The continuation of the little princess in the original book is not like a movie review, but more like a book review
Basically, I didn't get much of the essence of the original work. I don't know if it's because of the actors' acting skills or because the director deliberately asked for it. From the beginning, Sarah didn't feel very pleasant, but looked like a little arrogant child. The girl's stepmother is about the same size (typical villain)
【Material Princess】
"So they bought a lot of clothes together, which was too much for a seven-year-old. Expensive fur-trimmed velvet clothes, lace clothes, embroidered clothes, hats trimmed with large swaths of soft ostrich feathers. , mink coats and hand warmers, boxes of little gloves, handkerchiefs and stockings."
"But when we take schoolchildren to church on Sunday, it looks good to have someone in this dress walking in front, and it's like she's a little princess with something for her."
In the early stage of the film, jewelry is not allowed, and the children all wear the same (green) school uniform, which does not show that Sarah is a child who is regarded as a "decorator", and at the beginning Sarah wore a beautiful dress (warm roses). color) and the ending of Sara's return to dress, there is a beginning and end in the original work. (Although it is the same dress, but the ending of Sara's inner life has changed due to suffering)
"Lavinia was out of resentment. She was especially jealous of Sarah. Before this new student came, she thought she was the head of the school"
It is also impossible for the audience to understand that Lavinia is jealous of her because her original "leader" position has been replaced by Sarah. It is this jealousy that makes Lavinia make a whistleblower in the later period. In the movie, Lavinia has become a very flat character, and does not reflect the delicate emotions of a girl. The act of teasing Ermengard with ink is purely because of his "evil" nature.
【What is a princess? 】
One of the conversations between Sarah and Ermengarde alludes to the development of the later story, asking the question "How can I find out if I am a good kid or a bad kid. Maybe I'm a nasty kid because I've never been tested. "
Sarah imagined herself a princess for the first time. From when Becky said to her "One time I saw a princess...all covered in pink (note the pink) robes, capes, flowers. I thought of her as soon as I saw you sitting at the table", Miss, you are like her. "
Here Becky is still saying this because of Sarah's appearance, because Sarah was wearing a rose red dress with a rose wreath to learn dancing that day. But what gave her the courage to say this was Sarah's gentle, friendly, and helpful chivalrous spirit. Becky's words were like a key that opened Sarah's act of imagining herself as a princess. It also opened Sarah's inquiry into how she became a princess.
【The spirit of the princess】
"If I were a princess—a true princess, I would give generously to the commoners."
When Sarah was wealthy, she acted in bringing cakes and pies to Becky. On an equal footing, telling stories to Becky. Helping Ermendes with homework. It wasn't just about keeping Becky from being cold. It's the cake and the fire, and there's something else that keeps her from getting cold, and this other thing is Sarah. discrimination, contempt)
【Sarah who is regarded as a beggar】
"If I'm a ragged princess, I can be a secret princess. If I wear gold and silver, it's easy to be a princess. It's more proud to be a princess without anyone knowing. ."
Sara who was starving and cold, Sara who was scolded and humiliated, Sara who was slapped by Miss Minqin, Sara who was treated as a little beggar by the child. At this time, she showed her tenacity. Just like Marie Antoinette during the French Revolution, people insulted her and called her the widow of Capet. Even when she was about to be guillotined, she wore only a black robe and shouted thugs It didn't scare her, she was more of a queen than when she was flamboyantly dressed and dignified.
"She was so cold, hungry and tired that her face began to show a look of pain. From time to time, well-meaning people passed by her on the street, and when they saw her, they felt a sense of sympathy.... There was a creaking in the tattered shoes, and the wind seemed to blow away her thin top."
In such a situation, Sarah picked up a coin and bought 6 buns, she saw a poor little man on the side of the road, and it was a poorer little man than her.
This section is the highlight moment of the entire original work. Sarah, as a "princess", is actually her own transformation has been completed. Of course, there is also her friendship with Ermendes in the middle, and the new world she sees in the attic. (But The new world is certainly not a big window with snow, thieves are happy to embrace snowflakes.)
【Become a princess of symbols】
"I think—now you feel like a princess again" "I don't want to be anyone else, not even when I'm coldest, when I'm most hungry—I don't want to be"
In the face of Miss Minchin's hysterical questioning, "Princess" has become a symbolic thing. Princesses, fantasy about magic, are just the spiritual strength to support themselves through difficult times. What really touches people is the inner part. With a beautiful dream Come true and he, the little princess is as complete as a Disney story. If there is no happy ending at the end, it is inexplicably reminiscent of the little girl who sells matches. Of course, these two stories are different in nature.
I forgot the movie as I wrote it. In fact, Emily, the doll, is also a very important prop. It is closely related to Sarah's growth.
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