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Julie Andrews had no interest in taking the eponymous role in the musical, so Walt Disney asked the Sherman Brothers to ...
20/02/2022

Julie Andrews had no interest in taking the eponymous role in the musical, so Walt Disney asked the Sherman Brothers to write a song that would convince her to change her mind. They struggled to find something catchy enough, but then one day Robert Sherman's kids told him that they'd all taken their polio vaccine and it hadn't been as horrible as they feared because the medicine was hidden into a sugar cube. With that image in his head, a song was born, and Andrews liked it enough that she signed on. Think about that the next time you watch Mary Poppins. The fact that the movie exists at all is all thanks to polio.

Filmmakers tried to get the Fab Four to voice the four vultures in their 1967 animated film The Jungle Book, but because...
20/02/2022

Filmmakers tried to get the Fab Four to voice the four vultures in their 1967 animated film The Jungle Book, but because of the band's busy schedules and John Lennon's complete disgust with the idea, it never happened. (The vultures do have some mop tops that look very Beatles-esque, though.) And none other than Marlon Brando was asked to play gangster Bill Sykes in Disney's 1988 movie Oliver & Company. Disney's then-CEO Michael Eisner even approached The Godfather actor personally to see if he'd consider doing it. But Brando passed, thinking the movie would never find a wide audience, and the role went to Robert Loggia, a regular from Blake Edwards movies.

The Disney creators behind Little Mermaid didn't want audiences to think Ariel was just a knockoff of Daryl Hannah's mer...
20/02/2022

The Disney creators behind Little Mermaid didn't want audiences to think Ariel was just a knockoff of Daryl Hannah's mermaid character in the 1984 smash comedy Splash, so they gave their character some distinctively bright red hair. What's more, Ariel, if you follow the family history in Greek mythology, is the daughter of the merman Triton, demigod of the sea, who is the son of Poseidon, who just so happens to be the brother of Zeus, otherwise known as the dad of Hercules. So, technically, Ariel and Hercules, the star of another animated Disney film, are first cousins.

When Wall-E's director Andrew Stanton came up with the idea for EVE—an acronym for Extraterrestrial Vegetation Evaluator...
20/02/2022

When Wall-E's director Andrew Stanton came up with the idea for EVE—an acronym for Extraterrestrial Vegetation Evaluator—he realized "I was pretty much describing the Apple playbook for design." So with the help of Steve Jobs, he convinced Apple designer Jonathan Ive, the man who came up with the distinctive appearance of the iMac, the iPod, and the iPhone, to create the look of EVE.

If Mickey and Minnie Mouse sound like an old married couple, that's because the voice actors who play them actually are ...
20/02/2022

If Mickey and Minnie Mouse sound like an old married couple, that's because the voice actors who play them actually are married. And that's not the reason they were cast either. As Russi Taylor, who played Minnie, recalled in an interview, she met Wayne Allwine, the voice of Mickey Mouse for more than 30 years (the longest anyone has voiced the character), on her first day on the job, "We just started hanging out as pals. And the next thing you know, we were an item."

Robin Williams recorded over sixteen hours of improvised lines for his role as the manic Genie in Aladdin. The director ...
20/02/2022

Robin Williams recorded over sixteen hours of improvised lines for his role as the manic Genie in Aladdin. The director used only a fraction of them in the finished film, obviously. And we'll probably never hear the lines that hit the cutting room floor, as Williams has a clause in his will specifically prohibiting the tapes being used posthumously. All of that improvisation is also the reason Aladdin wasn't eligible for a screenplay Oscar—the Academy couldn't be sure what was written and what had just popped out of Williams' head in the studio.

When we think of writer/director Joss Whedon, we think of his films like The Avengers, or his seminal TV series, like Bu...
20/02/2022

When we think of writer/director Joss Whedon, we think of his films like The Avengers, or his seminal TV series, like Buffy the Vampire Slayer or Firefly. Who knew he was also a co-writer for the original Toy Story?

The long curly locks of demigod Maui (voiced by Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson) in 2016's Moana are practically synonymous wi...
20/02/2022

The long curly locks of demigod Maui (voiced by Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson) in 2016's Moana are practically synonymous with his character. But long before the movie hit theaters, the original design for the character featured Maui with a bald head. They changed direction when Tahiti consultants told the filmmakers that Maui, a figure Hawaiian mythology, was usually depicted with hair. "Maui was bald for so long that when we first saw him with hair, it was a little hard to wrap our brains around it," said director Ron Clements in an interview. "But now, I couldn't imagine him bald. Hair was definitely the way to go."

Designer Glen Keane created the Beast's distinctive look from seven different animals. He's got the mane of a lion, the ...
20/02/2022

Designer Glen Keane created the Beast's distinctive look from seven different animals. He's got the mane of a lion, the beard and head of a buffalo, the brow of a gorilla, the tusks of a boar, the body of a bear, and the legs and tail of a wolf. What's the seventh animal? Well, a human, of course! Those baby blue eyes were intended to look as human as possible. "All the other cool stuff, the animal things, and all the horns and everything, are set dressing for the eyes," Keane has said in interviews.

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