How Cinderella Could Have Been CREEPIER (Disney)

Things used to be a lot... more gruesome... for our dear cindery princess. Join me on this animated dive into the origins of Disney's Cinderella! Well, her past variants. I look at how close Disney's version is to it's French "inspiration," and how much darker this tale got in the hands of the Brothers Grimm. If you thought the evil stepfamily was bad in Walt Disney's animation, oh my friend have I got a tale for you! (It's this one, right here!). Not only is the evil stepmother cruel to Cinderella (or, Cinderbum!), but she is also desperate and willing enough to have her own daughters suffer truly gruesome fates. As always, I hope you like this dark and creepy animated origin adventure! Stay Spooky!

Audio Editing ► @HeyZKay (Twitter)

"Midnight Tale, Our Story Begins, Rynos Theme" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech. com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License

#Disney #Grimm #Animation

[bee]

My mom telling me this story when I was little: "So the sisters cut their feet in order to try the shoe, but don't worry, the birds told the prince that Cinderella is the one he's looking for. Oh, and also the birds eat the eyes of the stepmother and her daughters. The end."
Side note: I grew up with Andersen's and Grimm's stories, that's why it was so strange for me when I finally got to watch the Disney versions and every story was so different.

[etoile-diabolique]

Fun fact ! Perrault’s tale being translated from French, there was a little change to the Disney version ! Her shoes are made of Vair (squirrel fur) in the original tale. But the word glass in French is « Verre » (I’m French myself) which is pronounced in the same way. So is it a translation mistake or just a change ? Idk

[HumansOfVR]

this *_creepier side_* would have added so much more depth to her character

[rainbow_reptile]

Wait this means that in the movie "Into the Woods" they based cinderella's story of of grimm brother's version. I've always wondered where the heck they came up with that gruesome version.

[cramerfloro]

I'm surprised that Basile's (the guy of Sun, Moon and Talia) version is one of the more tame Cinderella stories.
Oh, except for when SHE CHOPS THE HEAD OF HER STEPMOTHER OFF, BY ASKING HER TO LOOK INTO HER DRESS CHEST AND LETS THE LID FALL DOWN!

[localdaywalker]

(Perrault)
The stepsisters: Awful.

Cinderella: *come live with us in the palace-*

[crowfelo]

Cinderella: throw on me silver and gold

Bird: I got you homie

[cookiegacha]

Cinder:Sup.
Cinderella:Who are you.
Cinder:You but a cyborg.
Edit:Okay my people are definitely here

[vampire-p]

“How dense is this guy?”
Prince Charming is a himbo, we all know this.
(It’s a joke guys please don’t kill me)

[voguecrab]

Much like the Grimm tales, your art and style of speech are both enchanting and terrifying all at the same time. Great upload once again, abitfrank!

[thewitchwannabe]

Also remember that in Disney’s “Cinderella 2: dreams come true” and “Cinderella 3: a twist in time” Anastasia is presented as a good girl who was just following her mother’s orders.

Just thought I mention it.

[dneeht]

There is actually a adaptation of Grimms story, maybe the gore points were cut out but the rest stayed the same, even this with cutting pieces of your foot, it was made by small German film studio, they also made other Grimm stories so no one forgets how it really was

[cringyasdemonetization]

Childhood: *ruined*

Babyhood: *ruined*

Adulthood: *also ruined*

[LunetteFox]

"They lost a toe and a heel are they really the worst thing in this story...?" No but if you show up to the wedding after that and still expect compensation of some sort then yeah, you deserve to have your eyes pecked out.

[Elliandr]

In the movie "Ever After" (1998) my favorite line comes at the end. Without spoiling why, Cinderella comes to the defense of her step mother and sisters to save their lives, but says "May they receive the same kindness that they showed me" and their faces showed they understood their fate. They were shipped off to the new world to live as indentured servants for the rest of their days. Provided with food and shelter, but made to work. Treated exactly as they treated Cinderella.

[muchoomoorek]

OH GOD OH DEAR
FINALLY THE QUEEN HAS POSTED ANOTHER BLEESED VIDEO

[Ixbran]

One thing I can see as another connection to Perrault's version of the story, in the Cinderella Sequel Films Cinderella end's up forming a strong bond with her stepsister Anastasia. Cinderella II shows Lady Trimane out in the marketplace with her daughters and stopping by a Bakery the smells of freshly baked bread and sweets causes Anastasia to linger and ebcome smitten with the Baker. After he and his shop are dismissed by Trimane and Drizzella Anastasia is found later by Cinderella and the two bond together, a confused Anastasia wondering why cinderella was helping her after everything they did, and Cinderella SOMEHOW claims she bares them no ill will over what they were conditioned to do by their mother.

Cinderella III has Lady Trimane get the Fairy Godmother's Wand and then reverse time, undoing everything. Cinderella's slipper fitting Anastasia and them leaving Cinderella alone in the house. As Drizzella and Trimane keep pushing Anastasia to marry the Prince, she forms strong bonds with the King and the Prince, and over time starts to feel guilty for stealing all of this from Cinderella. And eventually sides with Cinderella against her Mother and Sister to set things right.

[Why-uocj]

I just realise that in almost every Disney movie the one or both parents die. Like in basically every movie.

[WolfieIsTheOne]

The cat on your lap looks alot like the one on my lap as I'm typing this lol

*edit correcting mistakes

[sekaihatsu]

I vaguely remember reading a similar story when I was little about a girl who wore a fur cloak and while I don't think there was a wicked family, the story plays out mostly the same with her marrying the prince. Looking forward to the next one!