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wreckham · 3 days

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"[An American Tail] not only acts as a gritty look at the United States of the past, but also illuminates painful truths about our present. [Philip] Glasser, who has watched the movie with his three sons, says the film “is as relevant today as it was when it came out in 1986.” It’s difficult to watch An American Tail now and not think of the current refugee crisis, rising anti-Semitism, and the thousands of children who have been separated from their families at the US-Mexico border. When Tanya Mousekewitz asks her father why the official at Mouse Garden (the animal version of Castle Garden) changed her name to Tilly, or when Tony tells Fievel his “name’s gotta go,” there's a clear parallel to still-common microaggressions today. Modern America’s treatment of immigrants is reflected in An American Tail: from the pressure to assimilate, to the whitewashing, to the outright violence—often committed by our own government." - Rebecca Long, "'An American Tail' Explores Bleak Immigrant Struggles That Still Resonate in 2019"

#an american tail #don bluth #fievel mousekewitz #speedpaint #furry #beckhamdraws #he hat too big for he gotdamn head

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stormywitch90 · 4 months

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Little mice on big adventures 🐁

#an american tail #the secret of nimh #the rescuers #basil the great mouse detective #mouse #mice #walt disney #disney #don bluth #bluth

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justladders · 4 months

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@skeletoninthemelonland's oc, the Graveleaper, in the style of An American Tale. Bc I've been having character style-change brainworms and anon suggested it.

#laddersarts #fanart for others #justfrens #the graveleaper #an american tail #someones gonna ask for the rescuers next. i know.

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whowouldwininafite · 6 months

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#who would win in a fite #polls #tournament tuesday #tt4 #fievel mousekewitz #an american tail #malfina the demon witch #florkofcows

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proverbialschoolmarm · 8 months

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#don bluth #titan ae #anastasia #the pebble and the penguin #thumbelina #a troll in central park #rock a doodle #all dogs go to heaven #the land before time #an american tail #the secret of nimh #gary goldman #art vitello #summer break 23

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weirdgirl92 · 10 months

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Don Bluth movie posters (1982-2000)

#because I’m just obsessed with these things!#don bluth #the secret of nimh #an american tail #the land before time #all dogs go to heaven #rock a doodle #thumbelina 1994 #anastasia 1997 #titan a.e.#movie posters #movie poster art

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princessmisery · 8 months

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I like the funny mouse movie 🐁

#don bluth #an american tail #art #fanart #myart #digital art #fievel mousekewitz #artists on tumblr #misery art #furry #mouse

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atomic-chronoscaph · 11 months

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An American Tail “wave monster” concept art by Don Moore (1986)

#don moore #an american tail #concept art #don bluth #wave monster #animation #animated features #80s movies #1980s #1986

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ydotome · 2 months

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An American Tail - Dir. Don Bluth - November 21, 1986

#An American Tail #Bridget #Tony Toponi #Toponi Tony #animationedit #my gifs #my post #long post

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usssnarfblat · 6 months

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Did Anastasia deserve to die for her family's crimes against Fieval's family?

I've always found it interesting that "Anastasia" and "An American Tail" were made by the same guy...

My mom got us "An American Tail" as kids, since we were Jewish, and a Disney-like movie with Jewish characters was a one-of-a-kind thing. ("The Prince of Egypt" was still a few years away. Yes, I'm that old.) More to the point, my dad's side of the family is largely Russian Jews, who immigrated in the early 1920s, for exactly the same reasons as the Mouskewitz. Being a child of this background and very literally obsessed with cats, I had mixed feelings about the movie.

When "Anastasia" came out a few years later, Mom didn't let that history stop us from enjoying the new princess movie, but she didn't shelter us from it either. We regarded it like we did the real history behind any sugar-coated princess movie. She even got us some history books about the real Romanov family, and we were fascinated by the subject.

Still, it's an odd elephant in the room, watching "Anastasia" and knowing that her granddad was the one who sent those Cossack cats after Fievel's village, and her dad himself continued doing it to the Jewish mice who didn't leave.

"Go, Pompom, Kibble and Fluff-Baron! Kill those Jew mice, and I'll give you extra catnip treats tonight!"

Don Bluth presents both the Romannov family and their victims with equal sympathy, even opening both movies with the family celebrating a holiday, with the kid heroes getting a plot-specific present, before being viciously attacked.

"Wow Grandmama! Fieval and Tanya could use this as a merry-go-round!"

*Cough* "Yes uh, about those Jewish mice Sweetie..."

Bluth's portrayal of the Romanov family is not entirely inaccurate. By all accounts, Nicholas II was a deeply loving father who both doted on his children, but raised them not to be spoiled. Despite being royalty, the princesses shared bedrooms and did charity work at hospitals.

It's a baffling irony that Nicholas was nevertheless was a tyrant, and not remotely just to his Jewish subjects. When I was about twelve, Mom got me the Dear America book A Coal Miner's Bride, about the Catholic Polish immigrants who also fled the oppression of the Russian Tzar. (Anastasia's family conquered part of Poland in the 1800s, banning the Pols from speaking their own language and drafting their sons into the Tzar's dick-measuring contest wars.) Anyway, that's what my mom's side of the family was fleeing when they immigrated. Yes, my family has double reason to hate the Romanovs.

So, I personally don't have a lot of sympathy for Nicholas II. But the horrors his poor wife and children endured in their final moments never fails to get the reaction from me.

The rationalization for the murder of the children and queen was that it was the only way to ensure that the monarchy never returned. But I assume most modern-thinking people would say that the ends do not justify the means in this case.

That said, millions of families like Anetka's and Fievel's suffered as bad or worse than the Romanovs, because of the Romanovs, and no one remembers them because they didn't wear tiaras. This no doubt was another factor that killed sympathy for the Romanov children. But they were still children.

The question today is, if we can feel for a family that was literal royalty, despite their father being an undeniable tyrant against our own families...can we also feel for Palestinian and Israeli families, during a conflict that is vastly more complicated than Imperial Russia?

Or do they need to be cute mice and glittery princesses to get our attention?