Oh! Oh! I just saw Enchanted yesterday too! How's that for synchroneity?
(I found your blog through Athanarel; I hope you don't mind me commenting, it's just that Enchanted is still fresh in my mind and I want to chatter about it.)
I'm not sure I would say Giselle is broken, though. She's still just as effervescent at the end of the movie, there's just more depth and range of emotions to back it up. I don't think its so much gaining cynicism as growing up, because she starts the movie as an arrested-development woman-child.
I thought the stepmother part was interesting, too. There still is an evil stepmother, but the movie ends with Giselle herself becoming a stepmother (and evidently a fairly good one). Actually, the whole movie had that kind of back-and-forth--nods at old-fashioned Disney ideas coupled with nods toward more modern ideas, which update the old without actually breaking them. For instance, Giselle still ends up with her True Love; he just isn't the first guy she meets.
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(I found your blog through Athanarel; I hope you don't mind me commenting, it's just that Enchanted is still fresh in my mind and I want to chatter about it.)
I'm not sure I would say Giselle is broken, though. She's still just as effervescent at the end of the movie, there's just more depth and range of emotions to back it up. I don't think its so much gaining cynicism as growing up, because she starts the movie as an arrested-development woman-child.
I thought the stepmother part was interesting, too. There still is an evil stepmother, but the movie ends with Giselle herself becoming a stepmother (and evidently a fairly good one). Actually, the whole movie had that kind of back-and-forth--nods at old-fashioned Disney ideas coupled with nods toward more modern ideas, which update the old without actually breaking them. For instance, Giselle still ends up with her True Love; he just isn't the first guy she meets.