Dragon is definitely _not_ a normal-sized cat, lol. In a later scene, you'll see that, even while lying on his side, he comes up to one of his adult owner's knees. I've seen bulldogs smaller than Dragon.
Oh I know right? Dragon's design is so amazingly full of contrasting characteristics, with all that amazing flowy animation, I absolutely love it!!! ♥️🖤
3:23 Dom DeLuise the voice of Jeremy really did slobber over the boom mic on this scene when he did imitate his sneeze to get into character. That's how much of a looney tune he was. Gone but never forgotten.
@@mkaplan1383 I never knew he voiced Itchy. I am not surprised, but then as a kid I was more influenced by Fivel than All Dogs go to Heaven. That is interesting to know. Thank you.
Just imagine how scary it was for Jeremy. Yeah he’s ignoring Mrs. Brisby’s warnings, but just imagine he spots a big ass cat. And despite the distance, he can see that it’s looking right at him. It’s like noticing a tiger stalking you, and you know it knows that you’re looking at it but he’s still coming at you.
And yet he was still willing to fly back in and distract the cat by grabbing its tail so Mrs. Brisby could get away. For all his clumsiness and goofing around, he could very much be brave when it counted.
@@3DSDF Exactly Similar to Merida (Pixar Animation Studios) giving King Fergus a major distraction while getting Queen Elinor back to normal despite bringing the newly sewn tapestry outside to transform her back into a real queen
If you were to see a tiger or a lion, watching you from being hidden in the grass, with a lethal and deadly gleam in them, you either follow the rules of to avoid a predator, or do what Jeremy did: panic and fly for your life.
The thing about this movie that is so good is that it keeps so many things in perspective. It’s from the view point of little field mice, of course a farm-cat would be a dangerous monster to them. I recall a part of the movie where the farmers wife tells him to get out of the kitchen. Same thing with the owl in the old tree. It’s just an owl but they portray as supernatural to keep things from the view point of the characters What a great animation team
The personallity (and a bit of the appearence) of this cat remind me the bear from The Fox and the Hound. Interestingly, both were defetead in a similar manner, breaking a log/branch and falling on a waterfall.
There is also a scene in some movie where Leslie Burke (AnnaSophia Robb) made a attempt to swing on a rope but accidentally destroyed it while getting across
The main difference being Dragon's fall wasn't fatal, since it was only a comparatively short drop of a few feet. Big for a mouse, but a mere inconvenience for a cat.
So, the rats are intelligent because of the NIMH experiments. And the owl is intelligent because he ate those rats. And the crow here is intelligent because he's a crow, a naturally intelligent animal
The owl and Nicodemus were close allies, if not implied to be separate personalities/avatars of the same mystical being, so he almost certainly left the NIMH rats alone. He was intelligent and living in the forest long before the rats of NIMH even had their own society.
This right here is why kids movies back then are better then nowadays. They weren't afraid to scare kids or make them cry. We need less rep and more trauma
thats what they sound like to mice, mouse ears are a lot more sensitive to human ears so a normal cat sound or screech will sound a lot louder, like a roar to a mouse, so its a lot more terrifying. It would be weird if they just used normal meows in this scene. They are doing it from the perspective of the main character/the mouse.
How old is Jeremy here? since in the book he is described as a young crow, but in the movie his age is ambiguous. but I still adore and love the character of Jeremy from both the book and the movie.
The title here has a typo. The title is actually "The Secret of NIMH", NIMH is an acronym for the science facility that is encountered during the film/book.
the reason Dragon sounded more monstrous like in this scene is because the creators wanted us to hear him from a Mouses perspective. That's why later in the movie, he sounds like a regular cat to us.
2:33 This scene inspired a moment in one of my original works when some of my characters were in the presence of their favorite actress and they ran off screaming.
If i had actually been near a cat, i will be sneezing my brains out See, im allergic to caat Im allergic to cay Im allergic to hone Yee... AHH PSFT!!! Im aller... ha AHHHHH PSFT!!! Excuse me pardon me
This and the scene with an old owl was terrifying. The thing with an owl is even more scary when you think about it, how did an owl became smart to be able to talk and have same intelligence like those mice and rats humans were experimenting on? Well, owl ate them and by digesting them also got that compound into its blood and became smarter.
@@CartoonPhreak also pegasus and ceberus from Disney's Hercules, martians from Mars attacks, Abu Aladdin's pet monkey 🐒, rajah princess Jasmine's pet tiger 🐅, and cave of wonders from Disney's Aladdin franchise
@@reubenguttenberg7405 Maximus (Disney) Goddard (Nickelodeon) Scooby-Doo (Hanna-Barbera) Various creatures (New Line Cinema) Djali (Disney) Max (Disney) The Itsy Bitsy Spider (Paramount Pictures) Lalo (DirecTV; only appeared once during commercial breaks of either SpongeBob SquarePants, Loud House or iCarly on Nickelodeon)
Amelia “Mia” Thermopolis Age: 15 Gender: Female Type: Princess 👸 of Genovia Ability: Strength, Agility, Durability Home: San Francisco Weakness: Water💧(only for a short period of time), Fire 🔥 (only if she gets someone’s clothes burned), Ice 🧊 (during an accident with Lana), Rock 🪨 (only during the Rock Gym scene), Flying (which a helicopter interviewed her), Grass (only if she hits the ball ⚽️, scaring the cheerleaders) Homeworld: Earth 🌎 Family: Helen Thermopolis (mother), Queen 🤴 Clarisse (grandmother) Rarity: Rare Alignment: Good 😊 Status: Unknown Color: White/Green (as mentioned on her gorgeous princess 👸 dress 👗)
When I was younger I would always try and figure out why Dragon the cat was so big, but I realized he’s a normal sized cat lol
I get the feeling he’s a Maine Coon cat.
Dragon is definitely _not_ a normal-sized cat, lol. In a later scene, you'll see that, even while lying on his side, he comes up to one of his adult owner's knees.
I've seen bulldogs smaller than Dragon.
@@Deined Makes you wonder if HE'S an escaped lab experiment too...
@@Deined yep. It’s like he’s overweight but also a big breed or a freaking mutant.
Oh I know right? Dragon's design is so amazingly full of contrasting characteristics, with all that amazing flowy animation, I absolutely love it!!! ♥️🖤
3:23 Dom DeLuise the voice of Jeremy really did slobber over the boom mic on this scene when he did imitate his sneeze to get into character. That's how much of a looney tune he was. Gone but never forgotten.
He reminded me of Tiger from the Fivel movies. Both Tiger and this Crow seem to have that same character.
@@jayt9608 And voiced by the same guy too. You also forgot Itchy from All Dogs Go To Heaven.
@@mkaplan1383
I never knew he voiced Itchy. I am not surprised, but then as a kid I was more influenced by Fivel than All Dogs go to Heaven. That is interesting to know. Thank you.
@@jayt9608 fagin from Disney's Oliver and Company
@@reubenguttenberg7405and he voiced Stanley in A Troll In Central Park
The Secret of NIMH. An unforgettable blend where whimsical meets thrilling.
What is make great this Movie and Mrs Brisby still love Jonathan, even he is dead?
Fun fact: There are more than 600 colors used in this movie. One character, chemist mouse Mr. Ages, has twenty-six colors.
600?
Yes!
I remember being completely terrified on this scene when I was a kid, but couldn’t stop watching. This and the encounter with the owl. Good memories.
"Monster is a relative term. To a canary, a cat is a monster. We are just used to being the cat." - Dr. Henry Wu, Jurassic World
Thanks for bringing that up; I used to think that Dragon the cat was actually part Dragon.
Based
Humans by definition aren't monsters. Some humans can end up being like one.
Just imagine how scary it was for Jeremy. Yeah he’s ignoring Mrs. Brisby’s warnings, but just imagine he spots a big ass cat. And despite the distance, he can see that it’s looking right at him.
It’s like noticing a tiger stalking you, and you know it knows that you’re looking at it but he’s still coming at you.
And yet he was still willing to fly back in and distract the cat by grabbing its tail so Mrs. Brisby could get away. For all his clumsiness and goofing around, he could very much be brave when it counted.
@@BDNeon yep. Dude showed he was reliable
@@3DSDF
Exactly
Similar to Merida (Pixar Animation Studios) giving King Fergus a major distraction while getting Queen Elinor back to normal despite bringing the newly sewn tapestry outside to transform her back into a real queen
If you were to see a tiger or a lion, watching you from being hidden in the grass, with a lethal and deadly gleam in them, you either follow the rules of to avoid a predator, or do what Jeremy did: panic and fly for your life.
People forget how scary cats are as predators. Felis domesticus might be cute but they are extremely skillful, sometimes sadistic, hunters.
ya I've noticed that.
Housecats are literally the same thing as a tiger or lion, just fun-sized.
@@daliborjovanovic510yeah. To a bird or a mouse, house cats are like Tigers.
@@daliborjovanovic510Housecats are about 10 times as successful as tigers or lions in their hunts.
@@ghett0bla5tyeah because they arent stuck in the wild
The thing about this movie that is so good is that it keeps so many things in perspective. It’s from the view point of little field mice, of course a farm-cat would be a dangerous monster to them.
I recall a part of the movie where the farmers wife tells him to get out of the kitchen. Same thing with the owl in the old tree. It’s just an owl but they portray as supernatural to keep things from the view point of the characters
What a great animation team
3:36 The way Jeremy was hollering like that was hilarious. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Also when he sneezed in the cats face 3:29🤣🤣
2:31 Oh my goodness!””AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!” I laugh every time lmao .
I use to think Dragon the cat was actually more dragon than cat, but now I realize, that’s just what cats are like to rodents.
The personallity (and a bit of the appearence) of this cat remind me the bear from The Fox and the Hound. Interestingly, both were defetead in a similar manner, breaking a log/branch and falling on a waterfall.
There is also a scene in some movie where Leslie Burke (AnnaSophia Robb) made a attempt to swing on a rope but accidentally destroyed it while getting across
The main difference being Dragon's fall wasn't fatal, since it was only a comparatively short drop of a few feet. Big for a mouse, but a mere inconvenience for a cat.
Dragon's growling always unsettled me when I watched this as a kid.
They were borrowed from Bobcat growls
Yeah domestic cats cannot roar
Dragon sounds more like a bobcat than a farm cat
He's about the size of a bobcat, too.
@@Deined
Yep
Bonkers is also a bobcat who is literally a police officer in the animated series of the same name from circa 1993
They used Bobcat sounds so that way Dragon would sound scary for a Mouse's pov.
So, the rats are intelligent because of the NIMH experiments. And the owl is intelligent because he ate those rats. And the crow here is intelligent because he's a crow, a naturally intelligent animal
The owl and Nicodemus were close allies, if not implied to be separate personalities/avatars of the same mystical being, so he almost certainly left the NIMH rats alone. He was intelligent and living in the forest long before the rats of NIMH even had their own society.
It’s scenes like this that make me glad that I’m not a mouse.
If you're a house mouse you're safe. But just don't go exploring unless the humans are sleep. 😉
This right here is why kids movies back then are better then nowadays. They weren't afraid to scare kids or make them cry. We need less rep and more trauma
There’s no way cats can make scary sounds like dragon’s
thats what they sound like to mice, mouse ears are a lot more sensitive to human ears so a normal cat sound or screech will sound a lot louder, like a roar to a mouse, so its a lot more terrifying. It would be weird if they just used normal meows in this scene. They are doing it from the perspective of the main character/the mouse.
most of the sounds you hear are actually bobcat growls
Yeah, and just to let Don Bluth know, domestic cats like Dragon DO NOT roar, they meow! And they don't growl either!
@@Amelia4111 they meow to humans and roar to mice
@@Amelia4111 This is seen from the point of view of a mouse. A cat is meant to be as menacing as a dragon to them.
I laugh so hard I couldn't breath on 2:38 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
The cat doesn't bother at all about water.
That damn cat always terrified me as a kid.
Sorry to hear that and he terrified me when I was a kid too!
How old is Jeremy here? since in the book he is described as a young crow, but in the movie his age is ambiguous.
but I still adore and love the character of Jeremy from both the book and the movie.
If we go by his concept art, apparently he's supposed to be 16.
@@turtswing Is that in human years?
This movie and "An American Tale". Cats in 80's cartoon movies were absolute units.
Edit: Don Bluth movies.
2:38
Unsettling. What would make a rabbit run like that except a predator?
The title here has a typo. The title is actually "The Secret of NIMH", NIMH is an acronym for the science facility that is encountered during the film/book.
I don’t see a typo lol 😂
Don’t forget the sequel film.
The National Institute of Mental Health
the reason Dragon sounded more monstrous like in this scene is because the creators wanted us to hear him from a Mouses perspective. That's why later in the movie, he sounds like a regular cat to us.
Reminder: This movie is capable of being rated G so much more than most animated movies these days
He hasn't been quite the same ever since he "woke up" on the top of that hill the local kids use as a pet burial ground. 😜
2:33 This scene inspired a moment in one of my original works when some of my characters were in the presence of their favorite actress and they ran off screaming.
Dragon weirdly looks a little bit of dog and some cat.
Cats don’t really get fair treatment in Bluth movies...
Ehh. His first project outside Disney was about a little kitten.
Or the rest of the media.
There's Edmund from Rock a Doodle, although he was technically not a cat but a boy who turned into one...
There's Tiger from "An American Tail."
Don Bluth, the master of juxtaposing the comic relief with nightmare fuel
If all dogs to heaven, then this cat must have came from Hell.
3:28 dragon got covid
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@Ryan Ward They truly made Dragon the cat super monstrous in this movie. It was effective for storytelling.
3:38 Hello murderer, I see Johnathan Brisby left his mark on you.....
Did Don Bluth ever make a movie without Don Deloise in it?
Quiet, Does he see you?
No *giggling* yes!
Dragon is a evil cat.
Very evil 😈
And a murderer.
@@mkaplan1383 that is right.
@@jamesmoss3424 like in a horror flick
@@olleselin it does look like it.
3:45 This will be later reused for "An American Tail"
I use to have a Dragon , his name was Bubby von Doom !
If i had actually been near a cat, i will be sneezing my brains out
See, im allergic to caat
Im allergic to cay
Im allergic to hone
Yee... AHH PSFT!!!
Im aller... ha
AHHHHH PSFT!!!
Excuse me pardon me
errrrrgh! RRRAAAAAAAAAEGH!!!
That’s not a cat, that’s a demon from hell
dragon was scary yet i liked it. brisby was attractive and the spider was creepy
I remember this movie
when I was a in my elementary school.
In Toy Story 4 there was a Cat who was also called Dragon
Dragon looks like he was resurrected from the pet sematary
This scene would scare me when I was little idk why :/
It's pretty obvious why, Dragon looks and sounds absolutely monstrous. He also nearly kills Mrs. Brisby and Jeremy.
Who names there pet cat dragon?
According to the book, his masters gave him the name as a joke because he was tiny as a kitten.
Why not
He looks like a Dragon
I would
You have never met cat owners have you? I keep telling them that cats are spawns of hell.
Ya that’s no farm cat. That’s like a demon cat 😨
I have a fat cat and his name is Dragon because of this movie
Jeremy is allergic to cats
Jeremy is always said to be a crow, but with his yellow legs and beak wouldn't that make him a blackbird?
This and the scene with an old owl was terrifying. The thing with an owl is even more scary when you think about it, how did an owl became smart to be able to talk and have same intelligence like those mice and rats humans were experimenting on? Well, owl ate them and by digesting them also got that compound into its blood and became smarter.
3:45 was used in An American tail
I 💕 the video.so Amazing 🤩
Cats would never dive into a pond just because of a mouse.
You ain't seen a hungry enough cat.
@@jwithextrajj he is not hungry...he is a fat cat that has two owners who spoil him.
Did a cat murder a member of Don Bluth's family or something? He certain enjoys depicting cats as from the deepest circle of hell lol
But not the cat who was friends with Fieval. :) Cute song about being a Duo. :)
ooh oh, domino
4:38 Miss Brisby Underwater Scene
Dragon The Cat
Crows eat mice too.
Dragon is good kitty!
Scariest housecat in cinematic history.
People, don't let your cats go hunting outside.
That's a big raven
Oh my goodness...
AHHHHHHHH!!!
I think Don Bluth had a thing against cats
3:10
If only that crow was there at the last act...
Don Bluth is responsible for creating the most terrifying cat (Dragon), T-Rex (Sharptooth), and Hellhound in cinema! 😱
How did the medicine not dissolve?
Nicole Maris: What the freak?
Excuse me, pardon me
2:35
2:09
2:34
I swear it's Satan's cat!
Frank Welker as dragon the cat
Yep
He also appeared in numerous films, video games and TV shows (Aladdin, Curious George, DuckTales, etc)
@@CartoonPhreak also pegasus and ceberus from Disney's Hercules, martians from Mars attacks, Abu Aladdin's pet monkey 🐒, rajah princess Jasmine's pet tiger 🐅, and cave of wonders from Disney's Aladdin franchise
@@reubenguttenberg7405
Maximus (Disney)
Goddard (Nickelodeon)
Scooby-Doo (Hanna-Barbera)
Various creatures (New Line Cinema)
Djali (Disney)
Max (Disney)
The Itsy Bitsy Spider (Paramount Pictures)
Lalo (DirecTV; only appeared once during commercial breaks of either SpongeBob SquarePants, Loud House or iCarly on Nickelodeon)
@@CartoonPhreak sabor the leopard from Disney's Tarzan and Tarzan 2
@@reubenguttenberg7405
Exactly
Rene Simon
Don bluth really doesn't like cats
The media doesn't.
That's not a dragon. It's a cat.
A cat named Dragon
Dragon.
animal: cat🐈.
gender: male♂️.
type: wild beast.
ability: strength💪, agility, agility, durability.
home: fitzgibbons farm.
weakness: water💧.
homeworld: earth🌎.
family: farmer fitzgibbons (owner), Mrs fitzgibbons (owner), billy fitzgibbons (owner).
rarity: uncommon.
alignment: evil👿.
status: unknown.
color: orange🟠/blue🔵.
Amelia “Mia” Thermopolis
Age: 15
Gender: Female
Type: Princess 👸 of Genovia
Ability: Strength, Agility, Durability
Home: San Francisco
Weakness: Water💧(only for a short period of time), Fire 🔥 (only if she gets someone’s clothes burned), Ice 🧊 (during an accident with Lana), Rock 🪨 (only during the Rock Gym scene), Flying (which a helicopter interviewed her), Grass (only if she hits the ball ⚽️, scaring the cheerleaders)
Homeworld: Earth 🌎
Family: Helen Thermopolis (mother), Queen 🤴 Clarisse (grandmother)
Rarity: Rare
Alignment: Good 😊
Status: Unknown
Color: White/Green (as mentioned on her gorgeous princess 👸 dress 👗)
Maybe there should be a sequel where Mr.s Brisby and her family avenge Jonathan and maybe bring him back to life somehow.
Dragon did nothing wrong!