Disney Countdown

Now we turn to the live-action version of Cinderella. The Movie: Despite the box-office success of the live-action 101 Dalmatians, Disney didn't return to their library of animated classics for source material until 2010, when a live-action Alice in Wonderland was released to much financial success.  That movie though was a quasi-sequel, and the next Disney live-action re-imagining was the perspective flip of Sleeping Beauty with Maleficent.  Cinderella, though began Disney's formula of straight-forward remakes.  This movie garnered critical praise and performed well at the box-office, and it was nominated for an Oscar for costume design. This Cinderella pretty faithfully follows the tale as portrayed in the 1950 animated version, but it also fleshes out the story.  In this version we actually start with Cinderella as a young girl and both her parents.  The entire sequences of events from her mother's death, her father's remarriage, and then his subseq...

Now we come to one of the all-time bests and the jewel of the Silver Age, Cinderella. The Movie: Cinderella is the 12th film in the Disney Animated Canon and the one that kicked off Disney's Silver Age.  It marked the return to form for Disney following the Package Film Era and was Disney's best received film since Snow White.  Cinderella is still listed as one of the best animated films of all time, and it pretty much re-invented the standard for Disney for years to come. Based on the fairy tale by Charles Perrault, Cinderella tells the story of an orphaned girl who works in servitude to her stepmother and stepsisters, with only the mice as her friends.  When the king holds a ball in order to find a bride for his son, the prince, Cinderella wishes to go.  Though her step-family impedes her attempts, some magic from her fairy godmother gives Cinderella the opportunity to attend the ball, as long as she leaves by midnight. So there's a reason this one is so...