Tuesday, April 6, 2010 |
08:40 - And here I'd thought they were out of fairy tales
http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/sc-mov-0323-sleeping-beauty-hahn-2010032
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If you can't keep a movie formula going forever, hey, at least you can always do a Making Of.
For a period of 10 years, from the mid-1980s to the mid-'90s, Disney's sleepy animation division underwent a complete overhaul to become a financial and pop cultural powerhouse for the first time in decades — a phenomenon Don Hahn, a longtime producer of animated films at Disney, recently described as a "perfect storm of people and circumstance that changed the face of animation forever."
Full of behind-the-scenes nuts-and-bolts information, Hahn's new documentary "Waking Sleeping Beauty" (which he directed) examines the era that begat "The Little Mermaid," "Beauty and the Beast" and "The Lion King."
"I've been trying to get this movie made for 10 years," the film's producer, Peter Schneider, said over lunch when he and Hahn were in Chicago last month. "We wanted to capture some of the stories from this time before we all end up in the motion picture home and can't remember anything."
Sounds like it could be fun. Naturally, of course, it'll have to end on a down note, since after all it's talking about a Golden Age that ended, and we'll get to see all the gory details of why it did so, playing out in wrenching inevitability. Still, as Hahn says, "10 years is a long winning streak for any studio". I guess you kinda have to take what you can get.
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