[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: Favorite Disney Movies-Mulan

[Jen Faulkner]

On Fri, 18 May 2001, Chuck Miro wrote:

> Two great animated features that where the main character(s) is are
> girls who enjoy great relationships with their fathers are Hayao
> Miyazaki's "Kiki's Delivery Service" (http://us.imdb.com/Title?
> 0097814) and "My Neighbor, Totoro" (http://us.imdb.com/Title?0096283).

This is too funny -- I just saw "Totoro" the other night for the first
time.  What a trippy movie, seriously.  These two are by the same
person, IIRC, as "Princess Mononoke," only without American stars (Billy
Bob Thorton or Gillian *Scully* Anderson) doing the voices...  I've been
singing the Totoro song for days now, and just the thought of the movie
is enough to send me into giggle fits. :)  It's very sweet, yes, and the
kids do have a great relationship with their father (Freudianly I wrote
'mother' there at first -- whoops. *g*), but you know, as a child, that
movie would've terrified me.  I was scared of everything, including
nearly every Disney movie.  I always loved the music anyway, but I could
only watch parts -- f'rinstance, in "Sleeping Beauty" I could never
watch the scene where what's-his-name (did he have a name in that one?)
fights Maleficent; it terrified me too much.  But I did like to watch
the rest, particularly the scene where the fairies turn her dress pink,
then blue, pink then blue...

My fave (older) Disney movie is probably "The Sword in the Stone."  I
was also quite fond of "Bedknobs and Broomsticks."  Newer things,
"Beauty and the Beast" is my absolute favorite for both the music and
Belle herself (love her -- she takes action!!), though I also really
like "Oliver and Company" (I used Georgette's song for an audition in
sixth grade *g*) -- but again, I couldn't watch any of the scary scenes,
and that movie has quite a few.  I haven't seen any Disney movies since
"Pocohontas," which wasn't really that bad, if completely inaccurate and
a little ridiculous.  I like Judy Kuhn quite a bit...  Her version of
"Colors of the Wind" was so much more enjoyable than Vanessa Williams',
IMO.  I loved her in "My Favorite Broadway: The Leading Ladies" in the
Andrew Lloyd Webber trio with Marin Mazzie (whom I don't like) and Audra
McDonald (whom I do), and in the concert version of Les Mis (which was
also on PBS)...

I know nearly every line of dialogue (and certainly all the songs) to
"The Little Mermaid" by heart, though not by choice... in sixth grade, I
had a music teacher who, instead of teach, had us watch that movie
during class for all of the spring semester.  Do you know how many times
that is?  I hate that movie.  

But it *is* my lifelong dream to do the voice of a Disney heroine.  And
if they offered, I so wouldn't even worry about whether the movie was
good, bad, sexist, racist...  because I'd be singing in a Disney
movie.  (Disney peeps, are you listening? *g*)

--jen :)

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