Final Presentation Proposal

A Little Princess & Walt Disney’s Cinderella

These two film are similar and significantly different from one another. The classic story of Cinderella seems to mirror Alfonso Cuarón’s A little princess. After losing her father young Cinderella is trapped being ‘raised’ by her evil step-mother. Young Sara Crewe, who has also lost her father, doesn’t have an evil step mother, but she does have miss Minchin which is far worse.

One aspect I would like to explore further is the affect that time has on each film. Sara Crewe has a Cinderella story, but she is not Cinderella. She is ethnic and cultured, and I want to analyze how her culture is represented in the film if at all and I want to see if Cinderella’s has a culture, and if so, how is it depicted.

 Both films depict young women losing their father under very different circumstances. It showcases how poorly these women are treated, and how both women defy the odds and overcome their discrepancies.

Though these movies were created nearly 50 years apart, they are linked at their foundation.

P.S I'm just now realizing that Miss Minchin & the evil step mother bare a striking resemblance.