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Topic	Disney's Hercules getting a remake
adjl 05/01/20 2:42:32 PM #27:	Zareth posted... Is it Live Action? Danny DeVito can still play Phil. This is my only demand. They can do whatever else they want, but if Danny DeVito isn't Phil, it's trash. Zeus posted... Better than Mulan. Mulan, at least, there's a lot of room to make an interesting movie by staying more true to the original story than they did with the animated one. Dunno if they've succeeded or not, since obviously its release has been pushed back, but I'm okay with cutting out the more fantastic bits of the animated one for the sake of telling a less fantastic story. I can, after all, watch the animated version any time if that's what I want. A remake doesn't have to be a frame-for-frame copy of the original (arguably, it shouldn't, especially in a world where the original is easily attainable). Hercules, on the other hand, is a story that's already been done more seriously many other times, and pretty much the only reason the animated Disney version is worth watching is because of how silly and fantastic it is (to be clear, I do enjoy it quite a bit). That silliness is also going to be very difficult to emulate in live action even if they do try for a frame-for-frame remake, so I'm really not sure what they're hoping to accomplish here. I don't have particularly high hopes. Zeus posted... My biggest problem was that silly forced feminist anthem they created for Jasmine that so hilariously out of place that I couldn't stop laughing the whole time... I'm fine with giving Jasmine a bigger role, particularly since class mobility and defying social/cultural expectations are such central themes to Aladdin's story and there was plenty of room to expand on Jasmine's role in all of that, but her song was indeed painfully hamfisted and so musically inconsistent that I was left wondering if Disney had forgotten how to write scores for musicals that aren't Frozen. The movie could have done without that, or at least with a subtler, stylistically-consistent alternative. Zeus posted... that and some of the song & dance numbers felt more Bollywood than Arabic. What bothered me was how they kept accelerating the video playback rate to keep up with the music. There were several points where the framerate obviously changed because the video was faster than the dancers they hired could dance, which was just sloppy. Zeus posted... Plus nobody was a particularly good singer, but that's kind of a running theme with the LA remakes. They weren't bad, per se, but they weren't a great stylistic match. I liked Will Smith's version of Friend Like Me well enough, since he was able to put his own spin on that and adjust it to his strengths, but Arabian Nights wasn't good. Similarly, Jasmine's actress did a reasonable job with the song they wrote for Jasmine, since that seemed to play to her strengths, but her style was very out of place in A Whole New World (particularly where it didn't match the way Aladdin was singing). It seemed to me that the people in charge of hiring for those roles didn't take any input from the songwriters, since everyone was just more pop-ish than was suitable for the movie (which is completely consistent with executive meddling). --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. <cite>adjl posted [p:938435399] in Disney's H... [t:78644123]...</cite> <quote>Zareth posted... </cite> <quote>Is it Live Action? Danny DeVito can still play Phil.</quote> This is my only demand. They can do whatever else they want, but if Danny DeVito isn't Phil, it's trash. Zeus posted... </cite> <quote>Better than Mulan.</quote> Mulan, at least, there's a lot of room to make an interesting movie by staying more true to the original story than they did with the animated one. Dunno if they've succeeded or not, since obviously its release has been pushed back, but I'm okay with cutting out the more fantastic bits of the animated one for the sake of telling a less fantastic story. I can, after all, watch the animated version any time if that's what I want. A remake doesn't have to be a frame-for-frame copy of the original (arguably, it shouldn't, especially in a world where the original is easily attainable). Hercules, on the other hand, is a story that's already been done more seriously many other times, and pretty much the only reason the animated Disney version is worth watching is because of how silly and fantastic it is (to be clear, I do enjoy it quite a bit). That silliness is also going to be very difficult to emulate in live action even if they do try for a frame-for-frame remake, so I'm really not sure what they're hoping to accomplish here. I don't have particularly high hopes. Zeus posted... </cite> <quote>My biggest problem was that silly forced feminist anthem they created for Jasmine that so hilariously out of place that I couldn't stop laughing the whole time...</quote> I'm fine with giving Jasmine a bigger role, particularly since class mobility and defying social/cultural expectations are such central themes to Aladdin's story and there was plenty of room to expand on Jasmine's role in all of that, but her song was indeed painfully hamfisted and so musically inconsistent that I was left wondering if Disney had forgotten how to write scores for musicals that aren't Frozen. The movie could have done without that, or at least with a subtler, stylistically-consistent alternative. Zeus posted... </cite> <quote>that and some of the song & dance numbers felt more Bollywood than Arabic.</quote> What bothered me was how they kept accelerating the video playback rate to keep up with the music. There were several points where the framerate obviously changed because the video was faster than the dancers they hired could dance, which was just sloppy. Zeus posted... </cite> <quote>Plus nobody was a particularly good singer, but that's kind of a running theme with the LA remakes.</quote> They weren't bad, per se, but they weren't a great stylistic match. I liked Will Smith's version of Friend Like Me well enough, since he was able to put his own spin on that and adjust it to his strengths, but Arabian Nights wasn't good. Similarly, Jasmine's actress did a reasonable job with the song they wrote for Jasmine, since that seemed to play to her strengths, but her style was very out of place in A Whole New World (particularly where it didn't match the way Aladdin was singing). It seemed to me that the people in charge of hiring for those roles didn't take any input from the songwriters, since everyone was just more pop-ish than was suitable for the movie (which is completely consistent with executive meddling). --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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