5 Movies Disney Can NEVER Replicate!
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- Опубліковано 21 тра 2024
- Writer's Analysis - The Art of Writing an Opening
Your story's beginning is one of the most important elements of the whole thing, and is therefore one of the hardest. Sad, but true. However, the formula for what you need is very simple and the advice is versatile enough to help out any author! Disney was once a powerhouse for amazing openings to their stories. Poignant moments of characters, plot, music, and animation. And they can return to that! They just need to remember the following:
1. Your introduction must establish the story's overall atmosphere and tone.
2. The intro must give us an idea of the story we're strapping in for.
3. It must firmly establish one of the main characters.
4. Be bold and creative!
Yes, even Disney can get back to that. But will they? That remains to be see. Sadly, for now some of Disney's greatest openings CANNOT be repeated or replicated because of their own stupidity and timidity.
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Music: King by Lauren Aquilina
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As much as I loved the LA Aladdin, you are absolutely right when it came to introductions. Will smith sing was awesome at least but they made a mistake by introducing all the characters at once. In Jasmine's case a little earlier than usual as she and Aladdin meet a little earlier.
It might just be me, but I genuinely feel that animation just has more emotion than live action does.
If the main character goes through character development in animation, I can immediately point out exactly where, exactly what, exactly why, and exactly how that character went through that development.
In any live action movie (that I’ve seen), I just can’t feel it the same way.
Same goes for a character’s death. In animation, it’s actually come close to bringing me to tears (which is extremely difficult apparently). But in live action, I’m kind of just like, “oh noooo, they died. That sucks”, and then I move on.
I think it has something to do with the quality of the acting. There are absolutely some live action scenes that have a big impact. Interstellar, the Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings, Guardians of the Galaxy, Where the Red Fern Grows got me I think, Saving Private Ryan, and Hacksaw Ridge, are a few from memory that I found really good.
But in animation, there are so many more. And that’s why I love animation so much. Because of the emotion that I feel while watching it.
You're 100% right! Animation, especially 2D can capture emotions so much better because it can do both extremes and subtlety for all the characters, and it's hard to miss. And the actors have to work harder to convey everything just their voices. I noticed while editing the video just how expressive everything is about Milo as he readies his presentation for the museum. Even the way his clothes move help to extenuate his excitement and goofiness. That gets incredibly expensive and cheesy in live action, and for some reason I don;t normally see that kind of expressive done in 3D animation.
@@camillesharem I kinda see your point but I don't necessarily agree, I think animation is better at the use of caricature or a kind of surrealism which hyper focuses on a certain aspect or feel and ignores a lot of messy details that are part of reality that muddle what your suppose to feel, animation is easier to have more "focus" while in Film a lot of that thematic framing is done via cinematography. Fun fact, one difference between Anime in a lot of Western Animation (Traditionally the lines are more blurred) is Western Animation will often focus on being more consistently animated but the character designs and shots will be simple, that's why a lot of early animation the characters were very simply shapes and much more fluid and active, compare old Disney with Looney tunes, the Loony tunes characters were more complex to draw characters (At least compared to the rubber hose era of animation) but made up for it with more of a focus on writing and comedic timing then purely visual gags and whimsy.
Anime, often to try not to compromise there more details and closer to anatomically correct character designs (Relatively speaking there still was obvious idealization of the human form with big Macho Men from the 80's or Sexy Pin Up Worthy Girls but they at least weren't literally a set of circles connected via lines) that had to sacrifice animation fluidity and instead focus on framing action and having interesting shot composition, where it often felt more live action.
Of course nowadays with the use of certain techniques animation can reap the best of both worlds. But to be honest I still really like a lot of Live Action stuff, I just wish we had more original Live Action stuff instead of Encroaching on animation territory with remake, or more or less making everything CGI and Green Screen and kinda ruin the point of Live Action in the first place.
Ahhh the remnants of stories from the Prime Age (or Classic Era depending on how you say it) along with Cartoon Network and Nick. I guess the saying is true. You love shows when youre a kid but love it even more when you grow up.
What really baffles me and is probably the most ironic is how back then movies like Pocahontas, Atlantis, Treasure Planet, etc were considered failures. Now fans all over are enjoying it. I watched all of them back when I was 10 (as well as other shows). Watching them today about 12 years later? I'm blown away by how underrated the Prime Age was. Very few movies and shows from this era can match them. (Spiderverse, Puss in Boots, The Mario Movie etc)
It's true! Disney lost the mojo somewhere along the way and the big bucks promised by stuff like the MCU made them care more about blockbusters than making quality legacy pieces of entertainment.
It's comparable to being an author. Sure, I could write a smutty teen romance or young adult story that has the faintest of magic or mythological trappings and maybe make big money, but.... Is that really quality entertainment? And do I want to be remembered just for that!?
Just an FYI Genie was NOT the salesman at the beginning of Aladdin that was an abandoned concept that never went anywhere.
Sometimes I think you mix up fan theories/deleted or changed content with what actually happens.
This is unrelated to the point of the video, but I was never fond of the "Nobel Savage New Age" BS Pocahontas herself preached with her colors of the Wind, When John Smith was like "we can show you how to use the land properly" I was like....Based. Besides Historically the Native Americans when they could often got that evil gunpowder for themselves and Horses, actually one of the ways the Natives were screwed over in various points in History was different countries banned selling them useful things like Guns and Horses (Or tried to take them away) but DID sell them harmful things like Alcohol.
For the record I think Jamestown was one of the colonies that had a relatively peaceful existence with the Native American's Historically, and most Native American death were actually from diseases the Settlers brought over they didn't have immunity to rather than war campaigns.
As for the video itself, I more or less agree with your points but I don't see from a writer's perspective (Which is what you focus on) Any general principals that can be applied, it basically boils down to "whatever works" for the story.
Also funny how you use King from Lauren Aquilina, if you've seen the lyrics to the song it almost sounds like it could be Anna singing to Ichikawa, (And Fools by the same artist could be Ichikawa's point of view.)
I know that was unrelated but I couldn't resist.
Clements and Musker said that the salesman was always intended to be the genie but that the reveal was scrapped for the final cut of the film. As a result, the lackluster Disney remake leaned more into that concept to validate the theory and original concept. I will happily accept that as basis enough to stand by my statement.
Now with the real history of the Natives! Oh boy! Great times to set the record straight: The Natives had wonderful farming and land cultivating techniques. They even had ancient soil retention systems, which the plains tribes put to incredible effect to prevent tornadoes and storms from stripping their annual crops bare while they chased herds of bison. However, advanced farming does not remove the fact that the North American tribes were very territorial and constantly locked in combat for land and resources. When Jamestown was settled, the Natives routinely besieged and attacked them, driving the colonizers in one winter to resort to cannibalism for lack of food. Yum! But for whatever reason, the Natives put up a truly united front on American east coast until the King Philips War. That meant that advanced tech and diseases would be the ultimate undoing of the tribes and allow the British and French to claim too strong of footholds in the region.
And there's a very, VERY good chance that the first Thanksgiving was actually an alliance feast meant to rope the Pilgrims into being military allies, but they had NO clue what was going on and thought the Natives were just being charitable.
The basic rules of an introduction hold from movie to movie and from book to book. How you apply the set up of the general atmosphere, an aspect of the main plot, and at least one main character will vary depending on author and story. But if you abandon that general rule of thumb, you take a very serious gamble and will likely loose the audience.
@@camillesharem In the Film Pocahontas Ikeman John Smith (Not real John Smith) Was specifically talking about making roads, streets, and houses later he acknowledged to his fellow Jamestown people that they know how to cultivate the land and could learn that from that.
But in the context of the conversation with Sexy Native American Super Model (Not real Pocahontas) instead of her bringing up the practical things you mentioned we get some New Age Noble Savage BS that the we need to paint with colors of the Wind and basically a White Valley Girl's Idea of New Age Yoga trends that the Academy Awards Ate up like Candy.
I was more thinking it'd be based if Not John Smith was like "nah that's cringe."
I generally don't count "intended" canon in regards to your Aladdin point, I think the film itself is top canon.
Remake and Original are different beasts, despite the intentions of the original film we didn't actually GET the reveal of Genie = beginning of Film Story teller.
Also a counter point to a few of your points about characters can die, with showing people dying in the openings, usually that doesn't really answer the "plot armor" allegations, as the people that die are, for all intents and purposes side characters and NPCs. Whether any main characters (That aren't parents) are safe is an entirely different matter.
Not that it really bothers me, but its something to keep in mind.