Word: cinderella
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There are just some sickos out there who get a kick out of seeing Snow White bitch-slap Cinderella. Fortunately for Mike Myers, this reviewer is just one of those people...
...fairy tale characters as they journey into the woods “to get their wish.” The story centers around a childless Baker and his Wife, who must obtain four items to reverse a curse set upon them by the Witch. Along the way, they meet Cinderella, Jack (as in “and the Beanstalk”), Little Red Riding Hood and a whole host of characters, each bent on obtaining his or her own particular desire. The first act ends brightly, with the characters obtaining their goals and settling down to live...
...seems, love Cinderella. Look how many zillions of dollars Disney has made repackaging the theme of pretty-but-unusual-girl-gets-lucky: handsome prince marries a sea creature (The Little Mermaid), handsome prince marries maiden who's been dozing for a hundred years (Sleeping Beauty), newly handsome prince marries bookworm with eccentric dad (Beauty and the Beast). Funny, though: the curtain falls at the wedding. The implicit message is that the chase is more exciting than the prize...
...that uncomfortable reality. Which means that Chancellor Schroeder may have been wasting his breath. President Bush, under pressure from the energy industry, recently tore up his own campaign promise to cut carbon-dioxide outputs from power stations. And if he's prepared to treat his own environment secretary like Cinderella, he was always going to give short shrift to the pleas of a German "Third Way" socialist...
...penthouse roof. It lands on Jean Arthur as she rides to work on the upper deck of a New York bus. If the movie were made in modern times, it would be.... "Pretty Woman," wherein, with our fatal literal-mindedness, we turned the poor girl in the Cinderella story into a prostitute. She was Julia Roberts, it is true, but a prostitute all the same...