As a child, especially as a little girl, there wouldn’t be many who grew up without hearing all of the old fairy tales. I remember while I was growing up, my parents would read me the classic Little Golden Books. There was, and I believe still is a huge range of these books, some of my favourites being from from the Disney set. Included were stories like the Little Mermaid, Sleeping Beauty and Peter Pan. They are still adding to the collection with recent disney stories such as Frozen. Going further into my childhood they began to make the Disney cartoon films which were just like the Little Golden Books but you could now see these astonishing stories! However, even further along, in the recent years, filmmakers are now creating remakes of the old Disney classics. However, most of these spectacular projects have had little glitches or changes to the storyline slightly to create a ‘new’ or moderately more appealing story suited to an older audience. Examples of this are the film Red Riding Hood from 2011 which plays on the original story with a spooky edge, as well as Maleficent, the 2014 film which tells the ‘untold story’ of Sleeping Beauty’s iconic villain.

However, the recently released remake of the classic, Cinderella, was different. As soon as I saw the sparkly, outstanding costumes in the trailer, I knew that the film was going to be astonishing. And was I right… I absolutely fell in love with everything about the film. From actors, to the costumes, to the sets and even to the iconic glass slipper, everything was just perfect and everything I ever hoped it to be. I feel that part of the reason for the high success of the film was that it is one of the few Disney remakes that hasn’t been so Americanised. It really just stuck straight to the original story.

As a little girl, Cinderella was by far one of my all time favourite stories, and would be to many others I’m sure. The way the story connects with the audience, women especially as well as their  young daughters is truly unique. The nature of Cinderella herself as well as the morals the story portrays are simply divine. Early in the film Cinderella’s mother tells her something she remembers forever; ’have courage and be kind’. Whether someone is horrible to Cinderella or something dreadful happens to her, no matter what, she doe not retaliate but instead, looks back on what her mother told her and continues to stay gracious. Throughout the story you see how her wicked step sisters and her vile stepmother behave towards her but she is still loving towards them. The way this is conveyed through the story, especially in the film, to young girls is something that is quite special. It teaches them a very important message from a young age, that you should treat people the way you want to be treated.