Can the audio-visual party Fantasia and Fantasia 2000 be considered Disney’s only art film?

Alex 2021-12-09 08:01:21

I can’t write a short review of whether the 4D screening I watched at Hong Kong Disneyland in elementary school is Fantasia or Fantasia 2000. At that time, I definitely did not understand the imagery and the beauty and fun of it, so the only people who have the impression are Mickey and Mickey. Or maybe the broom only included the apprentice section of the magician? Fantasia may be Disney’s closest work to pure art and even quite experimental. This is a game of synesthesia and virtual reality. It is more like magic than any other Disney animation in the future. It’s looking for the melody and rhythm of life itself. People’s imagination and creativity are indeed endless. The most interesting thing is that these images are unique to the animation creator’s mind. The viewing process is equivalent to experiencing a time when the creator listens to these music. The following chapters use stories to explain the music. The festival of spring brings a little horror atmosphere of nature. After the intermission, a short period of impromptu jazz during the tuning of the orchestra is also great. The middle school music of Tianma in the pastoral symphony I missed the lesson. Hercules should continue some of the settings in it, but I can accept Dionysus set by this fat giant baby. I used to think that Aladdin is my favorite Disney full-length animation. Now I am thorough. I changed my mind and don’t expect the concert to re-run

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Extended Reading
  • Quinn 2022-04-20 09:01:41

    There are a few paragraphs that have no plot and almost fall asleep. Combination of music and art

  • Leonor 2022-03-25 09:01:08

    It is worthy of a generation of classics~

Fantasia quotes

  • [longer introduction to "Dance of the Hours"]

    Deems Taylor: Now we're going to do one of the most famous and popular ballets ever written: the "Dance of the Hours" from Ponchielli's opera "La Gioconda". It's a pageant of the hours of the day. We see first a group of dancers in costumes to suggest the delicate light of dawn. Then a second group enters dressed to represent the brilliant light of noon day. As these withdraw, a third group enters in costumes that suggest the delicate tones of early evening. Then a last group, all in black, the somber hours of the night. Suddenly, the orchestra bursts into a brilliant finale in which the hours of darkness are overcome by the hours of light. All this takes place in the great hall, with its garden beyond, of the palace of Duke Alvise, a Venetian nobleman.

  • [longer introduction to "Night On Bald Mountain" and "Ave Maria"; last spoken lines]

    Deems Taylor: The last number on our Fantasia program is a combination of two pieces of music so utterly different in construction and mood that they set each other off perfectly. The first is "A Night On Bald Mountain" by one of Russia's greatest composers, Modest Mussorgsky. The second is Franz Schubert's world-famous "Ave Maria". Musically and dramatically, we have here a picture of the struggle between the profane and the sacred. "Bald Mountain", according to tradition, is the gathering place of Satan and his followers. Here, on Walpurgnisnacht, which is the equivalent of our own Halloween, the creatures of evil gather to worship their master. Under his spell, they dance furiously until the coming of dawn and the sounds of church bells send the infernal army slinking back into their abodes of darkness. And then we hear the "Ave Maria", with its message of the triumph of hope and life over the powers of despair and death.