At the end he says he has always loved her kindness and courage. But when was that established? 😂 At best, he grudgingly acknowledged she was cleverer than him.
Even as a kid I was annoyed she forgot so quickly how upset she was when he said ‘what else is there’ about her appearance! When she ditched him first I was like - yesss
I might’ve been too young when I first saw it, cause I went, “yeah, what else is there?”. Could’ve avoided her father’s death 💅🏼 On a serious note, she’s a) been groomed to like Derek by literally everyone around her, b) had been kidnapped for months, so a life with a doofus in a warm castle is not a bad alternative.
I was so irritated that they literally put a plot turn in the movie where Derek had the perfect opportunity to get a character development and "go beyond the looks", to guess that it wasn't Odette, that it was a trap and WASTED it completely, like boy, you still understand NOTHING
It’s such a common problem when adapting something and changing the ending. Take the little mermaid, a story about how making sacrifices for a man *will kill you* . A lot of ballet and opera is focused on “men make terrible decisions that ruin everyone’s lives”.
I watched The Swan Princess about five years ago, and a thing that really annoyed me, is that Derek is like 5-years-old when Odette is born, but then she magically catches up to him in age 🙃
Tbh I think this line was the reason I used to be skeptical of ANYONE who called me pretty. My husband had to be very careful about which compliments he gave me when we first dated, because I did NOT accept "pretty" for a long time.
It was always wild to me that the beginning shows them having such a rich history together to found their relationship on and then it has no impact on their relationship or the plot
Something I also wish is that Odette had at least one female friend or close female relationship. I mean she didn’t have a mom around and all her friends are guys. The only other prominent female character is Uberta but she is mainly associates with Derek and Chamberlain. I guess there’s also Bridgette but she’s an antagonist that doesn’t speak.
Great review! A couple things: 1. They should've just had Derek be a nice guy from the start. It makes the romance SUPER easy, but it's reasonable since they grew up together, and removes problematic elements. 2. The "beauty is on the inside" message could've been done well if Rothbart kidnaps Odette and leaves Odile (disguised as Odette) in her place. Working for Rothbart, her personality is repulsive, and drives home the "beauty is on the inside" message and Derek could reject her on this basis, proving he loved the real Odette. 3. I think it's hard to give the "beauty is on the inside" message, even in this day and age. Conventionally attractive people can feel unattractive, but when they develop self-love, everyone is cynical: "that's easy for you to say; you're gorgeous. Who wouldn't love you?" And if a person who isn't conventionally attractive gives this message, people may view it as patronizing or say "that's nice, but I still want to look different or be different from how I am now."
Ooh. Maybe they could have made Dereck a Secondary villain. He only cares about looks, so he constantly almost gets Odette killed and almost causes her death with the curse. In the end he ends up marrying the old witch and ends up with an “ugly” wife. Odette on the other hand finds love with someone else. I mean in the original tale, Derick does cause Odette’s death because he was taken in by someone else’s looks (through trickery and magic but still).
Swan Princess was one of my favorite films growing up, which is weird because I didn’t relate to the story or characters which is usually why I like stories. I just genuinely enjoyed the film. I especially liked the fact that Derek and Odette actually had a relationship, I always found that so much more romantic than love at first sight. I agree that the film would have been leagues better if Derek had been genuinely in love with Odette from the beginning and that his issues came from him being in denial about how much he actually cares for her, then the moments where he would sense the swan was Odette and the assistant wasn’t could’ve been moments of him realizing that he truly does love her, and not for the reason he originally tried to tell everyone, including himself.
Yeah he was upset Odette didn't want to be with Derek I alwayd thought the king was so wrong for that 😭 he wasn't angry vut disappointed that she wanted self-respect and not to be valued just for the physical.
I'm lowkey obsessed with this video! Like, I've never actually watched the movie (although the story itself sounds familiar), but when you said Derek was more worried about Odette than with her father literally dying in front of him, I lost it 😂 Nice to see a Disney prince being (rightfully) dragged instead of the usual 'Is [insert princess name] feminist?' analysis video (which I like but it's nice to watch smth different).
I think they did the ball scene and the forest/hunt scene the way they did it bc they wanted to be as close to the original story as possible. In the original story Siegfried (yes, that´s the actual name of the prince) goes hunting and almost kills Odette but she just turns into a human int he right time. When Odile (the evil wizards daughter) dances with Siegfried, Siegfried actually declares his love for Odile (who he thinks is Odette) which causes Odette to "die" or at least getting weak. But they still could´ve made it different yet similar. I think the hunting scene is fine. For the ball scene: Derek and Odile dance, Odette tries to stop it. While dancing Derek gets a weird feeling but Odile pressures him "gently" to declare to everyone his love for "her". Derek does this but still feels off and the moment he declared his "love" he immediately is like "but wait. It can´t be you. It´s not YOU. Who are you!" or he is like "I love Odette" and then turns to Odile "but not you" or sth like that.
In the Ballet, Swan Lake, which the movie is based on, the prince fails to recognize that woman in the black dress isn’t really Odette, which leads to her dying from the curse. He then takes his own life. So I believe in the movie they wanted to still tell that story but give Derek a chance at redemption. Too bad he’s a little dense 😂
This is legit like one of my favourite movies, especially when Odette calls Derek out (though gutted how easily she forgives him) but I love when the towns people are super excited because they're hoping there'll be less taxes and stuff.
I loved the movie growing up. Later though when I was older and rewatch it along with the first two sequels. I discovered how shallow Dereek were through all the three movies and he might changed a bit in the third one but I still can’t stand him nowadays. Before when I was little he was okay but so bland. 🙄
The music by Tchaikovsky and the ballet came before the movie. It has always been a dark story, as in Odette dies at the end of it because the prince doesn't realize that he's got an imposter in front of him rather than the real one. Rothbards curse kills Odette in the end.
I think you're right. Most of the resentment in the song seems to be about being pressured to marry each other. Not that I blame her for not wanting to spend the whole summer with someone who's a jerk to her.
The movie could be a decent deconstruction on the whole "Love at First Sight" Trope on Derek's end. If you think back to the original Disney Princess (from which movie heavily borrows) it's always the princes who first start crushing on the heroine, but most of the time you don't get the sense that these Princes get to know the Princesses that well and it seems they just fall in love with them because they're pretty (or different from the others). As we see with Derek who never made an effort to get to know Odette on a deeper level and only started to show attraction when she started looking pretty. Shame the movie pretty much abandons this theme when it could have lend itself to the later plot of the Impostor Odette (slightly miffed that Odile's charater is pretty much exiled from the film) if Derek had to get to know Odette more in-between he could have noticed that she wasn't acting by herself.
I loved Prince Cornelius so much he was actually one of my first animated crushes 😅 Also the songs were so good! I wish people wrote more songs like that, especially songs like Soon and Let me be your Wings
having watched nearly all the sequels, it's clear that richard rich's favorite character is uberta. I dont know why he even bothered writing other characters into these films, since, they pretty much just get in the way of ubertas "storylines". its laughable and sad. I wonder what goes on in that mans mind.
This is why this film really doesn’t hold up. After the great, shockingly realistic opening sequence, it shoots itself in the foot by completely forgetting the arc they set up for Derek and the reason Odette left him.
I think the problems ppl have with this movie boil down to: - characters are written as average real people, which *isn’t my idea* for kid’s media since the messages need to be loud and clear; - the original ending is changed so it screws with the original message; - now, in order for the changed ending to work, Derek needs to have half a brain cell; Siegfried gets a pass cause he saw Odette like one time; - the passing of time is derived solely from context clues (Odette having made friends, “Practice” and Queen not believing odette could be alive at the ball); - so many intentions, so little time is why we usually have very strong fans or haters. I disagree on the adult Odette. As a kid I loved her the most out of all the princesses because she just wouldn’t quit. It’s pretty much the Odette show. Also, whether or not she knows of her father’s fate is up for discussion. I think an interesting essay idea would be the social dynamics and gender norms within the kingdoms and royal families that left the heirs with low expectations and zero understanding of relationships.
These are really good points, great analysis! I think it’s always a fine line between realism in films and over the top characters, but especially in animated movies. Sometimes the most realistic choices characters make or things that they say in movies/TV come across as unrealistic because it doesn’t fit the tropes or narratives we are familiar with, but when you re-examine it, it’s like “yeah that is what a regular person would do.”
In the third movie, when odette finds out he didnt get rid of the magic from bad guy in first movie. She gets upset and what he says pisses me off. I cant remember but you should go watch.
I always found the mom so weird too in the last scene, where she just...didn't recognize Odette. She kept going like who is she. It can't be, could it? I know she's believed to be dead, but it's clearly...Odette. Another thing about that scene cause you mentioned Odette was so bland that no one really noticed a personality shift when she was being impersonated, I just found it funny that the imposter was wearing red and black and in a nineties kids movies( where red and black is considered villain colors) and even that wasn't commented on like oh you're not wearing your traditional swan white dress that you're literally wearing the entire time i've known you as an adult, odette. Like at least that would show some level of perception.
I understand the idea of making Odette and Derek grow up together (because the original ballet has it be InstaLove) and thus explore the idea of love naturally growing. However, the rest of the story follows the ballet almost beat for beat. I mean it does make sense to update the story to fit the film medium (because it is different). But other than the changed opening, it’s almost a perfect recreation of the story, even down to the black dress Odile wears at the ball. Thing is…the explanation for Siegfried’s rash oath to Odile makes sense. It’s InstaLove as I mentioned earlier and he doesn’t know Odette very well. So it’s understandable that he’d be fooled by a lookalike. That’s the whole tragedy of Swan Lake. It’s about the dangers of being so swept up by your emotions that you fail to see the red flags and end up with a broken heart. Having Derek and Odette be childhood companions removes this aspect and makes Derek look like an idiot for not realizing his childhood companion isn’t acting herself and calls her out on it.
In regard to William asking Odette “What else did you want him to say” he doesn’t sound angry or even disappointed. If anything, he sounds confused. I think he knows that Odette is in love with Derek (either because she told him at some point or because he saw them together and it clicked for him) and doesn’t understand why Odette would willingly give up marrying the man she loves. Remember, William is established as a father who (while being clueless sometimes) does love his daughter and wants her to be happy. Otherwise he and Uberta wouldn’t have come up with this whole “let’s force the kids to spend summers together in the hopes they end up falling in love with each other” scheme. He does respect Odette’s wishes despite being upset that Derek chose to put his foot in his mouth.
They had to have him deceived at the ball, since they're loosely following the main story beats of "Swan Lake" and Siegfried is taken in by Odile in the ballet. It's a little unfair to expect anything different here.
Can you pleaaase do videos on Twilight? Those books/movies were so big for me in my tween years and it's so fun to look back on them, they're so wild ❤
A scene in the movie that I finally understood and laugh about now that I am older is when Derek is playing chess with Bromley. Bromley says: “You lost your queen Derek.” And Derek replies with: “That’s twice in one day.” 😂
Regarding Odette’s seemingly immediate forgiveness of Derek’s shallowness: we should keep in mind that it only happens after she has been kidnapped (which coincided with the murder of her father) and just how traumatic that must have been, even if they don’t really show her expressing it. She very suddenly finds herself orphaned, alone, and in the clutches of a treacherous predator. She’s in a constant state of fight or flight, and she can really only fly so far because of the spell. It’s no surprise that she would suddenly lean on Derek, romanticize him as her one true love-in addition to being her rescuer (especially in an era when the only way she could escape a man like Rothbart was through marriage to another man), he was also one of the only constants in her life. That level of sudden instability might have made her more dependent on him than she would have been otherwise. Breaking the spell literally depended on it. Basically, her choices in the end were Derek, Rothbart, or death. Rothbart may have hoped she would develop some kind of Stockholm Syndrome feelings for him, but instead she poured all of that emotion and energy into hoping that Derek would save her.
@@SerenaSkybourne I mean forgetting your anniversry! Promising to make it up to her than don't. Putting everything else first. Keeping info from her and not listening to her concerns?? Real husband material there!
I always thought the assistant was his mom 😂 also, I don’t appreciate the ballet slander 😩 ballets can be extremely dark with high stakes, it’s just that no one goes to see them
Swan princess was favourite a childhood film of mine. I prefer it over barbie's Swan Lake. I actually find it funny that the characters have more personality in the opening song than in the rest of the movie. Rodger's "You should write a book How to offend women in 4 syllables or less" has me laughing every time I see it. The first part of the movie has such a lovely message. Not only beauty counts. But than in the rest of the movie it's forgotten. She has forgotten why she did not want to marry him.
My family only had the first and third movies as children. Derek was not really any better in the third movie. As a child, he was my least favorite character in both movies. If one of your main characters is disliked/hated by your main demographic, you messed up big time. Also, i listen to the soundtrack all the time, so nothing has really been ignited or reignited. It has been an annoyance this entire time. So i mostly listen to the opening song because it is the best part of the movie and doesn't annoy me.
Never seen the movie, but love the ballet. This movie isn’t close to the original story of the ballet at all. It only takes how Rothbart transforms her into a swan. I guess they didn’t think the story of the ballet compelling enough for tv. It’s got a tragic ending though which would make it so different from other movies. I’m always dreaming of a ballet themed movie of swan lake that represent the actual ballet narrative. 😄😊
Actually I never watched this movie but Derek sounds like a real jerk. I think this was common for old films (?) where adults just lose characters because they're just seen as either male or female stereotype character.
He liked her as teens too! Derricks friend said “I think you really sorta like her fessup” and Derrick is giving her an Anthony Bridgeton face Also “What else is there” 😬😬😬😬😬 also I love non Disney animated musicals! This, Anastasia and Furngully
Good film but this is to show character development to Derek and in the second film. Even Lord Rogers stole the entire movie and should have had a spin off on why he became Uberta’s butler, being in his twenty’s when he would be a redhead.
To be fair what did Odette expect Derek to say?? He barely had any conversation with her before so how could he have been attracted to her for anything other than her looks (I mean there is also her money and title I guess?? But I don't think that would have been a much better response lmao). Realistically Derek honestly did too much for someone he barely knows tbh
Thank you for another great feminist take on a movie. I convinced myself I remembered this movie incorrecctly, cause I remember the first part (esp. them as kids) so vividly, but yeah turns out the middle/end truly was uninspired an paint-by-numbers... Thanks for jogging my memory and giving me so much to think over when it comes to set-up and pay-off! 🦢 I imagine Odette was raised/encouraged to be active, and outspoken and not to fixiated on beauty (almost as if she were a boy) and Derek was clearly raised to believe girls are different than boys (maybe more precious?)...
He was NOT drawn hot enough to be talking to her like that fr
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"You should write a book "How to offend a woman in 4 syllables or less" - my iconic king
he is our king
I love him so much 😂
Why is the butler always the best 😂
@@breezy3392his sarcasm. Lord Rogers is the name of the butler, but also takes his duties as musician advisor to Derek.
I think it was 5 not 4
They set Derek up for a moral lesson about judging people by their character, and then forgot to give it to him
At the end he says he has always loved her kindness and courage. But when was that established? 😂 At best, he grudgingly acknowledged she was cleverer than him.
@@Aelffwynnwell she was kind and courageous when she helped the animals and when she tried to escape Rothbart and how she denied him no matter what.
@dawnwinter-wi4ps ...yeah. she was. But HE was never shown noticing it or caring. When he said he "always" admired her personality, it was bullshit.
Even as a kid I was annoyed she forgot so quickly how upset she was when he said ‘what else is there’ about her appearance! When she ditched him first I was like - yesss
she has short term memory loss
@SerenaSkybourne she's self gaslighting as if it isn't important, I think.. we have all brushed off some red flag at some point I feel like 😭
@@OzmaOfOzzI don’t know why I’m judging her tbh, I’ve done the same thing myself so many times
I might’ve been too young when I first saw it, cause I went, “yeah, what else is there?”. Could’ve avoided her father’s death 💅🏼
On a serious note, she’s a) been groomed to like Derek by literally everyone around her, b) had been kidnapped for months, so a life with a doofus in a warm castle is not a bad alternative.
And the fact that he couldn't articulate his feelings when confronted about it made it worse.
I was so irritated that they literally put a plot turn in the movie where Derek had the perfect opportunity to get a character development and "go beyond the looks", to guess that it wasn't Odette, that it was a trap and WASTED it completely, like boy, you still understand NOTHING
It’s such a common problem when adapting something and changing the ending. Take the little mermaid, a story about how making sacrifices for a man *will kill you* . A lot of ballet and opera is focused on “men make terrible decisions that ruin everyone’s lives”.
What did she love about him?
I watched The Swan Princess about five years ago, and a thing that really annoyed me, is that Derek is like 5-years-old when Odette is born, but then she magically catches up to him in age 🙃
“Why derek is a walking red flag 🚩” me: now THIS IS THE CONTENT I WANT!
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By time someone talked about this, his infamous line of what else is there still bothers me after so many years 😤 Odette deserved better
gives me nightmares for real
Tbh I think this line was the reason I used to be skeptical of ANYONE who called me pretty. My husband had to be very careful about which compliments he gave me when we first dated, because I did NOT accept "pretty" for a long time.
Why? Why did she deserve better?
Rogers is wayyyy too good to be in this movie, and I demand that he gets his own spinoff show
i would be so obsessed with this show it's not even funny@@greenrangeralex
It was always wild to me that the beginning shows them having such a rich history together to found their relationship on and then it has no impact on their relationship or the plot
Something I also wish is that Odette had at least one female friend or close female relationship. I mean she didn’t have a mom around and all her friends are guys. The only other prominent female character is Uberta but she is mainly associates with Derek and Chamberlain. I guess there’s also Bridgette but she’s an antagonist that doesn’t speak.
Confession: I cry when the “Far Longer Than Forever” scene happens, still.
…. Same ngl
I completely forgot that Odette's dad died in this movie! The reason why I forgot is because it had absolutely no effect on the rest of the movie lol
Her father was assassinated by Rothbart
Great review! A couple things:
1. They should've just had Derek be a nice guy from the start. It makes the romance SUPER easy, but it's reasonable since they grew up together, and removes problematic elements.
2. The "beauty is on the inside" message could've been done well if Rothbart kidnaps Odette and leaves Odile (disguised as Odette) in her place. Working for Rothbart, her personality is repulsive, and drives home the "beauty is on the inside" message and Derek could reject her on this basis, proving he loved the real Odette.
3. I think it's hard to give the "beauty is on the inside" message, even in this day and age. Conventionally attractive people can feel unattractive, but when they develop self-love, everyone is cynical: "that's easy for you to say; you're gorgeous. Who wouldn't love you?" And if a person who isn't conventionally attractive gives this message, people may view it as patronizing or say "that's nice, but I still want to look different or be different from how I am now."
he is a red flag but I'm such a sucker for enemy's to lovers but they went to lovers way to quickly and i wish there more songs
Ooh. Maybe they could have made Dereck a Secondary villain. He only cares about looks, so he constantly almost gets Odette killed and almost causes her death with the curse. In the end he ends up marrying the old witch and ends up with an “ugly” wife. Odette on the other hand finds love with someone else.
I mean in the original tale, Derick does cause Odette’s death because he was taken in by someone else’s looks (through trickery and magic but still).
Swan Princess was one of my favorite films growing up, which is weird because I didn’t relate to the story or characters which is usually why I like stories. I just genuinely enjoyed the film. I especially liked the fact that Derek and Odette actually had a relationship, I always found that so much more romantic than love at first sight. I agree that the film would have been leagues better if Derek had been genuinely in love with Odette from the beginning and that his issues came from him being in denial about how much he actually cares for her, then the moments where he would sense the swan was Odette and the assistant wasn’t could’ve been moments of him realizing that he truly does love her, and not for the reason he originally tried to tell everyone, including himself.
Yeah he was upset Odette didn't want to be with Derek I alwayd thought the king was so wrong for that 😭 he wasn't angry vut disappointed that she wanted self-respect and not to be valued just for the physical.
I'm lowkey obsessed with this video! Like, I've never actually watched the movie (although the story itself sounds familiar), but when you said Derek was more worried about Odette than with her father literally dying in front of him, I lost it 😂 Nice to see a Disney prince being (rightfully) dragged instead of the usual 'Is [insert princess name] feminist?' analysis video (which I like but it's nice to watch smth different).
I’m sick of Disney princess critique sometimes as well; it’s nice to focus on the issues with the princes for once
I think they did the ball scene and the forest/hunt scene the way they did it bc they wanted to be as close to the original story as possible. In the original story Siegfried (yes, that´s the actual name of the prince) goes hunting and almost kills Odette but she just turns into a human int he right time. When Odile (the evil wizards daughter) dances with Siegfried, Siegfried actually declares his love for Odile (who he thinks is Odette) which causes Odette to "die" or at least getting weak. But they still could´ve made it different yet similar. I think the hunting scene is fine. For the ball scene: Derek and Odile dance, Odette tries to stop it. While dancing Derek gets a weird feeling but Odile pressures him "gently" to declare to everyone his love for "her". Derek does this but still feels off and the moment he declared his "love" he immediately is like "but wait. It can´t be you. It´s not YOU. Who are you!" or he is like "I love Odette" and then turns to Odile "but not you" or sth like that.
I don’t remember this version but strangely do remember a little of a Barbie animation of swan lake.
In the Ballet, Swan Lake, which the movie is based on, the prince fails to recognize that woman in the black dress isn’t really Odette, which leads to her dying from the curse. He then takes his own life. So I believe in the movie they wanted to still tell that story but give Derek a chance at redemption. Too bad he’s a little dense 😂
This is legit like one of my favourite movies, especially when Odette calls Derek out (though gutted how easily she forgives him) but I love when the towns people are super excited because they're hoping there'll be less taxes and stuff.
I loved the movie growing up. Later though when I was older and rewatch it along with the first two sequels. I discovered how shallow Dereek were through all the three movies and he might changed a bit in the third one but I still can’t stand him nowadays. Before when I was little he was okay but so bland. 🙄
The music by Tchaikovsky and the ballet came before the movie. It has always been a dark story, as in Odette dies at the end of it because the prince doesn't realize that he's got an imposter in front of him rather than the real one. Rothbards curse kills Odette in the end.
I think you're right. Most of the resentment in the song seems to be about being pressured to marry each other. Not that I blame her for not wanting to spend the whole summer with someone who's a jerk to her.
The movie could be a decent deconstruction on the whole "Love at First Sight" Trope on Derek's end. If you think back to the original Disney Princess (from which movie heavily borrows) it's always the princes who first start crushing on the heroine, but most of the time you don't get the sense that these Princes get to know the Princesses that well and it seems they just fall in love with them because they're pretty (or different from the others). As we see with Derek who never made an effort to get to know Odette on a deeper level and only started to show attraction when she started looking pretty. Shame the movie pretty much abandons this theme when it could have lend itself to the later plot of the Impostor Odette (slightly miffed that Odile's charater is pretty much exiled from the film) if Derek had to get to know Odette more in-between he could have noticed that she wasn't acting by herself.
I literally thought I imagined this movie! 😭 I thought I was crazy
SAME!
It feels like a fever dream, but it exists by some chance
Okay, now you have to do the 90's thumbelina movie!
Best idea ever it’s now on the list
I loved Prince Cornelius so much he was actually one of my first animated crushes 😅
Also the songs were so good! I wish people wrote more songs like that, especially songs like Soon and Let me be your Wings
having watched nearly all the sequels, it's clear that richard rich's favorite character is uberta. I dont know why he even bothered writing other characters into these films, since, they pretty much just get in the way of ubertas "storylines". its laughable and sad. I wonder what goes on in that mans mind.
This is why this film really doesn’t hold up. After the great, shockingly realistic opening sequence, it shoots itself in the foot by completely forgetting the arc they set up for Derek and the reason Odette left him.
I've been binging all your videos in the last 2 weeks. Thank you so much for analysing one of my favourite childhood films! ❤
Anything for you :)
I think the problems ppl have with this movie boil down to:
- characters are written as average real people, which *isn’t my idea* for kid’s media since the messages need to be loud and clear;
- the original ending is changed so it screws with the original message;
- now, in order for the changed ending to work, Derek needs to have half a brain cell; Siegfried gets a pass cause he saw Odette like one time;
- the passing of time is derived solely from context clues (Odette having made friends, “Practice” and Queen not believing odette could be alive at the ball);
- so many intentions, so little time is why we usually have very strong fans or haters.
I disagree on the adult Odette. As a kid I loved her the most out of all the princesses because she just wouldn’t quit. It’s pretty much the Odette show. Also, whether or not she knows of her father’s fate is up for discussion.
I think an interesting essay idea would be the social dynamics and gender norms within the kingdoms and royal families that left the heirs with low expectations and zero understanding of relationships.
These are really good points, great analysis! I think it’s always a fine line between realism in films and over the top characters, but especially in animated movies. Sometimes the most realistic choices characters make or things that they say in movies/TV come across as unrealistic because it doesn’t fit the tropes or narratives we are familiar with, but when you re-examine it, it’s like “yeah that is what a regular person would do.”
19:18 it's like my third comment but why does nobody talks about her magical dress here, like it rocks 🔥
I don’t know why they changed to the 3d animation in later movies, it’s just looks wrong
It’s ghastly I don’t know what they were thinking
The film died with King William, let's be real 😔
May he rest in peace
In the third movie, when odette finds out he didnt get rid of the magic from bad guy in first movie. She gets upset and what he says pisses me off. I cant remember but you should go watch.
What else is there? Personality, kindness, compassion.
Before I start watching, I'm obsessed with your top!
this makes me so happy because i grabbed a random scarf from my wardrobe and tied it around my neck lmao
agreed it looks so cute!
I always found the mom so weird too in the last scene, where she just...didn't recognize Odette. She kept going like who is she. It can't be, could it? I know she's believed to be dead, but it's clearly...Odette.
Another thing about that scene cause you mentioned Odette was so bland that no one really noticed a personality shift when she was being impersonated, I just found it funny that the imposter was wearing red and black and in a nineties kids movies( where red and black is considered villain colors) and even that wasn't commented on like oh you're not wearing your traditional swan white dress that you're literally wearing the entire time i've known you as an adult, odette. Like at least that would show some level of perception.
I loved this film analysis video!!!❤ I had no idea there were sequals tho I really need to see them!!!!
I understand the idea of making Odette and Derek grow up together (because the original ballet has it be InstaLove) and thus explore the idea of love naturally growing.
However, the rest of the story follows the ballet almost beat for beat. I mean it does make sense to update the story to fit the film medium (because it is different). But other than the changed opening, it’s almost a perfect recreation of the story, even down to the black dress Odile wears at the ball.
Thing is…the explanation for Siegfried’s rash oath to Odile makes sense. It’s InstaLove as I mentioned earlier and he doesn’t know Odette very well. So it’s understandable that he’d be fooled by a lookalike. That’s the whole tragedy of Swan Lake. It’s about the dangers of being so swept up by your emotions that you fail to see the red flags and end up with a broken heart.
Having Derek and Odette be childhood companions removes this aspect and makes Derek look like an idiot for not realizing his childhood companion isn’t acting herself and calls her out on it.
In regard to William asking Odette “What else did you want him to say” he doesn’t sound angry or even disappointed. If anything, he sounds confused.
I think he knows that Odette is in love with Derek (either because she told him at some point or because he saw them together and it clicked for him) and doesn’t understand why Odette would willingly give up marrying the man she loves. Remember, William is established as a father who (while being clueless sometimes) does love his daughter and wants her to be happy. Otherwise he and Uberta wouldn’t have come up with this whole “let’s force the kids to spend summers together in the hopes they end up falling in love with each other” scheme. He does respect Odette’s wishes despite being upset that Derek chose to put his foot in his mouth.
They had to have him deceived at the ball, since they're loosely following the main story beats of "Swan Lake" and Siegfried is taken in by Odile in the ballet. It's a little unfair to expect anything different here.
Can you pleaaase do videos on Twilight? Those books/movies were so big for me in my tween years and it's so fun to look back on them, they're so wild ❤
Love your channel!
There’s a theory that the assistant is actually a bird but in a human body like a reverse odette
A scene in the movie that I finally understood and laugh about now that I am older is when Derek is playing chess with Bromley. Bromley says: “You lost your queen Derek.” And Derek replies with: “That’s twice in one day.” 😂
i’ve never seen this movie but now i really want to!
My favorite annimated library is in beauty and the beast. Second favorite is this movie
I know you're right in the original story these things happen too. He tries to shoot the swan and doesn't recognize her at the ball.
Regarding Odette’s seemingly immediate forgiveness of Derek’s shallowness: we should keep in mind that it only happens after she has been kidnapped (which coincided with the murder of her father) and just how traumatic that must have been, even if they don’t really show her expressing it.
She very suddenly finds herself orphaned, alone, and in the clutches of a treacherous predator. She’s in a constant state of fight or flight, and she can really only fly so far because of the spell. It’s no surprise that she would suddenly lean on Derek, romanticize him as her one true love-in addition to being her rescuer (especially in an era when the only way she could escape a man like Rothbart was through marriage to another man), he was also one of the only constants in her life. That level of sudden instability might have made her more dependent on him than she would have been otherwise. Breaking the spell literally depended on it. Basically, her choices in the end were Derek, Rothbart, or death.
Rothbart may have hoped she would develop some kind of Stockholm Syndrome feelings for him, but instead she poured all of that emotion and energy into hoping that Derek would save her.
Good thoughts! First time watching your channel! If you think Derek is bad now, I think hes a little worse after he marries Odette!
I agree 100%
@@SerenaSkybourne I mean forgetting your anniversry! Promising to make it up to her than don't. Putting everything else first. Keeping info from her and not listening to her concerns?? Real husband material there!
Good video. Also your dress is amazing 👍
thankyou so much
I always thought the assistant was his mom 😂 also, I don’t appreciate the ballet slander 😩 ballets can be extremely dark with high stakes, it’s just that no one goes to see them
Why did he say she was always such an ugly duckling? She looked kind of pretty.
The reason why the swan princess didn't do well it's because it was trying to compete against Disney's The Lion King that also came out in 1994.
Swan princess was favourite a childhood film of mine. I prefer it over barbie's Swan Lake. I actually find it funny that the characters have more personality in the opening song than in the rest of the movie.
Rodger's "You should write a book How to offend women in 4 syllables or less" has me laughing every time I see it.
The first part of the movie has such a lovely message. Not only beauty counts. But than in the rest of the movie it's forgotten. She has forgotten why she did not want to marry him.
My family only had the first and third movies as children. Derek was not really any better in the third movie. As a child, he was my least favorite character in both movies.
If one of your main characters is disliked/hated by your main demographic, you messed up big time.
Also, i listen to the soundtrack all the time, so nothing has really been ignited or reignited.
It has been an annoyance this entire time. So i mostly listen to the opening song because it is the best part of the movie and doesn't annoy me.
Rothbart gives "uncles friend" vibes
Gawd I loved this movie as a kid, I need to do an adult rewatch I guess!
Never seen the movie, but love the ballet. This movie isn’t close to the original story of the ballet at all. It only takes how Rothbart transforms her into a swan. I guess they didn’t think the story of the ballet compelling enough for tv. It’s got a tragic ending though which would make it so different from other movies. I’m always dreaming of a ballet themed movie of swan lake that represent the actual ballet narrative. 😄😊
Actually I never watched this movie but Derek sounds like a real jerk. I think this was common for old films (?) where adults just lose characters because they're just seen as either male or female stereotype character.
He liked her as teens too! Derricks friend said “I think you really sorta like her fessup” and Derrick is giving her an Anthony Bridgeton face
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“What else is there” 😬😬😬😬😬 also I love non Disney animated musicals! This, Anastasia and Furngully
omg loved this movie 😭😭😭
I think everyone can agree that we need a swan princess remake not a snowhite one
Good film but this is to show character development to Derek and in the second film. Even Lord Rogers stole the entire movie and should have had a spin off on why he became Uberta’s butler, being in his twenty’s when he would be a redhead.
You look great, like that outfit. 👍😎
I don’t understand the thumbnail
Neither do I tbh
@@SerenaSkybourne 😂😂
Please repulsed the 90210 one
I've got it on my list to refilm it! and then posting again
To be fair what did Odette expect Derek to say?? He barely had any conversation with her before so how could he have been attracted to her for anything other than her looks (I mean there is also her money and title I guess?? But I don't think that would have been a much better response lmao). Realistically Derek honestly did too much for someone he barely knows tbh
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Thank you for another great feminist take on a movie. I convinced myself I remembered this movie incorrecctly, cause I remember the first part (esp. them as kids) so vividly, but yeah turns out the middle/end truly was uninspired an paint-by-numbers... Thanks for jogging my memory and giving me so much to think over when it comes to set-up and pay-off! 🦢
I imagine Odette was raised/encouraged to be active, and outspoken and not to fixiated on beauty (almost as if she were a boy) and Derek was clearly raised to believe girls are different than boys (maybe more precious?)...
Happy 30th anniversary of the swan princess (1994) 🦢 🥂
Fact: the movie is adapted from the ballet of "swan lake ".