The Black Cauldron (film)

  • Taran Grant Bardsley, Frank Schaff- Langhans
  • Eilonwy Susan Sheridan, Katja Primrose
  • Fflewddur Fflam Nigel Hawthorne, Hermann Ebeling
  • Gurgi John Byner, Wolfgang paragraph
  • The Horned King John Hurt, Joachim Kemmer
  • Kribbel Phil Fondacaro, Peter Matic
  • Dallben Freddy Jones, Heinz -Theo Branding
  • King Eidilleg Arthur Malet, Wolfgang Volz
  • Doli John Byner, Helmut Heyne
  • Orddu Eda Reiss Merin, Bettina Nice
  • Orwen Adele Malis - Morey, Almut Eggert
  • Orgoch Billie Hayes, Mary Axe
  • Narrator John Huston, Joachim Nottke

Taran and the Magic Cauldron is an American animated film by directors Ted Berman and Richard Rich from the year 1985. It is the 25th full-length animated feature film of the Walt Disney Studios. It is based on the first two books of the Chronicles of Prydain by Lloyd Alexander.

Action

Taran is a swineherd who dreams of a career as a great fighter. But he must daydreams soon put it aside, as his eloquent looking pig Hen Wen is by an evil ruler, the Horned King, kidnapped. The villain hopes Hen Wen can show him the way to the black kettle that has the power to create a massive army of invincible undead. With the aid of the stubborn princess Eilonwy, a quick-tempered bards and a creature called Gurgi, Taran bullying attempts to save the world of Prydain before the Horned King. In his meetings with witches, elves, magic swords and the black boiler itself, Taran learns what it really means to be a hero, and that some things are more important than fame and glory.

Production history

  • The film cost about 44 million U.S. dollars, but played only 21 million, less than half again. He is after Treasure Planet of the least successful film of masterpieces series.
  • As the first film of the Walt Disney Studios has Taran and the Magic Cauldron computer-animated sequences.
  • Taran and the Magic Cauldron is according to The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad, the first film of the Disney Studios, who got a release from six years by the FSC.
  • The vision with the Horned King, the Hen has at the beginning of the film, is a reused scene from an emerging in the film Fantasia sequence of those. Using the music from A Night on Bald Mountain
  • In the film the later success of director Tim Burton worked with as a draftsman.

Film cuts

About half a year before the publication in the American cinema saw the new chairman of Walt Disney Studios, Jeffrey Katzenberg, the finished film for the first time. Film music and animation had already been completed, but Katzenberg did not agree with what he saw. He found the film too brutal, so he had to cut out about thirteen minutes of footage. Elmer Bernstein, the composer of the music to Taran and the Magic Cauldron, had no time to adapt to new music styles, which is why very showy jumps are observed in the soundtrack to the part. Stark was cut the scene of the birth of the undead from the boiler. Another edited sequence showed how a soldier is decomposed by green fog. Still got the final version of the first feature-length Disney animated film a PG by the MPAA. To date, the uncut version of the film is not available on DVD or VHS.

Reviews

  • " Taran and the Magic Cauldron is Walt Disney's 25th full-length masterpiece. This film combines the inimitable perfection of Disney's masterpieces with the myths and fantasies of a bygone era. A film in which all fantasy fans get their money's worth. It is the first film in the animated story, were used in the computer -generated scenes and Dolby stereo sound " - Dirk Jasper film lexicon.:
  • " A trick technically perfect fantasy animated film from Disney workshop, entertains by bizarre mythical creatures. For a pure children's film it certainly contains too little humor and too much dark scenes, the pleasure in the story of the struggle of good against evil demonic forces any new developments. "-" Lexicon of international film. " (CD -ROM edition ), Systhema, Munich 1997.
  • " Is very original " Taran and the Magic Cauldron " really is not. Eighty minutes the events roll off easily, without this resulting in a more than superficial extremely interaction between the figures. A feast for the eyes, for sure. But little more. "- Variety

The Film Review Board Wiesbaden gave the production value the predicate.

Media

  • Taran and the Magic Cauldron. Buena Vista Home Entertainment, 2002.
  • Taran and the Magic Cauldron. Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment, 2010.
  • Elmer Bernstein: The Black Cauldron. Original Motion Picture Soundtrack. Varèse Sarabande, North Hollywood, 1985, recorded music no. VCD 47241 - original recording of film music by the Utah Symphony Orchestra under the baton of the composer ( apart from the official CD and LP releases is also a bootleg CD with the complete film music).
  • The Black Cauldron is a PC game from Sierra Online, which is based on this film.
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