Cinderella (1950 film)/Fridge

Fridge Brilliance

 * Both Charles Perrault's and the Brothers Grimm's versions of the Fairy Tale mention that one of the step-sisters was slightly less mean than the other one...
 * The third movie was the first time Cinderella had something serious to fight for and was in actual danger. It makes sense that she'd be more Badass than in the original movie.

Fridge Logic

 * In the second movie, Prudence forbids Cinderella from inviting any commoners to palace festivals, despite the fact Cinderella herself was a commoner when she attended the ball in the first movie. She even points this out during a private rant about Prudence's restrictions.

Fridge Horror

 * Cinderella's step-sisters destroy the dress she's wearing with their bare hands after discovering that she made the dress out of the same materials they had on their dresses. A kid is reminded of fighting with her own siblings over things like clothes and thinks, "That's so mean!" An adult finds it disturbingly similar to sexual assault (or, if you really want to be perverted, a good, ol'-fashioned, clothes-rippin' Cat Fight).
 * More Fridge Horror comes in when you realize that if the stepsisters have no problem assaulting Cindrella in such a fashion (no pun intended), then they and their mother may have physically abused Cinderella prior to this!
 * What was the fairy godmother thinking when she gave Cinderella glass slippers, I mean imagine what could happen when you break them, while you're still dancing with them?
 * The fairy godmother's magic made them indestructible while on Cindy's feet.
 * In the original fairy tale, the slippers were enchanted, and could only be worn by someone dainty and graceful enough to walk in them without shattering them. Cinderella fits the bill.
 * In the original original fairy tale, they were made out of fur. A translation error turned them glass.
 * Debatable. The original was written in French, and the French words for fur and glass are extremely similar in both spelling and sound, so it COULD have been a translation error, but to the best of my knowledge that's never been confirmed. However, if that IS the case, then there's this to think about: The Prince was going through the kingdom, having his men check all the young women to see who had the perfect fur slipper. It doesn't take Freud to figure that one out, and suddenly the Prince looks a lot less noble.
 * Actually, the oldest known version of the story dates back to the 1st Century BC. It's set in Ancient Egypt, and the original original original "Cinderella" had golden slippers. A few other versions have her in golden slippers, many of which took place in Asia, long before the story reached France.
 * In Cinderella: A Twist in Time, the lengths Lady Tremaine goes to replace Cinderella with one of her own daughters as the prince's wife is really alarming, when you think about it. Cinderella is Happily Married, moved away from her stepfamily, and probably never thought she'd have to deal with them again. And then Lady Tremaine turns back the clock and starts casting enchantments left and right to have her way. Even worse, she's clearly more than willing to pretty much erase Anastasia's identity in the process. Her last plan was to turn Anastasia into a copy of Cinderella. So not only was she tricking the prince into marrying under false pretenses, but she's condemning Anastasia to either a marriage as a lie (if Anastasia stays looking like Cinderella for the rest of her life) or a marriage where the prince is almost certainly resentful and upset (if Anastasia is turned into her own form after the wedding).
 * This troper just re-watched A Twist in Time and was shocked by a line in just the first few minutes. After Anastasia brings home the magic wand, her mother assumes its just a stick and the other sister blurts out "Let's beat her with it!" I guess now that Cinderella is gone, the Mother found another outlet for her cruelty...
 * Even worse is that Anastasia and her sister seemed to be, while maybe not close, at least getting along with each other before...Which means that Anastasia's sister probably turned on her just as fast as their mother did, and probably takes part in the abuse herself!


 * According to Cinderella, "A dream is a wish your heart makes". If one were to take this to be true, then hearts really love to wish for messed up things, and nightmares!

The Rodgers and Hammerstein version

 * Fridge Logic: Several people have seen the 1997 version, or clips and pictures of it, and wondered how a black queen and a white king could have a Filipino prince for a son.