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18. Dalmatians Killed Cruella's "Mother" - Cruella
Cruella may be many things, but more than anything else it's a deeply weird origin story for 101 Dalmatians' villainess, Cruella de Vil (Emma Stone).
The film's divisive attempts to tie into the existing mythology begin early, when it's revealed that Cruella's mother Catherine (Emily Beecham) was killed by Baroness von Hellman's (Emma Thompson) vicious Dalmatians, which knocked her off a cliff edge.
At first audiences might groan that Cruella has been given a most lazy justification for hating and later killing Dalmatians, the script takes a few surprising left-turns.
For starters, it's revealed that Catherine was actually Cruella's adoptive mother, while her birth mother was really the Baroness herself, and most crucially, the story reconfigures Cruella's persona by ultimately removing her murderous hatred of Dalmatians entirely.
Whether the rejigging of Cruella's story worked for you or not, it is not a film that leaves audiences wanting for incredibly bizarre moments.