The Uglies series

I watched Cinderella (1950) on Friday, October 14th 2016 at 9:30pm. I borrowed the DVD from the Monrovia Library. The message that I did get while watching it, after already keeping in mind the curriculum we’ve been given in class to indentify certain “Isms” or ideologies. I do see Cinderella as a Blonde hair, blue eyed young woman, who at one time had wealth and love. Who naturally is orphaned because not all good things last forever, or the kind people who might have wealth, and…

Bride Dance Headline: A Bride Suddenly gets a Lot of Attention for What Happened on Her Wedding Day. In This Bizarre Twist, a Bridesmaid Shocks Everyone With Her Announcement. Summary: One bride has to forego a father-daughter dance with her terminally ill father, but a bridesmaid steps in to fill the gap. Introduction: One surprising moment on a bride's wedding day left the audience completely stunned. Most brides wait their whole live for the father-daughter dance at their wedding. In…

Most people have read or heard of the stories of Cinderella or saw a movie of the traditional princess story which always seems to have the same cliché “happily ever after ending.” In the poem “Cinderella,” written by Anne Sexton, she switches up the old-fashioned mythical story by adding in a touch of mockery and telling the story with her sense of reality. Sexton’s sarcastic tone being used in the poem causes the readers to identify and get a sense of the message the version of her story gives…

The Dress The short story: ”The Dress” is written by Julia Darling in 2006. The story is about a mother living alone with her two daughters called Flora and Rachel. It tells about their tense relationship and how it all climaxes at the mother’s birthday party just because of a dress. Being a mother living alone with her family will never be easy. You will have a lot of things to take care of. Children always need a lot of attention and when there for instance is no father then the mother has…

The Disney Movie Cinderella is a classic children’s movie based on a poor mistreated girl that meets a prince who sweeps her off her feet and they live happily ever after. The movie stars a young girl named Cinderella that lives with her evil step mother and step sisters, who treat her very poorly and as if she’s the house maid, living in the attic. Her father passed away after remarrying a woman and moving in with her and her two daughters. Cinderella spends her days cleaning up after her step…

Similarly, The Little Mermaid and Cinderella are both classic Disney favorite movies about two teenagers that fall in love despite family interactions, parental restrictions, and magical influences. In The Little Mermaid, Ariel wants to discover life outside of the sea and finds herself in trouble with her overprotective father after she ventures to the surface. Her father has forbidden her to go to shore and tasks her with things to occupy her time. For instance, singing with her sisters in an…

One particular mise-en-scène that was one of the most important in this Disney film version of “Cinderella” is the costume. Anyone who has not seen the film, or has never heard of any version of the story of Cinderella would be able to tell who is the protagonist and who is the antagonist. A costume could speak a lot of words, whether the author describes what they are wearing or not, film adaptation could portray a character’s personality more with their costume. A costume is not just their…

Mulan is a story set in Imperial China, the story is about Mulan a sixteen year old girl who dresses as a man and takes her father’s place in the army and saves all of China from the Huns it was produced in the year 1998. On the other hand Snow White is set in a perfect, fairy tale land and is about a beautiful young girl who falls in love with a prince but is forced to leave her palace because of her evil step-mother and falls into a sleep like death and is awoken by loves first kiss, it was…

two-part historical epic, however, went against Party lines when it portrayed Ivan in a negative light. This resulted in the banning of the film on the order of Stalin which terminated the proposition of a third-part to the series. Oddly enough the first Part of the series, Ivan the Terrible, Part I, won the approval of Joseph Stalin as well as a Stalin Price for portraying the ruler as a national Hero. Part II went in the opposite direction for it depicted he state terrorism committed at the…

In the movie “Cinderella”, there are many life lessons to be learned. Cinderella lived with her evil stepmother and her two evil stepsisters, who were very mean to her after her father had passed away. They treated her as a servant and made her do all the chores. Cinderella faces many difficulties in her life, but she always remains strong. Not only was Cinderella kind, but she was also brave and willing to take risks. Cinderella always believed in herself and she always dared to dream.…