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Visuals for a fic I'm working on
Scrapped animation from the abandoned project DISNEY PRINCESS FAIRYTALES. The presentation was going to utilize all the same story beats from the original film, except with Phillip in Aurora's place (barring Maleficent's curse). The audience was to follow Aurora planning a surprise for Phillip's birthday, the way the fairies planned one for Aurora in the first film. Aurora then sings a song about love in the forest, just as she does in the original, preceding a fight the fairies get into during the party preparations where they zap one another from blue to pink and the film would've ended with a waltz between Aurora and Phillip after the fairies conjure up a dress for her. This treatment included a lot of traced animation from the first film (none of which is seen above), identical backgrounds, and most of the same costumes, apart from Aurora's finale dress. Despite the fact that previews for this version were released, studio heads at the time rejected it and forced a rework, as this film was their favorite from the Walt era and they were more protective over it.
Scent of A Woman
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Happy Leland Melvin Day!!!
Happy Leland Melvin Day!
when Haymitch tells Katniss “you never get off this train”, she realizes that her star-crossed lovers act for the Hunger Games propaganda sealed her fate as a love struck teenaged girl for the rest of her life. And this news is devastating because it goes against everything she stands for; she has no time for relationships while providing for her family, and has no desire to marry and consequently give birth to more cannon fodder for the Hunger Games.
What’s really interesting about this, though, is that Katniss then goes over all the reaped tributes for the 75th Games and believes a lot of what she’s told about them, from a Capitol controlled narrative. Katniss assumed the worst of Finnick right from the beginning cuz of his charisma and popularity in the Capitol. Annie and Wiress went crazy from their games. Enobaria filed all her teeth into fangs to represent how she won her games. She never even learns the names of the Morphling-addicted Victors. And even with Haymitch, it takes quite some effort to see past the personas they forced on him.
That’s why SOTR was so important because it shows just how casual propaganda can become and that nobody’s immune to it. That nothing we knew was real because the Capitol genuinely controlled everything. To think about everything that could’ve been a lie or a cover up of something bigger is overwhelming; it’s supposed to be.
The way we see the full progression of the dehumanisation of the tributes as the Hunger Games becomes more established and more normalised in the Capitol
In Ballad, they’re like wild animals, caged and starved as a form of revenge
In Sunrise, Haymitch being likened to some kind of pet by his prep team and in the afterparty of the games
In The Hunger Games and Catching Fire, they’re like celebrities trapped in a sick parasocial relationship with the people who will, in a week, get to see them die
The cage is always there- it just evolves to make it more palatable to the viewers