Honestly, most of the movies focus is on the mice doing stuff for Cinderella, or sparring Stupid bloody cat.
Then there’s the prince who gets like two lines, His dad and the Duke got way more lines and screen time than him.
I feel like "long-suffering girl is domestic slave to step-family" only lasts so long on its own. Basically, whoever was creating the story for the film just had trouble sticking to the fairy tale and also making the movie any fun for kids to watch.
A little creativity could have done it, or altering Cinderella to be a little unexpected or unorthodox. If she was a bit of a prankster/saboteur, for instance, we could have had fun watching her be defiant in humorous and clandestine ways. But Cindy has to be the good-est, sweetest girl on the planet, so they had to introduce other, more chaotic characters.
The Prince falls victim to the same thing, which is basically that a romantic lead often winds up a little bland and boring. We don't want six scenes of him pining because he cannot find true love. Nor was Disney, apparently, interested in giving him more of an arc which would elevate him past his basic story function.
Actually (Shoot me for saying it, I don’t care) It’s one of those rare times The live action remake was actually better than the animated one, they really improved on the characters of Cinderella and the prince( Kit actually, bothered to give him a name) Lily James and Richard Madden had a great chemistry too.
shareDoesn't bother me. I didn't see the live action one, but the original isn't really one of the better animated films, so it seems like improvement was on the table.
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