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Why Ratatouille is Pixar's Magnum Opus

Animation is not a genre. Western for example is a genre. Animation is more like an art. Ratatouille is a movie animation teaching us that no matter where you come from, no matter who you are, anyone can create something that will resonate and ring true with other people. This movie differenciates itself from other pixar movies. Most of pixar movies tend to have energetic intros. In ratatouile no fanfare and anything energetic. This intro is in fact made to feel us miserable. The muted colours and cloudy weathercontributes to an atmosphere of dullness that persists But the colour still sparks by times at the beginning of the movie notably through the taste sensation Remy experiences by combining 2 flavors. The mark of an artist taking pre existing ideas and using them to give birth to something new and unexpected. The magic of creating a new idea is perfectly captured The movie keeps up like this by showing Remy having several ideas at once and develoing hi own recipe on the spot. Unfortunatly he gets caught by the old lady of the house. This leads to an epic shoot out scene, leading to the entire colony of rats getting exposed. Remy inadvertively does something that makes bad things to happen. Remember when Flick Doohikey in " Bug's life " causes the ant's grian pile to fall into the water. The difference between Ratatouille and other movies is that it doesn't like this scene where the clan is mad at the guy who screwed up. Instead Remy gets separated from the clan in the sewers, a direct consequence from his mistake. The following scene is one of the dingiest and darkest in terms of colours. Remy was miserable before but at least he had a family. Now he had nothing except his innate desire to create. The internal passion to drive and create something in this world is made external through the ghost of Chief Gusteau. Remy is in fact simply talking to a figment of his imagination.

It's his personnification and desire to make things. Taking the advice, he keeps moving forward. What follows is a delectable sequence entirely driven by the score. Hat off to Michael Giacchino, Pixar's greatest musical asset. Whatever it's The Incredible, Up, Inside out or Ratataouille, Giacchino has been behind the greatest Pixar's scores. He was also implied in MCU Spiderman, Jurassic Park, etc... The music punctuates Remy's pitter patter perfectly. His ascent through a serie of crevices and pipes way more engaging. He avoids an easily avoidable trap, the shadow of Dug ( up reference ), He eventually makes his way outside, climbing the side of a building, glancing at a women in a shadow, entranced by an enticing taste, in a way the perfect apetizer for what awaits him. The beginning of the movie featured a drab, stormy, miserable environement. Then we had the glorious shot of Paris, it's the play off. The contrast between the shades of blue and purple, the swelling rendition of the movie's main theme taking center stage. It's one of the greatest moments in any Pixar film. We then follow a gourment kitchen in action, everything followed perfectly,e very person doing their part of the job to help the artistic efficient machine run. Then we get to see Linguini. The newly hired garbage guy is way out of his elements. Meanwhile, Remy is enjoying the view up top having his conversation with his imaginary Gusteau friend. Linguini's cluminess then causes him to spill some soup so he gotta fix it. More like make it worse in his case, causing Remy to be upset and to fall. Remy puts his passions on the display. No rationnal person would get this upset about a soup getting ruined.

But It's Remy's greatest passion, his universe. Seeing someone desecrate the sancitity of Gusteau's name by messing up the soup so badly is impossible for him to stand. After crashing into a sink we have a fun sequence where Remy evades ell the perils of the kitchen. He manages to hide eventually but get sidetracked by something. As Remy runs past the soup to try to escape by hte open window, he retracts and its foul, repugnant odor is so heinous that it's causing him to gag even if, fun thing is that rats in real life are biologically unable to do so. It's like this soup broke the laws of physics. Remy figures that he can just half ass it by adding a few things before escaping. But then he realizes the unique opportunity he had been given : cooking in the restaurant he always dreamed off. He knew he wouldn't be able with himself id he failed to seize the opportunity. So he begins creating his first masterpiece. A flury of ingredients flies through the air and into the delicious mixture being concocted by an artist in his prime with the music perfectly scoring the whole action. It's sensationnal. Nothing seems to stop Rémy now except Linguini catching him doing the soup.... So eh gets caught. Linguini then get caught by Skinner who yells at him for attempting to cook in his kitchen. But while he is distracted the soup is sent out. Everyone is shocked to see that the critic liked the soup. Even through Skinner is still angry with Linguini, he is being put in minority here, especially with Colette intervening in Linguini's favour. With the sentence " Anyone can cook "; Rémy finally received his first validation, although of course indirectly. Now to the eyes of the other guys, a simple garbage boy can cook. Some people tell that Linguini is just a standard goofball, a standard wing nut, a knucklehead.
It's still hilarious to see this bumbling idiot finesse his way through a gourmet kitchen with the help from a rat. He has excpectations to live up both from Rémy's cooking abilities and from his illustrous lineage. Pixar tends to like creating characters duo but in these movies, the duo talk to each other and sometimes try to play off of each other. Here there is an obvious change. Now half silent duos have existed before but Pixar never gave it a try at this point.If they got Rémy to talk directly to Linguini, this would have weakened the movie since It would destroy the idea that Rémy is from a different world than the ones he wants to join. The bee movie and Ratatouille are similar movies since they both include animals, conflicts with the disallowing of coming close to humans, the ethic conflict of stealing and finally having a human realizing that the little animal is on the same level of intellect as them. That being said, the bee movie was never intended to be a masterpiece like Ratatouille. In both movies, the protagonist is in a situation where the human have the right to decide about whatever they will live or die and in both cases they let him live and from here, the tiny animal forms a relationship of some sort with the human. One main difference is that in the bee movie, the protagonist can actually talk to humans. Ratatouille does something that is both more realistic and more outlandish, als more creative. Who could think about a movie where a rat is controlling a human like a puppet by pulling on his hair.It's absurd but it starts to make sense as the movie goes on. This system of control just becomes a second nature of both characters. Both manage to get their way to success with Linguini becoming a cooking star at the restaurant, even winning over his new mentor Colette. And Rémy gets to live his lifelong dream. THe way both affect each other destinies is both memorable and one of the most well written duo of Pixar.
The fact that they don't trust each other and enter in some conflicts at first make this relationship feel more realistic.

Skinner exploited Gusteau's image to sell microwaves burritos He is presented as a greedy, money grubbing opportunist who completly lacks of any artistic integrity. opting instead to exploit the image of his deceased friend. Worse is that he is not even selling out with his own image. He is using a dead man's image to further his frozen food business. Only regret we could have about the movie overall is that the other chef boys weren't flehsed out and developed more since their back stories seemed really fun and entertaining.

Capitalism, Poverty, and Ratatouille

What If Jafar Won?

What if Agrabah succumbed under the reign of a sorcerer sultan like Jafar? In an alternative end, we can imagine that the scene where Jafar is laughing over the sultan and Jasmine is where the first film ends. Then instead of what we had as the return of the sequel, Part 2 would open with the palace tower landing in the snow. Aladdin is in the middle of blizzard on the other side of the world. He tries to walk away, but in this scenario, without the carpet, he ends up falling from exhaustion and the cold. Meanwhile, Jafar is in total control. Jasmine is his personnal servant and Genie always kept close by. It's revealed that Jafar's first act as ruler is to throw the former sultan into the dungeon. His fate is deliberatly kept from his daughter. Jasmin's spirit is wounded by rumors about her father's likely death. Jafar tries a few more times to get her to marry him which she refuses. When Jafar asks Genie to make her fall in love with him, Genie wants to explain it's one of the 2 things he cannot do. Jafar snaps at Genie, calling him worthless but then catches himself. Genie may be bound by the rules of the lab but he is not. Jafar's power is the greatest any human on earth possesses. He is not Genie but he is still not a random subject. Je conjures up as much black magic as he can and Genie can tell what he is about to do. He tries to stop the sorcerer, warning him that there is a reason why genies have rules. Jafar shuts him off by sending him back to the lamp and banishing him to an isolated tower in the palace. Jafar goes mad. Green mist fills the room as a figure forms in the center. Lightning cracks and thunders roars. Jafar goes to the figure and turns her around. The women looks like an older version of Jasmin. She seems lost and confused. Jasmin is horrified to see her mother back from the dead. Jasmin's mother begins to decompose before her very eyes. Jafar steps back.

She is becoming a half rotted shell of her living self. Then the mother is removed before the guards under Jafar oders toss her outside the gates. The people of Agrabah are terrified as the queen quickly grab a cloak left by one of the fleeing citizens to covers up and disappears into the city. Many of the remaining guards straighten up. Jasmin drops into her knees and weeps. Meanwhile, Photic and Aladdin traval across terrains and get to a large sea. The sea is split. This version of the den of thieves is located somewhere in East Asia. Thei par make their way into a massive cave where ancien statues. Then a large group welcome them. These are the 40 thieves and their king, Aladdin's father, like it was in the actual third Aladdin's movie. When they find out they are father and son, Kassim is hesitant to return to Agrabah. He doesn't want to lose his son. And Aladdin cannot abandon his friends. Kassim goes on to tell Aladdin about the hand of Midas, an item so powerful that it can turn anything it touches into solid gold. With its power he believes that it can defeats Jafar. If Aladdin helps him to find the hand, Kassim promises to help free Agrabah of Jafar's tyranny. From here a montage begins and 3 years passed as Kassim and Aladdin takes part in a rearranged version of a whole new world, this time with the lyrics and tone about Kassimshowing his son new lands as they search for the hand of Midas. The montage ends up with the duo finding the golden relic. Aladdin retrives the hand and passes it to his father. They see the legend is true as Kassim's cloak is turned into gold before their very eyes. They barely escaped the booby trapped temple it was kept in then celebrate with the other thieves. They finally can return to Agrabah and defeat Jafar. Aladdin and Kassim have an argument after that. Kassim's mens simply won't go to fight Jafar. They eventually take different ways.

His sense of belonging, family, his real home took over Aladdin. He though he finally found it in his father but at the end all he was doing was betraying who he really was. He couldn't abandon his friends. Meanwhile, Agrabah is ruled by Jafar with an iron first. His people may hate him, they seldom speak up as Jafar has snuffed out even the slightest hint of rebellion. Jasmine has remained as his personnal servant and he still takes joy in publicly humiliating her whenever he feels like. She remains defiant but with her father long thought dead and her people in peril, there is little hope to defeat Jafar. Genie has been kept in the lamp all these years, still hidden away in an isolated tower of the palace. Jafar keeps him here just in case a third wish was ever needed. A few thieves try to get the lamp for themselves but the palace guards seize them and a voice is heard in the darkness. Jafar steps out of the shadows as the men begged for their lives. The scene schifts outside the palace, from where we can hear screams of agony. After a few difficult months, Aladdin finally arrived at the gates of Agrabah. Down the side of the wall, he searches for something. He finds a small tunnel hidden by a few large rocks. Aladdin pops up on the other side of the wall and returned home. He covers up his face with his cloack and makes his way into the city. He is chocked and saddened by the state of the once great kingdom. He then sees Jafar parading on top of an elephant. His guards flanked his procession as Aladdin watches his enemy seemingly imitate the prince all the entrants from years ago. Jafar throws a few coins into the crowd as he passes by. A group of people near Aladdin fights over the coins as he is pushed into the last guard. The guard is revealed to be Rasul.
Aladdin is on the ground and the cloak has fallen from his face. The guard recognizes him. Aladdin gets up and runs but the guard's words strike fear into the streets : " Whoever let that man by will answer to the sultan ". Immediatly, Aladdin get dogpiled by several people. He then finds Jasmin's mother. It turns out she has been leading an underground resistance to defeat Jafar and reclaim Agrabah. The resistants even have informants within the palace. Through a few more secret meetings together, they come up with a plan. Aladdin is to be brought into the dungeons by Rasul. From there he will open Jafar's secret passage that was shown to him years before and let in a handful more resistance fighters with the Queen among them. They must distract the guards stationed at the lamp while Aladdin retrives it. Meanwhile Rasul will sneak the Queen inside the throne room before it gets too dangerous. They excpect a fight agianst Jafar, not sure about when and where it will occurs. Things go according to the plan until Aladdin sees another figure in the dungeon, whitering away but still mentally fit. It's Jasmin's father, the true Sultan. Jafar has kept him here for ransom in case. Aladdin tactfully makes his way into the tower where the lamp is hidden. 2 resistance fighters lead the guards away and Aladdin is given a clear shot. Meanwhile Rasul escorts Jafar away from his daily parade. This is when the Queen and her men retrieved Jasmine. Just as Aladdin touches the lap, Jafar can feel that something is wrong. He snaps his fingers and transport the lamp and Aladdin into the throne. Rasul tries to desperatly stab Jafar in the back but the sorcerer sense it and with his magic, redirect the blade into the guard's belly who falls dead.

The door of the palace swings open and a large group of resistance fighters make their entrance. In fact there are the 40 thieves. Kassim jumps into the sorcerer back while they distract him and touches his face with the hand of Midas. Jafar throws him off but it's too late. He is turned into a solid gold statue. But then, just as they thought they gained the victory, the statue explode and Jafar is free. He creates a ring of fire around him, keeping everyone back. Jafar turns himself into a snake as the 40 thieves try to battle him. Just then, blue smoke fills the room and as the smoke clears himself, Genie appears. More of the smoke dissipates, only to see that Jasmine has the lamp. She then wishes that Jaffar is stripped from all his powers. Just as Jafar lounges at Jasmine, Genie zaps him. As the smokes thin, Jafar looks old, thin and frail. He has been transformed into his disguise from the original movie. Jasmine then sentences Jafar to walk into the desert for the rest of his days. Slowly, the remnants of Jafar's magics fade away. The palace is returned to normal and the magic carpet reappears. But Jasmine's mother also begings to fade away. Jasmine's second wish is used to return all of Agrabah to a pre Jafar state. Finally, Jasmine lets Aladdin uses her third wish, which he uses to set Genie free.

Cinderella III is a Transformative Masterpiece

Cinderella 3 looks like a fan fiction, in a good way. It's the key of why it's ont of the best disney sequels. Cinderella 3 : a twist of time, was released in 2007, 57 years after the first movie. It explores the idea of Cinderella's stepmother turning back in time using the fairy's magic wand in order to revert the wedding and make sure the prince marry one of her daughters instead. Considering Cinderella is one of the most iconic Disney movie it's no real surprise they would give a sequel to it. Some Disney sequels were famous for their swallow plots and cheap animation. It's easy to argue the majority of these fell flat compared to the original sequels. The way these sequels work usually tends to fit in these 3 caterogies. 1 : they follow what happened to the characters after the original movie, sometimes even exploring the adventure of their childrens like in the little mermaid 2, the 101 dalmatians 2, lady and tramp 2 o2 : They can prequel films dealing with the lives of their characters before the events of the original movie like for example the little mermaid 3. Or 3 : they can have some nicknamed midwalls stories happening within the timeline of the original movie like : Beauty and Beast 2, Bambi 2, even Tarzan 2. Like a side adventure that supposedly happened after the beginning of the original film plot but before the end of the story. Cinderella 3 is none of these things. Cinderella fits in none of these. It took place after the events of the first, sure, but only the beginning. They don't attempt to explore more of the princess's future. That burden falls on Cinderella 2 : dreams come true. You don't even need to watch the second movie in order to understand the third. The third movie attempts to rewrite the story of the original with the characters living a new adventure dictated by the changes in time which is in direct conversation with the original source material.

More like a parallel timeline. So after the twist in time, lady tremaine tricks the prince, using magic to make him believe Anastasia, one of the 2 stepsisters, was the one that Prince Charming falled in love with and not Cinderella. It's not a direct continuation of the first Cinderalla's story but rather a transformative reinterpretation To come back to the beginning of Cinderalla 3, ever since the prince and Cinderella got married, their life looks like a wonderful fairytile. Meanwhile Cinderella's stepsisters Drizello and Anastasia are remained as the sole target of their mother's abuse. They spend their days performing arduous household chores. Anastasia dreams of living a romance like Cinderella's and follows the couple into the woods where they are having an anniversary celebration. She finds out that the fairy godmother was the reason why Cinderella was able to go to the ball. She steals the wand so she can turn her family's life for the better. After turning the fairy godmother into a stone accidentally by Abastasia, lady Tremaine uses the wand to revert time before Cinderella could try the slipper, using the magic to make the shoe fitting into Anastasia's feet instead. Cinderella is confused because she knows she was the one who danced with the prince that night. She figures out she can talk to him to fix the situation. When the prince meets Anastasia, he realizes she is not the lady he mets in the ball. That's where the stepmother uses the wand to bewitch the prince to make him forget. The king is thrilled that his son finally found a bride and welcomes Anastasia into the family. Anastasia is touched by his kindness and is glad she is on her way to a romantic happy ending. Cinderella runs into the prince but because of the curse, the prince doesn't recognize her. The mices tell her he is under a spell then try to steal the wand back.
Lady Tremaine sees the ruse into Cinderella's plans and after a chasing scene, get her arrested, telling the guards to banish her from the kingdom forever. But the prince had been under the growing impression that something was wrong and that being with Anastasia seemed off. And he felt a connexion to Cinderella that he couldn't explain. The mices explain to him that he had been bewitched and that Cinderella is the true owner of the glass slipper. So he rushes out of the castle to find her. Once they get reunited and that he finally remembers, they are about to get married again but Lady Tremaine casts a spell on Anastasia to make her look like the princess and wishes Cinderella away into a pumpkin carriage. Cinderella breaks this trap and rushes back to the castle, arriving just in time. Anastasia meanwhile still in the Cinderella's appearance, realizes this is not right. What she wants is someone who love her for who she is so she refuses the prince in the name of her finding her true love, revealing the stepmother's plan. After an epic magic showdown Lady Tremaine and Drizella are defeated. The royal couple is reunited once more. The godmother makes her return and she asks them if they want to return to their former lives. But since the past was rewritten by the stepmother's actions no one but lady tremaine and the stepsisters rememer that the year was stolen from them so to them it's the only life they have ever known. Cinderella actually becomes the new canon. They basically changed the ending of the original movie while virtually erasing the events of Cinderella 2 from existence. Other aspect that gives fan fiction vibe charactzrization. To figure out why the characterization of Cinderella 3 was fantastic we need to look at the previous movies.

Cinderella in the first movie is presented as a kind and patient women. Her biggest strenght comes from she can keep her spirit high despite being trapped in a toxic household, dreaming of a better life and keeping herself safe until she is given the chance to fulfill her dreams. Even faced with constant abuse she never loses her composure or her faith that better days will come. For that she is rewarded by the fairy godmother. It's wonderfully christian but mostly harmless. Cinderella won't compromise her beliefs even in the face of adversity. Whose kindness of spirit is absolutly unrelenting. Modern audiences sometimes criticized the message spread by this movie saying that Cinderella was too passive compared to other contemporary female protagonists. But in the other hand, the idea that one can keep their chin up when stuck in an abusive situation has been taken as uplifting that there is a lot of power in choosing to remain kind. The second Cinderella sequel can be interpretated as an attempt to modernize by placing her in situations where she can be more proactive. But the movie lacks of a cohesive narrative, being just a couple of independent tales roped together and also from some out of character moments which are subtles but still noticeable. Cinderella 3 on the other hand take the qualities that the protagonist has been praised for and puts them to good use as well as creating a narrative where the girl has a chance to be active without it feeling forced. She is still charming and kind and chooses to remain that way even when faced with adversity. She has actual on screen conversation with the prince. It feels like she is the same character than the one on the original movie from 1950, 57 years before but with a different scenario. And the narratino gives us the opportunity to explore a side of her we didn't see in the original.
If you tought Cinderella felt shallow during the first movie, what about the prince... You get a sense that he is a little picky in the first movie because the king complains about how he had not found a wide yet. You do see the prince yawning at that one scene, implying that he is tired of his father's attempts to marry him off. He is barely featured in the second sequel too because there is nothing interesting about him. In the third sequel, they took the little information they had from him and cranked it up to a million. The prince is hopeless, romantic, who will rely on royal formalities up to the point it feels fitting but but will disregard them as soon as he is sure of what he wants. He is kind, polite and a bit of an airhead despite his best intentions. He is physically skilled but can be rather impulsive, following his heart more than his brain. He is what intellectuals refer to as a himbo. The thing about the prince in the original movie is that wou wouldn't make him interesting by giving a random cool personality. Cinderella 3 put the room where he had to show it off. It also can be argued that Anastasia is as much a protagonist as Cinderella. In the original movie she was just generically mean alongside Drizello and Lady Tremaine. Between the 2 stepsisters there was no difference. They are spoiled, disrespectful and ungrateful. The second sequel actually revolutionarized Anastasia's figure. One third of that sequel in fact involves Anastasia falling for a villager, him being a baker. It meant that has was below her status and knew she would be rejected by her family if she pursued this relationship. She ends up embarassing herself upon trying to talk to him and reconnects with Cinderella in an attempt to learn how to win him over. Despite some misunderstandings, the couple is able to see eye to eye and Anastasia chooses him over her family status.

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That was one of the 3 stories told by the second sequel, the one with the strongest emotionnal core. But we don't really get to see the reationship play out. Either way this movie cemented Anastasia as a worth redeeming character and the third movie successfully exploited that. She envy Cinderella not for her status but because Cinderella actually foud true love and escaped from lady tremaine's grip. With Cinderella gone, the abuse falls upon the 2 stepsisters and especially Anastasia, whose life is miserable. Throughout the movie she realizes that the path her family had been crafting into was opposite to her desires. If she went through her mother's plans she would be stuck forever in a loveless marriage and would still be under lady tremaine's control. Her chooice to expose her mother's trickery at the wedding was the real step at taking control of her life, through kindness but most importantly, honesty. The other characters are also on point with lady Tremaine being twice as scary and manipulative.

A Disney Villains Retrospective Part 10: The Tremaines (Cinderella)

Lady Tremaine is one of Disney's best villains from a creative standpoint because she is so real. A lot of villains have some sort of larger than life aspect about them. Their royalty, they command a squadron of guards, or have magic powers, or can be wild and comical, physically superhumanly strong. Lady Tremaine is none of these bu rather an everyday evil. An abuser, using her power over a person to make this person's life miserable b ecause of her own internal issues and shortcomings. She is a realistic evil and that's often the scariest kind of evil there is. Tremaine is a social climber obsessed with furthering her position in high society. Thanks to her poor parenting, her own daughters are a mess. Rather than developing her, she focuses on building them up by superficial means like fancy clothes and music lessons which ultimatly bankrupts the family. No amount of nice clothes or makeup can make her daughters any better in the long run. Lady Tremaine is tooconceited to admit this. Cinderella meanwhile is not only beautiful outside but also inside which earns her double the scorn from her wicked stepmother. Scenes between these 2 characters are tense and well directed. The power dynamic is well indicated in the first interaction we see with Lady Tremaine in the darkness of the bedroom, stroking her cat like a James Bond villain. Cinderella stands powerless, before her the shadowss on the wall looking like prison bars. Lady Tremaine only raises her voice when she needs too, not that often. Instead she is mostly rather soft spoken and subtle in how she moves and speaks. Unlike her clownish daughter's, Tremaine's mind is constantly calculating. Everything she does is deliberated. Some of the glares she gives with her piercing green eyes are enough to give shivers. Of course her most frightening moment is when she follows Cinderella in the stairs and prepare to lock her in the tower. She is entirely silent but absolutly furious.

She cruelly then trips the footman at the end, breaking the glass slipper. Her little smug smile says a thousand words. Anastasia and Drizella , her 2 daughters, are often used for comedic purposes. There is virtually no difference between them, always squabbling with each other unless they have Cinderella to direct their anger at. The moment they teared Cinderella's dress apart was the moment they trully broke Cinderella's spirit. I like how in some versions they represent both sisters in a grotesque version. In the Disney one however they are not hideous, althought they would not win a beauty contest for sure. Their ugliness come from their actions rather than their appareance. Their purpose is to provide contrast between them and Cinderella's natural beauty and charm. The stepsisters are hot tempered and vindictive while Cinderella is gentle and forgiving. Some of Tremaine's bitterness and jealousy arises from when comparing themselves to Cinderella. Another major contrast is the animal friends. Cinderella as a slew of mices, a dog and a horse loyal to her. Lady Tremaine only has her cat Lucifer, a poster kitten for evil cartoon felin. The Tremaines only make Cinderella's life difficult because of their bitterness while Lucifer just does it for fun. He spends most of his time chasing the mices, who end up outsmarting him time and time. In the climax when Cinderella is locked in her room while the mices try to save her, I don't see Lucifer 's interference as necessarily being able to help his mistress. Throughout the movie he has been targetting the mice Gus and he seems more focusing on eating Gus rather than stopping the mices from helping Cinderella.Lucfer's animator apparently had trouble coming up with a proper design. Walt Disney while visiting his house, pointed at Ward's own cat, saying that he had the perfect Lucifer along. Lady Tremaine was voiced by Eleanor Audley who gave a perfectly sinister performance. We will see Audley again as Maleficient.

Rhoda Williams voiced Drizella and Lucille Bliss voiced Anastasia, the same who long voiced the smurfette in the smurfs and most importantly, miss bitters in Invader Zim. June Foray was the one who voiced Lucifer. Cinderella became the first Disney movie to have a 3 sequels franchise. Cinderella II : dreams come true was about 3 stories sprung together. An animated Cinderella movie had been planned previously but the project was cancelled and this movie was 3 of the proposed episodes. The segment of interest of this retrospective is the final one, an uncommon romance where Anastasia falls in love the the baker of the village. Not only she is not confident about her appearance but Lady Tremaine being a social climber she is, is not approving such a relationship obviously. The Tremaines are not financially stable themelves of course. Althought the stepsisters are still shown childishly squabble with each other, we get to see a more vulnerable side of Anastasia. Despite constantly primping and pushed by her mother to find a rich handsome bachelor, when Anastasia actually falls in love, she has no idea what to say or do. She has to be taught by Cinderella how to smile properly later on, With the help of her sister, Anastasia stood to her mother and pursue an actual romance based on love rather than wealth. Another funny antagonist is introduced : the king's spoiled cat, Pom Pom, a female cat acting exactly like Lucifer. In the second segment tale, Jack is turned into human by the fairy godmother. This doesn't deter Pom Pom stalking to him. She actually does the maths that a mouse in a human body was the equivalent of a swarm of mices. Jack is still being pursued by the cats. Jack admits he shouldn't be afraid of cats now but I guess instincts run deep. Even through Pom Pom could not logically eat him, she is still dead set on trying. She leaves some unsightly wounds in the process.
Lucifer in this sequel develops feelings for Pom Pom, basically a female version of himself. This infutation even overrrides his appetite for the mices. He agrees to stop chasing them if they help him to hook up with Pom Pom. Unfortunatly for the mices, Pom Pom still likes to chase them and Lucifer is more than happy to join her once the mices helped him. They shouldn't have been athat much surprised. Lady Tremaine is in this sequel voiced by Susanne Blakeslee, Drizella by Russi Taylor, Anastasia by Tress MacNeille. Lucifer and Pom Pom are both voiced by Frank Welker. A third installment was released in 2007 5 years after the second sequel : Cinderella III, a twist in time. 1 year after the events of the first movie, Lady Tremaine steals the wand of the fairy godmother, using it to turn back time and making it look like Anastasia was the one the prince felt in love with. It came together pretty nicely with the movie expanding on Anastasia's plot from the second movie. Anastasia is shown as longing for romance. She is initially excited to be with the prince because of his royalty and it's what her controlling mother wants. Then she genuily falls for him later on when he acted nicely to her, something her own family never does. But at the end, althought Anastasia had feelings for the prince, she knew that he really loved Cinderella. Anastasia acted unselfishly at the end, helping to help lady Tremaine's evil spell and being able to find real love with the baker once more. The king and Anastasia also develop a sweet bond. Her more clumsy awkard mannerisms felt over from the first movie seem a bit more endearing. Drizella meanwhile stays on the dark side. She acts exactly the same as she did in the first movie and there is no redemption arc for her. At the beginning of the movie, we see that without Cinderella as a spacegoat, the family kinda turned on each other.

It's even more clear in the third movie, althought it was already implied in the first one, that lady Tremaine doesn't love her daughters. See sees them as a tool to an end althought she showers them with high fashion, althought she magically gives them a chance to live his royalty, she is never actually kind or caring for them. Some can say that giving Lady Tremaine the magic wand and turning her into a more classical villain kinda ruined the realness of her character she had in the first movie. But I disagree and we already saw how evil she could be without outside help. So the extension of her character was not bad. What she did in the third movie is something she would have done in the first one if she had the magical wand. In the third movie, she is still the same, only that she has been able to get her hands into something that made her much more dangerous. In the first movie all we see is a brief expression of outrage on her face when Cinderella gets the happy ending. The end of the first movie goes very quickly but it's timed out perfectly. They planned originally a longer ending with the prince and Cinderella meeting before the weeding but it reportedly killed the pacing of the movie. In twist of time, it's brief but we see lady Tremaine Drizella get turned into frogs after the spell backfired on them, and then turning back into human form, in maids, wearing Cinderella's own old clothes. Most likely they will get a worse punishment later on. They basically committed treason to the crown after all and even if Cinderella the sweet forgiving type, the king is not as much like this. About Lucifer, Lady Tremaine uses the wand to turn him in a scuzzy looking human being to drive Cinderella in a parody of her own carriage from the first movie, planning to kill her by sending her down a cliff. Amazingly, even as a human, he can't resist trying to eat Gus. The cast from the second movie return in the third one as the villains.








A Disney Villains Retrospective Part 3: The Evil Queen (Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs)

Disney starts off strong with the evil queen in Snow White and the 7 dwarfs. Snow White story first appeared in brother Grimm's collection in 1812. Fairy tale concerns a beautiful princess named Snow White and her wicked stepmother, the queen. The queen has a magic mirror that can only speaks truthfully. The queen uses this godlike ability to boost her self esteem. She always ask who is the fairest, the prettiest. The mirror mentions her. But one day it turns out that according to the mirror, Snow White has surpassed her. So he gives the order to her huntsman to kill her. But the huntsman cannot kill so he sends Snow White to hide with 7 friendly dwarfes in the woods. Upon learning Snow White is alive, the queen tries to get the job done by herself. Over years Disney became known to sanitize they've adapted but their Snow White movie is pretty close to the original text with only a few things changed. One of them is that in the animation, the queen asks for Snow White heart in the movie as a proof that she is deads while in the story she asks for her lungs and river, then she cook and eats them. Of course they are actually the body parts of a wild animal. Either way that's pretty creepy. In the Disney version she has it kept in a jewelry box as a morbid trophy. The original fairy tale also tried two other murders. First is a lease that that she ties around Snow White's waists cutting off her circulation and second one is a poison comb that she puts into Snow White's hair. Both times the dwarfs revive Snow White. For each murder attempt it's worth noticing that the evil queen disguises herself as a different old women. The final difference is the queen's fate. In Disney's movie she falls off a cliff and for good measure gets crushed by a boulder a few seconds later with her body presumably devoured by vultures.

The fairy tale has her initially getting away with the poison apple but is then told by the prince's new bride is the fairest. The queen gets to look at the bride only to discover that it's Snow White. Burning hot iron shoes are placed on her feets and she dances on a frenzy until she drops dead. Not only this would be graphic by nature to animpate this but it would be very difficult to animate this at a tiem they generally had trouble with realistic humans. Early sketches show that It had generally comical slant to it with characters looking more at home in a silly symphony. The queen was originally conveived as a frumpy ugly women. It was more in line with the fleisher version of Snow White from 1933 where the Queen essentially looks like an evil version of Olive Oyl. For this reason in the early production months, more focus was put on Snow White and the dwarfs while the queen could be worked out later. The queen was eventually turned into a tall dark mysterious women, beautiful and deadly. Her appearance was based on the eternally youthful queen from the movhe " she ". coming out in 1935. The Pampas original queen would have been too hard to take as a serious threat not to mention she wouldn't have contrasted as sharply as her peddler women in disguise later on. She was voiced by Lucille Laverne. Concept art and promotional materals call her queen Grimhilde. The queen was driven by 2 things : vanity and jealousy. At the beginning of the story she is showed learning that Snow White is the fairest of all. She may have rivals in the past, this one really hits since the narrations says that she has been worried this would happen for a while. It's not just Snow White's outer beauty but the addition of her immense inner beauty. The Queen seems to be aware of some level of Snow White's kindness She later uses it as a way to manipulate the princess in the dwarf's cottage. Of course the queen sees her kindness as a weakness rather than a strenght.

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A Disney Villains Retrospective, Part 27: Ratigan (The Great Mouse Detective)

Despite his name, Ratigan is a mouse who happens to be taller than average. The only point he is called a rat is by Basil at a few points who use the term derisively in the book. Other than that even Basil refers him as a mouse. The great master detective plot was initially handled in a loosey goosey sort of way. The creators had idea for moments and set cases like a CD bar or a fight on Big Ben and built the story around them. This is not necessarly the best way about making a story but it worked out in the end. As a result of the haphazard creation phase you can find bits of plots ideas that didn't go anywhere or were heavily retooled. An early idea shows Ratigan telling a disheveled Eliza Doitt looking mosue that she will be the queen. It appears it was part of an unused prince in the propper plot. The final story involves Ratigan kidnapping a toy maker for nefarious reasons. He wants the good Mr Flaversham to build a mechanical queen to replace the old one then he can make himself the royal consort Flam's daughter team up with with Basil of Baker Street and Dr Dawson to save her father and the British Empire. One of the initial idea of Ratigan outside of the Eve Titus book was summed up by the supervising animator Glenn Keane. He found a photo of a sleezy rich London man wearing a top hat from the 1800s. The man struck Kean as a sewer rat who presented himself as a king. In the first design, Ratigan looked devious but not physically intimidating. While he was taller than Basil he lacked the enormous physical frame he ended up eventually with. That look was inspired by Disney's CEO Ron Miller. The animators watched the movie champagne for Caesar to study actor Ronald Colemon as someone to model Basil on. The movie featured Vincent Price as well. The animators realized he would be the perfect voice for Ratigan.
Price settled up quickly into his role and worked with the animator to get the best performance from each other. The dramatic flourishes and mood swings price infused Ratigan with helped inform how the character looked and moved and vice versa. It's the best scenario in any animator / voice actor relationship. Ratigan is one of the best evil for the sake of evil Disney has ever done. He loves what he does. He has fun with his misdeeds He relishes in his villain,w orked long and hard to be the most feared criminal in London. So of course he wants to bask in his achievements. Ratigan hides out in a wine celler underneath the riverfront pub. Not to mention Ratigan's biggest hangup. He is larger than all the other mices, he lives in sewers, has the word rat in his name but he is a mouse. Animators made the choice to make him a rat even if he was a mouse in the book. The choice is due to the fact that rats are more intimidating than mices, not to mention more intelligent. Mice are usually portrayed as traditinoally cute, innocent and resourceful while rats are steteotypically and nasty. Whether they deserve it or not, rats get the worst reputation. For some reason Ratigan hates being reminded that he is a sewer rat. All his henchmen has to pretend otherwise. Does the mouse society look down on rats on the sewers or does he need to prove something? Most of movie is spent among mouse characters and a few other animals sprinkled around. Ratigan wants to blend into the mice so bad. Maybe he is doing it because the towers love mices. They are easier to kick around than rats who could actually fight back.
There is also an orwellian nastiness in how he treats his underlings. They all know he is not a mouse but will be killed if they don't go along with his game. This rodent complex is not the driving force behind Ratigan's wickedness. His main motivation is his intelligence. He is smart and want everyone to know that. One of the biggeest difference between Ratigan and Moriori is how they want people to view them. Ratigan wants to be known as the world greatest criminal mind Moriori doesn't want to be known at all and prefer to operate in secret. If someone connected him to all these crimes he overseas, his empire would be toppled. This is why he goes after homes in first place. Because Sherlock figured him out. Just like Sherlock is the only one who culd bring morality, Basil is the only mouse who can bring down Ratigan. Basil and Ratigan relationship is more than just wanting to keep London safe or save the queen. The details are not specified but they both have a very personal story. We know that Basil tracked Ratigan for years. It seemed like for every success he had, Basil is responsible for just as many failures. The 2 obsess over each other. Basil has a shrine of sorts with Ratigan's

Ratigan has a basil voodoo dool and Basil has a Ratigan picture. Even during a song about how great he is, Ratigan stops to monologue about how Basil has been a constant thorn in his side. Ratigan wants to fool all of England, Basil included. When he finds out Basil is investigating his rage, he almost has a rage induced heart attack then decides to use this to his advantage. Not only he is able to capture Basil but he is able to humiliate the detective and break his spirit. Prooving he is the superior mind isn't enough for him. Now the final blow has Ratigan placing Basil and Dawson in a death trap which he excitedly describes by giving gruesome details. He recorded a song to mock Basil in his final moments and most importantly, he set a camera to go off at the moment the dust is settled. This scene encapsulates Ratigan perfectly. It's complete overkilll and he is so proud of his handiwork This character is dripping with evil. As much as we cheer when Basil escapes we almost like the professor as much. Not only he is a riot when he is at the top of his game but he is a credible threat who gets truly scary at the end. We see hsi rage constantly bubbling under his surfaces or he manages to suppress it most of the time letting out in a few key moments. like killing a hapless minion in his first scene. Once he reaches his breaking point he won't pull it back as easily. It's when B asil has stopped him one too many times that Ratigan finally snaps. The huge hulking creature can hold back no longer. Ratigan goes all out and let out all the rage he has been building up on the much smaller Basil.
It's not even a brain vs brawn situation. Basil only has his brain but Ratigan has both. Although Basil manages to use his wits to survive, some of his victory is also dependent on luck. Basil figures out the clock is going to strike but him being knocked out by Ratigan to a safe distance is more serependity than skill. Another storyboard shows Basil deliberatly distracting Ratigan during the fight. As the rat pummels him, Basil begins asking him questions. Even if he is frenzy, Ratigan 's ego won't allow him to not answer the quizz. If Basil dies thinking he is the smartest, Basil is sure to hold on as the clock strikes, sending Ratigan falling. It plays out the same as the finished movie with Ratigan pulling Basil down with him anyway. Just like Sherlock Holmes in the final problem, the great detective survives.

A Disney Villains Retrospective, Part 14: Maleficent (Sleeping Beauty)

In Disney animation, the evil fairy plays an active role in the rest of the story. She is directly responsible for princess Aurora pricking her finger, she is the one growing thorns around the castle to stop the prince from breaking the spell. The prince, who has met the princess before in the Disney version, actually had to fight his way to the tower where the princess sleeps. Maleficent went through several revisions. Some old concept art chose her as an old crone. Other art has her looking a bit younger with a pair of antennae, a few looking identical to the queen from Snow White. Fer final design, tall, regal, sinister with a horned hood, was by legendary animator Marc Davis. He also initially sketched her with a black and red robe which was changed to black and purple by another animator Ivan Pearl who played a large role in the general look and feel of sleeping beauty. Very early in the story sessions the animators realized that Maleficent would be difficult to work if they didn't give her someone to work with. Although she is always a driving force in the plot, a lot of time she is watching behind the scenes. Her scenes were falling flat so Marc Davis decided to give her a bid sidekick. First it was a hawk then a vulture until they finally settled on a raven. Later drafts added an army of little creatures goblins to do her bidding. Disney's version gave Maleficent character a much more active role in the story. The original version had the evil fairy more or less leave once she put the curse on the baby princess. Disney had Maleficent keep watching over the kingdom not only to make the curse fulfilled but also to make sure it can't be broken. She even transforms into a dragon as a final obstacle. Several plot points were lifted from disney's Snow White, including an idea thathas been planned for Snow White's prince which was cupped.

In early drafts of Snow White, the prince would have been imprisoned by the wicked queen and fight his way out of her castle. This was used for prince Philip. Meanwhile a deleted version of the spindle scene would have Maleficent enticing Aurora to touch the needle saying it was a magic wish granting wheel. The evil queen used the same trick against Snow White. One other deleted idea had the fairies cast a protection spell over the castle that no evil thing that walks flies or crawls can enter undeterred. Maleficent transforms into a large purple fish that is caught in the moat gaining her access. As in the fairy tale, Maleficent's entire motivation for cursing princess Aurora is not being invited to the party. Unlike the fairy tale she wasn't deliberatly excluded. Earlier scene had King Steffen staying that wherever Maleficent goes, sorrow follows. One can wonder what would happen if they just invited Malficent in the first place. It's easy to imagine Maleficent finding another excuse to curse the baby or someone who happened to look at her in the wrong way. She could have also give Aurora some sort of ironically twisted gift, one that would be considered as a blessing only in Maleficent's own evil eyes. Whether the king did or did not invite Maleficent, they were potentially looking for trouble. After the curse, princess Aurora appears to be the target of all Maleficent's wrath for the following 16 years. Although the curse is supposed to happen on Aurora's 16th birthday, she is hidden in the woods by the 3 good fairies, Flora, Fauna, and Merryweather. Maleficent is most likely so angry because the princess is off the radar and there is no way to ensure the curse will be fulfilled. If she was in Maleficent's sight the whole time, the fairies the fairies would have been more tempered. Even through Aurora is Maleficent's main target alongside prince Phillip who is the one who can break the spell, Maleficent's true enemies are the good fairies.

Many even consider the 3 fairies to be the main character with Aurora and Phillip acitng more as plot devices. Aurora doesn't really get a chance to develop as a character since she is asleep for a good portion of the movie. While Phillip is definitly step up from previous disney princes he is still not that noteworthy personality wise. Maleficent never really has any direct interaction with with Aurora, even in the scene where Maleficent commands Aurora to touch needle, the princess is completly in a trance. Maleficent's relation with the 3 fairies is more interesting hwoever. They clearly have a long, bitter story. Fauna mentions that Maleficent always ruins Flora's nicest flowers with her frosts. This could mean that while good fairies represent life, Maleficent could represent death. While death is not a positive thing, it's very necessary for life to go on. It's likely that Maleficent destroys Flora's gifts because she can. Acts of evil are the only thing that make her feel good. Althought Fauna's speculations about Maleficent not being happy is meant to show her as being lovely naive, she is not wrong. Even in the brief moments where she is on top, Maleficent is never really happy for very long. Other disney villains relish in their supposed victories. Jafar loves being in command of Agrabah, Hadès is ready to live up on mount Olympus. When we see Maleficent sitting on her throne after cursing Aurora and capturing Phillip, she is still wearing the same frown as always, her minions dance aroudn a bonfire below but she seems as miserable as ever. The only thing who give her a little pleasure is taunting Phillip on his cell. But even if she did that everyday, it would probably get old very fast. That's probably why she decides the extend Philllip's torments. She reveals that she does plan to free him in 100 years where he will be feebly hobble to the castle and finally awaken the sleeping beauty.
It's a pretty messed up scenario and as far as physical and emotional torment goes, Maleficent brings her a game with this one. She has been furious for 16 years and now she was about to get spiteful for 100 years. Maleficent's inherent spitefulness. Sleeping Beauty is a very pure retelling of a classic fairy tale. Maleficent is a villain because the story needs a villain. Not every movie needs this black and white kind of morality. But in this case this really make Maleficent stands out as the mistress of all evil. She is one of the few disney villains who is evil simply because she likes being evil. Major disney villains, even the most despicable ones have some sort of motivation. The wicked queen is jealous of Snow White being prettier than her, Cruella Devil, Prince John and Radcliffe are greedy in vain, Scar, Ursula, Jafar and Hadès want power, Gaston can't take being rejected, Frollo has a laundry list of issues. But Maleficent is evil simply because she is. Even if some other villains in disney fall under this category, they are generally smaller in the scale of the story. Madam Mim and Chernabog for example are only in one scene of their respective movies. Maleficent is a fairy in a failore. The fairfolk have their own morality and customs. WIthin their narrative itself though the only other fairies we see are the traditionnal friendly ones seen throughout other disney media. As far as the movie story is concerned, Maleficent is decidedly bad apple. While a lot of credits has to go to Marc Davis for his design and directing animation of Maleficent, ehr actress voice also played a large role in bringing this villainous to life. Eleanor Oddly only previously voiced Cinderella's stepmother lady Tremaine, another cold and cruel character. She would go on to voice one more character for Disney : the iconic fortune teller madam Leota in the haunted mansion.

A Disney Villains Retrospective, Part 14: Maleficent (Sleeping Beauty)

In the comics, Maleficent rarely appeared. One story has her putting Aurora to sleep again with seemingly no cure. Ludwig von drake proves to be an unexpected time traveler hero. Another story has her and Madame Mim kidnap the christmas spirit. The fial one has Maleficent's head goon reform and become Santa's bodyguard. One italian story was the Disney retelling of th neverending story. Mickey must save the world from the nothing, a thing threatening to wipe them out. Maleficent tries to let nothing succeed even if it wipes her and her friends out as well. It's still a victory over the heroes to her eyes. At the end Mickey succeeds and Maleficent ends up being taken by the nothing. In the manga kilala princess, story follow a girl named Kilari through various Disney franchises meeting princesses along the way. When she meets Aurora it's been 1 year since Philip woke her from her enchanted sleep. As the kingdom celebrates, a mysterious women named lady maleficent visits with a rare rose as a gift. This is actually Maleficent. After Kilari stops Aurora from touching the rose, Maleficent bites her time a bit. Later on she reveals her true form and makes more poison thorns grow around the castle. Kilala is pricked and fall into the enchanged slumber. Her love interest kiss her awake and Maleficent is wiped out on spot. In the kingdom keepers, Maleficent acts as the main villain alongside Chernabog. In 2008 a short sequel to the original movie was published called Maleficent This one takes place 2 years after Aurora's awakening. A lunar eclipse takes place which apparently weakens some fairy's powers and the spells they cast.
Because of this, Diablo the raven turned previously into stone is able to break free again. He finds her mistress staff and pecks it which is enough to bring Maleficent back from the dead. Maleficent turns all of Aurora's kingdom into stone except for Aurora. The princess asks her to put her to sleep in exchange for freeing the rest of the kingdom. Once restored, prince Philip fights Maleficent once more and this time tricking her dragon form into biting her own tail poisoning herself and saving Aurora. Later on in 2017 a short prequel was published called " a message dfor Maleficent "

Maleficent has a strong presence in the Disney parks. Disneyland opened in 1955 during Sleeping Beauty's lenghty production. Although the movie itself wouldn't come out until 1959, Walt Disney chose it to represent the park as a whole to drum up the excitement for the movie and to put an attraction inside the castle with a walkthrough added inside the wallls, who is telling the story of Sleeping Beauty. The first version focused on Maleficent and the scarier aspects of the story. Maleficent is first seen standing over Aurora who just collapsed after pricking her finger. Diablo is perched on Maleficent's shoulder flapping his wings. Guests pass a serie of barred doors and looking through the keyholes they can see the goons staring back at them. An effect done by placing mirrors in the goon's eyes so they would blink when the guests blink. Maleficent is shown summoning her evil spirits and demons to celebrate her triumph. They get to see her torture room as well although no torture device is shown in the movie.The final corridor has Maleficent's shadow on the wall It ended up being removed since it scared childrens a bit too much. The walthrough was redesigned in 1977. The mostly 2 diemnsional characters were replaced with doll like versions. It was lighter in tone and Maleficent appeared less as a result. She can be een shouting at her goons for their incompetence, then she can be seen fighting the prince in her dragon form. In the late 1990s or early 2000s this dragon scene was covered up probably due to some malfunction.
The walkthrough was closed in 2001, which was largely due to the 9 / 11 terrorist attacks and the cost cutting that followed. In 2008 the walkthrough reopened and redone. The new version is based on the 1957 attraction with some scenes being direct reproductions like Maleficent standing over Aurora. A new scene shows her transforming into a dragon ready to take on Phillip. The keyholes with the goons however didn't return. The doors that held them did. They will now pop up from behind windows to scare guests. For a time Maleficent could also be found in the castle in Tokyo deep in its hidden dungeons. The cinderella mistery tour was opened from 1986 to 2006. Inside, guests would encoutner one villain after the next. The instigator of the whole event was the magic mirror from Snow White and the final villain to be fought was the horned king probably because the black cauldron has been previously released in theaters. The dark tone worked well for the attraction. Maleficent is seen on a portrait near the beginning and her goons appear at a foutain in the water and out of crevices. After that, guests pass her castle on the forbidden mountain with ghosts swirling around and lightning filling the sky. A large dragon can be encountered later on. A dance show was performed weeks before it opened for promotion. Maleficent was the main character appearing in a black and red robe, looking close to Mark Davis initial design. At the end, Mickey blasts her with a sword.