Disney Renaissance
I was born in 1987, right at the dawning of the Disney Renaissance. Looking back now, I cannot imagine my childhood without these movies. All the hours I spent imagining that I was Aladdin, or the time that a couple of buddies and I dressed up as Disney Princessess... Okay, TMI on that one.
What do you think your childhood would have been like without these specific movies?
Very boring and less musical.
Looking at those posters, I can kind of see myself outgrow Disney movies. :P I saw The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, and The Lion King in the theater, then rented Pochahontas, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, and Hercules, and just never saw Mulan or Tarzan.
Glenn Keane, who made most of those movies (and Tangled) awesome, left Disney just a couple of weeks ago. I was bummed.
As a Disney fanatic, I obviously feel strongly about these movies. Hell, I sell jewelry inspired by them and work at Disneyland, so... Yeah, kind of important.
Disney Golden Age right there.
Disney movies mostly suck these days.
Originally Posted by Fynn
no tangled was great
can't think of anything else i really liked recently
altho the 3d rerealease of beauty and the beast made me appreciate that movie on a deeper level...
I said MOSTLY. Tangeld was awesome, and I'm excited to see Brave.
I saw both Lion King and Beauty and the Beast in 3D. The part with stained glass was awesome.
And the Tangled wedding short was HILARIOUS.
*rimshot*
yaaah wedding short!
and i actually mean that beauty and the beast thing! it's a whole lot darker in its themes than i remember... he's pretty much turned into the beast when he's a child if you follow their story closely, so it's like, 'geez witch lady way to teach that 11 or w/e year old kid that's being a kid a lesson'. there's a lot of story layering and metaphors that i didn't pick up on as a kid too, but there's so many scenes that just resonate with the 'human or monster' theme and the meaning behind it.
i'm gonna stop now and paint my nails or braid my hair or look at shoes or something.
But he's super tall and sexy in the stained glass portions!
And if you saw the Christmas Beauty and the Beast, he looks exactly the same age.
I have still never seen Tarzan and I don't know why.
Disney is great. New and old. Yay Disney.
Signature by rubah. I think.
i have the xmas special on tape...
man the tim curry villain was great when you were a kid.
dunno if he'll stand the test of time, i'd rather not bust it out.
I still love Angelique's song. Makes me cry every time.
The Golden Age of American Animation was from 1928 until the early 60s, from Snow White to I think Bambi or something. The era we're talking about is The Renaissance of American Animation.
Not that you meant it literally, but I figured I'd drop some knowledge.
Brave is a Pixar movie. They're owned by Disney now, but they're still separate studios.
Tangled was wonderful. Disney's mistake in The Princess and the Frog was hiring Randy Newman as music director instead of their golden boy Alan Menken, who did all the best stuff from the Renaissance and now Tangled.
From the end of the Renaissance to now, there were a few movies that people loved: Lilo & Stitch and The Emperor's New Groove. Then there were the utter failures like Atlantis: The Lost Empire, Treasure Island, and Brother Bear. Disney's next movie, which I believe is about Snow White's evil queen, sounds good so far.
I didn't mean it literally, nah.
I didn't realize Brave was just Pixar--it's all the same in my mind these days.
And I liked Brother Bear.
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