The 'Cruella' Prequel Isn't Totally Sure How Cruella De Vil Feels About Dogs

The Cruella de Vil we grew up with is very different from the Cruella offered in the new prequel movie 'Cruella.' For one, she doesn't hate dogs.

Spoiler alert: Major spoilers for Cruella ahead!

In the 1996 101 Dalmatians, Cruella de Vil needs Anita and Roger's Dalmatian puppies so she can skin them and promote their coats. Why pups? Because their coats are softer, obviously. 2021's prequel, Cruella, serves to present the villain an beginning tale that explains why Cruella is so, neatly, merciless. But are pups involved? Does she hate them? Cruella could have a complicated dating with dogs, however she does not truly hate them.

People are questioning why Cruella de Vil hates dogs.

Since we all know long run Cruella de Vil ultimately turns into a puppy-killing monster, it will make sense to provide an explanation for her dislike of dogs in Cruella. But in the prequel, she does not in fact hate dogs — although she is dressed in a spotted coat to scare the Baroness, who's the owner of Dalmatians Pongo and Perdita. She for sure has no real interest in skinning them in this movie, even though it is revealed that Cruella's adoptive mom was once killed when the Baroness ordered her Dalmatians to push her off a cliff.

At the end of the film, Cruella has stolen considered one of the Dalmatians, who's given beginning to a muddle of pups. During the mid-credits scene, she ends up giving two away, one to Anita (her childhood friend), and Roger (this part is complicated, since Roger blames Cruella for making him lose his process as a lawyer, even if this was the Baroness's fault). But it's a must to the tale that each Anita and Roger get two domestic dogs, Pongo and Perdita, as a result of this sets us up 101 Dalmatians.

What's complicated is the reason Cruella would want to sooner or later kill the domestic dogs if they had been in fact bred from her personal dogs. There does not appear to be a reason, since Cruella makes it in reality transparent that Emma Stone's Cruella isn't merciless sufficient to pores and skin pups for a fur coat. The movie needs Cruella to be somewhat likable, so maybe that's why it veers off observe when it comes to Cruella's character and motivations.

Maybe one thing happens to Cruella in a 2nd installment of Cruella, and we find she in truth cares extra about making a living with Dalmatian fur coats than she cares about the pups. It's truly unclear, though! The most effective rationalization is that Disney did not really explain Cruella properly, as a result of they had been too terrified of her becoming a real villain no person could root for. Nobody roots for the person who kills doggies. That's a line we do not go.

Slate notes, "One of the big problems that Cruella runs into is that it’s an origin story for an unsympathetic character that’s desperately afraid of that same character becoming unsympathetic. The movie tries to justify the existence of Cruella (versus Estella, her given name) by positioning Cruella as the opinionated one who refuses to be meek, but that’s hardly a villainous trait."

The takeaway right here? Cruella does not initially hate dogs, even if some of them were ordered to kill her adoptive mother. She ultimately does turn out to be an evil puppy-killing villain, though — that we all know.

Cruella is these days in theaters and streaming on Disney Premier Plus.

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