However, even before the Baroness leaked to the press that Cruella is a dog killer, Stone’s character did entertain the idea of skinning the woman’s kidnapped Dalmatians who looked a lot like the dogs that physically killed her mother.Īfter that, we learn she’s sent Pongo and Perdita to their intended owners. When she first started calling herself Cruella, it was almost as a lark and about playing the press. However, we are witnessing Cruella in metamorphosis. The Baroness is of course a killer, and Cruella’s voiceover narration highlights that, but let’s just say this wouldn’t be the noble resolution sought by Cinderella against her wicked stepmother, or how Belle would’ve personally taken care of Gaston if given half the chance in Beauty and the Beast.Īdmittedly, framing Catherine’s murderer for another death is a far cry from skinning puppies.
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Obviously, the Baroness deserves this fate, but there’s something maliciously subversive about the protagonist of a Disney movie “winning” by framing her rival for a murder that never happened. Technically, Cruella didn’t kill anyone at the end of the movie, but she framed the Baroness for her murder, sending the fashion diva to a future that is purely prison garbed black-and-white.
It’s also why she arranged it so a score of witnesses would see Estella “die.” Hence Cruella’s parachute hidden beneath her skirt and Horace (Paul Walter Hauser) commanding a rowboat down below. So Cruella obviously knows the Baroness won’t pass up the opportunity to push poor old Estella into the same sea when they meet again. And back then, Cruella confronted her about Catherine’s death by saying, “You murdered my mother,” to which the Baroness confessed she couldn’t remember since she’s murdered so many people. She’s already seen how far the Baroness will go after the older woman tried to burn Cruella alive in her flat earlier in the movie. Estella is who Catherine wanted her to be, and Cruella is now the real woman using her biological mother to put that identity to permanent rest. Like adoptive mother, like daughter.Īnd in some ways, that is exactly what happened. “Estella” of course knows this woman cannot resist the opportunity of pushing her own daughter to a watery grave. She attempts to reconcile with the Baroness, a would-be mother who tried to have her murdered at birth, while standing by the same cliffside where the Baroness killed Catherine. We of course know Estella is now the act. Hence instead of just trying to upstage the Baroness at fashion events, she winds up doing something at the end of Cruella as underhanded malicious as, well, the Baroness herself.Īt the Baroness’ final big gala in her home estate, Cruella arrives dressed as the meek Estella. And that means accepting that she really is the Baroness’ daughter in nature, if not nurture. “Bold, brilliant, born bad, and a little mad.” She loves Catherine, the mother who raised her, but Cruella is realizing her true self. “I’m Cruella,” Stone’s character announces to the ghost of the woman who raised her. It’s why her epiphany that comes after learning the Baroness is her mother is so satisfying.
“Cruella” might initially be a performative creation intended to fool the Baroness, but in truth Estella is fooling herself. But the way Estella fidgets to hold in a grin when the Baroness, during a lunch, asks her if she has “the killer instinct” suggests she’s repressing who she really is. Ostensibly, Cruella is meant to be an act. Hence why she created the Cruella persona. Yet those virtues never get Estella very far, and in fact leaves her unfulfilled. Throughout the film, Stone’s Estella struggles to be the woman that the mother who raised her, Catherine (Emily Beecham), wanted her to be: Kind, patient, and honest. The Cruella finale leaves things intentionally open-ended, but let’s consider the actual resolution of the picture. So does Emma Stone’s Cruella have wicked things on her mind? Well…
Her voiceover narration may insist that she doesn’t blame the pooches for her mother’s death-back when they were summoned by Emma Thompson’s Baroness to push mama off a cliff-yet Cruella also mentions to herself in the movie that they’d make excellent coats.Īnd at the end of the film, she sends two acquaintances the dogs who will become 101 Dalmatians’ Pongo and Perdita. The movie almost devilishly asks audiences to sit with the idea every time Cruella glances over at her kidnapped Dalmatians.
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Would Emma Stone’s Cruella de Vil skin a dog? That’s the million-dollar question that still hangs over Disney’s demented but otherwise free-spirited Cruella.
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