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Showing posts with label Woody's reign. Show all posts
The Sorcerer's Apprentice
While not horror in modern sense, the story behind the Fantasia animation (which visualized a symphony inspired by a poem inspired by a Greek story from nearly 2000 years ago) definitely takes on the form of a nightmare with which most everyone's familiar: being in over your head as a situation spirals out of control. Listen to the amazing music and see if you don't find yourself identifying rather eerily with one Mickey Mouse...NOTES:
*The sorcerer's name is never given in the wordless piece, but the Disney animators nicknamed him "Yen Sid" (read it backwards). Apparently he's in Kingdom Hearts II, and he's supposed to be the creator of the world of Oswald the Rabbit in Epic Mickey.
*Here's an English translation of Goethe's poem, which mirrors the Fantasia short right down to chopping up the brooms.
*One favorite scene: Mickey's extremely violent axe-chopping around 5:30
*The immediate follow-through, where the brooms resurrect is also pretty amazing. Almost zombie-like!
Woody's reign continues...
Red band trailer for Zombieland (that means they can have swears 'n' blood)...
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