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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.
Ever After Table of Contents
- Why I Love Ever After in 100 Words or Less
- What do you think about Ever After?
- Ever After Information
- Ever After on YouTube
- Amazon Spotlight -The Mummers' Dance
- Danielle - Not Your Grandmother's Cinderella
- Drew Barrymore on Her Character Danielle in Ever After
- Dougray Scott on Ever After on YouTube
- Who is Your Favorite Ever After Character?
- Ever After Fan Tributes on YouTube
- Best Ever After Scene Ever
- Amazon Spotlight - La Scapigliata by Da Vinci
- More La Scapigliata Options on Amazon
- Who would win in a fight?
- Ever After on Amazon
- Just Breathe
- Best Ever After Quotes: Sound off
- If you like Ever After you may also like...
- The Magic Comes from Within
- Danelle's Dress
- Websites Devoted to the Costumes of Ever After
- The Ever After Dress and Slipper
- Dream Affirmations Available on Amazon
- Believe Affirmations Available on Amazon
- The Point is to Live...
- Amazon Spotlight - May You Live...
- Other Ever After sites worth visiting
- Ever After Tops SquidFlix Reviews
- # 1 on SquidFlix
- Ever After is a Top 100 Review on SquidFlix
- Recipient of the Squids Choice Award
- Featured Lens on the Squids Choice Awards
- Ever After is a Featured Lens on Children's Movies
- Ever After Available on eBay
- Ever After Guestbook
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).
Fetching blurbs now... please stand byBien sur, Ever After is the best.
ElizabethJeanAllen says:
I thought it was a great movie, my husband... Well what does he know anyway?
Posted June 08, 2008
SemperFidelis says:
Great movie and nice lens. Certainly one of my favorites!
Posted December 17, 2007
Jenn73 says:
...and don't forget that she actually rescues HIM at one point. Gotta love a girl with a strong back, right?
Posted December 16, 2007
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.
Posted June 18, 2008
Ever After Information
- Desire. Defy. Escape.
Genre:
Romance
Comedy
Fantasy
Release Date: 1998
Directed by:
Andy Tennant
Actors:
Drew Barrymore
Anjelica Huston
Dougray Scott
Rating: PG-13
Run Time: 121 min
Ever After on YouTube
Ever After Trailer
Ever After Trailer Songs: 1.The Mummers' Dance - Loreena McKennitt 2.Fable - Robert Miles
Runtime: 1:56
50854 views
10 Comments:
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?
Fetching blurbs now... please stand byDo 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!
Posted May 13, 2008
Comfortdoc says:
I believe Ever After sends a much more positive message for today's girls (and women) than the traditional Cinderella tale.
Posted December 15, 2007
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.
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.
Runtime: 1:43
7648 views
10 Comments:
Who is Your Favorite Ever After Character?
Ever After Fan Tributes on YouTube
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
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?
Ever After on Amazon
Ever After - A Cinderella Story
Amazon Price: $9.99 (as of 09/07/2008)
Ever After: A Cinderella Story - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Amazon Price: $13.99 (as of 09/07/2008)
Ever After: A Cinderella Story (Laurel-Leaf Books)
The book is available through Amazon from several different sellers.
Amazon Price: (as of 09/07/2008)
Ever After: A Cinderella Story 27 x 40 (approx.) Poster
Price: $19.99
Amazon Price: $29.99 (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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#5
Music and Lyrics (Widescreen Edition)
A has-been singer is asked to write and record a d more...0 points
#7
50 First Dates (Widescreen Special Edition)
Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore star together for more...0 points
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
