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Karalora Manliest Person on Skype from San Fernando Valley, CA Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: In another castle
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#51: Oct 1st 2010 at 9:33:55 PM

I'm guessing that's probably because a lot of it espouses very different values from the ones that came to dominate Europe during the relevant period of codification. Also, no one can pronounce the names.

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#52: Oct 2nd 2010 at 5:54:17 AM

^^ Actually, you cant throw a rock without hitting some celtic fantasy. Might be a 90's thing though.

I'd love to see a Disney musical on th Epic of Gilgamesh, would be fantastic.

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#53: Oct 2nd 2010 at 8:50:33 AM

Ancient Rome would be nice, since they already did ancient Greece (Hercules).

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#54: Oct 2nd 2010 at 2:59:04 PM

Also, no one can pronounce the names.

And you call yourself Irish...

The names are actually quite easy to pronounce if you know Irish pronunciation rules, which look weird at first glance but are actually very consistent and have a strong internal logic.

By the way, I'm actually Irish, and I don't want Disney to set a movie here because I know they'll completely bugger up the mythology and the country.

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#55: Oct 2nd 2010 at 3:21:04 PM

Well, it would be pretty difficult to play The Dagda and The Morrigan straight while maintaining a G rating...

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#56: Oct 2nd 2010 at 4:12:57 PM

^ Have faith. They pulled off Frollo.

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#57: Oct 2nd 2010 at 4:13:43 PM

A Disney version of the Sengoku era of japan!

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#58: Oct 2nd 2010 at 4:15:33 PM

^ I would want Disney to stay away from Japan, because there's already a huge industry devoted to producing animated Japanese fantasy for audiences of all ages.

Let's see something that's not already extremely common.

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#59: Oct 2nd 2010 at 5:42:49 PM

Vietnam, anyone? But I doubt that they'll make it like China...

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#60: Oct 3rd 2010 at 5:54:23 AM

By the way, I'm actually Irish, and I don't want Disney to set a movie here because I know they'll completely bugger up the mythology and the country.

That's just a fact of life. Disney only cares about the exotic aesthetics; if they tried to take any of the substances seriously, it would either raise the movie's rating too much or it would at least make people uncomfortable with values dissonance.

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#61: Oct 3rd 2010 at 7:25:34 PM

I think I said this already, but I would love a Disney movie set in Norway. There's plenty of Norse mythology for it and Norway is an under-loved country as is.

edited 3rd Oct '10 7:26:41 PM by HopelessRomance

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#62: Oct 3rd 2010 at 8:12:42 PM

^ ...Yeah, but it'll never happen. They hate meatcakes. tongue

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#63: Oct 4th 2010 at 3:43:55 AM

^^^ I think people already screw us over with stereotypes and generalizations, I don't think Disney can do much more but yeah the idea of it being set in Ireland would be kind of awesome

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#64: Oct 4th 2010 at 8:32:12 AM

Also, I vote multinational- Next Disney movie NEEDS to be The Life And Times Of Scrooge Mc Duck.

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#65: Oct 4th 2010 at 8:10:24 PM

YES! That's gonna be AWESOME!

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#66: May 5th 2011 at 11:13:55 AM

A folktale adaptation taking place in New England, United States.

No, not that one.

edited 5th May '11 11:14:29 AM by kyun

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#67: May 5th 2011 at 2:03:04 PM

Mexico!! not hollywood mexico...

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#68: May 5th 2011 at 2:20:48 PM

Something old, scandinavian and whatsuch.

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#69: May 5th 2011 at 5:24:15 PM

Egypt!

A Viking princess would be awesome, but How to Train Your Dragon has a monopoly on all things Viking at the moment.

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#70: May 5th 2011 at 11:03:36 PM

I was under the impression that Disney was moving away from the Fairy Tale/Princess movies because they didnt reach a large enough demographic? Forgive me for being unable to provide the article I read (Im behind the firewall from hades)but if you do a search for "Disney to Move away from Fairy Tale Movies" you will get some info.

Reguardless I would like to see them delve more into American legends. There are plenty to look at from all of the cryptozoological critters running around to the tall tales of the old west. I realize they have done these before to some degree but a rehash might be interesting.

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#71: May 6th 2011 at 6:16:06 AM

Ancient Scandinavia, please. And at least get the costumes right.

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#72: May 6th 2011 at 11:39:49 AM

Itd be interesting to see them tackling a Biblical story, though Moses has been done before by Dreamworks. The story of Purim could be interesting, as we'd get Disney's first Jewish princess! Well, queen, but you know they'd princessify her uptongue

I'm probably forgetting something, but have they done turn of the century America yet? That could be interesting.

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#73: May 6th 2011 at 12:41:52 PM

[up] Lady And The Tramp, technically. (I assume you mean the turn of the 20th Century.)

edited 6th May '11 12:42:22 PM by Karalora

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#74: May 6th 2011 at 12:47:04 PM

Ahh, I haven't seen it much, if at all, since I was a kid so I forgot about it. I was thinking something more like Ragtime, that really puts that setting to use.

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#75: May 6th 2011 at 5:26:24 PM

You know how on some Disney movies, they get an outside artist to help define the look? Like Gerard Scarfe on Hercules and Mike Mignola on Atlantis? The Disney style is there, but the artist gives it a unique twist?

Eiichiro Oda, on a Japanese folk tale. Like Tokoyo or Kintaro.

We're also LONG overdue on an Egyptian story. Hopefully they'd adapt an ancient piece of literature rather than graft a Western story onto the setting, like they were planning on doing for "Kingdom in the Sun".

A Russian story would be awesome too. I'd love to see a Disney animated Khoschei the Deathless.


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