneshot: So This is Love
Title: So This is Love
Fandom: Cinderella (1950)
Universe: Canon
Genre: Romance
Rating: K+
Word Count: 2,097
Summary: Canon/missing scene. The Prince awaits the results of the Grand Duke’s search for his missing lady love, despairing all the while that he may never see her again.
Links: AO3 | DW | FF.net
Written for the "eyes" prompt on my 2017 Summer Mini Challenge table.
Hello, random idea generated by random movie re-watch! =)
A couple of days ago, I popped in my Disney Princess movies in the background as I worked on something else. Since I have deluxe double-DVD versions of all the movies (I'm hardcore, okay?), I decided to watch the 'making of' features first - and apparently my muses were listening.
Cinderella is not my favorite princess, but she was my first princess. I was just the right age for the 1987 re-release, and I vividly remember a commercial for the VHS in which some little girl is all excited about getting it, only to get to the display and find it empty. She's brokenhearted at her loss, but then her mother reveals that she'd picked one up all along.
(Remember when VHSes were Big Deals?)
Anyway. I watched Cinderella a lot as a kid, at least until The Little Mermaid came along. I somehow managed to pick up the deluxe DVD set when it was released, but I don't know that I've watched it since I got it. I have no idea what compelled me to watch it during this vacation, but I did.
I can't believe how short this movie is, both in actual length and in the in-canon timeline. We basically see two actual days of Cinderella's life. I always found her happily ever after a little unbelievable, but wow. Watching it now, it's like - WTF??
The making of documentary was fascinating. Cinderella was Disney's post-war gamble, so they spent a lot of time on it. Storyline decisions were made, and it was ultimately decided that Cinderella was to be the focus. They cut scenes introducing the Prince, and apparently they also cut a scene between "when the shoe fits" and "wedding" strictly for time.
My muse latched onto that, though. I've written a similar after the big reveal missing scene fic for Tangled, so this was right in my wheelhouse. I started with the idea of Cinderella's journey to the Palace with the Grand Duke, but it wasn't really working, because - what was she going back to? She had a dream ideal of the Prince, and so did we, because he is literally in like two scenes and has all of about five lines.
He's a totally blank slate. He doesn't even have a name! But I thought a missing scene from his POV would be infinitely more interesting. How could his side of this short leap into love be explored, and yet kept authentic to this version of the tale?
I started with some stock royal tropes (where did he come from? what does he do?), added in what little personality we see in the film (I love him shooting the King dirty looks during the presentation of the maidens, LOL), and tried to ground him into a fantastical version of authentic. I actually rather like the result.
The ultimate inspiration for this piece was the "So This is Love" segment of the film:
especially this moment:
*sigh* Those big dopey grins just SCREAM love at first sight!
My favorite part of the movie is actually the scene directly after this, when Cinderella escapes from the Palace. It was really well done, both in animation and with the accompanying music. It makes "So This is Love" sound melancholy, in hindsight, and I tried to incorporate that into the story, along with all of the dream motifs so prominent in the film.
This is far from my favorite Disney Princess movie, but I am something of a sucker for the Cinderella trope. I have a lot of the same issues with this film that most people do: Cinderella's passiveness, the cardboard cutout nature of the Prince, the 1950s ideals that wrap the whole story up. (My personal favorite version of the Cinderella fairytale is Ever After, if that tells you anything.) This film has its good points, though, and it could've been so much more if given the chance to flourish.
I watched some clips from the 2015 live-action version of this film, and was rather surprised that they added so much backstory for the prince. Given all of the adaptations of the fairy tale, it's obvious that this story usually can't be told without more, well, story. So, its an achievement in and of itself that this film makes sense, even if, the further you get away from it, the less sense it actually makes.
This is the perfect fodder for a one-off response to the Summer Mini Challenge. Now it's two down, three more to go!
Fandom: Cinderella (1950)
Universe: Canon
Genre: Romance
Rating: K+
Word Count: 2,097
Summary: Canon/missing scene. The Prince awaits the results of the Grand Duke’s search for his missing lady love, despairing all the while that he may never see her again.
Links: AO3 | DW | FF.net
Written for the "eyes" prompt on my 2017 Summer Mini Challenge table.
Hello, random idea generated by random movie re-watch! =)
A couple of days ago, I popped in my Disney Princess movies in the background as I worked on something else. Since I have deluxe double-DVD versions of all the movies (I'm hardcore, okay?), I decided to watch the 'making of' features first - and apparently my muses were listening.
Cinderella is not my favorite princess, but she was my first princess. I was just the right age for the 1987 re-release, and I vividly remember a commercial for the VHS in which some little girl is all excited about getting it, only to get to the display and find it empty. She's brokenhearted at her loss, but then her mother reveals that she'd picked one up all along.
(Remember when VHSes were Big Deals?)
Anyway. I watched Cinderella a lot as a kid, at least until The Little Mermaid came along. I somehow managed to pick up the deluxe DVD set when it was released, but I don't know that I've watched it since I got it. I have no idea what compelled me to watch it during this vacation, but I did.
I can't believe how short this movie is, both in actual length and in the in-canon timeline. We basically see two actual days of Cinderella's life. I always found her happily ever after a little unbelievable, but wow. Watching it now, it's like - WTF??
The making of documentary was fascinating. Cinderella was Disney's post-war gamble, so they spent a lot of time on it. Storyline decisions were made, and it was ultimately decided that Cinderella was to be the focus. They cut scenes introducing the Prince, and apparently they also cut a scene between "when the shoe fits" and "wedding" strictly for time.
My muse latched onto that, though. I've written a similar after the big reveal missing scene fic for Tangled, so this was right in my wheelhouse. I started with the idea of Cinderella's journey to the Palace with the Grand Duke, but it wasn't really working, because - what was she going back to? She had a dream ideal of the Prince, and so did we, because he is literally in like two scenes and has all of about five lines.
He's a totally blank slate. He doesn't even have a name! But I thought a missing scene from his POV would be infinitely more interesting. How could his side of this short leap into love be explored, and yet kept authentic to this version of the tale?
I started with some stock royal tropes (where did he come from? what does he do?), added in what little personality we see in the film (I love him shooting the King dirty looks during the presentation of the maidens, LOL), and tried to ground him into a fantastical version of authentic. I actually rather like the result.
The ultimate inspiration for this piece was the "So This is Love" segment of the film:
especially this moment:
*sigh* Those big dopey grins just SCREAM love at first sight!
My favorite part of the movie is actually the scene directly after this, when Cinderella escapes from the Palace. It was really well done, both in animation and with the accompanying music. It makes "So This is Love" sound melancholy, in hindsight, and I tried to incorporate that into the story, along with all of the dream motifs so prominent in the film.
This is far from my favorite Disney Princess movie, but I am something of a sucker for the Cinderella trope. I have a lot of the same issues with this film that most people do: Cinderella's passiveness, the cardboard cutout nature of the Prince, the 1950s ideals that wrap the whole story up. (My personal favorite version of the Cinderella fairytale is Ever After, if that tells you anything.) This film has its good points, though, and it could've been so much more if given the chance to flourish.
I watched some clips from the 2015 live-action version of this film, and was rather surprised that they added so much backstory for the prince. Given all of the adaptations of the fairy tale, it's obvious that this story usually can't be told without more, well, story. So, its an achievement in and of itself that this film makes sense, even if, the further you get away from it, the less sense it actually makes.
This is the perfect fodder for a one-off response to the Summer Mini Challenge. Now it's two down, three more to go!