Any Disney animated film: make them all try to have each frame be as perfectly a drawn masterpiece as Sleeping Beauty's frames and all with about as much detail as that film, the first four Disney films, and the Renaissance films, unless it ruins the style that fits the rest of the film.
Any romance in a Disney movie: Show that the characters like things about each other and are a good match. Unless those aren't requirements for all love in real life, like maybe you just like people or spending time with someone and you can't say why, or what qualities you like.
Cinderella: Well of course I love this film and it's perfect...but if I
had to add something more to that perfectness...train Cinderella's voice to sing slightly better and (even) more beautiful and more period, less jazzy (but keep some of the jazzy, because it's perfect in "So This is Love"!). Make it obvious that Cinderella was always planning and looking for ways to get out of her unhappy situation(s) or anything she didn't want to do and shouldn't have to do, even if she already was. Cut some of the mice and cat stuff in the getting breakfast and getting things for the dress scenes (I realize
Frankenollie mentioned this and I agree with him), and replace it with something that develops Cinderella more like showing how she reads/gets information to know about monarchies like Julius Caesar that she named Gus after or that she likes clothing and sewing so much, as well as some of the other scenes I talk about here. Put in that deleted scene of the prince chasing that fox or deer or whatever animal that you see he's friends with. Show a scene at the ball, probably during a slightly longer "So This is Love", that shows Cinderella learn of the prince's love and kindness towards animals that is like her own, or some other thing(s) she likes about him that shows us more that they are a good match (and make him look less like a jerk before he meets Cinderella). After the prince says "I don't even know your name, how will I find you?" add the line "Please give me
something!", and if they didn't already have her do it secretly, subtley show that Cinderella leaves her slipper on purpose. And possibly put back in that deleted scene of Cinderella wondering if the prince will accept her as a servant in rags, and then he does, and the Fairy Godmother comes back to transform her again, and then the wedding bells ring and the rest of the ending happens. But maybe not, because Walt was very smart about how that might possibly draw out the ending too long, like making us wait and putting us through turmoil before we find out everything will be okay!
Snow White: Make Snow White much more the fairest one of all with a prettier design more like Gustaf Tenggren's original design or that 90's re-design. Train her voice to sound better and more beautiful, especially on those high notes! Make her less naive and more like a 14 year old of average intelligence! Okay she wasn't dumb but make her more realistic. Have her not seem bitchy when she tells the dwarfs to wash their hands. Cut some of the extended "Whistle While You Work" and dwarfs stuff (I realize
Frankenollie mentioned this and I agree with him), replace it with stuff that develops Snow White more, and possibly also the Queen. And possibly also her prince, though I like him being such a mystery, kinda like Cinderella's prince. Make the romance have a little more by seeing things they like about each other that show they're a good match.
Sleeping Beauty: Make the heroine, you know, a heroine. And if some people don't think she is the heroine, there's too much that makes most people think she is, so just go with that and make her a developed character we really care about that even if she must sleep for a third of the film we are still thinking about her and think it's her movie because she's so great. Even if she was just like Snow White we would care more because Snow White affected us. Make her romance with Prince Phillip a little longer with us seeing some (more?)things they like about each other and more that they are a good match. Make Prince Phillip show (even) more personality and not seem like a jerk (though that's some people's opinion), and make him struggle more to win against Maleficent in the end, and more on his own. Make the whole ending more of not easily/quickly defeated challenge. Pretty much what I'm saying is like
Goliath said. Which reminds me, Maleficent does need to not be so dumb as to not know her dumb goons have been doing it wrong for soooo long. It takes away from her, and is not good writing. It's doesn't make sense for the rest of her esteemed character. It's a hole.
Bambi: Yea don't do that "Gay Little Spring Song" right after Bambi's mom just died, like
Tae said. Show a montage of Winter turning into Spring like I swear there was a kind of montage of Summer becoming Fall or Fall becoming Winter earlier. Subtley show Bambi growing up with his dad very far away almost in silhouette in that montage. Even fighting with his dad, if deer do that with their dads, I don't know. Have the grown-up versions of their voices not sound so...jarring and yucky. Have Thumper and Flower not meet their mates in that way, and don't have their mates be disturbing female versions of themselves. Have them see a bunch of boy and female animals like them that they naturally just play with and enjoy and become twitterpatted with. Or just make it less yucky. Because I can see the humor, wow, and joy of each one witnessing their buddy become twitterpatted with mysterious girls that somehow entrance them, but the way it is done is downright disgusting. Kinda like what
Goliath said.
The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh: if only they had made it as was originally planned, all as one feature-length film. As it is, it doesn't feel quite like a real film, with anything building to anything. And there's lots of re-used animation in places that is rather lazy, fix that. It just wasn't worked on the same way the other classics were in Walt's day. Otherwise, it really is a wonderful thing with wonderful characters, just not quite what I would call a good
film.
The Little Mermaid: Yes like
Goliath said keep her beautifully on-model. Ariel is a great character worthy of her love and I can see that, but maybe have Ariel seem a liiiitle more caring about what other people think and feel. Maybe have her think a little more. Maybe even have her grow into all that after she shows she's really sorry and wrong for what she did. Perhaps even just make her a little more like the Ariel in the TV series. I loved a lot of the kind and clever stuff she did there. Give the romance more from the start and make Ariel know more about Eric and that he loves her before she makes the deal to be with him. Then make it clear that Eric loves all sorts of stuff about her when she's on land but he partly fell for a girl who loved him so much she would sing beautifully for him and save him. Then have Ariel on land try to play beautiful music or try to save him, to show that she loves him and that makes him almost fall completely for her until Ursula's spell takes over him. Have her write in Atlantican, which looks inbetween English and the unintelligible writing on Ursula's scroll, so we know she couldn't write to Eric telling him who she was. Show that Ariel loves singing to a certain degree so we know it's more of a sacrifice for her to give up her voice.
Beauty and the Beast: Fix the animation damnit. Give the prince the name Adam or another name and show more what he is like and that Belle and the Beast like things about each other beyond that they're nice and like spending time together, more that they are a good match.
Lilo & Stitch: Make the designs a little more nicer Disney looking, not like muppets. Make Lilo less disturbingly weird, have less disturbing and violent and shocking stuff. More of the classy gentle Disney we know. Bambi is violence done classy. Chernabog is disturbing stuff done classy. Aladdin's genie with multiple arms is disturbing stuff done magically lighthearted. That's Disney as it should be.
Chicken Little: Either have it NOT DONE AT ALL or make more Disney hand-drawn-looking CGI kinda like Tangled and make it the actual original story, just with a modern funny twist. I'm okay with a modern set version of the story because as far as I know it didn't begin with "Once upon a time", unless the original story was set on a farm from back then, but if it wasn't, the modern animal world it has is fine but don't make it crappy pop culture stuff and really don't make it crappy in general. Make it seem more Disney.
Meet the Robinsons: I didn't see it yet but from as much as I know I feel like saying make it more Disney. The animation definately needs to look more Disney hand-drawn like Tangled.
Bolt: Make it like Chris Sanders' version as long as it's not done disturbingly and more Disney, and make the animation look more Disney hand-drawn like Tangled.
The Princess and the Frog: Make Tiana more princess-like and not so into working. Show that working makes her kinda sad and she wishes she could have more fun, and then later make us see she actually does have fun, and don't have her act all bitchy when teaching Naveen to work or smile all bitchy as she makes him help her work on building her restaraunt. Make the introduction to Naveen, Laurence, and Facilier less rushed, Make Facilier have a more believable goal (taking over New Orleans? How about just taking over Big Daddy's place or something?) or make him very obviously evil that he would put everyone's soul's in hell to take over an entire town, because I felt his goal was out of nowhere and unbelievable. Make the story less complicated and all over the place. Make the songs and whole movie not suck. Maybe have Alan Menken work with Randy Newman or just have Alan Menken. Make the animation better like the moving leaf and Laurence's design that need work. Make Louis make sense instead of having the most unbelievably bizarre story for him that only works for laughs at how extremely absurd it is. Perhaps his discarded story of being a human before. Make Ray better, less annoyingly stupid and disgusting and looking like he's inbred. Why did he die anyway? Why is our time wasted caring so much about a side character when you have a thousand side characters? Maybe don't have him die because of that reason. Have Mama Odie really teach Tiana something and not have Tiana be too stupid to take so long to figure it out. Don't have the frog hunters, or at least make that scene explicitly about Naveen and Tiana being in trouble and working together instead of looking like really being about stupid unfunny characters we waste too much time on. Don't make the scene take as long either.
Tangled: CALL IT RAPUNZEL, open with a golden storybook that Flynn narrates RESPECTFULLY about Mother Gothel being a witch who casts a spell to make the golden sun drop on her Rapunzel flower which gets stolen by peasants and transferred to their daughter Rapunzel, Flynn's real name is not Eugene but Bastian and he's a prince running away from the palace guards because he is shirking his royal duty to be a thief, when he takes Rapunzel to his castle in disguise he learns to love the palace and lights just like she does, he goes to tell the Stabgingtons he is giving up being a thief but they kidnap him because he's good at getting them things and would force him to work for them or die, or they send him off to the palace tied to the boat where Rapunzel sees him greeted and kissed by a princess he's betrothed to that he was also trying to avoid if this is the plot point we must go with, Rapunzel knew about this betrothal and he said he didn't want her but she sees him leaving her for him in that boat so Rapunzel's heartbroken, Prince Flynn's parents try to lock him in his room, he escapes to Rapunzel's tower to get stabbed and the whole ending happens the same way except Rapunzel's new dream after she and Flynn are together is to find her parents, and she does, and the storybook closes with no disgusting old man ruining the beautiful ending. And make "Ive Got a Dream" not such a bad, bad song.
Ivan wrote:For The Rescuers, I'd have cut out the character of Evinrude. I don't know why, but it just annoys me.
He annoys me too. I would have made him not look like a really ugly dragonfly version of Mario the Italian video game plummer, and just cut some stuff with him or made him less annoying/less of a character.
Ivan wrote:Hunchback of Notre Dame - obvious one. No gargoyles.
No, because they don't have to be gotten rid of if you do this:
Tae wrote:In Hunchback... I would not remove the gargoyles. Yes, stare in shock at me all you want, but I have a feeling that without the gargoyles, they would have found some other annoying way to insert comedy relief, so might as well have it in the form of characters who aren't our leads. What I would do, is cut their song, give them a more sophisticated way of being funny (Lumiere, Cogsworth, and Mrs. Potts, anyone?), and show in the end that in reality, they were nothing more then Quasimodo's imaginary friends, and now that he's accepted, he can let go of them and start a new life among the citizens of Paris. Now that would have been a nice way to finish his character off.
Perfect. But then, what "A Guy Like You" could be replaced with, I dunno. I dunno what the stage show did.
carolinakid wrote:Cinderella.....Lady Tremaine, Anastasia & Drizella would have suffered more of an on screen comeuppance.
Aw, but seeing their faces is already soooo satisfying! But I would have liked to have seen them at the wedding, and also the Fairy Godmother.
carolinakid wrote:Peter Pan....I wish Neverland would have been as exciting and beautiful as the London scenes.
That would be good, yea.
Animalia wrote:Trust me, it isn't fun sitting in a theater with young kids crying at the films end.
If kids just have tears stream down their face, I think it's okay, but it real tears my heart when kids get really upset by movies, and I think it's not okay to do that to kids. It's like giving them pain on purpose. It's actually rather cruel.
DisneyFan09 wrote:HERCULES: Eliminate the drama and the sentimentality.
HUH?! What do you mean? Drama is what makes movies good...what do you mean by either thing you said to remove?
It's annoying that most people regard Disney as innocent fluffiness only for small children.
But if you removed Lilo's 'weirdness', then she wouldn't be lonely, wouldn't need Stitch and there would be no story. Lilo's bizarre mannerisms, hobbies, et cetera make her character endearing, funny and interesting, and make sense, because she's struggling to cope with her parents' deaths.
)--with Duster and Goliath about the chubby v. taller Ariel issue. Ariel is more beautiful the way she appears in "Part of That World"--the problem being that she appears to be at least 18 like that. And, personally, I think making her 18 would be better. For one, it would make her more mature, it would make her independence more deserved--for general audiences, who tend to make it into more of an issue of teenage brattiness--and it would help her marriage feel less weird.
