- “Take that ironing and have it back in an hour. One hour! You hear?”
- ―Drizella to Cinderella[src]
Drizella Tremaine is one of the secondary antagonists in Disney's 1950 animated feature film Cinderella. She is Anastasia's biological older sister, Lady Tremaine's eldest daughter, and Cinderella's older stepsister. Snarky and greedy, Drizella does not care for romance; only for money and power.
Background
Drizella is the older sister of Anastasia and the oldest daughter of Lady Tremaine. When she and her sister were children, their mother married a noble man with a daughter, Cinderella. After the death of Cinderella's father, the three Tremaines became cruel and forced Cinderella into servitude within her own home.
Personality
Drizella is portrayed as ugly, both inside and out, and not very graceful. She tries to destroy Cinderella's life in all conditions in the first and third movie of the series. She is very jealous of Cinderella's success and beauty, and enjoys seeing her slave under her, her sister, mother, and even their cat. Unlike Anastasia, who eventually changes her spiteful ways and develops into a kind and good-natured woman, Drizella remains largely mean, selfish, and rude throughout the series, never truly overcoming her hatred of Cinderella.
In the original movie, Drizella is shown to be very selfish, spoiled, and greedy, much like her sister and her mother and she sings terribly. In Cinderella II: Dreams Come True, Drizella stated that Anastasia's love for the town's baker would have made them the laughingstock of the entire town, despite the fact that in Cinderella III: A Twist in Time, she and her mother end up becoming scullery maids. She and her mother, however, in the end, became toads before being changed back to their original forms. Nonetheless, she did have some degree of care for her biological sister Anastasia, even being visibly shocked by her mother's cruel treatment of Anastasia in the ending of the aforementioned segment in Cinderella II.
Drizella is shown to be worse than Anastasia even in the first film, as she mainly starts their fights and is the first to resorts to violence whereas Anastasia primarily insults. This is also prevalent in the third film, where she wishes harm on Anastasia, first suggesting that she and Lady Tremaine beat Anastasia with the Fairy Godmother's wand and later for Lady Tremaine to turn Anastasia into a toad. She also frequently insults and taunts Anastasia and Cinderella in the film.
Physical appearance
Drizella has a slender figure, fair skin, black eyes, and shoulder-length, black hair with rolled locks on the back and a light blue ribbon on her head. As a child, her hair is a lighter shade of brown and worn in the same style. Her feet are also very large and ungainly, so much that she has difficulty squeezing it into Cinderella's glass slipper when trying it on.
Drizella's trademark appearance consists of different shades of yellow, chartreuse, and light green. As a child, she wears a yellow, short-sleeved dress with a white-winged collar and a red gem in the center. As an adult, Drizella wears a short-sleeved dress that is yellow and light green except for the bodice, which is a deeper shade of yellow, and dark green flats. Her ballgown consists of different shades of green with cyan frill outlines and has a single light teal feather on her head. Her sleepwear is identical to Anastasia's, except in color: a long-sleeved, chartreuse nightgown with a white ribbon in the center and a matching sleeping hat.
In the third movie, when Drizella exploits the wand’s power in one scene, she uses it to transform her gown into a colorful and puffy dress adorned with jewels. Her hair briefly becomes larger and magenta in color before she conjures up a huge crown atop of her head with her original hairstyle. Ultimately, these changes are reversed by her mother.
In her later appearances in both sequels, Drizella's hair color changes from brown to raven black, and both the color of her trademark dress and her ribbon have changed. In Cinderella II: Dreams Come True, her ribbon is light green and her dress is chartreuse and olive. In Cinderella III: A Twist of Time, her ribbon is light blue and her dress is different shades of green.
Appearances
Cinderella
Drizella in the original film.
Drizella's mother constantly plots to ruin Cinderella and has no qualms about hurting her feelings. Lady Tremaine is well aware of her older daughter's good manners but can trigger Drizella's anger with a mere handful of casually-delivered words. In a particularly distressing scene in the original film, as Lady Tremaine and her daughters prepare to leave for the Prince's ball, Cinderella appears wearing her beautiful homemade gown. Lady Tremaine notes that Cinderella is wearing a jade necklace that belongs to Drizella, who had rejected it earlier. After Lady Tremaine casually points out to Drizella that the necklace adds a charming touch to the dress, the stepsister flies into a rage (despite her previous disdain for them) and violently yanks her necklace from Cinderella's neck. She, along with Anastasia, proceeds to lunge upon Cinderella and tears her gown to rags, leaving her devastated.
At the ball, Drizella and her sister fail to make an impression on the Prince, who instead falls for Cinderella, who had a new and even more beautiful gown created by her Fairy Godmother. Though reasonably stunned, neither Drizella nor her sister recognizes Cinderella. Sometime after the ball, Drizella is one of the many women who attempt to try on the glass slipper, but her large foot is impossible to fit in it.
Cinderella II: Dreams Come True
Drizella in Cinderella II: Dreams Come True.
In this movie, she is a minor antagonist and only appears in the last of the three stories "An Uncommon Romance", like her mother and sister, in which she openly expresses her disapproval of the latter's relationship with the baker and the fact that they would become "the laughingstock of the entire town". After Anastasia openly rebelled against their overbearing mother and told her she was in love with a baker of low-birth and that she was happier with him than she would ever be with any wealthy suitor which Lady Tremaine had hoped she would encounter at another palace ball. Angered, Lady Tremaine stormed off, leaving Drizella stunned, though she followed her.
Cinderella III: A Twist in Time
Drizella in Cinderella III: A Twist in Time.
Drizella serves as the secondary antagonist of this film. Unlike Anastasia, who reforms, Drizella remains cruel and jealous of Cinderella's happily ever after. With Cinderella gone, Anastasia and Drizella have been forced to do all the housework. When Lady Tremaine discovers the powers of the wand, Drizella and Anastasia both participate in a plan to destroy Cinderella's life, through Drizella is annoyed that her mother chose Anastasia over her to put on the slipper and marry the Prince. However, she too is shown to be a potential victim when Lady Tremaine threatens to have her exiled with Cinderella after almost divulging their plan. During the film's climax, Lady Tremaine turns Anastasia into a look-a-like Cinderella to marry the Prince. When she cannot bring herself to go through with the plan, Lady Tremaine decides to destroy both her and Cinderella, with Drizella telling her to do it ("Oh, turn her into a toad mother"). However, the Prince stops her with his sword, and Lady Tremaine and Drizella are turned into toads instead. Eventually, she and her mother are both turned back into their human forms. The end credits imply that they were made into scullery maids as punishment for their evil deeds, as they were shown wearing the same scullery maid outfits Cinderella used to wear.
House of Mouse
In the series House of Mouse, Drizella makes several cameos, mostly sitting with Anastasia and Lucifer.
In "Ask Von Drake", she was seen with Lady Tremaine as the Grand Duke tried to fit the glass slipper on Anastasia before Ludwig Von Drake advises him to try Cinderella.
In "Goofy's Valentine Date", Mortimer Mouse briefly attempted to flirt with her and Anastasia, until Lucifer attacked him. Drizella also took part in the hostile takeover of the club in Mickey's House of Villains.
Other appearances
An emoticon version of Drizella appeared in the Cinderella entry of the As Told by Emoji short series.
Printed media
Poor Unfortunate Soul: A Tale of the Sea Witch
Anastasia and Drizella are mentioned by Ursula in the novel by Serena Valentino. She refers to them as the "horrible sisters".
Video games
Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep
When a ball is held at the Castle of Dreams, all unmarried women are invited for the prince to find a bride. Drizella, along with Anastasia and Lady Tremaine, attempted to keep Cinderella from going along by giving her endless chores to finish and preventing her from finding a suitable dress.
When Ventus and Jaq make it for her, she and Anastasia tear it apart saying she had stolen their materials. But their plot failed when the Fairy Godmother makes a new dress for her and a pumpkin carriage to transport her to the ball. She is unable to identify Cinderella during the party because she is too far away from their direction.
After the ball, Prince Charming asks the Grand Duke to search for Cinderella with the glass slipper. When he finally reaches their house, she attempts to make the shoe fit her oversized foot, but Cinderella proves to be the one. Lady Tremaine then summons a powerful Unversed to kill Cinderella. This act, however, causes a firebomb to drop on the three women, blowing them away.
Other games
In Kinect: Disneyland Adventures, Drizella and her sister were mentioned by their stepsister.[1]
Disney Parks
Drizella poses for a photo at Disneyland Paris.
Drizella was once a rare meet-and-greet character, but in recent years she has been seen more often and has even started to join in parades. Drizella is often doing meet-and-greets with Anastasia or Lady Tremaine on some occasion and mostly seen with both of the villains.
Disneyland Resort
During Halloween time, she takes part in the special Disney Villains meet-and-greet sessions in the Disneyland park.
Walt Disney World
In Florida, Drizella can be found making meet-and-greet appearances in the Magic Kingdom. She can also be at Disney's Grand Floridian Resort & Spa. For entertainment, Drizella also takes part in Mickey's Not So Scary Halloween Party, Main Street Electrical Parade, and A Christmas Fantasy Parade.
Disneyland Paris
In France, Drizella makes appearances in Fantasyland.
Disney Cruise Line
Drizella is a major character in the live stage show Twice Charmed, where Lady Tremaine obtains her own Fairy Godfather and uses the power to exact revenge on Cinderella.
Gallery
Trivia
- Drizella's former voice actress, the late Russi Taylor, was also the voice of Minnie Mouse, the Fairy Godmother, Huey, Dewey, and Louie, Webby Vanderquack, and Fauna. Ironically, the last character was a nemesis of another of Susanne Blakeslee's (her mother's voice actress) characters, Maleficent.
- In Cinderella, when Drizella is first seen as a young child during the prologue, her hair is brown. However, when she's older her hair color is black. Although it's actually possible for children's hair to darken when they get older.
- In Cinderella II, her hair color seems to be dark brown compared to the original film.
- However, Drizella's hair color in Cinderella III is raven-black instead of being dark brown. Despite this, her portrayals in merchandise and posters depict her with dark brown hair. It's important to highlight that Lady Tremaine's hair color during the prologue was dark brunette, so it's safe to assume that Drizella's official hair color is black.
- She is the younger sister of Anastasia Tremaine in some international dubbings.
- In the French dubs (including the Canadian dubs of the sequels), her name is Javotte, after the older stepsister from the original Perrault book.
- According to Cinderella III: A Twist in Time director Frank Nissen, Drizella was originally the stepsister who would reform, but the producers changed it to Anastasia as she had already begun the process in Cinderella II: Dreams Come True.
- Based on what is seen in the sequels, Drizella is considerably crueler and mean than Anastasia, and never redeems herself due to this.
- In Cinderella II, Anastasia changes, coming to love Cinderella, where Drizella stays faithfully by her mother's side, although she did end up shocked by her mother's behavior towards her sister.
- In Cinderella III, she is appalled when Anastasia chooses true love over Prince Charming.
- Drizella's hair is much more similar to Snow White's, but more closely resembles that of one of Ariel's sisters, Alana. This is ironic, considering that she's far worse than either of them.
- According to Linda Woolverton, Drizella and her sister Anastasia are part of the reason why she removed Belle's wicked sisters in her penning of the adaptation for Beauty and the Beast, as she wanted to avoid confusion with them.
- In the 2015 film, the spelling of Drizella's name is changed to Drisella.
- While Drizella's hair stays the same style in all three films, her sister sometimes is seen with a different hairstyle, such as Tinker Bell hairstyle at night, and she wears her hair loose in the sequel.
- In Descendants 2, she has a daughter named Dizzy.
- In a 1957 Disneyland Records Storyteller edition of Cinderella narrated by Jiminy Cricket, he gives Drizella the nickname Driz for short.[2]
- In Disenchanted, during the festival sequence, Rosaleen's dress is modeled after Drizella's while Ruby's dress is based on Anastasia's.
- It is possible that Lady Tremaine and Drizella's status as scullery maids in the castle at the end of A Twist in Time was only temporary; as they may have been either forced to take the long road back to their château without any opportunity to regain their former wealth and social standing, or exiled from the Kingdom shortly afterwards.
See also
References
- ↑ Cinderella: "I'm sure Anastasia and Drizella are still in bed."
- ↑ https://cartoonresearch.com/index.php/the-tale-of-disneys-cinderella-storyteller-albums/
External links
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