Cinderella
Short description
Ella grows up happily with her parents until her mother's death, after which her father, a merchant, remarries. Wanting to see him content, Ella welcomes her new stepmother, Lady Tremaine, along with her daughters Anastasia and Drizella, into the family home. When her father dies unexpectedly, the household turns against her: the three women reduce Ella to a servant in her own house, leaving her covered in ashes and giving her the nickname Cinderella. A chance meeting with a charming stranger in the woods restores her hope of a different life, though she does not know that the man is the prince. News of a royal ball open to the women of the kingdom gives her a chance to see him again, but her stepmother and stepsisters have other plans.
Kenneth Branagh directed this live-action take on the fairy tale, the twelfth of the eighteen films he has directed in release order, arriving between Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit and Murder on the Orient Express. Chris Weitz wrote the screenplay, and David Barron, Simon Kinberg and Allison Shearmur produced. Lily James plays Ella, with Cate Blanchett as Lady Tremaine, Richard Madden as the prince, Stellan Skarsgård as the Grand Duke, and Holliday Grainger and Sophie McShera as the stepsisters.
Made for about 95 million dollars, the film took roughly 542 million dollars worldwide. Audiences rate it 6.9/10 on IMDb from around 204,000 votes and 6.8/10 on TMDB from about 7,500 votes, while its critics' rating stands at 7.2/10 from 251 reviews.
What's left behind the scenes
- Emma Watson was offered the lead role, but she declined.
- Mark Romanek was initially appointed as the film's director, but he left the project due to creative differences.
- Saoirse Ronan, Alicia Vikander, Imogen Poots, and Gabriella Wilde were considered for the role of Cinderella.
- More than 240 meters of fabric and 10,000 Swarovski crystals were used to create Cinderella’s dress, and over 4,800 meters of stitching were done. Nine identical dresses were made for filming the movie.
- It took costume designer Sandy Powell 120 meters of fabric, 400 LEDs, and thousands of Swarovski crystals to create the Fairy Godmother’s dress. The dress was almost 120 centimeters wide.
- In the film, stepsisters Anastasia and Drizella always wear dresses of the same style but different colors, just as in the Disney animated film of the same name.
- The film was shot in the pavilions of the British Pinewood Studios and at various outdoor locations in England.
- In the scene where the pumpkin transforms into a carriage, Ella and the Fairy Godmother, while trying to get out of the greenhouse, first follow each other, but in the next shot we see them exiting from opposite sides.
- When working on the castle and ballroom, Dante Ferretti used various architectural styles from different eras and locations, mostly elements of European architecture from the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries. The hall turned out to be enormous – 45 meters long and 32 meters wide. It occupied the entire seventh pavilion of the Pinewood studio. The interior was luxurious: marble floors; a massive staircase; curtains, for the sewing of which more than 1800 meters of fabric were used; 17 huge chandeliers made to order in Italy; more than 3600 meters of turquoise velvet for wall upholstery; more than 16,000 silk artificial flowers, as well as 5000 candles, each of which was handmade.
- Cinderella reads aloud a fairy tale written by Pip, the chipmunk from Disney's 'Enchanted' (2007), which culminates in Pip presenting his book.
Auditions in India
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