They wanted to capitalize on the success of The Joker but they didn't understand what made the first movie work and also wouldn't dare portray a woman as an evil lunatic so they tried to make it a girl power movie. Kind of ironic that they said Joker was idolizing murderer incels yet they made a movie trying to justify why a woman would want to skin puppies.
That's the other thing...she is very friendly to dogs in the movie. She even has a pet dog since childhood. The movie is an origin story but it's about her and her mother. Dogs in this movie are friends and even the Dalmatians who pushed her stepmother off the balcony are treatened nicely. And at the end of the movie Cruella is the one who gives Pongo and Perdita to Roger and Anita. It doesn't make any sense!
sorry a Disney what? Disney makes their own televisions? Who the hell is buying an Disney television?
The type of people you'd think would buy one
That is a great point, the protagonist could have easily been Anita (pre-Roger) or an Anita replacement, since there's a fair bit of dialogue in the original film about their dynamic and how she's horrible to work for but Anita still feels a sense of loyalty to her. The stooges could have been good people who team up with the female protagonist to get back at someone who has taken advantage of them over and over. The Devil Wears Dogs?!!?! Come on, people.
They're also CRT vintage, or has Disney made any since the 90's?
Yup, that is why I completely forget that movie even exists. It was completely exited from my mind until I read your post. If you asked me to name live action Disney movies based on classic animated ones I would list Cinderella which everyone forgot about before I would remember Cruella.
Another live action movie that everyone seemed to have forgot is the one based on the Disney version of Pooh.
This one was alright, one of the better live action adaptations along with Cinderella.
Well shit, now I remember having a pink Mickey themed one when I was a kid. It looked fairly close to that one.
Crap it's been so long that I forgot about that part of the show.
Mirror Mirror on the Wall, who is the most Zionist of them all?
Nastily, she's credited as being executive producer of Cruella, but that's apparently only because she originated the character.
This reminds me of how assmad Alan Moore got that people liked Rorschach for the "wrong" reasons. A major difference is Moore is basically a dick to everyone so it's not like him bitching about something like that is out of character, plus he's never been a gargantuan retard enough to burn down a successful franchise because he didn't like how people liked it.
Luckily, (or possibly unluckily) there's no shortage of retards in Hollywood to do that for him.
They wanted to cast Abigail Shapiro but Ben was all they could get.
I'm tempted to rant performatively, but Disney has boiled their audience down to sycophantic mongoloids who deserve what they get.
