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Day 204: November 20th, 2010
Alice In Wonderland
Works better as an animated film.
Since Alice does indeed go to Wonderland, the only way to truly bring that world to live is in animation. Tim Burton's version of the film, while it looked good at times, felt drab to me. The overall presentation fell flat and don't even get me started on Alice...
Here we have the Disney film from 1951, way before my time. I was never quite the fan of it as a kid, mainly because it was with a little girl as the lead and as weird as it was, it never really interested me. Watching the film today, I have more of an appreciation for it. While it is nowhere near my favourite animated film, it does fare better the second time around.
Works like this are long gone, the "classic" Disney feel is somewhat dead. I'm not hating on the animated films now...I love everything Pixar has to offer, but that feeling that I had when I watched these movies as a kid is all gone. Gone are the days of the background and certain objects being a darker and duller colour than the colours of the characters or objects they are interacting with. Gone are a lot of musical numbers and song & dance. Is the creativity gone? That's something that could be up for debate. One thing Disney did was take literary tales and throw some cute colours with snappy tunes to get kids to watch them.
I doubt this film is loved by kids, they prefer The Lion King or Aladdin. Alice always came off as a more adult film to me, which might be another reason why I didn't like it that much as a kid and like it more now. The animation is more creative than most Disney efforts. They are in another world, the creativity can soar here. You can't go see an animated film these days without having a big name actor attached to it. Back in these days, the animated world belonged to voice actors. In my humble opinion, the whole things changed with Robin Williams voicing the Genie in Aladdin. Then everyone wanted a piece of the pie.
So my question is this, do you prefer the trained voice actors? Or the recognizable Hollywood star? Does it even make a difference?
Oh, and this knocks another film off mark f's list.
Alice In Wonderland
Works better as an animated film.
Since Alice does indeed go to Wonderland, the only way to truly bring that world to live is in animation. Tim Burton's version of the film, while it looked good at times, felt drab to me. The overall presentation fell flat and don't even get me started on Alice...
Here we have the Disney film from 1951, way before my time. I was never quite the fan of it as a kid, mainly because it was with a little girl as the lead and as weird as it was, it never really interested me. Watching the film today, I have more of an appreciation for it. While it is nowhere near my favourite animated film, it does fare better the second time around.
Works like this are long gone, the "classic" Disney feel is somewhat dead. I'm not hating on the animated films now...I love everything Pixar has to offer, but that feeling that I had when I watched these movies as a kid is all gone. Gone are the days of the background and certain objects being a darker and duller colour than the colours of the characters or objects they are interacting with. Gone are a lot of musical numbers and song & dance. Is the creativity gone? That's something that could be up for debate. One thing Disney did was take literary tales and throw some cute colours with snappy tunes to get kids to watch them.
I doubt this film is loved by kids, they prefer The Lion King or Aladdin. Alice always came off as a more adult film to me, which might be another reason why I didn't like it that much as a kid and like it more now. The animation is more creative than most Disney efforts. They are in another world, the creativity can soar here. You can't go see an animated film these days without having a big name actor attached to it. Back in these days, the animated world belonged to voice actors. In my humble opinion, the whole things changed with Robin Williams voicing the Genie in Aladdin. Then everyone wanted a piece of the pie.
So my question is this, do you prefer the trained voice actors? Or the recognizable Hollywood star? Does it even make a difference?
Oh, and this knocks another film off mark f's list.