unprincess wrote:I love Oliver and Company so I always wondered what Lion King would have been like if George Scribner had stayed as director. I have a feeling the more mythological/spiritual elements would have been less prominent in his version.
I never posted a response to this, because I have no idea about George Scribner directing TLK...was he director earrrrrly on, when it was
King of the Jungle?
Semaj wrote:Chris Sanders' American Dog became Chris William's Bolt. When the "Art of" book came out, all evidence of the former film was erased.
Yes!!! I still find myself looking up his designs for the radioactive bunny and pirate cat. I love those designs so much. I know that he wound up using the pirate cat in some comics.
Jay wrote:If Aladdin came out today Jasmine would probably get a show stopping number singing about being generous or something in the middle of the market place and everyone would join along.
I think we can all agree that
Aladdin would be so different if it had come out today. I was listening to "A Whole New World" in the car yesterday, and I was thinking that the voice cast would probably be different. But you have a
point (haha, get it?!) about the swords being in the film and people being threatened by them.
JeanGreyForever wrote:Thank God the Broadway musical doesn't have anything like that.
I wasn't even thinking that there is a Broadway
Aladdin musical
(but I just woke up...!) In the Broadway show, how does swordplay take a part in the story? How violent/less violent is the Broadway show (
Where they cut off your ear if they don't like your face {I can't imagine that that lyric is in the Broadway show}, or what Jay said, trying to cut Jasmine's hand in the marketplace})??
Jay wrote:I enjoy Gothel as the villain but I would have liked her to be more complex. She could have been one of the best and most interesting antagonists. But she just ends up as a decent villain.
I think that one thing that makes Gothel so great (she's been one of my favorite villains since the movie came out) as a villain is that she's a mother figure. Come on, show of hands, how many of us have had issues with our mother figures, especially in adolescence/early adulthood??!
Frollo, too, fits into this evil parent-figure category, too (but I guess one could say that Gothel kidnapped Rapunzel because she wanted her [her hair, but still], whereas Frollo was pretty much forced to keep Quasimodo). Remember the whole "Does Gothel
really care for Rapunzel? How much does Gothel really care for Rapunzel?" commentary here?! That's why I think that she's such an intersting villain.
JeanGreyForever wrote:I think giving Flynn an animal sidekick would automatically make him less self-centered, which would slightly hamper his character progression
Ohhhh...that makes sense!
JeanGreyForever wrote:Kuzco can be a bit too full of himself at times which makes it difficult to sympathize with. I'm glad to know though that I'm not the only one who found Pacha boring. His scenes never really got my attention.
I like Pacha...I think that he totally balances out Kuzco; ordinarily, the two would never be friends, for obvious reasons, but I think that Pacha's mellowness/thoughtfulness/responsibility balances out Kuzco's energy/selfishness/spontaneity.
DisneyFan09 wrote:First of all I want to praise you for an excellent thread, blackcauldron85. It's not unusual that animated films change directors, so therefore praise to you to start your own discussion about it.
Aww, shucks!
Thank you so much! I'm so glad that people are having a great discussion here!!
DisneyFan09 wrote:Also the soundtrack was quite wasted, since unfortunately the score had no Andean music.
I've honestly never even bought the soundtrack for TENG, but I know that some of the non-used songs came out. I've seen
The Sweatbox, but not owning the soundtrack: Did all of Sting's music for KotS/KitS have a more "Incan" flavor?? I think that Sting's music, in general, has a more...diverse flavor, if you will. Lots of global influences in his music. "My Funny Friend and Me" is pretty much my least favorite Disney pop song (that and "Where the Dream Takes You"), so I would probably like his un-used music for TENG more, I'm sure.
DisneyFan09 wrote:And let's not forget our friend "Brave". Though it's not Pixar's first directorial change, it's certainly the most publical one. Who wonders how "Brave" would've been if Brenda had been the director all along. Probably better, I suppose.
I think that there would be more screentime between Merida & Elinor... I mean, just the other day in the Brenda Chapman thread, it was posted that instead of Merida talking with Angus & Elinor talking with Fergus, Merida & Elinor would have had more screentime (regarding their disagreement). So, that's just
one example of how the film would be changed.