Frog Princess found & renamed!

Disney's Divinity · Post by **Disney's Divinity** » Thu Apr 02, 2009 9:26 am

The only problem I have with the green dress, as far as applies to the Princess line, is that it looks too much like a wedding dress (where as the other members of the line are wearing regular/dancing dresses). But I don't think there's anything remotely ugly about it (or too much of a "lilypad effect") and, imo, it's on par with Cinderella and Belle's dresses.

nomad2010 · Post by **nomad2010** » Thu Apr 02, 2009 1:23 pm

NEW FROM SHOWEST:

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/showestnews.php?id=54145

Disney previewed the movie with a scene shown in its unfinished state involving Princess Tiana (voiced by Anika Noni Rose of Dreamgirls) and her co-star, the frog, formerly Prince Naveen (voiced by Bruno Campos), meeting for the first time. Tiana is on the balcony wishing upon the Evening Star and the frog shows up on the railing scaring her and she looks at him with disgust and asks, "Am I supposed to kiss you?" To her shock, the frog opens its mouth and responds, "Kissing would be nice, yes?" and she runs back into her room disgusted by the thought and starts throwing things at the talkative frog. He ends up jumping up onto her dresser and she slams a heavy book down on him. The book is the original "Princess and the Frog" and the frog tells her that he's in a similar predicament, but might be able to return to being Prince Naveen if she kisses him. He's a smooth talkin' frog prince indeed. "I do not kiss frogs," she insists but after a bit more persuading, she agrees to one kiss. He puckers up and his throat expands, grossing her out even more, but she leans in and he licks his lips with his long tongue and she recoils. After shaking it off, she shakes it off, and the clip ended as their lips met in the kiss and all sorts of sparks and magical stuff happened around them, though it quickly ended there to a clearly audible "Awww" from the audience.

2099net · Post by **2099net** » Thu Apr 02, 2009 1:46 pm

Did anyone see Anika Noni Rose in The No1 Ladies Detective Agency on HBO last week?

Here's some reviews:

http://www.courant.com/entertainment/tv ... 7242.story

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/b ... ies29.html

http://tunedin.blogs.time.com/2009/03/2 ... ve-agency/

Disney Duster · Post by **Disney Duster** » Thu Apr 02, 2009 2:36 pm

xxhplinkxx wrote:Your post confuses me... I can't tell if you like the dress or not.

And, btw, I have no intention of "arguing all I want", I just was stating my opinion. I can care less which dress of hers Disney decides to use.

Silly Dusty.

I like some of the dress but the lily-padness was taken too far. I guess maybe the lily pad leaves should just look a little more like natural material, I dunno. So it doesn't look like ginat lily leaves are on it, just material that kind of looks like it, I dunno. Prince Naveen really needs to tone down the lilies, that is definately too much, Tiana's not bad compared to that. And I was not saying you were arguing. Rather, I foresaw someone saying the past princesses didn't have their clothes researched and made to look like they could have existed in their time, which they were.

Oops Mooks!

Divinity, you bringing up the wedding dress is a really good point. Ariel has worn her wedding dress in some princess art because they had trouble finding a dress from the movie that looked like the princess ones. The pink dinner dress really is the best choice for that. But anyway, yea, Tiana's lily-pad dress should not be used if it's for the wedding. But I don't like her blue one, or many reasons. They really could have made a more princessy, better looking, and green one out of actual pictures from 1920's Mardi Gras, I'm sure. What with royalty having something to do with the parade, I'm sure they could have seen some pics of ones that looked like ballgowns. Then again was Tiana even a name in the 1920's, oh Disney.

pap64 · Post by **pap64** » Sat Apr 04, 2009 6:18 pm

Um, am I the ONLY who not only likes the dress but has no issue with it? Since we are dealing with a fairy tale I think it make sense to give Tiana a rather lavish dress that foreshadows the froggy tale (Prince Naveen has frog details on his costume). It might be silly, but when I see a Disney film one of my worries isn't authenticity.

Neal · Post by **Neal** » Sat Apr 04, 2009 7:04 pm

Me neither. I have nothing wrong with alternate histories and anachronisms. Enjoy the movie for what it is!

pap64 · Post by **pap64** » Sat Apr 04, 2009 7:11 pm

Neal wrote:Me neither. I have nothing wrong with alternate histories and anachronisms. Enjoy the movie for what it is!

Going even further with this I've noticed in this thread how people are complaining about how the Prince is not from a real country, how the film SHOULD be accurate to 1920s New Orleans, so on and so forth. My answer to this is...WHY SHOULD YOU CARE ITS A FAIRY TALE!

Now, I understand that many fairy tales are portraits of the society they were written for and show at least a small glimpse into the world of the story. But if a Disney film is supposed to be a lavish, fairy tale spectacle then why worry about the minimal details? Just enjoy the show.

I think "The Princess and the Frog" will be accurate enough, just like "Aladdin" was accurate enough and Mulan was accurate enough. But its silly to worry about every detail. If you want to see a movie in which real life is portrayed with 100% accuracy go see a documentary.

ajmrowland · Post by **ajmrowland** » Sat Apr 04, 2009 7:36 pm

pap64 wrote:Um, am I the ONLY who not only likes the dress but has no issue with it? Since we are dealing with a fairy tale I think it make sense to give Tiana a rather lavish dress that foreshadows the froggy tale (Prince Naveen has frog details on his costume). It might be silly, but when I see a Disney film one of my worries isn't authenticity.

No issues here!

Jack Skellington · Post by **Jack Skellington** » Wed Apr 08, 2009 10:04 pm

Why does Wiki think that "The Princess & the Frog" is gonna be released in Real-D 3D ?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_D_Cinema

This is the best wiki rumor ever... I hope the guy that edited it was sober though.

DisneyJedi · Post by **DisneyJedi** » Wed Apr 08, 2009 11:16 pm

Jack Skellington wrote:Why does Wiki think that "The Princess & the Frog" is gonna be released in Real-D 3D ?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_D_Cinema

This is the best wiki rumor ever... I hope the guy that edited it was sober though.

It's gotta be a joke. X)

jotaabs · Post by **jotaabs** » Thu Apr 09, 2009 8:15 am

DisneyJedi wrote:
Jack Skellington wrote:Why does Wiki think that "The Princess & the Frog" is gonna be released in Real-D 3D ?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_D_Cinema

This is the best wiki rumor ever... I hope the guy that edited it was sober though.
It's gotta be a joke. X)

It's fake, see this http://www.timburtoncollective.com/uplo ... 719202.jpg

yukitora · Post by **yukitora** » Thu Apr 09, 2009 9:04 am

I always though REAL-D 3D was just the non-disney equivalent to Disney Ditigal 3D.

ajmrowland · Post by **ajmrowland** » Thu Apr 09, 2009 1:04 pm

It is. That's a fake rumor. The guy who posted it probably didn't even know the film would be 2D animation.

Disney Duster · Post by **Disney Duster** » Wed Apr 15, 2009 9:58 pm

Papa64, I would say you didn't read everything I said, but it actually seems you did because you said it foreshadows the froggy tale, after I said I wanted froggy foreshadowing, but for all her dresses, like the blue one. The lily-pad one is probably a wedding dress, so it's probably after the frog adventure, meaning it can't foreshadow what already happened. But it can still reflect the frogness after it happened, yes.

Basically I was saying I know it's a fairy tale, but look at all the past fairy tale outfits. None of them have gone so far with the silliness. Cinderella's dress doesn't look like a pumpkin (or if it does, with it's big, roundness, pleats like the many ribs of a pumpkin's rind, and a bustle almost like leaves, it doesn't look too much like one, after all, you only thought it might after I explained how right now!) . Aurora's dress reflects the sharp, geometrical medieval style, but nothing beyond that except blue could be the color or sleep and pink is the color of some roses, or variations on the color of blood, as the red jewels in her crown look like blood droplets (she pricks her finger). Tiana's dress is just taking the frog element a little too far, going beyond the green. I like the lily-pad represenating material, but it could look more like real dress material, and what's up with her crown and those things sticking out of it, no real official royal crowns have been like that. I just want the dress to look a little more real, natural, and accurate like the other princesses. But it's Naveen's outfit that needs the most help!

By the way...I didn't think Aladdin was accurate enough. It was so unlike the other Disney fairy tales, and was the first to come up with a made up name for it's made up kingdom, making it seem less possibly real, though at least it's still set in a real...country, part of the world? And Mulan was set in China. Not some made up place.

SalukFan · Post by **SalukFan** » Thu Apr 16, 2009 9:12 am

Aladdin was supposed to be set in Baghdad, but I believe the Persian-Gulf War prompted them to change that.

There's a lyric in a cut song that refers to Baghdad by name.

The Little Merboy · Post by **The Little Merboy** » Thu Apr 16, 2009 10:42 am

Anyone know when to expect the teaser poster?

blackcauldron85 · Post by **blackcauldron85** » Sat Apr 18, 2009 6:10 am

http://animationguildblog.blogspot.com/ ... t-das.html

Walking in the tiled entrance of the hat building, I ran into the directors of Princess and the Frog. After I got up off the floor, they told me the picture is deep in crunch time, 75% complete, testing well, and that this was the first time in a long while they had actually gone to lunch outside the building.

Oh. And one of the more important things? Mr. Lasseter thinks it's swell.

Upstairs, I talked to a P & F animator who said:

"We're just a little behind our footage quota. I've been working six day weeks, eleven hour days, but I haven't seen my footage drop off, I've kept up the regular pace ..."

nomad2010 · Post by **nomad2010** » Sat Apr 18, 2009 1:04 pm

We've got ourselves a new logo!.....

And it's awful! Check out the official site...
http://disney.go.com/disneypictures/princessandthefrog/

SpringHeelJack · Post by **SpringHeelJack** » Sat Apr 18, 2009 1:10 pm

...it's not THAT bad. It's not that different from what's already been released, is it?

ajmrowland · Post by **ajmrowland** » Sat Apr 18, 2009 1:13 pm

It is. The title in the trailer is quite different.

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