TO THIS DAY I refuse to watch the Bald Mountain sequence, man. Nooooooo fucking thank you. I had nightmares for years about it, I don't need to test if that might happen again.
The “Ave Maria” sequence at the end - which I never watched as a child, we never made it that far - does not make things better even a little bit; it’s much too static to wash away the impression of GIANT MOUNTAIN SATAN.
My poor mom was like "Look, the sun came out! Everything's all better!" and I was like "NOOO NO IT ISN'T" I think it's a little better now, but there were something like two or three generations of little kids being really terrified by Disney movies. (My stepsister showed Dumbo to her kid when he was tiny. Dumbo is safe, right? No, there's a big FIRE in it. Whoops.)
That film, like some of the Looney Tunes cartoons, introduced a lot of kids to classical music, too -- my mom used to refer to it when she was teaching kids. Rites of Spring was "the dinosaur music" -- a pretty fucken weird choice if you ask me. Did you ever see that Italian film that was kind of a takeoff on Fantasia? They used Bolero! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegro_Non_Troppo
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Date: 2019-09-09 02:00 pm (UTC)The “Ave Maria” sequence at the end - which I never watched as a child, we never made it that far - does not make things better even a little bit; it’s much too static to wash away the impression of GIANT MOUNTAIN SATAN.
My poor mom was like "Look, the sun came out! Everything's all better!" and I was like "NOOO NO IT ISN'T" I think it's a little better now, but there were something like two or three generations of little kids being really terrified by Disney movies. (My stepsister showed Dumbo to her kid when he was tiny. Dumbo is safe, right? No, there's a big FIRE in it. Whoops.)
That film, like some of the Looney Tunes cartoons, introduced a lot of kids to classical music, too -- my mom used to refer to it when she was teaching kids. Rites of Spring was "the dinosaur music" -- a pretty fucken weird choice if you ask me. Did you ever see that Italian film that was kind of a takeoff on Fantasia? They used Bolero! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegro_Non_Troppo