Ever After - A Cinderella Story

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A Cinderella for a New Generation

 

Ever After is a retelling of the Cinderella story with a bit of a twist. This 16th Century Cinderella a.k.a. Danielle, played by Drew Barrymore is beautiful as well as intelligent. She is a victim of ill-fated circumstances who still manages, despite the odds, to rise above it all, change her fate and soar.

In Danielle, director Andy Tennan created a positive role model for today's young girls and women...a woman who is beautiful, adventurous, strong, smart and most of all a survivor.

Why I Love Ever After in 100 Words or Less 

Ever After: A Cinderella Story

Amazon Price: $12.99 (as of 09/07/2008)

I like Danielle because she is a new and improved Cinderella. This Cinderella speaks her mind. She is a woman not likely to stay at home and wait for her prince to come and rescue her. She is likely to go and figure out a way to solve her problems without him and rescue herself.

As an empowered woman, Danielle is a much better role positive model for today's young girls.

Ever After is a movie that I have shared with my young daughters to teach them how to you can be a strong 'princess.'

What do you think about Ever After? 

Ever After is the best movie ever (after).

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Bien sur, Ever After is the best.

ElizabethJeanAllen says:

I thought it was a great movie, my husband... Well what does he know anyway?

freelief says:

Not THE best, but a great movie nonetheless.

SemperFidelis says:

Great movie and nice lens. Certainly one of my favorites!

Jenn73 says:

...and don't forget that she actually rescues HIM at one point. Gotta love a girl with a strong back, right?

Comfortdoc says:

Of course, it's the best ever.

No Way! I disagree.

poddys says:

I wouldn't say it's the best movie ever, but I do like it and Drew Barrymore plays the role so well. I still like the Ella Enchanted version of the Cinderella story with Anne Hathaway.

 
 
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Ever After Information 

Ever After on YouTube 

Ever After Trailer

Ever After Trailer Songs: 1.The Mummers' Dance - Loreena McKennitt 2.Fable - Robert Miles

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Amazon Spotlight -The Mummers' Dance 

The Book of Secrets

Amazon Price: $11.97 (as of 09/07/2008)

Loreena McKennitt's Book of Secrets album features "The Mummers' Dance" used as background music for the Ever After Trailer featured above. This was one of my favorite albums when it was released in 1998.

The Mummer's Dance is perfect music background for this 16th century period movie.

Danielle - Not Your Grandmother's Cinderella 

Director Andy Tennant has two daughters of his own. He did not want them growing up believing that they have to "marry a rich guy with a big house in order to live happily ever after."

With Ever After he has created a more realistic and empowering "Cinderella," one for a new generation of girls.

Danielle De Barbarac is a new type of Cinderella. She is a woman not likely to stay at home and wait quietly for her prince to rescue her.

This Cinderella will be out fighting with him or for him.

Danielle or Cinderella 

What do you think about the updated version of Cinderella?

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Do you like the original fairy tale, Cinderella?

Do you prefer the updated, version, Ever After?

enslavedbyfaeries says:

I adore the updated version. It is a truly beautiful movie, one of my favorites!

Comfortdoc says:

I believe Ever After sends a much more positive message for today's girls (and women) than the traditional Cinderella tale.

 
 
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Drew Barrymore on Her Character Danielle in Ever After 

Drew Barrymore had this to say about Danielle:
    She's athletic and protective of people. She's adventurous, very strong and a survivor. She's well read, too, because her father gave her wonderfully eloquent, elaborate literature.

    In short, she is a 'Cinderella' for a new generation. She definitely is not a passive character.
Non passive, empowering role models are just what is needed for this generation of girls. Ever After has been viewed by some as a modern, post-feminism interpretation of the Cinderella myth.

Dougray Scott on Ever After on YouTube 

Dougray Scott Talks About Ever After

Dougray Scott talks about his role in the movie "Ever After," and how it was to work with Drew Barrymore. This video clip came from an "Electronic Media Kit" that was distributed at the time the original "Ever After" was released.

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Who is Your Favorite Ever After Character? 

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Ever After Fan Tributes on YouTube 

Ever After has become a fan favorite. Take a look at some of the beautiful tributes fans have created for this updated Cinderella Story.

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Ever After in the Winter Light

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Best Ever After Scene Ever 

Vote for your favorite Best Ever Scene or add a new one.

#1

The encounter with the Gypsies and the deal to leave with anything she can carry away (so she leaves with the Prince).

2 points

#2

Danielle's first meeting with the Prince.

1 point

#3

Danielle's floating in the water scene as Lenardo Da Vinci 'walks on water.'

1 point

#4

When Danielle shows up at the ball in the beautiful "Breathe" gown and wings.

1 point

#5

When Henry shows up to rescue Danielle from Le Pieu and ultimately proposes.

1 point

#6

Danielle pretending to be Countess Nicole de Lancret.

0 points

#7

Danielle and Prince Henry in the Library (in the Franciscan monastery).

0 points

#8

Danielle and Pierre Le Pieu, when she vows to 'slit you from navel to nose.'

0 points

#9

Danielle sees her stepmother and stepsister for the last time.

0 points

#10

When we learn the fate of the stepmother and stepsister, Marguerite.

0 points

#11

When we see the gift that Da Vinci has painted of Danielle.

0 points

#12

The closing scene...when we are reminded to live.

0 points

Amazon Spotlight - La Scapigliata by Da Vinci 

Female Head (La Scapigliata), c.1508 Fine Framed Art Poster Print by Leonardo da Vinci, 31x33

Amazon Price: $174.99 (as of 09/07/2008)

Leonardo da Vinci's Head of a Young Woman with Tousled Hair was featured in Ever After. Danielle was thought to be his inspiration for the painting.

You can get your own copy of the Framed Female Head (La Scapigliata) Leonardo Da Vinci Poster in Gold frame.

Price: $79.98

More La Scapigliata Options on Amazon 

More options for getting your own copy of da Vinci's Head of a Young Woman with Tousled Hair.

The original is located in the Museum Galleria Nazionale [Palazzo della Pilotta] in Parma, Italy. The Head of a Young Woman with Tousled Hair painting dates to the 15th century.

Desire. Defy. Escape.

Who would win in a fight? 

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Ever After on Amazon 

Ready to get your own copy of Ever After? Ever After - A Cinderella Story is available as a DVD, Music CD, Book and Movie Still Posters.

Ever After - A Cinderella Story

Amazon Price: $9.99 (as of 09/07/2008)

Ever After: A Cinderella Story (Laurel-Leaf Books)

The book is available through Amazon from several different sellers.

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Ever After: A Cinderella Story 27 x 40 (approx.) Poster

Price: $19.99

Amazon Price: $29.99 (as of 09/07/2008)

Ever After: A Cinderella Story 11"x17" Poster

Price: $9.99

Amazon Price: $24.99 (as of 09/07/2008)

Just Breathe

Best Ever After Quotes: Sound off 

Vote for your favorites, or add a new one.

#1

Danielle: Just Breathe...

2 points

#2

Gypsy: M'lady, you may have anything you can carry.

1 point

#3

Leonardo da Vinci: You cannot leave everything to Fate, boy. She's got a lot to do. Sometimes you must give her a hand.

1 point

#4

Rodmilla: Darling, nothing is final until you're dead, and even then, I'm sure God negotiates.

1 point

#5

Narrator: And while Cinderella and her Prince *did* live happily ever after, the point, gentlemen, is that they *lived*.

0 points

#6

Danielle: My father was an excellent swordsman, monsieur. He taught me well. Now hand me that key or I swear on his grave I will slit you from navel to nose.

0 points

#7

Danielle: I want you to know that I will forget you after this moment, and never think of you again. But you, I am quite certain, will think about me every single day for the rest of your life.

0 points

#8

Leonardo da Vinci: I know that a life without love is no life at all.

0 points

#9

Henry: In all my years of study, not one tutor ever demonstrated the passion you have shown me in the last two days. You have more conviction in one memory than I have... in my entire being.

0 points

#10

Danielle: You have everything, and still the world holds no joy; and yet you insist on making fun of those who would see it for its possibilities.

0 points

#11

Rodmilla: Some people read because they cannot think for themselves.

0 points

#12

Danielle: If you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners corrupted from infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded, sire, but that you first make thieves and..

0 points

#13

Henry: I wish for nothing more than to be free of my guilded cage.

0 points

#14

Danielle: A country's character is defined by its "everyday rustics", as you call them. They are the legs you stand on and that position demands respect, not...

0 points

#15

Henry: I uh....I came to...rescue you.

0 points

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The Magic Comes from Within 

Empowering a New Generation of Girls


"Ever After" puts a new spin on the traditional Cinderella message, instead of the magic coming from a fairy godmother, this modern Cinderella discovers that the her magic comes from within.

The Ever After website originally featured beautiful collages eCards of images from the movie, with the following motivational, inspirational and empowering messages:
  • You can feel.
  • You can believe.
  • You can dream.
  • You can defy.
  • You can rebel.
  • You can desire.
  • You can promise.
  • You can overcome.
  • You can escape.
  • You can soar.

Danelle's Dress

Websites Devoted to the Costumes of Ever After 

Ever After Costumes
A website created as a tribute to Jenny Beavan's beautiful Ever After costumes.
Ever After Costumes
A live journal devoted to the Costumes of Ever After.
Ever After Costume Research
Ever After Costume Research site! This site is a result of two intensive weeks of costume research for the movie "Ever After: A Cinderella Story."
EverAfterCos: Historical Paintings and Ever After Costumes
A webpage with a few paintings that look very similar to other Ever After costumes.

The Ever After Dress and Slipper 

Museum Trip - THEE Dress by SJBequeath

"Ever After" by riverdancegirl24

Drew Barrymore's Ever After dress 2 by gypsyjolie

Drew Barrymore's Ever After dress by gypsyjolie

"Ever After" - Drew Barrymore by ali.andromeda