LADY TREMAINE Origin: Cinderella (1950) Motivation: The stepmother is actually pretty damn sinister. She does nothing in her life except make Cinderella suffer. For most other villains, I’d be complaining how we don’t know the motivation for this. But in this case, it kinda works. Vengeance? Jealousy? A bruised ego? Free slave labor? Something to do with her former husband? She has nothing to gain and nothing to lose. It’s almost Joker-like in her actions. Character Strengths: I love it when the light fades out on her after she gets some devious idea. Everything shrouds in darkness except her eyes. Unfortunately, being evil is not really a strength. The guy…
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Cinderella’s Ending is Bullshit
Am I the only one who realizes that the ending to Cinderella is bullshit? I’m talking about the Disney movie. There’s no way that shit would hold up in any court. You know what happens? Cinderella is the last person in the kingdom. Lady Tremaine trips the bumbling assistant. He stumbles and the glass slipper goes crashing into a million, billion pieces. That should be the end of the story. We can’t try the slipper on anyone else. But then Cinderella says everything’s all right. “You see, I have the other one.” And they put it on her and it fits and happily ever after. How do they know she…
