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Today I will talk about a masterpiece and the best Dreamworks movie
The Prince of Egypt
epic, huge,
dramatic and emotional. In my opinion it is a version of Exodus even better than
the two films of Cecil B. DeMille
I said in the video
"I cannot believe It is not Disney"
that the first Dreamworks film did not exceeded at box office the premiere of Disney
of the time: Mulan
but surpassed it in prestige and quality
while Antz was only one rip off of Bug's
this was much more than an imitation of the Disney style
they kept the cruel and mystical tone of the original legend and the result was a
Great new formula for future Dreamworks films:
Road to El Dorado, Chicken Run...
Shark-Tale...
... they didn't used it again
they hardly produced a sequel
Joseph King of Dreams
but this is a cheap sequel direct-to-video
the only one of a Dreamworks franchise
they made a wonderful animated movie
and they buried his formula
because at the 2000s CGI animation was on fashion, and Dreamworks
had another own formula for this brand new animation style
Shrek
I'll not explain if the formula of Shrek is worthy or not, but
I recognize it was...
And even today it is...
overused
so the Prince of Egypt ended up becomming what I call:
A Lost Treasure, like other great movies whose...
.. . I fear are more exotic and hard to find
- Hello dude! - Hello, Don't you have a Beta video?
- Of course!, It is the best video system that existes and the only one that will last forever.
I need to take a look at these videos.
American Pop! I know it.
Is the Masterpiece of Ralph Bakshi, a musical drama about an American family
which generation after generation
has been trapped in the world of popular music but they never became stars
Dislike the massive use of rotoscoping
I find
It gives a surreal look to the film half real half fantastic.
Backgrounds are wonderful
and its edition is very creative
They are four stories very emotional and with a high quality soundtrack
although it seems that animation films for adults
are in recession, I'm sure this movie will remain as a cult film
for rock lovers
the problem is that Bakshi was panned after his...
version
Of the Lord of the Rings
American Pop gave him back some prestige
but he could not stand the failure of Cool World, this mixed with the marginalization of adult animation
During the 80s and 90s has finished burying this tape
it is considered a cult film, yes but what does it means that it's a cult movie?
That it is a masterpiecel? No one says for example that The Lion King is a
cult movie
We talk about cult films to refer films admired by a
fanbase that is very specific: Lost Treasures
- Like ¿The Castle of Cagliostro?
- For Example
But the first film of Hayao Miyazaki
was very popular in Asia
and over time it has gained a mass reputation after being developed the otaku subculture
... Miyazaki is not
the director of Warriors of the Wind?
Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind, of course, later he founded his
Own studios, he managed distribution with Disney
He survived the crash of anime, and Miyazaki became the animation director
most popular of Japan. his films are among the few mainstream anime movies
in the West,
as My Neighbor Totoro, Spirited Away...
Ponyo...
- Or Pompoko?
- I do not know this one...
Me neither
It was in the box that you stole at the Lost Temple.
- Pompoko, On my opinion is the best film of Studio Ghibli,
yet...
Wait!
This film is from 1994, you can not see this you will provoque a Time Paradox!
This is an ecologist fable in a decade saturated with this topic, it is approached in
an overwhelming way
- At least you let me see the Castle of Laputa?
- Take...
But try not to be seen by the Cosmos.
We do not have to protect nature because raccoons are
huggies and cuddly creatures
as American films made in movies like Ferngully
The Rescuers goes Down Under or Once upon a time in the Forest
(Oooooooooh!)
raccoons here are good, bipolar, and even evil,
They do not symbolize the natural beauty to be protected from the despicable human being.
(Jeers)
but a nature that is the essence of Japanese culture lost by
their own irresponsibility as a way to lose
its own identity as a society
It is a fable showed as a documentary
with surreal scenes, realistic scenes, comedy, drama, action
emotion surprises
beauty, depth, the plot is weirder than necessary
but it's fully understoodable and it earns originality
it is not as spectacular as other Ghibli works as Howl'sMoving Castle
but it's spectacular too
it makes constant references to traditional Japanese culture however
there is not need to know them as in Spirited Away
Pompoko is a story
PERFECT, it has everything!
Even Ghibli's seal and quality
Why does anybody knows it?
... It is not Miyazaki's
This is a film of Isao Takahata, the number 2 artist at Ghibli
and as Americans say: second is the first to lose
apparently Takahata's introverted character has nothing to do next to
Miyazaki's EGO
I love Miyazaki
but his friend, colleague and master, Isao Takahata
despite not making movies as huge and spectacular, he is the best
anime director it has never been
as I think that Fleischer Brothers were more creative than Walt Disney
Come on! You keep defending Disney
And surely you do not even know this movie:
Mr. Bug Goes to Town
it has never been translated into Spanish
It is the second film of the Fleischer Brothers
it is a version of the fable of the grasshopper and the ant adapted to
housing boom: A insects living on a plot organized as
a gang, they must survive when an skyscraper is going to be built
over their home,
once the bank has expropriated the land for unpaid to the human family
who lived next
the story slightly resembles Pompoko
Oliver and Company or American Tail
but remember that this film is from 1941
American animation until then had only produced fairytales
in fact the first film of the Fleischer Brothers
Gulliver's Travels was also a classic fairy tale and although
we can consider it a lost treasure
it is just an imitation of Disney Style
without Disney's obsessive perfection
but in Mr. Bug Goes to Town, Fleischer Brothers had made a film with
the formula that would rage in the 80's!
- This film is an aberration!
It caused a time paradox, and for what?
No! They didn't reach the "Disney's Charm"
- Actually yes they did.
Think that Disney was broken in 1941 after the failure of Fantasia
Fleischer Brothers had to hurry to gain prestige to be crowned as kings
of animation before Disney
returned to the charge
for it they borrowed a fortune and produced
mor shorts: Popeye, Betty Boop, Raggedy Anne and Andy.
Spin-off Gabi, Superman series, the most expensive series of the Golden Age
and feature Mr. Bug, that as the European market was closed,
because of WWII, his future was uncertain, the studio suffered so much pressure that...
Somewhere had to bust
the brilliant director Dave Fleischer
messed with his secretary, this angered his brother Max, a family man
Dave indignantly
disappeared from studio and fled to Columbia Screem Gems
Paramount Distributors
made use of this breach of the contract
To expropriate the studio.
The movie Mr. Bug Goes to Town was a disaster at the box office
they expropriated the Fleischer Studios
they renamed it as Famous Studios, and they merely exploit its two star franchises:
Popeye and Betty Boop
lowering the quality until they closed in 1967
- It was written in the prophecies: Nobody! will end up with Disney
- But Disney itself after the crash of 41 spent over 10 years producing rare and mediocre movies
- No way!
Ichabod and Mr. Frog is brutal and Rocks! as only Disney can.
-... sure...
But this is a cult film and yet not a comparable Treasure
as the last movie in this box:
VICTORY THROUGH AIR FORCE
This movie is not even know by many of the more radical Disney fans.
and this is not even on the official Disney Classics list.
- Like the Reluctant Dragon
- The Reluctant Dragon is a documentary about the Disneys studios with
40 minutes of animated scenes
they premiered it shortly after Disney bankrupt
to seek financial support
while many animators were on strike, its quality is mediocre
So I understand that is not on the official classics list
and I do not accept it as a Lost Treasure
to recover from bankruptcy
Disney produced a series of shorts and three feature films for the American government
The first was Saludos Amigos
- I know it!
It was a film to promote diplomatic relationships with Latin America
it is a cult film!
Though... it is not Metal...
Then premiered the 3 Caballeros with the same intention, and yes,
It was Metal!
That's because the contract with the U.S. government ended before
Its release
and they could finish the film as a musical
but 3 Caballeros
as Bambi
is the best known Disney film of this era
It is not a Lost Treasure.
Victory Through Air Force in the other hand...
Has a captivating beauty
at an educational level, it is explained in an incredible technique, it not only explains
highly complicated technical concepts with simplicity
that even a child can understand
they put passion in it
they convince you of the need to support their cause
- What cause? - Reduce Japan to ashes.
- Well done, before they develop "Manga-Anime"!
- Well...
it's a Disney family film!
- What? Thus children learn that to destroy Japan is Metal.
At the end of the Second World War
Disney withdrew the film
And kept it in his vault for 60 years
But American aviation
still displays it at the military academies
and it caused so much impact that Winston Churchill
developed his bombings on civilian targets campaign
after seeing this film. - Yeah!... canI take it??
There are other movies that could be in this Lost Box
as The Secret of Nihm, The Illusionist...
Royal Spaceforce: Wings of Honneamise...
Or a dozen of Soviet films
but I think these five films are very representative
is it a pity they are unknown?
yes
but thinking as an animation fan...
I think it's great to look for undiscovered gems
Getting surprised looking in a store
and often even dream of:
How should the history of animation has been
if anyone of these master pieces had created a school?