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Lindsay Ellis: How Aladdin Changed Animation (by Screwing Over Robin Williams)
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ah yeah, that was the first big animated movie that advertised that an already established Hollywood star was a main voice. Now every cartoon movie does it.
Katzenberg would tell the whole world how much of a prick Eisner was supposed to be, but he himself acted like one plenty of times. Seems like they were screwing two Williams with Aladdin. Robin Williams and Richard Williams.
These days I feel like there's an inverse relationship between the quality of the animated movie and the amount of Hollywood non-VA celebrities listed in the cast. Interesting to know that Aladdin seems to have been the nexus of that practice (except for that Aladdin was actually good).
Another great video by Ellis. Good that Disney fired that petty assshole. Never saw Ferngully tho, I should correct that.
maybe, it needed something more
but it felt like Bluth had just given up at that point
i'd rather watch Rock-a-Doodle
Boo, that movie is a guilty pleasure for me.
Also the movie predicting drone warfare/video gaming was pretty neat. Oh and the mirror song.
I wait for the day Petty Asshole Katzenberg does a Live Action Shrek Remake to dump on all these Live Action Disney Remakes.
She's going to go all on the "Little Bird" comment. Justifiably so.
She's going to go all on the "Little Bird" comment. Justifiably so.
Katzenberg is a humongous prick, that's for sure. I don't recall him doing anything like withholding a $100+ million dollar bonus based on an ironclad legal agreement and forcing a years-long litigation over the matter for no reason other than spite like Eisner did though.
The way he backstabbed Robin Williams is pretty close though.
It'll address the fans' burning question of why Shrek went with Fiona instead of Shadow.
Exactly what she said it did?
Shit, Anastasia was banking so hard on star power that it even translated to other regions, even disney movies back then when dubbed got just your usual VA proffessionals in latin america, but for Anastasia they stunt casted Thalia.
Wow I never knew Robin was paid so little for Aladdin. That was crazy underpay considering he was the biggest selling point and basically made the movie millions.
I know she discussed the issue in the past when explaining why they had homer simpson for Return of Jafar and the TV series (in the old Nostalgia Chick Most Tolerable Disney Direct-To-Home Sequel video), but I'm glad we have an extended 'splainer video about the affair.
Robin Williams was an inspired casting and a generous and charming man in his own right, and I don't blame him for walking away from them at all after the way they reneged on the agreement they had.
Robin Williams was an inspired casting and a generous and charming man in his own right, and I don't blame him for walking away from them at all after the way they reneged on the agreement they had.
I'd put him in the same class in popular media as Alan Rickman -- obviously they're damn talented actors (especially on stage) but their roles in film are more character work and voice over stuff. One was in Galaxy Quest, Harry Potter, and the H2G2 film; the other was a "forgotten" Doctor Who incarnation and all those nightmare-inducing animated films like Watership Down, Plague Dogs, The Black Cauldron. And again, both damn talented.
I just finished her series on The Hobbit about 30 minutes ago! Glad to have a new video to watch.
Man, I love learning about the behind the scenes of Disney, and its history, the childhood movies I loved had this stuff going on. I should be sad or repulsed, but I find it funny honestly. Weird feeling. But her vids are great.
Be one of the most mind-numbing wastes of talent in animation history and signal an ultimate defeat for Don Bluth by him becoming the very thing he detested?
One has to wonder if/when audiences will turn on the star-driven mediocrities that have been Disney's live action adaptations, even if they dont' suffer from the same degree of quality issues Katzenberg's cheaply burped-out post-Disney contributions have been they're going to run out of renaissance-era films to adapt and then what?