[ SECRET POST #3031 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3031 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Notes:

Going to be a late day, so early secrets!

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 035 secrets from Secret Submission Post #433.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[ketita]

Do NOT watch the movie. It will make you angry. It's like they managed to miss everything that was awesome about the book.

[lb_lee]

Rogan: Yup, that's exactly what we've heard, and exactly why we haven't seen it.

Sneak: It's such a shame, though! Ella Enchanted was such a great book, and a movie could've done so much with it!

[ketita]

Right?? Ella Enchanted is also one of my favorite books, and could have been an awesome movie - and Ella is a great protagonist, too.
And yet they managed to completely miss everything that made the book so good, and Ella so awesome (for example, they change the way she breaks her curse in the movie. NOT FOR THE BETTER. idk if you care about being spoiled).

Sparing yourselves is probably the best idea.

[lb_lee]

Hit me. Is it the power of true love's kiss or some shit like that?

It never fails to impress me how adaptation crews can go, "Wow, look at all this shit that made this thing a hit. ...LET'S REMOVE ALL OF IT AND MAKE IT LIKE EVERYTHING ELSE! That'll make it an EVEN BIGGER HIT!"

--Rogan

[ketita]

It's worse.

The Prince's evil uncle figures out her curse, and then commands her to kill the prince. There's a dramatic scene when Char asks her to marry him, then she starts crying and he hugs her, and she goes to stab him in the back with a knife. Then she sees her reflection in a convenient mirror and goes "you will no longer be obedient!!!" and breaks the curse.
//flips all the tables

[lb_lee]

What? WHAT?

That's so fucking stupid! The whole POINT of the entire book was Ella overcoming her curse through sheer force of will, and the dire straits it took to force her to that point! That ending takes away all of Ella's agency! It takes away her entire journey as a character!

WHAT THE EVERLOVING FUCK. WHO CAME UP WITH THAT? WHY?

--Rogan

[ketita]

Exactly :|
The whole beauty of it was that it wasn't even an immediate threat - Ella realized that her stepmother and stepsisters would manipulate her, and what a threat she would be to the kingdom, and her big victory was refusing to marry him despite truly wanting to - and despite being ordered to do it.
Ella tried the mirror-thing like on page 1 and realized it didn't work.
That movie makes me SO angry.

[lb_lee]

Exactly! If the curse was THAT FUCKING EASY to break, it would've been broken AGES ago! Ella's story was one of her highest values and cares being stronger than her feelings and curse. Why would they change that for the movie? I don't get it!

--Rogan