Fantasia 2000
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| German title | Fantasia 2000 |
| Original title | Fantasia 2000 |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1999 |
| length | 75 minutes |
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| Director | Eric Goldberg Hendel Butoy, James Algar, Francis Glebas Pixote Hunt Gaëtan and Paul Brizzi Don Hahn |
| script | Eric Goldberg |
| production |
Roy E. Disney , Donald W. Ernst |
| camera | Tim Suhrstedt |
| cut | Jessica Ambinder-Rojas, Lois Freeman-Fox , Julia Gray, Craig Paulsen, Gregory F. Plotts |
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Fantasia 2000 is the 38th full-length cartoon from Walt Disney Studios and was released in 1999 . It is the sequel to Fantasia ( 1940 ), the third part of Disney's "Masterworks" series. Fantasia 2000 premiered in the United States on December 17, 1999 , opened in US IMAX theaters nationwide on January 1, 2000, and opened in general theaters on June 16, 2000. Like its predecessor, the film combines classical music with various animations and real film introductions as part of a concert. Most of the film's music is played by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra , conducted by James Levine .
construction
Following the example of its predecessor Fantasia from 1940, Fantasia 2000 uses several cartoons without a fixed framework, which are underlaid with pieces of classical music. The intermediate scenes are commented this time by several announcers. The pieces used are:
- Ludwig van Beethoven - Symphony No. 5 in C minor (Abstract butterfly-like patterns and structures explore a world of light and darkness.)
- Ottorino Respighi - The Pines of Rome (A humpback whale family swims through the air in a landscape surrounded by icebergs.)
- George Gershwin - Rhapsody in Blue (In a busy New York of the 1930s , the section of the film follows a few people during a day of the Great Depression ; the cartoon is drawn in the style of Al Hirschfeld's comics from that period. The little girl in the hotel is based on the Character of Eloise from a famous series of books by the author Kay Thompson . Gershwin himself performed a cameo in the apartment above the piano teacher.)
- Dmitri Dmitrijewitsch Schostakowitsch - Piano Concerto No. 2 in F major op.102 (A retelling of Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale The Steadfast Tin Soldier ; the ending has been changed compared to the original: the tin soldier and dancer don't burn in the fireplace, but the villain draws the short straw. )
- Camille Saint-Saëns - Carnival of the Animals, Finale (A flock of grumpy flamingos is constantly being annoyed by a silly conspecific with a yo-yo ; the episode was built in as a homage to the dance of the hours from Fantasia , in which ballet-dancing hippos, ostriches, elephants and crocodiles provided amusement.)
- Paul Dukas - The Sorcerer's Apprentice (By far the most famous part of the predecessor was used one more time.)
- Edward Elgar - Pomp and Circumstance Marches - Marches 1, 2, 3 and 4 (After Mickey Mouse had his appearance in a Fantasia segment, Roy E. Disney decided to dedicate a short film to Donald Duck as well. Donald plays in a retelling the story of Noah 's Ark Noah 's first aide. Donald has to get the animals aboard the ark and misses and loses Daisy Duck and is eventually reunited with her. Peter Schickele conducted this section .)
- Igor Stravinsky - Firebird Suite - 1919 version (The story of a spring spirit and his friend, a red deer , is told. After a long winter, the forest spirit awakens spring in the forest, but he also accidentally brings the firebird out of its sleep in an extinguished one Volcano near the forest. The firebird is angry at being disturbed and destroys life in the forest and the forest spirit. After the firebird has withdrawn again, spring also awakens and with it the spring spirit is reborn. This section orientates in the structure and in the subject of life - death - rebirth in the segment A Night on the Bald Mountain / Ave Maria from Fantasia .)
History of origin
Since Fantasia flopped at the box office at the time and due to the collapse of the European market after the Second World War, a sequel was not an option for the time being. However, after the original enjoyed unexpected success in a rerun in 1969, Roy E. Disney finally tried in 1990 to persuade the company to do a sequel, and production began in 1991. The music was selected by Roy E. Disney, James Levine and the production staff. They chose the pieces according to their own taste, which resulted in the unmistakable blend. For example, Roy Disney personally selected Rome's pine trees .
A striking difference between the musical styles of the first and second part is the use of pianos. While not a single piano was played in the predecessor, piano tones accompany the viewer and listener through more than half of the film.
Fantasia 2000 includes various technical innovations that later found their way into everyday film life in the studios. The segments Pines of Rome and The Steadfast Tin Soldier were mainly computer-animated. These animations were completed even before Pixar's Toy Story was released in 1995. The deer antlers in the Firebird Suite were traced using Computer Generated Imagery to give the whole short film a more coherent expression. The same technique was later used in the movie Treasure Planet for the character of Long John Silver .
The producers were of the opinion that breaks were necessary between the individual segments in order not to overload the viewer. Some intermediate scenes were filmed under the direction of Don Hahn . It was decided against a single narrator and selected several celebrities for the speaking part. To divert Steve Martin and Itzhak Perlman , the Pines of Rome one, Quincy Jones holds an introductory speech to Rhapsody in Blue , and Bette Midler tunes the audience at the Piano Concerto by Shostakovich one. James Earl Jones opens the Carnival of the Animals with director Eric Goldberg. Penn & Teller appear to announce the sorcerer's apprentice . After Micky talks to Leopold Stokowski , as in the first film, he says a few words to Levine, only to then moderate the Pomp and Circumstance Marches . The final short film, the Firebird Suite , is announced by Angela Lansbury .
Background information
In contrast to Fantasia , the film segments for Fantasia 2000 were produced one after the other, which explains the long production time of around nine years.
Fantasia 2000 is the first full-length animation to be shown in IMAX theaters.
James Levine and Peter Schickele rearranged most of the pieces for use in the film, which usually resulted in a drastic shortening, especially with the Beethoven Symphony, which only lasts a little over a minute in the film. This was also done to a lesser extent with the first film.
Bruce Broughton conducts the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in the recording of Rhapsody in Blue used in the film . Stokowski's original recording from the first film was reused for the sorcerer's apprentice . Both pieces were re-recorded for the official soundtrack album by the London Philharmonia Orchestra under the direction of Levine.
The film premiered at New York's Carnegie Hall , with music played live by Levine and the Philharmonia Orchestra.
The segment for Rhapsody in Blue was initially in the works as an independent short film before it was incorporated into Fantasia 2000 .
The Nutcracker segment from the first film was originally intended to be reused, which is why the first trailer for Fantasia 2000 still contains scenes from it.
All characters that appear in the Rhapsody in Blue segment have been given names, even if they are not mentioned in the final film. For the final scene of this segment, an above-average number of colors was used, so that there were problems with coloring, which delayed the production of the next " masterpiece ", Tarzan .
The Walt Disney Company had already secured the rights to the Firebird Suite in 1940, when they were still planning to draw a Firebird sequence for Fantasia . This idea was finally rejected and taken up for the second part. A film on the Steadfast Tin Soldier was also being planned for Fantasia , but at the time they did not see themselves in a position to choose a suitable piece of music and dropped the idea.
Joe Grant was the sole contributor to both parts of the Fantasia films.
Mickey Mouse and his girlfriend Minnie Mouse can be seen for a few single images leaving Noah's Ark in Pomp and Circumstance Marches . Furthermore, various beak-shaped and duck-shaped objects were drawn into the environment so that the viewer subconsciously integrates Donald Duck better into his environment.
The DVD and Blu-ray version, released in 2010, is dedicated to Roy E. Disney , who died the year before .
Fantasia 2006
Roy E. Disney planned a follow-up film under the working title Fantasia 2006 immediately after the release of Fantasia 2000 in order to maintain the original Fantasia sequel concept . The successor should break through the strict concept of only using classical music and use music from different countries. Work began in 2000, but was discontinued in 2003 due to the planned restructuring of the Disney studio . However, four short films already in the works have been completed and released separately. These are in detail:
Destino (Director: Dominique Monféry , Oscar nominee in 2004 ):
A surreal love story that was designed by Salvador Dalí in his typical style for Disneyin 1946. A song of the same name by the Mexican Armando Dominguez was usedas the music. The film, including a documentation of its creation, can be found on the 2010 Blu-ray from Fantasia 2000 and is alreadymentioned as a discarded ideain an interlude from Fantasia 2000 .
Lorenzo (Director: Mike Gabriel, Oscar nominee in 2005 ):
The cat Lorenzo has to tame his own tail, which has developed a dance of its own. The film is implemented in the peculiar style of moving concept drawings andunderlaidwith the Tango Bordoneo y 900 by Osvaldo Ruggiero .
One by One (German: one by one , director: Pixote Hunt):
African children from a slum settlement fly kites. The music here is a song of the same name by Lebo M, originally composed for The Lion King and also used in the accompanying musical . This short film can be found on the DVD or Blu-ray for The Lion King 2 - Simba's Kingdom from 2004 and 2011.
The Little Match Girl (German: The girl with the Schwefelhölzern , directed by Roger Allers, 2007 Oscar-nominated ):
Here was Hans Christian Andersen's eponymous fairy tale used as content submission, as a music acts Alexander Borodin Nocturne from the Second String Quartet in D Major , Opus 55. The short film can be found on the DVD for Arielle, the Mermaid from 2006.
An announced, but then canceled, extra of the Fantasia and Fantasia 2000 Blu-rays called Fantasia World indicates the planned joint release of the Fantasia 2006 short films.
Awards
The film received
- three Annie Awards for character animation, effects and production design in a cartoon
- a Vision Award from the PGA Golden Laurel Awards as well
- a nomination for best soundtrack album at the 2005 Grammy Awards .
Web links
- Fantasia 2000 in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Fantasia 2000 atRotten Tomatoes(English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Imax homepage (English)
- ↑ Booklet of the official soundtrack
- ^ Liberman, Paul (December 20, 1999). " Disney Unwraps 'Fantasia' Sequel, After a Long Spell ". Los Angeles Times . (English)
- ↑ Fantasia 2000 - The IMAX Experience Trailer ( Memento from February 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) on YouTube
- ↑ Roy Disney Presents At The Newport Film Festival 2008 (English)
- ↑ Fantasia and Fantasia 2000 4-Disc Blu-ray + DVD Combo pack ( Memento from February 22, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
