Cinderella (I) (2015)

Lily James: Cinderella

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• Cinderella : Mr. Lizard, I'm scared. I'm only a girl, not a princess.

  Lizard Footman : And I'm only a lizard, not a footman. Enjoy it while it lasts.

• [from TV spot and deleted scene] 

  Lady Tremaine : What on earth have you been doing?

  Cinderella : Nothing, dreaming, that's all.

  Lady Tremaine : Well then, *wake up*!

• Cinderella : [while she and Kit are dancing at the ball]  They're all looking at you.

  Prince Charming : Believe me - they're all looking at you.

• Lady Tremaine : [from trailer]  Wouldn't you prefer to eat when all the work is done, Ella?

  Cinderella : Yes, stepmother.

  Lady Tremaine : You needn't call me that; Madam will do.

• Captain : [to Cinderella]  Miss. You are requested and required to present yourself to your king.

  Lady Tremaine : I forbid you to do this!

  Captain : And I forbid you to forbid her! Who are you to stop an officer of the king? Are you an empress? A saint? A deity?

  Lady Tremaine : I am her mother.

  Cinderella : [curtly]  You have never been... and you never will be my mother.

• Cinderella : I shouldn't.

  Prince Charming : You should.

  Cinderella : I shouldn't!

  Prince Charming : You should!

  Cinderella : I will.

  [She and Kit kiss] 

• Prince Charming : Who are you?

  Cinderella : I am Cinderella. Your Majesty, I am no princess. I have no carriage, no parents, no dowry. I do not even know if that beautiful slipper will fit But, if it does--will you take me as I am? A good honest country girl who loves you?

  Prince Charming : Of course, I would. But only if you'll take me as I am, an apprentice still learning his trade. Please...

  [Prince Charming invites Ella to sit on a nearby chair as the Grand Duke watches in fear, the Captain looks on with a smile as he places the slipper on Ella's foot. It fits perfectly! He takes Ella by the hand and is just about to kiss her when Drizella and Anastasia burst into the room] 

  Drizella : [apologetically]  Cinderella! Ella! My dear sister! I'm sorry, so very sorry.

  [the two curtsy to Cinderella and the prince] 

• Cinderella : [from trailer]  It was my mother's old dress.

  Lady Tremaine : It would be an insult to take you to the palace dressed in these old rags.

• Fairy Godmother : At the last stroke of midnight, the spell will be broken.

  Cinderella : Midnight?

  Fairy Godmother : Midnight.

  Cinderella : That's more than enough time!

• Cinderella : [sighs as she and Kit look at portraits of their parents in the gallery before going onto the balcony to greet their kingdom's people]  They would have loved each other.

  Prince Charming : We must have a portrait of you painted.

  Cinderella : [giggles]  Oh no, I do *hate* myself in paintings.

  Prince Charming : Be kind.

  Cinderella : [giggles again]  And have courage.

  Prince Charming : And all will be well.

• Cinderella : [as they're heading to the palace balcony to greet their kingdom's people during their wedding]  Are you ready?

  Prince Charming : For anything, so long as it's with you.

• Cinderella : [to Kit]  I have to leave. It's hard to explain. Lizards and pumpkins and... things.

• Cinderella : [after Lady Tremaine shatters her glass slipper on the wall; horrified and angry]  Why? Why are you so *cruel*? I don't understand it. I've tried to be kind to you.

  Lady Tremaine : You? Kind to me?

  Cinderella : Yes. And though *no one* deserves to be treated as you have treated me. Why do you do it? WHY?

  Lady Tremaine : Why? Because YOU are *young*, and *innocent*, and *good*, and I...

  [she furiously turns to leave, locking Cinderella in her room] 

  Cinderella : No! No!

• Cinderella : [to Lady Tremaine]  I forgive you.

• Lady Tremaine : [points at Ella's breakfast plate]  Who's this for? Is there someone we've forgotten?

  Cinderella : [smiles]  It's my place.

  Lady Tremaine : Oh, it seems too much to expect you to prepare breakfast, serve it and to sit with us. Wouldn't you prefer to eat when all the work is done, Ella? Or should I say, *Cinder*-Ella? Hmm?

• Cinderella : Fairy godmother?

  Fairy Godmother : Yes, what?

  Cinderella : My dress, I can't go in this dress. Can you mend it?

  Fairy Godmother : Mend it? No-no, I'll turn it into something new.

  Cinderella : Oh no, please, don't. This was my mother's, and... and I'd like to wear it when I go to the palace. It's almost like - taking her with me.

  Fairy Godmother : I understand. But I don't think she'd mind if I - gee it up a bit? Wouldn't mind a nice blue?

  Cinderella : [whispering]  No.

  [Using her magic wand, the Fairy Godmother turns Cinderella's torn pink dress into a dazzling blue ballgown] 

  Fairy Godmother : [smiles in satisfaction]  There!

  Cinderella : [also smiles]  It's beautiful! She'd love it!

• Lady Tremaine : Now, here is how you will pay me, if you are to have what you desire. No one will believe you, a dirty servant girl without a family, if you lay claim to the Prince's heart. But with a respectable gentlewoman to put you forward, you will not be ignored. When you are married, you will make *me* the head of the royal household. Anastasia and Drizella we will pair off with wealthy lords, and *I* shall manage that boy.

  Cinderella : But he's not a boy.

  Lady Tremaine : And who are you? How would *you* rule a kingdom? Best to leave it to me; that way we all get what we want.

  Cinderella : No.

  Lady Tremaine : No?

  Cinderella : I was not able to protect my father from you, but I will protect the prince *and* the kingdom, no matter what becomes of me.

• Cinderella : But... *All* the ladies in the land are invited, by order of the king.

  Lady Tremaine : It is the *king* I'm thinking of. It would be an insult to the royal personage to take you to the palace dressed in these old rags.

  Cinderella : [appalled]  Rags? This was my mother's.

  Lady Tremaine : [Tremaine inches closer to Ella]  Oh... Sorry to have to tell you, but your mother's taste was questionable. This *thing* is so old-fashioned, it's practically falling to pieces.

  [Tremaine tugs harshly the sleeve of Ella's dress causing the sleeve to rip completely] 

• Cinderella : [crying after Lady Tremaine, Drizella, and Anastasia tear up her mother's dress and leave for the ball without her]  I'm sorry, mother. I'm sorry. I know I said I'd have courage but I don't. Not anymore. I don't believe anymore!

• Fairy Godmother : Why are you crying?

  Cinderella : Oh, it's nothing.

  Fairy Godmother : Nothing? Nothing. What is a bowl of milk? Nothing. But kindness makes it everything.

• Cinderella : Please don't let them hurt him.

  Prince Charming : But we're hunting, you see. It's what's done.

  Cinderella : Just because it's what's done doesn't mean it's what should be done!

• Cinderella : [skeptical of the Fairy Godmother's claim of her identity]  You can't be.

  Fairy Godmother : Why not?

  Cinderella : They don't exist. They're just made up for children.

  Fairy Godmother : Didn't your own mother believe in them? Don't say no, 'cause I heard her.

  Cinderella : You heard her?

  Fairy Godmother : Oh, fiddle-faddle, fiddle-faddle. Right! First things first. Let me slip into something more comfortable.

• Cinderella : [making her entrance at the ball]  Mr. Kit.

  Prince Charming : It's you, isn't it?

  Cinderella : Just so.

• Cinderella : What's wrong?

  Prince Charming : When I go back, they will try to pair me off with a lady of their choosing. I'm expected to marry for advantage.

  Cinderella : Oh. Well, whose advantage?

  Prince Charming : That is a good question.

  Cinderella : Well, surely you have a right to your own heart.

  Prince Charming : And I must weigh that against the king's wishes. He's a wise ruler and a loving father.

  Cinderella : Well, perhaps he'll change his mind.

  Prince Charming : I fear he hasn't much time to do so.

  Cinderella : Poor Kit.

• Ella's Father : What would you like me to bring you home from abroad? You know, your sisters... uh, stepsisters, have asked for parasols and lace. What... what will you have?

  Cinderella : Bring me the first branch your shoulder brushes on your journey.

  Ella's Father : That's a curious request.

  Cinderella : Well, you'll have to take it with you on your way and think of me when you look at it. And when you bring it back, it means that you'll be with it. And that's what I really want. For you to come back. No matter what.

• Ella's Father : Ella, while I'm away, I want you to be good to your stepmother and stepsisters, even though they may be... trying at times.

  Cinderella : I promise.

  Ella's Father : Thank you. I always leave a part of me behind, Ella. Remember that. A-And-And your... your mother's here, too, though-though you see her not. She's the very heart of this place. And that's why we must cherish this house, always, for her.

  Cinderella : I miss her. Do you?

  Ella's Father : Very much.

• Prince Charming : Miss, what do they call you?

  Cinderella : Never mind what they call me.

  Prince Charming : You shouldn't be this deep in the forest alone.

  Cinderella : I'm not alone. I'm with you, Mr... what do they call you?

  Prince Charming : You don't know who I am? That is... they call me Kit. Well, my father does, when he's in a good mood.

  Cinderella : And... where do you live, Mr. Kit?

  Prince Charming : At the palace. My father's teaching me his trade.

  Cinderella : You're an apprentice?

  Prince Charming : Of a sort.

• Cinderella : Would you like a tour of the house?

  Drizella : What did she say?

  Anastasia : She wants to show us around her farmhouse. She's proud of it, I think.

• Fairy Godmother : [narrating, after Ella's father dies]  How indeed to live. Economies had to be taken. Ella's stepmother dismissed the household. Her stepmother and stepsisters ever misused her. And by and by they considered Ella less a sister than a servant. And so Ella was left to do all the work. This was a good thing, for it distracted her from her grief. At least that was what her stepmother said. And she and her two daughters were more than happy to provide Ella with lots and lots of distraction. In their defense, they did share with her the very food they ate, or rather, the scraps from their table. She had little in the way of friends. Well, her friends were very little.

  Cinderella : [seeing Gus-Gus and his fellow mice]  There you are. Have dinner with me, won't you?

  Fairy Godmother : But those friends she had, she treated with an open heart and an open hand.

  Cinderella : [setting up a overturned teacup and mini-doily]  Your table.

  Fairy Godmother : Sometimes, by the end of the day, the drafty attic was too cold to spend the night in, so she lay by the dying embers of the hearth to keep warm.

• Fairy Godmother : [narrating]  Ella's great comfort were the letters that Father would send from his travels. The weeks away lengthened to months, but every day would bring his thoughts from some distant part. Until late one afternoon...

  Cinderella : [answering the front door]  Farmer John?

  Farmer : Miss Ella. It's your father, miss. He took ill on the road. He's passed on, miss. He's gone. To the end, he spoke only of you, miss. And your mother. I was to give you this.

  [he gives her a thin tree branch] 

  Anastasia : But what about my lace?

  Drizella : My parasol?

  Lady Tremaine : Can't you see? None of that matters. We're ruined. How will we live?

  Cinderella : [crying, turning back to Farmer John]  Thank you. It must have been very difficult for you.

• Fairy Godmother : Now, I don't mean to hurry you, but you really haven't got long, Ella.

  Cinderella : How do you know me? Who are you?

  Fairy Godmother : Who am I? I should think you'd have worked that one out.

• Cinderella : Is that you?

  Prince Charming : I hate myself in paintings. Don't you?

  Cinderella : No one's ever painted my portrait.

  Prince Charming : No? Well, they should.

• Drizella : We did not communicate through mere words. Our souls met.

  Anastasia : Precisely. My soul and the prince's soul. Your soul was over by the banquet tables.

  Drizella : You didn't see him dance with me.

  Lady Tremaine : Dance with you? He didn't even speak to you.

  Anastasia : It was not our fault, Mother. It was that girl.

  Drizella : The mystery princess.

  Cinderella : Mystery princess? My, what a charming notion.

  Lady Tremaine : Ugh, she was no princess. She was a preening interloper who made a spectacle of herself.

• Cinderella : So, you're the prince.

  Prince Charming : Well, not "the prince", exactly. There are plenty of princes in the world. I'm only *a* prince.

  Cinderella : But your name's not really Kit.

  Prince Charming : Oh, certainly it is, and my father still calls me that, when he's especially un-peeved at me.

  Cinderella : But you're no apprentice.

  Prince Charming : I am. An apprentice monarch. Still learning my trade.

  Cinderella : Oh, gosh!

  Prince Charming : Look, please forgive me. I thought you might treat me differently if you knew. I mistook you for a good, honest country girl, and now I see you didn't want to overawe a plain soldier.

  Cinderella : Little chance of that.

  Prince Charming : No more surprises?

  Cinderella : No more surprises.

• Lady Tremaine : [after Ella hears the announcement of the ball]  Having delivered your news, why are you still here? You must return to town right away and tell that seamstress to run us up three fine ballgowns.

  Cinderella : Three? That's very thoughtful of you.

  Lady Tremaine : What do you mean?

  Cinderella : To think of me.

  Lady Tremaine : Think of you?

  Drizella : Mummy, she believes the other dress is for her. Poor slow, little Cinders. How embarrassing.

  Lady Tremaine : [laughing]  You're too ambitious for your own good.

  Cinderella : Oh, no. I only want to see my friend.

  Lady Tremaine : Let me be very clear. One gown for Anastasia, one for Drizella, and one for me!

  [she says something in French] 

  Anastasia : She doesn't know what that means.

  Lady Tremaine : [Ella responds in French]  Good. Right. That's settled, then. Now go! Every girl in the kingdom will be chasing the prince. You must get there first before the seamstress is drowning in work!

  Anastasia : [following behind]  Tell me what she said, Drizella.

  Drizella : I speak French, not Italian!

• Lady Tremaine : A vulgar, young hussy marched into the ball, unaccompanied, if you will, and to the horror of everyone, threw herself at the prince.

  Anastasia : And he actually danced with the ugly thing.

  Cinderella : Yes?

  Drizella : Yes. It was pity. He was too polite to send her packing in front of everyone, you see. But not wanting to expose us to the presumptuous wench any further, he took he apart.

  Anastasia : And told her off. But she refused to leave and the palace guards chased her from the party! I pity the prince. Such bad taste.

  Drizella : They belong with each other.

  Lady Tremaine : Well, it's no matter, girls. The ball was a mere diversion. The prince is not free to marry for love. He's promised to the Princess Chelina of Zaragoza. The Grand Duke told me himself.

  Drizella : It's so very unfair.

  Lady Tremaine : Yes. The way of the world.

• Fairy Godmother : [after the greenhouse and pumpkin finish transforming into a golden carriage]  There! One carriage!

  Cinderella : [with a transfixed smile]  You really *are* my fairy godmother!

• Cinderella : You've nearly frightened the life out of him.

  Prince Charming : Who?

  Cinderella : The stag. What's he ever done to you that you should chase him about?

  Prince Charming : I must confess I've never meet him before. He is a friend of yours?

  Cinderella : An acquaintance. We met just now. I looked into his eyes, and he looked into mine, and i just felt he had a great deal left to do with his life. That's all.

• Fairy Godmother : What we need is something that sort of says "coach".

  Cinderella : Um... oh, that trough?

  Fairy Godmother : Doesn't really say "coach." No. No, no, I'm liking fruit and veg. Do you grow watermelons?

  Cinderella : No.

  Fairy Godmother : Cantaloupe?

  Cinderella : I don't even know what that is.

  Fairy Godmother : Artichoke? Kumquat? Beef tomato?

  Cinderella : But we do have pumpkins.

  Fairy Godmother : Ah. Pumpkins? This'll be a first for me. Always interesting. I don't usually work with squashes, too mushy.

• Prince Charming : Won't you tell me who you really are?

  Cinderella : If I do, I think everything might be different.

  Prince Charming : I don't understand. Can you at least tell me your name?

• Anastasia : You look cheerful.

  Drizella : And wet.

  Cinderella : Uh, I took a walk in the rain to cheer myself up.

  Drizella : Typical.