The Princess and the Frog
The Princess and the Frog is an animated musical film in 2009 directed by Ron Clements and John Musker and produced by Walt Disney Pictures. The film is the 49th film in the series of Walt Disney's classic animated film. The film is planned for release in New York and Los Angeles on November 25, 2009, and was widely released on December 11, 2009. The song and score composed by Randy Newman. Anika Noni Rose, Oprah Winfrey, Keith David, Jim Cummings, John Goodman, Jenifer Lewis, Bruno Campos, Michael-Leon Wooley, Peter Bartlett and Terrence Howard plays a role in filling sound in this movie. On February 2, 2010, this film won the Academy Award nominations: one for Best Animated Feature (it lost by Up) and two for Best Original Song. [2]
The story is about a prince named Naveen (Bruno Campos) of land Maldonia, who turned into a frog by a wicked witch crafty voodoo Facilier Dr. (Keith David). Frog Prince mistake a girl named Tiana (Anika Noni Rose) to a daughter and kissed her to break the spell. A kiss does not cancel the spell, but instead turned into a frog also Tiana. Together, they must achieve good voodoo queen deepest, darkest part of the Bayou, Mama Odie (Jenifer Lewis), while friends with trumpet-playing alligator Louis (Michael-Leon Wooley) and romantic despair Cajun firefly named Ray ( Jim Cummings) along the road.
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A modern day retelling the classic tale of The Frog Prince. Princess and the Frog finds life arrogant, Prince Naveen cheerful and hardworking servant Tiana crossroads. Prince Naveen turned into a frog by a witch voodoo cunning and Tiana, who followed, after kissing royalty amphibians. With the help of trumpet-playing alligator, a Cajun firefly, and an elderly blind woman who lives on a boat in the tree, Naveen and Tiana had to race to break the spell and fulfill their dreams.
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Jennifer Hudson, Alicia Keys and Tyra Banks all considered for the lead role. Keys and Banks personally lobbied for the studio.
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The first Disney movie to feature an African-American princess.
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This is a 2-D first animated Disney film to composer Randy Newman, who previously scored Disney / Pixar film Toy Story (1995), A Bug's Life (1998), Toy Story 2 (1999), Monsters, Inc. (2001), and Mobil (2006). Alan Menken and new lyricist Glenn Slater was originally going to do music for film, but John Lasseter did not want the public to feel that Disney becomes repetitive, because Menken has scored another film fairy tale, Enchanted (2007). Newman has also been doing jazz-inspired score for the Cats Turner 2D animation film Do not Dance (1997).
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Anika Noni Rose (Tiana), requesting to become a princess Tiana left-handed, as Rose himself is a lefty.
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The characters in this movie crocodile named Louis to honor jazz great Louis Armstrong, nicknamed 'Dippermouth', 'Satchelmouth' and 'Satchmo'.
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During the annual shareholders meeting of the Walt Disney Company in March 2007, Randy Newman doing a new song written for the film. He was accompanied by the Dirty Dozen Brass Band.
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Louis bands that play for the so-called Firefly Five Plus Lou, a reference to a Dixieland jazz band Ungu Five Plus Two, which consisted of animator Walt Disney.
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While the movie took place in the mid 1920s, the time when the ban was enforced until 1933, alcohol seen being served at the restaurant Tiana, on river boats, and at the masquerade ball in Bouffs La '. The ban is widely ignored in the U.S. generally, and especially in New Orleans, so it's not too surprising.
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The film was originally titled "Frog Princess". Disney changed some key elements of this movie after receiving many complaints of racial insensitivity. Besides retitling images to avoid the implication that the first African-American princess Disney somehow ugly or animal, name the main character changes from Maddy to Tiana as "Maddy" sounded too much like "Mammy". A subplot about her work as domestic servants are also down to avoid negative stereotypes.
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Animator Bruce W. Facilier Dr. Smith described as "the love child of Peter Pan (1953) 's Captain Hook, and One Hundred and One Dalmatians (1961)' s Cruella Devil." Both Disney villains and characters in literature.
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The Prince of Maldonia called Naveen. Naveen is the Indian name (meaning "new"), which shows that Maldonia is a Eurasian country (Maldonia name is a fusion between Malta and Macedonia). During the montage of "Down in New Orleans", the newspaper said in print that Maldonia not be found on the map, which was made for the movie.
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Animation style is influenced mainly by the Lady and the Tramp (1955) (for scenes of the city) and Bambi (1942) (for scenes bayou). The films that, in the opinion of the directors', "the top animation in the style of classic Disney animation."
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Star Ray calls "Evangeline" is actually the planet Venus. Venus is known as the Roman goddess of love.
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This is the first movie Disney 2-D in which all the voice actors do both the talking and singing since Beauty and the Beast (1991).
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New Orleans celebrity chef Emeril Lagasse - who is famous for Cajun and Creole cuisine - the sound plays Marlon, a crocodile who tries to eat Naveen and Tiana in the swamp. He used his signature "Bam!" line in a few sentences of his character. (Marlon, of course, named after Marlon Brando, the star of the New Orleans drama A streetcar Named Desire (1951).)
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Tiana's father James received the U.S. Army Distinguished Service Cross. It is assumed he was awarded this honor posthumously. The Distinguished Service Cross awarded to soldiers for acts of extraordinary heroism. It is also highly unlikely, as black soldiers rarely receive any medals until the full integration of the Armed Forces, after the Second World War.
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Mama Odie The character was inspired by and patterned after the storyteller, the late well-known New Orleans, Coleen Salley, even down to the sound character. Coleen consult with the director several times, but never lived to see the finished film. His name was mentioned in the movie credits. Coleen is known mainly for the South tell parents of children "Epaminondas and His Auntie" and his own updated version titled "Epossumondas". Mama Odie can even hear the words of the famous lines from the stories: "You do not have the sense you were born with!" Coleen died September 16, 2008 at the age of 79.
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Supervising animator Eric Goldberg animated Tiana's "Almost There" fantasy sequence, which is based on African-American art painter Aaron Douglas, one of the key figures of the Harlem Renaissance. Goldberg previously directing style "Rhapsody In Blue" segment in Fantasia/2000 (1999), which is based on the work of Al Hirschfeld. Avoided fantasy sequence with Toon Boom Harmony pipe from the rest of the film, animators are drawing the line was scanned into Photoshop and composited using Adobe After Effects.
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Elton John was considered for the voice of Louis, and will implement a version of his classic song "Crocodile Rock." He was previously prepared for The Lion King (1994).
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prologue took place in November 1912, as indicated by the newspapers with the title "Wilson Chosen '(referring to President Woodrow Wilson) that is read by a passenger tram.
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When the Human Shadow is a tarot card reading Prince Naveen's, the last card is the future attract the prince. It features the prince sitting on a lily pad in the pool (with money in hand), foreshadowing his transformation in the future.
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Disney's UNIX-based CAPS (Computer Animation Production System), digital scanning, ink-and-paint, and writing systems have been dismantled after the cancellation of Disney's 2D animated feature Home on the Range following (2004). This, as well as twenty-year old system is obsolete, causing Disney to create a pipeline of new animations based around the installation of Toon Boom Harmony adjusted, retail software solutions have been used for the production of 2D production DisneyToons and many others from other studios. Character animation is done traditionally on paper and scanned into the computer system, while the animation effects are input directly into the Harmony using Wacom Cintiq tablet displays the pressure-sensitive.
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background animations in this film is entirely digital, painted in Adobe Photoshop using Cintiq tablet displays. Some use 3D animation smooth texture of Autodesk Maya (for doors, covers, car, etc.) are also used. 3D models from Maya was also used to build a perspective for the tricky part of the architecture like a big house Bouff La and St. Louis Cathedral.
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Dr Facilier is the only character in the movie to refer to himself by that name. All others call him "The Shadow Man."
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Dr Facilier looks very similar to the Voodoo god of sorcery, ancestor worship, and death - Baron Samedi. Baron Samedi is often described as very thin, wearing a top hat and tuxedo, and has a skull face. When Dr. Facilier cast his spell on the Prince you can see the skull appeared on his face, strengthen the connection.
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Princess and the Frog (2009) contains several references to Tennessee Williams play, which despite having been born in Mississippi, raised in Missouri, who was nicknamed "Tennessee," and eventually died in New York, strongly associated with New Orleans, the setting for this film (Williams lived for years in New Orleans, writing and several sets of drama there, and met with old boyfriend, Frank Merlo, in there, and New Orleans held an annual literary festival named Williams). References include: Charlotte called her father "Big Daddy" (the name of wealthy patriarch character in "Cat on Hot Tin Roof") and during the feast, La Bouff call to his dog, Stella, use the typical cries of "A streetcar Named Desire." John Goodman, La Bouff voice, lived in New Orleans and has starred in some of Williams's drama production, including A streetcar Named Desire (1995) and Geffen Playhouse 2005 production of "Cat on Hot Tin Roof" (as the original "Big Daddy").
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Mama Odie's first appearance is one hour into the film.
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During the reading of tarot cards, only two cards are based on actual tarot: Prince Naveen's first card - three of pentacles, which is a constructive energy symbolize card especially with money, and the first card Lawrence - Ten of Wands, the persecution card. Both are accurate in describing the situation for each male.
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Colored symbols that float around during the song "Transforming the Middle" and who appeared on the floor for bargaining Dr Facilier with his "friends on the other side" is based on real vodou symbols called Vive.
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Composer and singer Randy Newman, Dr. John are both born in New Orleans.
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One of the more subtle references Louisiana is the name of love Ray, Evangeline. This name refers to a poem Evangeline, A Tale Acadie by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, about a girl searching for her lost love Acadian. This poem was held dear by the descendants of Louisiana from Acadia, or "Cajun".
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Although the film contains dozens of references to touchstones of New Orleans and Louisiana life, it does not get the wrong one important fact: there are no large marshes around New Orleans - the closest is about 100 miles.
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Cameo: [Randy Newman] composer film also gives voice to the character of a small cousin Randy.
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Character Dr Facilier bears little resemblance to Keith David, who provides his voice. One important similarity is that both have a prominent gap in their front teeth.
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