Blog Entry #7 – Clean Up Scenes With Animals

When we were watching the film “Snow White” in class, there was a scene of Snow White cleaning up the  Seven Dwarfs’s house with the woodland critters. Watching that scene reminded me of the film “Enchanted” where it made fun of Disney Movies. The film “Enchanted” also had a scene where the princess was cleaning up the place with animals. But because it was in New York, it was something else. Instead of birds, deers, and rabbits you had rats, roaches, and pigeons. Hmm…not sure if someone wants there place cleaned by rats and roaches from New York. I believe the look of an animated animal makes a difference in the film.

When we see from Disney Classics, there is always some scene where the animals help out tiding up the place. The critters are cute looking and adorable. That is what we discussed in class about animation. Where expression and the way they look have to be over the top. In real life, animals don’t look like that or act human like. So, in a film like “Enchanted” the creatures look like real animals and because of that the cleaning scene did not look so clean. They all had some human like qualities by singing along, dancing, and cleaning up but because they looked more real than animated, the place looked more like a health violation. If the health inspectors came by, they would have shut that building down immediately because it looked like an infestation.

It makes it more understandable that animals look the way they do in animation. With their bulging watery eyes and human like qualities, it works in animated films. But, if they looked like the animals in “Enchanted” clean up scenes do not look the same. The song is there and so are the dance numbers, but it makes you think if animals looked more real cleaning up your place, it wouldn’t fly. Maybe, it depends on what animals but I doubt it would be a rats, coaches, and pigeons from New York.

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