#ella enchanted

[rocktheholygrail]

Ella Enchanted (2004) Hannibal (2013-2015)

[nsevens]

ELLA ENCHANTED (2004) — dir. Tommy O'Haver

[iheartblondetwinks]

[darling-demi]

I just love when my favorite books get a screen adaptation and suddenly the fandom tags on every platform are overrun by detailed and aggressive think-pieces about characters that don't exist and relationships, events, plot points, and character background stories that never fucking happened. As well as for characters that have been changed so much from the book that they might as well not even be (and really shouldn't even be considered) the same character anymore.

[marzipanandminutiae]

Ella Enchanted is. SUCH a good book.

like guys I'm serious. it's an amazing book. formative, changed-my-childhood-brain book. it doesn't talk down to its child audience. it has lush descriptions and imagery. the characters are complex and layered. I wanted to find those candle trees (espaliered pear trees as described by a 14-year-old in an alternate universe) so badly, as an adult, and when I saw them at the Cloisters for the first time, I cried

so. good.

and the movie adaptation is, by comparison, an example of early 2000s anti-intellectualism. in this essay I will

[jamiextartt]

FILMS WATCHED IN 2025: 13. Ella Enchanted (2004)

[lands-of-fantasy]

Cinderella on Film and TV

Ilene Woods voiced the character in Disney's Cinderella (1950). Jennifer Hale was cast in the role for the 2002 and 2007 sequels. Tami Tappan was the singing voice in movie 3.

Ella Enchanted book has more references to Cinderella's tale than its movie counterpart

Jessy Schram was a guest star in Once Upon a Time, appearing as Cinderella/Ashley in episodes 1x04, 1x12, 4x07 and 6x03. Dania Ramirez's Cinderella/Jacinda was a main character in Season 7.

My Happy Marriage animation has a few more references to Cinderella's tale than the live-action movie

Brandy Norwood played two iterations of the character: one in the 1997 version of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella, and later in a small role in 2024 film Descendants: The Rise of Red. Paolo Montalban played her prince in both films!

[bobellafofella]

who else up drawing ella enchanted fanart in 2025? i reread it every year or so and always walk away thinking that it's one of the best fantasy books ever written. shout out to my girl gale carson levine. the only one to ever do it.