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Today we have a homemade video/interview with our admins about their favourite Disney movies! We say why we like it, our favourite parts and our favourite characters.
Our individual parts were filmed by ourselves and Nini put the movie together for your enjoyment.
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A wealthy and aging French socialite, Madame Adelaide Bonfamille lived with her cat Duchess, and her three kittens: Berlioz, Toulouse, and Marie. She also employed a butler, named Edgar.
Madame sent for her friend, George Hautecourt, to finalize her will. But they did not know that Edgar was listening to them. Madame considered her cats like her family and so she planned to leave everything to them. The estate would only then be handed to Edgar once all the cats die. Upon hearing this, Edgar decided to put sleeping pills in the cats' cream and he brought them to the countryside while they were asleep. However, Edgar's plans were ruined when two dogs named Lafayette and Napoleon chased him and prompted him to leave the cats in a field somewhere. The next day, the cats found themselves not in their home, but in the countryside, and met a cat named Thomas O'Malley, who offered to get the family back to Madame.
Meanwhile, back in Paris, Edgar seemed to think he got away with his little crime...until he realized that he left his hat and umbrella out in the countryside, and quickly rushed out to retrieve them. Meanwhile, Thomas, Duchess and the kids rode on a milk truck, before being found out by the driver. They then attempted to follow a train track, until a train caused them to dive off. However, little Marie fell in a nearby river. Thomas jumped in to save her, and the family followed him downstream.
They then met up with two female geese, Abigail and Amelia, who they then followed to their Uncle Waldo to a restaurant where he escaped from becoming the main course. However, he drank white wine and was tipsy.Meanwhile, Edgar returned to the countryside and managed to get back his hat and umbrella, but not before Napoleon and Lafayette attempted to nip at his heels again.
On the way home, O'Malley took the cats to Scat Cat's abode in an abandoned building. Scat Cat and his gang of alley cats entertained the family, before heading off into the night. Once the kittens were put to bed, Duchess and O'Malley shared a tender moment and shared her eagerness to return to Madame, but O'Malley felt that Madame only saw Duchess and her kittens as housepets. Duchess however, explained that Madame considered them as part of her family.
The next morning, O'Malley led the family back to Madame's mansion, only to be confronted by Edgar, who quickly threw them in a sack. Rocquefort (the house mouse) saw the whole thing, and after he went to Duchess and the kittens in the sack, he went and looked for O'Malley. Thomas headed back to the mansion, and told Rocquefort to find Scat Cat and his gang. Back in the mansion's stables, Edgar placed the cats into a trunk. He already called for a truck to pick the trunk up, when O'Malley burst in and attacked Edgar. Soon after, Scat Cat and his gang arrived to help, while Rocquefort managed to pick the lock and freed the cats. Scat Cat's gang managed to knock Edgar into the trunk and out the stable's doors, just as the pick-up service arrived, which took him away.
Some time afterward, Madame Bonfamille found that Edgar went missing for some unknown reason, and called George to repurpose her will, removing him from any inheritance. Thomas was welcomed into the family, and Madame chose to allow her mansion to be a safe haven for all the alley cats in Paris.
The film ended with Scat Cat and his gang throwing a wild party at Madame's abode.
Did You Know?
1. It was the first film to be produced after Walt Disney's death.
2. It was the last film to be approved by Walt Disney directly.
3. Some of the Duchess's dance moves were later reused for Maid Marian's moves in Robin Hood (refer to 1:06 in the video).
4. In 2003, Disney Channel considered making Marie, Toulouse and Berloiz grow into teenagers for a syndicate show.
5. Edgar originally had a partner-in-crime: a maid named Elvira.
The Black Cauldron was released in 1985 and is considered to be one of Disney’s darkest movies, being the first to receive a PG rating and the only one since. It is loosely based on the first two books in The Chronicles of Prydain by Lloyd Alexander, a series of five novels that are, in turn, based on Welsh mythology.
Set in the mythical land of Prydain during the Early Middle Ages, the film centers on the evil Horned King who hopes to secure an ancient magical cauldron that will aid him in his desire to conquer the world. He is opposed by a young pig keeper named Taran, the young princess Eilonwy, the bard Fflewddur Fflam, and a wild creature named Gurgi who seek to destroy the cauldron, to prevent the Horned King from ruling the world.
In the land of Prydain, Taran is an "assistant pig-keeper" on a small farm, home of Dallben the Enchanter. Dallben learns that the Horned King is searching for a mystical relic known as the Black Cauldron, which is capable of creating an invincible army of undead warriors, the "Cauldron-Born". Dallben fears the Horned King may try to steal his pig Hen Wen, which has oracular powers, and use her to locate the cauldron. Dallben directs Taran to take Hen Wen to safety; unfortunately, Taran's foolish daydreaming causes Hen Wen to be captured by the Horned King's forces.
Taran follows them to the Horned King's stronghold. Along the way, he encounters the small, pestering companion Gurgi, who joins Taran on his search. Frustrated by Gurgi's antics, Taran leaves the former to sneak into the castle and rescues Hen Wen, but although Hen Wen escapes from the castle, Taran is caught and thrown into the dungeon. A fellow captive named Princess Eilonwy frees Taran as she is trying to make her own escape. In the catacombs beneath the castle, Taran and Eilonwy discover the ancient burial chamber of a king, where Taran arms himself with the king's magic sword. Along with a third prisoner, the comical, middle-aged bard Fflewddur Fflam, they escape from the castle and are soon reunited with Gurgi. Upon discovering that Taran has escaped, the Horned King orders his dwarf companion Creeper to send monsters to follow Taran and bring him back alive.
Following Hen Wen's trail, the four stumble into the underground kingdom of the Fair Folk who reveal that Hen Wen is under their protection. When the cheerful, elderly King Eiddileg reveals that he knows where the cauldron is, Taran resolves to go destroy it himself. Eilonwy, Fflewddur, and Gurgi agree to join him and Eiddileg's obnoxious right-hand man Doli is assigned to lead them to the Marshes of Morva while the Fair Folk agree to escort Hen Wen safely home. At the marshes they learn that the cauldron is held by three witches. They agree to trade the cauldron for Taran's sword, and he reluctantly agrees. Before vanishing, the witches reveal that the cauldron is indestructible, and that its power can only be broken by someone who climbs in under his own free will, which will kill him. Although Taran feels foolish for aspiring to destroy the cauldron alone, his companions show their belief in him. Suddenly, the Horned King's soldiers appear. They seize the cauldron and capture everyone but Gurgi, and take their prisoners back to the castle. The Horned King uses the cauldron to raise the dead and his Cauldron-born army begins to pour out into the world.
Gurgi manages to free the captives and Taran decides to cast himself into the cauldron, but Gurgi stops him and jumps into the cauldron himself. The undead army collapses. When the Horned King spots Taran at large, he infers the turn of events and saying that Taran has interfered for the last time, throws the youth toward the cauldron; however, the cauldron's magic consumes the Horned King, as well as destroying the castle, using up all its powers forever. The three witches come to recover the now-inert Black Cauldron. However, Taran has finally realized Gurgi's true friendship, and he persuades them to revive the wild thing in exchange for the cauldron, forcing him to give up his magical sword permanently. Fflewddur challenges the reluctant witches to demonstrate their powers by the revival, and upon hearing Fflewddur's remarks, the witches honour the request, restoring Gurgi back to life. The four friends then journey back home where Dallben and Doli watch them in a vision created by Hen Wen, and Dallben finally praises Taran for his heroism despite the fact that he prefers to be a Pig-Boy.
This is the first Walt Disney film to feature the "classic" Walt Disney Pictures logo that you can see on this blog’s background. This logo would be used until the new CGI logo was introduced 2006 (the live action style one).
This is the first Disney animated feature to not contain any songs, neither performed by characters or in the background.
Known by many as "the film Disney tried to bury," fans of both the fantasy genre and the film itself have tried many times to get the film's deleted footage restored.
The version of the film released to theatres omits about 10 to 15 minutes fully animated footage due to their dark themes that one can notice if they look for jumps in scenes.
According to animation artist Michael Peraza Jr., when Disney started having screenings for the public at the studio theatre to gather their reactions to the rough cut of this film, he knew that the "un-dead" section would most likely be revolting to some in the audience who would not expect to see a bunch of rotted corpses slowly fermenting. When the film reached the "un-dead" sections close to the end of the film, the doors opened and a mother was angrily leaving with her two wailing children. She was followed by another, and soon there was a sizable exodus of crying kids and upset parents fleeing from the theatre. The un-dead sections were quickly cut from the film.
It was Christmas time when a couple named 'Jim Dear' and 'Darling' celebrated their holiday with their new Cocker Spaniel puppy, whom they named Lady. Time passed and when Lady turned 6 months old, she was given a collar with a license. Lady had a good friendship with Jacques, a wily Scottish Terrier, and Trusty who is an old Bloodhound.
One day, Jacques and Trusty visited Lady, and found her feeling depressed as Jim Dear referred to her as "that dog" and that they would not play ball with her anymore. Jacques and Trusty explained to Lady that her owners are expecting a baby, but they were interrupted by a mangy grey dog named Tramp. Tramp then explained that babies are 'homewreckers,'but he gave a smirk at the end which implied that he knew more to the story.
As months flew by, the child of Jim Dear and Darling was finally born. Lady felt neglected, along and unwanted as the couple spent all their time with the baby. Curious, Lady went into the new nursery where she saw the baby, while Jim Dear gave her a pat on the head assuring that they still lover her.
A couple years after the baby was born, the couple went on a trip and left their baby and Lady with their Aunt Sarah. However, Aunt Sarah had no tolerance for dogs, and preferred the company of her Siamese cats, Si and Am. Everytime the cats caused trouble, Lady was always the one who was blamed. It came to the point where Aunt Sarah brought her to the pet store to put a muzzle on her. Frightened by this experience, Lady ran from the pet store,but she ended up in a bard part of town and was chased by three large dogs. Luckily, Tramp was there at the same place and he defended Lady. Tramp also manged to get the muzzle off Lady. Tramp then took Lady to a restaurant named Tony's where they had dinner and strolled at a local park after that.
When they woke, Lady wanted to rush home as she feels that she needed to look after the baby. With this, Tramp decided to take her home, but along the way, decided to have a little fun by rousing up a henhouse that he saw. When the owner appeared with a shotgun, Tramp and Lady ran, but Lady didn't get far, was caught by a dogcatcher and was taken to a dog pound.
Once in the pound, Lady was bullied by the other dogs due to her cleanliness and license, she is ridiculed for her license and cleanliness, but another female dog named Peg got everyone to stop the ridicule. Once they got to know each other, Lady was shocked that Tramp new a lot of the female dogs in the pound.
Eventually, Aunt Sarah came to pick up Lady and she tied her to the dog house at the back of the house. Jacques and Trusty visited to her to try and lighten the mood, but this was cut short when Tramp came. Lady vented her frustrations at Tramp and was upset about hearing how Tramp has been with a lot of other women before. As Tramp was about to leave, Lady saw a rat going into the baby's room and she started barking. Aunt Sarah, not the biggest fan of Lady, thought that she was just trying to get attention. Aunt Sarah ignored their barking, locked Lady in a closet before calling the dog pound, as she thought that the dogs attacked the baby.
Shortly thereafter, Jim Dear and Darling returned, just as Tramp was being led away by the dogcatcher, as he claimed that the dog tried to attack the baby. However, once Jim Dear looked in the baby's room, he found the dead rat, and they realised that the Lady and the Tramp were protecting the baby.
It is Christmas again. Tramp was made a member of the family, and he and Lady had puppies of their own. Jacques and Trusty (with a cast on his leg) visit them as well, and they celebrated the holidays together.
Did You Know:
1. The movie was inspired by a real dog named Lady.
2. While working on the animation, the Disney offices were filled with live animals to help animators reference the animals' movements.
3. The iconic spaghetti scene almost didn't happen as Walt Disney could not wrap his head around two dogs sharing a spaghetti strand.
4. Roy Disney (Walt Disney's brother) encouraged Walt to start working on the movie again after it was put on hold due to World War 2.
5. The sinister Siamese cats, Si and Am, were originally called Nip and Tuck.
A Bug’s Life is a 1998 American computer animated comedy adventure film.
Summarise:
In the middle of a dry creek led there are group of colony ants living here led by princess Atta and her mother who is the queen. Every year they have to collection enough food for themselves and a gang of marauding grasshoppers. One day, Flik, an individualist and would be inventor accidentally knocks the annual offering into a stream with his latest invention, a grain harvesting device, however, the leader of the grasshoppers decide twice as much food as compensation. When Flik, suggests in earnest that they seek help from other stronger bugs, the other ants see it as an opportunity to be rid of him and send him off.
After Flik leave from his home, he arrive to the ‘bug city’, he meet a group of circus bugs that have recently been dismissed by their money-hungry ringmaster, P.T. Flea, for the warrior bugs he seeks. The bugs looks Flik performers mistake Flik is a talent agent and accept his offer to travel with him back to Ant Island. After they back to the ‘ant island’, the circus bugs and Flik both discover their mutual misunderstandings. The circus decide leave but during the way back a bird attacks the group, and save Dot, Atta’s younger sister, from the bird and send her back to ‘ant island’, they gaining the ants’ respect in the process. At Flik’s insistence, they continue the ruse of being “warriors” so the troupe can continue to enjoy the hospitality of the ants. Hearing that Hopper fears birds inspires Flik to create a false bird to scare away the grasshoppers. However, Hopper tells his gang how greatly the ants outnumber them and worries that they will rebel against them.
The group of grasshoppers decide back to ‘ant island’ check ant’s work, when the grasshoppers arrive to discover the mediocre offering, they take over the island, demanding the ants’ winter store of food. After overhearing Hopper’s intention to kill the Queen, Dot has Flik and the circus bugs return to the colony for help. At ‘ant island the bird initially fools the grasshoppers, but P.T Flea mistaking it for a real bird, lights it on fire, exposing it as a decoy. Hopper realise this is a fake bird and beats Flik in retaliation and proclaims that the ants are lowly life forms who live to serve the grasshoppers. However, Flik responds defiantly realising that Hopper actually fears the colony, and inspiring the ants and the circus bugs to fight back against the grasshoppers. All the sudden begins to rain. In the ensuing chaos, Hopper kidnaps Flik and flees. After the circus bug fail to catch them, Atta rescues Flik. As hooper come, Flik lures him to the nest of the bird he encountered earlier. Assuming that the actual bird as just another fake one, Hopper taunts it but is caught and fed to one of her chicks.
At the end, Flik complete his achievement, his inventions and the quality of life for the colony, and Atta professes her love for him. Atta is crowned the new queen and Dot is second in line to the throne. The ants congratulate Flik as a hero and bid a fond farewell to the circus troupe, Flik, Atta and all ants want they will return for the following year.
Did you know:
Sully from Monsters inc, was in A Bug’s Life.
In the movie Hopper really love to say “ So, where is it? where’s my FOOD!?”
The film is inspired by Aesop’s fable The Ant and the Grasshopper. Production began shortly after the release of Toy Story in 1995.
Woody is the most favorite one of all toy owned by six-year-old Andy Davis, that is the reason why woody is toys’ leader, Woody is an old-fashioned cowboy doll, he has the duty to organizes the other toys, including Bo Peep the shepherdess, Mr. Potato head, Rex the Dinosaur, Hamm the piggy Bank and Slinky Dog, into a Scouting mission. Green army men, led by Sarge, soy on the party and report the results to the others via baby monitors. The toys are relieved when the party suddenly to end with none of them having been replaced, but then Andy receives a surprise gift - an electronic toy space ranger action figure named Buzz who believes that he is an actual space ranger.
Buzz is new and popular toy recently so he became Andy's’ favorite, in this situation Woody feel left out. One day as Andy prepares for a family picnic, his mother allows him to bring only one toy along. Woody fear if Andy will choose Buzz, so Woody decide trap Buzz behind a desk, but ends up knocking him out a window instead, other toys watching everything he did to Buzz and accusing Woody of murdering Buzz out of jealousy.
Andy takes Woody instead and leaves for picnic. At the same time Woody find out that Buzz had hitched a ride on the car as well, and they fight, only to find the family has left without them. They manage to make their way to the restaurant by stowing away on a pizza delivery truck, where Buzz still believing he is a real space ranger despite Woody’s attempts to convince him otherwise, gets them stuck in a crane game, where they are picked out by Andy’s destructive neighbor Sid Phillips.
Andy is try to find a way to escape from Sid’s house, and for Buzz is finally realise he is a toy, sinks into despondency. Sid plans to launch Buzz on a firework rocket, but his plans are delayed by a thunderstorm. Woody tells Buzz about the joy he can bring to andy as a toy, restoring his confidence. The next morning, Woody and Sid’s mutant toy creations rescue Buzz just as Sid is about to launch the rocket and scare Sid into no longer abusing toys by coming to life in front of him. and he runs into his house while screaming. Woody and Buzz then leave Sid’s house just as Andy and his family drive away toward their new home.
Both of them tried to make it to the moving truck, but Sid’s dog, sees them and gives chase. Buzz gets left behind, and Woody tries rescuing him with Andy’s RC car, but the other toys still thinking Woody is a murder and toss him off the truck. Having evaded Scud, Buzz and RC pick up Woody and continue after truck. Upon seeing Woody and Buzz together on RC, the other toys realize their misunderstanding Woody and helping them get back aboard but RC’s batteries become depleted, stranding them. Woody ignites the rocket on Buzz’s back and manages to throw RC into the truck before they soar into the air. Buzz opens his wings to free himself from the rocket before it explodes, gliding with Woody to land safely into a box just right next to Andy.
Did you know:
This was the first animated film in Oscar history to be nominated for a Best Screenplay Academy Award - Adapted or Original
The toolbox on top of the milk crate that Woody is trapped in is a Binford, the same type of tool that Tim Allen used on his television show Home Improvement.
The carpet in Sid’s house has the same hexagonal pattern as the carpet in the overlook Hotel from the Shining.
When the Pizza planet delivery boy enters the Dinoco gas station, he asks for directions West Cutting Boulevard. West Cutting Boulevard is the street where Pixar Animation Studios was located in Richmonds California at the time
Bambi is a 1942 American animated drama film produced by Walt Disney and based on book Bambi, A Life in the Woods by Felix Salten.
One day, a doe gives a birth to a fawn, Bambi. He is also called a young prince because he will take his dad’s position as a Great Prince of the Forest, to guard the woodland animals against the danger of hunters.
Bambi quickly becomes a friend with rabbit Thumper, who teaches him to walk, jump and speak, a skunk named Flower and a female fawn Faline, but Bambi is most attached to his mother. She answers all his questions and she also warned him about the dangers of life as a forest creature. One day out in a meadow, Bambi sees The Great Prince but doesn’t know he is his father. During the scene when everyone rushed out to hide from a “Man” Bambi gets separated from his mum but gets safely escorted back to her by his dad, just before the Man fires a gun.
Soon after that, the winter comes. Bambi and his friend Thumper play along in the snow while Flower hibernates till spring. Winter is not easy for all forest animals, and one day Bambi and his mother must go and find food. Unfortunately, Man shows up again, Bambi runs with his mum but she got shot and killed, and poor Bambi is left all alone. Who didn’tcry during the scene when small Bambi is running around and calling his mum? Thankfully his dad The Great Prince is showing up to take care of his abandoned son.
In the spring Bambi is back as a young stag his friend are young adults as well. They are warned by the Owl that they will fall in love soon. Thumper and Flower both find their love first, Bambi discovers that Faline is a beautiful doe now. He also discovers he has a rival Ronno, a belligerent older stag. During the battle between Bambi and Ronno, Bambi managed to defeat him and earns the rights to Faline affections.
When Bambi is awakened by the smell of smoke, and discovers a hunter camp, he is warned by his father that Man has returned and they must move deeper in the woods. He gets separated from Faline, and finds her cornered by Man’s hunting dogs, which he manages to ward off, and the animals manage to reach to shelter.
The following spring Faline gives birth to twins under Bambi’s watchful eye and his all forest friends.
Did you know…?
1.The film received three Academy Awards nominations? : Best Sound, Best Song and Original Music Score.
2.Bambi was originally supposed to go back to his mother after she was shot and find her in a pool of blood.
