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Arguing with the voices in his head? That's schizophrenia. MPD (Multiple Personality Disorder) is when someone has essentially two separate personalities.
I don't like to nitpick, but mental health is so misunderstood that I thought I should mention that. Of course, Hollywood is not known for accuracy. This is at least the second Kramer vs Kramer in the thread
Captain Marvel: The origin story for Mar-Vell, a Kree soldier who ends up on Earth to investigate a missing Kree criminal scientist. He along with a young Nick Fury and a scientist find the rogue scientist only to discover the experiments were ordered by Mar-Vell's commanding officer who wished to make supersoldiers. The experiment works, but Mar-Vell's interference causes him to gain powers as well in addition to a new appearance, that of the scientist. Said scientist in his dying words requests he live a full life and protect humanity. It's revealed most of the film was a flashback, him dictating this to Carol and the reveal that Carol is half-Kree, which is why he is telling her this. It's discovered the officer had rebuilt the machine and updated with SHIELD's confiscated HYDRA weapons. The result has Mar-Vell stop him while also having Carol gain powers, becoming part Kree supersoldier. She agrees to go after him in space, telling Mar-Vell to return to his family.
The Professor and the Madman: A bizarre cult classic film inspired by titular characters of Pinky and the Brain. Brian "the Brain" LaMarche, a respected professor with political ambitions, is given the chance to act on them when he reunites with his old childhood friend, Paul "Pinky" Pinkerton. Paul was found in an insane asylum, sent there for his outbursts and behavior, who Brian sees as an unorthodox approach for their goals.
Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle: A retelling of the classic story, though it follows Mowgli as a fully grown man defending his jungle home from encroaching poachers and loggers with the help of a young woman activist. Many note that the teaser and concept art had a feel of Tarzan to it, which the creators referenced when they recasted a supporting character, using the new actor of Tarzan as Minister Grayson, a politician sympathetic to Mowgli's struggles.
The Professor and the Madman: A bizarre cult classic film inspired by titular characters of Pinky and the Brain. Brian "the Brain" LaMarche, a respected professor with political ambitions, is given the chance to act on them when he reunites with his old childhood friend, Paul "Pinky" Pinkerton. Paul was found in an insane asylum, sent there for his outbursts and behavior, who Brian sees as an unorthodox approach for their goals.
Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle: A retelling of the classic story, though it follows Mowgli as a fully grown man defending his jungle home from encroaching poachers and loggers with the help of a young woman activist. Many note that the teaser and concept art had a feel of Tarzan to it, which the creators referenced when they recasted a supporting character, using the new actor of Tarzan as Minister Grayson, a politician sympathetic to Mowgli's struggles.
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Alternate Weird Al Films
Wired Weird (1991)
A 1991 satirical slapstick musical comedy film made by and starring Weird Al Yankovic. Yankovic spent years intermittently working on the material and rewrites covering everything from the plot to the title (it was originally called “U.H.F.”).
The plot concerns a hyperactive daydreamer stumbling into managing a low-budget TV station and surprisingly finding success with eclectic programming choices, provoking the ire of a competitive major network station.
The film’s primary cast includes Weird Al in the main role, Yasmine Bleeth as Jennifer Love Interest, Fran Drescher as Pam, and Michael Richards as Stanley Spadowski. David Bowie cameoed in the film alongside Dr. Demento, Kevin McCarthy, and Gary Coleman.
Upon release three years later than initially planned, the film received lukewarm reviews despite being adequately financially profitable, and has since become a major cult classic. Shortly after its premier, stoner comedian Cheech Marin described it as “a wonderful crazy drug trip without the crash.” However, soon after its release, the film faded from popular culture for roughly twenty years. In the late 2000s and early 2010s decades, the film’s popularity grew thanks to early internet forums returning it to the public’s eye. In 2011, film critic Leonard Maltin lauded it as “defining the non-sequitur humor of the early 1990s.” Yankovic announced he would make a “sorta-sequel” to it in 2014, quick finally premiered in 2019.
Weird Almerica (2019)
Comedian singer-songwriter Yankovic’s third-ever film, a musical action comedy, was released on July 4, 2019. It is a 2-hour musical commenting on many of the peculiarities of America throughout time (including, for instance, a quick scene where Jon Voight plays John Quincy Adams skinny dipping and considering sending an expedition to the North Pole to find an entrance to the inside of the Earth, which he believed was hollow), with all the commentary being stringed together by the framing of the audience following an unbalanced scientist evade police from a dystopian future (revealed to be our present in the film’s plot twist toward the end of the film) by travelling to several locations across the U.S., only for the scientist to ultimarely be handed in by his bipolar protégé during one of his more lucid moments.
The film’s primary cast includes Weird Al was the scientist Dr. Rhinoplastic, Samantha “Antha” Steimer as the protégé Abigail, and Elian Gonzalez as the young leader of the police investigating Dr. Rhinoplastic’s activities. The film also featured cameos from Chris Farley, Pauly Shore, Gilbert Gottfried, Angelina Jolie as Marilyn Monroe, and Yankovic’s mother Mary Yankovic in a brief scene filmed shortly before her death from natural causes at the age of 94 (b. Feb 1923).
The film has made a gross of $3million. Due to Yankovic’s past history with critics, the film had limited press exposure and engage with fans directly with online activities through Yankovic-related sites. However, almost all reviews for the film have been positive.
Production on the film was slow. After 17 years of discussions, Weird Al had gotten his own show on TV in 2001, a spiritual successor of sorts to the short-lived and much more kid-friendly animated Weird Al series that lasted from 1995 to 1997 (26 episodes). The show’s success encouraged him to make another film, leading to him working on music for a film celebrating how “America can sometimes be even weirder than me!”
Eivom Emordnilap Eht (1999)
Also released as A Movie Ivoma, Weird Al Yankovic’s second feature film was a musical action dramedy produced and directed by him and written by him and five other people. While failing to be as commerically successful as his first film, the film nevertheless developed a small but strong cult following. The film is also notable for relying heavily on visuals and quick editing, as every line of dialogue was written as a palindrome.
The plot concerns a pair of Italian police officers, Adam (“Madam, I’m Adam”) and his rookie partner and old college friend (“Campus Motto: Bottoms up, Mac”) Otto Osla, following the bizarre actions of a suspicious cult leader Dennis as he participates in a car race from Rome to Vienna: After discovering a homicide (“Murder for a jar of red rum?”), the two assure their boss they will solve the case (“On it, Tino”). At the crime scene, after Otto is exposed to hallucinogenic rat poison (“Rats live on no evil star” “Oozy rat in a sanitary zoo”), the duo discover clues that lead them to a suspicious milk warehouse that was recently emptied (“No trace – not one carton”). Upon believing the cult leader Dennis is behind the homicide (“Dennis sinned”) due to a clue found at the warehouse, the two attend one of his sermons (“Do geese see god? Are we not drawn onward, we few, drawn onward to new era? Ah, Satan sees Natasha. Satan, oscillate my metallic sonatas!”). After receiving herbal remedy advice from an attendee (“Straw? No, too stupid a fad; I put soot on warts”) who leaves them a note (“Doc Note: I dissent. A fast never prevents a fatness. I diet on cod.”), which turns out to be another clue. The film then cuts to a racing organization voting on a route layout (“Rise to vote, sir.” “Anne, I vote more cars race Rome to Vienna”) before returning to Adam and Otto. Following the doctor’s note leads to them busting a local restaurant fronting for a drug-peddling operation (“Go hang a salami – I’m a lasagna hog”). After studying documentation (“Some men interpret nine memos”) hidden by the front operator (“Osla, too bad – I hid a boot also”), Adam and Otto conclude Dennis plans on using the race from Rome to Vienna to smuggle drugs out of the country by hiding them in milk cartons in the racecar’s trunk. At the start of the race (“Race fast, safe car”), which features several unusually-designed cars (“A Toyota’s a Toyota.” “Was it a car or a cat I saw?”) in a live-action homage to the 1960's animated TV series "Wacky Races," Dennis sends a minion to threaten his driver, Erasmus, to do whatever is necessary to get the car to Vienna (“Go deliver a dare, vile dog!”). The driver, though, says in the third person that he cares more for the rush of committing the crime than his monetary compensation for carrying it out (“Sums are not set as a test on Erasmus”). Adam and Otto arrive to enter the race at the last minute, and soon partake in an extensive car chase through the Alps. At a pit stop, a mechanic explains how his niece is a witness to previous drug smuggling races while milking livestock (“Kay, a red nude, peeped under a yak”). Misreading a map, Erasmus attempts to avoid a police checkpoint and crashes his car on the edge of the Austrian border; Adam and Otto capture him. Not wanting to be bumped off for failing to do his job, Erasmus volunteers to work with Adam and Otto in exchange for a shorter jail term (“No, sir, prefer prison”) and being allowed to finish the race. In Vienna, a sting operation takes down Dennis and his drug buyers, and Adam and Otto return home as heroes.
The primary cast featured John Schneider as Erasmus, Weird Al as Adam, Tom Green as Otto, and Dennis Leary as Dennis. The film also included cameos from Dana Hill-Goetz (1964-2010), Tanya Blanding (b. 1963), William N. Dalton (b. 1948), and Pete Duel (b. 1940).
The film was only released in English-speaking areas as translators failed to make palindromes that matched the plot and visuals. The film received mixed reviews from critics and audiences but nevertheless found a small niche of supporters in both groups for its clever writing and visual humor. Yankovic himself disliked the film, though, considering it to be “not funny enough,” and being “disappointed” that only five musical sequences ended up being worked into the plot ("at least" ten were originally planned for the film).
Wired Weird (1991)
A 1991 satirical slapstick musical comedy film made by and starring Weird Al Yankovic. Yankovic spent years intermittently working on the material and rewrites covering everything from the plot to the title (it was originally called “U.H.F.”).
The plot concerns a hyperactive daydreamer stumbling into managing a low-budget TV station and surprisingly finding success with eclectic programming choices, provoking the ire of a competitive major network station.
The film’s primary cast includes Weird Al in the main role, Yasmine Bleeth as Jennifer Love Interest, Fran Drescher as Pam, and Michael Richards as Stanley Spadowski. David Bowie cameoed in the film alongside Dr. Demento, Kevin McCarthy, and Gary Coleman.
Upon release three years later than initially planned, the film received lukewarm reviews despite being adequately financially profitable, and has since become a major cult classic. Shortly after its premier, stoner comedian Cheech Marin described it as “a wonderful crazy drug trip without the crash.” However, soon after its release, the film faded from popular culture for roughly twenty years. In the late 2000s and early 2010s decades, the film’s popularity grew thanks to early internet forums returning it to the public’s eye. In 2011, film critic Leonard Maltin lauded it as “defining the non-sequitur humor of the early 1990s.” Yankovic announced he would make a “sorta-sequel” to it in 2014, quick finally premiered in 2019.
Weird Almerica (2019)
Comedian singer-songwriter Yankovic’s third-ever film, a musical action comedy, was released on July 4, 2019. It is a 2-hour musical commenting on many of the peculiarities of America throughout time (including, for instance, a quick scene where Jon Voight plays John Quincy Adams skinny dipping and considering sending an expedition to the North Pole to find an entrance to the inside of the Earth, which he believed was hollow), with all the commentary being stringed together by the framing of the audience following an unbalanced scientist evade police from a dystopian future (revealed to be our present in the film’s plot twist toward the end of the film) by travelling to several locations across the U.S., only for the scientist to ultimarely be handed in by his bipolar protégé during one of his more lucid moments.
The film’s primary cast includes Weird Al was the scientist Dr. Rhinoplastic, Samantha “Antha” Steimer as the protégé Abigail, and Elian Gonzalez as the young leader of the police investigating Dr. Rhinoplastic’s activities. The film also featured cameos from Chris Farley, Pauly Shore, Gilbert Gottfried, Angelina Jolie as Marilyn Monroe, and Yankovic’s mother Mary Yankovic in a brief scene filmed shortly before her death from natural causes at the age of 94 (b. Feb 1923).
The film has made a gross of $3million. Due to Yankovic’s past history with critics, the film had limited press exposure and engage with fans directly with online activities through Yankovic-related sites. However, almost all reviews for the film have been positive.
Production on the film was slow. After 17 years of discussions, Weird Al had gotten his own show on TV in 2001, a spiritual successor of sorts to the short-lived and much more kid-friendly animated Weird Al series that lasted from 1995 to 1997 (26 episodes). The show’s success encouraged him to make another film, leading to him working on music for a film celebrating how “America can sometimes be even weirder than me!”
Eivom Emordnilap Eht (1999)
Also released as A Movie Ivoma, Weird Al Yankovic’s second feature film was a musical action dramedy produced and directed by him and written by him and five other people. While failing to be as commerically successful as his first film, the film nevertheless developed a small but strong cult following. The film is also notable for relying heavily on visuals and quick editing, as every line of dialogue was written as a palindrome.
The plot concerns a pair of Italian police officers, Adam (“Madam, I’m Adam”) and his rookie partner and old college friend (“Campus Motto: Bottoms up, Mac”) Otto Osla, following the bizarre actions of a suspicious cult leader Dennis as he participates in a car race from Rome to Vienna: After discovering a homicide (“Murder for a jar of red rum?”), the two assure their boss they will solve the case (“On it, Tino”). At the crime scene, after Otto is exposed to hallucinogenic rat poison (“Rats live on no evil star” “Oozy rat in a sanitary zoo”), the duo discover clues that lead them to a suspicious milk warehouse that was recently emptied (“No trace – not one carton”). Upon believing the cult leader Dennis is behind the homicide (“Dennis sinned”) due to a clue found at the warehouse, the two attend one of his sermons (“Do geese see god? Are we not drawn onward, we few, drawn onward to new era? Ah, Satan sees Natasha. Satan, oscillate my metallic sonatas!”). After receiving herbal remedy advice from an attendee (“Straw? No, too stupid a fad; I put soot on warts”) who leaves them a note (“Doc Note: I dissent. A fast never prevents a fatness. I diet on cod.”), which turns out to be another clue. The film then cuts to a racing organization voting on a route layout (“Rise to vote, sir.” “Anne, I vote more cars race Rome to Vienna”) before returning to Adam and Otto. Following the doctor’s note leads to them busting a local restaurant fronting for a drug-peddling operation (“Go hang a salami – I’m a lasagna hog”). After studying documentation (“Some men interpret nine memos”) hidden by the front operator (“Osla, too bad – I hid a boot also”), Adam and Otto conclude Dennis plans on using the race from Rome to Vienna to smuggle drugs out of the country by hiding them in milk cartons in the racecar’s trunk. At the start of the race (“Race fast, safe car”), which features several unusually-designed cars (“A Toyota’s a Toyota.” “Was it a car or a cat I saw?”) in a live-action homage to the 1960's animated TV series "Wacky Races," Dennis sends a minion to threaten his driver, Erasmus, to do whatever is necessary to get the car to Vienna (“Go deliver a dare, vile dog!”). The driver, though, says in the third person that he cares more for the rush of committing the crime than his monetary compensation for carrying it out (“Sums are not set as a test on Erasmus”). Adam and Otto arrive to enter the race at the last minute, and soon partake in an extensive car chase through the Alps. At a pit stop, a mechanic explains how his niece is a witness to previous drug smuggling races while milking livestock (“Kay, a red nude, peeped under a yak”). Misreading a map, Erasmus attempts to avoid a police checkpoint and crashes his car on the edge of the Austrian border; Adam and Otto capture him. Not wanting to be bumped off for failing to do his job, Erasmus volunteers to work with Adam and Otto in exchange for a shorter jail term (“No, sir, prefer prison”) and being allowed to finish the race. In Vienna, a sting operation takes down Dennis and his drug buyers, and Adam and Otto return home as heroes.
The primary cast featured John Schneider as Erasmus, Weird Al as Adam, Tom Green as Otto, and Dennis Leary as Dennis. The film also included cameos from Dana Hill-Goetz (1964-2010), Tanya Blanding (b. 1963), William N. Dalton (b. 1948), and Pete Duel (b. 1940).
The film was only released in English-speaking areas as translators failed to make palindromes that matched the plot and visuals. The film received mixed reviews from critics and audiences but nevertheless found a small niche of supporters in both groups for its clever writing and visual humor. Yankovic himself disliked the film, though, considering it to be “not funny enough,” and being “disappointed” that only five musical sequences ended up being worked into the plot ("at least" ten were originally planned for the film).
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Rapunzel (1987)
Ever since the smash hit of Thumbelina in 1973, Don Bluth had been directing virtually every Disney film. But only a decade later, Don Bluth began to feel the fatigue of working on every major film for a decade and a half. So he wished to be able to start directing simpler projects like B-Movies or writing episodes of Disney cartoon shows. But before he passed the torch on to the Kirk Wises and John Muskers of the studio, he was determined to let his work on major Disney films end with a bang. For this reason, he contacted Andrew Lloyd Webber and Richard Stilgoe. The creative minds behind the music for such films as Thumbelina, The Snow Queen, and Satyrday. Together, all three quickly agreed to adapt Rapunzel, a project which Bluth allowed Glen Keane to choose.
It's safe to say Bluth's magmum opus of the major films was successful in that regard.
The film tells the story of how a couple of nobles were expecting a child. However, the wife was presumed to die of childbirth and the nobleman was determined to save her. As such, the man learns that the home of an old witch named Dame Gothel keeps a batch of rapunzel. He sneaks in while the hag is asleep. But it turns out it was a magical flower capable of healing illness, decay, and injury. For hundreds of years, the flower has been used by Dame Gothel to retain her youth. Shortly afterwards, the noblewoman gives birth to a girl named Rapunzel. While attempting to recover the flower, Gothel (Roseanne Barr) discovers Rapunzel's golden hair contains the flower's healing properties, and that cutting her hair destroys its power. Gothel abducts the baby and raises Rapunzel as her own daughter in an isolated tower. Once a year, the noble couple releases sky lanterns on Rapunzel's birthday, hoping for their daughter to see them and return.
Eighteen years later, Rapunzel (Catherine Cavadini) has grown up into one of the most beautiful girls anyone man could ever dream of. On her birthday, she requests to leave the tower and discover their source, but Gothel refuses, claiming that the outside world is a dangerous place. Rapunzel is disappointed and says so the the chameleon Pascal (animal sounds provided by Dom Deluise). Indeed, she often dreams of leaving the tower to do plenty more than seeing the lamps.
Meanwhile, Prince Eugene (Donny Osmond), one of the princes of the country Rapunzel’s from, is celebrating his own birthday with some friends of his in the nearby village. However, the festivities are interrupted by the objections of his father (Kenneth Mars). Who insists that he must find a bride by his next birthday. He is upset about not getting to marry out of love. To add insult to injury, the part of the kingdom he was allotted, and has since moved to, is largely under-developed and poor. As a solution, Eugene's friends, the brother Marcus (Danny Devito) and Martin (Mark Hamill), try to take his mind off it by going on a horse ride with him. Eventually however, it starts raining heavily and the group take shelter in what they discover is a cave filled to the brim with coal.
Eventually, the group leaves back home in the night. But they discover that the bridge has since collapsed. As such, Eugene agrees to scout an alternate route home. He makes good progress until he hears Rapunzel singing from the tower. Entranced by her ethereal voice, he searches for her and discovers the tower, but is naturally unable to enter it. He returns often, listening to her beautiful singing, and one day sees Dame Gothel visit, and thus learns how to gain access to Rapunzel. When Dame Gothel leaves, he bids Rapunzel let her hair down.
As Rapunzel realizes it’s not Gothel, she is frightened at first. Eugene is awestruck when he meets her and is infatuated. Rapunzel would eventually find herself at ease with Eugene once he scales the tower. With the coast clear, Eugene sneaks Rapunzel down from the tower by tying a few scraps of linen together, and soon after, the two gallop to a day and night of adventure and excitement on the back of the prince's noble steed Orion. Hungry by nightfall, Eugene takes Rapunzel out to a seemingly peaceful pub overlooking the village pier called the Snuggly Duckling, but unbeknownst to them, Gothel had arrived an hour earlier, setting up a bar room brawl.
The prince and girl escape on horseback, but Gothel is one step ahead as she stops the heroic duo halfway across a rickety bridge. Gothel scolds Rapunzel for venturing outside the tower, and takes her back. Eugene goes off in pursuit with his friends. He soon enters by climbing Rapunzel's hair, only to find Rapunzel bound and gagged. Gothel fatally stabs Eugene and tries to force Rapunzel to leave with her, but Rapunzel agrees to submit forever willingly if she is allowed to heal Eugene. Eugene, wanting Rapunzel to be free, instead slices off her hair, destroying its magic and causing Gothel's age to suddenly catch up with her. She then trips and falls out of the window of the tower, turning into dust in the process.
A heartbroken Rapunzel mourns for Eugene. However, her tear, which still contains some of the sun's power, lands on his cheek and restores his life. The two return to the kingdom and Rapunzel reunites with her parents. Overjoyed, the kingdom breaks out in celebration, and Eugene himself is happy to have a bride and his parents’ approval.
The film was naturally a smash hit, and is still widely considered one of Disney's best films. The soundtrack is also very well loved. With particular note going to Eugene's number "Crazy" composed by Webber and Stilgoe. Other iconic songs include Rapunzel's "Lights Of My Dreams" and Gothel's "Mother Knows Best". (Despite the same name, the latter song is composed a bit differently from OTL, being more like a deranged lounge song).
Ever since the smash hit of Thumbelina in 1973, Don Bluth had been directing virtually every Disney film. But only a decade later, Don Bluth began to feel the fatigue of working on every major film for a decade and a half. So he wished to be able to start directing simpler projects like B-Movies or writing episodes of Disney cartoon shows. But before he passed the torch on to the Kirk Wises and John Muskers of the studio, he was determined to let his work on major Disney films end with a bang. For this reason, he contacted Andrew Lloyd Webber and Richard Stilgoe. The creative minds behind the music for such films as Thumbelina, The Snow Queen, and Satyrday. Together, all three quickly agreed to adapt Rapunzel, a project which Bluth allowed Glen Keane to choose.
It's safe to say Bluth's magmum opus of the major films was successful in that regard.
The film tells the story of how a couple of nobles were expecting a child. However, the wife was presumed to die of childbirth and the nobleman was determined to save her. As such, the man learns that the home of an old witch named Dame Gothel keeps a batch of rapunzel. He sneaks in while the hag is asleep. But it turns out it was a magical flower capable of healing illness, decay, and injury. For hundreds of years, the flower has been used by Dame Gothel to retain her youth. Shortly afterwards, the noblewoman gives birth to a girl named Rapunzel. While attempting to recover the flower, Gothel (Roseanne Barr) discovers Rapunzel's golden hair contains the flower's healing properties, and that cutting her hair destroys its power. Gothel abducts the baby and raises Rapunzel as her own daughter in an isolated tower. Once a year, the noble couple releases sky lanterns on Rapunzel's birthday, hoping for their daughter to see them and return.
Eighteen years later, Rapunzel (Catherine Cavadini) has grown up into one of the most beautiful girls anyone man could ever dream of. On her birthday, she requests to leave the tower and discover their source, but Gothel refuses, claiming that the outside world is a dangerous place. Rapunzel is disappointed and says so the the chameleon Pascal (animal sounds provided by Dom Deluise). Indeed, she often dreams of leaving the tower to do plenty more than seeing the lamps.
Meanwhile, Prince Eugene (Donny Osmond), one of the princes of the country Rapunzel’s from, is celebrating his own birthday with some friends of his in the nearby village. However, the festivities are interrupted by the objections of his father (Kenneth Mars). Who insists that he must find a bride by his next birthday. He is upset about not getting to marry out of love. To add insult to injury, the part of the kingdom he was allotted, and has since moved to, is largely under-developed and poor. As a solution, Eugene's friends, the brother Marcus (Danny Devito) and Martin (Mark Hamill), try to take his mind off it by going on a horse ride with him. Eventually however, it starts raining heavily and the group take shelter in what they discover is a cave filled to the brim with coal.
Eventually, the group leaves back home in the night. But they discover that the bridge has since collapsed. As such, Eugene agrees to scout an alternate route home. He makes good progress until he hears Rapunzel singing from the tower. Entranced by her ethereal voice, he searches for her and discovers the tower, but is naturally unable to enter it. He returns often, listening to her beautiful singing, and one day sees Dame Gothel visit, and thus learns how to gain access to Rapunzel. When Dame Gothel leaves, he bids Rapunzel let her hair down.
As Rapunzel realizes it’s not Gothel, she is frightened at first. Eugene is awestruck when he meets her and is infatuated. Rapunzel would eventually find herself at ease with Eugene once he scales the tower. With the coast clear, Eugene sneaks Rapunzel down from the tower by tying a few scraps of linen together, and soon after, the two gallop to a day and night of adventure and excitement on the back of the prince's noble steed Orion. Hungry by nightfall, Eugene takes Rapunzel out to a seemingly peaceful pub overlooking the village pier called the Snuggly Duckling, but unbeknownst to them, Gothel had arrived an hour earlier, setting up a bar room brawl.
The prince and girl escape on horseback, but Gothel is one step ahead as she stops the heroic duo halfway across a rickety bridge. Gothel scolds Rapunzel for venturing outside the tower, and takes her back. Eugene goes off in pursuit with his friends. He soon enters by climbing Rapunzel's hair, only to find Rapunzel bound and gagged. Gothel fatally stabs Eugene and tries to force Rapunzel to leave with her, but Rapunzel agrees to submit forever willingly if she is allowed to heal Eugene. Eugene, wanting Rapunzel to be free, instead slices off her hair, destroying its magic and causing Gothel's age to suddenly catch up with her. She then trips and falls out of the window of the tower, turning into dust in the process.
A heartbroken Rapunzel mourns for Eugene. However, her tear, which still contains some of the sun's power, lands on his cheek and restores his life. The two return to the kingdom and Rapunzel reunites with her parents. Overjoyed, the kingdom breaks out in celebration, and Eugene himself is happy to have a bride and his parents’ approval.
The film was naturally a smash hit, and is still widely considered one of Disney's best films. The soundtrack is also very well loved. With particular note going to Eugene's number "Crazy" composed by Webber and Stilgoe. Other iconic songs include Rapunzel's "Lights Of My Dreams" and Gothel's "Mother Knows Best". (Despite the same name, the latter song is composed a bit differently from OTL, being more like a deranged lounge song).
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Heaven Gate 1980. From Michael Cimino the Director of the Deer Hunter, this film deals with former soldiers who on their return from Vietnam. end up involved with a Religious Cult.
They fail to see the crazy behavior of the Cult leader and the film ends with two of the three soldiers killing them selves. (The Film leave open the question of who believe the story that they will go to a Space Ship hidden by a Comet and piloted by beautiful Women.)
Heaven Gate was not a success when it was first released to theaters. Audiences did not think that the soldiers would get involved with a Crazy Cult leader.
But Events at Jonestown and Waco would show that normal people do get involved with Cults and did do things that would result in their Deaths.
Today it consider a great movie that foresaw the raise of radical religions.
They fail to see the crazy behavior of the Cult leader and the film ends with two of the three soldiers killing them selves. (The Film leave open the question of who believe the story that they will go to a Space Ship hidden by a Comet and piloted by beautiful Women.)
Heaven Gate was not a success when it was first released to theaters. Audiences did not think that the soldiers would get involved with a Crazy Cult leader.
But Events at Jonestown and Waco would show that normal people do get involved with Cults and did do things that would result in their Deaths.
Today it consider a great movie that foresaw the raise of radical religions.
Toy Story 2
In the events following Toy Story, Andy starts to appreciate Woody and Buzz Lightyear equally. With the conflict between the two being resolved, the toys continue with their lives. One day, Andy accidentally rips Woody's arm while playing with him. After this incident, the toys start to wonder why they should even be obedient to their owners as they have lives outside of being played with and have been damaged countless times before. The toys start a revolution against the Davis family, aggressively driving them out of their home and leaving them to be vagabonds. Woody and Buzz start a government in the house which states that all toys are equal and should thus be treated equally. Meanwhile, the Davis family try to convince the public that toys are actually alive, but are ridiculed by everyone except Sid Phillips, who tries to back them in their case. Two months into Woody and Buzz's rule, the house accidentally catches fire, killing everyone except Woody and Buzz. Later, it is revealed through CCTV footage in Al's Toy Barn that toys are in fact alive. With their identities having been revealed, the toys do not see any reason to continue with their facade and a domino effect comes to play wherein toys from other toy stores come to life. When this becomes worldwide news, toys from different countries follow this rule. Woody and Buzz reveal themselves as the pioneers of this new rule and become revered amongst other toys. After toys across the world discover what had happened to the Davis house, the Davis family are accused of arson. Fearing the possibility of a counterrevolution by the humans, toys worldwide continue to rebel against their owners and governments. The toys and humans declare war on each other, and a Third World War ensues, resulting in the deaths of billions of toys and humans. After decades of fighting, the toys win the war, mankind and almost all other fauna are wiped out, and every country becomes toy territory. Woody becomes the President of the new-established Toys' Republic of America, Buzz being the Vice President. Everything goes well until plushies worldwide accuse plastics of discrimination against their kind. The plushies start a rebellion against the increasingly oppressive governments, but are quickly quashed, causing a Fourth World War to occur, which results in a Pyrrhic victory for the plastics. In the end, very few toys still live, leaving Woody and Buzz to become the rulers of the world, creating a dystopia that ends with all toys being so subservient to them that they end up freezing in their presence, revealing that toys aren't any better than humans as rulers.
In the events following Toy Story, Andy starts to appreciate Woody and Buzz Lightyear equally. With the conflict between the two being resolved, the toys continue with their lives. One day, Andy accidentally rips Woody's arm while playing with him. After this incident, the toys start to wonder why they should even be obedient to their owners as they have lives outside of being played with and have been damaged countless times before. The toys start a revolution against the Davis family, aggressively driving them out of their home and leaving them to be vagabonds. Woody and Buzz start a government in the house which states that all toys are equal and should thus be treated equally. Meanwhile, the Davis family try to convince the public that toys are actually alive, but are ridiculed by everyone except Sid Phillips, who tries to back them in their case. Two months into Woody and Buzz's rule, the house accidentally catches fire, killing everyone except Woody and Buzz. Later, it is revealed through CCTV footage in Al's Toy Barn that toys are in fact alive. With their identities having been revealed, the toys do not see any reason to continue with their facade and a domino effect comes to play wherein toys from other toy stores come to life. When this becomes worldwide news, toys from different countries follow this rule. Woody and Buzz reveal themselves as the pioneers of this new rule and become revered amongst other toys. After toys across the world discover what had happened to the Davis house, the Davis family are accused of arson. Fearing the possibility of a counterrevolution by the humans, toys worldwide continue to rebel against their owners and governments. The toys and humans declare war on each other, and a Third World War ensues, resulting in the deaths of billions of toys and humans. After decades of fighting, the toys win the war, mankind and almost all other fauna are wiped out, and every country becomes toy territory. Woody becomes the President of the new-established Toys' Republic of America, Buzz being the Vice President. Everything goes well until plushies worldwide accuse plastics of discrimination against their kind. The plushies start a rebellion against the increasingly oppressive governments, but are quickly quashed, causing a Fourth World War to occur, which results in a Pyrrhic victory for the plastics. In the end, very few toys still live, leaving Woody and Buzz to become the rulers of the world, creating a dystopia that ends with all toys being so subservient to them that they end up freezing in their presence, revealing that toys aren't any better than humans as rulers.
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The Lion King: Special Release
After the release of the Star Wars Special Editions in 1997, the idea rose for Disney to do the same thing with a few animated films.
The Lion King was the first of these to come out in 1999. IT is often considered the best of them due to actually enhancing the story. Namely by filling the big plot hole of how Nala reunited with Simba through restoring the infamously cut reprise of "Be Prepared".
After the release of the Star Wars Special Editions in 1997, the idea rose for Disney to do the same thing with a few animated films.
The Lion King was the first of these to come out in 1999. IT is often considered the best of them due to actually enhancing the story. Namely by filling the big plot hole of how Nala reunited with Simba through restoring the infamously cut reprise of "Be Prepared".
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The Gods Must Be Crazy III (2020)
Xiri, son of Xixo is middle-aged and living in a resettlement town. He’s lost his job and his wife has left him. Depressed, he leaves on the adventure of a lifetime heading into the Kalahari in nothing but traditional Bushmen attire. He intends to kill himself and make it look like an accident so his kids can collect some insurance money.
In the Kalahari he is waylaid by wildlife problems, poachers, his own inexperience in the bush. All of his suicide efforts suffer from one setback after another. Xiri steps on an elephant trap which injures his foot and is captured by some smugglers. As they decide his fate Xiri tries to convince them to kill him. This greatly annoys his captors but they refuse. He starts to think the Gods have it in for him. At night he steals a pair of tennis shoes from the smugglers and run away.
The smugglers pursue Xiri through the Kalahari. He is constantly trying to avoid capture while making death defying attempts of escape which he repeatedly survives. He starts to remember the bushcraft skills his father taught him and successfully eludes his pursuers.
Xiri decides suicide is too much damned work, besides his kids are brats anyways. He goes home to find his wife and kids worried sick about his absence. He apologizes and declares he is a changed man. Later as he is cleaning his stolen tennis shoes he finds they are stuffed full of uncut diamonds.
Xiri, son of Xixo is middle-aged and living in a resettlement town. He’s lost his job and his wife has left him. Depressed, he leaves on the adventure of a lifetime heading into the Kalahari in nothing but traditional Bushmen attire. He intends to kill himself and make it look like an accident so his kids can collect some insurance money.
In the Kalahari he is waylaid by wildlife problems, poachers, his own inexperience in the bush. All of his suicide efforts suffer from one setback after another. Xiri steps on an elephant trap which injures his foot and is captured by some smugglers. As they decide his fate Xiri tries to convince them to kill him. This greatly annoys his captors but they refuse. He starts to think the Gods have it in for him. At night he steals a pair of tennis shoes from the smugglers and run away.
The smugglers pursue Xiri through the Kalahari. He is constantly trying to avoid capture while making death defying attempts of escape which he repeatedly survives. He starts to remember the bushcraft skills his father taught him and successfully eludes his pursuers.
Xiri decides suicide is too much damned work, besides his kids are brats anyways. He goes home to find his wife and kids worried sick about his absence. He apologizes and declares he is a changed man. Later as he is cleaning his stolen tennis shoes he finds they are stuffed full of uncut diamonds.
Again something off the top of my head
Rare Earth
Dir: Paul Verhoeven
A reverse War Of The Worlds type Sci-Fi where the humans of Earth are the actual attacking Alien race set in the year 2380. This has Earth run in a dystopian one party state
Act 1
On a recon' mission in a nearby galaxy to find planets to Terra-form, a ship of the Earth Navy picks up analogue radio signals emanating from a planet some one hundred or so light years from it. It appears the planet has the same level of technological level as Earth did in the 1980's. After informing EN headquarters back on Earth it is told to hold station in the Ort Cloud Boundary surrounding the planet to hide and record everything while a response is awaited.
Act 2
After a Top Secret Cabinet meeting is held with the President, his Joint Chiefs of Staff etc, it is decided to sent a EN Task Force with Earth Marine Corp component to attack, pacify then liquidate the inhabitants of the planet called "ALPHA" The operation is called Operation Taranis.
Act 3
Lead elements of the Task Force fleet carrying Earth Commando Corp (Special Forces) land on Planet Alpha using craft invisible to Planet Alpha's sensors and conduct recon' missions on the said planet, putting viruses inside telecommunications and other electronic devices to be used as weapons when ready at a later date. They also conduct 'snatch' operations on the inhabitants of the planet, taking them on to the ships and conducting vivisection experiments on them to immunize the forces that will land on the planet.
Act 4
After a couple of months the rest of the fleet arrives in the Ort Cloud Boundary carrying the lead elements of the Ampib' Forces of the Earth Marine Corp. They then join up with the earlier recon' fleet and move towards Planet Alpha.
Act 5
After coming into Planet Aplha's orbit, the fleet disperses and surrounds the planet at geostationary orbits covering a set area at an altitude of 200 to 300 miles. When they are in place the earlier virus that was impregnated into the telecommunications and electronic systems is turned on. This has the effect of knocking the entire planet back into the Stone Age and utterly defenseless apart from some systems.
It is after this that the fleet starts to open fire with their main guns hitting all military targets reconed' earlier on by the Earth Commando Corp. Airbases, Barracks, Naval facilities plus C3 (Command, Control and Communication) are obliterated in the bombardment.
In an act of desperation the inhabitants of Planet Alpha fire wave after wave of ICBM's & SLBM's that haven't already been destroyed by the bombardment at the vessels in the Task Force.
Despite having shields that should have offered protection against these attacks two vessels are hit, one of them being destroyed after the C3 software crashes during the attacks turning off the shields. The other ship that is damaged limps away out of orbit as it is found with two 'live' MIRV's stuck in it's superstructure. These later 'cook' when trying to be defused.
After this the secondary bombardment phase starts when the Task Force opens up on all the urban areas on the planet killing millions in the process. They even hit the areas where the refugees are congregating to cause even more carnage.
It is then that even more ships arrive to back up the original Task Force. This means that the Earth Marine component is swelled to around a couple of million troops
Act 6
After the bombardment phase has finished, Landing & Assault craft backed up by Fighter aircraft start landing Marines on the planet with orders to kill every one of the inhabitants that they come across . . . men, women and children . . . no one is allowed to survive.
This phase of the operation takes around 6 to 8 months before the entire planet is 'pacified' and the inhabitant population is 'liquidated'
Act 7
After the Earth Forces victory, the Commander in charge sends signal to Earth that the war is over and that a new planet has been discovered free to Terra-form.
Rare Earth
Dir: Paul Verhoeven
A reverse War Of The Worlds type Sci-Fi where the humans of Earth are the actual attacking Alien race set in the year 2380. This has Earth run in a dystopian one party state
Act 1
On a recon' mission in a nearby galaxy to find planets to Terra-form, a ship of the Earth Navy picks up analogue radio signals emanating from a planet some one hundred or so light years from it. It appears the planet has the same level of technological level as Earth did in the 1980's. After informing EN headquarters back on Earth it is told to hold station in the Ort Cloud Boundary surrounding the planet to hide and record everything while a response is awaited.
Act 2
After a Top Secret Cabinet meeting is held with the President, his Joint Chiefs of Staff etc, it is decided to sent a EN Task Force with Earth Marine Corp component to attack, pacify then liquidate the inhabitants of the planet called "ALPHA" The operation is called Operation Taranis.
Act 3
Lead elements of the Task Force fleet carrying Earth Commando Corp (Special Forces) land on Planet Alpha using craft invisible to Planet Alpha's sensors and conduct recon' missions on the said planet, putting viruses inside telecommunications and other electronic devices to be used as weapons when ready at a later date. They also conduct 'snatch' operations on the inhabitants of the planet, taking them on to the ships and conducting vivisection experiments on them to immunize the forces that will land on the planet.
Act 4
After a couple of months the rest of the fleet arrives in the Ort Cloud Boundary carrying the lead elements of the Ampib' Forces of the Earth Marine Corp. They then join up with the earlier recon' fleet and move towards Planet Alpha.
Act 5
After coming into Planet Aplha's orbit, the fleet disperses and surrounds the planet at geostationary orbits covering a set area at an altitude of 200 to 300 miles. When they are in place the earlier virus that was impregnated into the telecommunications and electronic systems is turned on. This has the effect of knocking the entire planet back into the Stone Age and utterly defenseless apart from some systems.
It is after this that the fleet starts to open fire with their main guns hitting all military targets reconed' earlier on by the Earth Commando Corp. Airbases, Barracks, Naval facilities plus C3 (Command, Control and Communication) are obliterated in the bombardment.
In an act of desperation the inhabitants of Planet Alpha fire wave after wave of ICBM's & SLBM's that haven't already been destroyed by the bombardment at the vessels in the Task Force.
Despite having shields that should have offered protection against these attacks two vessels are hit, one of them being destroyed after the C3 software crashes during the attacks turning off the shields. The other ship that is damaged limps away out of orbit as it is found with two 'live' MIRV's stuck in it's superstructure. These later 'cook' when trying to be defused.
After this the secondary bombardment phase starts when the Task Force opens up on all the urban areas on the planet killing millions in the process. They even hit the areas where the refugees are congregating to cause even more carnage.
It is then that even more ships arrive to back up the original Task Force. This means that the Earth Marine component is swelled to around a couple of million troops
Act 6
After the bombardment phase has finished, Landing & Assault craft backed up by Fighter aircraft start landing Marines on the planet with orders to kill every one of the inhabitants that they come across . . . men, women and children . . . no one is allowed to survive.
This phase of the operation takes around 6 to 8 months before the entire planet is 'pacified' and the inhabitant population is 'liquidated'
Act 7
After the Earth Forces victory, the Commander in charge sends signal to Earth that the war is over and that a new planet has been discovered free to Terra-form.
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Before we get started with the bigger things, let's start with detailing what I called the "Boyd-verse" version of The Lion King.
This version is based on elements from the actual film, tie- in material, Broadway musical, scenes deleted from the final cut, as well as original ideas. So here we go...
Elements from the Original film
Elements from early versions of the film
This version is based on elements from the actual film, tie- in material, Broadway musical, scenes deleted from the final cut, as well as original ideas. So here we go...
Elements from the Original film
- Most of the original songs
- They are simply too much to be touched at all. That said, there would be several changes to make the songs longer or something.
- The voices of almost all of the characters, save Simba and Nala, who I will go on about in a bit.
- The songs in the actual movie sound more similar to the Elton John/ Lebo renditions. Namely...
- I just can't wait to be king is a bit longer, and is essentially the Elton John cover
- Meanwhile, Hakuna Matata would be more like the version by Lebo M and Jimmy Cliff. Namely, the verse verse they added near the end would be sung by adult Simba, whose new voice I will soon detail.
- Additionally, the same scene would involves Mufasa trying to make it clear that he is sorry for all wrongs he may have inflicted on Scar in the past.
- The Madness of King Scar would be mixed with the Reprise of Be Prepared present in the original draft of the film.
- The conversation between Mufasa and Zazu about Mufasa's parenting
- The scene in which Timon nearly drowns in a waterfall while simba is reminded of Mufasa's death
- The Morning Report is be shown as it is in the Platinum Edition.
Elements from early versions of the film
- The reprise of Be prepared is combined to take place with "The Madness of King Scar". With the combo of the two scenes taking place after the hyenas complain about the lack of food.
- Several scenes from the January 1990 version are featured
- The scene where simba and Mufasa watch Lionesses hunt a zebra.
- Various deleted scenes from after the film received its final name.
- Scar would not begin going insane as badly, he instead begins a series of plans to make sure Simba never returned, since the hyenas did not seem to tell him if they really killed Simba
- Voice Actors:
- Simba: voiced by Cam Clarke, who reprises said role in the Timon and Pumbaa cartoon show.
- Nala: voiced by Catherine Cavadini. My idea is like if Blossom of the PPGs was in her early 20s, except make the voice gentler.
- In my TL, they were bought in to serve as voices for bigger stars to model after. But when they did such good jobs the creators did not want to replace them.
Ghost Dog - a nature/historical documentary on breeds of dogs utilised by first nations prior to cultural genocide by europeans, such as salish wool dogs and sahtu hunting dogs. The film is notable for its use of dogs and wolves as metaphors for first nations' cultures, and its puppetry to portray the extinct dog breeds by the Jim Henson Creature Shop, as well as its score by Floyd Redcrow and Phillip Glass. The film was nominated for both Best Documentary Feature, Visual Effects, and Original Score.
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