Sixty years later, the tune continues

Percy 2022-10-22 02:04:35

At the dawn of the new millennium, Disney finally launched another musical feast-"Fantasia 2000", which has been nearly 60 years since the launch of "Fantasia".
Although this time is still an alternative interpretation of music, although the music selected this time is a classic in each capital, in contrast, the role of music in the film has declined this time, and in many cases it has only played a role in setting off the plot. effect. The chapters arranged this time, if taken out alone, are very good short films, but they do not have much coherence when combined, and the cohesion between the chapters is also a bit tasteless. The total duration of this film is only 75 minutes, compared to the 125-minute film length of the previous film, it also indicates that there will be no longer chapters this time.

This time I still just choose a few favorites to talk about, and by the way some tidbits:

"Piano Concerto No. 2 Quick Edition", the plot for this music is Andersen's fairy tale-"The Strong Tin Soldier" , This time using an approach similar to "The Little Mermaid", which brought the story to a happy ending. However, judging from the manuscript pictures included in the film’s highlights, some of them were drawn according to the original ending of the story, which shows that Disney considered making the original ending, but the final film became like this.
"The Final Movement of the Carnival of Animals", in fact, I would prefer to adapt the entire suite of "Carnival of the Animals", but it seems like a luxury for such a length. In this version of Disney's "Animal Carnival", there is only one animal-flamingo, so the original melodies of several animals are used to express the different actions of this animal. The highlights include several candidates for this animation.
"Awe-inspiring March", the plot for this music is the story of "Noah's Ark". In all, this is probably the third time Disney has adapted this story into an animation (the first time was the musical animation version in 1933, the second time was the stop-motion animation version in 1959), this time Disney added theirs to the story The classic characters-Donald Duck and Daisy, and let them become the core of this story. The tidbit contains two candidates for the animation: one is the Donald Duck version of Icarus story (but in the end is a happy ending), and the other is the dove version of Noah’s Ark story (Donald Duck and Daisy were originally designed as a pair Pigeon couple).

At the beginning, Disney planned to release one such musical animation film every year, but the plan could only be shelved due to the film’s poor box office. Later Disney also planned to produce "Fantasia 2006", but gave up when it was not completed.

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Extended Reading

Fantasia 2000 quotes

  • Bette Middler: Hi. You may not know this, but over the years, the Disney artists have cooked up dozens of ideas for new Fantasia segments. Some of them made it to the big screen this time. But others, lots of others - how could I put this politely - didn't. For example, the Danish illustrator Kay Nielsen drew these sketches for a segment inspired by Wagner's "Ride of the Valkyries." Here they are, and there they go. Now, Salvador Dali, you know, the "limp watches" guy, he got into the act with an idea that featured baseball as a metaphor for life. How come that didn't work? Makes perfect sense to me. Let's see. Then we had a bug ballet and a baby ballet and for a time, they even considered a sequence inspired by the Polka and the Fugue from Weinberger's "Schwanda the Bagpiper." But finally, a success. The Disney artists wanted to create a short film based on Hans Christian Andersen's wonderful fairy tale The Steadfast Tin Soldier, but they could never find the perfect musical match until now. Here is Yefim Bronfman playing the Shostakovich "Piano Concerto Number 2" and The Steadfast Tin Soldier.

  • Penn: [introducing "The Sorcerer's Apprentice"] Ladies and gentlemen, we'd like to take a moment, if we may, to talk about a little something we like to refer to as magic.

    Teller: [finger quotes]

    Penn: Uh, picture this. You're at home, hosting a birthday party for your daughter, and you've just shelled out 50 bucks so some pathetic loser can pull a mangy rabbit out of a flea market hat. At first, you might wonder to yourself, "How did he do that?" But then *you* would probably just dismiss it as some sort of a trick. And you know something? You'd be right! It's just a trick! It's an example of what we laughingly refer to as "stage magic." We're here to tell you that all stage magic is a fraud, a hoax, a sham. It's all based on deception and, yep, *lyin'*! All of it. Sleight of hand...

    Teller: [pulling out cards]

    Penn: Lies! Transformations?

    Teller: [pulls out an axe]

    Penn: Fraud! Dismemberment?

    Teller: [cuts a fake hand]

    Penn: Rip-off! Fake! All are illusions. What we're here to talk about is real magic. We're gonna bring out a guy now who's the real deal, the genuine article. In fact, he taught us everything we know. And he is featured prominently in the next sequence from the original Fantasia, "The Sorcerer's Apprentice." Y-You know, come to think of it, The Sorcerer's Apprentice is a - is, is a little guy who, uh - who never speaks and just kinda messes everything up...

    Teller: [cuts Penn's hair]

    Penn: [quietly] Like him. And now...

    Teller: [interrupts Penn]

    Penn: Wha - And now, the...

    Teller: [pulls out a rabbit]

    Penn: Oh. Hi. Hi, little fella. I gotta - I gotta - And now, "The Sorcerer's Apprentice."