Today, as I was skimming through channels, I came across the Disney Channel. I am not one to stop on this channel, but I saw part of this one movie. From the ending I saw it was called Ella Enchanted. I watched it after a while, because I had heard about it from one of the articles I read for my oral presentation.
The importance of it was how I saw it play with the fairy tale. The main theme I came upon was the theme of obedience. The character Ella is magically ordered to obey what she has been told to do. This idea plays very well on the idea from the fairy tales of Perrault and the Brothers Grimm, which familial obedience is a must. They gave this extreme a vision.
I think the movie was trying to show that people should be obedient, but not forced. The family is supposed to have precedent, but it shouldn't be the only thing. Plus, the obedience in the woman is also at play. A woman is not supposed to be told to do what whomever says, and this is being challenged throughout the tale.
Ella Enchanted had shown a new take on the fairy tale, and tried to say something in the process. Very clever.
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