Finally relegated to nothing more than a servant girl covered in ashes, and spitefully renamed Cinderella, Ella could easily begin to lose hope. But, when Ella`s father unexpectedly passes away, she finds herself at the mercy of a jealous and cruel new family.
Eager to support her loving father, Ella welcomes her new stepmother (Cate Blanchett) and her daughters Anastasia (Holliday Grainger) and Drisella (Sophie McShera) into the family home. You can see the College’s exterior in countless films, including Pirates Of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, Thor: The Dark World, as ‘Paris’ in Les Misérables and – very briefly – in The Dark Knight Rises.The story of ``Cinderella`` follows the fortunes of young Ella (Lily James) whose merchant father remarries following the death of her mother. The Painted Hall, also seen in The Madness Of King George, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, Quills, the 1998 film of The Avengers, Michael Winner’s 1983 remake of The Wicked Lady, is open to the public. It was here that the body of Lord Nelson lay in state. Painter James Thornhill collaborated with architect Nicholas Hawksmoor for nineteen years on this trompe l’oeil extravaganza. The college was designed by Sir Christopher Wren and the Hall was used as the dining room of the naval hospital until the College moved out. The ancient woodland, which takes its name from the legend that animals for Royal bear-baiting were once kept here, is also featured in another fairy-tale film, Snow White And The Huntsman.Ī couple more real locations include the Palace room in which the Prince Kit and his men practise their fencing skills, which is the Painted Hall of the Old Royal Naval College, King William Walk, London. The woodland, where Ella first meets Prince Kit ( Richard Madden) as he leads a stag hunt, is an area called Bears Rails in Windsor Great Park, which which surrounds the royal residence of Windsor Castle in Berkshire. Built around 1720, it went on to become the birthplace of wartime Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill.īlenheim Palace previously supplied the exterior of ‘Elsinore’ for Branagh’s 1996 film of Hamlet, and has also hosted filming for the 1998 film of TV’s The Avengers, Stanley Kubrick’s Barry Lyndon, The Young Victoria and King Ralph (it’s currently seen as the Palace in TV’s The Royals).Ĭinderella film location: Prince Kit and his men practise their fencing skills: Painted Hall, Old Royal Naval College, Greenwich, London SE10 One of England's largest houses, Blenheim was designed by Sir John Vanbrugh as the family seat of the Dukes of Marlborough, the Churchill family, and was named after the Battle of Blenheim. You’ll remember the coaches rattling over the Palladian style Grand Bridge just below the house, which divides Blenheim’s Lake from Queen Pool.
The interiors for the family house of Ella ( Lily James) were also built in the studio, but the exterior was constructed in Black Park Country Park, which backs onto the studio and has predictably seen in countless productions.īlenheim Palace, in the village of Woodstock in Oxfordshire, not only provided inspiration for the look of the palace, the vast estate provided its gardens. Ferretti took visual elements from such displays of architectural bravura as the Louvre, the Opera Garnier and the Hotel de Soubise in Paris, as well as the UK’s Blenheim Palace. The gigantic set (here come the stats: 50 yards long, 35 yards wide and 30 feet high) was designed by Dante Ferretti, the Production Designer who worked with Pier Paolo Pasolini and Federico Fellini, and went on to design The Aviator, Shutter Island and Gangs Of New York for Martin Scorsese. In fact, the Grand Ball was filmed on Pinewood’s 007 Soundstage, the largest in Europe.
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After Thor and Frankenstein, Kenneth Branagh brings another legendary character to the screen with this refreshingly straightforward, romantic live-action update of Disney’s own 1950 cartoon.īefore you get too carried away about the prospect of swirling round that sumptuous ballroom, remember that Branagh seems to like working in the studio and most of the film was shot on stages at Pinewood Studios near Iver Heath in Buckinghamshire, home of those great British institutions, the Bond films and the Carry On.
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