Monday, October 17, 2011

FANTASIA (1940)

    FANTASIA (1940)

This being my first review i wanted to do something that so many people haven't seen from my generation, And
though not a horror film in the least this movie scared me as a young child because some of the images and cartoons were fear inducing. If you don't know about this movie here's the Imdb description:
  Disney animators set pictures to Western classical music as Leopold Stokowski conducts the Philadelphia Orchestra. "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" features Mickey Mouse as an aspiring magician who oversteps his limits. "The Rite of Spring" tells the story of evolution, from single-celled orginism's to the death of the dinosaurs. "Dance of the Hours" is a comic ballet performed by ostriches, hippos, elephants, and alligators. "Night on Bald Mountain" and "Ave Maria" set the forces of darkness and light against each other as a devilish revel is interrupted by the coming of a new day.

This movie was mostly animated and filled with classical music like Mozart and Bach. It's also one of the first colored cartoon movies. I can't truly describe how amazing this movie is, it tells such epic stories without any dialogue and the emotion and tone is set with the music and the facial expressions and body language. The only dialog is when the Renowned classic music critic Deam tells us the song and in the explanation for the first song Deam asks that you close your eyes and imagine what the song represents in your mind. Now that's about as much as i'm going to say, so the only way you'll be able to know more is to see the film.  I suggest this movie to anyone who loves Disney and some great animation and classical music.

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