Fantasia 2.0

Gayle 2022-08-05 22:52:22

As the sequel to "Fantasia", the animation is much better and the picture quality is better. I remember that our music teacher took us to appreciate this movie when I was in middle school. After many years, I can still remember the manners of everyone in that class. Some were immersed in it, and some looked confused, such as me.

For people like me who don't understand music, it is very catching to start with a world-famous song like "Symphony of Destiny", and use some abstract graphic sound and shadow changes to portray the music scene.

What I like the most is the third part "Rhapsody in Blue". The bold use of colors and lines presents the weirdness of metropolitan life. It depicts a few unscrupulous people who have ideals and confusion. After the struggle of ideas, They finally realized their beautiful wishes.

"Animal Carnival" is the shortest and most refined, a group of flamingoes with the same actions, because one of the flamingoes is obsessed with playing a yo-yo, which makes the whole group of flamingoes chaotic. The flamingo's posture playing with a yo-yo was very funny, causing water to splash everywhere, and his companions also suffered.

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Fantasia 2000 quotes

  • Steve Martin: You know what's amazing is that many of these musicians are playing for the very first time, thanks to "Steve Martin's Two-week Master Musician Home-Study Course". More about that later. Hello and welcome to Fantasia 2000. It's been more than sixty years since Walt Disney and his artists teamed with maestro Leopold Stokowski to create a film they titled "The Concert Feature". I think we're all glad they changed the name to "Fantasia". You know, "Fantasia" was meant to be a perpetual work in progress. Every time you went to see it, you'd experience some new pieces, along with some old familiar favorites. But that idea fell by the wayside until now. So let me turn things over to the great Itzhak Perlman, who, I have just been informed, plays the violin. Well, so do I, big deal. Could I have my violin, please?

    [is handed a violin]

    Steve Martin: Ahh, thank you. All right, boys, let's...

    [bow slips from his hands]

    Steve Martin: Oh! Oh, sorry. Could I have another stick thingy, please? Oh, and camera back on me. Camera back on me. Ca... Am I done?

    Itzhak Perlman: [introducing Pines of Rome] When you hear a title like "Pines of Rome", you may think of tree-lined streets and romantic ruins. But when the Disney animators heard this music, they thought of something completely different. Here is the Chicago Symphony Orchestra conducted by maestro James Levine, performing Ottorino Respighi's "Pines of Rome."

  • James Earl Jones: [introducing the Carnival of the Animals] These drawing boards have been the birthplace of some of the most beloved animal characters of all time. So it's no surprise that they choose for our next segment, "The Carnival of the Animals" by Camille Saint-Saëns. Here the sensitive strains of impressionistic music combine with the subtle artistry of the animator to finally answer that age old question: "What is man's relationship to nature?"

    [is handed a piece of paper]

    James Earl Jones: Oh, sorry... That age old question: "What would happen if you gave a yo-yo to a flock of flamingos?"

    [turns to look off-camera]

    James Earl Jones: Who wrote this?