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Disney Duster wrote: ↑Mon Sep 11, 2023 10:25 pm Haha carolinakid, well, I love the score of Cinderella, but not as much as Snow White's, Bambi's, or the best of the Menken films'. The score is good, just not so good I needed it in the live-action version, which has its own great score I am very grateful for. I should listen to the whole animated version's score on my Legacy Collection CDs, but maybe after I am done with some of my more pressing personal projects, or when I retire, haha.

Vlad Sicoe wrote: ↑Thu Sep 14, 2023 3:58 am

Disney Duster wrote: ↑Mon Sep 11, 2023 10:25 pm Haha carolinakid, well, I love the score of Cinderella, but not as much as Snow White's, Bambi's, or the best of the Menken films'. The score is good, just not so good I needed it in the live-action version, which has its own great score I am very grateful for. I should listen to the whole animated version's score on my Legacy Collection CDs, but maybe after I am done with some of my more pressing personal projects, or when I retire, haha.

I love it too, and there's a particular part I'm very fond of. That short reprise to A Dream Is A Wish when Cinderella cries after the stepsisters tore her dress. I have always loved it.

Meanwhile, I watched the movie again on Disney+, but I still think it's not that great. I've become fond of Sebastian and Flounder. Under the Sea, while colorful, is very weird, because the visuals don't match the action on the screen. For example, during the "the nute play the fluke..." parts. I found that very weird.

Sotiris wrote: ↑Fri Sep 01, 2023 7:26 am The sing-along version flopped at the domestic box office.

Jeff Bock wrote:As we saw last week, they tried to release a sing-along version and nobody went and saw it. It was in 1600 screens and it did just pitiful business.

Source: https://puck.news/podcast_episode/the-s ... ards-show/

Farerb wrote: ↑Mon Sep 11, 2023 4:42 pm‘The Little Mermaid’ breaks records on Disney+ as one of the most viewed Disney movie premieres ever, garnering 16 million views in its first five days streaming
https://thewaltdisneycompany.com/little ... s-numbers/

A timeless tale made modern, it ranked as the No. 1 most-streamed film for the weekend of Sep. 8-10 on Whip Media’s Movie Ranker, which uses viewership data from its consumer app, TV Time, with over 26 million registered global users.

Following up at No. 3 and slipping from the prior week’s top spot was the aforementioned “The Little Mermaid.”

Marshall and DeLuca’s initial invitation eventually turned into a month spent on the London set of “The Little Mermaid” in May 2020, despite her scene only lasting a few seconds.

“If you blink or go to the bathroom, you’ll miss me,” she says.

Meant to take 12 days to film, the scene instead took 30 due to isolating for the COVID-19 pandemic and four days of torrential rain that almost destroyed the outdoor set.

But Benson took the extra time in stride, enjoying her time on set.

“As soon as I finished my quarantine, I could go and watch,” she says. “To see it come through Rob and John’s eyes of how they envisioned it, paying tribute to the original but then just expanding it, was just glorious. I was blown away.”

Traditionally, in line with "the way Walt did it back in the day," she says, the cast of an animated film was kept anonymous until you "stopped your VHS" and analyzed the rolling credits.

When she and Samuel E. Wright (who voiced Sebastian) signed on to the animated project, they figured it would be a "one-and-done" situation.

"Our faces were never going to be attached to the character," she says. "You would just record it and then you disappear. The movie would come out and that would be great, but that would be it."

But Benson says early screeners of "The Little Mermaid" suggested "something was different" about the film due to lyricist Howard Ashman, who is often credited with Disney's "second golden age" of animation, along with composer Alan Menken.

Deviating from precedent, Disney sent Benson on a press tour and introduced her to the public as the voice behind Ariel. "Even then I thought, 'Oh, it's going to quiet down,'" Benson says. "And it just never did."

As she sat in the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood May 8 and watched the new film, Benson reflected on the role that turned her career "180 degrees."

The moment was bittersweet, as Benson thought of all the cast members who weren’t alive to witness the moment. Wright died in 2021; Pat Carroll, who voiced Ursula, died in 2022.

"I was the only cast member there," she says. "Me, and one of my directors and then Alan (Mencken, songwriter). So there were three of us from the original film, and that was it."

She sat next to the movie's original director, Ron Clements, and his wife during the screening.

"Ron is the one that brought 'The Little Mermaid' and pitched it to Disney on two little pieces of paper, with scribbling notes all over it," she says.

Throughout the movie, she kept peeking over to see his reaction. "Gosh, this must be so surreal for him," she remembers thinking.

Throughout the event, she was struck by the thought that nobody would be there if it weren't for Ashman, who died of AIDS at age 40 in 1991, one month after winning a Grammy for "Under the Sea," and Clements' "two little pieces of paper."

Bensons says in the middle of the movie, Clements turned to her and whispered, "Those are all my lines. Those are all the lines of dialogue I wrote on that piece of paper ... I can't believe they're still in this movie."

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