to be honest Will Smith did say that he was worried about doing the friend like me song, because Robin Williams did an unique job. so got to give Will credit for being honest and trying his best not to ruin the song.
I liked how he did it. I'm not mad about it. I think he did a good job he was clearly trying to make it different enough to not take away from Robin Williams.
I don't mind the live action remakes I see them more as advertisments for the originals. People will check out the remakes then go back and watch the classic version. For example when I saw the peanuts movie I thought it was incredible. I was always somewhat aware of Charlie Brown buty not completely familar I saw the specails afew times but thats it. So then I went and read the strip. Now I read it every day and I am a Charlie Brown super fan and know everything about it and am adicted. The live action remakes could do the same for someone else.
@@Faith-Trust-Pixie-Dust Pretty much everyone that was a fan of the first movie was, they just got shouted down and called things like, racist, nazi, misogynist, etc. The whole thing was cut because of the way the animators took cues from old films of the big propaganda parades the germans had in WW2 to really drive home the point that the bad guys in the movie were shockingly enough...Villains. So instead we get this dumpster fire of a remake when we should have told the woke crowd to go suck start shotgun.
@@legrandliseurtri7495 I personally enjoy both versions. Original has more flair but the remake works like a rousing speech. Scar couldn't really call the hyenas stupid to their faces.
Cutting "be prepared" from the lion king is to me the most sacrilegious thing. It looks like Disney doesn't understand anymore the artwork they created.
@@bloopahVIII That's kind of a beginning of an explanation BUT ... Cutting "be prepared"! How could they think that it was not a very, very, very BAD idea.
I acutally heard it was becuase they wanted to take the goosestepping nazi esque part with the hyenas out but realized they couldn't really do that without rupturing the entire song so they just took out the entire song.
I guarantee it's because he's portrayed as a fascist dictator throughout that entire song, and the CCP didn't like it. In fact I'd bet good money on a lot of these "why did they do it? It's like they don't understand their fans anymore" decisions somehow being attributed back to CCP approval. There is serious money in the Chinese audience. Who cares about free speech and human rights violations when you can make literally billions of dollars for your shareholders, am I right? Fuck Disney.
The director of Mulan said that people don't sing when waging war, which is a really ridiculous thing to say. Soldiers love popular music as much as anyone, armies plays martial music since antiquity and have singing drills in training.
Seriously, watch Full Metal Jacket. At the very end they are singing the Mickey Mouse March. Also look at old front lines from say the revolution or the civil war, there were drummers and flutist and the soldiers would often have a march song they would sing while heading to battle.
True. To add more onto that point, in the first Wreck-It Ralph movie, the King's guards marched around singing "Oreo" in a militaristic fashion, which was copied and mirrored off of what the Red Coats chanted (even in the American Revolutionary War) while marching, and Wreck-It Ralph isn't even a war movie! Even during the American Civil War, sometimes when enemy camps were almost right next to each other, the rebs and union soldiers would even hear one another sing and join in... s̶i̶l̶l̶y̶ ̶d̶i̶r̶e̶c̶t̶o̶r̶
Yeah I was pissed when Will Smith didn’t have a rap version of “Friend Like Me” and then discovered he in fact DID have a rap version of it and they just decided to not use it?!
It's way too ethnic for Disney. There would have been Karens from coast to coast covering their kids ears and posting on Facebook. The song is better than the one in the movie. It just would've upset their target audience.
@@baum6721 not just that but those movies are shown around the world and rap isn't all that in other countries. They have to appeal to the majority. And kids. That's their audience. Not rap fans
Being honest i expected them to bring a Fresh Prince of Bel Air vibe to Will's genie to offer a fresh reinterpretation of the character and use the talents which Smith is known for...
They're trying to manufacture nostalgia, what's actually "good" doesn't matter to them. If they used the rap version, it would have interfered with their ability to make racists and out of touch old geezers nostalgic.
@@littleone1656 Yeah, McGregor is still pretty great overall in Moulin Rouge but I'd agree that he isn't that strong of a singer. He's mostly fine, but it works for the movie I think.
I feel a bit bad for disliking it, though at the end of the day I think it's partially because by trying to have Gaston not be as ridiculous as he is in the original he loses a lot of what worked as a villain. Having someone who can do a really low voice or someone who rather then looking fit was a body builder who looks ridiculous with everyone else wearing clothing that's meant to look like a pre-industrial Europe I think would make things a lot funnier/more enjoyable.
Your rage over Be Prepared being cut is so relieving because it’s exactly how I felt when I saw it. I refused to let myself cry at Mufasaa’s death because I didn’t want to give them the satisfaction.
Thank goodness I found this video. My 10 year old thinks I'm crazy on how furious I am that 'Be Prepared' was left out of the Lion King. Glad I found a kindred spirit. I watch all the live action remakes, and hate the music in them all, except Cinderella.
"Why are you holding your performers back?" I've had the same feeling. Cult movies usually dare to risk it all and have their creative strengths released despite "political" or "networking" needs related to production concerns.
They used the hugeness of the skirt and the corset to trick you into thinking that her waist was smaller than physically possible, still insane but it’s meant to trick your eye
@@graybirdwoods2264 I mean, that's how it's been historically done anyway. Even in Victorian times, women wore comfortable corsets that allowed for movement - none of this tight-stringing (or rarely done so by only some). It's all about creating illusions of shape, using certain colours and cuts, padding and petticoats etc. Disney actually did the wrong thing by trying to squeeze this poor young woman into a tightly strung corset, instead of just doing it the way it has always been done in history. Bernadette Banner on UA-cam has lots of very educational and interesting videos regarding this topic and why "anti-corset wearers" like Emma Watson help perpetuate a false narrative surrounding corsets and their use.
@@WindmelodieYeah, tight lacing and trying to shave more centimeters off your waist was a bit like the body dysmorphia trend of its time. Sisi, the famous 19th century empress of Austria for example would be diagnosed with anorexia today and she was absolutely obsessed with lacing her waist down to nothing, not a normal thing for every woman. I could see if they made it a character trait for like a neurotic woman with issues but it's not something to do by default.
we are so woke , we will make a black mans performance sound like a white mans and a woman performance completely faked by machines........oh god .....we're....so........progressive *jerks off vigorously*
Well when you think about it, if we are aware that "woke" stuff is made for a cash grab, doesn't it make us woke about it too? Contrary to what most people think, the word "woke" is not limited to SJWs. "woke" just means having a heightened awareness about any issue. For us, the issue is terrible rehashes.
I also don't know why Disney doesn't hire singers for actors who can't sing? This used to be incredibly common and could be easily done. The autotune is brutal.
Actually there was a time when producers kept very quiet about using singers doing the actors' musical numbers. When it leaked out that Audrey Hepburn did not do her own singing in My Fair Lady, there was a backlash. Why couldn't they use Julie Andrews who had the part on Broadway instead. Hepburn actually sang, but they replaced her voice. There were other times too, like when Deborah Kerr in The King of Siam. It was a big secret. This also happened when it leaked out that Irene Cara did not do all her own dancing in Flashdance.
@@westzed23 At least mention Marni Nixon- and it's not as though people have stopped dubbing over actresses, they did it in Greatest Showman. It wasn't so much the dub that caused the outcry about my fair lady, but the fact Julie Andrews was snubbed and then they used Marni to be Audrey Hepburn's singing voice. It ended up being cruel for all three women involved, but none of them had hard feelings towards each other. That was not a special situation either. When Deborah Kerr found out her voice had been all but taken out of the final cut she was furious because she had worked so hard and thought she had made her voice picture ready. Dubbing is not great for those involved- but it doesn't seem garter much backlash besides more special situations. I would rather they autotune at that point- unless they can find someone who is as good as imitating voices as Marni Nixon and the actor is okay with it.
@Elizabeth Barner I totally agree. I remember when this came out, and I wanted to show how much people were upset about the dubbing at the time. People felt lied to. Marni Nixon was a huge secret to most people. If studios had been more honest, I don't think it would have been so upsetting. Yes, today they do dubbing, but it usually is known. At the time, were we naive? Perhaps, but we knew of stunt doubles and some dubbing, it just seemed that the big studios were trying to con everyone. And yes the actresses were upset, and rightly so. Sorry. The King and I.
What you say about Emma Watson is so true. Maybe she can sing, it looks like her voice is not so bad. But her performance is so emotionless. I thought that it was because she was so focused on singing properly (as she is not used to it) that she forgot to be in character, but you are probably right, it must be the autotune. And the fact that they paired her up with professional singers so we can all hear the difference? They didn't do her a favor.
I will say it is ill preparation on her part. She had months to prepare for the role, plus any amount of professional help she can get. Surely that can give a better performance than what was presented even if not on the level of professional singers. If autotune is what is letting her down, then they can simply not use autotune, it must have been an even worse disaster without autotune that they keep at it and then blame on it's use.
I honestly think she can’t act, we can’t comments on her acting in Harry Potter since she was learning over the years, but they should’ve hired somebody else. She got too involved with the production team too, it was a mess
@@xragdoll5662 I know everyone comes to her defense saying, “but she was young!” But so were the Fanning sisters, and so were the cast of stranger things. Talent can be found young, and illuminated with good direction.
She’s a pretty bad actress, she can only support minor roles like in little women but she’s borderline in there too. Pretty much like all other kids cast in Harry Potter who were all bad.
I had actually never heard the Will Smith’s “Friend Like Me” version, and I completely related to the “tHeRe WaS nO rEaSoN tO nOt PuT tHaT iN tHe FiLm” after hearing the like 2 seconds he put up there
As soon as I heard those two seconds, I got so much nostalgia for Will Smith's songs for Men in Black and Wild Wild West!! I miss 90's Disney AND 90's Will Smith!
Honestly, that alone would have made the movie exponentially better. Edit: I come to this video not only for his other excellent points and analyses, but ESPECIALLY for that rant.
They hold their performers back and don't let them be authentically themselves because they dont care about their talent, they're using them because a celebrity actor bring attention to the film. This is the problem with celebrities in voice acting and these films is it's not an art anymore it's a popularity contest
Plus they know most people won't be able to hear the kind of stuff Sideways manages to hear in Emma Watson's performance. Belle is basically a harmless version of Hermione. In a way, Emma Watson got typecast here, that's why she got the job.
Something really amazing about the original Mulan is how they use the musical numbers to switch the tone of the film. The beginning of the film has ALL of the music. We’re introduced to the characters through song. We follow Mulan to war through song. She makes friends during those songs. And then “A Girl Worth Fighting For” happens. And these young men who are imagining the end of the war before they’ve even seen battle are suddenly confronted with the reality of their situations. And there are no more songs for the rest of the film. It’s the biggest shift possible and it works SO WELL and I’m frankly curious to see how Disney plans on replicating that impact without the lightheartedness that musical theatre style songs bring to the beginning of the story.
I never noticed that. That's a brillaint move to show a jarrinf change in tone. It does make the tone in the third act so much more serious and dark due to the complete lack of musicals. It also does help that "A Girl Worth Fighting For" is cut short when they stumble upon the charred village. The cheerful, upbeat feeling from the first two acts are completely gone and the audience now knows that things are about to get dark.
I heard that Disney will remove their musical numbers and are changing some characters (ex. Muushu becomes a Pheonix) for the live action version of Mulan in order to stick to and respect the Chinese culture, and tell the actual story of Mulan.
I love the songs in the original Mulan movie but I don't think they're always necessary to show the vibe of the scene. So I imagine the scene to be more or less the same just without them singing. They're laughing and talking about their future wives, the background music is peaceful and lighthearted, and you can see them all lauging together in front of a blue sky and green grass with a few flowers or something (I know in the original movie it's snowing but this would make the contrast bigger). Next scene, there is a rapid background music change to some dark and sad tunes and they immediatly stop talking for a few seconds so it's silent besides the really soft music. Everything in the camera shot is black, burned to ashes, and just the complete opposite to the light and colorful scene right before that. Or maybe they change this scene up so they don't have to include this rapid change of scenery but that would be really disappointing because I love that scene :(
Im an opera singer. In university, there was one singer who I believed could never be successful. A few months later when I heard her again, she had practiced so much that she was one of the best in the entire course. It was a completely different voice. And the injury thing is for real. I once got into the final of a competition and got really sick, but I was heart broken at the prospect of not doing it. So I did opera for half an hour on stage which is very demanding, and from that SINGLE performance I had to go through 2 years of vocal rehab. only being able to sing a scale again after a few months. I had to go on vocal rest for weeks, literally not being allowed to speak a single sentence for weeks.
Disney doesn't have the balls to make movies like that anymore (you know, actual good shit) they're too scared of offending someone rather than making art like they used too. They got neutered.
Wasn't one of the main points of the massive outcry against Will Smith being the genie 'What's he gonna do, rap the songs instead?' Feel like that version in the credits hints they might of been scared off using it
@@Buriedwithdrawingpad I thought it was more that people were criticising his singing voice. Will Smith has a barely passable singing voice and no one believed he could make the songs as bouncy and playful as Robin Williams. The 'will he rap?" was more a question since that was the only way Will Smith has been able to properly emote musically. And the end credits actually prove that assessment was as correct.
It's dumb! It's just so dumb. What is more suited to a reinterp of the Genie than rap? Everything about Will Smith rapping as the Genie is perfect. It's nostalgic and referential, wholesome, captures the self-aware showboating and most importantly, the element of trolling around with words. What is more suitable for rapid-fire, reference-dropping verbal trolling around than rap?? And the more you think on it, Will Smith BEING WILL SMITH is honestly the only way to pull it off respectfully. If the creators were too cowardly to step up and own that... Dishonor on them, dishonor on their cow, dishonor on their cow's entire ancestral tree
He should be angry about miscasting Nala in the first place. I think they sat down around a table and said "ok, who are famous black women kids will know? Oh, Beyonce! Let's get her!".
No, this is Sideways in pain. He's not angry, he's hurting. I wish Disney could listen to people the way the Sonic people listened when the internet complained, if only to never hear this level of heartache in this man's voice again.
Luny Moon I love Sideways’s take on these movies and all, but what happened with Sonic is never going to happen with Disney movies. Ever. And it shouldn’t. If a big studio like Disney listened to the little guy (Sideways) they (Disney) would never win. There is no possible decision that can be made that will please everyone. There would be someone else on the internet complaining “why did you listen to some UA-camR instead of the highly paid experts you painstakingly selected for this movie?!” I’d love it if Disney hired Sideways though. EDIT: I feel like I missed your main point which was just simply Sideways is in pain and that’s bad. I hate that this UA-cam app makes it so hard to look back at the original comment while you’re typing.
@@Dula8207 there’s a lot of videos detailing the cultural inconsistencies, plus they filmed it outside of a concentration camp, plus a lot lot of other reasons. I’d recommend watching some post release critiques. Good luck finding many positive ones
i just feel bad because there are probably hundreds of talented girls who have been training vocally for a role like Belle but they would rather have someone who is already famous
Also prettier tbf Emma may be cute to some, but is in no way the "most beautiful girl in town" as Belle was, and her sharp features don't fit the character at all imo
Yeah, I read on reddit from “people who knew celebrities before they got famous” that Emma Watson was a bit of an elitist bully at her school, seeking attention and making fun of anyone who wasn’t as pretty as her. Then she made it up in interviews that she was the one being bullied in school. Seeing her performances I can pretty much believe it. She seems so aggressive and lacking in real empathy.
They also got a professional singer who can mimic voices to dub over lots of Emma Watson's singing. They also auto-tuned her voice, but most of it isn't even her singing but someone who tried to sing like her, but better.
@@4EverATVAddict i literally said to myself after seeing the movie "why didnt they hire a ghost singer if she couldnt sing?" Wtfffff Reminds me of my Fair Lady with Audrey Hepburn
@@selty Worse, they got in a professional singer to sing over it and that couldn't even save it. They tried to mix the ghost singer and some of Emma's more 'talkie' vocals but it all just came out wrong and the post production was super rushed, which is why even the ghost singer couldn't save the film.
@@madisondawson2989 Honey, not a single frame of that movie had anything real in it. It was all animation. Amazing, realistic, CGI, animation. Even every background was made in a computer program.
XerkDaniels wut it’s all cgi not physically animated with drawings in a studio it was edited because people filmed it then they edited lion bodies onto them
Will Smith was very successful and smart not to turn in a performance that was an impression of Robin Williams. I give him big kudos for that, and no doubt it was hard given how large Robin Williams as Genie looms. "Prince Ali" was my favorite part of the remake, entirely due to Will Smith's performance.
Agreed! Almost every one of these live action movies has one number that turns out amazing. Gaston in BATB, Prince Ali in Aladdin, Kiss the Girl in Little Mermaid being ones I loved, but the rest are just bleh.
I agree, Aladdin overall was also a good remake somehow, by doing things differently and added interesting bits. Also really enjoyed jungle book. But the rest is 💩
The worst part of these live-action remakes is, a lot of REALLY talented singers are no longer going to be able to get the work their talents deserve, if they don't have the right look.
@@kimberleywilliams7802 I think it has to be a mix of both. Obviously it would be bad to have a non redhead Ariel, a non blonde Rapunzel, or a super skinny Ursula. You've gotta have a mix of keeping the most visually recognizable traits of the character and having actual talent. I suppose someone would still be pissed in the end
@@beep3242 So long as Beyonce's pet project (her name is on the tip of my tongue, I just can't think of it right this second! but what always stuck out to me most about Ariel's live-action actress is that she is directly promoted by Beyonce, hence my calling her 'Beyonce's little pet') doesn't butcher the reprise of Part of Your World, I'm willing to give her the benefit of the doubt and withhold judgment until clips are released... after all, I did enjoy the ladies who played young and older Ursula in Once Upon a Time. (in that live-action show, Ursula's backstory is ripped right from Ariel minus any love interest and temporarily being 'evil till she got her singing voice back'. both girls did a great job on the vocalize from the part of your world reprise that occurred when Ursula's stolen singing voice is finally returned.
I don't understand why they don't just dub the singing voices like they did in the old days. Marni Nixon never had to look like the character; she just had to get the vocal performance right. It's a total win-win, and I don't get why they don't consider it an option.
I mean it makes sense tho right? A lot of directors have a vision for each role and if someone doesn’t fit that vision it’ll be a problem for the director to truly carry out his vision for the movie/show
You know, this whole "Belle is Hermione" shtick is one of my pet peeves. Belle is not a bookworm or a researcher - she's a *dreamer*. She reads novels and dreams of adventure. She's not a researcher, she's not a nerd, she's not someone who lives in books. She's independent and assertive. Hermione is a completely different kind of character - she's much more respectful of authority, for one thing, but she's also more interested in social justice. People seem to think that they're equivalent because girl + books = same person. Part of my issue with live action B&tB is that you have Hermione and the Beast - Emma Watson is playing in her comfort zone, and the character from the animated version is left behind completely.
You're so right oml... In one of her first scenes, Belle talks about how much she loves a romance novel and tells Gaston about using imagination while reading. That's... Not hermione, who read to learn, to research. It's not like people think every book is the same, so why do they think every woman who reads books is?
The analysis on Baloo's Bear Necessities is excellent. The performance is outstanding and goes beyond vocal perfection as you would hope to see in stage opera, and you can still see that it is vocally demanding and performed with exceptional care. This is a song that looks easy but is far from being easy to sing, let alone perform.
Baloo was the best part of the live action remake. Everything else was totally ruined and I don't really see why people say it's the only one that's better then the original...
@@StarwayBunny Definitely not better than the original, but I actually appreciated the Walkin Orangutan. It just sounded very ape like in places, like a monster ape really would be.
"Be Prepared" was the deal-breaker for me. As a kid, I was scared of Scar, mostly because of that number. That was a solid "tonight we spill blood" song. Hearing "Be Prepared" in the remake was the musical version of a wet noodle hitting the floor. I was not prepared at all, that song gave me enough energy to roll over to the other side of my bed.
There was one song I wanted in the remake... It was Be Prepared. Cutting it out was the biggest letdown ever in film for me. It's a movie I watched once and never again. Also, Nala sucked.
I’m so sad as to what they did with Mulan, instead of a story of a woman sacrificing herself for her father and fighting in war whilst learning and growing stronger along the way- we got superpowers. The original Mulan is my favorite Disney movie, and they did the worst thing possible to it without actually hurting the original.
They Percy Jacksoned her- they took the base character concept, and threw everything else out. I didn’t bother watching it all. The only real reason I’ve watched any live action is because others were there. It’s like they said in the video- there’s a big separation between musicals and animation. Taking the originals, fully ANIMATED films where you can create anything, and trying to shove it into real life is just painful to watch.
This has been going on in a lot of films-like Star Wars. No more “hero’s journey”. Hollywood is selling the idea that some are born exceptional, and that personal growth and development are unnecessary to achieve greatness.
I had to shut it off after 5 minutes. Then I fumed, decided I'd power thru, n had to shut it off after ten more minutes. The original was so good and they butchered it
I also find it frustrating that Nala HAS her own song!!! It’s called “Shadow Lands” and its in the broadway musical and it’s her “I want” song and expresses why she has to leave! So why “Spirit” instead of a song she already has 🤦🏽♀️
Shadowlands was one of the things I was most looking forward to in the CGI Lion King. To have such a performer as Beyoncé as Nala and NOT have her sing that incredibly vulnerable, desperate, determined song left me gobsmacked.
All the remakes made me angry, but Aladdin made me the angriest, and I can pinpoint the exact moment. Jasmine's solo, powerfully blasting about how she's a strong independent woman who is going to be Sultan because somehow THAT's a better motivation than wanting to be free but whatever... and then at the end of the song talking about how no man can stop her, SHE GETS GRABBED BY GUARDS AND TAKEN PRISONER. WHAT ARE YOU TRYING TO TELL ME, MOVIE? WHY ARE YOU TELLING ME ONE THING AND SHOWING ME ANOTHER?
They tried to make her more independent and strong but somehow made her weaker in a way and stripped the things I loved about her original character. Like there was a seen in the original movie where Aladdin and jasmine are fleeing from these bad guys because Aladdin stole and they had to pole fault over a roof. In the original Aladdin is talking about how she’s probably scared and to trust him and what not and before he even finishes his sentence she’s already on the other side. In the live action he has to force her to jump because she can’t do it on her own
@@rat5725 YES, exactly! I hated that change! Who in their right mind could possibly have thought that was an improvement? Who wrote that into the script and thought "awesome, now people will see how independent and strong Jasmine is, Girl Power!"? WHY WOULD THEY THINK THAT? WHY DID THEY DO IT?
@@rat5725 Yep. Like adding in Jasmine's handmaiden to up the female representation, but STILL FAILING THE BECHDEL TEST because the only thing they ever talk about with each other is: men. And yes, the others are terrible too... though I admit I've not seen Maleficent.
I'm so glad someone finally mentioned the lack of passion in Emma's performance. That's the biggest issue with her as Belle. She seems bored and that affects the entire movie since she's the lead. I was also happy they mentioned the lack of songs from the stage versions in the movie
I am German so most of the time I am not affected by bad vocals as Germany has GREAT voice actors. However, Emma 's performance was not as enthousiastic as Belles performance originally was.
Honestly, I think Emma Watson is an actress who's really only as good as the direction that she gets. She's not bad at acting, but she really needs to be told - in detail - what she's supposed to be doing in any given scene. When she gets that direction, she knocks it out of the park. For an example of this, go check her out in the 2007 TV movie Ballet Shoes. She's *so good* in that movie that I forgot the character is being played by Emma Watson. But I think there's been a definite trend in Hollywood over the past several years for directors to just, like, assume that big name actors automatically know what they're doing and just leave them to their own devices. Which, yes, can work out well in some cases, because some actors are really good at breathing life into their own interpretation of their characters - but it's *literally* a director's job to be specific in telling an actor what they're supposed to be doing. Not everyone immediately knows how best to play a scene just from reading the script. I would even argue that *most* actors don't. That's why we have things like rehearsals and, y'know, *directors.*
@@UrpleSquirrel I haven't seen this movie, but if you are indeed correct this was genuinely a director that left Emma to fail then you raise a worry theory for me: how many actors are being brought in to popular movies and just left to flounder so a movie can shout out its "Famous Actors List" and draw in the crowds? Island of Dr Moreau (1996) with Marlon Brando, Fairuza Balk and Val Kilmar is a perfect example of when actors and directors clash - some speak up, some don't but the movie goes badly regardless. Oh yeah and a director disappears and is no where to be found. I'm not spoiling the rest! You can't make this sh*t up!😂
@@thesnatcher3616 she did Hermione well. But Steve Kloves made her too perfect which is completely different from the og hermione. Forgive me for ranting. I just can't forgive the man who ruined her.
And she also wanted to be Hermione so she refused to wear historically accurate undergarments. Bloomers didn't exist yet. If she hiked that skirt up, she would have had full vag on display. Maybe people should have figured out underwear by the 18th century, but they hadn't. They just flapped loose.
The "singing good in character" bit makes me realize......This video is basically reminding us that the actor/singer/dancer wasn't something that just "happened" back in the day. It was kind of necessary for an entire live performance to come together properly. Thank you for talking about this when it comes to conveying and recreating art properly.
I was horrified when I heard her voice, why didn't they just hire a separate singer to edit in over that part while Emma lip synced? At least then the song would've been better.
speaking of Emma Watson and standards for women, the historical fashion community hates that movie too. Apparently Emma Watson said she won’t wear a corset in the movie, the thing is, corsets didn’t exist yet. Women wore stays, which provided back and breast support. Even actual corsets weren’t that bad. If an actor says that they couldn’t breath in a corset it’s because the corset wasn’t made properly or wasn’t made to fit the actress. And the yellow dress.... OHH THE DRESS I know the original dress wasn’t accurate but it was still pretty, the new dress has no silhouette, and it’s just so floppy Gosh Gad and Luke Evans are the best part of the movie
I was looking for someone else as mad about the corset thing lol, and my god, the new dress just looks like a prom dress covered in tissue tiers like a cheap doll 😶
Something that I found funny about the movie and its clothing, was that everyone was in pretty historically accurate clothing except Bell. I mean what the hell was up with that.
Although this is the most disappointed and passionate Sideways has talked so far, nothing, NOTHING, comes close to his brutal analysis on The Lion King in this video. Bravo, Sideways, bravo
That part with simba made me physically flinch. I'm a chior student, hearing that from a perfessional movie was just sad. Goes to show how much Disney just shoved crap together and said "YES PERFECT, WHERES MY MONEY?!"
One of the best parts of Le miserables is when Anne Hathaways character is so overcome by emotion that it effects her singing in I dreamed a dream, which makes it all the better.
This!! It would've been not as emotional if they made it too faithful to the musical theater way of singing!! LOVE ANNE'S VERION SO MUCH!! It was so real and heartbreaking, fit for the song and context!!
The thing that annoys me most about Emma Watson in the Beauty and The Beast, is that they literally cast Broadway Legends alongside her to play minor characters while she gets to give us absolutely nothing the entire time. Audra McDonald literally won SIX Tony Awards and she’s a wardrobe.
(hello 3 years in the future) i know another factor with Dan Stevens' role as the Beast was that he actually prepared for this movie by taking vocal lessons at the Royal Academy of Music (as specific in an interview he had during the release of the movie). and it's a shame that there isn't an official release of Evermore without all the beast voice over editing because I would genuinely love to see how well he performed without the extra layers.
There are Evermore edits here on UA-cam where people tried to peel away the voice modulations that turned Dan Stevens into the Beast--I downloaded my favorite one after I saw the movie and I still listen to it! They all retain some electronic-y sound but you can pretty much hear how Dan Stevens sounded. I remember seeing an interview cut where one of his teachers talked about how impressed she was with Stevens' efforts.
If they rewrote the performances to fit the actors, the movies would actually bring something new to the table. Might have made the movies feel more natural.
Yeah, they're in this weird limbo state, where they try to modernize them, but also don't want to stray too far from the originals, so the movies, and by extension the actors in them, aren't allowed to have their own identity, instead some kind of weird half-and-half thing that just feels soulless.
I think jungle book kinda went the furthest in this direction out of the live action remakes, and thus ended up being more "eh it was fine" than "god why would you DO THAT"
don't get me started with Be Prepared. JEREMY IRONS THREW OUT HIS VOICE FOR THAT SONG!! THREW OUT!!! HIS VOICE!!!! you don't just diss a legacy like that
@@moldycookie8162 i wasn't blaming jeremy. i was just stating a fact behind the production of the song that jeremy irons went full out for the song and the rendition we get in the remake didn't do much to pay homage to the original.
4:57 it's even more impressive actually because not only did Daniel have to sing well, he had to be able to sing in an American accent because it's clear that Finch is an American character. It's insanely impressive and he barely gets credit for that role which he did such an outstanding job on.
Disney has just gotten so lazy and used to people just eating up their content, that they really aren’t trying anymore and just throwing things together.
I don't think they're just being lazy. I think they're being safe. They're trying to make the most money possible while taking the least risks possible.
Thank God they didn’t sing Home or If I Can’t Love Her. They would have ruined them. But Beyoncé not singing Shadowlands that’s a true crime. It’s simply shameful.
COLY CRAP THAT WAS SCARY- I was just scrolling down, reading the comments while watching the video and the second I started to read yours, he started to say the quote! Creepy!
The reason I hate these remakes is because I remember how good the originals were. Not a dime from me, fuck them to eternal animation hell for these sins against our childhood.
Oh my god, when you put on Will Smiths version of "Friend like me" on 14:15 I got goosebumps! It is a fricking crime that they didn't put it in the actual movie, it would have been so cool. We were robbed of something really good :(
Yeah, she did. She also wasn't even completely new completely new to singing. She was in Theatre in middle and high school and she still had those lessons.
The difference is that nobody knew Auli'i back then, she was cast to represent a character and got the training for it. Emma Watson was cast because it would make her numerous fans watch the movie, Disney knew the movie would bring in cash no matter how well Emma sang. (Of course I'm not saying that Emma isn't talented as an actress, I love her to bits, but let's be real: we all know the reason she was cast and it's money)
I feel like Watson was hired because she boosts nostalgia. A large amount of people have nostalgia for the Harry Potter series as well as beauty and the beast, she basically sells the concept and looks similar enough to belle to be considered type casting
I agree I'm not a huge fan of HP (sorry not sorry), but her acting as Belle was ok. It was really hard for me to get into the movie. Everything just felt so forced. I think they tethered her to their idea and concept of Belle more than they did Will Smith and Geenie (sp?). Probably bc Will Smith is mostly going to do what he wants, but that's the whole issue is all the Disney stuff play it safe so often and I just feel disappointed each time. I'm really hoping Mulan is better. I think that if they get away from the musicals it'll help alleviate that fakeness and forced-ness these other ones have had (fingers crossed). and ya I was originally bummed when I saw there was no music, but then I remembered how (1) I didn't really like most of the music they did in the other remakes and (2) I didn't like the extra songs, so I was pretty relieved.
Dave T Geek it a myth that all films use it though. Les mis, into the woods, Mary Poppins returns and cats did not use autotune (or if they did it was so subtle it was unnoticeable, for me anyway). I don’t have a problem with autotune when used sparingly but I don’t get why production companies don’t have a little more faith in the talent Instead of turning it up to the max to the point that it doesn’t even sound like the original person anymore and sounds ridiculous. And I’m willing to bet the singers are pretty good. unfortunately it’s likely paranoia of the studios wanting everything is to be perfectly perfect perfect!
@@poppy-willowkent9803 Les Mis definitely did not use autotune, there was almost no proper singing to auto tune in the first place and some of it is quite literally off-key. So definitely not autotune :P
it doesnt sound robotic to me it sounds soulless to me, it sounds like someone just practiced for the performance and then later scrapped everything that made it great
It baffles me that they didn't give Beyoncé Shadowland from the stage production! But honestly, that patron's point about needing original songs for Oscar-bait is probably the best point I've seen so far.
@@rominapaez4618 He absolutely does, Moulin Rouge was amazing, but here in the film they autotune him which is saddening because he already is talented.
Oh even Walt was in it for the big bucks. From the moment he started making films he was a salesman, and used what he had learned from his work in advertising to make sure Disney was alll about the selling. At the beginning he was so protective of his brand he didn’t even credit the 1000+ animators that worked on snow white
Nah dude Walt basically created our current copyright laws that have caused a scenario where none of the film's he made are available in the public domain. If these same laws existed before Walt, he would not have been able to make Pinocchio or Alice In Wonderland, and several other films.
“We have no obligation to make Art. We have no obligation to make history. We have no obligation to make a statement. But to make money, it is often important to make history, art, a statement, or all three.” -Michael Eisner, 1981
I went listen to this song and immediately paused it and wanted to throw my phone in the trash after 5 seconds. They ruined the whole song, I agree with you.
I was kinda buying the remake, till I heard this thing. Can it even be a song anymore? I feel like all Remakes from this point on will be documentaries with lyrics said by actors. (Probably even more high-pitched)
i went into the movie with ok hopes and then realised i didnt like what i was seeing. then be prepared came on and i couldnt finish it. they butchered that incredible song
The only good thing about his passing is he doesn't have to watch them murder his masterpieces. But on the other hand, if he hadn’t died, would he have even allowed them to do this? What kind of unearthly, righteous rage would he have had?
Maybe they seen "the lion king" or "the beauty and the beast" in the cinema schedule and they say: "It would be nice to watch with the children especially since I already know that the original is beautiful". They are looking for something to see and it's a quick and effective simple choice? Idk
because pre covid (and even during), some parents actually wanted to bring their children to the movie theaters and they probably could trust the Disney films because they already knew the content of them.
Okay I have some bad news. Remember when you were little, saw Pinocchio and was surprised at how old the film was because being 2D made it timeless? Well, thanks to Pixar this is no longer the case. 2D films is what your old folks used to watch, unless you're an anime fan. With VR headsets and game consoles children only want 3D. They also like live action films because they feel more grown-up (after all, parents watch live action films too). So no, children don't want to watch the originals, sorry. Their sentimental walk down the memory lane will always start with the remakes *shudders*. Such is life. And yeah in the BC days (Before Covid) parents would take their children to theatres to have approximately 2 hours of peace and not having to run after their children as they usually do. It's a big deal for any parent and if someone else could take their children away for two hours, they were eternally grateful. Artistic merit of such films is secondary compared to that. It is us, people who should have moved on from Disney long ago. actually caring about the quality. Disney higher-ups knew that parents would take their children to see those film whether they are good or not.
there’s a clip in an interview where Emma Watson sings without any auto tune and it kILLS ME BECAUSE SHE SOUNDS SO MUCH BETTER. like maybe her voice wasn’t as strong as they wanted but then give her lessons
This happened years earlier, in the Freaky Friday movie. Lindsay Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis both had a year of guitar training, but it was dubbed anyway. They kind of wanted to play it safe here.
Here the clip of her singing ua-cam.com/video/ByLJflgPk-g/v-deo.html Her, Dan and the interviewer sing a little together at the end ( the interviewer kinda ruins it but I thought Emma's voice was nice)
I think 2015 Cinderella was the only remake to actually succeed. The original film is very simple and the songs are less integral to the plot. By removing the songs and adding more scenes to better understand the characters, they deliver an excellent film that explores new facets of the story without watering down the emotion. And the production and costume design was phenomenal.
Yeah. I must say that I agree. Though I'll admit that it's topped by that rodgers and hammerstein cinderella movie from the 90's. It just has more spice and personality in my mind.
@@ezonthethinker955 and the DP and picture editors were actually allowed to do some GORGEOUS color grading that highlighted every bit of hard work that went into the physical sets and costumes. I didn't even mind that I couldn't get attached to the inheritance subplot because I was just so cozy.
Definetely agreed. Production in cindrella was insanely good and really felt like fairy tale. Also excluding songs instead of messing them up as they did in Beauty and Beast is actually a good decision.
Yes! While I found the script a bit lacking, the whole film just felt like a good translation of Cinderella from one era to the next in reference to costuming, soundtrack, etc. The remake was as enchanting as the original, and I absolutely love it.
The amount of Autotune applied to Emma's singing is the audio version of the "Uncanny Valley". There is no imperfection, so it comes as lifeless and artifical. Plus, Emma, at that point, just couldn't sing- not at the Broadway lvl anyway, she sounded like she was taking beginner's lessons and it was recorded. Then there is the fact that everyone will compare her to Paige O'Hara's vocals... Yeah, this wasn't gonna work, no matter what. They just should have hired a Broadway actress that was close to Emma's singing voice to sing the songs.
Yeah, what happened to just having voice doubles? It's not hard to find a competent singer whose voice is close enough to the actor that it's not really noticeable. And hell, people rarely care even when it is totally obvious, like with Jack in Nightmare Before Christmas. I genuinely can't think of a single valid reason to abandon the practice, but ever since Phantom it's been like, "Nope! We need to force our actors to humiliate themselves by singing their own songs!" WHY?!? (Hell, and even Phantom dubbed over Minnie Driver. Come to think of it, same with Moulin Rouge. Everyone sang except Jim Broadbent. Although at least in Moulin Rouge they were generally pretty good.)
I've thought that myself. But I also have to acknowledge one thing: It's not nearly as easy to dub in live action compared to animation, where you can then animate to the performance. Trying to pull it off convincingly in live action is difficult and time consuming. There's a reason that the examples given above tend not to have smaller singing parts. (We rarely see Carlotta actually singing, mostly focusing on others around her, with only small clips. And Ziggler raps more than he sings.) Johnny Depp's singing wasn't very good in _Sweeney Todd,_ either. But he's the main character and they needed to use him. He's also evidence that getting singing lessons can't fix everything. To be honest, I was actually impressed with what they did with Watson's voice. It's clear that all the "Disney" sound is mechanical. It makes me wonder what they could do with a better singer where they could use a lighter touch. On the other hand, it sucks that not even Disney has a better Auto-Tune fitting algorithm. The tuning of Auto-Tune is fine, but they could make the snaps to the right pitch sound more natural.
"There was no reason not to put [Will Smith's take on Friend Like Me] in the film!" except, you know, disney being afraid to do ANYTHING new with the live action remakes, which are designed to appeal solely to nostalgia.
But that nostalgia thing is so ridiculous, you already succeeded in getting them into the theatre what are they gonna do like " uh uh... that's original comeon kids we are getting out of here... stupid Will Smith being different."
it just makes me so sad that the project ashman was actually passionate about was rejected (when they knew he was dying!) only to be greenlit and changed beyond recognition after his death
Watching tick tick boom recently made me think about this video. Lin Manuel Miranda got Andrew Garfield a vocal coach and worked on him for a year and it really shows. From never singing professionally to holding his own against really talented Broadway actors, his singing is actually pretty good. And disney probably had wayyy more resources than LMM to train Emma Watson for at least a few months if not a year before shooting, its frustrating that they didn't invest in it.
I agree so much. When non-singing celebrities like Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling sing in movie musicals, it’s awful. But when Andrew Garfield does it, it’s amazing
@@ligokleftis I used to love La La Land too. But then I realized that I don’t remember any of its songs, and they could delete the songs and still have the story makes sense. Why create a musical if your songs aren’t good or memorable?
I wouldn't say so Necessarily, some of the changes were dumb, like the fact that she could go away, whenever she wanted and did not(she was staying in the house for absolutely no reason, and actively suffering, while in the original she was a child, so it made sense)and she never tried to escape when locked in the attic. Also, I get why people like to change and make fun of the original Cinderella (Cinderella III has this smug, "look we fixed it" attitude)but in the end, the original's iconography is so timeless she is still the arquetipical Disney princess. We all remember the white carriage, and pumpkin transformation, and the mice making the dress, and the ball, and wish is a dream, while these others, while having a new perspective, try too hard, and ultimately fail, all aspiring to become as iconic as the original. Cinderella may be the best remake as well as having the best sequel, but they are all trying to recapture the original (and honestly, the only thing those movies have better than the original is story changes, which is dumb, because ultimately Cinderella is about the animation,and magic inherent in dreams, and neither of the other ones are able to surpass the original, both in timelessness, and iconography)
I gave a presentation on Howard Ashman as part of a theatre appreciation class I took in college that moved my classmates to tears. As an HIV+ person, it touched me that you focused on his contributions so beautifully. Thank you!
you would think that because of this logic (which is correct) the remakes would be better if they weren't musicals, but alas, mulan proved that thesis wrong as well.
@@Paulito-ym4qc I mean it COULD'VE worked if it wasn't a big money laundering scheme to create propaganda for the Chinese version of ICE, but that might be kind of pointless to hope for from a company as big as Disney
Okay I just need to talk about Daniel Radcliffe in How to Succeed for a sec. The man worked his ASS OFF for that role. Obviously like you said he went through vocal training, but he worked through a cognitive problem that makes it difficult for him to learn dance moves. He worked through that and PULLED IT OFF. MAGNIFICENTLY. He looked right at home amongst all the professional dancers on that stage. Sure he didn't have the same complex moves as the ensemble but he did that AND SUNG. For someone who's not naturally a music theatre performer, he did a great job. EDIT: AND THE FACT THEY DIDN'T GIVE SHADOWLAND FROM THE LION KING MUSICAL TO BEYONCE TO SING IS JUST..>CRIMINAL.
Exactly. It’s annoying how so many people put so much attention on Emma when all the other actors from Harry Potter are just as talented(and in my opinion; more, but I’m not gonna talk about how much I dislike Emma Watson’s acting)It’s a shame, really.
I super appreciate these comments for teaching me why I have so much trouble learning dance moves or other motor skills. I didn't know this had a name . . .
If you wanted to hear bad auto-tune, then you'd have heard how no amount of autotune could correct for Sideways' bad singing. But to be fair, he did say that a person's skill in singing is based on their genes and more importantly the time they spend to practice their craft. Sideways has neither...
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No! Show them these only! Never the originals! The originals are all great but it's time for a new renaissance ffs! Disney has shown they never understood their luck in being able to cash in on the genius of their staff. It's time to move. tf. on. 🤔 Or not it's your life 🤷🏽♂️🤣✌🏼 *corrected to make sense😅😂
@@rbarajas86 A new renaissance? These remakes are uninspired piles of hot trash. Instead of trying to suspend the audience's disbelief, Disney tries to drown it instead. Be honest and admit the only reason these movies do well, is because they're preying on the nostalgia of their clearly superior predecessors.
In my opinion, _some_ of the live action remakes are equal or better than the OG (I'm thinking Cinderella and and Jungle Book) _BUT_ still should see OG version before the live action. It's like reading the book before the movie.
I think part of it is the difference between seeing a movie at home, and seeing it in the theater. There's just a different energy when you go to the theater to see a film, and you can't recreate it. Unfortunately, not a lot of places are allowed to show classic Disney, so if they want that theater experience(tm), they have to see the new movies.
Remember the days when they used to have actual singers dub over the singing parts for actors who couldn't sing?? If Marni Nixon could dub over Audrey Hepburn, I'm pretty sure Disney could've gotten SOMEONE to dub over Emma Watson instead of Autotuning her to death. Or at very least gotten her some voice lessons! And yeah, the new numbers were pretty blatant attempts for Best Original Song noms.
Totally with you on this on. The Industry has no problem in get body doubles for dance things that are too difficult for A lister actors to do, or stunt doubles to do the dangerous stuff. I would rather hear a real voice than a autotuned voice.
I remember the Nostalgia Critic making a video on this exact subject a while back and about the new need for (manufactured) 'authenticity' making Disney and others feeling like we have to hear the person we're seeing on the screen when it comes to live action. I agree with you, for me all that matters in the end is having songs sung by people who can sing. ^^'
Well let me ask you. What's more cost efficient? Paying a professional singer hundreds of thousands to not just sing but also sound like the actor/actress, or pay the sound engineer less money to just use autotune?
If the time comes that I get to show Disney to my kids, it'll be the originals and not these vacant shells. Thank you for putting into words what I felt about these adaptations from the trailers alone.
I’ll be honest, when the cast of Beauty and the Beast was first announced, my first reaction was, “Emma’s not a singer though?” I was not convinced otherwise throughout the movie😂
A friend of mine is a sound mixer for Disney. When he and his colleagues had to mix Emma's voice in Beauty & the Beast, they tried to warn Disney that her vocals couldn't be fixed and releasing it as they did would hurt the brand. They pushed for her to rerecord, instead of keeping the over corrected autotune to the point where you can hear the distortion in her voice....as demonstrated by Sideways' rant. Disney didn't care. They released it anyways.
well, Watson has (or had, idk haven't heard from her recently) a reputation of not wanting to do retakes even though it's necessary. That's why she was called 'One Take Watson' during her Harry Potter days.
Here's the problem with that. You all want an autotune and 'perfect' sound. Guess what. The handful of people who sing 'normally' are far bigger than those who sing professionally. Emma's voice in this song, (autotuned or not) is what most people would sound like. Normal. Not perfect. Sometimes, we need that. Autotuned or not, I loved her voice because she sounded like 'just anybody else'. Not some big name professional. Personally, if you want viewers to really connect with the characters and movie, give them something genuine. Not perceived ideas of what is perfect. I found it very refreshing. We can't all be the best.
@@xeniamartin5297 speak for yourself then. This is Belle we're talking about-a classic Disney princess. She shouldn't have sounded "normal" especially when Disney is perfectly capable of getting an actress that has THE voice. Belle was Paige O'Hara, Susan Egan, etc. then bam, they lowered their bar to Emma Watson only because of her star power and because she played Hermione, who is, suprise surprise, a bookworm like Belle LMAO. Also, it's not just the voice (autotuned or not), but her overall performance, that most people are complaining about. Underwhelming and forgettable.
It's almost like a drug addiction, everybody is desperately chasing the first time they experienced these movies. Though they know it will never be as good as the first time, but they keep going back to it in whatever form it comes in, as long as they get it and don't have to go without it.
I havn't even had the desire to TRY to watch the live action versions. Each one of the trailers was enough to make me blanch. Better off with the memories of the originals. I think the most relevant part of this video for me was the explanation of how animation is what ALLOWS the suspension of disbelief. The live action is just sprinting headlong into the uncanny valley. I mean... WHY do that? Disney would have been better served doing a complete upgrade of the existing animation into a more detailed cleaner 4k release or something. But why did they even attempt remakes of these films within the same century of when they were made?
I personally wish they'd used the man who played Genie in the Broadway production for the movie as well. Even without the CGI, he gave a brilliant performance and I'm so glad I was able to see him onstage!
I disagree. To me, listening to someone bitch and rage about something has lost its appeal over the years. I get _why_ Sideways broke, and agree with the reason for breaking, but it's not a good thing.
What genuinely scares me is that, eventually, Disney will die out. In the direction that Disney movies are going now, there will be no more timeless masterpieces. These live actions might be making money, but all they're doing for the brand is defaming it.
I've heard something about her voice being partially recorded on set and partially in a sound studio per her request, and that the editors just took the parts that sounded the best from each and stitched them together.
Useless fact: lumière is like aggresively french and that is kinda his thing so to make him distinguishable and still have an accent in the french version they made him Italian. And when I talked about beauty and the beast I used to refer to him as the italian candle and I just wonder what all my english friends must have thought.
Lmao it's always Italian, I think I heard somewhere that in the Princess and the frog scene where they dance and Naveen speaks a little French, in the French version he speaks Italian too.
I'm pretty sure I haven't seen either The Little Mermaid or The Hunchback of Notre Dame in English, but I also don't remember them that well in French. I still think it's funny that French "Dora the Explorer" teaches English. I still haven't checked to see if Spanish "Dora the Explorer" finishes the triangle and teaches French.
The lion dude from Narnia had more expression than the walking husks in the lion king remake and that one's practically a decade older Also "the longer you think about it the worse it gets" practically sums up disney nowadays
I think it's because they went way too hyper-realistic. Semi-realism would have been the way to go.They lost all the magic from the original. Interestingly the same director did the jungle book remake and that one was so much better than TLK remake. The animals looked good graphically while still maintaining the personality and emotion.
I have to agree, thought the 2019 Lion King is a cool movie (the animation looks cool and all, and there are some changes that are cool like little Pumba on Hakuna Matata) but it isn't near as good as the original (it's a good movie, not a good Lion King movie), the animation is WAY too realistic, it doesn't convey emotion at all, and don't even start with the vocals, seriously, I only even tolerate the original english voices in this movie because, except for Mufasa, Scar and some Hyenas, the brazilian dub (I'm brazilian, btw) is hideous (seriously, can't you feel the love tonight was horrible, if you thought that Beyonce was bad, boy they did worse here, I felt like they got two teenagers whose voices were mid puberty changes to dub sing that, I was cringing the whole song on the theater, you know when a teenage boy has these voice cracks, where the voice gets high pitched all of sudden? Imagine that in the middle of the song, when both start singing together, after the part where they get out of the water in the original animation, you know?), the only song I like to hear in the 2019 version is be prepared because, even though it's almost no song and not even close to the original, the vocals work on this song, it doesn't seem too robotic or/and out of tune (I still don't like the fact that they removed the original be prepared, but hey, I need to be positive about SOMETHING there), either that or they're just the same of the original but slightly worse, so I just hear the original anyways. Anyways, sorry for the loooong rant here, I started talking (typing) way too much.
@@5ft2mikahakkinen I'm not sure I understand your comment clearly. English isn't my first language. But I'm pretty sure the lion from Narnia is called Aslan.
I'm currently in school studying musical theatre and we have something in vocal performance called "UBU" sound. It means "Ugly But Useful." This is best shown in that example of Bill Murray as Baloo floating down that river! It's so that you can best present the story of the song, character, and situation without sounding absolutely beautiful the entire time.
Puts me in mind of Mia Farrow's imperfect-but-heartfelt character-version of "Now That I'm a Woman" vs the professional-but-bland soundtract-version, from The Last Unicorn. When you first hear it, admittedly it's a bit cringe, but it grows on you, and when you later hear the better singer's version it just sounds so... lifeless. It could be by anybody, about anything. Mia's was definitely by her character and about her heartbreaking confusion.
A really good example of this is voice actor Ashley Johnson (who has a beautiful singing voice) singing in character as Ellie in The Last of us. The character Ellie has no vocal training and not much (if any) practice, so the song is purposely rough because that is what makes it believable. ua-cam.com/video/L6iophDSWJ4/v-deo.html link if anyone wants the song.
“Be Prepared” was my childhood’s first introduction to a villain like Scar. Like, he’s flamboyant and fun but also evil as heck, and the song reflected both sides of the character exceptionally well in a way I couldn’t verbalize but loved anyway. Honestly, the idea of a new take on the song, or even the same take with updated visuals was the main reason I even wanted to see the live action remake in the first place! I was so excited and my imagination went wild with how they could interpret the song into epic “live-action” and when I saw it… I almost walked out of the theater… it was painfully disappointing. I’m still recovering from that rollercoaster of emotions moving from “oh wow, the songs about to start!” to “oh… okay, it’s different but that’s fine it’ll make up for it in the long run I’m sure,” to “wait, why’d they cut that part out? Is this supposed to be threatening instead of fun?!” to “wait is it over? Aw, come on, that last note wasn’t even sang very well!” Not to be crude, but the why I’d hyped myself up for the number compared to its actual execution gave me the musical theater kid equivalent of blue b@lls.
to be honest Will Smith did say that he was worried about doing the friend like me song, because Robin Williams did an unique job. so got to give Will credit for being honest and trying his best not to ruin the song.
I don’t like the new Aladdin, but I will admit that Will Smith’s Genie was a nice different take on the character.
TooCooFoYou I agree
I'm thankful for that. That's what I'd do if I were in a Disney remake.
only thing from that movie i like it's the epic version of Arabian Nights
I liked how he did it. I'm not mad about it. I think he did a good job he was clearly trying to make it different enough to not take away from Robin Williams.
"People will spend their money and enjoy these films because they remind them of something good." Saddest final line and delivery.
tymek435 It’s the same reason anybody still eats spam: because it reminds them of actual meat.
Attmay omg I hate you. I didn’t even realize that with spam until now...
That's a terrible way of embracing Nostalgia.
I don't mind the live action remakes I see them more as advertisments for the originals. People will check out the remakes then go back and watch the classic version. For example when I saw the peanuts movie I thought it was incredible. I was always somewhat aware of Charlie Brown buty not completely familar I saw the specails afew times but thats it. So then I went and read the strip. Now I read it every day and I am a Charlie Brown super fan and know everything about it and am adicted. The live action remakes could do the same for someone else.
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I haven’t seen the new Lion King, but it can’t be THAT bad.
“They cut Be Prepared.”
THEY *WHAT?*
I THOUGHT THE SAME THING!! WHY IS NO ONE TALKING ABOUT THIS????
@@Faith-Trust-Pixie-Dust be prepared is in the film. but its a mumbled half chant, half military cadence. i love the actor. fuck that version though.
@@Faith-Trust-Pixie-Dust Pretty much everyone that was a fan of the first movie was, they just got shouted down and called things like, racist, nazi, misogynist, etc. The whole thing was cut because of the way the animators took cues from old films of the big propaganda parades the germans had in WW2 to really drive home the point that the bad guys in the movie were shockingly enough...Villains. So instead we get this dumpster fire of a remake when we should have told the woke crowd to go suck start shotgun.
@@avapayne6258 It's one minute long instead of 3 minutes. That's a huge difference.
@@legrandliseurtri7495 I personally enjoy both versions. Original has more flair but the remake works like a rousing speech. Scar couldn't really call the hyenas stupid to their faces.
Cutting "be prepared" from the lion king is to me the most sacrilegious thing. It looks like Disney doesn't understand anymore the artwork they created.
i believe most of the guys who worked on the original lion king left the studio long before the demake was announced
@@bloopahVIII That's kind of a beginning of an explanation BUT ... Cutting "be prepared"! How could they think that it was not a very, very, very BAD idea.
@@DevilRiku48 that's because they thought it wasn't realistic enough for a movie about singing lions
I acutally heard it was becuase they wanted to take the goosestepping nazi esque part with the hyenas out but realized they couldn't really do that without rupturing the entire song so they just took out the entire song.
I guarantee it's because he's portrayed as a fascist dictator throughout that entire song, and the CCP didn't like it. In fact I'd bet good money on a lot of these "why did they do it? It's like they don't understand their fans anymore" decisions somehow being attributed back to CCP approval. There is serious money in the Chinese audience.
Who cares about free speech and human rights violations when you can make literally billions of dollars for your shareholders, am I right? Fuck Disney.
The director of Mulan said that people don't sing when waging war, which is a really ridiculous thing to say. Soldiers love popular music as much as anyone, armies plays martial music since antiquity and have singing drills in training.
Seriously, watch Full Metal Jacket. At the very end they are singing the Mickey Mouse March. Also look at old front lines from say the revolution or the civil war, there were drummers and flutist and the soldiers would often have a march song they would sing while heading to battle.
True. To add more onto that point, in the first Wreck-It Ralph movie, the King's guards marched around singing "Oreo" in a militaristic fashion, which was copied and mirrored off of what the Red Coats chanted (even in the American Revolutionary War) while marching, and Wreck-It Ralph isn't even a war movie! Even during the American Civil War, sometimes when enemy camps were almost right next to each other, the rebs and union soldiers would even hear one another sing and join in...
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*Laughs in Sabaton*
*Fortunate Son starts getting louder*
*ahems*
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as shafrilias has said, "disney doesn't have to try anymore" and they know it. thats why the live-action films suck so much
that's why they make live-action films period. just rehashings of well-known stories
And even their originals are copied stories.... Just sayin'
surprise! it was capitalism this whole time
And the worst thing is, everyone is fuckinv falling for it.
@@thegoatgirl adaptating is not copying tbh.
Yeah I was pissed when Will Smith didn’t have a rap version of “Friend Like Me” and then discovered he in fact DID have a rap version of it and they just decided to not use it?!
It's way too ethnic for Disney. There would have been Karens from coast to coast covering their kids ears and posting on Facebook.
The song is better than the one in the movie. It just would've upset their target audience.
@@baum6721 not just that but those movies are shown around the world and rap isn't all that in other countries. They have to appeal to the majority. And kids.
That's their audience. Not rap fans
i actually listened to the rap version and it was way better
Being honest i expected them to bring a Fresh Prince of Bel Air vibe to Will's genie to offer a fresh reinterpretation of the character and use the talents which Smith is known for...
They're trying to manufacture nostalgia, what's actually "good" doesn't matter to them. If they used the rap version, it would have interfered with their ability to make racists and out of touch old geezers nostalgic.
The biggest slap in the face was that Ewan McGregor CAN SING. He is amazing and anyone who has seen or heard Moulin Rouge knows that.
YES!
TOTALLY AGREE!!!
Sorry, but he wasn't that great.
I love that film! 💕💕
@@littleone1656 Yeah, McGregor is still pretty great overall in Moulin Rouge but I'd agree that he isn't that strong of a singer. He's mostly fine, but it works for the movie I think.
No wonder the Gaston song in the remake was my favorite
They’re ACTUALLY SINGING
News at 10: The Pharaoh's favorite Disney song is a villain song. Experts remain perplexed.
I feel a bit bad for disliking it, though at the end of the day I think it's partially because by trying to have Gaston not be as ridiculous as he is in the original he loses a lot of what worked as a villain. Having someone who can do a really low voice or someone who rather then looking fit was a body builder who looks ridiculous with everyone else wearing clothing that's meant to look like a pre-industrial Europe I think would make things a lot funnier/more enjoyable.
The beasts new song was my favourite!
oh hey yugi, how's dueling going?
I think the knots in my back actually melted away hearing Luke Evans sing 😍
Your rage over Be Prepared being cut is so relieving because it’s exactly how I felt when I saw it. I refused to let myself cry at Mufasaa’s death because I didn’t want to give them the satisfaction.
Thank goodness I found this video. My 10 year old thinks I'm crazy on how furious I am that 'Be Prepared' was left out of the Lion King. Glad I found a kindred spirit. I watch all the live action remakes, and hate the music in them all, except Cinderella.
slytheringirl1 I didn’t even feel like crying, I was simply bored
@@DistrictTribute Hey me too!
I’m even more angry about them removing the stick. Rafikis stick is literally an essential part to the lion kings narrative
I heard that they cut it because of the Nazi symbolism but I think that they could have easily worked around it by just not adding the marching scene
"Why are you holding your performers back?"
I've had the same feeling. Cult movies usually dare to risk it all and have their creative strengths released despite "political" or "networking" needs related to production concerns.
Why? Money.
@@LauraLoele No. Nostalgia.
Then weaponize that to make money.
I've seen the dress Lily James had to fit in for Cinderella at a costume exhibition. It's not photoshopped, she actually fit into that thing.
im pretty sure she was corseted tight laced the fuck up to do it tho
They used the hugeness of the skirt and the corset to trick you into thinking that her waist was smaller than physically possible, still insane but it’s meant to trick your eye
Apparently the colour was a bit doctored to make it prettier, but the size? 100% natural
@@graybirdwoods2264 I mean, that's how it's been historically done anyway. Even in Victorian times, women wore comfortable corsets that allowed for movement - none of this tight-stringing (or rarely done so by only some). It's all about creating illusions of shape, using certain colours and cuts, padding and petticoats etc.
Disney actually did the wrong thing by trying to squeeze this poor young woman into a tightly strung corset, instead of just doing it the way it has always been done in history. Bernadette Banner on UA-cam has lots of very educational and interesting videos regarding this topic and why "anti-corset wearers" like Emma Watson help perpetuate a false narrative surrounding corsets and their use.
@@WindmelodieYeah, tight lacing and trying to shave more centimeters off your waist was a bit like the body dysmorphia trend of its time. Sisi, the famous 19th century empress of Austria for example would be diagnosed with anorexia today and she was absolutely obsessed with lacing her waist down to nothing, not a normal thing for every woman. I could see if they made it a character trait for like a neurotic woman with issues but it's not something to do by default.
i just realised that we could possibly have a rapping genie but we didn’t and i’m really salty about that
My name is Kazaam
I got the whole plan
So listen to the man
'Cause I'm the sultan of sand
DANMIT. now im salty too
Same. That actually sounds amazing the more I think about it. And more I think about it, the more disappointed in Disney I become.
Just shows how Disney just wanted to cash in on nostalgia while not being sure enough to put new ideas and twists in the forefront.
Uhhh.
No.
"Imitation over innovation" is the perfect slogan for Disney remakes.
Except Cinderella. They actually tried to do something new with that one.
we are so woke , we will make a black mans performance sound like a white mans and a woman performance completely faked by machines........oh god .....we're....so........progressive *jerks off vigorously*
"imitation over innovation" basically describes 99.9% of Hollywood and nearly all studio productions.
Well when you think about it, if we are aware that "woke" stuff is made for a cash grab, doesn't it make us woke about it too?
Contrary to what most people think, the word "woke" is not limited to SJWs. "woke" just means having a heightened awareness about any issue. For us, the issue is terrible rehashes.
@@ccricers oh jesus, double woke *starts crying* DOUBLE WOKE!
I also don't know why Disney doesn't hire singers for actors who can't sing? This used to be incredibly common and could be easily done. The autotune is brutal.
Actually there was a time when producers kept very quiet about using singers doing the actors' musical numbers. When it leaked out that Audrey Hepburn did not do her own singing in My Fair Lady, there was a backlash. Why couldn't they use Julie Andrews who had the part on Broadway instead. Hepburn actually sang, but they replaced her voice. There were other times too, like when Deborah Kerr in The King of Siam. It was a big secret.
This also happened when it leaked out that Irene Cara did not do all her own dancing in Flashdance.
@@westzed23 At least mention Marni Nixon- and it's not as though people have stopped dubbing over actresses, they did it in Greatest Showman. It wasn't so much the dub that caused the outcry about my fair lady, but the fact Julie Andrews was snubbed and then they used Marni to be Audrey Hepburn's singing voice. It ended up being cruel for all three women involved, but none of them had hard feelings towards each other. That was not a special situation either. When Deborah Kerr found out her voice had been all but taken out of the final cut she was furious because she had worked so hard and thought she had made her voice picture ready. Dubbing is not great for those involved- but it doesn't seem garter much backlash besides more special situations. I would rather they autotune at that point- unless they can find someone who is as good as imitating voices as Marni Nixon and the actor is okay with it.
@Elizabeth Barner I totally agree. I remember when this came out, and I wanted to show how much people were upset about the dubbing at the time. People felt lied to. Marni Nixon was a huge secret to most people. If studios had been more honest, I don't think it would have been so upsetting. Yes, today they do dubbing, but it usually is known. At the time, were we naive? Perhaps, but we knew of stunt doubles and some dubbing, it just seemed that the big studios were trying to con everyone. And yes the actresses were upset, and rightly so.
Sorry. The King and I.
@@westzed23 yeah
Actually that's what most Indian movies do and it works for them so nicely.
What you say about Emma Watson is so true. Maybe she can sing, it looks like her voice is not so bad. But her performance is so emotionless. I thought that it was because she was so focused on singing properly (as she is not used to it) that she forgot to be in character, but you are probably right, it must be the autotune. And the fact that they paired her up with professional singers so we can all hear the difference? They didn't do her a favor.
I will say it is ill preparation on her part. She had months to prepare for the role, plus any amount of professional help she can get. Surely that can give a better performance than what was presented even if not on the level of professional singers. If autotune is what is letting her down, then they can simply not use autotune, it must have been an even worse disaster without autotune that they keep at it and then blame on it's use.
I honestly think she can’t act, we can’t comments on her acting in Harry Potter since she was learning over the years, but they should’ve hired somebody else. She got too involved with the production team too, it was a mess
@@xragdoll5662 I know everyone comes to her defense saying, “but she was young!” But so were the Fanning sisters, and so were the cast of stranger things. Talent can be found young, and illuminated with good direction.
She’s a pretty bad actress, she can only support minor roles like in little women but she’s borderline in there too. Pretty much like all other kids cast in Harry Potter who were all bad.
@@DCDSG not all the kids in HP were bad. Rupert Grint for instance is a good actor, he just happens to not play a lot.
I had actually never heard the Will Smith’s “Friend Like Me” version, and I completely related to the “tHeRe WaS nO rEaSoN tO nOt PuT tHaT iN tHe FiLm” after hearing the like 2 seconds he put up there
As soon as I heard those two seconds, I got so much nostalgia for Will Smith's songs for Men in Black and Wild Wild West!! I miss 90's Disney AND 90's Will Smith!
Honestly, that alone would have made the movie exponentially better.
Edit: I come to this video not only for his other excellent points and analyses, but ESPECIALLY for that rant.
They hold their performers back and don't let them be authentically themselves because they dont care about their talent, they're using them because a celebrity actor bring attention to the film. This is the problem with celebrities in voice acting and these films is it's not an art anymore it's a popularity contest
@Greasel Snatches she has a bachelor's in English literature from Brown university
oliviastrid having a bachelor degree=/= being smart.
@Greasel Snatches what's that got to do with anything
Plus they know most people won't be able to hear the kind of stuff Sideways manages to hear in Emma Watson's performance. Belle is basically a harmless version of Hermione. In a way, Emma Watson got typecast here, that's why she got the job.
Unfortunately yeah, it’s sad to what it’s become :(
Something really amazing about the original Mulan is how they use the musical numbers to switch the tone of the film. The beginning of the film has ALL of the music. We’re introduced to the characters through song. We follow Mulan to war through song. She makes friends during those songs.
And then “A Girl Worth Fighting For” happens. And these young men who are imagining the end of the war before they’ve even seen battle are suddenly confronted with the reality of their situations.
And there are no more songs for the rest of the film.
It’s the biggest shift possible and it works SO WELL and I’m frankly curious to see how Disney plans on replicating that impact without the lightheartedness that musical theatre style songs bring to the beginning of the story.
I have actually never seen it in this light, but now I can't comprehend how I ever missed that!
I never noticed that. That's a brillaint move to show a jarrinf change in tone. It does make the tone in the third act so much more serious and dark due to the complete lack of musicals. It also does help that "A Girl Worth Fighting For" is cut short when they stumble upon the charred village. The cheerful, upbeat feeling from the first two acts are completely gone and the audience now knows that things are about to get dark.
I heard that Disney will remove their musical numbers and are changing some characters (ex. Muushu becomes a Pheonix) for the live action version of Mulan in order to stick to and respect the Chinese culture, and tell the actual story of Mulan.
I love the songs in the original Mulan movie but I don't think they're always necessary to show the vibe of the scene. So I imagine the scene to be more or less the same just without them singing. They're laughing and talking about their future wives, the background music is peaceful and lighthearted, and you can see them all lauging together in front of a blue sky and green grass with a few flowers or something (I know in the original movie it's snowing but this would make the contrast bigger).
Next scene, there is a rapid background music change to some dark and sad tunes and they immediatly stop talking for a few seconds so it's silent besides the really soft music. Everything in the camera shot is black, burned to ashes, and just the complete opposite to the light and colorful scene right before that.
Or maybe they change this scene up so they don't have to include this rapid change of scenery but that would be really disappointing because I love that scene :(
The moment when they see the village and they all stop singing, horrified by the destruction in front of them, still gives me goosebumps
Im an opera singer. In university, there was one singer who I believed could never be successful. A few months later when I heard her again, she had practiced so much that she was one of the best in the entire course. It was a completely different voice. And the injury thing is for real. I once got into the final of a competition and got really sick, but I was heart broken at the prospect of not doing it. So I did opera for half an hour on stage which is very demanding, and from that SINGLE performance I had to go through 2 years of vocal rehab. only being able to sing a scale again after a few months. I had to go on vocal rest for weeks, literally not being allowed to speak a single sentence for weeks.
Let's hope they don't remake hunchback of Notre Dame. I don't want to see them ruin hellfire
edit: yes guys I have seen the musical and I loved it
Prucked xox they probably wouldn’t ruin it. They’d maybe CUT it off completely like the massacred “Be Prepared.”
Disney doesn't have the balls to make movies like that anymore (you know, actual good shit) they're too scared of offending someone rather than making art like they used too. They got neutered.
Oh, they're remaking it alright - Josh Gad's playing Quasimodo
@@ninjawhippetproductions7411 please no
I would've like it if they did what the stage version did: actually portray the talking gargoyles as imaginary, or add in more elements from the book.
The WORST part is that Nala actually did have a solo called "Shadowland" from the broadway musical, but they didn't have Beyonce sing it! :/
Shadowland is absolutely stunning!
Well obviously it's because they knew better than some silly play that won EVERY TONY EVER.
One of my favorite songs ever and I will never stop being angry that they didn’t include it
Why were they wanna pay her more money?
@@supme7558 they were already paying her all the money? So like why not make sure they make back a lot of their own
Spent the entirety of Aladdin going "PLEASE just let him RAP", glad it wasn't just me. At least he got to in the credits.
Wasn't one of the main points of the massive outcry against Will Smith being the genie 'What's he gonna do, rap the songs instead?' Feel like that version in the credits hints they might of been scared off using it
@@Buriedwithdrawingpad I thought it was more that people were criticising his singing voice. Will Smith has a barely passable singing voice and no one believed he could make the songs as bouncy and playful as Robin Williams. The 'will he rap?" was more a question since that was the only way Will Smith has been able to properly emote musically. And the end credits actually prove that assessment was as correct.
It's dumb! It's just so dumb. What is more suited to a reinterp of the Genie than rap? Everything about Will Smith rapping as the Genie is perfect. It's nostalgic and referential, wholesome, captures the self-aware showboating and most importantly, the element of trolling around with words. What is more suitable for rapid-fire, reference-dropping verbal trolling around than rap?? And the more you think on it, Will Smith BEING WILL SMITH is honestly the only way to pull it off respectfully. If the creators were too cowardly to step up and own that... Dishonor on them, dishonor on their cow, dishonor on their cow's entire ancestral tree
I just love how passionate this guy is. The absolute rage in his voice is pure gold.
His rant over the removal of Be Prepared has unironically more emotion than most Disney remakes lol!
THEY CUT BE PREPARED FROM THE LION KING? DISHONOR ON THEM! DISHONOR ON THEIR FAMILIES! DISHONOR ON THEIR COW!
i didn't watch the new lion king yet thank you for convincing me to never
@@Bast-hs5sz glad to do so
"Nazis bad" is too political for Disney these days
When I watch the Lion King remake I couldnt BELIEVE THEY DID THAT OML
But It wasn't cut. It was altered. They should have might as well cut it.
I can feel his anger while talking about how Disney wasted Beyonce's voice in Lion King
He should be angry about miscasting Nala in the first place. I think they sat down around a table and said "ok, who are famous black women kids will know? Oh, Beyonce! Let's get her!".
Is similar words to his, you can hear his facial expression.
Ikr
Beyonce wasted her own voice.
TittySprinkles Yeah, like I heard her voice and I didn’t think she fit the voice.
alternate title: Sideways getting angrier and angrier at the Disney execs for disrespecting Howard Ashman's legacy
Yeah, that seems about right.
Yes, Ashman is probably rolling in his grave.
No, this is Sideways in pain. He's not angry, he's hurting. I wish Disney could listen to people the way the Sonic people listened when the internet complained, if only to never hear this level of heartache in this man's voice again.
Luny Moon I love Sideways’s take on these movies and all, but what happened with Sonic is never going to happen with Disney movies. Ever. And it shouldn’t. If a big studio like Disney listened to the little guy (Sideways) they (Disney) would never win. There is no possible decision that can be made that will please everyone. There would be someone else on the internet complaining “why did you listen to some UA-camR instead of the highly paid experts you painstakingly selected for this movie?!” I’d love it if Disney hired Sideways though. EDIT: I feel like I missed your main point which was just simply Sideways is in pain and that’s bad. I hate that this UA-cam app makes it so hard to look back at the original comment while you’re typing.
He sounds like mumkey Jones when he gets angry and I’m kinda there for it
"everyone was praising the live action for showing accurate culture and representation"
That aged like fine wine 💀
Why
@@Dula8207 there’s a lot of videos detailing the cultural inconsistencies, plus they filmed it outside of a concentration camp, plus a lot lot of other reasons. I’d recommend watching some post release critiques. Good luck finding many positive ones
@@Dula8207the original had better representation
Aged like milk
Live action Aladdin and India - inspired costumes 💀
i just feel bad because there are probably hundreds of talented girls who have been training vocally for a role like Belle but they would rather have someone who is already famous
Also prettier tbf
Emma may be cute to some, but is in no way the "most beautiful girl in town" as Belle was, and her sharp features don't fit the character at all imo
That's how they made their money: bringing in famous people.
LadyKraken she also made the character more agressive and didn’t play Belle right
Yeah, I read on reddit from “people who knew celebrities before they got famous” that Emma Watson was a bit of an elitist bully at her school, seeking attention and making fun of anyone who wasn’t as pretty as her. Then she made it up in interviews that she was the one being bullied in school. Seeing her performances I can pretty much believe it. She seems so aggressive and lacking in real empathy.
Spielberg’s Maria for the new West Side Story is a UA-camr!
When it comes to Bella’s pitch correction and auto-tuning you could say, “There’s something there that simply wasn’t there before.”
They also got a professional singer who can mimic voices to dub over lots of Emma Watson's singing. They also auto-tuned her voice, but most of it isn't even her singing but someone who tried to sing like her, but better.
@@4EverATVAddict i literally said to myself after seeing the movie "why didnt they hire a ghost singer if she couldnt sing?" Wtfffff
Reminds me of my Fair Lady with Audrey Hepburn
@@selty Worse, they got in a professional singer to sing over it and that couldn't even save it. They tried to mix the ghost singer and some of Emma's more 'talkie' vocals but it all just came out wrong and the post production was super rushed, which is why even the ghost singer couldn't save the film.
Don't you mean, "Hermione"?
🤣🤣🤣🤣
The most confusing thing to me is why a CGI _Lion King_ is called "Live-action"...
XR40 cause it’s not animated
@@madisondawson2989... Wut
@@madisondawson2989 Honey, not a single frame of that movie had anything real in it. It was all animation. Amazing, realistic, CGI, animation. Even every background was made in a computer program.
XerkDaniels wut it’s all cgi not physically animated with drawings in a studio it was edited because people filmed it then they edited lion bodies onto them
MariaThePotterNut honey what I was trying to say was that it wasn’t physically animated drawings in a studio, it was all filmed then edited with cgi
Will Smith was very successful and smart not to turn in a performance that was an impression of Robin Williams. I give him big kudos for that, and no doubt it was hard given how large Robin Williams as Genie looms. "Prince Ali" was my favorite part of the remake, entirely due to Will Smith's performance.
i have completely forgotten everything about the live action aladdin, but me and my brother will BLAST prince ali when we are in the car together.
Agreed! Almost every one of these live action movies has one number that turns out amazing. Gaston in BATB, Prince Ali in Aladdin, Kiss the Girl in Little Mermaid being ones I loved, but the rest are just bleh.
I agree, Aladdin overall was also a good remake somehow, by doing things differently and added interesting bits. Also really enjoyed jungle book. But the rest is 💩
@@DCDSGI liked maleficent
@@DCDSGi don’t feel like the cinderella one is awful? it’s definitely different and not as good but not awful. scared for the snow white one !!
the second you went "part un: beauty and the beast" with the shitty flute in the background, I knew it was going to be a good video
That wasn't a flute. That was a recorder. And that's even better.
At that moment, I became a subscriber.😂😂😂
elementary school recorder, but yeah I agree lol
the recorder in the background gave me ptsd from middle school music class
That recorder is the most insufferable thing to ever grace my ears. I almost disliked the video for that alone
The worst part of these live-action remakes is, a lot of REALLY talented singers are no longer going to be able to get the work their talents deserve, if they don't have the right look.
You know the funny thing, a lot of fans will also be angry if they don't look like the original.
@@kimberleywilliams7802 I think it has to be a mix of both. Obviously it would be bad to have a non redhead Ariel, a non blonde Rapunzel, or a super skinny Ursula. You've gotta have a mix of keeping the most visually recognizable traits of the character and having actual talent. I suppose someone would still be pissed in the end
@@beep3242 So long as Beyonce's pet project (her name is on the tip of my tongue, I just can't think of it right this second!
but what always stuck out to me most about Ariel's live-action actress is that she is directly promoted by Beyonce, hence my calling her 'Beyonce's little pet')
doesn't butcher the reprise of Part of Your World, I'm willing to give her the benefit of the doubt and withhold judgment until clips are released... after all, I did enjoy the ladies who played young and older Ursula in Once Upon a Time.
(in that live-action show,
Ursula's backstory is ripped right from Ariel minus any love interest and temporarily being 'evil till she got her singing voice back'. both girls did a great job on the vocalize from the part of your world reprise that occurred when Ursula's stolen singing voice is finally returned.
I don't understand why they don't just dub the singing voices like they did in the old days. Marni Nixon never had to look like the character; she just had to get the vocal performance right. It's a total win-win, and I don't get why they don't consider it an option.
I mean it makes sense tho right? A lot of directors have a vision for each role and if someone doesn’t fit that vision it’ll be a problem for the director to truly carry out his vision for the movie/show
You know, this whole "Belle is Hermione" shtick is one of my pet peeves. Belle is not a bookworm or a researcher - she's a *dreamer*. She reads novels and dreams of adventure. She's not a researcher, she's not a nerd, she's not someone who lives in books. She's independent and assertive. Hermione is a completely different kind of character - she's much more respectful of authority, for one thing, but she's also more interested in social justice. People seem to think that they're equivalent because girl + books = same person. Part of my issue with live action B&tB is that you have Hermione and the Beast - Emma Watson is playing in her comfort zone, and the character from the animated version is left behind completely.
This comment is beautiful
I wouldn't want people to fucking call me a smarty nerd just because I got my collection of The Babysitter's Club pocketbook in the background XD
You're so right oml... In one of her first scenes, Belle talks about how much she loves a romance novel and tells Gaston about using imagination while reading. That's... Not hermione, who read to learn, to research. It's not like people think every book is the same, so why do they think every woman who reads books is?
belle is an infp not an intp like Hermione
all bookworms are not the same.
The analysis on Baloo's Bear Necessities is excellent. The performance is outstanding and goes beyond vocal perfection as you would hope to see in stage opera, and you can still see that it is vocally demanding and performed with exceptional care. This is a song that looks easy but is far from being easy to sing, let alone perform.
Yes, but Neel Sethi's Mowgli is what ruins it.
Baloo was the best part of the live action remake. Everything else was totally ruined and I don't really see why people say it's the only one that's better then the original...
@@StarwayBunny Definitely not better than the original, but I actually appreciated the Walkin Orangutan. It just sounded very ape like in places, like a monster ape really would be.
@@s.b.5259 Agreed, even if I prefer the OG King Louie.
"Be Prepared" was the deal-breaker for me. As a kid, I was scared of Scar, mostly because of that number. That was a solid "tonight we spill blood" song. Hearing "Be Prepared" in the remake was the musical version of a wet noodle hitting the floor. I was not prepared at all, that song gave me enough energy to roll over to the other side of my bed.
I guess you really weren't prepared then XD
@@emsedralin4795 No I was not prepared.🤣
@@rebekahbrooks2201 Be Prepard does not work in Live action.
@@orangeslash1667, It doesn't, which is sad because I was really looking forward to that song.😒
There was one song I wanted in the remake... It was Be Prepared. Cutting it out was the biggest letdown ever in film for me. It's a movie I watched once and never again. Also, Nala sucked.
at least they haven’t tried to do a live action version of Cars, that would just be terrifying to watch
Starlight Express. It will end up something like that.
DON'T GIVE THEM IDEAS
I genuinely thought at first that was a spelling error and you meant to say cats which makes the joke even 10 times better
Mary Lou me too !😜
It'd be a good horror flick
I’m so sad as to what they did with Mulan, instead of a story of a woman sacrificing herself for her father and fighting in war whilst learning and growing stronger along the way- we got superpowers. The original Mulan is my favorite Disney movie, and they did the worst thing possible to it without actually hurting the original.
i didn’t think abt this, ur right they totally diminished her efforts by making her seem superhuman
They Percy Jacksoned her- they took the base character concept, and threw everything else out. I didn’t bother watching it all.
The only real reason I’ve watched any live action is because others were there. It’s like they said in the video- there’s a big separation between musicals and animation. Taking the originals, fully ANIMATED films where you can create anything, and trying to shove it into real life is just painful to watch.
Agree 💯
This has been going on in a lot of films-like Star Wars. No more “hero’s journey”.
Hollywood is selling the idea that some are born exceptional, and that personal growth and development are unnecessary to achieve greatness.
I had to shut it off after 5 minutes. Then I fumed, decided I'd power thru, n had to shut it off after ten more minutes. The original was so good and they butchered it
I also find it frustrating that Nala HAS her own song!!! It’s called “Shadow Lands” and its in the broadway musical and it’s her “I want” song and expresses why she has to leave! So why “Spirit” instead of a song she already has 🤦🏽♀️
Lion King musical is soooo good. They should’ve given it the Hamilton treatment and release a proshot of it instead of that godawful remake
Shadowlands was one of the things I was most looking forward to in the CGI Lion King. To have such a performer as Beyoncé as Nala and NOT have her sing that incredibly vulnerable, desperate, determined song left me gobsmacked.
Beyonce would have EATEN THAT UP
All the remakes made me angry, but Aladdin made me the angriest, and I can pinpoint the exact moment. Jasmine's solo, powerfully blasting about how she's a strong independent woman who is going to be Sultan because somehow THAT's a better motivation than wanting to be free but whatever... and then at the end of the song talking about how no man can stop her, SHE GETS GRABBED BY GUARDS AND TAKEN PRISONER. WHAT ARE YOU TRYING TO TELL ME, MOVIE? WHY ARE YOU TELLING ME ONE THING AND SHOWING ME ANOTHER?
They tried to make her more independent and strong but somehow made her weaker in a way and stripped the things I loved about her original character. Like there was a seen in the original movie where Aladdin and jasmine are fleeing from these bad guys because Aladdin stole and they had to pole fault over a roof. In the original Aladdin is talking about how she’s probably scared and to trust him and what not and before he even finishes his sentence she’s already on the other side. In the live action he has to force her to jump because she can’t do it on her own
@@rat5725 YES, exactly! I hated that change! Who in their right mind could possibly have thought that was an improvement? Who wrote that into the script and thought "awesome, now people will see how independent and strong Jasmine is, Girl Power!"? WHY WOULD THEY THINK THAT? WHY DID THEY DO IT?
@@BittermanAndy ITS NOT EVEN JUST THAT THERES SO MUCH WRONG WITH THE MOVIE. I stand by the fact that maleficent is the only good live action remake
@@rat5725 Yep. Like adding in Jasmine's handmaiden to up the female representation, but STILL FAILING THE BECHDEL TEST because the only thing they ever talk about with each other is: men. And yes, the others are terrible too... though I admit I've not seen Maleficent.
@@BittermanAndy Corporations saying "You know what's empowering? Slaves."
I'm so glad someone finally mentioned the lack of passion in Emma's performance. That's the biggest issue with her as Belle. She seems bored and that affects the entire movie since she's the lead. I was also happy they mentioned the lack of songs from the stage versions in the movie
I am German so most of the time I am not affected by bad vocals as Germany has GREAT voice actors. However, Emma 's performance was not as enthousiastic as Belles performance originally was.
She looked like she was so desperate for a lunch break that she was trying to rush through her scenes.
@@hinatanin The British actors in general makes no sense.
Honestly, I think Emma Watson is an actress who's really only as good as the direction that she gets. She's not bad at acting, but she really needs to be told - in detail - what she's supposed to be doing in any given scene. When she gets that direction, she knocks it out of the park. For an example of this, go check her out in the 2007 TV movie Ballet Shoes. She's *so good* in that movie that I forgot the character is being played by Emma Watson.
But I think there's been a definite trend in Hollywood over the past several years for directors to just, like, assume that big name actors automatically know what they're doing and just leave them to their own devices. Which, yes, can work out well in some cases, because some actors are really good at breathing life into their own interpretation of their characters - but it's *literally* a director's job to be specific in telling an actor what they're supposed to be doing. Not everyone immediately knows how best to play a scene just from reading the script. I would even argue that *most* actors don't. That's why we have things like rehearsals and, y'know, *directors.*
@@UrpleSquirrel I haven't seen this movie, but if you are indeed correct this was genuinely a director that left Emma to fail then you raise a worry theory for me: how many actors are being brought in to popular movies and just left to flounder so a movie can shout out its "Famous Actors List" and draw in the crowds?
Island of Dr Moreau (1996) with Marlon Brando, Fairuza Balk and Val Kilmar is a perfect example of when actors and directors clash - some speak up, some don't but the movie goes badly regardless.
Oh yeah and a director disappears and is no where to be found.
I'm not spoiling the rest! You can't make this sh*t up!😂
They wanted Emma Watson because they wanted Hermione
Emma Watson was good as Hermione that we can all agree. She was too pretty though.
@@thesnatcher3616 she did Hermione well. But Steve Kloves made her too perfect which is completely different from the og hermione. Forgive me for ranting. I just can't forgive the man who ruined her.
@@moodybash7334 "a smooooth Hermione"
@@QuikVidGuy more like, a Mary Sue Hermione 😫
And she also wanted to be Hermione so she refused to wear historically accurate undergarments. Bloomers didn't exist yet. If she hiked that skirt up, she would have had full vag on display. Maybe people should have figured out underwear by the 18th century, but they hadn't. They just flapped loose.
The "singing good in character" bit makes me realize......This video is basically reminding us that the actor/singer/dancer wasn't something that just "happened" back in the day. It was kind of necessary for an entire live performance to come together properly.
Thank you for talking about this when it comes to conveying and recreating art properly.
Someone tried convincing me Emma Watson wasn't autotuned in the film.
Jonah Kirk same, i put the song through audacity to isolate her voice and it sounds worse than a 2008 vocaloid cover /barf
Jonah Kirk clearly they are deaf
How did you not smack them in the face?
I bet that they think auto tune means sounding like T Pain. Like, you can auto tune people subtlety
I was horrified when I heard her voice, why didn't they just hire a separate singer to edit in over that part while Emma lip synced? At least then the song would've been better.
speaking of Emma Watson and standards for women, the historical fashion community hates that movie too. Apparently Emma Watson said she won’t wear a corset in the movie, the thing is, corsets didn’t exist yet. Women wore stays, which provided back and breast support. Even actual corsets weren’t that bad. If an actor says that they couldn’t breath in a corset it’s because the corset wasn’t made properly or wasn’t made to fit the actress. And the yellow dress.... OHH THE DRESS I know the original dress wasn’t accurate but it was still pretty, the new dress has no silhouette, and it’s just so floppy
Gosh Gad and Luke Evans are the best part of the movie
I was looking for someone else as mad about the corset thing lol, and my god, the new dress just looks like a prom dress covered in tissue tiers like a cheap doll 😶
Exactly! God, the dress looked like a cheap prom dress more than a princess dress, and HER WEDDING DRESS! it looked so ugly and out of place...
The first time i watch the movie i was like "damn thats some ugly dress, how can they do that? I thought it was magical"
Stays are like bras back in the day. Imagine going commando under a gown😒 that’s delusional
Something that I found funny about the movie and its clothing, was that everyone was in pretty historically accurate clothing except Bell. I mean what the hell was up with that.
Although this is the most disappointed and passionate Sideways has talked so far, nothing, NOTHING, comes close to his brutal analysis on The Lion King in this video. Bravo, Sideways, bravo
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He straight up wept for Be Prepared, nothing beats that
That part with simba made me physically flinch. I'm a chior student, hearing that from a perfessional movie was just sad. Goes to show how much Disney just shoved crap together and said "YES PERFECT, WHERES MY MONEY?!"
One of the best parts of Le miserables is when Anne Hathaways character is so overcome by emotion that it effects her singing in I dreamed a dream, which makes it all the better.
Lauren Weeks i have seen les mis on stage (not broadway) sooo many times, but i never cry as much as i do with anne’s version
Melissa Lozano I’ve seen the a real live broadway version of the performance, and let me tell you it’s way better.
This!! It would've been not as emotional if they made it too faithful to the musical theater way of singing!! LOVE ANNE'S VERION SO MUCH!! It was so real and heartbreaking, fit for the song and context!!
Omg I cry every time!
She was so mellodramatic it really killed the mood for me. Ruthie Henshall over Anne Hathaway everytime.
Don't worry, Mulan crashed and burned for exactly everything but the music...
About damn time one of these films did.
Let's be fair covid 19 help
@@supme7558 and the main actresses views on Hong Kong didn’t help either 😬
Mulan didn't even have music lmaooo
@@adumba3709 I’m pretty sure that’s the joke.
The thing that annoys me most about Emma Watson in the Beauty and The Beast, is that they literally cast Broadway Legends alongside her to play minor characters while she gets to give us absolutely nothing the entire time. Audra McDonald literally won SIX Tony Awards and she’s a wardrobe.
yeah. as I've said on other comments, Emma is a great actress, but holy crap, there was some severe bias in the casting.
Right?? These people are AMAZING. What the hell ??...theyre furniture?
Emma can't act in that movie she's unbelievably sucks
Emma was pretty good in the Harry Potter movies though. She just doesn’t fin in beauty and the beast
@@itsuniquer4905 even hermione is made like a mary sue when emma plays her 😧😧😧
(hello 3 years in the future)
i know another factor with Dan Stevens' role as the Beast was that he actually prepared for this movie by taking vocal lessons at the Royal Academy of Music (as specific in an interview he had during the release of the movie). and it's a shame that there isn't an official release of Evermore without all the beast voice over editing because I would genuinely love to see how well he performed without the extra layers.
Massively agree
Another highly agree. Even with the overediting, his rendition still has a good amount of actual character in the voice.
There are Evermore edits here on UA-cam where people tried to peel away the voice modulations that turned Dan Stevens into the Beast--I downloaded my favorite one after I saw the movie and I still listen to it! They all retain some electronic-y sound but you can pretty much hear how Dan Stevens sounded. I remember seeing an interview cut where one of his teachers talked about how impressed she was with Stevens' efforts.
If they rewrote the performances to fit the actors, the movies would actually bring something new to the table. Might have made the movies feel more natural.
Yeah, they're in this weird limbo state, where they try to modernize them, but also don't want to stray too far from the originals, so the movies, and by extension the actors in them, aren't allowed to have their own identity, instead some kind of weird half-and-half thing that just feels soulless.
Kefka Palazzo exactly. I wish they could leave them in their original state rather than make them politically correct but redo it to fit the actors
I think jungle book kinda went the furthest in this direction out of the live action remakes, and thus ended up being more "eh it was fine" than "god why would you DO THAT"
But thats too much like ACTUALLY making new fresh movies with new fresh ideas.....
don't get me started with Be Prepared. JEREMY IRONS THREW OUT HIS VOICE FOR THAT SONG!! THREW OUT!!! HIS VOICE!!!! you don't just diss a legacy like that
Yeah, but was sideways blaming Jeremy? No, He was mad at Disney and the movie production crew...
@@moldycookie8162 i wasn't blaming jeremy. i was just stating a fact behind the production of the song that jeremy irons went full out for the song and the rendition we get in the remake didn't do much to pay homage to the original.
@@moldycookie8162 also the 'you' i was referring to was the creative team behind the remake. not sideways :P
sidthekid I still can’t understand why they did not get him to play scar he is scar this new scar made me mad!
Wouldn't attempting to recreate it be more of a diss than doing its own thing?
The way I see it the remakes are all just expensive fan-fiction.
Fix-it fiction specifically. Complete with additions nobody asked for and omissions that leave everyone scratching their heads.
Its more a like a copy-paste thing and convincing everyone that its so much better than the original
A very expensive Broadway musical
@@NormanReaddis It's not even that. A Broadway musical requires talent
Technically the original Disney movies are also fanfic themselves
4:57 it's even more impressive actually because not only did Daniel have to sing well, he had to be able to sing in an American accent because it's clear that Finch is an American character. It's insanely impressive and he barely gets credit for that role which he did such an outstanding job on.
Disney has just gotten so lazy and used to people just eating up their content, that they really aren’t trying anymore and just throwing things together.
they don't really care if it's good or not they care about the money
They don't put any effort into Marvel movies and they make Billions. Why bother?
I don't think they're just being lazy. I think they're being safe. They're trying to make the most money possible while taking the least risks possible.
@@keybladesrus it's better to take risk
@@niconachozstudio1952 Not always, but I'm not trying to defend Disney. I'm just stating what I think their mentality is.
Not using "Home," "If I Can't Love Her," or "Shadowlands" in these movies is criminal. And cutting "Be Prepared" is straight up sacrilegious
Maia Gaia
“Human Again”, “Proud of Your Boy”, “Pink Elephants On Parade”...
I was SO excited to hear "Home" and "If I Can't Love Her," only to be quite disappointed :(
imagine beyonce singing shadowlands!!!!!!
Thank God they didn’t sing Home or If I Can’t Love Her. They would have ruined them. But Beyoncé not singing Shadowlands that’s a true crime. It’s simply shameful.
Those songs are in the Broadway musicals anyway so it kind of makes sense
But I agree with “Be Prepared”
"the painful truth is that people will spend their money and enjoy these films because they remind them of something good",,, yup it is painful
COLY CRAP THAT WAS SCARY- I was just scrolling down, reading the comments while watching the video and the second I started to read yours, he started to say the quote! Creepy!
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The Mulan remake: lol
The reason I hate these remakes is because I remember how good the originals were. Not a dime from me, fuck them to eternal animation hell for these sins against our childhood.
My issue is that I am so stupid that I don't recognize any issues until it is spelled out for me.
Oh my god, when you put on Will Smiths version of "Friend like me" on 14:15 I got goosebumps! It is a fricking crime that they didn't put it in the actual movie, it would have been so cool. We were robbed of something really good :(
Part of what made the original was how personalized Robin Williams made it! If Will Smith had been able to rap all of his, it would have been GREAT!
If i remember correctly they gave Auli’i Cravalho voice lessons before Moana so really no excuse for them to deny Watson that kindness
Yeah, she did. She also wasn't even completely new completely new to singing. She was in Theatre in middle and high school and she still had those lessons.
The difference is that nobody knew Auli'i back then, she was cast to represent a character and got the training for it.
Emma Watson was cast because it would make her numerous fans watch the movie, Disney knew the movie would bring in cash no matter how well Emma sang.
(Of course I'm not saying that Emma isn't talented as an actress, I love her to bits, but let's be real: we all know the reason she was cast and it's money)
I think someone did try to offer Emma lessons but she refused, or something
@@toocoldtobother7271 That's...kinda hard to believe, do you have a source for that? ^^'
@@faolair3320 I'm interested
I feel like Watson was hired because she boosts nostalgia. A large amount of people have nostalgia for the Harry Potter series as well as beauty and the beast, she basically sells the concept and looks similar enough to belle to be considered type casting
That would make sence.
@The Meaning is Always Vague Wow pretty harsh.
@The Meaning is Always Vague that's rude to say
True but her acting performance ooofff
I agree I'm not a huge fan of HP (sorry not sorry), but her acting as Belle was ok. It was really hard for me to get into the movie. Everything just felt so forced. I think they tethered her to their idea and concept of Belle more than they did Will Smith and Geenie (sp?). Probably bc Will Smith is mostly going to do what he wants, but that's the whole issue is all the Disney stuff play it safe so often and I just feel disappointed each time. I'm really hoping Mulan is better. I think that if they get away from the musicals it'll help alleviate that fakeness and forced-ness these other ones have had (fingers crossed). and ya I was originally bummed when I saw there was no music, but then I remembered how (1) I didn't really like most of the music they did in the other remakes and (2) I didn't like the extra songs, so I was pretty relieved.
It's all so low energy and robotic singing. And I'm not even talking about the auto-tuning. Add OBVIOUS auto-tuning and it's completely soulless.
Dave T Geek it a myth that all films use it though. Les mis, into the woods, Mary Poppins returns and cats did not use autotune (or if they did it was so subtle it was unnoticeable, for me anyway). I don’t have a problem with autotune when used sparingly but I don’t get why production companies don’t have a little more faith in the talent Instead of turning it up to the max to the point that it doesn’t even sound like the original person anymore and sounds ridiculous. And I’m willing to bet the singers are pretty good. unfortunately it’s likely paranoia of the studios wanting everything is to be perfectly perfect perfect!
@@poppy-willowkent9803 Les Mis definitely did not use autotune, there was almost no proper singing to auto tune in the first place and some of it is quite literally off-key. So definitely not autotune :P
@@poppy-willowkent9803 The singing in the ITW movie just sucks, even using auto tune wouldn't have helped there
The worst auto-tunes have been Beauty and the Beast & Aladdin. Ugh.
it doesnt sound robotic to me it sounds soulless to me, it sounds like someone just practiced for the performance and then later scrapped everything that made it great
It baffles me that they didn't give Beyoncé Shadowland from the stage production! But honestly, that patron's point about needing original songs for Oscar-bait is probably the best point I've seen so far.
It's hilarious how much Luke Evans and Josh Gad outshine THE LEAD ROLE
forgot to mention ewan mcgregor... he sings very well too
@@rominapaez4618 He absolutely does, Moulin Rouge was amazing, but here in the film they autotune him which is saddening because he already is talented.
You also forget AUDRA FREAKING MCDONALD
Also the wardrobe lady (idk her name sorry) but like she's got some power
Is wrong for gaston to sound like that.
“i make money to make films, i don’t make films to make money” - Walt
kinda sad how it’s the reverse now
Lillian K so at this point his company is going against everything he stood for and wanted to do with the company
Lillian K wow that’s really sad.
Oh even Walt was in it for the big bucks. From the moment he started making films he was a salesman, and used what he had learned from his work in advertising to make sure Disney was alll about the selling. At the beginning he was so protective of his brand he didn’t even credit the 1000+ animators that worked on snow white
Nah dude Walt basically created our current copyright laws that have caused a scenario where none of the film's he made are available in the public domain. If these same laws existed before Walt, he would not have been able to make Pinocchio or Alice In Wonderland, and several other films.
“We have no obligation to make Art. We have no obligation to make history.
We have no obligation to make a statement. But to make money, it is often important
to make history, art, a statement, or all three.” -Michael Eisner, 1981
I’m *SO* happy you called out how they did “Be Prepared” so dirty in the live action movie
Best Disney villain song
I went listen to this song and immediately paused it and wanted to throw my phone in the trash after 5 seconds. They ruined the whole song, I agree with you.
I was kinda buying the remake, till I heard this thing. Can it even be a song anymore? I feel like all Remakes from this point on will be documentaries with lyrics said by actors. (Probably even more high-pitched)
It’s one of the best songs ever.
i went into the movie with ok hopes and then realised i didnt like what i was seeing. then be prepared came on and i couldnt finish it. they butchered that incredible song
As an avid Vocaloid fan who (actually uses similar robot-voice programs) Vocaloid sounds more alive than Emma Watson's performance
I LOVE that Mitchie M’s tuning of Vocaloids unironically sound far more human than Emma’s vocals lol
Yeah, with the right tuning I tend to be surprised when the songs I heard are from Vocaloid because they _are_ that good.
It breaks my heart to think about how much Ashman would hate these films
it's actually kinda disgusting. no, it IS disgusting. this man revolutionized film, and this is literally disrespecting everything he stood for.
The only good thing about his passing is he doesn't have to watch them murder his masterpieces. But on the other hand, if he hadn’t died, would he have even allowed them to do this? What kind of unearthly, righteous rage would he have had?
It’s literally a smack in the face to Ashman and practically every creative person who worked on those films
@@NorcalNoise Ashman would've gone ballistic, these films, if they were made at all, would be so much better with even an ounce of Ashman's influence
Why wouldn’t parents just show their kids the originals? It’s not like they aren’t on Disney Plus, like a lot of parents would have anyway. Smh
Maybe they seen "the lion king" or "the beauty and the beast" in the cinema schedule and they say: "It would be nice to watch with the children especially since I already know that the original is beautiful". They are looking for something to see and it's a quick and effective simple choice? Idk
because pre covid (and even during), some parents actually wanted to bring their children to the movie theaters and they probably could trust the Disney films because they already knew the content of them.
I have a Disney+ account and still have the original DVDs of the Little mermaid and more! They still sell them anywhere
For the same reason producers just show to the new CGI adaptations: stupidity.
Okay I have some bad news. Remember when you were little, saw Pinocchio and was surprised at how old the film was because being 2D made it timeless? Well, thanks to Pixar this is no longer the case. 2D films is what your old folks used to watch, unless you're an anime fan. With VR headsets and game consoles children only want 3D. They also like live action films because they feel more grown-up (after all, parents watch live action films too). So no, children don't want to watch the originals, sorry. Their sentimental walk down the memory lane will always start with the remakes *shudders*. Such is life. And yeah in the BC days (Before Covid) parents would take their children to theatres to have approximately 2 hours of peace and not having to run after their children as they usually do. It's a big deal for any parent and if someone else could take their children away for two hours, they were eternally grateful. Artistic merit of such films is secondary compared to that. It is us, people who should have moved on from Disney long ago. actually caring about the quality. Disney higher-ups knew that parents would take their children to see those film whether they are good or not.
there’s a clip in an interview where Emma Watson sings without any auto tune and it kILLS ME BECAUSE SHE SOUNDS SO MUCH BETTER. like maybe her voice wasn’t as strong as they wanted but then give her lessons
Where is this clip? I’ve been searching for any evidence of her real singing voice and I can’t find any
This happened years earlier, in the Freaky Friday movie. Lindsay Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis both had a year of guitar training, but it was dubbed anyway. They kind of wanted to play it safe here.
Wheres the clip?
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Here the clip of her singing
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Her, Dan and the interviewer sing a little together at the end ( the interviewer kinda ruins it but I thought Emma's voice was nice)
I can't wait for sideways to to do a review analysis on the Little Mermaid 2023 remake soundtrack and his reaction to the HORRIBLE "Scuttlebutt".
I think 2015 Cinderella was the only remake to actually succeed. The original film is very simple and the songs are less integral to the plot. By removing the songs and adding more scenes to better understand the characters, they deliver an excellent film that explores new facets of the story without watering down the emotion. And the production and costume design was phenomenal.
It’s almost impossible to find anyone who will acknowledge how enjoyable the new Cinderella was.
Yeah. I must say that I agree.
Though I'll admit that it's topped by that rodgers and hammerstein cinderella movie from the 90's. It just has more spice and personality in my mind.
@@ezonthethinker955 and the DP and picture editors were actually allowed to do some GORGEOUS color grading that highlighted every bit of hard work that went into the physical sets and costumes. I didn't even mind that I couldn't get attached to the inheritance subplot because I was just so cozy.
Definetely agreed. Production in cindrella was insanely good and really felt like fairy tale. Also excluding songs instead of messing them up as they did in Beauty and Beast is actually a good decision.
Yes! While I found the script a bit lacking, the whole film just felt like a good translation of Cinderella from one era to the next in reference to costuming, soundtrack, etc. The remake was as enchanting as the original, and I absolutely love it.
The amount of Autotune applied to Emma's singing is the audio version of the "Uncanny Valley". There is no imperfection, so it comes as lifeless and artifical. Plus, Emma, at that point, just couldn't sing- not at the Broadway lvl anyway, she sounded like she was taking beginner's lessons and it was recorded. Then there is the fact that everyone will compare her to Paige O'Hara's vocals...
Yeah, this wasn't gonna work, no matter what. They just should have hired a Broadway actress that was close to Emma's singing voice to sing the songs.
The artifacts from the autotune snapping her vocals in position is an imperfection, I would say :D
Yeah, what happened to just having voice doubles? It's not hard to find a competent singer whose voice is close enough to the actor that it's not really noticeable. And hell, people rarely care even when it is totally obvious, like with Jack in Nightmare Before Christmas. I genuinely can't think of a single valid reason to abandon the practice, but ever since Phantom it's been like, "Nope! We need to force our actors to humiliate themselves by singing their own songs!" WHY?!?
(Hell, and even Phantom dubbed over Minnie Driver. Come to think of it, same with Moulin Rouge. Everyone sang except Jim Broadbent. Although at least in Moulin Rouge they were generally pretty good.)
Yeah, this. It's all lip-synced anyway. Nothing is actually sung on set. So just get a real singer.
Laura Osnes or Sierra Boggess would’ve been perfect
I've thought that myself. But I also have to acknowledge one thing:
It's not nearly as easy to dub in live action compared to animation, where you can then animate to the performance. Trying to pull it off convincingly in live action is difficult and time consuming. There's a reason that the examples given above tend not to have smaller singing parts. (We rarely see Carlotta actually singing, mostly focusing on others around her, with only small clips. And Ziggler raps more than he sings.)
Johnny Depp's singing wasn't very good in _Sweeney Todd,_ either. But he's the main character and they needed to use him. He's also evidence that getting singing lessons can't fix everything.
To be honest, I was actually impressed with what they did with Watson's voice. It's clear that all the "Disney" sound is mechanical. It makes me wonder what they could do with a better singer where they could use a lighter touch.
On the other hand, it sucks that not even Disney has a better Auto-Tune fitting algorithm. The tuning of Auto-Tune is fine, but they could make the snaps to the right pitch sound more natural.
"There was no reason not to put [Will Smith's take on Friend Like Me] in the film!" except, you know, disney being afraid to do ANYTHING new with the live action remakes, which are designed to appeal solely to nostalgia.
Appeal to nostalgia... Like mossy bread has appeal as food.
But “be prepared” was nostalgic and that wasnt in Lion King
But that nostalgia thing is so ridiculous, you already succeeded in getting them into the theatre what are they gonna do like " uh uh... that's original comeon kids we are getting out of here... stupid Will Smith being different."
They’re literally just trying to capitalize on people’s nostalgia
i agree but i kinda see why they dont since people already complain so much any time they change anything from the originals
it just makes me so sad that the project ashman was actually passionate about was rejected (when they knew he was dying!) only to be greenlit and changed beyond recognition after his death
Watching tick tick boom recently made me think about this video. Lin Manuel Miranda got Andrew Garfield a vocal coach and worked on him for a year and it really shows. From never singing professionally to holding his own against really talented Broadway actors, his singing is actually pretty good. And disney probably had wayyy more resources than LMM to train Emma Watson for at least a few months if not a year before shooting, its frustrating that they didn't invest in it.
that movie was beautiful omg, but i agree a lot with your comment. andrew did a great job for someone who has never sung before.
I agree so much. When non-singing celebrities like Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling sing in movie musicals, it’s awful. But when Andrew Garfield does it, it’s amazing
@@Neon-bw6yd The adults are talking Hun why don't you go sleep in the kids bedroom
@@ezelfrancisco1349 i thought everyone loved la la land
@@ligokleftis I used to love La La Land too. But then I realized that I don’t remember any of its songs, and they could delete the songs and still have the story makes sense. Why create a musical if your songs aren’t good or memorable?
When they did Cinderella, I liked how it was pretty much the same story as and the changes they made, literally made sense.
yes I think they did cinderella very well it was so magical
I wouldn't say so Necessarily,
some of the changes were dumb, like the fact that she could go away, whenever she wanted and did not(she was staying in the house for absolutely no reason, and actively suffering, while in the original she was a child, so it made sense)and she never tried to escape when locked in the attic.
Also, I get why people like to change and make fun of the original Cinderella (Cinderella III has this smug, "look we fixed it" attitude)but in the end, the original's iconography is so timeless she is still the arquetipical Disney princess.
We all remember the white carriage, and pumpkin transformation, and the mice making the dress, and the ball, and wish is a dream, while these others, while having a new perspective, try too hard, and ultimately fail, all aspiring to become as iconic as the original.
Cinderella may be the best remake as well as having the best sequel, but they are all trying to recapture the original (and honestly, the only thing those movies have better than the original is story changes, which is dumb, because ultimately Cinderella is about the animation,and magic inherent in dreams, and neither of the other ones are able to surpass the original, both in timelessness, and iconography)
its probably the only remake that maintained its "magical" grandeur
@@spritingk6879 okay but you have to admit Cinderella's gown was AMAZING
@@jenningsranch I still dream of that dress.
It's almost like they're just doing this for the money..
Damn that’s a great theory
Dude, that couldn't be true, Disney is the most ethical company ever! **wink**
Wow, that would be just HORRIBLE, wouldn't it?
oh my gosh really I never knew
No shit.
I gave a presentation on Howard Ashman as part of a theatre appreciation class I took in college that moved my classmates to tears. As an HIV+ person, it touched me that you focused on his contributions so beautifully. Thank you!
so basically: animation works better for musicals, but disney isn't selling music, it's selling disney
exactly
you would think that because of this logic (which is correct) the remakes would be better if they weren't musicals, but alas, mulan proved that thesis wrong as well.
Yep
@@Paulito-ym4qc I mean it COULD'VE worked if it wasn't a big money laundering scheme to create propaganda for the Chinese version of ICE, but that might be kind of pointless to hope for from a company as big as Disney
@@QuikVidGuy Mulan could've been really good if they just made a new movie about Mulan instead of a remake and actually did some research on culture
Okay I just need to talk about Daniel Radcliffe in How to Succeed for a sec. The man worked his ASS OFF for that role. Obviously like you said he went through vocal training, but he worked through a cognitive problem that makes it difficult for him to learn dance moves. He worked through that and PULLED IT OFF. MAGNIFICENTLY. He looked right at home amongst all the professional dancers on that stage. Sure he didn't have the same complex moves as the ensemble but he did that AND SUNG. For someone who's not naturally a music theatre performer, he did a great job.
EDIT: AND THE FACT THEY DIDN'T GIVE SHADOWLAND FROM THE LION KING MUSICAL TO BEYONCE TO SING IS JUST..>CRIMINAL.
Exactly. It’s annoying how so many people put so much attention on Emma when all the other actors from Harry Potter are just as talented(and in my opinion; more, but I’m not gonna talk about how much I dislike Emma Watson’s acting)It’s a shame, really.
Oh damn! What sort of cognitive problem did he have?
@@shan8130 Just googled it, he has mild dyspraxia.
I super appreciate these comments for teaching me why I have so much trouble learning dance moves or other motor skills. I didn't know this had a name . . .
silvertamagachi Awww glad to hear! I hope it gives you some closure 💕
"When the situation becomes too emotional to speak, you start singing..."
You were so emotional throughout, I thought you would.
If you wanted to hear bad auto-tune, then you'd have heard how no amount of autotune could correct for Sideways' bad singing. But to be fair, he did say that a person's skill in singing is based on their genes and more importantly the time they spend to practice their craft. Sideways has neither...
SIDEWAYS! COME BACK! WE NEED MORE OF YOUR AMAZING MIND! YOUR VIDEOS HAVE BROUGHT SO MUCH TO THE MUSICAL, MUSIC, AND MOVIE SCORE LOVERS WORLD. PLEEEEASE COME BACK.
Literally don’t understand parents who grew up with these movies showing them to their kids. Just show them the original movies???
If they can excavate them from _the Disney Vault_
In all seriousness, it's consumerism more than nostalgia that drives these parents, methinks.
No! Show them these only! Never the originals! The originals are all great but it's time for a new renaissance ffs! Disney has shown they never understood their luck in being able to cash in on the genius of their staff. It's time to move. tf. on. 🤔
Or not it's your life 🤷🏽♂️🤣✌🏼
*corrected to make sense😅😂
@@rbarajas86 A new renaissance? These remakes are uninspired piles of hot trash. Instead of trying to suspend the audience's disbelief, Disney tries to drown it instead. Be honest and admit the only reason these movies do well, is because they're preying on the nostalgia of their clearly superior predecessors.
In my opinion, _some_ of the live action remakes are equal or better than the OG (I'm thinking Cinderella and and Jungle Book) _BUT_ still should see OG version before the live action. It's like reading the book before the movie.
I think part of it is the difference between seeing a movie at home, and seeing it in the theater. There's just a different energy when you go to the theater to see a film, and you can't recreate it. Unfortunately, not a lot of places are allowed to show classic Disney, so if they want that theater experience(tm), they have to see the new movies.
Remember the days when they used to have actual singers dub over the singing parts for actors who couldn't sing?? If Marni Nixon could dub over Audrey Hepburn, I'm pretty sure Disney could've gotten SOMEONE to dub over Emma Watson instead of Autotuning her to death. Or at very least gotten her some voice lessons! And yeah, the new numbers were pretty blatant attempts for Best Original Song noms.
Finally, someone who thinks they could've dubbed over the live action people who couldn't sing!
Totally with you on this on. The Industry has no problem in get body doubles for dance things that are too difficult for A lister actors to do, or stunt doubles to do the dangerous stuff. I would rather hear a real voice than a autotuned voice.
Or they could, ya know, hire one person who can actually do the whole job
I remember the Nostalgia Critic making a video on this exact subject a while back and about the new need for (manufactured) 'authenticity' making Disney and others feeling like we have to hear the person we're seeing on the screen when it comes to live action. I agree with you, for me all that matters in the end is having songs sung by people who can sing. ^^'
Well let me ask you. What's more cost efficient? Paying a professional singer hundreds of thousands to not just sing but also sound like the actor/actress, or pay the sound engineer less money to just use autotune?
If the time comes that I get to show Disney to my kids, it'll be the originals and not these vacant shells. Thank you for putting into words what I felt about these adaptations from the trailers alone.
@Linda Versadia I didn't even know they existed until this video got recommended.
Yes, my children will not be exposed to these live action fever dreams
I might not show my kid's the star wars sequels.
The magic is in the originals, that was the age of innovation and storytelling.
@@smalljared64 how bout you never show your kids the Star Wars sequels because that’s what I’m gonna do
I’ll be honest, when the cast of Beauty and the Beast was first announced, my first reaction was, “Emma’s not a singer though?”
I was not convinced otherwise throughout the movie😂
A friend of mine is a sound mixer for Disney. When he and his colleagues had to mix Emma's voice in Beauty & the Beast, they tried to warn Disney that her vocals couldn't be fixed and releasing it as they did would hurt the brand. They pushed for her to rerecord, instead of keeping the over corrected autotune to the point where you can hear the distortion in her voice....as demonstrated by Sideways' rant. Disney didn't care. They released it anyways.
well, Watson has (or had, idk haven't heard from her recently) a reputation of not wanting to do retakes even though it's necessary. That's why she was called 'One Take Watson' during her Harry Potter days.
Not being a musical guy, even with the correction it hurt the brand, I love Emma but she sounded so unpassionate
@@painstock Sounds about right from the self-important libfem queen of acting entirely with her eyebrows.
Here's the problem with that. You all want an autotune and 'perfect' sound. Guess what. The handful of people who sing 'normally' are far bigger than those who sing professionally. Emma's voice in this song, (autotuned or not) is what most people would sound like. Normal. Not perfect. Sometimes, we need that. Autotuned or not, I loved her voice because she sounded like 'just anybody else'. Not some big name professional. Personally, if you want viewers to really connect with the characters and movie, give them something genuine. Not perceived ideas of what is perfect. I found it very refreshing. We can't all be the best.
@@xeniamartin5297 speak for yourself then. This is Belle we're talking about-a classic Disney princess. She shouldn't have sounded "normal" especially when Disney is perfectly capable of getting an actress that has THE voice. Belle was Paige O'Hara, Susan Egan, etc. then bam, they lowered their bar to Emma Watson only because of her star power and because she played Hermione, who is, suprise surprise, a bookworm like Belle LMAO. Also, it's not just the voice (autotuned or not), but her overall performance, that most people are complaining about. Underwhelming and forgettable.
It's almost like a drug addiction, everybody is desperately chasing the first time they experienced these movies. Though they know it will never be as good as the first time, but they keep going back to it in whatever form it comes in, as long as they get it and don't have to go without it.
THIS
So, we're all Chasing The Dragon? 😁😛
I havn't even had the desire to TRY to watch the live action versions. Each one of the trailers was enough to make me blanch. Better off with the memories of the originals. I think the most relevant part of this video for me was the explanation of how animation is what ALLOWS the suspension of disbelief. The live action is just sprinting headlong into the uncanny valley. I mean... WHY do that? Disney would have been better served doing a complete upgrade of the existing animation into a more detailed cleaner 4k release or something. But why did they even attempt remakes of these films within the same century of when they were made?
And the only thing that disney is chasing with these live-action reboots is MONEY
KrisJM1234 - People love the comparisons and trash talk, too.
I love that this video came out far before we all realized that Mulan was a train-wreck.
When will Disney realize that all but one of their live action remakes has been abominable?
@@jaelie8398 Which one? I liked Cinderella tbh. Didn't really love the original
@@Anansi__
I think the best one was Maleficent
@@jaelie8398 same
@@jaelie8398 Maleficent was a spinoff. Not a remake.
I personally wish they'd used the man who played Genie in the Broadway production for the movie as well. Even without the CGI, he gave a brilliant performance and I'm so glad I was able to see him onstage!
Less than 3 minutes in and Sideways already sounds broken. We're in for a good time here folks.
He goes absolutely feral in this one.
He really do be acting feral doe
Like, he started out being mad, but he went full fucking Hulk mode by the time he got to Lion King.
I disagree. To me, listening to someone bitch and rage about something has lost its appeal over the years. I get _why_ Sideways broke, and agree with the reason for breaking, but it's not a good thing.
@@timothymclean then why are you here?
Emma Watson was used in fan art years before she was given the role. She was always going to be picked for her image over her singing.
What genuinely scares me is that, eventually, Disney will die out. In the direction that Disney movies are going now, there will be no more timeless masterpieces.
These live actions might be making money, but all they're doing for the brand is defaming it.
Yes... Maybe... But. It will make place for some amazings Studios . and for me thats good... But disney owns everything so. ..wont die dont worry
@@trinidadbaranao7728 you act like we dont want it to die.
I want a good old style animated film, like Robin Hood, I don’t like the newer 3D looking ones
@@thesuitshow9944 same!
@@thesuitshow9944 same. I have fallen in love with the vintagey, hand drawn animation. It looks so grainy, it's beautiful.
I've heard something about her voice being partially recorded on set and partially in a sound studio per her request, and that the editors just took the parts that sounded the best from each and stitched them together.
Useless fact: lumière is like aggresively french and that is kinda his thing so to make him distinguishable and still have an accent in the french version they made him Italian.
And when I talked about beauty and the beast I used to refer to him as the italian candle and I just wonder what all my english friends must have thought.
chloé Thank you for sharing this fact. I love it!
This is the kind of useless fact I love to hear
Italian 😭🤣
Lmao it's always Italian, I think I heard somewhere that in the Princess and the frog scene where they dance and Naveen speaks a little French, in the French version he speaks Italian too.
I'm pretty sure I haven't seen either The Little Mermaid or The Hunchback of Notre Dame in English, but I also don't remember them that well in French.
I still think it's funny that French "Dora the Explorer" teaches English. I still haven't checked to see if Spanish "Dora the Explorer" finishes the triangle and teaches French.
The lion dude from Narnia had more expression than the walking husks in the lion king remake and that one's practically a decade older
Also "the longer you think about it the worse it gets" practically sums up disney nowadays
I think it's because they went way too hyper-realistic. Semi-realism would have been the way to go.They lost all the magic from the original. Interestingly the same director did the jungle book remake and that one was so much better than TLK remake. The animals looked good graphically while still maintaining the personality and emotion.
Because the lion dude from Narnia is Liam Neeson. No one can beat Liam Neeson even when they kidnap his daughter from Taken. Hahahaha!
I have to agree, thought the 2019 Lion King is a cool movie (the animation looks cool and all, and there are some changes that are cool like little Pumba on Hakuna Matata) but it isn't near as good as the original (it's a good movie, not a good Lion King movie), the animation is WAY too realistic, it doesn't convey emotion at all, and don't even start with the vocals, seriously, I only even tolerate the original english voices in this movie because, except for Mufasa, Scar and some Hyenas, the brazilian dub (I'm brazilian, btw) is hideous (seriously, can't you feel the love tonight was horrible, if you thought that Beyonce was bad, boy they did worse here, I felt like they got two teenagers whose voices were mid puberty changes to dub sing that, I was cringing the whole song on the theater, you know when a teenage boy has these voice cracks, where the voice gets high pitched all of sudden? Imagine that in the middle of the song, when both start singing together, after the part where they get out of the water in the original animation, you know?), the only song I like to hear in the 2019 version is be prepared because, even though it's almost no song and not even close to the original, the vocals work on this song, it doesn't seem too robotic or/and out of tune (I still don't like the fact that they removed the original be prepared, but hey, I need to be positive about SOMETHING there), either that or they're just the same of the original but slightly worse, so I just hear the original anyways.
Anyways, sorry for the loooong rant here, I started talking (typing) way too much.
Wait, isn't the lion dude from Narnia named Narnia?
@@5ft2mikahakkinen I'm not sure I understand your comment clearly. English isn't my first language. But I'm pretty sure the lion from Narnia is called Aslan.
I'm currently in school studying musical theatre and we have something in vocal performance called "UBU" sound. It means "Ugly But Useful." This is best shown in that example of Bill Murray as Baloo floating down that river! It's so that you can best present the story of the song, character, and situation without sounding absolutely beautiful the entire time.
Puts me in mind of Mia Farrow's imperfect-but-heartfelt character-version of "Now That I'm a Woman" vs the professional-but-bland soundtract-version, from The Last Unicorn. When you first hear it, admittedly it's a bit cringe, but it grows on you, and when you later hear the better singer's version it just sounds so... lifeless. It could be by anybody, about anything. Mia's was definitely by her character and about her heartbreaking confusion.
Bill Murray was great as Baloo
*re-examines my singing prowess with new positivity*
A really good example of this is voice actor Ashley Johnson (who has a beautiful singing voice) singing in character as Ellie in The Last of us. The character Ellie has no vocal training and not much (if any) practice, so the song is purposely rough because that is what makes it believable. ua-cam.com/video/L6iophDSWJ4/v-deo.html link if anyone wants the song.
@@JJJacey Yes! I love Ashley Johnson anyway, but I recently heard her sing House of the Rising Sun and OMG I could listen to her sing all day!
“Be Prepared” was my childhood’s first introduction to a villain like Scar. Like, he’s flamboyant and fun but also evil as heck, and the song reflected both sides of the character exceptionally well in a way I couldn’t verbalize but loved anyway. Honestly, the idea of a new take on the song, or even the same take with updated visuals was the main reason I even wanted to see the live action remake in the first place! I was so excited and my imagination went wild with how they could interpret the song into epic “live-action” and when I saw it… I almost walked out of the theater… it was painfully disappointing. I’m still recovering from that rollercoaster of emotions moving from “oh wow, the songs about to start!” to “oh… okay, it’s different but that’s fine it’ll make up for it in the long run I’m sure,” to “wait, why’d they cut that part out? Is this supposed to be threatening instead of fun?!” to “wait is it over? Aw, come on, that last note wasn’t even sang very well!”
Not to be crude, but the why I’d hyped myself up for the number compared to its actual execution gave me the musical theater kid equivalent of blue b@lls.