Fantasia is remarkably crafted masterpiece and is one of the most unique videos in Disney History. The intense music and intriguing animation makes this film extremely interesting. The movements of the characters are fascinatingly coordinated with the sounds of the music. As you watch the film, every act is put together to perfection. The imaginable variety of animation and mysterious music is boldly noticeable. The scenes in this film can be analyzed in many different ways according to your imagination. In my opinion, this is about good and evil or hell and heaven. The two scenes that relate to this motto are: "A Night on Bald Mountain," and "Ave Maria." As the animation evolves itself by good and evil, so does the music. These two scenes from Fantasia are prime examples of how you can create a story without using dialogue. This movie is one of a kind and set a great example for different things to happen in the future. The music and animation of "A Night on Bald Mountain" and "Ave Maria" are connected in a various amount of ways.
In the first scene, "A Night on Bold Mountain," the music is a powerful and furious style of music. Bold Mountain is the meeting place for Satin and his worshipers. It is the place of darkness and evilness where the bad creatures and objects come and angrily dance around the mountain under Satin's control. The characters are very scarce and sick looking which in my mind reminds me of hell. There are skeletons, ghosts, and all different kinds of monsters. They used fire to make it intimidating and also mysterious blue flames. All different types of shapes were designed in the flames of the fire. Suddenly, a loud, crashing bell constantly rings and this kills and flees them away. They all begin to fly away into a small dark town. Everyone disappears and the only one left is the large winged monster. His body gets sucked in by the mountain and he vanishes. This scene represents hell or evil. The music and animation is perfectly connected to this and it puts a great picture into your mind. The loud and suspenseful music brings a scarce and evil mood to this scene. The music is very soft paced and grows louder. There are moments where the tone is calm and very creepy. It also sounds like striking of symbols as the furious creatures dance around the mountain.
In the film, symbolism was everywhere. In the beginning of the film, the pictures of the city were in black and white and dull shades, giving the city a gloomy look. The camera angles made the cars in the city appear tiny, and the buildings appear very large to symbolize how small everything was amongst the city. The interiors of the office buildings and the panic symbolized that there was no way out. The soundtrack of the film was symbolic to the tension of the film. The darkness of visual composition of the lighting in the film, symbolized the darkness of the human nature in the story.
The music correlates to the images because the slow-playing violin and soft-playing woodwinds complement the nefarious activities shown; therefore, molding a creepy and ominous tone in order to demonstrate the credulous attitudes of the audience. When thinking of demonic activities, the soul of an individual is automatically frightened, which is what the composer manipulates in the opening scene. Fenton takes advantage of this and incorporates melodic dark music to further intensify the fear of the “so-called” villain, Abigail Williams, in the
Fantasia sees the world as very colorful place where everything has a purpose. The evidence for this is in their interpretive animations in the series of music pieced together to create the nutcracker suite. All the animations in the song are utilized to their max potential. For example, the seaweed in the Arabian dance is used as a curtain of sorts to the fishes cave.
Beethoven’s piano sonata ‘quasi una fantasia’ gives listeners an emotional journey through his complicated life. When I first listened to this song I felt a wave of sadness as I can sense this piece was related to a tragic event. After researching more, I was able to understand Beethoven and sympathize with him in another level, how as individuals we can never control and protect what we care about in our lives, and eventually we realize that it is not possible to achieve a happily ever
According to Giroux (1996), animated movies are a part of children’s culture. Children’s culture consists of entertainment, artifacts, myths, etc. that are based around the notion of what it means to be a child. Animated movies, particularly Disney films, encourages the child’s imagination and fantasy to be enhanced, creates a drive within them to go on adventures and helps them develop an aura of innocence. Animated films are “teaching machines” (Giroux, 1996, p. 66). Disney films teach children about specific roles, values and ideals and also take them through the world of enchantment. It helps them to understand who they are and what it means to be a part of the society and an adult environment (Giroux, 1996). Disney characters are a reflection
Disney shows and shows similar to such have taught us from a young age the concept of “happily ever after". This is a fairy-tale of absolute happiness. It is a state of feeling good all the time. In fairy tales, this feeling is usually found in fulfilling marriages, royal castles, singing birds and laughing children. In real life sometimes finding that happiness isn’t as easy as a fairy tale makes it look like. Research suggests that if you focus too much on trying to feel good all the time, you’ll actually undermine your ability to ever feel good because no amount of feeling good will be satisfying to you, that is when you become a perfectionist. If feeling good all the time were the only requirement for happiness, then a person who uses cocaine every day would be extremely happy receiving the same euphoria or natural happiness. Natural happiness is what we get when we get what we wanted, and synthetic happiness is what we make when we
The classic Cinderella like the Walt Disney Cinderella moral of the story is that people should always fight for what they want by working hard and having a good heart. Likewise, this Cinderella has similar moral, but more values. Rodger and Hammerstein’s Cinderella movie indicate that people should work for what they want instead of wishing and dreaming for it. It also tells the audience that people should look for true love rather than a set up marriage that you have no feeling for. Like when the Prince’s King and Queen decided to have a ball for the Prince, when the Prince discover it, he was upset and unwillingly attend because he want someone that he will love. The concepts and the lessons of the movie was impressive, it actually gives the audience an important life lesson for all. One lesson was when Cinderella’s Godmother came, she told Cinderella that the problem with her and everyone else is that people dream and wishes for what they want instead of doing it. Cinderella show teaches how you can be whatever you want if you dream and
The imagery is very important in this epic to show the evidence of the battle between the light and darkness. In this case, light and darkness are basically closed together. At the beginning of this epic, it says that “a monster living in the darkness
Imagery of night and darkness is used quite frequently in the play to portray an image of a desolate, deranged place, brimming with tumult, disorder and transgression. Night and darkness are often used to symbolize death, tragedy and corrupt deeds, and to paint a deranged, haphazard picture of characters, their wrongdoings or their malevolent thoughts. Shakespeare has used this imagery to enhance the play by creating the exact atmosphere of pandemonium and devastation that he wanted.
Ultimately, Walt Disney’s Fantasia is a jumble of strange scenes all corresponding with various pieces of music. The scenes that stuck out in my mind most are Tchaikovsky's "Nutcracker Suite", Stravinsky's "Rite of Spring", and "Dance of the Hours" by Ponchielli. All of the weird images depicted help the viewer and listener to remember the compositions because the visuals will resurface when hearing the music. After, watching Fantasia, I can remember key events from the film to remember the pieces of music even thought the scenes are very bizarre and unique.
It is said that this book is considered as one of the most famous horror novels, if not the most famous one. The Gothic descriptions in the novel are very prominent at the beginning. The portrayal of the countryside of Transylvania, of the ruined Dracula Castle, etc, all provide the effect of horror in the sense of spooky and gloomy atmosphere, which you can obtain close at hand. Everything is so obvious. The originally beautiful scenes are changed by the writer¡¯s magnification of some specific details which provide certain effect on the readers. All of the above reminds how one¡¯s personal feelings can alter their attitudes towards what they see or what they experience. Sometimes when you are sad, everything look so depressing. It is like the whole world is against you. The sunset could be a fantastic scene when you are filled with joy but an extra source of sorrow when you are not in the mood. Harker is separated from her lovely fianc¨¦e to meet some foreign count in the exotic and unknown eastern world.
The producer was aiming to create mystery and fear. The dark of the night and the description of the house as feeling dead in the protagonist’s narration sets a suspenseful scene filled with fear and tension. The young girl is followed by the camera as she explores the mansion. When entering the room suspected to be that of her aunts the camera leaves her side to pan around the room. The darkness doesn’t reveal everything but one becomes aware of a search. The revelation of little secrets leaves the viewer with many questions. The room is familiar to the protagonist as she finds items symbolic to her and familiar photographs. This familiarity however does not retract from suspicions that something sinister has been hidden. The producer has successfully captivated the viewer. The protagonist is being followed throughout the scene and has thus allowed for the viewer to bond with them. They are engaging with the audience through narration and have in return enticed the viewer to follow them along their journey. One feels nervous for the young girl however through tension in the scene one does not want them to discontinue the journey as too many questions have been left unanswered. One has been drawn into the world of which the protagonist dwells and is intrigued as to how the drama is
This opening scene is set in a battle field. The scary thunder and lightening is an example of pathetic fallacy; the weather reflects the aggressive atmosphere and vicious characters. An evil atmosphere is established and the witches, too, are instantly established as evil.
In the 1940's there were four classical Disney feature animated movies to come out: Pinocchio, Dumbo, Fantasia, and, Bambi. Little did Walt Disney know that the five movies that he made would be the base for many more Disney movies. In the movie Pinocchio for example, a toy maker creates a puppet and when he makes a wish upon a star.....the puppet turns into a real boy. Dumbo was the next movie to come about from Disney. Dumbo is a movie that teaches, you can do anything if you put your mind to it. Now Fantasia on the other hand is a totally different kind of movie. It's a cartoon musical. Bambi was the next movie to come out. To some it might be called a tragedy. But to others it might be called a happy and joyful movie. It teaches you to fend for yourself.
Throughout history, fairy tales have grown to captivate the hearts and minds of many. A Cinderella Story is set firmly in reality and in the present day; in fact, it's every bit a fantasy as the original story. This film refrains from any allusions to magic, but instead lets serendipitous occurrences provide the engine on which this fairy tale creates its plot. The impression A Cinderella Story is in place of a well-thought out story and characters that anyone could relate to or believe. Although the target audience of the film are teens, females, and romantics, A Cinderella Story can be praised and savored by all audiences because of its ingenious screenplay, acting, and melodic soundtrack.