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Sotiris posted this in the "Current Slate of WDAS" thread:

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Q: Any more upcoming features, anything that you have up there in the future for you?

Peter del Vecho: Well, right after this, next year will be Wreck-It Ralph, a very funny CG movie about videogames of the 60’s coming into the present day.
I hope he was just mistaken in his description, because no video games existed in the 60s, really - it wasn't until around the 80s that gaming as we know and understand it today took off. It would be stupid if Disney has him as some character out of the 60s...

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Neal wrote:I hope he was just mistaken in his description, because no video games existed in the 60s, really - it wasn't until around the 80s that gaming as we know and understand it today took off.
Yeah, I think he was just mistaken. He looks quite nervous in that interview. (All Disney employees are nervous when reporters ask them what are their upcoming works :P )

In the official press release for the film, it is clearly stated that the movie will be about an 8-bit arcade video game character.
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BUUUUUT we all know Disney pays no regard to history in the creation of their films.
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DisneyAnimation88...you know what, I'm just gonna say I disagree. All I know is that the studio would not have failed if they did what I'm talking about the right way. They can come up with any ideas they want, but then adjust it a little to make it as Disney as possible if they need to. Please, please please, don't just dismiss that. You never know if what I'm talking about may be good for the studio or not, I'm just thinking about how it's right to consider "Why are we making this film at Disney, how is it Disney and we can follow Disney's dream?" And I already pointed out how the Renaissance films were very fitting of Walt did, fairy tales, magic, talking animals, classic stories or legends, titles close to the original titles, and they all made Disney really successful.
DisneyAnimation88 wrote:The last part of that doesn't really make sense to me. But if the hiring of Sarah Silverman offends you so deeply, there's an easy solution: don't watch the film. :)
Well the right solution would be to not hire her. Even a Disney expert I know told me he knew of not a single dirty-comedic person hired by Walt for his films, and Walt never hired anyone as offensive as someone like Sarah Silverman or George Carlin.

estefan, well, from what I know, Avenue Q and Book of Mormon use "adult language", and it is used appropriately for characters, not the same as I mean by very dirty, foul, and obscene/offensive as the likes of George Carlin or Sarah Silverman. However, I will say that Disney probably should not have hired those guys, especially for Winnie the Pooh of all things, but they're certainly not nearly as bad as what I'm talking about here. To help explain...you can think about how they are not making a living out of/known for being so dirty-mouthed such as Carlin or Silverman.
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Disney Duster wrote:And by the way Brave may be kind of a fairy tale legend but the character designs and the trailer have shown me it's still very Pixar and not Disney. The Scottish voice even helps. It feels Pixar. : )
Good. Pixar has been infinitly better at making movies than Disney for the past decade anyway.
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Disney Duster wrote:The Scottish voice even helps. It feels Pixar. : )
So...Scottish people don't have the Disney Essence?
No, I was hoping people would get what I meant by saying the Scottish voice in that trailer. The way they did it, the way the voice didn't sound...elegant (if that is the best word)...the way they chose that particular voice to narrate the whole trailer, made me feel it was Pixar and not Disney. Remember the Disney essence is hard to describe, man!
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DisneyDuster wrote:...you know what, I'm just gonna say I disagree. All I know is that the studio would not have failed if they did what I'm talking about the right way. They can come up with any ideas they want, but then adjust it a little to make it as Disney as possible if they need to. Please, please please, don't just dismiss that.
When did I dismiss what you said? :? There is no magic formular that only Walt knew, he made films that he wanted to make and in some cases, public percepton of himself apparently prevented him from making other films that he wanted to make. Walt Disney died a long time ago and yet his company is still around and still making films so they've been doing something right in that time. I like that you genuinely seem to think that you know better than people like John Lasseter.
DisneyDuster wrote:And I already pointed out how the Renaissance films were very fitting of Walt did, fairy tales, magic, talking animals, classic stories or legends, titles close to the original titles, and they all made Disney really successful.
That sums up the Princess and the Frog :? a fairy tale, magic, talking animals, a title close to the source material, The Frog Princess...
DisneyDuster wrote:Well the right solution would be to not hire her. Even a Disney expert I know told me he knew of not a single dirty-comedic person hired by Walt for his films, and Walt never hired anyone as offensive as someone like Sarah Silverman or George Carlin.
What difference does it make is a Disney expert told you that? The entertainment industry was very different in Walt Disney's lifetime so I fail to see the relevence of this. This attitude of "if Walt didn't do it, it shouldn't be done" would be very detrimental to the company's future; just because he never got the chance to do it doesn't automatically make it bad.
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There weren't comedians in the same vein as today. What was considered offensive then is more acceptable now.

And think about it another way: should Disney music stay the same just because it was how Walt did it?

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That's how music sounded in Walt's earlier years. Would that even remotely interest kids, teens or adults today?

No. Not in the slightest. You can't make music like that today and have it be successful.

Time changes everything for cinema: music, cultural norms, what's deemed acceptable versus offensive.
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Disney Duster wrote:estefan, well, from what I know, Avenue Q and Book of Mormon use "adult language", and it is used appropriately for characters, not the same as I mean by very dirty, foul, and obscene/offensive as the likes of George Carlin or Sarah Silverman. [...]
More reverse engineering (or just plain old mind-fucking) by Disney Duster. So, it's okay to hire foul-mouthed dirty comics, as long as they're not "very" dirty?!? Dude, I'm sure *you* don't even understand what you're saying anymore.

Comedian who recorded for Disney in the 1990's:

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And why is *that* okay, but George Carlin and Sarah Silverman are awful and "un-Disney"?! Because Robin Williams is "less" foul-mouthed than Carlin and Silverman? Or because at least Williams was foul-mouthed in a "Disney Essence kind of way"?!

No, the answer is: Robin Williams was okay, because his Disney-movie was made in the 1990's, when Duster was a kid and nostalgia makes everything okay!

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Sole.

Reason.
Disney Duster wrote:No, wrong, and blasphemy! Hey, man, I gotta say it!
Let's see, the last 10 years, Disney has made 2 good movies: Lilo & Stitch (2002) and Rapunzel (2010). Pixar has made 6: Monsters, Inc. (2001), The Incredibles (2004), Ratatouille (2007), Wall-E (2008), Up (2009) and Toy Story 3 (2010). Plus all the cool shorts they made. So yes, Pixar easily beats Disney.

Oh, wait... Pixar IS Disney, because Disney OWNS Pixar, and the creative departments are both headed by the same guy, Lasseter!
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Even more perplexing is the idea that Disney should not have hired Robert Lopez to write the songs due to the content of his Broadway productions, even though there is nothing the least bit dirty or foul about his songs in Winnie the Pooh.
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Well, didn't he work on the music for Finding Nemo The Musical?
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Disney Duster wrote:No, I was hoping people would get what I meant by saying the Scottish voice in that trailer. The way they did it, the way the voice didn't sound...elegant (if that is the best word)...the way they chose that particular voice to narrate the whole trailer, made me feel it was Pixar and not Disney.
Erm, I was being sarcastic... :shifty:
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DisneyAnimation88, what I meant was don't dismiss the idea that maybe considering how to make their films more Disney the way I was talking about would not be a bad idea for them to do, because they could come up with any creative idea, just think about how to do it the Disney way, which is not the same as asking "What Would Walt Do?" before coming up with the creative idea.

You say Walt just did the kinds of films he liked. Maybe, maybe, but then: when the kids that watched and liked his films grew up, shouldn't those kids want to make films like those if they are going to work at Disney instead of any other movie studio? Also, the animators he was with stayed with him because they liked his choices of movies. They didn't leave because they hated the subjects he was doing. It all says that if you work at Disney instead of other studios, do things like Disney, i.e., films like the past ones he made. Otherwise, the studio could do anything, and if it could be anything, it wouldn't have an identity. There would be no concept of what Disney is.

And what did you mean by I know better than John Lasster, when did I say that?
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DisneyDuster wrote:And I already pointed out how the Renaissance films were very fitting of Walt did, fairy tales, magic, talking animals, classic stories or legends, titles close to the original titles, and they all made Disney really successful.
That sums up the Princess and the Frog :? a fairy tale, magic, talking animals, a title close to the source material, The Frog Princess...
I think you did this on purpose. I think you ignored that other times I pointed out how The Princess and the Frog wasn't set long ago and the plot detered extremely from the original fairy tales. The Renaissance films however were set in the appropriate times and were a lot closer to the original tales.
DisneyAnimation88 wrote:What difference does it make is a Disney expert told you that? The entertainment industry was very different in Walt Disney's lifetime so I fail to see the relevence of this. This attitude of "if Walt didn't do it, it shouldn't be done" would be very detrimental to the company's future; just because he never got the chance to do it doesn't automatically make it bad.
But Walt did the same things over and over again, making a pattern of what to do. He had a very, very long chance to make movies about lots of other things, even animatronic robots or aliens because those were also known around his time, but he chose not to do it, he set a pattern of doing nature, fantasy, and magical things again, and again, and again. It says something, don't ignore it.

Neal, listening to that song...I liked it, I got kind of warm and fuzzy, and that's what Disney makes me feel. I don't even like that kind of music. If Disney can just do that kind of nice, lovely, warm fuzzy music in the future, or "story songs" like Walt said, then that is the Disney essence that can translate in the new music of today, which is the kind of thing I meant all along.

As for the comics, look at the comics on Comedy Central, or Robin Williams. They talk about adult subjects and use adult language. But are any of them as dirty, bad, obscene or offensive as Sarah Silverman or George Carlin? No, they're not.

Goliath, see what I just wrote above to Neal about your Robin Willaims thing, accept also for the fact that your Robin Williams clip came way after he recorded his dialogue for the Genie, of course he would get a little more dirty after that.

If you really want to say that Pixar is Disney, if you really, truly want it to be that the original company Walt made merged with a seperate company so that both companies lost their identity and the original difference between the company Walt founded and a new company died so that the idea of Disney he had died and the word Disney was now just a name that had nothing to do with what he originally started, then you can say thing like the last thing you said to me.

But myself, I will always know that Disney and Pixar are not the same thing, they have seperate names and they make seperate movies and even if they lost that, I would know that the new movies made were not the kind Walt Disney wanted because John Lasseter in his Pixar Story documentary said himself that he wanted Pixar to be different from Disney in what they were and did. I will always know that Walt would want his company to make it's own films with their own Disney identity and not just take the films from another company which has a different identity.

And only The Incredibles and maybe Toy Story 3 are really as good movies as you say and Disney's films steal beat them extremely but not Lilo & Stitch that one was just okay.
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DisneyDuster wrote:And what did you mean by I know better than John Lasster, when did I say that?
I know you didn't, it's the way you talk about all things Disney. It gives the impression that you genuinely think that you know everything there is to know, like when you say "the heads of Disney should all get togther and figure out Disney essence or the Disney way". Those people know what they're doing, they don't need advice from anyone on this forum.
DisneyDuster wrote:I think you did this on purpose. I think you ignored that other times I pointed out how The Princess and the Frog wasn't set long ago and the plot detered extremely from the original fairy tales. The Renaissance films however were set in the appropriate times and were a lot closer to the original tales
I did do this on purpose because I think it contradicts your entire argument. Like I said, The Princess and the Frog was adapted more heavily from the novel The Frog Princess, that puts a modern twist on the fairy tale. The plot of the The Little Mermaid, a Renaissance film also directed by Clements and Musker, also differs heavily from the original fairy tale, that is a fact, no spin or technicality you apply will alter that fact. Point out whatever you want, I completely diagree with you.
DisneyDuster wrote:But Walt did the same things over and over again, making a pattern of what to do. He had a very, very long chance to make movies about lots of other things, even animatronic robots or aliens because those were also known around his time, but he chose not to do it, he set a pattern of doing nature, fantasy, and magical things again, and again, and again. It says something, don't ignore it.
Had he lived longer, who knows what he might have done? You or I certainly don't yet you seem to delude yourself into believing that you do. Robots and aliens really came into mainstream media in the 1960's with the space race and moon landing so Walt didn't have much time to explore those avenues before his death. Pinocchio, The Jungle Book and 101 Dalmatians are very different films from Snow White, Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty so I don't agree that he repeated the same things over and over again. There has never been a film like Fantasia, for example. I'm not ignoring anything, I just simply don't agree with you and no amount of technicalities you produce, like "Walt never did this so it shouldn't be done..."or essence, have yet to change my mind.
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Disney Duster wrote:Goliath, see what I just wrote above to Neal about your Robin Willaims thing, accept also for the fact that your Robin Williams clip came way after he recorded his dialogue for the Genie, of course he would get a little more dirty after that.
Wait... are you suggesting Williams was holding back on the "dirty" stuff because he wanted to be hired by Disney first?! And that, after he did his job for Disney, he felt he could finally let go?! Duster, the segment I picked was just an example! Robin Williams has ALWAYS used adult humor in his shows. Always. Eric Goldberg, animator of the Genie, wanted to make some test animation to old recordings of Williams, and he said it was very hard to find some 'clean' material.

Just because you were a kid when Aladdin came out and you are blinded by nostalgia, doesn't mean any of your reverse engineering has any relevance. Facts are facts. No amount of 'Disney essence' can make them go away.
Disney Duster wrote:If you really want to say that Pixar is Disney, [blah blah]
Pixar IS Disney, because Disney OWNS Pixar. That's why the characters from Pixar movies are now on Disney merchandise alongside Mickey, Pinocchio and Cinderella; and the reason the characters are in the theme parks.
Disney Duster wrote:And only The Incredibles and maybe Toy Story 3 are really as good movies as you say and Disney's films steal beat them extremely but not Lilo & Stitch that one was just okay.
Didn't you say Lilo & Stitch had ' Disney essence' a while back? Even though you had always denied it in debates with me, but you sort of had to say that to adjust your argument? And do you really think Chicken Little is a better movie than those Pixar movies? If you think so, you're in love with the company's name, not with quality movies.
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Disney Duster wrote:Neal, listening to that song...I liked it, I got kind of warm and fuzzy, and that's what Disney makes me feel. I don't even like that kind of music. If Disney can just do that kind of nice, lovely, warm fuzzy music in the future, or "story songs" like Walt said, then that is the Disney essence that can translate in the new music of today, which is the kind of thing I meant all along.
Um, you do know what I posted is a Disney song, from "Make Mine Music", right? You don't seem to have realized that...
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Thanks for the info. I've been following this project for a while, and it does seem quite interesting. I won't keep my expectations high on Wreck-It Ralph, but I'm sure it'll nevertheless end up being an enjoyable film.
Neal wrote:There weren't comedians in the same vein as today. What was considered offensive then is more acceptable now.
And what was considered acceptable then can be viewed as offensive today. Sad case in point: Song of the South. Sometimes progress can go backwards. :(
And think about it another way: should Disney music stay the same just because it was how Walt did it?

That's how music sounded in Walt's earlier years. Would that even remotely interest kids, teens or adults today?

No. Not in the slightest. You can't make music like that today and have it be successful.

Time changes everything for cinema: music, cultural norms, what's deemed acceptable versus offensive.
I heavily disagree on some points. Sure, one shouldn't stop experimenting because many good ideas are born that way. However, it doesn't mean we'd have to stop paying tribute to the past and only focus on the present and future.

I know plenty of young people who adore music from the likes of Palestrina, Mozart, Sibelius etc. The definition of a classic is that it endures throughout the ages, and the same is true for truly magnificent pieces of music.

Likewise many people still enjoy "old-school music" (forgive me for using the term). Even if radio stations spurn out often mindless music with hardly any melodic structure or hook, it doesn't mean older music is, well, old-school. Even if the likes of Djawadi or Bates dominate the soundtrack industry today, it doesn't mean that classics such as Korngold, Newman or Steiner won't attract new people... or some people might become interested in this type of music after listening to Shore's Lord of the Rings scores or Williams's Star Wars scores. However, it's true that nowadays the focus has shifted away from traditional and complex orchestral music which is becoming more of a niche as time goes on.

A few more words about "old-school music" and Disney. Take Enchanted for example: Menken emulated older Disney music very successfully in parts of the film, and it connected with audiences. Even if some might consider music from the likes of Snow White or Bambi cheesy, many others will love them to bits (and I happen to be in the latter crowd).

It'll truly be interesting to see how the music in Disney's animated canon will be viewed 100 years from now. Will the electronic and rock experiments be seen as out-dated or ground-breaking, will orchestral music gather a bigger or weaker following? Will the focus remain on the songs, or will the actual score gain prominence?

The fact isn't helped by Disney's almost utter disregard for music fans. Fans of the canon films must scour the web for leaked promos to get the full score and songs, and even then those releases tend to be woefully incomplete. Will there ever be sets like the "Music Behind the Magic" in Disney's music library? Will official complete scores (with all the alternate takes and songs) appear for every animated film in Disney's canon? I doubt it, but I can dream for such a day. But right now it's less likely for it to happen than for Disney to usher in a jam-packed 2-disc Blu-ray special super duper edition for the likes of The Black Cauldron or Robin Hood.

Anyway, the point I'm trying to make is that Disney should always experiment and keep moving forward even in music. However, it never hurts to pay attention to one's rich history and be inspired by it. This applies to music. Kids in general are actually very receptive to classical and generally orchestral music, assuming they're give the chance to listen to it during childhood. It all goes to personal taste and the society itself, really. Who knows what people 100 years from now will consider "cool" music, after all? :)
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Well, I wasn't referring to classical musical - I was referring to the bubble-gummy music of the Andrews Sisters, The Chordettes, etc.

I have some very throwback (read:hippy) friends with eclectic tastes in music and open, receptive personalities but they often ask me to turn off "Mr. Sandman," "Lollipop" and other such saccharine songs.

20s through 40s pop is not classical.

I wholly agree classical music is timeless and has no cultural boundaries.
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DisneyAnimation88 wrote:like when you say "the heads of Disney should all get togther and figure out Disney essence or the Disney way". Those people know what they're doing, they don't need advice from anyone on this forum.
Well, first of all, their movies have failed for like, how long now, so they really do seem to need advice. But I am not talking about them needing advice to make good movies. I am just saying, maybe there is a way to make the movies more Disney, and yet still be creative and good. I think you and I can agree that their is always the possibility maybe that could work, don't automatically dismiss it. Please.
DisneyAnimation88 wrote:Point out whatever you want, I completely diagree with you.
Fine, then I will point out are facts: Walt never made a DAC that was a book's modern twisted spin on a fairy tale, and the Renaissance films still were fairy tales set in the original times and lands with the original backgrounds of the main characters, and that is not The Princess and the Frog or Tangled.

As for the rest, you are constantly trying to say how Walt did different films, while I am constantly trying to point out how his films had similarities. You say there was no other Disney film like Fantasia, but that is a yes and no. For one, Sleeping Beauty is like Fantasia in being adapted from classical music, focusing more on music and visual art, even having long stretches of no dialogue. But other than that, Fantasia was still about classic tales, myths, and legends, nature, anthropomorphic animals, and magic, like Pinocchio, Jungle Book, Snow White, 101 Dalmatians, and all the rest of Walt's pictures. So basically, they are both different and similar. So Disney's future movies should be just like those, different, but also have those same similarities, stories like those classic tales and things like magic, animals, or nature.

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Goliath, no, I just mean that as Robin Willaims got older he probably got dirtier as people do. And did Eric Goldberg say it was "very hard" to find clean material, or he was just looking for clean material? And remember, this is just what one man judged as "clean". And I already told you it's fine that he used adult language, as did Walt himself. But Walt and Willaims never did stuff like Sarah Silverman or George Carlin, that is where you can see the difference.

Disney will never be Pixar. Otherwise they wouldn't still have seperate names. No matter how many times you or anyone else says that Disney is Pixar, it will never be true, for infinity. My post saying Disney will never be Pixar is the truth for infinity. I know very well that sounded very much like a kid, but I am at a Disney forum where Walt encouraged people to be like children, and I said what I wanted to. ;)

At least we can agree that Chicken Little was probably not as good as any Pixar film, but that was probably one of the Disney-magicless films. I have yet to see it though to fully judge. Lilo & Stitch misses some Disney essence in some areas. So I'm not against the whole thing if it was fixed. I was against the whole thing, now I'm not. I did indeed change my stance there, but you should be happy about that one. But as the film is, it's not fully fit to be Disney I say, not enough Disney essence, sorry. So there's the clarification.

By the way, it was mentioned that Disney bought Doug in the 90's. That's right, the 90's, when I grew up. And when Disney bought that Nickeleodeon show, I thought it was weird, and I kinda thought it was wrong, but I didn't have any thought to speak up about it like I do now on a forum. So that is one clue that this isn't all nostalgia for me.

But if you keep saying what I say is just from nostalgia for me instead of actually respectfully arguing my points, I will keep saying that everything you say is just from your bad past experiences, because basically your saying my thoughts just come from my nostalgic experiences. So if you wanna play ball, we will, and it will be fair game.

EDIT: You know, maybe I won't do that. Instead can we be a little friendlier to each other and you just stop going to the nostalgia claim which tries to devalue anything I say? Pretty please? Just argue with facts or your own opinion alone, no nostalgia mentioning.
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DisneyDuster wrote:Fine, then I will point out are facts: Walt never made a DAC that was a book's modern twisted spin on a fairy tale, and the Renaissance films still were fairy tales set in the original times and lands with the original backgrounds of the main characters, and that is not The Princess and the Frog or Tangled.
For the last time, Princess and the Frog was adapted more heavily from the novel "The Frog Princess" than the original fairytale. The novel also gives a modern twist to the fairytale, Disney basically changed the setting to New Orleans. I can't even be bothered to debate about Tangled anymore, as Goliath has pointed out, it is a quintessential Disney film. If it doesn't meet your standards, fine, but that doesn't make it "un-Disney" or something "Walt wouldn't want or do".
DisneyDuster wrote:Well, first of all, their movies have failed for like, how long now, so they really do seem to need advice.
They don't need it from anyone on this forum with no experience of actually making a Disney film. Say what you want but the simple fact is John Lasseter knows how to make good films and Disney are making good films right now. Like I said, they might not meet your standards but that doesn't make them bad films. If they can repeat the critical and commercial success of Tangled in upcoming films like Wreck-It Ralph and King of the Elves, Disney will be fine.
DisneyDuster wrote:You say there was no other Disney film like Fantasia, but that is a yes and no. For one, Sleeping Beauty is like Fantasia in being adapted from classical music, focusing more on music and visual art, even having long stretches of no dialogue.
The only problem with that comparison is that Walt was barely involved in the production of Sleeping Beauty because his attention was focused solely on Disneyland so Eyvind Earle was in charge of production. In John Canemaker's book on the Nine Old Men, Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston say very clearly that they felt abandoned by Walt on Sleeping Beauty and that they realised that he had lost some of the interest he had once had in animation. Say that's wrong if you want but it's coming from two men who know what they're talking about and are very clear in what they say. Sleeping Beauty is the way it is because of Earle's desire to make it so artistically beautiful that the story suffered. Fantasia was Walt's crowning achievement in animation, the project he poured all of his artistic instincts into and it is unique. Sleeping Beauty probably suffered because of Walt's lack of involvement but it's faults are probably what caused him to become more heavily involved in future films like 101 Dalmatians and The Jungle Book. You do make a good point though.

In terms of the character backgrounds, I will say this; when you look at the fairytales Walt made, probably with the exception of Sleeping Beauty, the princes are bland characters with very little characterisation or personality. You can't accuse characters like Flynn Rider or Naveen of lacking those things. In princess stories, the princes are plot vehicles that give the princess something to aspire to; that's fine for old fairytales but it doesn't translate well to film, the prince characters need something to endear them to audiences and entertain, not stand in the background and do very little as they did in Walt's films.

I'm not saying you're wrong, just putting my opinion across and now I think we're getting to a place where we can begin to understand one another.
DisneyDuster wrote:I did indeed change my stance there, but you should be happy about that one. But as the film is, it's not fully fit to be Disney I say, not enough Disney essence, sorry. So there's the clarification.
I don't agree that it's not "fully fit" to be Disney at all, I don't understand how you could even say that. I know you think it's too violent and science-fiction but the film itself, like Tangled, is quintessential Disney. It's been over-marketed, but to say it's not fit to be a Disney film does it a huge disservice.
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Neal wrote:
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That's how music sounded in Walt's earlier years. Would that even remotely interest kids, teens or adults today?

No. Not in the slightest. You can't make music like that today and have it be successful.

Time changes everything for cinema: music, cultural norms, what's deemed acceptable versus offensive.
Well, I can only speak for me, but as an "adult" of today, I LOVE that sound! (even though it's decades before my time). I admit that I am probably not in the majority though, as I've always enjoyed movies, music, and television from before my time - usually more than things from the present day.
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David S. wrote:
Neal wrote:
<iframe width="425" height="349" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/gor1mZmTsJs" frameborder="0"></iframe>

That's how music sounded in Walt's earlier years. Would that even remotely interest kids, teens or adults today?

No. Not in the slightest. You can't make music like that today and have it be successful.

Time changes everything for cinema: music, cultural norms, what's deemed acceptable versus offensive.
Well, I can only speak for me, but as an "adult" of today, I LOVE that sound! (even though it's decades before my time). I admit that I am probably not in the majority though, as I've always enjoyed movies, music, and television from before my time - usually more than things from the present day.
And as a teenager of today (16) I can say I absolutely adore that sound as well. It feels warm, and real. Then again, I do admit that we are probably not in the majority on this.
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