It's been almost 70 years since "Fantasia" made its premiere on November 13, 1940. It's Walt at his peak, forget "Snow White". If you've never heard of this one, it's basically "The Twilight Zone" on acid set to classical music.
It's also the movie that I really wish I could make. I think the timing's right, but other people might not. The reason is not even worth explaining.
An amazing thing about Disney is they have changed a lot since then, and they're not the same anymore. "Fantasia" is a damn good movie, and they'll never do anything as good as this again. They ain't even the same Disney that I grew up with and I was born in the early '90s. These days Hollywood just loves to know how much milk they're gonna get out of the cows each and every year. It's so sad to say that most of the time the motion picture is just another way to make money instead of an art form.
Art and business shouldn't be two different things. Children should never be patronized or used as a monetary target.
"Fantasia" is one movie that I wouldn't mind seeing in a theater, especially one that has a huge screen. The timing was anything but right when Walt completed it. I don't think the American moviegoer was mature enough to understand it. That's probably why it almost made Walt bankrupt.
What I would have done is I would have shown it in IMAX with its big surround sound system. I would have done it as a mixed-media art film: hand-drawn backgrounds, digital artwork, hand-drawn animation, different kinds of special effects, stop-motion animation on live sets, etc.
I'm one of those people that doesn't accept the status quo when it comes to movies. But Hollywood still manages to get it right... when they want to, anyway.
It's also the movie that I really wish I could make. I think the timing's right, but other people might not. The reason is not even worth explaining.
An amazing thing about Disney is they have changed a lot since then, and they're not the same anymore. "Fantasia" is a damn good movie, and they'll never do anything as good as this again. They ain't even the same Disney that I grew up with and I was born in the early '90s. These days Hollywood just loves to know how much milk they're gonna get out of the cows each and every year. It's so sad to say that most of the time the motion picture is just another way to make money instead of an art form.
Art and business shouldn't be two different things. Children should never be patronized or used as a monetary target.
"Fantasia" is one movie that I wouldn't mind seeing in a theater, especially one that has a huge screen. The timing was anything but right when Walt completed it. I don't think the American moviegoer was mature enough to understand it. That's probably why it almost made Walt bankrupt.
What I would have done is I would have shown it in IMAX with its big surround sound system. I would have done it as a mixed-media art film: hand-drawn backgrounds, digital artwork, hand-drawn animation, different kinds of special effects, stop-motion animation on live sets, etc.
I'm one of those people that doesn't accept the status quo when it comes to movies. But Hollywood still manages to get it right... when they want to, anyway.