- 1. The source of inspiration for the film's story includes William Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream", the fairy tale Ugly Duckling and Beauty and the Beast, the film "American Style Painting" (1973) directed by George Lucas and "Magic Labyrinth" starring David Bowie (1986).
- 2. Producer George Lucas interpreted the theme of the film as "true love", "True love has nothing to do with appearance, and find a soul mate who shares a common language with you. You and your partner have the same values and similar interests until the end of your life. will not change."
- 3. "The Elf King" dubbed by Alfred Molina is based on the character design of producer George Lucas.
- 4. The appearance design of the protagonist "Bog King" refers to the mantis and cockroach in insects.
- 5. George Lucas personally selected the music used in the film, "It's like playing Rubik's Cube. I want to use more than one million songs. It took five years to select the current version."
- 6. The sisters Marianne and Dawn were originally designed to have long brown hair, but they changed to short blonde hair because of cost-saving in animation production.
- 7. This film is the third cartoon released by Lucasfilm after "Dream Press Factory" in 1983 and "Star Wars: The Clone Wars" in 2008, and it is also the first cartoon released by Disney.
- 8. According to Merdis Anne Bull (Dawn), Peter Sterman was chewing gum during the entire process of dubbing Thang.
- 9. The names of the two heroines Marianne and Dawn come from two songs by The Four Seasons, one of which "C'mon Marianne" was used in the film.
- 10. In addition to "A Midsummer Night's Dream", the film also refers to the plots in the other three Shakespeare comedies "Missing Out of Nothing" (the friends are all lovers), "The Taming of the Shrew" (Sisters with Different Personalities) and "As You Like It" (The romantic suitor).
Strange Magic behind the scenes gags
2022-01-22 08:01
Extended Reading
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Ward 2022-03-26 09:01:12
Don't think that you can make a bad movie if you have a card game from Lucasfilm... The music is so bad, is this rap... The characters are so ugly, even the heroine is not good-looking... shit...
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Dessie 2022-03-22 09:02:47
The story setting is quite interesting. But the style of painting is really taylor! There are some small surprises, but Taylor! Beauty and the Beast is at least a furry beast and finally becomes a handsome prince, this is really ugly! Even sing without you~ it's Samsung at most. Ugly vomit~
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Fairy King: [escorting Marianne to the dance] Please smile.
Marianne: [sighs; then smiles a wide, uncomfortable smile at the King]
Fairy King: A real smile.
Marianne: [through her teeth] This is one of my better ones.
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Dawn: I love you!
Bog King: But I'm evil!