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Cruella
2021 · Film · 134 min
Directed by Craig Gillespie
In 1970s London amidst the punk rock revolution, a young grifter named Estella is determined to make a name for herself with her designs. She befriends a pair of young thieves who appreciate her appetite for mischief, and together they are able to build a life for themselves on the London streets. One day, Estella’s flair for fashion catches the eye of the Baroness von Hellman, a fashion legend who is devastatingly chic and terrifyingly haute. But their relationship sets in motion a course of events and revelations that will cause Estella to embrace her wicked side and become the raucous, fashionable and revenge-bent Cruella.
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Disney’s 2021 “Cruella,” based on the 101 Dalmatians franchise, has a main villain who tries to kill her own daughter. Lot of complexity there. Great film.
This comment made me replay 2021 cruella in my head a bit.. the successful female asshole is successful since she does not play fair.. the younger female gets to be an asshole cuz she is poor / parents taken away (?) She then becomes a different asshole caring for only herself and single success, which her long time friends dislike.. then she gets to be a more sinister asshole because she has proof her victims have been more sinister (?)
the female lead was the same as devil wears prada right? so the typecast / emotional prejudice was already embedded..
I can see how this stuff is hard to write, once of the suicide squads tried so hard it should of just made up new characters imho.
but then this particular formula seems so easy to write - main characters get to do really bad things to people cuz those people did really bad things.
I guess this is the main appeal of spiderman type projects - they limit the bad things done to bad people (?)
I put question marks because my study and recollection of these things is of a real interest, but not well versed research / knowledge. I'm sure there is much more.
Frankly I've been disappointed in what movies/media/tv shows / social sharing - all this stuff has been teaching for lessons for a long time, I can't think of much that is done well for non-awful lessons I guess.
I think it's a whole genre that was finally allowed into mainstream. For a long time we had very black/white view on the superheroes in movies. Only relatively recently Batman got a bit interesting, Star Wars had someone turn "bad", Ironman was a good jerk, Starlord... was a good jerk, Loki and Deadpool are pretty chaotic, now Sandman is soon coming out. We have a number of "that bad character had reasons" movies like Cruella.
Those existed for ages in comic books, but I don't think mainstream / Disney would touch them.