![]() In 10 more years, she'll be a big as a house(boat). You know she's not the slip of a thing that she used to be. Medusa splits the difference, her arms and legs are skinny and her movements scream "bony villain" with their sharp angles, yet her body is saggy and slovenly. Movie buffs have long noted that Disney has two types of villains: rotund or spindly. When she's not recalling Cruella she's lifting Miss Hannigan from Annie.ĭisney Generations: Cruela begat Medusa begat Ursula.īut if we needed Medusa as a missing link evolutionary step to get us from Cruella to Ursula than we owe Medusa a bag full of those diamonds she covets. Seeing the movie as an adult, it's shocking to realize that she's nearly a carbon copy of Cruella de Vil: She enters the picture throwing open a door violently She loses her temper constantly She drives like a madwoman in vehicles that leave huge puffs of smoke behind them She has a bumbling human henchman she despises She has a one track mind (fur/diamonds) and she even has a scene where she slows down her "car" creepily while searching for the hiding protagonist, that immediately brings the famous "soot" scene in 101 Dalmatians to mind. The pictures sole bright spot then is Madame Medusa. He's mere connective tissue to take you from Act 1 (New York) to Act 2 (Devil's Bayou) and last time I checked no intermission between acts ever lasted as long as Orville's fumbling flying routine. Proceed.Īnd let's not even talk about the excessive amount of time we spent with the albatross Orville. The narrative doesn't actually move until the complication is over. Time and again we have a plot complications that are as thrilling as treading water. The other significant problem is that despite a scant 78 minute running time, there's not enough plot to fill it with. Penny is either too young, too dumb or too helpless to be carrying this picture. It works but "pity" isn't the most cathartic or endearing emotion to rest a whole movie on. While the characters are cute enough - particularly elegant rodent Bianca (Eva Gabor) and a dragonfly named Evinrud - the primary emotion that The Rescuers seems to be going for is pity. Penny's bottled cry for help reaches the Rescue Aid Society, an international organization of ethnically and geographically stereotyped mice who meet in the United Nations building: HIGH CONCEPT! Medusa wants a gargantuan diamond called The Devil's Eye which is buried in a cave that Penny is small enough to slip into in a creepy place called Devil's Bayou. Has this ever happened to you with an old formerly beloved movie?Īs you can see in the still above, the animation team let the texture of the canvas bleed through and for a few seconds as the movie kicked off I thought "how lovely" (I'm not always so pleased with today's beautiful and shiny but often sterile animated images) but as the movie progressed it turned out not so lovely at all, a mess of inconsistent animation that often looked rushed through production.įor those who need a refresher, The Rescuers is about a girl named Penny who has been "borrowed" from her orphanage by a pawn shop owner named "Medusa" (wicked highly enjoyable voicework from Oscar regular Geraldine Page). ( When you voted for it in a poll some time ago, I was excited to revisit it!) As it turns out, sometimes childhood loves are best left in childhood. In fact, as a child it was one of my favorite movies. ![]() It wasn't always this way with The Rescuers and me. I swear Shelby Flint's vocals dribbled out over the sides of my television like syrup. goes the ballad that opens The Rescuers (1977), as Little Orphan Penny drops her message in a bottle into the swamp. Not that you can’t do this with a typical score, but with the abbreviated score, it’s easier to explore and get creative.So. But what makes a fake book very interesting is that because the song is concise, you can add your own personal touches, your own ornamentation, and your own improvisation. This gives you the skeleton for playing the song. Generally, the songs are written much more concisely, or are abbreviated with only the melody and chord names written in. ![]() ![]() But unlike your typical books, which contain the score as written by the composer or arranger, a fake book is more of a reference for the songs. 19 Disney songs, easy to sing with simplified chords.Ī piano fake book allows you to read and play music on your piano.
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