Directed by: Andy Tennant
Starring: Drew Barrymore, Anjelica Huston, Dougray Scott, Richard O'Brien, Patrick Godfrey
At the Masquerade Ball, Danielle shows up in an angel costume and is embarrassed in front of everyone by her stepmother. Henry sends her away while she's running, she loses her glass slipper and Leonardo Da Vinci finds it and tells Henry that she is his true love and leaves her shoe with him. Danielle is sold to Pierre Le Pieu after trading her for all the things missing from the house (tapestries, candlesticks, books, etc). Henry goes to rescue Danielle and he puts the shoe on her. Danielle & Henry get married. Danielle's stepmother & evil stepsister are almost sent to the Americas because they had lied to the Queen of France. Danielle speaks for them after bowing to Danielle and they have to work. Da Vinci painted the portrait of Danielle as a wedding gift. They all live happily ever after.
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Visible crew/equipment: Near the end, when Rodmilla and her daughters are requested to appear before King Francis, in the first shot facing the king and queen, there is a beige narrow mat in front of the large patterned rug, which is not in previous or following shots, specifically used for crew/camera tracking (fullscreen version). (01:50:30)
Prince Henry: I have been born to privilege, and with that comes specific obligations.
Leonardo da Vinci: Horseshit.
Trivia: When Danielle is with Gustave in his painter's studio, just as Gustave says, "Five days in the stocks," there's a painting of a noblewoman on the easel beside them; the noblewoman left her gown and jewelry at the studio for the painter to consult while completing her portrait, and it is that noblewoman's gown Danielle borrows to impersonate a courtier. Then, while Danielle is at the royal court quoting Utopia to Henry, right after she says, "but that you first make thieves and then punish them," in the next shot, the older noblewoman at the center is the one from the portrait; she's played by Amanda Walker, the wife of Patrick Godfrey who plays Leonardo, also in this scene. Amanda was to have a line in this scene (in the goldenrod script version), commenting on Danielle's gown being identical to her own, but that line was cut. (00:21:45 - 00:29:20)
Answer: He compares Danielle to his horse, who was a "Magnificent creature...stubborn...willful." Horse breaking means to get the horse to comply and to submit to the humans who handle it, many times by awful violent means, in order to break their stubbornness or willful behavior. Le Pieu has put Danielle in shackles and tells her that she belongs to him, and that he wishes she would reconsider his offer, to which Danielle states that she belongs to no-one and she'd rather rot than be his (with the obvious implication of what that means). When Le Pieu uses the horse analogy to further infer his disgusting intentions, he touches Danielle's hair and does not maintain his distance, which prompts her to take his sword and threaten him; yet even with a blade at his neck, lecherous Le Pieu still attempts to pull her close.
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