- This is Disney's last hand drawn cartoon and camera shooting at the same time. The film used thousands of different colors as the background images of one thousand and one hundred, drawing a total of more than one million pictures.
- Shirley Stone is Ariel's prototype model.
- This is the largest cartoon produced by Disney since the Fantasia "Fantasia" (1940). The two-minute scene of the storm alone took more than a year to complete with 10 special effects artists.
- The director team insisted that millions of bubbles must be drawn by hand rather than copied. This is a very human job, which is undertaken by a Chinese company based in Beijing.
- Ariel's lip line is creatively drawn with ink.
- This is the first time Disney has tried to shoot with a multi-faceted camera that is famous all over the world in many years. Unfortunately, because the machine was too large and heavy, all efforts failed. The multi-faceted camera had to be sub-leased to other companies and ended up.
- Following the fiasco of The Black Hole in 1979, the film served as a symbol of Disney's ten-year financial recession and finally regaining growth.
- Hans Christie Andersen's fairy tale "The Little Mermaid" was once used by Walt Disney with "Symphony of Confusion" as the background music, but it was replaced in another classic story by Andersen, "The Ugly Duckling".
- In Greek mythology, Poseidon is the god of the sea, and Tridon, who is a fishtail, is just one of his sons.
- Some of the background images used in the "Kissing Girl" scene are from 1977's "Little Hero".
The Little Mermaid behind the scenes gags
2022-01-26 08:04
Extended Reading
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Augustus 2022-03-20 09:01:21
I hate Disney's mermaid look, it's no different from the waitress chick in the fast food restaurant
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Josiane 2022-03-18 09:01:03
Disney changed its life for a puddle of bubbles, and the happy ending is very happy. A little flaw is that Ariel was full of flirtatiousness before she met the prince, and she was a fool to sign a contract just to be close to the ground.
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Scuttle: Well, look at what the catfish dragged in!
[laughs]
Scuttle: Look at ya! Look at ya! There's something different. Don't tell me. I got it. It's your hairdo, right? You've been using the dinglehopper, right?
[Ariel shakes her head]
Scuttle: No? No, huh? Well, let me see. New seashells? No new seashells. I gotta admit, I can't put my foot on it right now, but if I just stand here long enough, I should...
Sebastian: She's got legs, you idiot! She traded her voice to the sea witch and got legs! Geez, mon!
Scuttle: I knew that.
Flounder: Ariel's been turned into a human. She'll have to make the prince fall in love with her, and he's gotta he's gotta kiss her.
Sebastian: And she's only got three days!
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Louis: [singing] Les Poissons, Les Poissons / How I love Les Poissons / Love to chop and to serve little fish / First I cut off their heads, then I pull out their bones / Ah, mais oui ça c'est toujours delish / Les poissons, les poissons, Hee-hee-hee, ho-ho-ho! / With the cleaver I hack them in two / I pull out what's inside, and I serve it up fried / 'Cause I love little fishes, don't you? / Here's something for tempting the palate / Prepared in the classic technique / First you pound the fish flat with the mallet / Then you slash through the skin, give the belly a slice / Then you rub some salt in, 'cause that makes it taste nice!
[Sees Sebastian]
Louis: Zut alors! I have missed one.
[Picks him up]
Louis: Sacrebleu! What is this? / How on earth could I miss / Such a sweet, little succulent crab / Quel dommage, what a loss! / Here we go, in the sauce / Now some flour, I think just a dab / Now I'll stuff you with bread! / It don't hurt, 'cause you're dead / And you're certainly lucky you are / 'Cause it's gonna be hot in my big silver pot / Toodle-oo, mon poisson, au revoir!