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...stripped of its violence in the 17th century, criticized in the 18th as unfair to stepmothers and sentimentalized by Disney in the 20th. Now Cinderella, and most of the major fairy tales, have attracted a set of critics who deride them as sexist...
...time was the 1930s and early 1940s. The place was the Walt Disney Studio. Members of the young team that drew Mickey, Donald, Pluto, Goofy and the rest of its barnyard denizens were early students of what is now referred to as body language. They understood that, on the screen, action is character, that in the exaggerated twitch of one of their little anthropomorph's bottoms, the stretch of his back or the lift of his ever-scampering feet they could, with fine comic efficiency, show the state of his emotions. The history of animation from the Mouse...
...evidence of this disciplined rush to perfection of technique and technology can be seen at New York's Whitney Museum of American Art in "Disney Animations and Animators." Preliminary character and background sketches, animators' roughs of entire sequences, eels (the finished ink and paint drawings that the camera photographed), even film loops in which roughs and completed films are juxtaposed-all are there. The show provides a singular insight into the painstaking work of the talented artists who competed to realize Disney's dreams...
...produced by the Disney organization, Dragonslayer represents a game attempt to recapture the audience that has been drifting away in recent years. At moments the film evokes the kind of shuddery terrors that the classic animated fairy tales did. Like Galen, the Disney people seem to have a magic amulet that is full of promise. It will be interesting to see if, finally, they can slay the monster of indifference that has been laying waste their once secure hillside...
...question for Lucas is whether he can sustain his idealism in an envious and highly competitive field, where success is usually measured by the bottom line. For Disney, Utopia turned into creative stasis and the once vaulting fantasies gave way to the commercialized thrills of Disneyland. If Lucas can preserve himself from commercial temptation, he may yet realize his larger ambition, which is to use the profits from his popular movies for more experimental work. "I want to push film further and still get some emotional pull," he says...