20 amazing facts about Disney's most emblematic characters
"Mortimer mouse" does not drive exactly the language.
Everyone has a favorite disney character - at least if it was a child at some point in their lives. Even Walt Disney himself had a favorite. (The rumor has it: goofy.) WithWell over 700 movies In Disney's cannon, there is literally something for everyone, princesses to pirates, amiable air balloons to misunderstood monsters.
But while it is natural to think of these characters as a family - and assume that you know everything there is to know about them, it is possible that there is more than the eye . Some disney characters, especially the most emblematic, have backgashes and rear-scenes tales unlike anything you could imagine.
So, without any other teen, here are 20 lovely disney creations, covering the first days of Walt Disney with recent classics likeFrozen andMoana, who still have secrets to discover by most fans. Digging in these insids, and you will feel like a child who discovers Disney's magic for the first time.
1 Mickey was almost named Mortimer.
Before his movie debut in the short "Steamboat Wille" in 1928, the mouse that would start an empire still needed a name. Walt Disney wanted to call him Mortimer, but his wife, Lillian, hated the name and convinced him to call the Mickey mouse, that she said to make it more reliable. Actor Mickey Rooney affirmed in his autobiography of 1991,Life is too shortWhat Disney came up with the name after meeting him in a cafeteria studio, would have asked the young actor, "How would you like me to name this mouse after you?" But this story has beenwarmly disputed.
2 Elsa ofFrozen has been written like a bad guy.
Elsa-who, it should be noted, at 21 years old and therefore the only official disney princess who is not a teenager - was not originally supposed to have a happy endingFrozen. In the first project, she was a villain on the top in the vein of Ville Cruella and she was certainly not linked to Anna.
But when the writers have heard an early version of "leave it leave it", they had a change of heart and have completely reorganized the story of Elsa, making the queen of snow a character that the audience would like to tell rather than BOO.
3 Pocahontas is the first (and until now) the Disney princess to have a tattoo.
The film of 1995Pocahontas has so many first, of the first Disney movie to inspire by a true story (the second would beHuman) At the first Disney movie with an interracial relationship. But the record he still holds is that the character of Pocahontas remains, from this writing, the first and only Disney princess with a tattoo (visible), a red brewer around his right biceps. Yes, there are many tattooed characters inMoanaBut not a tattooed princess.
4 Aladdin has a hammer's trousers ™.
If the great white pants of Aladdin looks closely familiar and makes you want to jump from your seat and start singing "I can not touch this", it's not just your imagination. When the famous Animator Disney Glen Keane had trouble finding how to animate the "harem" style pants in Aladdin, he apparently watched Mc's dancing hammer videos to get a better idea of how the pants should move, and Soon his drawings began to imitate the distinction of hammer style.
5 Dopey was supposed to be talkative.
It is the only dummy mute in the classic of 1937Snow White and Seven Dwarves. So why can not he speak? Dopey had a lot of lines in the script and the studio hired white Mel, the emblematic actor of voice that became known for characters like rabbit insects and duck duck, to play lovely dwarf. After registering a few tracks, Walt Disney himself was not satisfied and decided to cut all the lines of Dopey. But you can always hear the voice of white in the movie, however, when Dopey Hictcups.
6 Dumbo was almost on the cover ofTime magazine.
Plans were in progress at the end of 1941 for the elephant with ears with the grace of the cover ofTime like their "mammal of the year" (a light taking on their usual "man of the year"). But then, the bombing of Pearl Harbor by Japanese Air Forceshook the nationand dumbo washeritage In favor of General Douglas MacArthur.
7 SullyMonsters Inc. is the most hairy disney character.
The big blue monster and the "most tasty" of its company (expressed by John Goodman) has more than 2.3 million individual hair. (The exact number, if you are one for details, is 2 320 413.) Animation of all these hair was not an easy task. It took about 12 hours for the animators to create just auniqueSulley in action. This was back in 2001 before the progress of digital animation do not take most of the difficult workforce to bring characters to life.
8 The original Tinker bell was played by a 71-year-old.
In the movie version of Disney's 1953 ofPeter Pan, The Pixie had no dialogue and was therefore not played by an actress. The first living person to describe Disney's take on the character was Tiny Kline, a former circus artist of Hungaria who had only four feet high and 98 pounds. She wasThe first bell of Tinker Hover over the magic castle in Disneyland during the fireworks evening. When she was hired in 1961, she was 71 years old, age when most of usI hope to be retired, or at least not through the air, on a castle, dangerously close to the fireworks.
9 Ursula inThe little Mermaid is based on a famous Drag Queen.
Ursula The witch of the sea had many curious early prototypes. The facilitators drawed her briefly like a manta ray inspired by Joan Collins and a "beautiful but fatal" scorpion fish, according to director John Musker. Finally, a facilitator attracted a "overweight vamer" that all the team agreed much looked like the Star of the Queen of Baltimore Drag Drive of such classics Cult John Waters.Pink flamingos andHair lacquer. "Even if it's a kind of disguise, it's based on the character [divine]," said Musker.
10 Bambi was expressed by a war hero.
Donnagan Donnie had a secret. Before becoming a veteran from the Vietnam War decorated in the Marines, receiving a bronze star and three purple hearts for his service, he was a child actor. The most famous role in his short career was the 1942 Disney ClassicBambiwhere he played the voice of the young deer. He never told his marine colleagues, Dunangansaid in an interviewBecause most people thought of Bambi as "a small fragile deer, not doing very well, sliding on the ice on his belly". But he is no longer interested in hiding his past. "I love it now," he says, "When people realize:" This old Sack, he's still alive and was Bambi. "
11 The beast ofThe beauty and the Beastis a combination of seven different animals.
The designer Glen Keane created the distinctive look of the beast ofseven different animals. He has the mane of a lion, the beard and the head of a buffalo, the forehead of a gorilla, the defenses of a wild boar, the body of a bear, the legs and the tail of a Wolf. What is the seventh animal? Well, a human, of course! These blue blue eyes were destined to look as human as possible. "All the other cool stuff, animal things, and all the horns and horns and everything, are set to the vinaigrette for the eyes," Keane said in interviews.
12 Maui inMoana was almost bald.
Long Loop Locks from Demigod Maui (expressed by Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson) in 2016Moanaare practically synonymous with his character. But before the film does not hit the theaters, the original character design features Maui with a bald head. They changed direction when Tahiti consultants told filmmakers that Maui, a Hawaiian mythology is usually represented with the hair. "Maui was bald for so long that when we saw it for the first time with hair, it was a bit difficult to wrap our brain around him," the director Ron Clements saidin an interview. "But now, I could not imagine bald. The hair was definitely the way forward."
13 Rex the dinosaur ofToy story was created by the same guy who gave the worldBuffy against the vampires.
When we think of writer / director Joss Whedon, we think of his movies likeThe Avengersor its seminal television series, likeBuffy against vampires WhereFirefly. Who knew he was also co-writer for the originalToy story?
Like himsaid in an interviewWhen he was brought to rewrite the script, "the characters were about in place, with the exception of the dinosaur, who was mine." Meet Rex The Dinosaur, brought to you by the same creative spirit that gave us a footbridge on Demon Realms.
14 The genius ofAladdin had many lines that you have never heard.
Robin Williams recorded onfour o'clock improvised lines for his role as maniac genius inAladdin. The director only used a fraction of them in the finished film, obviously. And we will probably never hear the lines that hit the floor of the cutting room, like Williams has aClause in his will specifically prohibiting the bands used posthumously. All this improvisation is also the reasonAladdin Was not eligible for an Oscar-The Academy scenario could not be sure of what was written and what had just come out of Williams's head in the studio.
15 The voices behind Mickey and Minnie were married in real life.
If Mickey and Minnie Mouse sound like an old married couple, it's because the actors of the voice who actually play themaremarried. And that's not the reason they were thrown either. Like Russi Taylor, who played Minnie,recalled in an interviewShe met Wayne Allwine, Mickey Mouse's voice for more than 30 years (the longest who has expressed the character), her first day at work, "we have just started hanging like friends. And the next thing you know, we were an article. "
16 Eve, a Wall-E robot friend, was created by the same guy who designed the iPod.
WhenWall-eDirector of Andrew Stanton had the idea of EVE-an acronym for the evaluation of extraterrestrial vegetation-he realized "I was pretty muchdescribing The Apple playbook for design. "So, with the help of Steve Jobs, he convinced Apple designer Jonathan Ive, the man who proposed the distinctive appearance of the iPod, the iPod and the iPhone, to create the look of Eve .
17 The little MermaidThe Ariel is linked to Hercules.
Disney creators behindLittle Mermaid I did not want Ariel thought that aeel was a look at the character of Daryl Hannah's siren in the 1984 comedy smashSplash, so they gave their character some distinctly bright red hair. In addition, Ariel, if you follow the story of the family of Greek mythology, is the daughter of the Triton de Merman, a demigode of the sea, who is the son of Poseidon, who is simply like the brother of Zeus, otherwise known as Hercules dad. So, technically, Ariel and Hercules, the star of another animated Disney movie, are the first cousins.
18 Marlon Brando and the Beatles werealmost Disney characters.
Filmmakers tried to get Fab Four to express the four vultures of their animated film of 1967The jungle DeliveredBut because of the busy schedule and complete disgust of John Lennon with the idea, he never arrived. (Vultures have tops of mop that look very beatles-esque, though.) And other than Marlon Brando has been invited to play Gangster Bill Sykes in Disney's 1988 movieOliver & Company. Disney is then Chief Executive Officer Michael Eisner, even approachedThe Godfather actor personally to see if he was considering doing it. But Brando passed, thinking that the film would never find a wide audience, and the role went to Robert Loggia, a regular Blake Edwards Films.
19 Mary Poppins's most popular song would not exist with polio vaccine.
Julie Andrews had no interest in takingThe role eponymous in musical comedy, 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, but one day, Robert Sherman's children told him that they had all taken their poliomyelitis vaccine and that he had not been so horrible as they were Feared because the drug was hidden in a cube of sugar. With this image in his head, a song was born and Andrews has loved enough that she signed. Think about it the next time you look atMary Poppins. The fact that the film exists at all is everything thanks to polio.
20 WoodyToy storyWas almost a ventriloquin manikin and a villain!
Believe it or not, the cowboy doll which was Andy's favorite toy was designed for the first time as a ventriloque manikin with an average trail. a sculpture Shared by Pixar shows a very Different woods of the one we all know today. He has heavy eyelids, a long nose and a "articulated" chin. He looks like he's saying something really sarcastic and cruel. Director John Lasterter Nixed The original character idea, also calling "scary".
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