When Fandoms Collide

[haleysings]

So I was reading random stuff on Wikipedia and saw this:

When Belle goes up to the West Wing, the background music is a variation of Aquarium from Camille Saint-Saëns's Le Carnaval des Animaux.

You know, I could NEVER figure out why scenes in Princess Tutu with Aquarium reminded me of Beauty and the Beast...now I know. XDDDD

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[myxginxblossoms]

I love it when things come together and connect like that. As I like to tell people, it's part of why I love to watch old movies--the more I see, the funnier Cats Don't Dance is. :D

Also, Saint-Saëns? Should be everybody's homeboy. Can we say swoon? ^_-

[haleysings]

Hmm, Cats Don't Dance...that's an animated film, right? I don't think I've seen it, but I recognize the name from somewhere.

And Saint-Saëns is awesome. ^^ One of my favorite classical pieces used in Princess Tutu was also composed by him, Danse Macabre. Good stuff!

[myxginxblossoms]

It's the one in which a young anthropomorphic cat named Danny leaves his home in Indiana to pursue stardom in the golden age of moviemaking. He finds that animals are discriminated against in Hollywood (people are preferred, though animals can play their roles just as well) and, using his homegrown pluck and ingenuity, decides to change that. It's full of little injokes and references to films, and there's singing! It makes me pretty much the dorkiest thing evar, but I love it.

I'm gonna be really stereotypical and say that I really love his The Swan, lol. It's just so haunting--but Danse Macabre is fabulous, too. I really need to rewatch Tutu. ^^

[haleysings]

Ooh, I see! That actually sounds like a lot of fun! ^^ Maybe I'll get it from Netflix...

The Swan is pretty, too. ^^ And I really like...well, I forget what it's called, but the song they use of his when Duck transforms into a duck in front of Fakir. XD It's used in the "flying cow" scene, too...it works really well for the comedic moments in the series...
And I need to stop rewatching Tutu and watch more of the other stuff I have. XD;; Which I am doing, actually! Just finished Ouran...now I should probably finish up something else...

[mangaka_chan]

I haven't seen Beauty and the Beast in ages, mostly because my cousin borrowed the VHS tape but never gave it back to me. :P I have noticed a lot of pieces from PT used in various other media after watching the anime. It always makes me smile when I hear a snippet from The Waltz of the Flowers or Swan Lake. XD

[haleysings]

XDD Princess Tutu combined with Music Appreciation class has raised my musical literacy up leik whoa. ...At least for Romantic-era composers. XD;; I was driving home from work a few weeks ago and randomly decided to switch to the classical music station...and then I realized with a shock "THIS IS EPISODE 12'S MUSIC. D="

Of course, I couldn't actually remember the title, just "this is in episode 12". XD;

[mangaka_chan]

Episode 12 huh? Was it Scheherazade then, since that's the main suite used in 12? There were two movements of the piece that were played in the episode: 2nd movement, The Story of the Kalender Prince, and 1st movement, The Sea and Sinbad's Ship. The first movement was played at the beginning of the episode when Kraehe was with Mytho in her giant crow's nest. The third (and my favorite) movement was played when Fakir and Ahiru go through the underground passage to find Mytho and confront Kraehe at the lake.

[haleysings]

Yes, that was it! I can't remember which movement it was, though--I remember thinking it was from both scenes.

[itsplashes]

I love the Carnival of the Animals...but I only got into it because of Princess Tutu (yeah, I'm a backwards person, I know :P).

(Anyways, did you know I got surprised when I read 'Belle' up there? XD Since my name is Belle and all. XXDD)

[haleysings]

OH, I'm the same way with a lot of my favorite classical pieces. Found out about it because of Tutu. XDD (I loved Fantasia as a kid, and I had CDs of classical music that I listened to all the time--particularly Tchaikovsky--but Tutu helped me be more aware.)

(LOL XDD Sorry! I kinda-sorta know how that is, everytime I see your name in your journal, I think of the movie for a moment. It's been my favorite since I can remember.)

[itsplashes]

Before Princess Tutu, my favorite was Tchaikovsky. I actually listen to only a few classical composers...Tchaikovsky, Bach, and Mozart. After Princess Tutu, it's like I got the urge to look up more composers and names of the pieces. Saint-Saens's pieces really make you feel a variety of emotions, yes? :) Tchaikovsky tends to make me feel dreamy, thoughtful, and playful.

(Beauty and the Beast = one of my favorites. I remember being so proud as a kid to have the same name as the heroine. We have similar personalities IRL, too -- although I think I've changed a lot recently :P)

[haleysings]

Mm! A lot of Saint-Saens's pieces feel really dreamy, in a way. In the sense that they sound like something from a dream, or a nightmare perhaps in the case of Danse Macabre.

(I identified with Belle as a child, too...she was sort of 'odd' and loves books....)

[mozarteffect]

*randomly pops in* Yeah! I'd be like 'dude, I've heard this before...' during the soundtrack theme whenever I'd hear Aquarium, then I flashed back to the scene in Beauty and the Beast and facepalmed for not getting it sooner (I could swear I've heard either Old Castle or Promenade in there, too, or somewhere at least). A lot of pieces from Swan Lake are used practically everywhere, too, Nutcracker pieces are pretty much the epitome of Christmas (there's also the fact that mom took me to watch Nutcracker when I was little...Drosselmeyer cracked me up. COINCIDENCE?) And Habanera was used in an episode of Courage the Cowardly Dog. :D One of my favorite episodes, the opera-singing sea monster. And I still, still swear that I heard some variant of Danse Macabre in the Beetlejuice movie (when the violin goes crazy, I think it was when Lydia first met Beej.)

Oh, and before I forget--The Blue Danube is used pretty much everywhere, too (even in the Bratz movie. During a foodfight scene *cringes*)

...*cough* *leaves*

[haleysings]

Yeah, I knew I heard it in Beauty and the Beast somewhere, but I thought that I must've been making that up or something. XDDD And Drosselmeyer fascinated me as a child, it's part of the reason I stuck with the series' earlier slow episodes.