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pickypickypeak · 3 months

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So I FINALLY got the art of wish book which is so so good and? I’m honestly a little surprised that the only things that got leaked online were the starboy and evil amaya concepts when it’s literally filled with gems? Here’s a few but first let me tell you, the art alone makes it worth it. It’s amazing

THE HAMLET! LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT THE HAMLET!! Apparently in an early draft Asha and her community had left Rosas and started living hidden in the forest so their wishes could be safe from Magnifico. This hidden place was called “The Hamlet” and it still exists in the final movie, though it’s just a part of Rosas and doesn’t have the original lore. I really hope this trope gets reused for a future Disney movie because it’s a really cool concept!

Live action Valentino??

Some Sakina dump because I love her (also meet Tomás)

Oh and you know the wishing tree in the movie? It’s based on Walt Disney’s own actual wishing tree?? Wtf???

Also there’s a whole 2 pages about Dahlia explaining how much effort and care were put into her creation as a character with a disability. They actually had consultants making sure that ANY form of representation felt authentic and positive. They did not just made the cast multi-ethnic, they actually did their research so that any culture was well portrayed, all the way to the littlest details like textures on their clothing or even each character’s way of greeting.

And about the animation not being fully 2D… Haters conveniently forget mentioning that the movie is expressly made to celebrate both the past AND future of WDAS. Then like it or not, but you can’t possibly celebrate all of Disney without CGI animation. CGI is also Disney. Tangled and Frozen and Moana became instant Disney classics. I would die for a traditional animated movie, but when you put it this way, it makes perfect sense to me that they went with hybrid style for this movie specifically. It just feels right.

Also going through these pages… you just feel the love the producers and animators put in every single reference to older classics. Animation techniques were literally inspired by actual frames from Snow White, Pinocchio, Fantasia, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty and Peter Pan. So were coloring techniques, lighting, cinematography… There was a breathing effort of paying homages to these movies with tremendous talent in them, while also creating something new. So hate on this movie as much as you want, but mind you calling it “AI-made”. It’s not. It’s made by humans.

Oh, and finally, Starboy. Well, yeah, I fell for it. People literally made it all up. There’s zero indication that he was gonna be Asha’s love interest, let alone be the one singing At All Costs instead of Magnifico. From what the book says (there’s literally two short paragraphs about him, before Star comes in) I think they didn’t even have a plot then, they were just exploring ideas and made some brainstorming sketches deciding how Star could have been. Same with evil Amaya! That one pic that leaked of her with Magnifico is all we got. There’s no indication that it was gonna be “a better movie” because there is no plot for that lol

#wish #wish disney #wish 2023 #the art of wish #disney #asha #king magnifico #queen amaya #star wish

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synergysilhouette · 5 months

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Reimagining a Disney movie about a wishing star

I already made a remake of "Wish," but I did so trying to keep a lot of the story intact. However, in this post, I decided I wanted to take the bare bones of "Wish" (ie wishing on a Star and certain characters) and make my own story! This is my first time doing this, so lemme know what you think. (Note: I did make my own alteration by trying to fix what we got with "Wish" as well.)

Aesthetic

Overall I like the idea of the film being 2D or 3D instead of hybrid. To appease the nostalgic masses, I'll say my film is 2D, though I'm unsure on what period to take from; I loved the Roccoco-inspired animation of "Cinderella" as well as the gothic, High Middle Ages aesthetic of "Sleeping Beauty" (which was an inspiration for the film; sadly, it imitated poor box office success, too). Though in terms of 21st century animation, I'm not sure if there's anything more amazing than the Firebird Suite sequence from "Fantasia 2000."

Plot

"Every year in a magical kingdom, there is a phenomenon that occurs: the Skyfall, a benevolent occurrence where it appears that all the stars fall from the sky. When it happens, it's said that those who manage to catch the falling star will have their heart's desire granted. Long ago, a young man captured a star, and he asked for the power to grant other's wishes. While his wish was granted, his future--and the kingdom's future--descended into darkness, as the stars fell and never returned to the night sky, leaving it a dark void. Decades later, a young maiden makes a wish that defies all possibility, creating a light that leads to dark shadows that seek to extinguish all hope."

Characters

Protagonist--In my rewrite, I'd have our leading lady as a woman of Middle Eastern, Sub-Saharan African, or Romani heritage. I haven't settled on which, though for names I'd go with either Aaliyah or Nimue. She'd be a more mature and less adorkable lead, but still fun to be around, similar to Belle, Pocahontas, and Tiana. Given her role as the sorcerer's apprentice, I'd love a callback to Mickey's red, blue, and silver look. I'm thinking a red dress in a style similar to Aurora's peasant dress, as well as a headband like Jasmine's, only a sapphire blue with silver stars. She's trained as a sorcerer's apprentice since she was a child, with her family's support motivating her to embrace the mystical world in order to grow emotionally and psychologically. She grew up in a broken kingdom filled with corruption, selfishness, and greed. One of the few people who understand right from wrong (according to American society, anyway; I know such terms are subjective), she thinks of stories her grandfather told her about the stars, and how she wanted to see them--but even more than that, she wanted to wish on one to restore her kingdom to it's former glory. While working as a sorcerer's apprentice, she gains magic and tries to help others, but her innate talent attracts people who would seek to take advantage of her, wanting to use her in lieu of their shooting stars. When she summons a star into existence, she attempts to hide him in order to keep him from being destroyed.

The Sorcerer--Known as Orchus, he was originally a kind young man who existed in earlier days of the kingdom. A gifted magician, he managed to catch a star, and seeing how this was a once-in-a-lifetime occurrence, he wished to be able to catch more stars. His wish was selfless at first, but when he began giving wishes to others, they began to task him with doing it themselves, not bothering to work to capture them themselves, and coming up with the most mundane wishes. After a time, the townsfolk turn greedy, and one person wishes for the stars to fall every night. For a decade or so, stars rain down, to the point where even the royal family succumbs to it's charm, making wishes for grand(er) things. This earns the envy of the common people, who wish to be grander than the king and his family. This creates a war of wishes, which only Orchus manages to quell. By the end of it, all the stars in the sky have been eradicated from the sky, leaving only the moon and the sun, and the kingdom is in pieces. Orchus has become a powerful sorcerer who controls the kingdom, using the royals as the face of it, rebuilding the kingdom as a illustrious-looking location, but seeping with criminal activity and corruption. He believes this is the natural order of things: if people have wishes, they don't ask, but take what they want, and he fixes anything that gets too out of hand. He takes the protagonist under his wings in order to make a successor who can control the kingdom when he's gone, knowing that a rebellion with break out if there's no one to keep the relative "peace." When the protagonist accidentally summons a star, Orchus seeks to destroy it, believing that the world is better off without them--perhaps one day, no one will wish for anything. As you can see, Xehanort from "Kingdom Hearts" was my inspiration.

The star prince--Let's name him Orion, and he's not a literal prince; it's just a nickname. Originally I had him planned as being innocent and sweet, similar to Hercules, but I do like the idea of him being a bit feisty, essentially a male version of Jasmine. I'm not sure what his race would be, but I would want a fantasy outfit like Prince Ryoma's supreme samurai look from "Fire Emblem Heroes," as well as perhaps taking fashion aspect from Prince Florian and a physical appearance similar to Li Shang and Aladdin. His voice is ethereal and while kind, he isn't afraid to assert his power if need be. Originally I imagined a youthful, slimmer build, but perhaps a more mature, muscular build similar to Shang and Captain Phoebus would be more appropriate. I'd imagine he dresses in very colorful, moving clothes, perhaps with nature motifs, depending on the situation. A scorpion motif (given his name) would be a nice mainstay to his looks. (I swear, I keep imagining an Inuyasha inspiration for some reason.) He's nonbinary since he's a shapeshifter, but most of the time takes a masculine form and goes by he/him pronouns (but I'd think he'd answer to other ones as well). He attempts to help others, but his powers quickly attract the attention of Orchus, who believes his presence will only cause trouble. As he continues to (sometimes unintentionally) grant the wishes of others, the environment begins to grow malevolent, with the weather and waves antagonizing the kingdom. It soon becomes apparent that the frequent wish granting affects the balance of nature, creating more corruption within the city and destruction that even Orchus cannot repair. As such, Orchus demonizes him as a malevolent being who is keeping stars from the people. It's noted throughout the film that there are other, albeit less powerful ways, of people making wishes besides shooting stars, ie a wishing well.

Protagonist's family and friends--I'm kinda iffy on how many people there are in the film so they can all get proper attention and development. I'd like to say both of the protagonist's parents are alive: her mother is like a mix of Gothel and Lady Tremaine, but with good intentions (she's vain, greedy, and a social climber, but deep down she does care about her family, even if she's frequently selfish), and her father is emotionally detached and critical of many of her decisions, being particularly hard on her due to her prestigious position as a sorcerer's apprentice. She has two brothers (I was gonna do sisters too, but no Disney princess has brothers): a younger one who is quite intelligent and crafty, already pessimistic of life and believes you have to lie, cheat, and steal to get anywhere in life, and an older brother who is super naive, easily taken advantage of and must be protected. The family pressures her to let Orion grant their wishes, but they keep wanting more, despite the protagonist's warnings about arousing suspicion. (As you may have noticed, I didn't give them names since I never settled on our protagonist's name/race.)

As for her friends, I'd like to think she has an excitable female friend (similar to Lottie from TPATF) as well as a weary, cautious friend (similar to Nakoma from "Pocahontas"). While her excitable friend is similar to the protagonist's older brother and wants to help those in need, her cautious friend is more concerned with keeping the peace and staying out of trouble. I wanted them to be on two ends of the spectrum in order to show our protagonist two perspectives when facing trouble: trying to get by and trying to help. I don't want there to be a distinct "right/wrong" message with them.

The King and Queen--They would've made kind rulers, but they grew up during the Corruption of the Sky, so they're not the rulers they should be; the king is passive and easily controlled and manipulated, while the queen is insecure and temperamental. They barely get along with each other, but one thing that did seem to quell them was the desire for a child. While they genuinely want children, their corruption makes them paranoid about the future of the throne, and thus a child is as much a need as it is a want.

Music

The Anderson-Lopez team or Lin-Manuel Miranda should've done the music for "Wish" and I guess I'll die on that hill. IDK how they would've approached it, but that's just my dream. However, since pop artist Julia Michaels wrote the music, I tried to take inspiration from radio and alternative music and manifest a unique sound for the album. And I'll probably edit this since I don't fully have the plot written out yet, and I suck at song titles.

Stars--Somewhat of a long song, I imagine a gentle beginning, followed by a glorious middle section, before a haunting end. It serves as the prologue for why the sky has no stars. For musical inspiration, I'd say and Utada Hikaru's "Sanctuary" would be the inspiration.

In the Air--In this song, the protagonist sings about her potential to be the next royal magician, and how she considers the idea of becoming a royal advisor. Her family sings this with her to boost her confidence, and Orchus chimes in to hype her up before dousing her confidence. I'd probably take "Colors of the Wind" as an inspiration here.

Your Eyes--A long song between our protagonist and Orion, in which Orion tells her that she should strive to understand other people's perspectives and beliefs, even if she doesn't agree with them, since it'll make her someone the kingdom will look up to. I imagine it as a soft song at first, I imagine it goes full power ballad by the end, kinda like a cross between "You're You" (a deleted song from "Frozen") and "Let it Go."

Royal Favorite--In order to get the protagonist more on his side, Orchus attempts to manipulate her by encouraging her to tell him about the star (which she hasn't, but he has his suspicions). He does so by having the king and queen convince her that everything is fine in the kingdom, and that she should focus on using her magic to give them a child (which would keep her distracted). I imagine this as a guilt/gaslight song that masquerades itself a bubbly and cozy; Gwen Stefani's "This is What the Truth Feels Like" album (specifically "You're My Favorite" and "Loveable") as my inspiration.

Nightfall--I'm thinking it starts off slow and quiet, creeping and making the hair on the back of your neck stand up as Orchus sings calmly as he uses begins to kill those who oppose him, having managed to kill Orion. Honestly I keep thinking "Pray You Catch Me" with this for some reason.

Nobody--Our protagonist is imprisoned and forced to watch as her parents are abused by the townsfolk for standing against Orchus, with their newfound wealth and power being cast aside. She reflects on how she wanted to make a difference, and all that she's done is hurt everyone she's cared about, and Orchus reminds her that she needs to get in line. However, her friends manage to free her, and they tell her that it's good that she's nobody, since everyone says "Nobody will defeat Orchus."

Constellation--After defeating Orchus, his power explodes across the sky, creating a new generation of stars, albeit now they don't fall. Our protagonist reflects on how she misses Orion, but it's for the best, as she worries that he'd be taken advantage of again. During the journey, she reflects on how some wishes should never be granted, and how she believes that some of the people of the kingdom will eventually achieve their own wishes through their own efforts, not it'd take a while before anyone WANTS a wish granted, seeing all the trauma the kingdom's been through.

Lemme know that you think! This was fun! I may edit this a bit more with time. Don't get me wrong, I like my alternate takes, but maybe I'll do more original stories with the bare bones of Disney films. I'm already coming up with a "Frozen" concept!

#disney #disney animation #wish #magnifico #king magnifico #asha #disney princess #cinderella #sleeping beauty #fantasia #aurora #encanto #frozen

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nyxcharliechaos · 2 months

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What the name of the webcomic you want to make and what the plot about

it's called The Arcania Project (Arcania being the name of the island the story takes place on), it's about this group of dumbass gay theater kids that are friends and keep either getting attacked by the chapters villain or go seek the threat because some of them are smart enough to make a RWBY style weapon that goes from a needed cane one character refuses to use to 3 types of swords all of them are dumbasses...this is a rather goofy and simplistic description but each chapter is a new threat and I don't want to give away too much, I will say it's revealed that the villains are more connected than they initially seemed and some have connections to the main cast.

speaking of the cast a quick run down

Nyx Chaos: a shadow puppet hybrid that's most easily described as a disney/musical villain put into the role of a hero, and a punk working as a radio host at a local dinner (they/them)

Lucy Harvestar: a Scottish/Irish werewolf that adores all things musical theater (except RENT) and is the resident bad ass lesbian (and is dating Nyx) (she/they)

Virgil Creek: the literal antichrist who's a goofball that loves polka music and the colour pink and is just here for friends (he/him+any)

Frankie Hitchcock: a western green mamba with leucism that's almost never seen not smiling, and loves old media and photography, works at the dinner I mentioned earlier (they/them)

Xzim Jones: an original creature of mine called a lewlridge (a hybrid with who knows what), he likes playing detective and tends to be the go to when solving a mystery and well there's quite a bit of that so (he/him)

Courage Thompson: a dream spirit in the form of a dog that has an interest in psychology, botany, and horror movies (he/him agender)

Lyric: technically a human though with the dna of several animals, they're flirty, the most likely to make a sexual joke/reference, and really like soft thing and plushies (any pronouns, usually referred to with they/them)

Gala: a dream/nightmare spirit hybrid, a petty bitch that will hold a grudge, she's quite proud of her Romani heritage...her English heritage not so much lol (she/her)

if a lot of these characters seem to be nonbinary it's because I'm nonbinary and I like making my characters fellow enbies, if you want to learn more just check out the tag oc on my blog, just take anything pre 2022 with a grain of salt

#oc #ocs #i should probably start tagging the arcania project #...yeah #the Arcania Project #sorry if it's taking me a minute to get to your ask #I keep getting to them before I have to do something and then I get busy and forget #I'm working on it though

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yanderes-galore · 1 year

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Fandoms

All the fandoms I'm doing and taking a break from. Always up to date, check often :)

Last Edited: 2/1/24

Bold -> Written Before

Not Bold -> Hasn't been written before.

🔪Fandoms I am currently writing for🔪

Movies/Shows

- Adventure Time

- Arcane

- Assassination Classroom

- Attack on Titan

- Avatar (Movies)

- Beastars (Season 1 + 2 of the anime)

- Bionicle: The Journey To One

- Black Clover

- Blue Exorcist

- The Boys

- Carmen Sandiego (Netflix show)

- Death Note

- The Devil is a Part-Timer!

- Ducktales 2017

- Fire Force

- Game of Thrones

- Gravity Falls

- Halo RvB/Red vs Blue (All seasons)

- Happy Tree Friends (Anthro Animals or Hybrids/Humans [Like my OCs])

- Haikyu!

- Hazbin Hotel

- How To Train Your Dragon

- Invader Zim (Original series and Enter the Florpus)

- House of the Dragon

- Monkie Kid (Lego)

- My Hero Academia

- My Little Pony (FiM and a New Generation)

- Murder Drones

- Naruto

- Ninjago

- Noragami

- One Piece

- One Punch Man

- Pirates of the Caribbean

- Puss in Boots

- Rick & Morty

- Saiki K

- Spooky Month

- Star Wars (Movies + Clone Wars)

- Steven Universe

- Solar Opposites

- Terminator (All movies)

- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Media (2003, 2007 movie, 2012, 2014/Bayverse, 2018/ROTTMNT)

- Tokyo Ghoul

- Toilet Bound Hanako Kun

- Treasure Planet

- Trigun Stampede

- Umbrella Academy

- Voltron: Legendary Defender

- Walking Dead

- Watchmen

- Wednesday

- The Witcher (Show)

- X-men Evolution

Games

- Apex Legends

- Arknights

- Assassin's Creed

- Bendy and the Ink Machine

- Bioshock (All games)

- Borderlands (Including 1, 2, Pre-sequel, and 3)

- Call of Duty

- Criminal Case

- Cookie Run

- Cult of The Lamb

- Danganronpa (Games only)

- Dauntless (Creatures will all be pet-like)

- Darksiders

- Dark Deception

- Dark Souls/Souls-Like games

- Dead By Daylight (All Survivors and Killers along with costumes)

- Dead Space (1-3)

- Detroit: Become Human

- Devil May Cry

- Deltarune (Both Chapters)

- Disney Mirrorverse

- Don’t Starve (All Survivors and Costumes)

- DOOM

- Dying Light

- Evil Within

- Evolve (Creatures will all be pet-like)

- Fallout

- Far Cry

- Fear and Hunger

- Five Nights at Freddy’s (All Games, Books, Fluffy AU) (Animatronic or Android)

- Friday Night Funkin (Base game)(?)

- Final Fantasy (Primarily anything past 7)

- Gears/Gears of War (Yandere Fics)

- Genshin Impact

- God of War

- Half-Life

- Halo (Reach, CE, 2, 3, 3 ODST, 4, 5, Infinite, Wars 1+2)

- Hollow Knight

- Honkai Impact

- Human Animal Crossing

- Identity V (All Survivors/Killers and their costumes except Hastur and younger characters are depicted as Platonic)

- Killer Frequency

- The Last of Us

- League of Legends

- Left 4 Dead (1 and 2)

- Legend of Zelda

- Lobotomy Corporation

- Mario Franchise

- Metal Gear Solid (All games, although I like Revengeance the most)

- Metroid

- Minecraft (Experimenting)

- Mortal Kombat (9 through 11)

- Mystic Messenger

- No More Heroes

- No Straight Roads

- Obey Me!

- OFF

- Outlast

- The Outer Worlds

- Overwatch (All characters/Costumes)

- Payday 2

- Persona (3-5)

- Portal (1 and 2)

- Pokemon (Just Trainers Right Now) (All games)

- PvZ Garden Warfare (Mostly Platonic but we'll see)

- Ratchet and Clank

- Rainbow Six Siege

- Resident Evil (All Games)

- Red Dead Redemption (Mostly 2)

- Roblox DOORS (?)

- Silent Hill

- Skyrim

- Street Fighter

- Team Fortress 2 (All Classes and characters like Miss Pauling and Saxton Hale)

- Twisted Wonderland

- Undertale

- Warframe

- We Happy Few

- Xcom

Books

- Halo Books (Fall of Reach, The Flood, Contact Harvest, The Cole Protocol, First Strike, Ghosts of Onyx, Cryptum, Broken Circle, Hunters In The Dark, Last Light, New Blood, Envoy, Retribution, Smoke and Shadow, Bad Blood, Renegade, Point of Light, Divine Wind)

- Jujutsu Kaisen (I read the manga)

- Bungou Stray Dogs (I read the manga)

Fits in more than one category

- Alien vs Predator (Just Alien movies or Predator movies are also included. Also books and games.)

- Black Butler

- Creepypasta/Gaming Creepypasta (Not everyone, it depends)

- Cuphead (Game/Show)

- Cyberpunk 2077 (Anime/Game)

- DC Comics (Comics, Games, Movies) [Injustice and Arkhamverse mainly, but let's discuss]

- Demon Slayer

- Hiveswap

- Homestuck

- Madness Combat (Game and Series)

- Marvel Cinematic Universe (Up to Endgame)/Marvel Comic Universe (SPECIFY WHAT COMIC PLEASE-)

- SCP (Not everyone, it depends)

- Slashers/Horror in general (Please say what movie your slasher is from)

- Sonic (All games + The Paramount Movies + IDW Comics. All characters are aged up except characters Classic! Tails, Movie! Tails, Cream the Rabbit, Ray the Flying Squirrel, and Classic Amy, which are Platonic as I can't see them as aged up.)

- South Park (All aged up of course, Show and games)

- Splatoon (Manga/Games)

- Transformers (Animated, Cyberverse, Earthspark, Generation 1, IDW comics, Prime, Robots In Disguise, War for Cybertron)

- Yandere OCs I have (Look at this list)

~~💜~~

🚫Fandoms I am taking a break from🚫

#yandere x reader #yandere fandoms #panther fandoms

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kylesvariouslistsandstuff · 3 months

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Long post warning, because I should use them more often:

I've been kinda buried, typical of me when it comes to the seemingly-biweekly hyperfixation, in the early 2000s Disney animated movies. Namely the pre-CHICKEN LITTLE movie, prior to the studio's switch to a future in CG movies. (With the encore of pair of PRINCESS AND THE FROG and the 2011 WINNIE THE POOH along the way.)

And I noticed, a lot of them, including a few non-Disney animated films from the period, have an almost deliberate "old-fashioned" bent to them. Now, Disney was never a stranger to period pieces when it came to animated features. Outside of the fairy tale and fantasy films set in dream-like worlds, places that exist in irrealities inspired by the real world and their respective source materials, you had more than enough films set in actual identifiable real-world places in past time periods.

For example, before going to straight-up dream worlds, ALICE IN WONDERLAND and PETER PAN from the early 1950s are clearly set in England. The former, Victorian-era England, the latter Edwardian. LADY AND THE TRAMP is somewhere in the Midwest, turn of the 20th century. It's in a state where the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad ran through, for sure, as you can see a logo for it on a train car in the film. (Sidenote/tangent: The direct-to-video sequel, SCAMP'S ADVENTURE, seems to suggest that the town Lady and Tramp live in is actually in New England... But the B&O Railroad does not run through any New England region state. The furthest to the East it goes is New York state. It's possible that the writers saw Jim Dear nailing a Yale flag to the wall in the original movie, and assumed it was set in Connecticut. And the DTV movies are an EU sort-of situation when it comes to these movies.)

So those are three 1950s examples, you also had THE ARISTOCATS being explicitly set in 1910 Paris, THE FOX AND THE HOUND appears to be set down South right around that time. '90s Disney had plenty, too: BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, POCAHONTAS, THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME, MULAN, TARZAN, to name a few. HERCULES goes to ancient Greece and mythology, ALADDIN is set in a fictional Arabian city, that one I feel is more on the dream-world level of - say - SNOW WHITE or LITTLE MERMAID, where the setting/time period isn't quite written out. This is why I don't tie myself in knots trying to determine where and when THE LITTLE MERMAID takes place. It's literally an amalgamation of different European and tropical locations, inspired by a story by a Danish author, and it has a Caribbean crab in it.

But no, early 2000s Disney is more specific than not! DINOSAUR is obvious, THE EMPEROR'S NEW GROOVE is set in ancient South America (its Incan Empire setting originally had much more bearing on the story back when it was KINGDOM OF THE SUN, the movie that had gotten thrown out that this replaced), ATLANTIS: THE LOST EMPIRE takes place in 1914 - starting in Washington D.C. and then largely being set below the Earth thereafter, LILO & STITCH is present-day Hawaii, BROTHER BEAR is a post-ice age Pacific Northwest, and HOME ON THE RANGE is clearly set in Malaysia in 2177 A.D.

All joking aside, it's almost a string of movies like that... Except TREASURE PLANET, which is set in a fictional galaxy, full of fictional planets, and no sign of Earth, much like the STAR WARS universe. Yet, TREASURE PLANET's cosmic setting is 1800s pirates/high seas aesthetic meets spaceships and high-tech. After all, it *is* Robert Louis Stevenson's TREASURE ISLAND, a story dating back to 1881 as a serialized adventure before it was made into a complete novel two years later. Just take out 1800s Europe.

Now, at one point, the 2004 release of HOME ON THE RANGE was going to be followed by a movie called A FEW GOOD GHOSTS, which was once known as MY PEOPLES. This project went through several title changes over time... A 2D/CG hybrid that was a magical Appalachian love story involving ghosts that was to be set in the 1940s. The movie would’ve probably been released in the summer of 2005 if all had gone well, as it was to go full-steam ahead by the time of its cancellation in November 2003. By that point in time, Disney execs had long made up their minds about 2D animation, and because this was to be made by the Florida unit… Well, BROTHER BEAR didn’t meet expectations at the box office out of the gate… No more Florida unit, no GOOD GHOSTS…

What a lot of these movies have in common is that they, as mentioned earlier, are seemingly much more old-school than the animated movies of the '90s *and* their CGI contemporaries.

The majority of these movies were released during the years when a new CGI movie was - 99% of the time - pretty much an audience hit by default (SHARK TALE and CHICKEN LITTLE individually outgrossed LILO & STITCH, for example), and that definitely hurt the perception of hand-drawn 2D animated feature films. It's been written over and over, so much theorizing as to why the majority of these movies failed to connect with audiences the way the newest Pixar or DreamWorks CGI film did... And sometimes, I look at some of this cluster of movies and I can only notice how weirdly out-of-time they are… Either too late to the party, or there well before it's even planned. Like, years in advance.

As such, most of these movies became cult favorites of the few people who did see them back when they first came out or when they debuted on home video. These fans are all in their 20s now, at the highest. Yesterday's flops, today's "what? This movie SLAPS! How did it lose money at the box office?”

The majority of the CGI movies made in the late '90s/early '00s are thoroughly modern in some way or another. If it's not the setting, then it's the attitude. SHREK, for example, is set in a mishmash ye olden dayes fairy tales & nursery rhymes Europe (the first PUSS IN BOOTS movie further confirms this, being explicitly set in Spain), but everything else about it is as late '90s/early '00s as you can get. ICE AGE… Literally in the title, yet the comedy and writing rings more Looney Tunes and modern humor. I was turning 10 when ICE AGE came out, so I was aware of what the sorta-kinda general attitude was circa early 2002. The humor in the movie matched that; it was cool for an adult in their 20s to check out the talking prehistoric animals cartoon and quote it.

Pixar is kind of out of the question, well, this particular early run of Pixar movies. The TOY STORY movies, A BUG'S LIFE, and FINDING NEMO all clearly take place in the present. Timeless present-day settings, where it's modern enough but not too much to date the movie in question. (How 'bout that line in BUG'S LIFE about "the twig of '93"?) MONSTERS, INC. is set in a fantasy world, but that too is modern day, what with the cars and technology and every other detail. Boo doesn't walk in out a 1930s human world, haha.

When it comes to pre-2005/06 Pixar, the one exception in this criteria is THE INCREDIBLES, which is set in a retro-futuristic 1960s whose technological advances are informed by the presence of superheroes in that world. And yet, it's not a movie that feels out of time, old-timey, dated. It uses the '60s influences to enhance, rather than trap the storytelling. It’s also curiously not set in any specific American location - much like TOY STORY 1 & 2, and A BUG’S LIFE. In comic book tradition, it’s set in the fictional Municiberg, which I can only surmise is somewhere on the West Coast. CARS and RATATOUILLE and UP, afterwards, would go back to present-day. WALL-E, the far future. BRAVE, in 2012, would be Pixar's first real period piece, a fantasized medieval fairy tale Scotland. That was their 13th feature…

And yet, there’s an air of nostalgia for a past decade in pretty much the majority of these earlier Pixar films… Which is a deep dive for another day, and others have already looked at that sort of thing. But, a lot of the movies made by the TOY STORY alumni (John Lasseter, Pete Docter, Andrew Stanton, Lee Unkrich) in particular are very much rooted in the directors’ late ‘50s/early ‘60s upbringings… But not in a way that renders them "corny". At least, to audiences circa 2002, that is.

The 2000s, in general, were a much different time anyways. And it just wasn't the appropriate era to release a small cluster of old-timey movies. Made in what was seemingly perceived as an old and outdated medium, when 3D environments and characters were WOWING people left and right. I can see why most audiences just didn't take too well to a Jules Verne-style animated adventure that was probably - with its PG rating - too silly for anyone over the age of 10 looking for an action movie. Nor a very classic adventure movie-style space epic. Nor a cartoon Western that literally *looked* like a lost vintage Disney cowboy cartoon a la the 'Pecos Bill' segment of MELODY TIME and EVERY COWBOY NEEDS A HORSE. Nor a familiar wilderness adventure movie that recalled '90s "new age" vibes. If the Appalachian folk musical had come out when intended, I suspect it too would've been rejected for similar reasons.

It's no surprise that LILO & STITCH, set in the modern day and not at all old-fashioned like that, was the lone box office success here and - for a brief while - a major phenomenon once it was on video. THE EMPEROR'S NEW GROOVE is snappy and modern and energetic, but that was impacted by its troubled production and the studio just dumping it. Its ludicrous legs at the box office and later video sales would prove that, people actually really liked that movie. The few people who saw it, that is. If it had been backed with a better campaign, that would've probably been Disney Feature's biggest movie since THE LION KING.

But it's those four movies... ATLANTIS, TREASURE PLANET, BROTHER BEAR, and HOME ON THE RANGE, that form this unique grab-bag. One that also includes DreamWorks' fairly edgy 2D-animated period adventures released around them, THE ROAD TO EL DORADO, SPIRIT: STALLION OF THE CIMARRON, and SINBAD: LEGEND OF THE SEVEN SEAS. All of those lost money, too.

And they told these stories in ways that were incongruous with the times, when audiences wanted farting ogres and silly sloths and wacky Ellen DeGeneres fish. Maybe they all would've done better as thoroughly-CGI movies, maybe not… But it's a weird vibe across the films that I’ve noticed over the years. Quaint, in a way. Maybe it was “cringe” or whatever in the moody and edgy early 2000s, but today - with so much time having passed and the world ever-changing - it’s all rather charming.

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Brave (2012)

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From Disney and Pixar, this movie is about a fiercely independent Scottish princess named Merida who defies an archaic custom to pursue her own destiny. Simultaneously, a beastly curse forces her to take action to save the kingdom.

A terrifically gifted voice cast includes: Kelly Macdonald as Princess Merida, Emma Thompson as Queen Elinor, Billy Connolly as King Fergus, Julie Walters as the Witch and Robbie Coltrane, Kevin McKidd and Craig Ferguson as Lords Dingwall, MacGuffin and Macintosh, respectively.

Kelly Macdonald delivers a fresh outlook on female independence in a way that differs completely from a quintessential Disney Princess. Emma Thompson’s vocal performance alone is an elegantly superb example of a monarch whose diplomatic stance comes into conflict with her daughter. Put those components together, we see a perfectly strained mother/daughter relationship that’s basically the heart of the story. Billy Connolly’s exuberant tone is an excellent way to convey a ruler who seems larger-than-life, but is really a judicious figure. Julie Walters is both a national treasure and master comedienne whose mannerisms are integrated in the Witch’s eccentric behavior.

What makes Merida uniquely different is her extreme passion for adventure, tomboyish style and athletic skills. On that note, Merida loves riding her Clydesdale horse Angus and archery more than anything, which is a symbol of her defining trait as a female warrior. Although she has a softness of heart, she makes it clear that she doesn’t need a man to support her, nor does she wish to marry despite Elinor’s warning that refusal to adhere to tradition could lead to chaos.

In terms of observing the dynamic between a daughter and her mother, the film presents the protagonist struggling to maintain her own free will against the parent’s lectures on the rules of proper royal etiquette. The relationship is further complicated when Merida bargains for a spell that causes Elinor to transform into a bear in an attempt to change her fate. It is then that both mother and daughter must work out their differences and “mend the bond torn by pride” in order to break the curse.

The animation is not only mind-blowing, but it beautifully captures the gorgeous landscape of the Scottish Highlands in such extensive detail. Every strand/lock of Merida’s fiery red mane of hair (including the interwoven threads of the family tapestry made by Elinor) is down to a science. Elinor’s bear form is designed in the exact anatomy of a bear yet she is able to retain her human consciousness. Whenever Bear-Elinor is in her state of human mind, she’d stand/walk on her hind legs. As the spell gradually begins to take over her humanity, she’d be on all fours. Furthermore, the villain of the story is a demonic bear named Mor’du (which conveniently means “great black”). Unlike the sane, expressive bear version of Elinor, Mor’du is a ferocious manifestation of a dark soul trapped in the body of a bear. In addition, Elinor’s regal stature is reflected in her silky fur and flawless bear-like qualities, whereas Mor’du is a muscular hybrid of man and monster all in one. Last but not least, Merida’s younger identical triplet brothers-turned-bear cubs are the icing on the computer-generated cake.

The story is completely original in the sense that it’s not based on a preexisting fairy tale but rather one that pays homage to both the majestic and dark aspects of ancient folklore. Set in Scotland in the Middle Ages, the movie is packed with elements of magic and a sense of danger. One crucial element is a phosphorescent glow of spiritual fumes known as will-o’-the-wisps. According to legend, depending on the situation, it is said that a wisp can either guide a lost traveler to his/her destiny or lead down a dark path. In Merida’s case, she heads down a path she thought would resolve her parental issues but instead makes the reckless mistake of spreading peril across the kingdom. That’s when Merida has to look inside herself and unlock her inner bravery to set things right.

While not a musical, the film’s soundtrack contains a few original songs: two performed by Scottish folk singer Julie Fowlis (“Touch the Sky” and “Into the Open Air”) and one performed by English singer Birdie with backing vocals by English folk rock band Mumford & Sons (“Learn Me Right”). Not only that, but a flashback scene shows Elinor singing a lullaby to young Merida in Gaelic, during which Emma Thompson does her own singing.

Finally, although a standalone narrative, this film teaches the importance of discovering our fate (even if one is willing to challenge societal norms to do so) and understanding one another through mythical storytelling. What’s more, Brave helped set the stage for the creation of specific Pixar movies with more female-bonding experiences such as Inside Out. All in all, I recommend this visually pleasing Best Animated Feature Oscar winner to every fan of both Pixar and fantasy.

WARNING: this Pixar movie may be too scary for younger kids with scenes regarding Mor’du.

#Pixar’s Brave (2012)#Pixar #pixarbrave #Brave #Pixar brave #Disney #Disney Pixar #Kelly Macdonald #princess merida #queen elinor #emma thompson #mother/daughter

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Beyond Good and Evil is great cause like I said it’s like an early 2000s animated Disney movie with very dark implications in the background and an insane lore.

It definitely gives me treasure planet energy with it's universe and I definitely hope I'm able to play it when/if a remaster comes out , it's such a nostalgia vibe of a game despite the fact I've never personally played it

It genuinely makes me disappointed all the more on how dirty they did Jade and Pey'J. Completely ignoring the incest and the gross implications of that, there was so many more interesting things they could've taken their characters especially since Jade has heavy ties to the alien enemy in BGE and Laserhawk has aliens coming out of dimension X, come on they missed out doing something with that

Like maybe Jade could've been some weird alien hybrid experiment that somehow went under the radar when someone Pey'J or her parents took her away from the Eden labs (maybe it was even during the wasteland war!?), and when Alex opened the portal to dimension X her hidden powers could've activated. Considering Dolph is also a lab experiment , it would've been a good starting point for a genuine friendship. If they had to keep Pey'J being a creep in than keeping Jade alive could open to Dolph having someone to bond and help cope with being in a relationship with weird older men

Thank god I can make aus but still

Already made a post saying original Pey'J is a husbando but Jade is also quite different to her game counterpart from what I've found, anyone else notice Laserhawk Jade seems more immature(? Idk if that's the right word)/less experienced compared to her game version?

#captain laserhawk #asks #ask me #beyond good and evil #Tw incest

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(Keep in mind I haven't seen the movie, just the trailers, and I don't have interest in seeing it. This post is not about the movie's story, it's about the animation.)

My first reaction to seeing Wish's trailer: The animation looks ugly.

It looks unfinished. Like this was a test screening or something.

I was gonna say 'it looks like a fan-Disney animation'. Except that would be insulting to fans who put months of effort into making their little animations to share on the Internet, and said fans just have less expectations than major studios do.

It's supposed to look like 'the hybrid style'. Like what the Spiderverse movies did. It's supposed to look 'creative' and 'unique' to anything else.

Except, this is a perfect example of a movie trying to copy Spiderverse's art style, with no clue what even made that art style good in the first place.

I'm not saying 'every movie that's done the hybrid animation is bad'. Most of them are actually really good. But there is something about Spiderverse's animation that remains very significant and masterful in its own way.

(And yes I've heard about the abuse of the animators to make Across the Spiderverse. Like... don't do that Sony. Your workers deserve a good work/life balance.)

The animation isn't made that way just to 'be unique'. The animation actively tells the story and elevates the narrative.

(That's another thing: Just make a good story first.)

The comic strips are there to give the impression this is a living story you are reading as well as a homage to Spider Man origins. The textboxes showing a character's internal thoughts. The different animation styles on each character depending on the dimension they're from to tell you their background. Certain visual cues to enhance the comedic moments. And so on. You could basically do a full analysis on multiple scenes of these movies just from what the visuals tell you.

The animation isn't 'unique' to 'be unique from other Hollywood movies', it's 'unique' to tell the story.

Say, you're deaf. And your hearing aids are faulty that day when you're watching the movies. The visuals aid in helping you understand the story.

Take, the first scene with Gwen and her dad in Across the Spiderverse. It's more than just 'ooh, her dimension is pretty'. Her and her dad are different colors in the room because of their separation because of the situation at hand, there's a block between them being fully honest and close like they used to, and the colors are telling you this. And when their colors merge when Gwen hugs him? That's showing you the ideal they want. It's beautiful.

And I didn't even tell you any of their dialogue or the context of that scene, that's just from what the visuals are telling you.

Why is Wish's style the way it is?

Uh, I think it's supposed to be 'it's a fairy tale storybook'. But that's it.

It's not even that unique. The character models look very much like the 2010s CGI character models, just cheaper rendered. Some backgrounds, like the forests, look good, but the characters look awkward standing in it because there's no good lighting to make me believe they're standing there. (this isn't a 'realism' issue. Again, do Spiderverse characters look awkward standing in their respective backgrounds? Except for when that's intentional because story reasons?)

That's why I said it looks unfinished, because it does look like an unfinished CGI Disney movie, but apparently it's intentional??

I'm not against Disney trying to be unique. I want that, actually. Once Upon A Studio is an example done right, actually. But from what I've heard, this movie's story is the most un-unique thing they've ever made. 'Unique animation' can't hide that. And if reviews are focusing more on story, that's an indicator.

Tell the story first. Then you can figure out what animation style is best for enhancing that story.

I wanted to share this cause it was something me and my GF discussed after I showed her Across the Spiderverse, and we talked about this very thing. I also just want to say I'm not trying to 'hate on Disney', even with all the bull they've done this year. I'm on the side of people that really liked Elemental. I liked Once Upon A Studio. I'm someone who just wants to see the studio be better. (And I know they're not gonna listen to feedback like this. I really hope their act is gotten together.)

#across the spiderverse #spiderman into the spiderverse #spiderman across the spiderverse #disney wish #animation

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Adiaha: The Woman With Two Skins

Disney can't draw up characters from diverse fairytales & folklore, then we should pick up the slack. Btw, I was working on this for 2 weeks, BEFORE that Wish trailer came out. But that further encourages this challenge I'm proposing, New Classics Challenge - Take any fairytale or folklore that Disney hasnt used, and draw something up. And if you can, have it look like a movie poster.

Now, we gotta hope that Wish film does well, so Disney is encouraged to do more of that, more ORIGINAL stuff that ends up being classics, plus more 2D hybrid animation, and not waiting another 13 years before making another animated film with a black lead. Seriously, it has been THAT long since Princess & The Frog.

#Disney 100 #digital art #fyp #The Woman With Two Skins #digital artwork #digital doodle #Nigeria #folklore #for you #Disney #black art #disney+#fine ill do it myself

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ICYMI: The Disney.com website has given a updated synopsis of BIG CITY GREENS THE MOVIE: SPACECATION. 🚜🏙️🌽🌖☄️🚀✨🍿🎬

Additionaly the website confirms that the movie is rated TV-Y7

#Big City Greens #Big City Greens The Movie Spacecation #Big City Greens The Movie: Spacecation #Big City Greens The Movie #BCG #Anna O'Brian #Ariel Vracin-Harrell #Chris Houghton #Shane Houghton #Disney Channel Original Movies #Disney Channel Original Movie #DCOMs #Disney+ Original Animated Hybrid Movies #Disney Plus Original Animated Hybrid Movies #Disney Television Animation Films #Disney TVA Films

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Worst Disney Remakes

I am not really excited for the remake of The Little Mermaid, I’ll take the upcoming Disney Junior TV show based on the 1989 movie. Anyways, here’s a list of terrible remakes to Disney movies.

1. Alice in Wonderland This movie kicked off the trend of making remakes to Disney movies common, and that’s not good. This movie should have been a live action/stop motion hybrid, because most of Tim Burton’s animated movies are stop motion. Face it, Tim Burton should do like Jack Skellington, and try to set things right. You know, have remakes to Disney movies very rare. That way, we’d focus more on live action Disney originals.

2. Beauty and the Beast It was coming in 2017, and everyone was very excited for it. I have read that according to Chris Plante, that if Disney keeps beating every other movie studio, eventually, they’ll buy one movie studio, and keep doing so by 2040, and they’ll become a single major studio. I tried to warn everyone not to watch this movie, but they wouldn’t listen and watched it anyway. Later on, I thought Disney wasn’t going to buy a major studio because it was 2017, but Disney was going to buy 20th Century Fox, and they completed it 2 years later. (They should have waited til 2025.)

3. Dumbo This is a live action remake nobody wanted because the original movie was just to cute for little kids. This remake has no stork, no crows, and no Timothy Q. Mouse. It had Danny Devito, the voice of the Lorax from the movie of the same name, Phil from Hercules, and Mr. Swackhammer from Space Jam, and Michael Keaton, the man who portrayed Beetlejuice and Batman. Take it from Dumbo and Alice, they both never saw Platinum DVD’s, and they had remakes directed by Tim Burton. I know it isn’t crazy, and I am not crazy, so there!

4. Aladdin Here is another terrible remake of a Disney Renaissance film, it’s pointless, Mena Massoud did a terrible job as the title hero, Will Smith has been playing as the Genie with no charisma, and there was no Prince Achmed. Here’s a fun tidbit, Alan Tudyk, the man who appeared in every Disney canon film since Wreck-It Ralph, voices Iago the parrot. There’s an annoying new character in that movie, and that is Dalia, and that isn’t good, plus Jasmine is worse that Theme Park Jasmine’s current design. (Disney should bring back original theme park Jasmine because she’s supposed to look like her in the 1992 movie.)

5. The Lion King This is an article on the highest grossing movie of all time, but it’s a bad one. It’s an argument between live action and animation, just like Bee Movie, and Lightyear, It has a bad direction on vocal performances, it made pointless changes to some elements, it’s out of place, and lacks the charm of the original. If there would be more Lion King movies, I’d swear there should be spinoffs made by Walt Disney Animation Studios, which should do better, because The Lion King is the Disney franchise that will never end, just like Toy Story. That’s enough, on to the next one. By the way, Donald Glover, the man who played Simba, used himself as a shield on Chloe Bailey’s sister Halle, the one who’s playing Ariel in The Little Mermaid remake.

6. Lady and the Tramp This one is the first Disney remake to hit Disney+. It isn’t as good as the original, it’s unfair, and there is no original bad kitty song. The original is more faithful and true, while the remake isn’t as such. It isn’t meant to be the same. (What a shame)

7. Mulan This one is a remake to the 1998 movie, but it isn’t very good. There are no ancestors, no Li Shang, no Cri Kee, not even Mushu.It’s pretty bad for the Uyghurs, because in the 1950′s, the Chinese invaded their land. Also, is was misrated PG-13, because it’s supposed to get the PG rating. According to The abridged history of Disney, 2015–2040 AD , there is a joke about this movie getting a sequel in the Stop what you're doing and listen to Blue Ivy's mega hit, "I Am Destiny's Child" segment, but however, the joke is coming true! So, tell Niki Caro that we don’t want a sequel to this, because this was a box office bomb.

8. Pinocchio The recent remake I thought was going to turn out the best. I was wrong, it turned out the worst. The reason is it lacks the charm of the original, the CGI animals look creepy, the Blue Fairy was criticized for being blackwashed, and it was Robert Zemeckis’ abysmal directing. The previous offering, Mars Needs Moms bombed so badly, it killed the studio ImageMovers digital, resulting in the cancellation of the remake of the non Disney movie, Yellow Submarine. Now that movie was a failure, just tell Disney we don’t want any remakes to Lilo & Stitch, Robin Hood, The Rescuers, Oliver and Company, and Tarzan. Now that this is done, let’s get to the conclusion

Conclusion Now that we are finished let’s talk about that upcoming Disney remake that I’m not excited for, you know it, it’s the remake to The Little Mermaid. I didn’t want to bring the photo cause I can’t even bear to look.The reason is that Rob Marshall blackwashed this character.

That’s right I’m talking about Ariel. The Ariel that’s not shown is black and has dreadlocks, and the Ariel that’s shown is white and doesn’t have dreadlocks. The reason is I would’ve loved to have Zendaya Coleman cast as Ariel, but she wasn’t in the mood for it. However, Chloe Bailey’s sister, Halle was chosen because she was talented, and she had nice singing voice. (I’m assuming that Marshall found the Bailey sisters by watching online videos on YouTube or something.) I predict for the remake, that it’s going to get worse, and I don’t want the original Ariel to be replaced. I am however looking forward to the second TV show based on the 1989 movie, on which I hope we will see the Ariel that’s shown. Hopefully she could be either be a little kid or a teenager, but we’ll have to wait for now. Thank you for reading, hope you’ve refreshed your memory on these, hope this has been a long time, so see you, bye.

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Are you looking forward to watch Disney's upcoming animated film after "Strange World"?

Set to be released in November 2023, the film centers around Princess Asha & her goat sidekick Valentino, who meets a literal star.

But what makes me excited is that this film is about, in the words of the filmmakers themselves, "how the iconic wishing star came to be."

I mean, isn't that hinting the possibility of crossovers with previous Disney films that feature a wishing star in them??? ("Pinocchio", "Peter Pan", "The Princess and the Frog", etc.)

Another reveal is the animation style - said to be a hybrid between traditional watercolor animation & digital CG animation 🤩🤩🤩

Anyway, here's a first look of Asha & Valentino.

Ariana DeBose will provide her voice for Princess Asha; Valentino will be voiced by none other than the legendary Alan Tudyk.

I'm always curious about an upcoming Disney movie, including Pixar and most live-action productions! 😁👍🏻 Unfortunately for this year, while Turning Red was excellent, I was extremely disappointed in both Lightyear and Pinocchio, and right now, I don't have very high hopes for The Little Mermaid. I don't expect critical reception to be overwhelmingly positive for Hocus Pocus 2 since it predecessor didn't do so well in its original release, but I hope it's still likable enough. I'm also very excited for Disenchanted and Strange World for the end of the year, and I'm curious about Elemental and Wish. 😉

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Pinocchio 2022 review because it fucking deserves it

Okay, review of the new Pinocchio movie because I just watched the entire movie with my grandparents. Coming from someone who hasn’t seen the original in years.

I absolutely loved it. Best Disney live-action remake honestly.

The Woody clock at the beginning made me smile, because how can you not have a Woody clock when you have Tom Hanks, who played Woody in Toy Story, playing a woodcarver? I really enjoyed the other easter egg clocks too (although I didn’t expect the Who Framed Roger Rabbit? cameo, as I wasn’t aware Disney owned it lmao). At first I didn’t enjoy Jiminy’s design, but it grew on me incredibly fast, like literally within minutes.

As much as I am thinking to myself “why are Figaro and Cleo CGI” I feel like it made it feel more true to the original, and considering Geppetto takes Cleo everywhere, yeah, thank god they used CGI for her lol.

I absolutely love how Pinocchio is just as stylized as he is in the original. They didn’t have to change him, so why would they? It helps the movie feel more like the original, and seeing Pinocchio in the style of the original 1940 movie made me super happy. EVEN GIDEON AND HONEST JOHN MANAGED TO BE STYLIZED DESPITE THEM BEING PHOTOREALISTIC??? On the topic of Gideon and Honest John, I genuinely though John was being played by a fursuiter and they just animated his mouth, lol.

I also like how someone tells Pinocchio not to do something only for him to do the complete opposite, it adds so much to his presumed mental age of like 6? 7? Idk, he’s definitely under 10 though. Regardless I love him to bits.

I feel like with Pinocchio they were more willing to stylize the CGI characters (namely Pinocchio, Jiminy, and Cleo) and it makes the movie so much better honestly. I hope they stylize their CGI characters in their live-action/CGI hybrid movies more going forward.

SO overall, with ratings out of 5 stars:

Faithfulness to the original: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ (knocking off a star because I haven’t seen the original in so long)

Animation: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Plot: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Justice for the shitty characters: ⭐️⭐️⭐️ (why is Stromboli the only guy who was thrown in prison)

Final rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

I would 100% recommend, please watch it I’m begging you

#pinocchio #pinocchio 2022 #pinocchio spoilers #ive never done a movie review can you tell

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Shelving Movies for Fun and Profit

Destroying Movies for Fun and Profit

If you ask any director, screenwriter, actor, stunt performer, gaffer, editor, cameraperson or other Hollywood worker, they’ll likely tell you a variation on the same story: “My dream, ever since I was a little kid making home movies, was to one day grant Warner Bros. a deduction for a loss sustained upon the abandonment of property (reported on Form 4797).” Yes, little is more exciting for an aspiring filmmaker than the idea that—with a lot of dedication and a pinch of luck—their years of driving Lyfts and waiting tables could pay off, resulting in a star-studded line item that will be shelved forever so that a major studio can claim a tax write-off. Ah, the magic of the movies!

This practice is back in the news because the powers that be at WB have gone back to their original decision regarding the hybrid live-action/animated Looney Tunes movie Coyote vs. Acme. Despite the film testing well and generating plenty of buyer interest, a team of execs who haven’t seen the finished movie look like they’re going to “unceremoniously delete it” for tax purposes. Sorry, filmmakers, but apparently it actually looks better to stockholders if WB doesn’t actually put movies out. “Hollywood accounting” has its reputation for a reason, but it’s never been so obviously broken.

It might seem like Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav is a true innovator of idiocy, but the man behind the permanent shelving of movies like Batgirl and Scoob! Holiday Haunt is just ramping up a long tradition of burning art to save a quick buck.

After buying up DreamWorks, Universal decided to bury the musical-comedy Larrikins instead of selling it to Netflix. Universal president Jimmy Horowitz told Tim Minchin that “It’s schmuck insurance – if someone made a lot of money out of it, we’ll look like schmucks.” That mindset certainly applies here: Coyote vs. Acme is a creation from an earlier group of WB leaders, and would naturally be on the chopping block from a spiteful new C-suite who also happens to hate movies.

Even more relevant is a case from almost 100 years ago: Charlie Chaplin literally torched the film negatives of A Woman of the Sea back in 1933, in front of multiple witnesses, so that he could claim the movie as a loss for tax purposes.

The tax code may have changed since then, but the logic remains the same: Get rid of the movie so you can avoid all the final complications and lingering expenses associated with its “useful life.” If you cut that life short, pulling off an accounting assassination, you save a little immediate cash at the low, low cost of…art. It’s always been a crass practice, more often performed by resentful new regimes or moneygrubbers who’ve found themselves attracting the gaze of Sauron’s IRS. But now shelving movies, completed films that other companies want, is picking up steam as standard practice. Actually making things is such an outdated, small-time business model. It’s far more lucrative to remove things other people made.

For example, if Disney keeps all of its movies and TV shows on Disney+, it has to pay residuals to the people who made them. They’ve also spread out the costs of a movie like Crater (which was available to watch for a mere seven weeks during the summer of 2023) over the years that the movie will ostensibly be available to the public and, therefore, creating value for Disney. Remove these movies and shows from the streamer, or better yet, remove them permanently (like Disney did with Crater), and their value can be added to an impairment charge—basically, a claim to the tax man that something a company owns has become, suddenly, worthless.

Disney recorded a $1.5 billion impairment charge last year. As Julia Rock points out, this means that Disney is claiming something pretty odd: Both “that the assets were producing so little value that it’s cheaper to destroy them than to keep them and that the assets were worth $1.5 billion.” Huh. There’s no push for anyone to justify this contradiction. The IRS isn’t asking questions. It doesn’t matter if a movie is good, or bad, or somewhere in between. It doesn’t matter if it had the potential to one day be rediscovered as a cult classic. It certainly doesn’t matter that even the worst pieces of Z-grade trash are still worth preserving as cultural artifacts. As an aside, the HBO Original Fahrenheit 451 is still streaming on Max.

And sure, you can say that you didn’t want to watch those movies anyways. Kid movies! Superheroes! Cartoons, yuck. I get it, you’re tough and cool. But one day, this will happen to something that you were looking forward to. It will happen to something that would have moved you. Something you’d have remembered fondly, something that would’ve turned your day around. But even if you’re the most jaded, anti-art, movie-hating curmudgeon, you should remember that, released or not, you’re helping pay for this scheme anyways.

“When intertwined with public funding through state and federal tax incentives, the practice of movie and television write-downs represents a troubling exploitation of taxpayer funds,” writes tax attorney Andrew Leahey. “Coupled with rapidly expanding state tax incentives, it represents a multibillion-dollar Rube Goldberg machine that culminates in a nickel being pulled from your pocket, strapped to an Acme rocket, and fired directly into the bank accounts of movie studios.”

Every loophole taken by these studios doesn’t just rob us of art. It burns the work of countless artists. It steals from our quality of life by monkeying around with our broken tax system, allowing our most powerful corporations to skip out on their bills. It picks the remaining shreds of flesh off the bones of our culture, all to further fatten a few vultures at the top.

Politicians like Texas Representative Joaquin Castro are calling for the government to “review this conduct,” but the only people who seem to have the power here are those actually creating the movies. They can boycott the guilty studios, and we can support them, but there are so few left that aren’t exploiting this practice to its most predatory extremes. Cooking the books has always been a Hollywood practice. Burning them is new.

Jacob Oller is Movies Editor at Paste Magazine. You can follow him on Twitter at @jacoboller.

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It's too bad that this Paste article was written by a Leftist, who let their biases show, ie pushing Castro, and the 'Sauron's IRS'. But otherwise, it is spot on. What the studios are doing to Intellectual Properties is a SIN. It's cruel, it's greedy and so fucking unnecessary. Just how much money do these studios and their shareholders, NEED? I better not find out that the Supernatural Planet Series was destroyed.

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