The funny thing is that the explanation for Cruella's motives in the original was perfectly clear - she's an "eccentric" spoiled rich lady from inherited wealth who never had to work a day in her life and as she gets old and bored her little weird impulses become obsessionshttps://twitter.com/MelanieMoore/status/1362127334610935809 …
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You see examples of this in the news every day It doesn't make for an entertaining origin story though - the point of these stories is these people's lives AREN'T interesting and that's why they act out
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Replying to @OrionKidder
Yeah so like Part of why Cruella de Vil gets named as an all-timer Disney villain is that she's been played with such memorable verve in her past incarnations
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Replying to @arthur_affect @OrionKidder
It helps that she's probably the only villain who has song written about her by the hero (as far as I can remember).
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The most bizarre period detail about 101 Dalmatians is that the dude writes a popular song about a wealthy aristocrat who knows him personally that just relentlessly drags her *by name* to the public, with no fear of a libel suit
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I mean she does take his puppies, but she does so by more direct means than litigation
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I'm not sure his record label would've let the line "She ought to be locked up and never released" past legal, even with the honest opinion exemption
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