Elizabeth Barrette (ysabetwordsmith) wrote,
Elizabeth Barrette
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Meme: If I wrote Cinderella...

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If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach.-- Alfred Hitchcock, 1899 - 1980

If I wrote Cinderella, what would you immediately be looking for?
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  • 19 comments
siliconshaman

siliconshaman

August 14 2011, 12:04:36 UTC 9 years ago

Well, I'd be looking very hard at the Fairy godmother...
ysabetwordsmith

Yes...

ysabetwordsmith

August 14 2011, 19:13:28 UTC 9 years ago

That makes sense.
applejinx

applejinx

August 14 2011, 14:00:34 UTC 9 years ago

A livejournal post! XD
ysabetwordsmith

*laugh*

ysabetwordsmith

August 14 2011, 19:30:46 UTC 9 years ago

Good one.
pseudonymeter

pseudonymeter

August 14 2011, 14:04:58 UTC 9 years ago

malicious beasties with good intentions
ysabetwordsmith

Yes...

ysabetwordsmith

August 14 2011, 22:42:07 UTC 9 years ago

I do that a fair bit, don't I? Hee!
the_vulture

the_vulture

August 14 2011, 16:04:31 UTC 9 years ago

A twist on a trope (trope on a rope?)
ysabetwordsmith

*laugh*

ysabetwordsmith

August 14 2011, 19:31:20 UTC 9 years ago

Trope on a rope, love it. Must remember that one.
the_vulture

Re: *laugh*

the_vulture

9 years ago

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msstacy13

msstacy13

August 14 2011, 16:52:59 UTC 9 years ago

At some point, I'd expect her to clear up the mistaken translation,
and insist that the idiot prince bring a fur slipper...
and she'd probably give him a piece of her mind
regarding taxation and health care...
ysabetwordsmith

Wow!

ysabetwordsmith

August 15 2011, 06:45:15 UTC 9 years ago

I actually did write a scene, once, in which a character was given a pair of ermine slippers and remarked "not vair, but ver."
msstacy13

Re: Wow!

msstacy13

9 years ago

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paka

paka

August 14 2011, 16:56:35 UTC 9 years ago

You'd write it from the perspective of one of the stepsisters, and talk about 1) how they, too, had lost a parent; 2) how being the persecuted nerd girl is sympathetic, but so too are the beautiful people, pushed to be nothing but appearances by people like the stepmother and; 3) the foot thing especially as a beauty deal.
ysabetwordsmith

Yes...

ysabetwordsmith

August 15 2011, 06:45:50 UTC 9 years ago

That's a good one.
janetmiles

janetmiles

August 14 2011, 23:27:32 UTC 9 years ago

I would know better than to look for anything, because whatever I thought I was expecting, you'd turn it on it's ear.

Put another way, I'd be looking for you to do something completely unexpected with the story.
fayanora

fayanora

August 15 2011, 08:02:39 UTC 9 years ago

Expect the unexpected! :-D
janetmiles

janetmiles

9 years ago

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fayanora

fayanora

August 15 2011, 08:01:34 UTC 9 years ago

I dunno. But I rewrote Cinderella once. No prince, no ball. The "fairy godmother" teaches her how to pick locks and encourages her to run away. She does, and has a successful life joining the gypsies. (or something like that, I haven't read it for a while) Self-rescuing maiden, just needed some encouragement.
wander_realtai

wander_realtai

August 15 2011, 18:14:10 UTC 9 years ago

Hmmmm...

I think you'd probably write a quirky, lyrical poem from the perspective of the glass slipper. :D

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