Disney's unconventional "Cinderella" (1950) (long)

Having watched most of the many adaptations of Cinderella, I've come to realize what a unique adaptation Disney's 1950 animated classic really is. Unlike Snow White, which only had a few stage and screen adaptations before Disney produced its groundbreaking film, Cinderella had already been adapted many times before Disney's turn came, and Disney's version makes a surprising number of departures from the standard Cinderella "formula." It was definitely a fresh, creative Cinderella when it made its debut, and it arguably still is. Yet because it's become so familiar in pop culture, and today so often serves as our childhood introduction to the tale, it's easy to overlook its inventive storytelling choices. The 2015 live action remake uses several classic Cinderella adaptation tropes that the original 1950 film actually subverts!

Here's a list of the often-overlooked ways in which Disney's Cinderella stands out from earlier adaptations, and from many later ones too.

girlsbydaylight:

[ A colour drawing of the Disney version of Mulan, a light skinned asian woman with long dark hair. She wears pink silk robes decorated with blue and white, and is kneeling bare-foot in a darkened cha,ber illuminated by a single beam of light. She holds a sword in her right hand and is using it to cut off the hunk of hair held in her left. A long strand of hair allready severed lies by her feet. ]