The Lion King (1994): 16 Glorious Facts About The Animated Movie!!

The Lion King (1994) is an animated adventure/drama movie produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released by Walt Disney pictures. The movie is directed by Rogers Allers and Rob Minkoff. The Lion King (1994) characters are voiced by actors James Earl Jones (Mufasa), Jeremy Irons (Scar), Jonathan Taylor Thomas (Young Simba), Matthew Broderick (Adult Simba), Moira Kelly (Adult Nala), Ernie Sabella (Pumbaa), Nathan Lane (Timon), and Rowan Atkinson (Zazu).

Hyenas in The Lion King
Hyenas in The Lion King

The Lion King (1994) tells the story of a young lion Simba. When Simba’s uncle Scar murders his father and King Mufasa, Simba is manipulated into thinking he was responsible and flees into exile in shame and despair. Upon maturation living with two wastrels, Simba is given some valuable perspective from his childhood friend, Nala, and his shaman, Rafiki, before returning to challenge Scar to end his tyranny.

The Lion King movie poster
The Lion King movie poster

The Lion King (1994) was released on 15th June, 1994 in USA. The movie earned $1 Billion worldwide in its theatrical run. It also won 2 Academy Awards (Oscars) for Best Original Song and Best Original Score. Today I have put together a list of Interesting facts and details about epic movie The Lion King (1994). Let’s have a look..

The Lion King movie poster
The Lion King movie poster
16. Actors Jeremy Irons (Scar)  and Whoopi Goldberg (Shenzi) both won acting Oscars in the same year for their roles in Reversal of Fortune (1990) and Ghost (1990) respectively.
Scar and Shenzi
Scar and Shenzi
15. The team working on The Lion King (1994) was supposedly Disney's "team B", who were "kept busy" while "team A" worked on Pocahontas (1995), on which the production had much higher hopes.
Pocahontas poster
Pocahontas poster
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14. Near the start of the film Lion  Mufasa asks villain Scar if he is going to challenge him. In real life lions actually fight one another for right to be leader of the pack with the loser backing down.
The Lion king
The Lion king
13. In early drafts, villain Scar was a rogue lion with no relation to Lion Mufasa. Eventually, however, the story writers thought relating him to Mufasa would be more interesting, a threat within.
Villain Scar
Villain Scar
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12. Several Disney animators went to Africa to study animal behavior and interaction in the wild. A grown lion and a cub were also brought into the animation studio as models for anatomy and musculature.
Mufasa and Samba
Mufasa and Samba
11. Until 2013 The Lion King (1994) held the record for being the highest grossing animated film in history, until it was surpassed by Frozen (2013), another Disney Movie.
The Lion King movie poster
The Lion King movie poster
10. The Lion King (1994) is one of three Disney movies to win a Golden Globe for Best Picture. The other two are Beauty and the Beast (1991) and Toy Story 2 (1999) (all three were in the category "Comedy or Musical"). This is no longer possible due to rule changes at Golden Globes.
The Lion King
The Lion King

The Incredibles (2004): 15 Fantastic Facts About The Animated Movie!!

The Incredibles (2004) is an animated action/adventure movie produced by Pixar Animation Studios. The movie is directed and written by Brad Bird. Characters are voiced by Craig T. Nelson (Mr. Incredible), Holly Hunter (Elastigirl), Samuel L. Jackson (Frozone), Jason Lee (Syndrome), Spencer Fox (Dash), and Sarah Vowel (Violet). The movie was released by Walt Disney Pictures.

The Incredibles Family
The Incredibles Family

The Incredibles (2004) tells the story of a family of undercover superheroes. The family trying to live the quiet suburban life, are forced into action to save the world once again from a super maniac Syndrome and his killer robots.

Villain Syndrome
Villain Syndrome

The Incredibles (2004) was released on 27th October, 2004 and earned $650 million worldwide in its theatrical run. The movie won several awards including Best Picture Oscar and Best sound editing Oscar. Today, I have put together a list of Interesting facts and details about movie The Incredibles (2004). Let’s find out.

The Incredibles movie Poster
The Incredibles movie Poster

15. All of the Incredibles’ powers (and Frozone’s) reflect their feelings on life. Mr. Incredible wants to be strong enough for everyone, Mrs. Incredible just wants to fit in. Dash wants to be a winner, Violet doesn’t want to be seen as different, Jack-Jack has multiple powers, showing his infinite potential, and Frozone wants to chill and be cool.

The Incredibles Team

The Incredibles Team

14. Actor Samuel L. Jackson was cast as the voice of Frozone because director Brad Bird wanted the character to have the coolest voice.

Superhero Frozone

Superhero Frozone

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13. The Incredibles (2004) movie’s line “You sly dog! You got me monologuing!” was voted as the #15 of “The 100 Greatest Movie Lines” by Premiere in 2007.

Syndrome and Mr. Incredible

Syndrome and Mr. Incredible

12. Character Helen’s use of radio protocol while flying is exceptionally accurate for a movie. In the director’s commentary Brad Bird tells that actress Holly Hunter (voice of Elastigirl) insisted on learning the lingo and its meaning.

Mr. Incredible above Nomanisan Island

Mr. Incredible above Nomanisan Island

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11. DC Comics objected to the name Elastigirl, due to similarity with their character Elasti-Girl. A compromise was reached whereas outside of the film (promotional materials, etc.) Elastigirl would be known as Mrs. Incredible.

Helen Parr as Mr. Incredible as ElastiGirl

Helen Parr as Mr. Incredible as ElastiGirl

10. Villain Syndrome’s zero-point energy beam is based on an actual physics concept. A theory that black holes eventually evaporate. Harnessing the zero-point field would be quite a feat, as it would yield a virtually infinite source of energy.

Syndrome's Zero Point Energy Beam

Syndrome’s Zero Point Energy Beam

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Monsters, Inc (2001): 16 Awesome Facts From The Animated Movie!!

Monsters, Inc. (2001) is an animated/adventure /comedy movie directed and written by Pete Docter and produced by Pixar Animation Studios. Andrew Stanton wrote the screenplay. The characters of movie Monsters Inc (2001) are voiced by many actors such as John Goodman (Sulley), Billy Crystal (Mike), Mary Gibbs (Boo), Steve Buscemi (Randall) etc.

Movie Details Facts and Trivia
Movie Details Facts and Trivia

Monsters, Inc (2001) is the story of two monsters (Mike and Sulley) working at Monsters, Inc. The employees generate their city’s power by targeting and scaring human children, but they are themselves afraid that the children may contaminate them. When one child enters Monstropolis, Mike and Sulley must return her unharmed.

Monsters at Work
Monsters at Work

Monsters, Inc (2001) was released on 2nd November, 2001 in USA. The movie won 1 Academy Award in Best Music, Original Song category although it lost to Shrek (2001) in Best Animated Picture category. The movie earned $525 million dollars worldwide.
Well, let’s have a look at the interesting facts and details about movie Monsters, Inc (2001).

Monsters,Inc movie poster
Monsters,Inc movie poster

16. Actress Mary Gibbs (Boo) was so young that it proved difficult to get her to stand in the recording studio and act her lines. Instead, they simply followed her around with a microphone and cut Boo’s lines together from the things she said while she played.

Mary Gibbs as Boo
Mary Gibbs as Boo

15. It normally took 11 to 12 hours to render a single frame of monster Sulley because of his 2.3 million individually animated hair strands (Total number of hairs: 2,320,413).

Sulley in Monsters, Inc
Sulley in Monsters, Inc

14. Actor John Goodman (Sulley) pushed for actor Steve Buscemi to voice the villain monster Randall in Monsters, Inc. (2001).

Monster Sulley and Randall
Monster Sulley and Randall

13. Actor John Goodman (Sulley) and Billy Crystal (monster Mike)  sometimes recorded their lines in the same room together. It is an unusual move for animated films, where actors more often work alone. Steve Buscemi and Frank Oz (Randall and his assistant Fungus) also recorded their lines together for the bathroom scene.

Monsters Sulley , Mike, Randall, and Fungus
Monsters Sulley , Mike, Randall, and Fungus

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Monster Sulley and Boo in Monsters, Inc
Monster Sulley and Boo in Monsters, Inc

11. The ingredient list on the cereal that monster Sulley feeds Boo is as follows: Tentacles (includes suckers), sugar pods, gelatin, artificial flavor, artificial color (Yellow 53 & 54, Red 400, Blue 21, Plaid 16, Puce 30), salt, seawater, naturally occurring mercury, barium, sulfuric acid, lead, bile, blood, sweat, tears, zinc oxide, vitamins D & F, anemone, brine shrimp, coral, plankton, deadly pufferfish, depleted uranium (to preserve freshness).

Monster Sulley and Boo in Monsters, Inc
Monster Sulley and Boo in Monsters, Inc

10. Monsters, Inc. (2001) is the fourth movie to feature both actors John Goodman and Steve Buscemi together. All previous 3 movies they acted were directed and produced by Joel Coen and Ethan Coen.

John Goodman And Steve Buscemi
John Goodman And Steve Buscemi

9. The animators considered giving monster Sulley tentacles instead of legs at one point, and glasses at another. However, they decided to use legs because they believed the audience would concentrate more on the tentacles than Sulley’s face. They also considered making Mike armless with only legs.

Monsters, Inc movie
Monsters, Inc movie

9 Little Fun Details About Disney’s Tomorrowland (2015)!!

Tomorrowland (2015) is an Action/Adventure movie produced under Disney studios and directed by Brad Bird. The movie stars George Clooney, Hugh Laurie, and Britt Robertson, in the lead roles.

Tomorrowland (2015) tells the fictional story of two people bound by a shared destiny, a teen bursting with scientific curiosity and a former boy-genius inventor embark on a mission to unearth the secrets of a place somewhere in time and space that exists in their collective memory.

Tomorrowland 2015 Poster
Tomorrowland 2015 Poster

It is Disney’s much awaited film. I have put together a list of interesting facts and details about Tomorrowland (2015). Let’s have a look at it.

9. Brad Bird was sought out as the first choice for the director’s job of Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens (2015). Bird respectfully declined the offer in order to do this film. Bird stated when you get the rare chance to do an original film like this, you take the opportunity. Bird went on to say, he is a huge Star Wars fan though and he looks forward (as a fan) to seeing the film like everyone else.

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8. In the background of the World’s Fair, the White Rabbit from Alice in Wonderland and the Fox from Pinocchio are walking together. The White Rabbit traditionally symbolizes going as far forward as you can, even down mysterious holes for the sake of an adventure. The Fox symbolizes being tricked at the idea of something promising and ending up in a bad place because of it. Both are themes in this movie.

7. In Europe, Disney had to change the name from Tomorrowland to Disney Project T because the name is a registered brand of the electronic music festival Tomorrowland. Likewise, when the festival wanted to have a show in the U.S., they had to change the name to TomorrowWorld.

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6. Tomorrowland, as first conceived by Walt Disney back in the 1950s and 1960s, was to showcase what the future would hold for the world. It was and still is Disney’s top draw in the theme parks.

5. Disneyland Paris includes a theme park similar to Tomorrowland named Discoveryland, which is inspired by Jules Verne. Jules Verne is mentioned as one of the discoverers of Tomorrowland in the film.

4. Although heavily shown in trailers that Walt Disney and Disneyland are connected to Tomorrowland, the movie plot doesn’t mention the connection.

3. The androids in the film are called AA’s, an abbreviation for Audio Animatronics. Audio Animatronics are heavily used in various Disney attractions, such as the Pirates of the Caribbean, Carousel of Progress, Hall of presidents and many more entertainment. 

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2. Frank visits the 1964 New York World fair, the same one in which Walt Disney introduces the Carousel of Progress. Additionally, when Frank first arrives to the world fair, the song “Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow” is playing, taken from the Carousel of Progress attraction.

1. If you reverse Casey, by pronunciation you get “Isaac”. Casey’s last name is Newton, meaning “Sir Isaac Newton”, one of the most renowned scientists of all time, may be an inspiration for Casey’s name and behaviour of how she figures “how things work”.

AVJ

13 Crazy Facts About Disney’s Animated Movie Brave (2012)!!

Brave (2012) is an animated Adventure/Comedy movie produced by Disney and Pixar. The movie is directed by Mark Andrews and Brenda Chapman.

Brave (2012) is the story of a young princess determined to make her own path in life, Princess Merida defies a custom that brings chaos to her kingdom. Granted one wish, Merida must rely on her bravery and her archery skills to undo a beastly curse.

Brave 2012 Poster
Brave 2012 Poster

The movie won Best Animated Feature Oscar in 2013. I have put together a list of interesting facts and details about Brave (2012). Let’s have a look.

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13. The original title of the film was “The Bear and the Bow”.

12. Two additional software programs were specially developed for this film by Pixar in the period of three years. One of them allows simulation of Merida’s 1500 strands of hair curls to move together with her movements.

11. Merida’s name in Hebrew means “to rebel”.

10. None of the footage shown in the preview trailer is in the finished film.

9. If you look closely at the title, you can see Merida hidden in the letter B and Elinor hidden in the letter E.

8. It took six years to make this film. Mark Andrews was initially the consultant, providing the Scottish themes for Brenda Chapman. However, by October 2010, Chapman left after four years of work with Andrews subsequently taking over but still keeping the intended story that Chapman wrote. Originally 80% of the film took place in snow, but when Chapman left the project so did much of the white stuff.

7. The chess set in Merida’s room is the famous Lewis Chessmen from the 12th century, unearthed in Scotland in 1831.

13 Little Facts About Disney Movie Cinderella (2015)!!

Cinderella (2015) is a Family/Fantasy movie produced by Disney studios. The movie is directed by Kenneth Branagh and stars Cate Blanchett, Lily James, Richard Madden, and Helena Bonham Carter. We all have heard the story and now Disney is bringing our imagination into a live action movie. How cool is that..?

Cinderella (2015) tells the story of young girl Ella, who finds herself at the mercy of her cruel stepmother and her daughters, When her father unexpectedly passes away.
Never one to give up hope, Ella’s fortunes begin to change after meeting a dashing stranger.

Cinderella 2015 Poster
Cinderella 2015 Poster

I have put together a list of interesting facts and details about the movie.

13. Emma Watson was in talks to star as the title character but a deal could not be worked out with Disney. She was later cast as Belle inBeauty and the Beast (2017), Disney’s live-action remake of Beauty and the Beast (1991).

12. There was much controversy over whether the waist of Lily James was photo-shopped or if CGI was used, since it seemed to be impossibly thin. In later interviews, James herself, directorKenneth Branagh, and other cast members revealed that James’ waist had already been naturally smaller and that for every dress she had to wear a corset, even during the dance. With her thin waist, corsets, and the poof from the blue dress, the perspective makes her waist look unnaturally thin.

11. While approaching the project with a deep understanding of the fairy tale’s history, Kenneth Branagh said: “It is impossible to think of Cinderella without thinking of Disney, and the timeless images we’ve all grown up watching. And those classic moments are irresistible to a filmmaker.”

10. In an interview, Lily James, who plays Cinderella, said that the iconic glass slipper used in the film really doesn’t fit on her foot. Instead, the slippers were added into the film later via CGI.

9. This film marks Kenneth Branagh’s first collaboration with Walt Disney Pictures. Branagh also directed Thor (2011), which was distributed by Paramount Pictures but subsequently re-branded as a Disney film.

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8. Director Kenneth Branagh and Helena Bonham Carter, who plays Ella’s Fairy Godmother, had an affair and dated in the 1990s. Kenneth Baranagh and Helena Bonham Carter are both stars from the Harry Potter series. Baranagh played Professor Gilderoy Lockhart (Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets), Carter played Bellatrix Lestange.