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A Fairy Tale That Hollywood Didn’t Need to Modernize

Perhaps a girlboss <em>Cinderella</em> was inevitable.
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What would a modern look like? The classic fairy tale has been told so many times on film, always following the same basic arc: A charming girl, who is forced into servitude by her mean stepmother and wishes to go to a ball, ultimately gets what she wants with the help of three mice and a magic fairy. Cinderellais the world’s most famous underdog, but she’s also more of a than a deep character.

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