How The Big Twist In “Cruella” Is Stolen From “The Rise Of Skywalker”
Twitter is being cruel to Cruella de Vil despite her sympathetic backstory!
Disney’s latest live-action film based on a cartoon villain is lifted from one of its other properties, according to social media users. On the surface, Cruella seems more like a gender-swapped version of “Joker,” but Twitter critics believe the film steals more from The Rise of Skywalker than the 2019 Todd Phillips’ film.
The point of contention lies with a huge spoiler SO STOP READING NOW IF YOU WANT TO ENJOY CRUELLA’S ORIGIN STORY IN ALL ITS 134-MINUTE GLORY ENTIRELY SPOILER-FREE!
In the film, a young Cruella witnesses dalmations kill the woman she believes to be her mother. The dogs push the woman off a cliff, thereby launching our anti-heroine into a life of crime and animal cruelty.
PLOT TWIST! The woman who falls to her death is not actually Cruella’s biological mother, simply the benevolent soul who raised her. Cruella’s actual mother is…Sheev Palpatine!
Well, not exactly. But the film’s big baddie, the Baroness, is revealed to be Cruella’s true mother, mirroring the plot of The Rise of Skywalker. One of the sequel trilogy’s biggest failures, according to Twitter experts, is the inconsistencies in Rey’s story between entries. One minute, she’s a nobody, which Rian Johnson’s The Last Jedi strongly hinted at, and then—record scratch—she’s actually Palpatine’s granddaughter, the child of a cloned human male and a woman who said, what the heck, let’s try to mate with a clone made by an evil wizard!
So, once again, our main character is certainly not a nobody. She’s part of a super special bloodline that connects her to the most important characters in her respective universe.
And, like the poetry George Lucas is so fond of, Cruella and her mother repeat the cliffside scene in the film’s climax. Cruella confronts mom with all of the dirt she has on her in front of plenty of witnesses (totally stolen from Big Fat Liar).
At this point, the Baroness pushes Cruella to her apparent death. Of course, it was all a trap, and Cruella survives thanks to a parachute and mom is taken away. Yay! Now we can clap when Cruella kills dalmations in the future! She is so relatable and fashionable!
Would you have preferred Cruella to not be related to the villain of the film? Do you sympathize with Cruella now? Are we destined to repeat the sins of our fathers and mothers? Which film is the bigger train wreck? Let us know in the comments or social.
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