How Do You Know Ella Enchanted

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The first song Ella sings, "Somebody to Honey" was not the original vocal choice. Tommy O'Haver had discovered that Anne Hathaway didn't have very good chemistry with their showtime choice, a more than classical "fairy-tale" song. O'Haver and Hathaway were relaxing when she starting singing along and dancing to the song that was currently playing: Queen'southward "Somebody to Love". They both decided that "this was it".

Clouded skies in Ireland were digitized a brilliant blue to create more of a fairytale atmosphere.

During the fight scene with the ogres, a horse savage on stuntman Rob Inch, shattering his pelvis in xxx places.

The woman who appears during the ending number carrying Edgar in a cart is Anne Hathaway'south cousin Meridith.

The opening shot took about vi-7 months to create, information technology mixed live action and models.

Twin babies were used in filming, ane that cried a lot, and one that was happy. The Ella Enchanted title was strategically placed over the babies' face to hide the switch.

The Hall of Mirrors scene was the near difficult to film due to the mirrors and the complexity of the photographic camera angles.

When Benny teases Slannen for being frightened by a bunny, he mentions that "the terminal known case of a bunny attack was, well...never." Ironically, Eric Idle, who plays the narrator, is a role of one-act group Monty Python, whose film Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) features the deadly "Killer Rabbit of Caerbannog".

Edgar'south portrait reads "Hubris, never humility". Char's reads "Valiant, never Vainglorious".

The tailor working on Char's cloak is an bodily tailor in Dublin, Ireland.

Lamia, where Prince Char lives, is modeled after downtown Manhattan, with castles in place of skyscrapers, bridges, rivers and island topography. It is also named after the Greek myth of Lamia.

The actors that portrayed the ogres, Jim Carter, Paraic Breathnach, and Daniel Naprous, were told that it would simply take two hours to become into make-upwards and costume, when in fact, it took four to six hours.

Originally, Heston was going to be a puppet, but Tommy O'Haver quickly realized that is wasn't going to work, and became a digital character.

EASTER EGG: At that place are several faces hidden in the paradigm throughout the flick. In order of appearance: 1. During the opening pan across the countryside, when you run into the unicorn, the side of the wall where the branches are broken forms the silhouette of a confront in contour. The broken part of the wall makes the brow, nose, and mouth; the branches make the pilus, eyebrow, and eye. two&3. There are 2 subconscious faces in the pages of the magic book when Mandy (Minnie Driver) first opens it. 4. When Prince Char and Ella see the giants working in the field, there's a face hidden in the loma on the left side. You can see it in the shot that starts on the guard towers and pans right to the field (the concluding shot of the giants). It might likewise be visible in the very outset shot of the giants, but merely in the wide-screen version. 5. When Ella is chained to the tree, there is a modest face subconscious in the middle of the tree in between the two outreached branches (that look like short arms). It tin be very hard, if not impossible, to see on some copies of the film (especially if the print is kind of dark).

The Prince's name, "Charmant" is not only a play on words, it is the French word for "Charming".

Tommy O'Haver affectionately called the Lamia Castle Guards his very own Stormtroopers, referencing Star Wars.

The scene where Char and Ella come across was the first day of filming. Director Tommy O'Haver had them move, so that the waterfall could be seen in the background.

Slannen mentions the Grimm Brothers. They were the beginning ones to write down the story of Cinderella, on which this motion picture is based.

Aiden McArdle is the cousin of Steve Coogan who plays the snake Heston in the flick.

Subsequently Ella kicks a Red Guard behind her, taking him out, rather swiftly, Ella's stepmother (Joanna Lumley) is appalled past the deed. Joanna Lumley also played Purdy in The New Avengers (1976), and was known for her kickboxing fighting style.

The score was washed in the same place where The Mask and Thumbelina were made at Windmill Studios Dublin.

Ironically Cary Elwes was in Rudyard Kipling's Jungle Book (1994) in which his character is killed past the snake 'Kaa', in this movie his characters minion is a ophidian.

This isn't the just pic to characteristic both Eric Idle (The Narrator) and Steve Coogan (vocalism of Heston). They besides starred together in "The Current of air in the Willows" (1996) every bit Ratty and Moley respectively.

2nd pic where Anne Hathaway plays a princess.

Not to exist confused with Amy Adam'due south Enchanted which came out 3 years after this was released.

Spoilers

The trivia items below may give away important plot points.

The shoes that Ella has to steal in the mall scene, were actually made of glass, at that place were two pairs fabricated, and through filming, Anne Hathaway unfortunately bankrupt both pairs.

There are several references to Cinderella - Ella gets a stepmother, and two nasty stepsisters. 1 of her stepsisters tells Ella to go dwelling and clean the fireplace. Ella is made to steal glass shoes/slippers. Ella has a fairy godmother, who puts her in a gown for the ball. The stroke of midnight is significant. Another word for "Char" is "Cinder", when y'all combine the names it becomes "Cinder-Ella". This is really considering the original volume past Gail Carson Levine, was supposed to be a spin on the Cinderella story. In the volume, many of these connections are fabricated much clearer. Also, Char's total name, Charmont, is actually supposed to be a play on the name Prince Charming.

Lucy Punch also plays the wicked stepsister, Lucinda, in Into the Woods (2014), but that time with Cinderella, rather than Ella.

The are a few notable differences from the movie adaptation and the book. Ane difference in the book, Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine, at that place is not an evil uncle Edgar character seeking to take the throne from Prince Charmont, but in the picture show he is played by Cary Elwes.