![]() ![]() “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. 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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