Disney Movie Marathon Challenge
Hi
I've lurked on the boards for a while now and am an avid listener to the Disunplugged. I live in the UK and have only been to Disney World twice and never to Disneyland in California :/ I'd go yearly if I could afford it! I really love Disneyland Paris (DLP) which is much easier to get to for us on this side of the pond and have been countless times. I love preparing for a Disney trip by watching Disney movies and we just booked a Halloween trip to DLP for the first time! I've never been to DLP during October or for the Halloween party so this will be loads of fun.
In any case, to prepare for the trip I suggested to my sis that we had a Disney movie marathon of the animated classics starting with Snow White. Loads of these films, like Fantasia, Pinocchio etc I haven't watched since I was a (renaissance) kid so this should be interesting. Then I thought, why not challenge ourselves to watch ALL of the feature length animated films (including potentially Pixar), including many of the older ones which I have never seen before (The Three Caballeros I'm looking at you!). Of course, it may not be possible to access every single one, but we will do our best!
I thought I might write our thoughts on here and people can share their views on the films (and at the same time get excited about a forthcoming Disney trip). Hope that sounds like a nice idea?
Lets see how far we get! Please join in watching if you are interested in a trip down nostalgia lane!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Disney_theatrical_animated_features
Day: 1 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
So Disney's first animated feature film: We watched this as a children but didn't appreciate how revolutionary it is in terms of all its doing with music and animation.
Such high quality considering it's the first feature length animated film EVER! The backgrounds are very detailed and the animators were equally good at portraying the soft and romantic and the dark and scary aspects of the film. The animation is breath taking and the characters (apart from Prince Charming) are all fantastic. Its proper dark and scary, but humorous as well.
I remember not taking to Snow White as a child because basically she was no Belle, but actually she's kind of awesome. I don't subscribe to the view that she's wet and useless - she's actually just nice and maybe a bit naive, but perfectly capable of molding her environment and the people around her to be how she wants them to be. She just does it with charm rather than by force.
Love the relationships they develop between Snow White and all the dwarfs - especially Grumpy. Her 'Oh, and you must be Grumpy!' said in that adorable voice is one of the best moments in the film. This is also what I'm going to say to misogynists if they step to me from now on.
The evil queen is perhaps unnecessarily evil considering they give her almost no motivation - definitely didn't clock the bit where she walks past the skeleton and kicks it in the face when I was a kid, but I don't think such a dark moment would appear in a Disney movie nowadays.
It's definitely the dwarves movie rather than Snow White's and in places it does feel like a very weak story tacked onto some quite good comic shorts.
However, re-watching has given both of us a new found appreciation for Disney's first princess as well as being awed by the talented artistry!
How do others feel about Snow White? Does it rank high on your list of Disney favs?
Nest stop Pinocchio...
Hi
I've lurked on the boards for a while now and am an avid listener to the Disunplugged. I live in the UK and have only been to Disney World twice and never to Disneyland in California :/ I'd go yearly if I could afford it! I really love Disneyland Paris (DLP) which is much easier to get to for us on this side of the pond and have been countless times. I love preparing for a Disney trip by watching Disney movies and we just booked a Halloween trip to DLP for the first time! I've never been to DLP during October or for the Halloween party so this will be loads of fun.
In any case, to prepare for the trip I suggested to my sis that we had a Disney movie marathon of the animated classics starting with Snow White. Loads of these films, like Fantasia, Pinocchio etc I haven't watched since I was a (renaissance) kid so this should be interesting. Then I thought, why not challenge ourselves to watch ALL of the feature length animated films (including potentially Pixar), including many of the older ones which I have never seen before (The Three Caballeros I'm looking at you!). Of course, it may not be possible to access every single one, but we will do our best!
I thought I might write our thoughts on here and people can share their views on the films (and at the same time get excited about a forthcoming Disney trip). Hope that sounds like a nice idea?
Lets see how far we get! Please join in watching if you are interested in a trip down nostalgia lane!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Disney_theatrical_animated_features
Day: 1 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
So Disney's first animated feature film: We watched this as a children but didn't appreciate how revolutionary it is in terms of all its doing with music and animation.
Such high quality considering it's the first feature length animated film EVER! The backgrounds are very detailed and the animators were equally good at portraying the soft and romantic and the dark and scary aspects of the film. The animation is breath taking and the characters (apart from Prince Charming) are all fantastic. Its proper dark and scary, but humorous as well.
I remember not taking to Snow White as a child because basically she was no Belle, but actually she's kind of awesome. I don't subscribe to the view that she's wet and useless - she's actually just nice and maybe a bit naive, but perfectly capable of molding her environment and the people around her to be how she wants them to be. She just does it with charm rather than by force.
Love the relationships they develop between Snow White and all the dwarfs - especially Grumpy. Her 'Oh, and you must be Grumpy!' said in that adorable voice is one of the best moments in the film. This is also what I'm going to say to misogynists if they step to me from now on.
The evil queen is perhaps unnecessarily evil considering they give her almost no motivation - definitely didn't clock the bit where she walks past the skeleton and kicks it in the face when I was a kid, but I don't think such a dark moment would appear in a Disney movie nowadays.
It's definitely the dwarves movie rather than Snow White's and in places it does feel like a very weak story tacked onto some quite good comic shorts.
However, re-watching has given both of us a new found appreciation for Disney's first princess as well as being awed by the talented artistry!
How do others feel about Snow White? Does it rank high on your list of Disney favs?
Nest stop Pinocchio...