2 years, 6 months ago
Walt Disney's latest animation flick-- The princes and the Frog is considered to be a cultural and animation landmark. Do you agree?
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That's a bit of hyperbole, but there is a margin of truth to it.
On the cultural side, it is the first African American female heroine in the Disney canon. Previous "princesses" have been white, Native American, Chinese, Middle Eastern, etc. But this is the first Black princess. So from that viewpoint, it's a cultural first. I think "landmark" is a bit over the top.
On the animation side, it's Disney's return to traditional hand-drawn 2D animation. Several years ago (after Home on the Range tanked) the idiots in charge of the studio at the time decided that the reason their latest several movies performed poorly was that no one wanted to see 2D animation any more. Apparently they were unable to deal with the reality that the reason the last few movies performed poorly was that they were BAD MOVIES. In any event, this braintrust decided that Disney would no longer make 2D movies. They would make 3D movies only. Their first one? Chicken Little. Which tanked. Because it was a BAD MOVIE.
Then the CEO was ousted, and the new CEO got the working relationship with Pixar back up and running, and even went so far as to expand that relationship into an all-out merger. As part of the merger, the head of Pixar, John Lasseter, became the head of all of Disney animation. Ironically, Lasseter, the driving force behind the adoption of 3D animation in the industry knew that there was absolutely nothing wrong with 2D animation, and decreed that Disney would return to its roots to begin producing 2D animated movies once again. Princess and the Frog is the first result of that decree.
So again, I don't know if "landmark" is the right word. Disney has been producing animated feature movies since 1937. This little "no more 2D!" is more of a blip in the history of the company. More like the ship has been righted, in my opinion.
On the cultural side, it is the first African American female heroine in the Disney canon. Previous "princesses" have been white, Native American, Chinese, Middle Eastern, etc. But this is the first Black princess. So from that viewpoint, it's a cultural first. I think "landmark" is a bit over the top.
On the animation side, it's Disney's return to traditional hand-drawn 2D animation. Several years ago (after Home on the Range tanked) the idiots in charge of the studio at the time decided that the reason their latest several movies performed poorly was that no one wanted to see 2D animation any more. Apparently they were unable to deal with the reality that the reason the last few movies performed poorly was that they were BAD MOVIES. In any event, this braintrust decided that Disney would no longer make 2D movies. They would make 3D movies only. Their first one? Chicken Little. Which tanked. Because it was a BAD MOVIE.
Then the CEO was ousted, and the new CEO got the working relationship with Pixar back up and running, and even went so far as to expand that relationship into an all-out merger. As part of the merger, the head of Pixar, John Lasseter, became the head of all of Disney animation. Ironically, Lasseter, the driving force behind the adoption of 3D animation in the industry knew that there was absolutely nothing wrong with 2D animation, and decreed that Disney would return to its roots to begin producing 2D animated movies once again. Princess and the Frog is the first result of that decree.
So again, I don't know if "landmark" is the right word. Disney has been producing animated feature movies since 1937. This little "no more 2D!" is more of a blip in the history of the company. More like the ship has been righted, in my opinion.
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Thanks mritty for such convincing detail on this.
So the Studio guys have taken disney animation thru a hard time untill Pixar joined hands