Good for them noting the character of Ariel is best known for her red hair, in part because it signifies her fiery, passionate, and rebellious nature. I never knew Tyco had a problem with that early on.

I love that they had to re-make the dolls.
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Wright: I was always alone [in the studio] because we had decided that Sebastian was only about seven inches big, so my only relationship with everybody else was that they were all larger than me. We placed the microphone at least three to five feet above my head and I would shout at the microphone because I was on the floor.

Never knew about this.
All the details of the surface water and special effects are part of why the film is so striking.
Honestly, I remember reading how they tried to make a film that could sit along Walt’s old films, but I think one of the many, many reasons the film turned out so well was that perhaps they were thinking this could be the very
last animated Disney film, period, and were trying to in some sense bookend
Snow White. How different compared to the way Lasseter treated TP&TF. I don’t think he felt any real urgency about hand-drawn animation’s success or failure. He was going to have a job regardless of how things turned out, and I’m sure he preferred 3D anyway since that’s why he created PIXAR. And even Newman didn’t seem to care about the film to me based on those recent comments you posted from him, Sotiris; in some ways it felt like Lasseter threw him on the film because he didn’t care anyway and thought he could at least give a friend (Newman) another paycheck.
It’s a travesty when you really think about how the only films we really got with Ashman at full capacity and in control were
The Little Mermaid and
Beauty and the Beast. I know he contributed to
Aladdin, too, but wow… You can only wonder what might’ve been. Maybe he could’ve steered the Renaissance in a way that Disney didn’t fall back on a repetitive formula (both in the story and music) that audiences tired of quickly.
I love what Keane said about Ariel not being pretty every moment in the film. I think that has a great deal to do with feminism having happened in the ‘60s between TLM and the old Walt princess films, too, because there’s something wrong with thinking a female protagonist needs to be pretty at all times. Ariel is still one of the most fleshed out female characters Disney has ever created. You see so many sides to the character--the good, the bad, hopeful, dreamy, angry, selfish, heartbroken, euphoric, etc. That's why she's one of the most popular characters they've ever had.
Atlantica wrote:
I don't think any film has ever made as much impact on me as Mermaid has.
Same.