Found a fun website talking about what movie villains they would “deserve” their own movies, since Maleficent from “sleeping Beauty” will be gettting her own soon:
Made me think of Lady Tremaine, aka. “evil stepmother” from Cinderella should have her own movie. We now extremely little about her past, or her relationship to Cinderella’s past father. And the motivations given in the movie for her actions are simple and weird (she’s mean to Cinderella just because she’s not her biological daughter? Please!). Lady Tremaine might just be terrible missunderstood! Maybe she makes Cinderella work so hard is because she wants her to become a good worker, so she can get a good job once she moves out (or the rest of the family moves out, whoever leaves first). She sees that her own daughters are spoiled and can’t do a thing. She maybe looked at Cinderella and thought: “Well I’m not screwing up that one!”. The whole deal of her of not letting Cinderella go to the ball was maybe to prevent her from marrying and thus having no chance of being “indipendent” or not getting to be the “good worker” she is anymore. Her daughters, of course, could marry off because… Well they can’t do much. I’m not saying that Lady Tremainde wasn’t an awful parent, she was! Just… Well maybe she wasn’t always intending to be so mean, just… Happened!
By the way, really hope Tim Burton takes making the Maleficent movie very seriously! Maleficent is one of the most elegant villains ever, she deserves a great film of her own! 🙂
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Well you caught me on this one.
Lady Tremaine seems to be attempting to keep the mechanisms of upper class living without the means. Like the overspending and risk taking of our contemporary banking class (without the socialist bailout), she has depleted all of her monies, but still wants to maintain a worker class below her. Her only alternative seems to be indentured servants (slaves in reality). “Ella” ia her answer.
Regardless of the relations between “ellas” father and second wife (and it may be that Ella was privileged over the step sisters while the father is alive), the idea that this form of induced slavery can be explained by the relations of the family and the psychoanalysis of the individuals seems questionable.
A Story may be made, however, here. It would just be much to “dark” and horrible for Burton to take on.
You’re right, though, about the character of Maleficent. Something is afoot here. Many strings to follow. (see my earlier post to you about this. I will later make the link!)
Well you caught me on this one.
Lady Tremaine seems to be attempting to keep the mechanisms of upper class living without the means. Like the overspending and risk taking of our contemporary banking class (without the socialist bailout), she has depleted all of her monies, but still wants to maintain a worker class below her. Her only alternative seems to be indentured servants (slaves in reality). “Ella” ia her answer . (and the Bankers was to only take money from the supposed “lower classes” though the mechanisms of government)
Regardless of the relations between “ellas” father and second wife (and it may be that Ella was privileged over the step sisters while the father is alive), the idea that this form of induced slavery can be explained by the relations of the family and the psychoanalysis of the individuals seems questionable.
A Story may be made, however, here. It would just be much to “dark” and horrible for Burton to take on.
You’re right, though, about the character of Maleficent. Something is afoot here. Many strings to follow. (see my earlier post to you about this. I will later make the link!)
Úpdate: The link is found in “The dragon and saint George” By Maaretta at this site.
It has not been moderated (so not seeable yet). Could you do something about this?