Since the last entry was about Disney features, let's stay on that roll for one more post.
The New York Review of Books takes a long look at the story that will be Disney animator Glen Keane's first directorial effort:
... Individual fairy tales change in popularity over time. "Rapunzel," for instance, was once much less widely known than "Hansel and Gretel," "Cinderella," "Beauty and the Beast," or "Snow White." Currently, however, it is becoming more popular, with nearly three thousand entries on Amazon alone ... It is a complex story, which includes many classic themes, including a witch who is serially both kinds of bad parent: first imprisoning and then rejecting her daughter ...
... Already a full-length animated Disney film is in production and scheduled to be released in 2009. The director, Glen Keane, has declared that it will be "a story of the need for each person to become who they are supposed to be and for a parent to set them free so they can become that." Clearly, there are parallels here to recent young-adult versions. But Keane has also said that the movie's visual style will be based on the painting The Swing, by the French Rococo artist Jean-Honoré Fragonard. Since the point of this painting, also known as Les hasards heureux de l'escarpolette, is that the young man standing below the swinging girl (though not the viewer) can see up her foaming skirts, Disney's new "Rapunzel" may turn out to have an unexpectedly erotic undertone.
Uh, I tend to doubt it, but I guess we'll have to wait and see.
I do know that the feature's story development has gone through stages: Glen's original, more straight-forward rendering of the Rapunzel fairy tale became -- under Michael Eisner's influence -- the more Shrek-like Rapunzel Unbraided. Now, under John Lasseter's leadership, I'm informed that it's closer to the flavor of the original tale again.
Those who claim to know say the current incarnation of Rapunzel is in solid shape. Doubtless we will discover how true that is when the Girl with Long Hair is released.
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ALL of Glen's films have erotic undertones. Just look at Ariel. ;-)
I'm really looking forward to this film. I also really hope it focusses enough on the theme of parental devotion, which really is what the story is about, and not on the love story. Keane's quote seems to say they're on the right track.
I also hope that the witch won't be a witch, but a sorceress, as -once again- in the original story. A witch seems to say she's evil, while really she's a mother being overprotective (contrasted to the real parents being selfish, and in the end Rapunzel being a good mother).
Do oyu know if Disney's "Rapunzel" will be a musical or not?
"Do you know if Disney's "Rapunzel" will be a musical or not?"
Oh, I hope not. I hate those musical animated films where the characters suddenly break out into song to express their innermost feelings in an artful, plot-integrated manner ... I much prefer that they wait until the very end to get all jiggy with it and have all the characters break out into song and dance around to a 70's or 80's pop song that has nothing at all to do with the movie. Yeah, that's much better...
What the ....
It is a musical. Jeanine Tesori is writing the songs for it.
'to express their innermost feelings in an artfull, plot- integrated manner..."
except that most Disney songs are always so freaking LAME!
Plot integrated?!? PLEASE!
The only Disney movie where the singing was so well integrated it was seamless, was Pinochio!
R.
You said it brother.
signed,
Jimminy Cricket Jr.
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