Fantasia 2000

Fantasia 2000 is the 38th full-length animated film the Walt Disney Studios and was released in 1999. It is the sequel to Disney's third masterpiece Fantasia from the year 1940. Fantasia 2000 premiered on 17 December 1999 in the United States, was launched on 1 January. 2,000 nationwide in the U.S. IMAX theaters and ran on 16 June 2000 in the usual cinemas. Like its predecessor, the film combines classical music with different animations and live-action introductions in a concert. The music of the film is mostly played by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra under the baton of James Levine.

Construction

Following the example of his predecessor, Fantasia from 1940 Fantasia 2000 uses several animated films without solid framework for action, which are lined with classical pieces. The cutscenes are this time narrated by several announcers. The pieces used are:

  • Ludwig van Beethoven - Symphony No. 5 in C minor (abstract butterfly -like patterns and structures to explore a world of light and darkness. )
  • Ottorino Respighi - Pines of Rome ( A humpback whale family floating through the air in a landscape surrounded by icebergs. )
  • George Gershwin - Rhapsody in Blue ( In a bustling New York of the 1930s, the portion of the film accompanied some people during one day of the Great Depression; drawn the cartoon is in the style of Al Hirschfeld's comics from that time the little girl in the hotel based on the. character of Eloise from a famous book series of author Kay Thompson. )
  • Dmitri Dmitrievich Shostakovich - Piano Concerto No. 2 in F major, Op 102 ( A retelling of Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale The Steadfast Tin Soldier, compared to the original is changed the final: Tin Soldier and dancer not burn in the fire, but the villain gets the short end. )
  • Camille Saint- Saëns - Carnival of the Animals, Finale ( A bevy grumpy Flamingos is continuously annoyed by a silly fellows with a yo-yo, and the episode was built as a tribute to the dance of the hours of Fantasia, in the ballet dancing hippos, ostriches, elephants and crocodiles for amusement ensured. )
  • Paul Dukas - The Sorcerer's Apprentice ( By far the most famous part of the predecessor another time was used. )
  • Edward Elgar - Pomp and Circumstance Marches - Marches 1, 2, 3 and 4 ( After Mickey Mouse got his appearance in a Fantasia segment, Roy E. Disney decided to dedicate Donald Duck Donald also a short film set in a retelling. the story of Noah's Ark Noah's first mate. Donald must bring the animals on board the Ark and misses and loses Daisy Duck and is finally reunited with her. conducted this section Peter Schickele. )
  • Igor Stravinsky - The Firebird Suite - 1919er version (It is the story of a spring spirit, and his friend, a red deer, tells After a long winter, the forest spirit awakens spring in the forest, but he gets thereby also accidentally the Firebird from his sleep in an extinct. volcano. the Firebird is in the vicinity of the forest angry to have been disrupted, and destroyed the lives in the forest and the forest spirit. After the Firebird has withdrawn, awakens the spring and with it the spring spirit is reborn. This section presents an under construction and in the topic of life - death -. rebirth on A Night on bald Mountain / Ave Maria segment from Fantasia )

Genesis

Since that time Fantasia flopped at the box office and due to the collapse of the European market after the Second World War was a continuation for the time being not up for discussion. After the original at a re-release in 1969, however, celebrated unexpected successes, Roy E. Disney in 1990 finally tried to persuade the group to continue, and so they began in 1991 with the production. The music was chosen by Roy E. Disney, James Levine and the production staff. They chose the pieces of your own taste, which was a unique mixture. Roy Disney in person selected for example from the Pines of Rome.

A striking difference between the musical styles of the first and second part is the use of pianos. While no single piano was played in its predecessor, piano notes accompany the viewers and listeners by more than half of the film.

Fantasia 2000 includes a variety of technical innovations that later found its way into the everyday life of the movie studios. Thus, the segments Pines of Rome and The Steadfast Tin Soldier were primarily computer- animated. These animations were completed even before the release of Pixar's Toy Story in 1995. The Stag in the Firebird Suite was traced by computer -generated imagery to give a more coherent expression to the whole short film. The same technique was later used in the film Treasure Planet for the character of Long John Silver.

The producers were of the opinion pauses between the individual segments would be necessary to avoid overstretch the viewer. Some cut-scenes were filmed under the direction of Don Hahn. They decided against a single narrator and chose several celebrities for the speaking part of. So Steve Martin and Itzhak Perlman directing the Pines of Rome a, Quincy Jones keeps an introduction speech to Rhapsody in Blue, and Bette Midler tunes the audience at the Piano Concerto by Shostakovich one. James Earl Jones opened the Carnival of the Animals with director Eric Goldberg. Penn & Teller appear to announce the sorcerer's apprentice. After Micky, as in the first film, talks with Leopold Stokowski, he says a few words to Levine, just after the Pomp and Circumstance Marches moderating. The last short film, The Firebird Suite is announced by Angela Lansbury.

Background information

Unlike Fantasia, the film segments were produced consecutively for Fantasia 2000, which explains the long production life of approximately nine years.

Fantasia 2000 is the first animated feature film length, which was shown in IMAX theaters.

James Levine and Peter Schickele arranged to most of the items for use in the film, which usually led to a drastic reduction, especially in the Beethoven symphony that takes in the film only just over a minute. This was already handled a lesser extent in the first film so.

When used in the film recording of Rhapsody in Blue Bruce Broughton conducts the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. In Sorcerer's Apprentice the original recording of Stokowski was reused from the first film. Both pieces were re-recorded for the official soundtrack album from the London Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Levine.

The premiere of the film took place in New York's Carnegie Hall, where the music was played live by Levine and the Philharmonia Orchestra.

The segment for Rhapsody in Blue was initially as an independent short film in the works before Fantasia was incorporated in 2000.

Originally, the Nutcracker segment should be reused from the first film, which is why the first trailer for Fantasia 2000 still contains scenes from this.

All characters that appear in the Rhapsody in Blue segment names were given, even if they are not mentioned in the finished film. For the final scene of this segment many colors were used on average, so you got problems with coloring, leading to the production of the next " masterpiece", Tarzan delayed.

The rights to the Firebird Suite, the Walt Disney Company had secured in 1940, then still draw with the project, a Firebird sequence for Fantasia. This idea was finally discarded, and taken up on the second part. Also a film on the steadfast tin soldier was planned already for Fantasia, however, you did not see then in a position to choose an appropriate piece of music, and dropped the idea.

Joe Grant worked as a single employee on both parts of the Fantasia movies.

Mickey Mouse and his girlfriend Minnie Mouse can be seen for a few frames when leaving the ark Noah in Pomp and Circumstance Marches. In addition, we recorded various beak and duck -shaped objects in the environment, so that the viewer Donald Duck subconsciously better integrated into its environment.

The 2010 released DVD and BluRay version is dedicated to the recently deceased in Roy E. Disney.

Fantasia 2006

Roy E. Disney was planning directly after the release of Fantasia 2000 a sequel, under the working title Fantasia 2006 to maintain the original Fantasia sequel concept. The successor should be the strict concept, only to use classical music to break through, and use music from different countries. The work began as early as 2000, however, were set on the basis of the planned restructuring of the Disney Studios in 2003. However, four are already in work short films were completed and published separately. These are as follows:

Destino ( Director: Dominique Monféry, 2004 Oscar - nominated ): A surreal love story, which had been designed in 1946 by Salvador Dalí in his typical style for Disney. As a music an eponymous song by Mexican Armando Dominguez was used. The film is to be found, including a documentation of its creation at the 2010 published BluRay Fantasia 2000 and is mentioned in a cut scene from Fantasia 2000 as warped idea.

Lorenzo (directed by Mike Gabriel, 2005 Oscar - nominated ): The cat Lorenzo has his own tail tame, who has developed a dance of their own. The film is implemented in the peculiar style of moving concept art and backed by the Tango Bordoneo y 900 by Osvaldo Ruggiero.

One by One ( German: One by one, directed by Pixote Hunt): African children from a shantytown fly kites. The music is originally composed for The Lion King and used also in the accompanying musical eponymous song by Lebo M. This short film is on the DVD or BluRay to The Lion King 2 - Simba's Pride to find from 2004 and 2011.

The Little Match Girl ( German: The girl with the matches, directed by Roger Allers, 2007 Oscar - nominated ): Here Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale of the same name was used as a template content, as music acts Alexander Borodin Nocturne from the Second String Quartet in D Major, Opus 55 The short film on the DVD to Ariel, to find the mermaid of 2006.

An advertised, but then coated Extra Fantasia and Fantasia 2000 BluRays called Fantasia World points to the joint publication of Fantasia trip for 2006 short films.

Awards

The film received

  • Three Annie Awards for character animation, effects and production design in an animated film
  • A Vision Award from the PGA Golden Laurel Awards as well as
  • A nomination for Best Soundtrack Album at the Grammy Awards 2005.
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