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"You're gonna know my name": 'Cinderella' (2021)

 "You're gonna know my name": 'Cinderella' (2021)

- Alisha Gharat

The new Cinderella film, launched in 2021, is a musical of the fairy tale ‘Cinderella’ where the main character is an orphaned girl who yearns for success in business as a dressmaker rather than real love. In Kay Cannon's latest film, the princess narrative is brought into the twenty-first century with Top-40 pop music, self-aware banter, and a clichéd girl boss sensibility. In an original opening number, she shouts out, "You're gonna know my name," as she imagines a bazaar shop named "Dresses by Ella". Cannon’s approach is archaic, and she is aware of it. It celebrates the musical's artifice as characters unexpectedly erupt into pop tunes, complete with side looks. Repurposing existing music to carry the plot, on the other hand, might be clumsy at times.

She doesn't need real love as much as she needs a willing venture Capitalist or VC to back her line, "Dresses by Ella," at a period when the concept of a businesswoman was ridiculed. She is still an orphan who is abused by her stepfamily, but the canonical evilness has been eased a touch. The stepmother has a background as well. However, she continues to treat each of her daughters as a means of raising her family's social position.  Ella muses on the possibilities of her goals coming true in the original song "Million to One."  As a result, she needs the assistance of her deus-ex-machina. As Fab G, a genderqueer fairy godparent, Billy Porter appears in a golden gown. Robert, a prince who doesn't want to be king, is waiting for her at the ball. Princess Gwen, on the other hand, does. But, because of patriarchy, she is not considered.

Initially, Ella and Robert are out of sync with one another. She refuses to choose between love and a successful job. But, in the end, he learns to appreciate her goals and realises that they can co-exist. Cinderella is rather vocal about it, framed by the notion that this version of the fairy tale has been re-contextualized by 21st-century gender politics.  Cabello tosses her glass shoes against people who try to persuade her to marry the prince instead of losing them. Overall, this film was good and had a different take on gender than other fairy tales.


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