Cinderella (2015) - WTF happened to her dress?

Something major changed in the editing room of Disney's live-action remake of Cinderella... & I don't like it.

#disney #cinderella #liveaction

[nager]

Cinderella’s dress has so far been the only dress that had traveled from the realm of animation to live action and not only stayed beautiful but became stunning.
All the other princesses iconic dresses did not fair so well on the journey from animation

[philipdarrenellwell]

Seeing it side by side makes the blue coloring look like someone just ran a brush tool over the footage, details be damned. The blue eats up the butterflies along the neckline, and a lot of the layering of the skirt blends together in a lump.
Almost makes you wonder what else they fiddled with in post that wasn't originally planned.

[nao-boyz]

oh my god, i had no idea the dress was such a different colour irl. i still love the dress but ugh i wish theyd kept it silver like in the cartoon. it just feels so magical

[amysill]

I love the deep blue chosen for the movie. The saturated blue matched the set design and prince’s costume better than the “real” color. In life though, the real color is gorgeous.

[Samara-Ray]

That blue blocking the color shift of the layers and layers of opalescent fabric makes me wanna fist fight whoever edited that footage

[FeminineMelanin]

I agree. That's the same thing that I thought. The dress was absolutely stunning prior to the digital change. The detail that the designer placed into it became almost completely lost. There were other ways to make the dress stand out from the others in the film take. Now as far as the snow white...YIKES!

[DoddoHorror]

I don't know if I had a mandela effect but I remember watching the real color dress on the movie, now I went to disneyplus and it is totally blue as you said! That's a sabotage for the designer fr, I even have a cinderella live action doll who respect more the color than the movie itself lol

[nebvlae]

I agree. The original colour was closer to lavender blue, a song that her mother sang to her. They shouldn't have made it that blue. But the dress is still stunning

[hineraable]

I wasn't fond of the live action dress and never could pint point why. Seeing the real color side by side with the blue dress is an eye opener. I absolute love the real color, and I love how much more similar it is to the animated one. The butterflies that i initially didn't like now complement the dress perfectly. The blue dress is ok but it just looks so saturated it feels like a visual sore thumb. I understand why they made it blue but I would have love to see the original one. Much more on the silver side, like the original animated silver dress.

Anyways, I'll take saturated blue over whatever Emma Watson was wearing in the Beauty and The Beast.

[UrbanEsta]

I think what happened is that the background set colors was probably washing out the color of the dress on camera so they probably decided to make it more blue to make it stand out. The original color is gorgeous though.

[emmalee]

okay i lied, i absolutely love the dress in its ORIGINAL COLOR. in the film it’s an over saturated blue that’s almost tacky; but the dress itself is actually beautiful in its original state.

[Stardust.Creations]

My issue with this extends to it even being a story problem.
It made sooo much more sense for Ella to have the original lavender-pink duochrome dress before they edited it, because Ella made it clear she did not want her mother's dress changed too much. Fairy Godmother said, "I understand...but you wouldn't mind if I cheer it up a bit? Wouldn't mind a nice blue?"
And the resulting dress ends up giving a very sophisticated and ethereal vibe, simultaneously showing forth pastel pink and bluish/lavender tones, which is something you would feel as though Ella and her mother would approve of.
To do this cheap color correction in post-production could actually be seen as disrespectful to the characters. Especially since they play her mother's lullaby when she's walking into the ballroom for the first time.
I hate to speak negatively in any way regarding this movie, because it's one of my favorites of all time and always will be. But this is definitely one thing I would change. I really do want to know who was responsible. 😅

[Angelofthursday]

I feel like I at one point heard that the reason why Disney keeps making Cinderella's dress more blue rather than trying to return to the more silver roots of the dress, is that the silver version looks a lot like a wedding dress. And modern day Disney isn't really trying to have their princess line scream Bride, even if a number of the Disney Princesses end their stories as brides.

Along with the fact that they want to sell dress up dresses, and the vast majority of parents aren't going to buy their little girls silvery white dresses that they'll inevitably horribly stain in like three days at most, with no innate color of it's own to hide/disguise the staining.
More colorful dresses hide grass stains better than silver/white ones, and they only make fabrics so stain resistant while also being comfortable to wear.

[lindalubrano]

I agree that the lavender fits better in every way, even with Cinderella's song.

[brandishearer]

I agree with the person about the dress. It was so much better before they changed it in the movie. I don't like what Disney is doing with some of their live action movies.

[finsterbaby]

I was just commenting on a short comparing animated Disney princess dresses to their live-action counterparts and made a huge deal about how much I adored the dress in this film. Now that I have seen what it actually looked like, I am severely disappointed that they didn't leave it the way it was originally made. You can't really see the detail in the color gradings in the video clips in your video, but in the stills I can see that you are absolutely correct in your assessment of how truly gorgeous the color(s) were before they messed it up in post. There are, as you stated, a number of various colors of varying shades, and it IS very luminescent. That even makes the fabric look completely different. Some of the silvery-looking sections look more satiny and shiny than the softer fabric (whatever it is) of which it was constructed. And I have no doubt that Sandy Powell was as pissed about them destroying her creative work as Howard Ashman and Alan Menken were about Disney execs cutting "Proud of Your Boy" from the animated version of "Aladdin." And like you, I have no idea what Ms. Powell was up to with the horrendous costumes for the even more horrendous live-action "Snow White, " which has been released to empty theaters since your video was posted.

[gee]

I enjoy original design of her dress and the editing to the blue they both simply IMMACULATE

[adasvoice]

i prefer the bright blue cause you can see that she lights up and everyone is wearing darker dress and color so they did a great job to make her like THE main character

[trupype]

I think the Snow White costume might be a trick and it's not the one we end up with hopefully

[cu_ri_o]

I don't know why, but I always remembered Cinderellas dress as being that light blue color, a smidgen darker than the og dress from the live action one. I swear, I watched that movie to many times as a kid, as a teenager and even in my 20s. I was shocked when I saw that the dress is closer to white in the cartoon, and I have no idea why it was blue in my mind