Through animation, Disney takes a look at eight classic music landmarks.
Thanks to Enchanted Studios’ magic wand, Mickey fights with living broomsticks The Sorcerer’s Apprentice by Paul Ducasse, nutcracker Tchaikovsky revisits the four seasons of the year, hippos and crocodiles interpret dance for hours Ponchielli and the dinosaurs clash on the sound Rite of Spring by Stravinsky.
The third animated feature produced by Disney Studios (after Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and Pinocchio), Fantasia is a real curiosity in Enchanted Studios’ career.
This film, unlike any other, is primarily the fruit of a bold new bet that Walt Disney made in the late 1930s: to stage an incredible encounter between his animators and conductor Leopold Stokowski. In other words, put the eight greatest monuments of classical music into pictures.
Beyond the royal gates, for those who want to be interested in the works of Bach, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky or even Schubert, Fantasia is above all an absolutely unique musical and visual journey. Sometimes bucolic, sometimes lyrical, sometimes funny, sometimes sad, it occasionally veers into the realm of experimental cinema, even psychedelic.
If certain segments of this particular film – such as an animal dance for hours or glorious nutcracker (in which fairies, mushrooms, flowers and fish are mixed in) – perfect for the whole family, others, much darker, should be reserved for less impressionable viewers (see below).
Like Pinocchio, Fantasia did not meet with the expected success when it was released in theaters, largely hampered by the geopolitical context of the time. However, it did end up earning its place in the Animation Hall of Fame, and today it is unanimously considered one of the genre’s quintessences.
What will you like…
- Cute winged horses Pastoral symphony.
- Fun ballet with ostriches, elephants, hippopotamus and crocodiles interpretation to music dance for hours.
- Mickey, who fights with animated broomsticks The Sorcerer’s ApprenticeA sequence that went down in Disney Studios history.
What could be bothering them…
- Night on Bald MountainA final fantasy segment that leads to a demonic celebration led by the nightmarish Chernabog. A truly horrifying sequence that I strongly recommend you save for the youngest or most sensitive.
- a magician The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, bitter and harsh and therefore perhaps a little impressive. His name, Ian Sid, is also a simple inversion of the word “Disney.”
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