Tags: Disney Fairy Tales
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Walt Disney’s
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is widely celebrated as a beginning, the first feature-length animated film in Hollywood history. It’s just as correct, though, and perhaps more illuminating, to hail it as a culimination — as the crowning achievement of years of experimentation, discovery, growth and achievement by Disney’s animation team.
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Disney’s
Tangled in 30 seconds — in rhyming verse.
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We really do accept as normal whatever we’re raised with, don’t we? Like, say you’ve lived all your life alone in a lonely tower in a hidden valley, and your golden hair is 70 feet long, and the only mother you’ve ever known — the only person you ever see — comes and goes using your hair as a rope ladder, and she’s never let you so much as set one foot outside, and your hair does this magic trick when you sing that — well, not to give it away, but that would just be life to you, wouldn’t it?
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At the intersection of great animated films, great filmed stage musicals, and great fairy-tale romances, Disney’s
Beauty and the Beast stands alone. Directed by Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise, it is simply the quintessential Disney masterpiece, the perfection of everything that
Cinderella,
Alice in Wonderland,
Sleeping Beauty and
The Little Mermaid aspired to.
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There’s a villain with magical powers — but instead of Disneyfied magic, like Aladdin’s friendly genie, the film’s New Orleans voodoo is an occult world of terrifying powers and principalities in which the villain himself is at much at risk as anyone. It’s almost Disney’s most overtly Christian depiction of magic and evil at least since
Sleeping Beauty, if not ever — though the waters are muddied by a benevolent, swamp-dwelling hoodoo mama in a sort of fairy-godmother role.
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Emotionally resonant, visually dazzling, imaginatively captivating, thematically rich, Walt Disney’s
Pinocchio may just be the greatest of all the early Disney masterpieces, possibly outshining
Snow White,
Fantasia and
Bambi.
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Coming in the wake of a string of early classics —
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs,
Pinocchio,
Fantasia,
Dumbo,
Bambi — Disney’s
Cinderella represents, alas, the early stages of Disney-itis.
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A worthy successor to the early classics
Snow White and
Pinocchio,
Sleeping Beauty is the one great fairy-tale adaptation of Disney’s post-war period, outshining
Cinderella and unrivaled until 1991’s Best-Picture candidate
Beauty and the Beast.
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