Saturday, March 27, 2010
Waking Sleeping Beauty - A Look at Famous Fables That Sing on the Screen
NYTimes.com: "“Waking Sleeping Beauty” is a moderately engaging documentary about the renaissance of Disney animation during the golden decade (1984-94) that yielded “The Little Mermaid,” “Beauty and the Beast,” “Aladdin” and “The Lion King.” Directed by Don Hahn, the producer of “Beauty and the Beast” and “The Lion King,” the movie is a sly retrospective exercise in corporate self-congratulation masquerading as an insider’s tell-all."
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While things have changed a lot in the last ten years with companies like Dreamworks establishing themselves as serious animation houses, Disney has and unfortunately is loosing it's almost magic quality that anyone over or near the age of 18 grew up with or experience at one point or another. I think the movie will lack appeal in younger generations since they only came into play towards the end of Disney's "golden period" and were not old enough to experience the magic that came with Disney's out-flow of hits. Now I'm not looking to run out and see this movie, but I think that this movie is important from a historical record standpoint since it's getting close to being half a century since Walt Disney died.
I actually think this would be a fascinating piece to see. Especially since my generation is probably the last one to really understand what Disney was vs. what it has become. I also think it would be nice to see an "insiders" view of all the people that make up the Disney Empire. It almost seems to take Disney off its pedestal and make it "human" or at least not "perfect".
I would actually love to see this movie. We definitely were at the end of Disney's "golden age". It would be incredibly interesting to see all that went into the movies that we grew up with. As Charley said, Disney is loosing it's magic, and it would be great to see the rising of that magic as opposed to the decline.
I agree with Charley. Disney has definitely gone through its golden age, and come out the other end, sputtering as it continues on. We had the amazing works like Sleeping Beauty, Snow White, Cinderella, etc...and then there was a long break with not too much Disney feature films, and now we get Princess and the Frog. A great movie, they definitely kept up the quality they had been producing, but what happened to all those years? What were they focusing on instead of the "classic" Disney-styled princess movies?
I grew up on Disney movies, and have never known any of the back story, what went into all those great movies. I think that this movie will be incredibly interesting, especially to people who grew up watching these classics and who have seen what's become of this previously untouchable animation house. In particular, I think this movie will be interesting following our recent speaker from Pixar. Though owned by Disney, I suspect Pixar operates in a much different way, given how it came about. In any case, it will be interesting to see and compare how the two operate.
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