There's a lot of hype surrounding Frozen. People are saying it's the Best ディズニー Movie Since The Lion King. The Best ディズニー Movie Ever.
There's no doubt ディズニー is in a Revival of sorts. They made mediocre dud after dud for about ten years, give または take, toward the end または after the Renaissance. (Depends on how much あなた 愛 some of the late または post-Renaissance films.)
However, I think the ridiculous hype surrounding アナと雪の女王 might cause people to have such ridiculously high standards for future ディズニー films, that no matter how good they are, if they aren't FLAWLESS, they're going to seem disappointing によって comparison, and the Revival will taper off.
Let me explain. When I was a little kid, I thought ALL ディズニー 映画 were great and went to see every one. Opinions vary, of course, but not until adulthood did I learn that a good many people seem to consider that the wee early ディズニー Renaissance films were perfect または amazing (The Little Mermaid, Aladdin, Beauty and the Beast, and The Lion King) while the late ディズニー Renaissance films (Pocahontas, Hunchback, Hercules, ムーラン and Tarzan) were on a sliding scale of good to "great, but not AS great as The Lion King."
THAT, または most of the post-Lion King Renaissance films did okay at the box office, but never quite as great as the early Renaissance films. In fact, during that time ディズニー was mostly trying to play catch up. Before it, they had thought The Lion King would just tide people over until the 次 "Beauty and the Beast" (Pocahontas) came out and blew people away. Ironically, The Lion King was the film that blew people away, while Pocahontas left many parents and critics a little underwhelmed. Not that people thought it was bad per se, but there was so much hype and expectations from The Lion King that no matter how good it is または how much あなた 愛 it, general audiences at the time just felt it was not their strongest after the momentum built up from the 前 films.
I guess あなた can say it's kind of like when メリダとおそろしの森 came out. Even if it's a good movie and あなた 愛 it, after Pixar's long stream of critical, financial, and artistic darlings, it left most people thinking, "It's good, but not ピクサー・アニメーション・スタジオ good."
Speaking of Pixar, they also contributed to the decline of Renaissance reception. Not only did general audiences feel kind of let-down from Pocahontas following the hype from The Lion King, but Toy Story came out that same year. A full-length 3D film, which no one had ever seen before. A very original story, which was a breather from the adaptations of stories everyone was used to. ストール, 盗んだ the spotlight.
So what's my point? ディズニー Renaissance started strong, built up momentum that peaked with The Lion King, then expectations became so high that the film(s) after it - while still good - couldn't live up to those high expectations. So, many later Renaissance seemed disappointing によって comparison, and many critics and audiences treated them according. (As in, they were never quite the critical または financial darlings of the early Renaissance.)
Now, the point of my article: I'm wondering if ディズニー is repeating history with this Revival? Think about it:
The Little Mermaid: kicked off the Renaissance. A high quality, beautifully animated, fairy tale princess movie that appealed to wider audiences the way few to none had since Walt was alive. Felt like a shining light after The Dark Age of Animation. (At least to wide-spread audiences.)
The Rescuers Down Under: A solid quality, beautiful animated family film that didn't get very good advertising, fell under the radar, and has become largely forgotten.
Aladdin: Another very fun, high quality, beautifully animated, widely appealing fairy tale family film. Just drove the momentum started from The Little Mermaid stronger.
Beauty and the Beast: First animated film to ever get nominated for Best Picture. (And only one till Up 18-19 years later). That was completely unheard of at the time, as "cartoons" weren't (and still aren't) considered "real movies." That should tell あなた something.
The Lion King: Highest grossing ディズニー film of all time at the time, critical and financial darling, perpetrator of huge hype even to this day. (Also the first film I ever saw in theatres, btw.)
OKAY, あなた may say, That's all good and well, but what does that have to do with today?
Again, I feel like history is repeating itself. After a string of mediocre CGI ピクサー・アニメーション・スタジオ knock-off duds, people started to see the light when...
The Princess and the Frog: Yes, I do believe PatF kicked off the Revival. It didn't become the success または set the exact movie formula for later films like The Little Mermaid had (unless あなた count the snarky, slapstick, road trip plot where princess and guy bicker at first but fall in 愛 によって the end), but I think it was the first film where people got the feeling that "Disney's trying again. They're not just making cheap flop after flop, they're going back to their roots and trying to make timeless classics again. Let's pay attention and see what happens."
Tangled: Another high quality film that got the momentum going. I don't know whether to call it the アラジン または Beauty and the Beast of the Revival, but it's one または a bit of both. In fact, I lean toward the latter. Like BatB to TLM, 塔の上のラプンツェル worked out all the kinks in PatF (including marketing it as a boy's film and being 3D *sigh*) and solidified the ディズニー musical movie formula we'll probably be seeing for the 次 ten years. It went the extra mile set によって the princess film that came shortly before it and went that much farther to gain wide appeal. Became a critical and financial darling.
Winnie The Pooh Like the Rescuers Down Under before it, it's become the poorly marketed, underrated, forgotten classic that fell through the cracks made によって the Revival giants.
Wreck It Ralph I don't fully know how to classify this, as I haven't seen it または really paid attention to how people received it. It did well critically and financially, though many people feel it's Disney's answer to ピクサー・アニメーション・スタジオ films (please, they've been doing that since Dinosaur back in 2000), and many people feel it was robbed of its Oscar によって Brave. (That the judges just gave it an Oscar because it's Pixar, not because the movie was really the best of that year.) I guess it continued the Revival momentum, so... Aladdin?
Frozen NEED I EXPLAIN??? Highest grossing ディズニー film of all time (beat out The Lion King), first film in the canon to win an Academy Award for Best Animated Picture (ironically created after Beauty and the Beast so animated films could get acknowledged as "best" without having to compete with "real movies," yet ディズニー has never won one until now), HUGE HYPE surrounding it, I can go on. To quote Honest Trailers Frozen: "For the first time in forever... It's as good as The Lion King."
But that's the problem. The Lion King was so good (from a wide general audience perspective, anyway) that people negatively compared every movie after to it. Even if 発言しました 映画 were good または amazing in their own right, I feel like people furrowed their brows and said, "Yeah, it's good... but it's not The Lion King. When are あなた going to make another Lion King?" And ディズニー TRIED, bless them, but just couldn't get it right until Frozen, about 20 years later.
So I'm wondering if all this hype surrounding アナと雪の女王 will make it so films after will be もっと見る critically scrutinized and unfairly compared to Frozen?
Up next, we're looking at Big Hero 6 (first ディズニー superhero comic adaptation), Zootopia (buddy cop film with CGI animals), Giants (quirky adaptation of Jack and the Beanstock), and Moana (first Polynesian Princess). Unless they're perfectly flawless, I'm wondering if people will start scrutinizing them and punishing them for not being as PERFECT as Frozen.
THEN AGAIN, ディズニー was having audiences stolen out from under them during the later Renaissance によって Pixar. ディズニー kept doing the same thing (2D teenage coming-of-age romances based on pre-existing stories) while the latter kept making new CGI films with original stories. These days... yeah, the tables have turned. ピクサー・アニメーション・スタジオ is now reduced to relying on sequels and franchises because they don't have many stellar ideas, while ディズニー has a whole slew of beautifully animated CGI films with もっと見る original(ish) stories. Maybe less stellar competition means this time ディズニー will have the upper hand and keep going as an アニメーション Power House, despite the high expectations set によって Frozen.
So, those are my thoughts. I hope あなた enjoyed 読書 it.
There's no doubt ディズニー is in a Revival of sorts. They made mediocre dud after dud for about ten years, give または take, toward the end または after the Renaissance. (Depends on how much あなた 愛 some of the late または post-Renaissance films.)
However, I think the ridiculous hype surrounding アナと雪の女王 might cause people to have such ridiculously high standards for future ディズニー films, that no matter how good they are, if they aren't FLAWLESS, they're going to seem disappointing によって comparison, and the Revival will taper off.
Let me explain. When I was a little kid, I thought ALL ディズニー 映画 were great and went to see every one. Opinions vary, of course, but not until adulthood did I learn that a good many people seem to consider that the wee early ディズニー Renaissance films were perfect または amazing (The Little Mermaid, Aladdin, Beauty and the Beast, and The Lion King) while the late ディズニー Renaissance films (Pocahontas, Hunchback, Hercules, ムーラン and Tarzan) were on a sliding scale of good to "great, but not AS great as The Lion King."
THAT, または most of the post-Lion King Renaissance films did okay at the box office, but never quite as great as the early Renaissance films. In fact, during that time ディズニー was mostly trying to play catch up. Before it, they had thought The Lion King would just tide people over until the 次 "Beauty and the Beast" (Pocahontas) came out and blew people away. Ironically, The Lion King was the film that blew people away, while Pocahontas left many parents and critics a little underwhelmed. Not that people thought it was bad per se, but there was so much hype and expectations from The Lion King that no matter how good it is または how much あなた 愛 it, general audiences at the time just felt it was not their strongest after the momentum built up from the 前 films.
I guess あなた can say it's kind of like when メリダとおそろしの森 came out. Even if it's a good movie and あなた 愛 it, after Pixar's long stream of critical, financial, and artistic darlings, it left most people thinking, "It's good, but not ピクサー・アニメーション・スタジオ good."
Speaking of Pixar, they also contributed to the decline of Renaissance reception. Not only did general audiences feel kind of let-down from Pocahontas following the hype from The Lion King, but Toy Story came out that same year. A full-length 3D film, which no one had ever seen before. A very original story, which was a breather from the adaptations of stories everyone was used to. ストール, 盗んだ the spotlight.
So what's my point? ディズニー Renaissance started strong, built up momentum that peaked with The Lion King, then expectations became so high that the film(s) after it - while still good - couldn't live up to those high expectations. So, many later Renaissance seemed disappointing によって comparison, and many critics and audiences treated them according. (As in, they were never quite the critical または financial darlings of the early Renaissance.)
Now, the point of my article: I'm wondering if ディズニー is repeating history with this Revival? Think about it:
The Little Mermaid: kicked off the Renaissance. A high quality, beautifully animated, fairy tale princess movie that appealed to wider audiences the way few to none had since Walt was alive. Felt like a shining light after The Dark Age of Animation. (At least to wide-spread audiences.)
The Rescuers Down Under: A solid quality, beautiful animated family film that didn't get very good advertising, fell under the radar, and has become largely forgotten.
Aladdin: Another very fun, high quality, beautifully animated, widely appealing fairy tale family film. Just drove the momentum started from The Little Mermaid stronger.
Beauty and the Beast: First animated film to ever get nominated for Best Picture. (And only one till Up 18-19 years later). That was completely unheard of at the time, as "cartoons" weren't (and still aren't) considered "real movies." That should tell あなた something.
The Lion King: Highest grossing ディズニー film of all time at the time, critical and financial darling, perpetrator of huge hype even to this day. (Also the first film I ever saw in theatres, btw.)
OKAY, あなた may say, That's all good and well, but what does that have to do with today?
Again, I feel like history is repeating itself. After a string of mediocre CGI ピクサー・アニメーション・スタジオ knock-off duds, people started to see the light when...
The Princess and the Frog: Yes, I do believe PatF kicked off the Revival. It didn't become the success または set the exact movie formula for later films like The Little Mermaid had (unless あなた count the snarky, slapstick, road trip plot where princess and guy bicker at first but fall in 愛 によって the end), but I think it was the first film where people got the feeling that "Disney's trying again. They're not just making cheap flop after flop, they're going back to their roots and trying to make timeless classics again. Let's pay attention and see what happens."
Tangled: Another high quality film that got the momentum going. I don't know whether to call it the アラジン または Beauty and the Beast of the Revival, but it's one または a bit of both. In fact, I lean toward the latter. Like BatB to TLM, 塔の上のラプンツェル worked out all the kinks in PatF (including marketing it as a boy's film and being 3D *sigh*) and solidified the ディズニー musical movie formula we'll probably be seeing for the 次 ten years. It went the extra mile set によって the princess film that came shortly before it and went that much farther to gain wide appeal. Became a critical and financial darling.
Winnie The Pooh Like the Rescuers Down Under before it, it's become the poorly marketed, underrated, forgotten classic that fell through the cracks made によって the Revival giants.
Wreck It Ralph I don't fully know how to classify this, as I haven't seen it または really paid attention to how people received it. It did well critically and financially, though many people feel it's Disney's answer to ピクサー・アニメーション・スタジオ films (please, they've been doing that since Dinosaur back in 2000), and many people feel it was robbed of its Oscar によって Brave. (That the judges just gave it an Oscar because it's Pixar, not because the movie was really the best of that year.) I guess it continued the Revival momentum, so... Aladdin?
Frozen NEED I EXPLAIN??? Highest grossing ディズニー film of all time (beat out The Lion King), first film in the canon to win an Academy Award for Best Animated Picture (ironically created after Beauty and the Beast so animated films could get acknowledged as "best" without having to compete with "real movies," yet ディズニー has never won one until now), HUGE HYPE surrounding it, I can go on. To quote Honest Trailers Frozen: "For the first time in forever... It's as good as The Lion King."
But that's the problem. The Lion King was so good (from a wide general audience perspective, anyway) that people negatively compared every movie after to it. Even if 発言しました 映画 were good または amazing in their own right, I feel like people furrowed their brows and said, "Yeah, it's good... but it's not The Lion King. When are あなた going to make another Lion King?" And ディズニー TRIED, bless them, but just couldn't get it right until Frozen, about 20 years later.
So I'm wondering if all this hype surrounding アナと雪の女王 will make it so films after will be もっと見る critically scrutinized and unfairly compared to Frozen?
Up next, we're looking at Big Hero 6 (first ディズニー superhero comic adaptation), Zootopia (buddy cop film with CGI animals), Giants (quirky adaptation of Jack and the Beanstock), and Moana (first Polynesian Princess). Unless they're perfectly flawless, I'm wondering if people will start scrutinizing them and punishing them for not being as PERFECT as Frozen.
THEN AGAIN, ディズニー was having audiences stolen out from under them during the later Renaissance によって Pixar. ディズニー kept doing the same thing (2D teenage coming-of-age romances based on pre-existing stories) while the latter kept making new CGI films with original stories. These days... yeah, the tables have turned. ピクサー・アニメーション・スタジオ is now reduced to relying on sequels and franchises because they don't have many stellar ideas, while ディズニー has a whole slew of beautifully animated CGI films with もっと見る original(ish) stories. Maybe less stellar competition means this time ディズニー will have the upper hand and keep going as an アニメーション Power House, despite the high expectations set によって Frozen.
So, those are my thoughts. I hope あなた enjoyed 読書 it.