Which country would you like to see the next Disney movie set in?

Have you listened to his musical of Faust? It's awesome (and it had James Taylor, Elton John and others).

The actual music's okay, but I don't like his lyrics.

His Faust is comedy gold, great satirical and plain witty stuff among it.

I'll look it up. To tell you the truth, I'm only familiar with the work he's done for Disney and Pixar, which I don't think is very good.

Okay, this doesn't have a snowball's chance in hell, but...

A serious animated musical about Marie Antoinette that stresses historical accuracy. It would avert common depictions of Marie Antoinette as a brainless Rich Bitch, instead playing her sympathetically. It would also avert Rule of Cool, Rule of Funny, and the standard Hollywood happy ending. The only place where it would intentionally break from the historical facts is the Musical World Hypothesis.

edited 11th Aug '11 1:57:26 PM by PDown

I'd watch that.

Russia.

Ireland would be good or something Scandinavian. Or anywhere but avoiding stereotypes.

West Africa. Disneyfied Anansi, please.

ANCIENT EGYPT, VICTORIAN ENGLAND, OR NEW YORK CITY. (I know a New York city one already exists, but that was NYC back in the forties or fifties. A modern day version would be AWESOME.)

edited 30th Sep '11 4:21:25 PM by moonflower2

Yeah. I know Disney, being the family company it is, doesn't do dark-toned animated films very often. But judging from the darker religious elements of Hunchback of Notre Damme, the Chernabog sequence in Fantasia (plus the Firebird sequence the sequel), Monstro in Pinnochio, and the like, Disney is more than capable of being creepy when they want to be and could totally make an animated vampire film with "balls" yet still watchable and entertaining for most if not all age groups.

edited 30th Sep '11 5:06:14 PM by nervmeister

I want an Epic of Gilgamesh Disney movie. XP

Which one are you thinking of? Off the top of my head, all the animated Disney films that take place in NYC at all were released in the 70s or later and all were intended to be contemporaneous with the year of their release.

edited 30th Sep '11 6:32:44 PM by Karalora

He's probably referring to Oliver & Co., which admittedly was a great adaptation concept for Oliver Twist.

And took place in the 80s. Pretty blatantly, too.

I wasn't even aware that Disney still made animated movies. Their last one was in like, 2009. Whatever. Canada, just because I'd like to see something about Canada that's animated and isn't a bunch of stereotyping.

They made Tangled and Winnie The Pooh since 2009!

Oh, right. I wouldn't really count Winnie though, that was more of a remake or a reboot than a new film.

But they made it.

I understand your view though.

Tangled can be considered to take place in Germany, ja?

Yeah, Tangled is Germanic, even if they made up a fictional kingdom and gave it a Latin-based name. Listen to the lyrics for "I've Got a Dream" and you'll hear names like Gunther, Ulf, and Attila.

As long as we're still throwing countries out there, how about Finland? There's lots of cool stuff in the Kalevala. As a villain, Louhi fits right into the Disney tradition—she's an evil sorceress who gets huge and goes all One-Winged Angel on the heroes before they kick her ass.

Anywhere that's a third-world country.

Try to make something serious, based on these peoples' plight...

Something heartwarming and heartbreaking at the same time that makes the audience think. That'll be something, now won't it?

edited 4th Oct '11 4:38:18 PM by LostAnarchist

An Anansi movie, based primarily on "How Anansi got his Stories" could be a pretty fun movie. And one that you can throw a ton of mythology gags to the whole body of work Disney's done when Anansi is looking into Nyame's hoard of stories waiting to be shared.

Since traditionally Disney films either take place in america or vaguely European countries, I'd say places like Southeast Asia, or Australia.

Again, Sub-Sahara Africa that actually focuses on an indiginous Sub-Saharan African culture. Anansi sounds awesome, or "The man who spoke the language of the Animals". Heck, even an appropriation of a tale to the Abyssinian monarchy or a Lost Civilisation expy of Great Zimbabwe would be cool.

As for Australian Dreamtime tales, the ones regarding the Bird Tribe and the Burning Man of the Mountain would be a cool story. Or a Disneyfied version of Kere-gar the Native Cat. Or the Quinkans. Or the Mischivious Crow and his Deeds.