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

  • 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?