![]() ![]() ![]() Bring in the great Alan Menken and Howard Ashman for the music, and you’ve got a formula for box office success. He and John Musker gave the mermaid a name, threw in a campy villainess, and fleshed out the characters. evil story and a “love triumphs all” story. It had a lot of potential but was too depressing, so he made it more of a good vs. He had read the original fairytale, but thought it was too sad that the mermaid dissolves into a clump of seafoam at the end. Ron Clemens, a writer and director at Disney, tells how all of the writers were tasked with finding new ideas. ![]() This podcast series covers how the 1989 TLM animated revived the Disney company. ![]() 1, Laura Beth Nielsen: “Ahead of the Lawmen”: Law and Morality in Disney Animated Films 1960–1998) Strange coincidence, I thought, and then moving things around in my youngest’s room after she went to college, I came across some art she had gotten at Comic-Con years ago. (Listen to Episode 1 and/or read the article by the guest of Ep. A couple of days later, I was coincidently recommended Malcom Gladwell’s podcast Revisionist History, and the next 3 episodes he aired was a series on the movie. When we were selecting which title we wanted to lead for #CannonBookClub, I offered to take The Little Mermaid and Sea Witch-having seen the Broadway show once and the animated movie approximately 10,000 times with my two daughters, I thought I surely knew the source material. Cannonballer Abby Awesomeness who is now in college. ![]()
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