[School of Movies 2018]
The year was 1996, just a few months ago Pixar had changed the face of cinema by introducing a whole new medium of 3D animated film, with Toy Story.
Disney followed up their lukewarm reception of Pocahontas with another middling-in-appreciation Broadway musical. The art is beautiful, the scale epic, the songs memorable.
The subject matter is a serious social commentary written by a man who fiercely disapproved of injustice, framed as a tragic, gothic romance, but in the all-singing, all-dancing Disney style, the jokes are witty banter mixed with fart noises made by a pig-like gargoyle (who may not have even been real) played by Jason Alexander from Seinfeld. The main villain is a judge, because executives weren't happy with him being a Catholic Priest, yet rogue animators deliberately confounded their demands and depicted him upon his knees, praying for forgiveness from Mary for the darkness inside him which he knew would imminently lead to murder, in one of the most spectacular song sequences in ANY movie. In short, it had a tone problem.
And with the help of Dan Floyd and Nama Chibitty, we dig into how this was pulled together and what the end result was. It's one hell of a ride.
We have covered all the Disney animated classics canon so far from Snow White up to The Lion King and they can be found of the "School of Movies Archive" which is a separate feed on iTunes or wherever else you find podcasts. Here's all the Disney ones.
Guests
Daniel Floyd of Extra Histories
Nama Chibitty
Batman: The Dark Knight Returns
Man of Steel
Watchmen
Hancock
Superman Returns
Superman 1-4
Star Trek
The Muppets
The Return of the King
The Two Towers
The Fellowship of the Ring
Serenity
Monster House
The Last Airbender
The Dark Knight Rises
The Dark Knight
Batman Begins
Batman: Year One + Under the Red Hood + Return of the Joker
Batman: Mask of the Phantasm
Batman Forever + Batman & Robin
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