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[themousefromfantasyland]

I don't want to be that person to point faults in logic in Disney movies, but...

I absolutely love Disney Storybook openings and they do wonders setting the tone of the films they are in.

But if you think long enough, they don't make much sense.

Fairy tales are usually very short stories. Some are from ten to fifteen paragraphs long.

Who would dedicate a entire delicately ornated book to just one fairy tale?

Snow White alone came from a collection of hundreds of them. Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty came from a collection of at least half a dozen.

It gets worse when the book appears to be from middle ages, with pages that look like a illuminated manuscript.

During the Middle Ages, who would dedicate so much craft and artistry to just one single short story? A story that has no deep religious or other practical reasons to exist?

Is there any Watsonian explanation for this?

@ariel-seagull-wings @princesssarisa @adarkrainbow

#disney #storybook openings #storybook #fairy tales

[themousefromfantasyland]

I know I’ve said this before but vampires

don’t show up on camera

can fly/scale walls

immune to bullets

can break into any safe by turning into fog or some bullshit

could probably hypnotize security guards as needed

therefore I am in dire need of a heist film where a group of vampires band together to steal back their old stuff from museums

#vampires #plot #ideas

[themousefromfantasyland]

everyone please read this and share if you can.

Brazil is going through one of the worst climatic crisis ever seen.

i live in the southernmost state, Rio Grande do Sul. we have been suffering from extreme, nonstop rainstorms for a week now. the rivers are flooding, reaching 4-6 meters above their natural level. people are being rescued by helicopters, neighborhoods are being evacuated. entire cities are slowly but surely becoming submerged in water. 60 people missing and counting. 32 deaths and counting.

and this is not new. last november also had a flood like this one. 50 dead, many material losses. it happened again this january, with thousands being left without power or water for days.

three catastrophical disasters within less than a year. three disasters only a few months apart.

this is not natural.

unsustainable agricultural practices and politics led to this. a complete disregard for nature led to this. greed led to this. always greed.

when it comes to the climate crisis, i cannot stress this enough: we need to act now if we still want to live. disasters like this are going to happen more often and they're going to be much, much worse. this flood is being considered the worst climatic catastrophe in the history of my state. i don't know how long it will take for another bigger one to happen and take its place. i just know it will be sooner than it should.

links to donate (if you can't donate, sharing already helps a lot):

link for non-brazilians (paybox)

link for brazilians

pix assufrgs

will update more links later. in the meantime, pray for us.

#brazil #brasil #donations

[themousefromfantasyland]

I made a small, incomplete, and ultimately useless timeline of Comics... enjoy

#comics #comic books #timeline

[themousefromfantasyland]

DATE NIGHT

@thealmightyemprex @themousefromfantasyland @the-blue-fairie @piterelizabethdevries @amalthea9

From Wolverine and the X-Men vol.2 #8 (2014)

#x men #wolverine and the x men #logan #wolverine #ororo munroe

[themousefromfantasyland]

LOGAN CALLS ORORO

@thealmightyemprex @themousefromfantasyland @the-blue-fairie @piterelizabethdevries @professorlehnsherr-almashy @amalthea9

From Wolverine and the X-Men vol. 2 #7 (2014)

#x-men #wolverine and the x-men #logan #ororo munroe #storm

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#tumblr mutuals #thealmightyemprex #tagged #polls

[themousefromfantasyland]

Which genre of fiction is your special interest?

Horror, fairy tale/fantasy, sci fi, romance, comedy, músicals.

@thealmightyemprex @the-blue-fairie @piterelizabethdevries @themousefromfantasyland @amalthea9 @tamisdava2 @professorlehnsherr-almashy @barbossas-wench @faintingheroine @princesssarisa

#ask answered #ariel seagull wings

[themousefromfantasyland]

PETE’S DRAGON (1977) dir. Don Chaffey

#pete's dragon

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#pete's dragon 1977 #pete's dragon

[themousefromfantasyland]

I watched this film for the first time yesterday.

Even though I'm a Disney fan, I was so ready to hate and mock this film. It always seemed so over the top and saccharine, even for Disney's standards.

Then the unimaginable happened, it hit me in the feels during the whole thing.

The film has its very real flaws. It's overly long, has too many songs, and it's too corny. If you hate Disney films or musicals, you will REALLY hate this one.

But in my opinion nothing of this really maters. It's an almost perfect Disney film for me.

The combination between animation and live-action isn't as strong as it was on Mary Poppins and Bedknobs and Broomsticks, but the way that Pete sings and shows affection for this cartoon dragon is so sincere that you start believing that Elliott is right there.

That's the strongest point of the movie. It's is so warm, and sincere, devoid of any cynicism. It's corny, 100% corny, but it's unashamed of its own corniness. It goes exactly for that.

Every song is a banger and I love the staging of every single one of them. Performing them must have been so fun.

This is the perfect feel good Disney movie in my opinion. It deserves more love.

Why isn’t there more love for Pete’s Dragon (1977) on this site.

Nora, played by Helen Reddy, is flipping #goals as far as Strong, Smart, Compassionate female characters go. Seriously, one of my favorite female leads, I want to be her.

It’s a story about a boy with an imaginary dragon friend, and as a kid watching it’s all about everyone believing in the dragon, and how the adults finally see that Elliott is real and deserving of love. But when you become an adult yourself, you see it’s all about Pete finding a home and a place in the world - he’s the dragon, and it’s really his story.

Jim Dale as the extremely zany and rather disgusting villain

Mickey Rooney as the wonderful, slightly insane lighthouse keeper, aka an iconic example of “that weird Disney trope of having at least one token drunk character for laughs??”

It’s a fun musical?? Like “Candle on the Water” and “Brazzle Dazzle Day” and “There’s Room for Everyone” are sooooo good. With technology how it is today, and the new Pete’s Dragon movie being so well-received, can we get a Broadway production of the old Pete’s Dragon up and running, write some new songs and reintroduce the world to these old gems??

Did I mention the primary set location is a lighthouse?

“Candle on the Water” sung by Helen was nominated for an Academy Award

Don Bluth was the animation director, and though it didn’t score very well with critics, many of the animation processes used were breaking new ground in uncharted territory - see, “yellow screens” as opposed to the well-known green screen.

The score is of Irwin Kostal’s creation (also Academy Award nominated btw), a genius who worked on composing/arranging/directing for other films such as West Side Story, Mary Poppins, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Fantasia, and The Sound of Music, among others. (also, the Broadway shows of West Side Story, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Gigi, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, etc)

This movie was such a big part of my childhood, even if it was out before I was born, I love it so much, but I know like seven other people who even know it exists and it makes me so sad.

#pete's dragon 1977 #pete's dragon #disney

[themousefromfantasyland]

“First that nice Romeo boy, now Hamlet and his family. Sometimes I think we shouldn’t even sell poison.”

#shakespeare #william shakespeare #cartoon #apothecary

[themousefromfantasyland]

I just found this photo I had saved from Opera San José's 2019 production of Hansel and Gretel, which was mostly a traditional staging, but which costumed the Witch in a creative way:

She started out wearing a conventional peasant dress, but after she revealed her wicked nature, she shed the dress to reveal this androgynous steampunk-style outfit with knickers and a necktie. And instead of a broomstick, she rode a bicycle.

@ariel-seagull-wings, @adarkrainbow

#hansel and gretel #fairy tale #opera san jose #2019 #hansel and gretel's witch

[themousefromfantasyland]

Ian Mckellen as Romeo and Francisca Annis as Juliet.

(Romeo and Juliet, The Royal Shakespeare Company, 1976).

#theater #literature #tragedies #ian mckellen #francisca annis #shakespeare #will shakespeare

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Ian Mckellen as Romeo and Francisca Annis as Juliet.

(Romeo and Juliet, The Royal Shakespeare Company, 1976).

#theater #literature #ian mckellen #francisca annis #tragedies #shakespeare

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Sir Ian McKellen attended the Evening Standard Theatre Awards in London, Nov 13.   

#ian mckellen

[themousefromfantasyland]

You need to tell me which is which? I recognize some, but not all

All of these are real.

#snow white #fairy tale #the seven dwarfs #adaptations #fairy tales