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Cruella

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In 1970s London amidst the punk rock revolution, a young grifter named Estella is determined to make a name for herself with her designs. She befriends a pair of young thieves who appreciate her appetite for mischief, and together they are able to build a life for themselves on the London streets. One day, Estella’s flair for fashion catches the eye of the Baroness von Hellman, a fashion legend who is devastatingly… From TMDB

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  • Todd in the Shadows @shadowtodd.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 30, 2026

    I also believe that the movie "Cruella" is a white-washing biopic commisioned in universe by Cruella de Vil herself.

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  • Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 16, 2025

    there is no better evidence that out of touch billionaires are running entertainment than the existence of the Cruella movie

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  • Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 23, 2026

    I’m just gonna say it, I think “Cruella” is an absolute hoot of a movie. IDC IDC. It’s a 70s fashion fairy tale AND it features the dog who plays the role of Betty on #WillTrent.

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  • grimm 🎃 @mugrimm.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 9, 2026

    I thought it was neat when people brought dogs to outdoor restaurants during COVID, and then within 24 months all of a sudden people were bringing them in grocery stores and movie theaters and I am now on the side of Cruella De Ville.

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  • Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 17, 2025

    Two things. 1: This looks like the trailer for a new Cruella film. It's physically impossible to make her a sympathetic character. 2: The fact they include her saying she can't be bothered to watch her husband on the news *in the trailer* is hilarious.

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  • PJ McIlvaine @pjmacwriter.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 5, 2025

    Baloney. Cruella de Noem can go down there and film a propaganda video using prisoners as props flashing her fancy watch, she can haul her sorry ass back to get this innocent man out and to his wife and children.

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  • ThemBOO! @thembo.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 24, 2025

    I like the Cruella movie because it went out of its way to show how cunning and badass this person is who will later in life be defeated by several baby dogs

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  • please stop forgetting how elections work i beg of you @tonygoldmark.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 16, 2025

    The Maleficent and Cruella movies were already goddamn pointless and this idea is even MORE goddamn pointless. Gaston was already a brilliant subversion of the "mighty hero" trope. He's the kind of character who would've been the main good guy in most movies. deadline.com/2025/12/disn...

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  • Mutual I'm Sure @mutualimsure.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 16, 2026

    One of them pushed my mom over a cliff like in the Cruella movie

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  • Max the comics guy who does comics about comics @waitingforthetrade.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 4, 2025

    I still can’t believe that the Cruella de Vil movie gave her the origin story of “out for revenge because a dog shot her mom.”

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  • Lizard @lizardky.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 23, 2025

    Cruella had a tragic backstory. (I think, I didn’t see the movie.) I don’t think Palin has. Though, to be fair, killing puppies is more a Kristi Noem thing.

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  • The Other Happy Place @theotherhappyplace.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 29, 2024

    Cruella was an okay film. It's still UNBELIEVABLY WEIRD that they went "Hey you know the lady who wants to murder dogs? She wants to murder them for fun? She doesn't need to do it at all and specifically does it to PUPPIES? LETS MAKE HER A HERO" its a weird one LOL

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  • big tiddy Rebell @rebell.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 26, 2026

    This reminds me of the Cruella movie where it’s all about counter culture punk rock but at the end of the day it’s still a Disney film, and never really goes far enough to do anything with the material. I still love the movie and the fashion in it.

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  • Izzy @what-ish.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 8, 2024

    Ya know, people weren't huge fans of Maleficent and Cruella. But I actually think those are BETTER (even if simply in concept) than most of the live action remakes because they don't just do "same exact movie but way more dull". They actually made completely new stories, and imo interesting ideas.

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  • David Cooper @davidbcooper.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 30, 2026

    Remember there was a Cruella de Vil prequel movie and part of her origin story was “her mother was killed by dalmatians”?

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  • Dominique Ramsey 𓃥 @dominiqueramseyart.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 23, 2026

    Finally found a way to re-watch this movie, and i'll say it's definitely not boring but not much like the adventure films I grew up watching. Like one user said in my replies, it does get way dark in the climax with Cruella but of course because she's the selling point

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  • Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 27, 2023

    Watched 101 Dalmatians for the first time since early childhood and I’m sorry but Cruella DeVille is the unambiguous protagonist of this movie

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  • Sean Thomason @seanthomason.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 1, 2026

    What’s next, a film humanizing the puppy murderer Cruella de Vil? *touches earpiece* What’s that now?

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  • Madame Li Ying - Medical Dominatrix London @madame-li-ying.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 13, 2026

    Madam Cruella and I are considering holding a caning competition sometime within the next couple of months, which we would film for our private enjoyment. If we decide to go ahead with it, would you be interested in taking part? Sign up to my newsletter for news and updates. www.madame-li-ying.com

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  • Eve Harms, Orph Understander @eveharms.comBluesky · Apr 22, 2026

    What Hollywood has in store for us this year: Practical Magic 2, FOCKER-in-Law, Scary Movie (remake), Spiderman, Cruella 2, Maleficent 3, Aladdin 2, Super Troopers 3, Avengers, Supergirl, Mortal Kombat II, Star Wars (x2), Street Fighter, Moana (live action remake), Toy Story 5... God it's bleak.

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  • Innsmouth Looksmaxxing @gonebabygone.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 1, 2024

    Everybody knows how the Cruella movie reveals that her mother was run off a cliff by Dalmatians but it also reveals she named herself after a coupe de Ville

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  • Mera @captainmera.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 4, 2025

    You know, the only Disney villain they'll never try to give a redemption movie for, or ever try to get the POV of, is Ratcliffe from Pocahontas. (y'know, like with Cruella or Maleficent) Which kind of makes him the best classic Disney villain, right up there with Claude Frollo.

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  • Edward the Movie Buff 🎞🎬🎥📽 @midgetmoxie.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 17, 2025

    #Edwards1000SixtiesMovies 103/1000: ONE HUNDRED AND ONE DALMATIANS This Disney animated film explores a Dalmatian dog couple's quest to rescue their adorable, cute puppies from the menacing Cruella de Vil and the criminal Badun brothers, who plan to use their skin to make Cruella's coat.

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  • Chris Sims @theisb.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 16, 2025

    I did not watch the Cruella movie but you're fooling yourself if you think that having Cruella De Ville's mom get straight up murdered by dalmatians like she wandered down Crime Alley on Earth C-Minus was one of the best ideas anyone making a movie has ever had.

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  • Sebastian @sebdoggo.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 25, 2025

    Rewatched Cruella. Older art from the first few times I saw the movie.

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  • Richard ‘WeShould’ Linklater @weekendwarrior.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 18, 2026

    First rewatch of Cruella since release and it’s really quite good. Stone and Thompson are electric, of course, but the production design and costumes are impeccable. Jenny Beaven styled the fuck out of this film and rightfully took home the Oscar.

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  • L. D. Lewis, Sea Witch Apologist 🧜🏾‍♀️ @ldlewiswrites.blacksky.appBluesky · May 27, 2026

    The one time I used a Montblanc, I did the "blast this wretched, WRETCHED PEN!" air-stab thing Cruella did in the movie and that's the only experience I needed out of it

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  • unalivejoy @[email protected]Lemmy · Jan 15, 2026

    I like how the recent movies had Cruella step on another villain-coded woman to get to the top. 

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  • badbrainstorm @[email protected]Lemmy · Jun 23, 2023

    Paul Dano takes on Wall Street in first trailer for Dumb Money. There’s no shortage of movies already based on real-life, historical incidents surrounding the Stock Market, but everything in the first trailer for Sony’s upcoming Dumb Money film — a biographical comedy-drama covering the events of the GameStop short squeeze — beautifully demonstrates why we have such an appetite for them. Especially when it involves a David vs Goliath-like plot where “the little guy” takes on the Wall Street…

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  • Darren Mooney @darrenmooney.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 21, 2025

    I think I had the same reaction to this podcaster having the same reaction to the first film. It’s just an insane take to me from somebody au fait with pop culture, in a post-“Maleficent”, post-“Cruella”, post-“I, Tonya”, post-“Frozen” world.

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  • Rob FortyNorth @fortynorth.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 19, 2025

    The guy in the red shirt could have a second career as a lion tamer, SM film star, or a male Cruella de Vil. Kudos to the crew boss who wasn’t intimidated and kept his hands down. That is a critical non-escalatory posture. Protecting his employee and standing his ground.

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  • Filed Under Dumb Joke Team @k-sko.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 21, 2025

    The whole administration is a feature film of Disney villains. JD is Gaston, Tulsi is Cruella, Miller is Shere Khan, Rubio is Ursula, and so on

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  • van cartier @christopherxci.blacksky.appBluesky · Jan 3, 2026

    It was brilliant to make Cruella into a heist film but I think it had too many ideas and didn’t hone in on just being an excellent heist flick but that’s minor— my main issue is that disney yet again absolves my favorite villains of their villainy! But shout out to the fashion moments. 😍

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  • Cosmic Marvel @dailycosmicmarvel.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 20, 2025

    Tony McNamara is now writing the script for Taika Waititi’s ‘STAR WARS’ film. He wrote ‘Poor Things’, ‘The Favourite’ & ‘Cruella’ (via screenrant.com/star-wars-mo...)

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  • ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contactBluesky · Sep 1, 2026

    Series of sympathetic villain backstory movie villain backstory movies, where the villains who are the secret reasons that Cruella and Maleficent are sympathetic get backstories explaining how they’re sympathetic

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  • caffeine anxiety ego death @mxdshipwreck.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 24, 2026

    I find it grimly humorous that in 2026 there are these notable attempts to make famous film villains into sympathetic characters (Cruella, etc) wonder why that could be. what a mystery

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  • Emily Galvin-Almanza @galvinalmanza.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 8, 2026

    And then, of course, making the victim into the aggressor. Remember in the movie Cruella where Emma Thompson throws someone over a railing and then says "she jumped! she came at me!" This is that.

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  • ✨Sailor Scout Austin✨🔜PAXU @sailorsctaustin.blacksky.appBluesky · Aug 20, 2026

    I said I didn’t like the movie Cruella and got called a bully who was forcing people to delete their Twitter accounts

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  • Katie Aki ✶ @katieaki.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 10, 2025

    I should be AT HOME, drawing MISERABLE LESBIANS, and WATCHING THE LIVE ACTION CRUELLA MOVIE AGAIN

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  • Danuki of Danuki's Dalmatian Studio!!🔵🐢🎥 @danukistudios.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 12, 2026

    #101DalmatianStreet #101Dalmatians #Disney #DisneyPlus #CruellaDeVil #Cruella I must be REAL late to the party by this point, but... Happy 5th Anniversary to Disney's 2021 Live-Action film featuring our most iconic Disney villainous Cruella De Vil!!🎊🎉🎈 (1/2)

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  • Werewolf By Nat 🇵🇷🏳‍⚧ @peanutbutterwhisky.bsky.socialBluesky · May 28, 2026

    I don't count this as a remake cause it's just a movie with Cruella and not a remake of 101 Dalmatians. That out of the way, this movie is like leaps and bounds better than like 99% of live-action films to come out of Walt Disney Pictures. It's well directed, stylish, and just pure fun. Love it!

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  • El Intrepido rides again @el-intrepido.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 24, 2026

    I WOULD FUND THIS MOVIE !!! “All Bitches go to HELL” “The Equalizers” “Cruella 2025” “Death Wish”

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  • jo8383.bsky.social @jo8383.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 13, 2025

    Cruella said what??? This is movie- with evil villains taking over the world…

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  • Cliff PervoSCARY @pervocracy.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 1, 2026

    (yeah, yeah, Disney won't greenlight the script unless Cruella is sympathetic, but maybe we simply did not need a movie about a sympathetic dog murderer)

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  • Blue @bluehypno098.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 30, 2026

    I decided to draw Cruella De Vil based on the Cruella movie I think it came out very good :) #cruella #disney #art

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  • Nocturne @starcaller.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 15, 2025

    Not every villian needs an attempt at a forgivable backstory. Cruella was awful and is still awful after the live action film, Gaston is still gonna be a misogynistic jerk even if they give him a tragic backstory. Just stop, Disney.

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  • Don @donshifs.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 14, 2026

    Disney History - 6/13/1910 Actress Mary Wickes is born. She was the live-action model for Cruella DeVil in Disney's 101 Dalmatians and the voice of the gargoyle Laverne in The Hunchback of Notre Dame (her last film). She was Sister Mary Lazarus in the comedy Sister Act and Sister Act 2.

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  • Lindsay (Tired Version) @swiftchai.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 11, 2026

    That is an unhinged story line for a children’s movie (or any movie really), It makes Cruella de Vil seem rational. Not to mention how shortsighted the vet is for eliminating half his customer base

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  • Leonard C Suskin (he/him) @czhorat.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 16, 2025

    I agree, and I actually liked the Cruella movie. Gaston is, to me, less redeemable than the woman who wanted to skin puppies and make a coat out of them

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  • Evil Alice @evilalicesg.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 24, 2025

    I’ve forgotten how much I love the Cruella movie!

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  • Wh⭕a @zzztestaccount.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 14, 2025

    I thought Cruella was actually a pretty decent movie that would have been much better if it had been a completely independent story.

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  • Cartoon baphomet boyfriend @kokorozek.satan.socialBluesky · Sep 2, 2026

    Correcting the record on the Cruella movie is not going over well

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  • magnolia siddell ✨ @magnoliapearl.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 31, 2026

    I think anyone who sees Glenn Close’s Cruella as girlboss goals has probably only seen like a still image of her and not even one single second of this movie. Lol

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  • Matt Baldwin @thisbrokenwheel.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 24, 2026

    Also, not for nothing, but as with the case of the misbegotten CRUELLA movie and the all-but-forgotten (deservedly) DRACULA UNTOLD, we already know what Scrooge's whole deal is; 1/3 of A Christmas Carol is dedicated to his past! bsky.app/profile/bloo...

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  • Fisty @fisty.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 3, 2026

    Twisted fairy tale theme? Cruella was an unexpected hoot; A City of Sadness needs to be rewatched when it's not a blurry mess on Youtube :( ; The Legend of Billie Jean delivered Intense 80ism; Secret of Kells was ok, watched for Hater Club Challenge. #LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched #FilmSky

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  • Josh Spiegel @mousterpiece.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 24, 2026

    Anyway, I'm surprised to learn that the guy who directed one of the most visually drab films of recent memory (Cruella) has directed another visually drab film. Who'da thunk.

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  • The Gaming Hashira 🎮|Master of JRPG Juggling @skinnylegendyassss.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 22, 2025

    Which movie did you love as a kid, and still love now? 101 Dalmatians. I still have the VHS as of this day. And not to mention that Cruella De Vil is my favorite Disney villain.

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  • Richard L Pastore 📚🏳️‍🌈 @rlpastore.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 2, 2024

    They’ve made Wicked, Joker, Cruella, and Maleficent. And yet, we’re all still anxiously awaiting: HEAT MISER (The Movie)

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  • Iphigenia V @iphigenia.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 13, 2026

    I am, of course, referring only ṭo Cruella from the 1961 film adaptation, as this is the only time she's presented as an explicitly queer-coded villain and that makes all the difference. Despite my penchant for sploshing the 90s live action Cruella does nothing for me.

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  • Blue @bluehypno098.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 31, 2026

    I’m back with more Cruella De Vi from the Cruella movie, but this time she has been hypnotized to be a dog, one that looks ready to bite someone’s leg. #hypnosis #hypnoart #hypnosisart #hypnosiskink #hypnoartist

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Estella / Cruella
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The Baroness
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Jasper
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Artie
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