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Sotiris wrote:Didn't know that. For a company that gets boycotted so often by Christian groups, there sure are a lot of religious zealots employed there.

Tony Bancroft wrote:I remember we even had animators that were Christians that had a hard time on “Aladdin,” because the Sultan said, “Praise Allah!” instead of “Praise God!”

Source: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/kateohare/ ... animators/

MrXemnas1992 wrote:I'm wondering how the Cave of Wonders Guardian is going to be handled.

The original one TERRIFIED ME as a kid, so I'm hoping they can bring that level of uneasy menace and otherworldly terror into a live-action version.

Q: What was it like to develop Aladdin's Genie with Robin Williams?

Ron Clements: One of the great joys in all my years at Disney was getting to watch Robin Williams at work on Aladdin. The script was written for him in an improvisational style, and he always started with the script as written. Then he would start embellishing, adding stuff, changing stuff, going faster and faster as he went along. He recorded in four-hour sessions and hardly ever stopped. By the end of each one, it was like he had gone through an intense physical workout, covered in perspiration. He was like a tremendous athlete at the top of his game. Almost everything he did was great, but there were times when he was especially "in the zone" — on another level — and the stuff he was coming up with was jaw-droppingly awesome. He was a marvel to witness.

John Musker: We wrote Aladdin with Robin Williams in mind. … We felt that we could do things with Robin's brilliant mercurial improvs that live action couldn't match. Animated and shaped by Eric Goldberg, I think we did just that. Robin was an absolute joy to work with, indefatigable and generous with his time and unique talents. Our world is a little dimmer without Robin.

Disney's Divinity wrote:It's similar to how The Little Mermaid spawned twenty thousand family and/or animated films with the whole outsider-with-an-impossible dream--fighting-against-the-restrictions-of-their-family-and-society plot, but almost none have managed to do it so well as with Triton and Ariel, imo. Triton actually had weight, dimension, and humanity unlike many authority figures in other films with the same storyline/story structure. And there are parts of the film, like the fight in Ariel's grotto and subsequent explosion of her things as well as the ending when they hug, that have such a raw intensity to it that most don't manage to re-create. More often than not, those attempts come off overdramatic or artificial in other films.

farerb wrote:For some reason I find him annoying. Don't know why.

JeanGreyForever wrote:

farerb wrote:For some reason I find him annoying. Don't know why.

Have you ever seen him in Glee, Finding Neverland, or American Horror Story?

farerb wrote:

JeanGreyForever wrote: Have you ever seen him in Glee, Finding Neverland, or American Horror Story?

I saw the first season of Glee.

farerb wrote:
Apparently Beauty and the Beast is not the only film Disney didn't bother fixing.