My View on The Whitney/Brandy Cinderella Black Cinderella Movie.

Brandy’s Black Cinderella Made The Impossible Possible In Hollywood and The Whitney/Brandy Cinderella Was One of the Most Important Movies of the ’90s are informative articles that were both written on 12 February 2021 by different authors but have the same purpose to convince readers to watch the movie in my opinion. Brandy’s Black Cinderella Made The Impossible Possible In Hollywood was made by Vicky Mochama who is a black writer, journalist, and editor. She has written for the Toronto Star, StarMetro, VICE, Globe and Mail, Refinery29, the Washington Post, and many more. I couldn’t find too much information about her but from the little result that I got, she looks to be a really good writer. I feel like she added her thoughts and beliefs to the articles like the line on the very last page in the 2 paragraph that said “ Like Brandy’s Black Cinderella sitting in my own little corner, in my own little chair (while, ahem, sitting up in my room), I liked to pretend to be one. In the real world, I was meant to be Strong and Sassy. Frankly, I cried a lot from ages three until this sentence so I am mostly Soft and Easily Provoked. Princesshood was a convenient shorthand to both being powerful and allowing for your own fragility and as a Black girl, I found few role models that exemplified this in the Western world.” I feel like that shows how much the movies played an important role in shaping who she is today. I think it is important because many people struggle with their identity and how a movie or show that you can connect to can help you open up to a lot of possibilities. 

Now for The Whitney/Brandy Cinderella Was One of the Most Important Movies of the ’90s it was made by R. Eric Thomas 42-year-old black Man who is an American author, playwright, television writer, and advice columnist. He is best known for his essay collection Here For It: Or, How to Save Your Soul in America. Thomas grew up in Baltimore, Maryland. He attended the Park School of Baltimore, then Columbia University, and transferred to the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, where he studied playwriting. He talks about his feelings by saying how he wished that Whitney could have been Cinderella but having Brandy do it was even more amazing. Also the line on the second to last page of the article that said “ Cinderella taught me something revolutionary about the limitless nature of storytelling. That is stories, there are no constraints; the only limit is your imagination.” I feel connected to it in the same way because like I said in my ‘Fairy Tale Literacy Narrative’ Cinderella was able to teach me to be kind to others. It also showed me that because of Cinderella I was able to imagine myself as different people in the different stories that I read, making me feel like I am part of their world. 

I feel like in both articles the author was just trying to get everyone to try and convey the lessons that the movie taught them. I feel like they are trying to get everyone to go and see the movies because to them it was an important part of them when they were growing up. I know this by the way they talk about the movie, showing the feeling and love for it in the way they write and I agree too because Cinderella also changed my view on things. There was this part in Vicky’s article when she said that she could hear all the black people screaming through her computer monitor but I feel like it was not just the black people I feel like it was everyone overall who loved Cinderella. In Eric’s article, he talks about the diversity of the cast. When I first watched the movie as a child I didn’t think much of it then but seeing how the world is now, I see why having such a diverse cast connects to people. I wish that the box official saw the potential in this movie when it was originally being made but I am happy they were able to make such a great movie with a little money they had.