Have stumbled onto new (re)discoveries...!

*During the past week I've been watching on YouTube fanmade trailers of the 2015 Cinderella in Non/Disney styles. Very cool! They have reintroduced me to the interesting notion of crossover pairings, too!( Read more... )

I just stumbled over this cool blog post about Disney and Jane Austen: Wait, There's Some Disney in My Jane Austen. Had to share!!

So...after viewing various interviews and trailers for Maleficent (this one in particular I had on replay, WOW), my writing muse took off. Silly muse!!

( Curiosities and Possibilities )

TRIP DOWN MEMORY LANE
High School Musical (oddly enough)

TV
The Cosby Show
Air Crash Investigation/Mayday

SHIPS
Gale/Katniss
Frank/Nancy
Celeborn/Galadriel
Krabat/Kantorka

SONGS/MUSICA Thousand Miles ( Read more... )

How Much Disney Have You Seen?

MARK AN ‘x’ BY WHAT YOU’VE SEEN. BOLD WHAT YOU LOVE/FAVES

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I've viewed a lot of films lately and decided to share my thoughts on some of them. :)

Čarodějův učeň (Krabat) - I first heard about this 1977 Czech fairy tale film in a book, The Enchanted Screen, and eventually found it on youtube. It is an original tale about a poor boy that becomes a prisoner of the evil magician and works at his mill. The ( Read more... )

I have a new appreciation of the Disney version of Beauty and the Beast after watching it with a friend recently. Very good. The animation was brighter and more vibrate than I remembered. Music as lovely as ever. Now I'm gone off reading fanfics and watching videos of stage productions (some very impressive) on youtube. :)

I have a few tiny obsessions at the moment...

*Rogers and Hammerstein's Cinderella. I've been combing YouTube for this delightful musical for a few weeks now. An interesting thing I've discovered is that there seems to be two stage versions of the musical. The first one is based on the 1957 original production starring Julie Andrews. The second is ( Read more... )

This afternoon I saw UP with my brother. I went in not knowing really what it was about and enjoyed it a lot. Amazing animation, wonderful characters, and brilliant storytelling. I found it different from previous Pixar films (sort of like Wall*E -- a bit melancholy and dark for a kids film. My heartstrings were tugged on a lot. Several hours after ( Read more... )

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-et-narnia1-2009jan01,0,3925428.story

*claps* Well said Mrs. McNamara!!!!