Line #21 Creator/GoldenFilms


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3	'''Golden Films''' (also known as American Film Investment Corporation) is an American production company founded in 1989 by Diane Eskenazi. Its objective was to create non-violent, quality films. Most of their output, however, can best be described as [[TheMockbuster Mockbuster]] versions of popular animated films but with very different developments. The most famous of their products are the Enchanted Tales, which most are {{Animated Adaptation}}s of classical fairy tales. It also has adapted adult novels like ''Literature/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame'' by Creator/VictorHugo (which ''also'' just so happened to have [[WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackOfNotreDameDisney a Disney adaptation]] around the same time) and ''Literature/TheThreeMusketeers'' by [[Creator/AlexandreDumas Alexandre Dumas père]] and a pair of stories from Literature/TheBible.
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5	Many of their works were distributed by and/or co-produced with Creator/GoodTimesEntertainment.
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7	Since 2004, the company no longer produces new animated content, though it continues to license their existing works to various distributors and TV stations.
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9	In the early 2020s, the company saw an extremely unexpected revival by making a series of live action documentaries known as the ''One World'' films, which tackle sociopolitical issues experienced by Generation Z, who tell the stories from their perspective.
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11	!! Filmography (in construction)
12	[[index]]
13	%% Only add links when the pages for the films exist. Do not link to the source material or to a popular adaptation of the same story if that's the case.
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15	'''Animated Films'''
16	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin\|GoldenFilms}}''
17	* ''Alice in Wonderland''
18	* ''Anastasia''
19	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Beauty and the Beast\|Golden 1992}}'' (1992)
20	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Beauty and the Beast\|Golden 1999}}'' (1999)
21	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Camelot}}''
22	* ''The Christmas Elves'' (with Creator/StudioBProductions)
23	* ''[[WesternAnimation/CinderellaGoldenFilms Cinderella]]''
24	* ''The Emperor's Treasure'' (Also released as ''The Secret Treasure of Machu Picchu'')
25	* ''[[WesternAnimation/TheGreatEasterEggHuntGoldenFilms The Great Easter Egg Hunt]]''
26	* ''Gulliver's Travels''
27	* ''Heidi''
28	* ''Hercules'' (with Studio B)
29	* ''[[WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackOfNotreDameGoldenFilms The Hunchback of Notre Dame]]''
30	* ''Jack and the Beanstalk''
31	* ''The Jungle Book''
32	* ''WesternAnimation/TheJungleKing''
33	* ''The Legend of Atlantis''
34	* ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfSuLing''
35	* ''WesternAnimation/LittleAngelsTheBrightestChristmas''
36	* ''[[WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaidGolden1992 The Little Mermaid]]''
37	* ''WesternAnimation/MiracleInToyland''
38	* ''WesternAnimation/TheNightBeforeChristmas''
39	* ''[[WesternAnimation/TheNewAdventuresOfPeterRabbit The New Adventures of Peter Rabbit]]'' (or ''Reggie Rabbit'', as they call it in later versions)
40	* ''Noah's Ark''
41	* ''[[WesternAnimation/{{Pinocchio1992}} Pinocchio]]''
42	* ''[[WesternAnimation/PocahontasGoldenFilms Pocahontas]]''
43	* ''WesternAnimation/PrincessCastle''
44	* ''[[WesternAnimation/ThePrinceAndThePauper1995 The Prince and the Pauper]]''
45	* ''The Red Shoes''
46	* ''The Secret Treasure Of Machu Picchu''
47	* ''Sindbad''
48	* ''[[WesternAnimation/SleepingBeautyJetlagProductions Sleeping Beauty]]''
49	* ''Snow White (I)''
50	* ''Snow White (II)''
51	* ''WesternAnimation/ATaleOfEgypt''
52	* ''WesternAnimation/TarzanOfTheApes''
53	* ''The Three Musketeers''
54	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Thumbelina\|1992}}''
55	* ''Tom Thumb Meets Thumbelina''
56	* ''Treasure Island''
57	* ''The Wizard of Oz''
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59	'''Documentaries'''
60	* ''Call for Peace''
61	* ''Code Red Planet Earth''
62	* ''Common Threads''
63	* ''One World''
64	* ''We Rise''
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68	!!Other Projects
69	* ''WesternAnimation/KingArthurAndTheKnightsOfJustice'' (with Créativité et Développement)
70	* ''WesternAnimation/TheNuttiestNutcracker'' [[note]]Credited as being "created" by Diane Eskenazi, and provided much of the storyboards, voice recordings and character designs, but Golden Films itself does not receive credit, as the overall production was handled by [[Creator/ArcProductions DKP Studios]].[[/note]]
71	[[/index]]
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73	!!The company provides examples of (in construction):
74	* AdaptationalHeroism: Surprisingly, Farmer [=McGregor=] in the Golden Films adaptation of Peter Rabbit no longer wants to eat rabbits since he mentions that he dislikes rabbit stew. He is later seen letting Peter's sisters out of his mailbox.
75	* AdaptationalWimp: Mopsy, Flopsy, and Cottontail end up as ditzy sisters in the adaptation "Peter Rabbit". Mainly since Peter's sisters appear to be more intelligent and wiser in the original Beatrix Potter stories. In the Golden Film's adaptation there are sometimes seen arguing with each other.
76	** Peter/Reggie Rabbit since he acts more whiny in this adaptation and has a lying issue.
77	* AdaptationalNameChange: Benjamin is called "Benny" in ''Peter Rabbit''. Peter himself becomes Reggie Rabbit in later version of the movie.
78	* AdaptationInspiration: ''The Red Shoes''. It just takes the concept of the red shoes instead of adapting the original tale by Creator/HansChristianAndersen.
79	* AdaptationalSpeciesChange: For whatever reason, Tommy Brock is changed from a badger into a hedgehog in Golden Films' adaptation of ''Peter Rabbit''.
80	* AnachronismStew: BIG time.
81	** Their version of ''Literature/TomThumb'' and ''Literature/{{Thumbelina}}'' is supposedly set in a medieval fairy tale kingdom, yet in one song it mentions plumbers, electricians and other types of modern day construction.
82	** In ''Treasure Island'', Long John Silver compares his crew to Film/TheThreeStooges.
83	* AnimatedAdaptation: Almost all their works.
84	* AnimateInanimateObject: Many of the movies have these, obviously inspired by the ones from Disney's ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast''. Their sentience is often unexplained.
85	* AnimatedMusical: Most of their movies had songs in them. Some of them were surprisingly catchy.
86	* {{Animesque}}: Much of their earlier films were animated with assistance from Japanese companies like Creator/KKCAndDAsia, with this in effect to varying degrees.
87	* AscendedExtra: Mr [=McGregor's=] cat has a bigger presence in "Peter Rabbit" and serves as the BigBad
88	* BagOfKidnapping: Mr. Tod captures Peter's friends with this method in "Peter Rabbit" after they leave him when they found out he lied to them, and in "The Legend of Atlantis" Belial kidnaps Princess Ilan to try to make her his bride so he can rule Atlantis.
89	* BarbieDollAnatomy: [[ShirtlessScene Shirtless males]] often have this. Averted in ''Atlantis'' and in ''Aladdin''.
90	* BittersweetEnding: ''Anastasia'' ends with Anastasia regaining her memories, but that includes the memory of her family being executed.
91	* {{Bowdlerise}}:
92	** In ''Gulliver's Travels'', Gulliver puts out a fire by spitting on it instead of urinating on it like in the book.
93	** Later copies of ''Anastasia'' omit the sound of gunshots when the Romanovs are executed.
94	* BrainlessBeauty: Beauty in the first "Beauty and the Beast", fittingly enough.
95	* CanonForeigner: Pretty much the majority of new characters in Peter Rabbit, most notable being Hopsy.
96	* CompressedAdaptation: The 45 minutes format pretty much enforces this.
97	** ''Pinocchio'' is a big example. It is relatively faithful to [[Literature/TheAdventuresOfPinocchio the book]] in an overall way, but many of the challenges Pinocchio found in the original were omitted.
98	** Same with ''Gulliver's Travels'', which only focuses on the Lilliputian story.
99	* CuteKitten: The orange kitten from "Peter Rabbit"
100	* CivilizedAnimal: Most notable in the adaptation of Peter Rabbit which is an unofficial sequel.
101	* ColorCodedCharacters: Mopsy, Flopsy, Cottontail, and Hopsy all wear different colored scarves to tell them apart. Mainly since Mopsy, Flopsy and Cottontail originally all wore red scarfs and the all looked the same.
102	** Cottontail = Green scarf
103	** Mopsy = Red Scarf
104	** Flopsy = Yellow Scarf
105	** Hopsy = Purple Scarf
106	%%* ComedicUnderwearExposure: In "The Red Shoes", (Zero-Context Example)
107	* CosmicDeadline: A few of the films, due to their short runtimes, end up having their problems quickly and suddenly resolved in the last few minutes of the film (''Pocahontas'' and ''The Little Mermaid'' being the most blatant), which often leaves a number of other storylines hanging.
108	* DarkerAndEdgier: There is the odd film that can be called this in their library.
109	** ''Camelot'' is a notable example for featuring violence and having a BittersweetEnding. It's LighterAndSofter than the myths, though.
110	** ''Thumbelina'' has a sociopathic villain in [[spoiler:Mona, who is abusing Thumbelina and is willing to sell Thumbelina to Mr. Mole even if Thumbelina won't be happy again and her failure would cost a lot of lives.]]
111	** ''Miracle In Toyland'' shows two RedShirt soldiers dying. ''On screen''. One of them was in a dream, but yeah.
112	* DemotedToExtra: Mr [=McGregor=] in Peter Rabbit only has a few scenes while his cat gets more spotlight in the film.
113	* {{Disneyfication}}: They have adapted adult novels and some parts of the Bible.
114	* TheDitz: Flopsy, Mopsy, and especially Cottontail in "Peter Rabbit".
115	* ADogNamedDog: Most of Peter's new friends such as "Squirrel" and "Chipmunk" besides the female white bunny Peter meets in the film.
116	* DumbBlonde: Beauty from the first "Beauty and the Beast" appears to be an unintentional example. She's always spacing out and extremely slow on the uptake.
117	* {{Expy}}: Some of the animals seen in "Peter Rabbit" act or even look similar to some of the other Beatrix Potter characters.
118	** The Squirrel - Squirrel Nutkin
119	* EveryoneLovesBlondes: Most of the female characters are blondes. They're always paired up with blue eyes as well.
120	* FurryConfusion: While Mr [=McGregor's=] cat only meows, the orange kitten Peter befriends is able to speak.
121	* FlatCharacter: Pretty much the majority of the characters in "Peter Rabbit" especially the female white bunny Peter meets but is never given much character depth or a personality.
122	* FatComicRelief: Flopsy and Benny in "Peter Rabbit"
123	* {{Fanservice}}: Some of the male characters are muscular and shown [[ShirtlessScene shirtless]].
124	* HistoricalVillainUpgrade: Like the Don Bluth version, their version of Anastasia does this to [[UsefulNotes/RasputinTheMadMonk Rasputin]]. It portrays him as instigating the [[UsefulNotes/RedOctober October Revolution]] and ordering the royal family's execution, when in reality he was completely loyal to the Romanovs and didn't even live to see the February Revolution.
125	* {{Hunk}}: Most of its attractive male characters are both handsome and manly.
126	* InnocentBlueEyes: A majority of the characters have blue eyes. The real quest is to list a character that ''doesn't'' have blue eyes.
127	* KarmaHoudini: Many of their villains don't receive proper comeuppance for their crimes.
128	* LionsAndTigersAndHumansOhMy: One of the villains in the first ''The Prince of and the Pauper'' is Lord Panther, who is an anthropomorphic animal for no reason and he's the only one.
129	* TheMockbuster: A lot. Especially of Disney films.
130	* NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist: Rasputin in "Anastasia" leads a violent revolution under the pretense of championing the rights of Russia's people. In reality, he just wants to seize power for himself.
131	* OneSteveLimit: Averted in their second version of ''Snow White'', in which all the dwarves are named Joe.
132	* PinkGirlBlueBoy: Most of the couples involve the girls wearing pink clothes and the boys wearing blue.
133	* PinkMeansFeminine: Most of the GF girls wear pink. Other times, they may fall under TrueBlueFemininity.
134	* PinocchioNose: Peter Rabbit's left ear goes down whenever he lies.
135	* PublicDomainSoundtrack: Their films' scores often (over)use classical music, including pieces by Music/JohannSebastianBach and Music/LudwigVanBeethoven, regardless of whether it fits the situation or not.
136	* RelatedInTheAdaptation: For ''Hercules'', they changed Hercules' relation to Iphicles. In Greek mythology, Iphicles is the half maternal twin brother of Heracles and son of Alcmene and Amphitryon. Golden Films' Iphicles is the son of Hera and an unidentified father.
137	* RememberTheNewGuy: Hopsy is Peter Rabbit's fourth sister in "Peter Rabbit".
138	* ReusedCharacterDesign: Many of their later films often reused the same character models from before, just altered or recolored.
139	* SkewedPriorities: In their version of ''Anastasia'', Anastasia is thinking about Alexander while she and her family are being held by angry townsfolk of Russia. Instead of worrying about finding a way to get herself and her family out, she's daydreaming about her boyfriend.
140	* SparedByAdaptation: This happens to characters who originally died in the source material. Notable examples include GF's adaptations of ''Literature/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame'' and ''Literature/TreasureIsland'' where multiple characters die.
141	* SpotlightStealingSquad: For some reason, this studio's movies focus on minor or supporting characters more than the main characters.
142	** For their second ''Beauty and the Beast'' movie, they focus more on the ghosts than Beauty or the Beast. Sure, the ghosts provide a backstory on the Beast and they know quite a bit of him more than the audience, but that isn't used to build up his character at all.
143	** ''WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackOfNotreDameGoldenFilms'' is so much worse. They have [[AnimateInanimateObject talking instruments]] take up most of the movie instead of focusing on Quasimodo and Esmer-[[VerbalBackspace I mean]], [[AdaptationNameChange Melody]].
144	** Same for their ''Treasure Island''. Instead of the movie revolving around Captain Smollet, [[AntiVillain Long John Silver]], [[TheAloner Ben Gunn]] and even [[TheProtagonist Jim Hawkins]], they go with Silver's PirateParrot Flint, a cat, a mouse and a Jamaican monkey. Yes, you read that correctly.
145	* TalkingAnimal: Often, this is most notable in "Peter Rabbit".
146	* TimeSkip: It appears that Peter and his sisters are older or at least in their teen years in "Peter Rabbit".
147	** Some of these movies like skipping around in the movie, mainly since they typically have forty to fifty minutes to fill for the runtime. This leads to some events coming out of nowhere and the movie kicking it into overdrive to tell the intended story.
148	* TitleConfusion: They remade some of the films they made back when they were known as [=GoodTimes=] Entertainment and used the same title.
149	* TookALevelInJerkass: Peter Rabbit acts more like a jerk in the Golden Films Adaptation of Peter Rabbit.
150	* TruerToTheText: There are some cases where these adaptations follow the original source material closer than the bigger budget movie.
151	** In ''Hercules'', Hercules' mother is Alcmene and Hera is the villain.
152	** In ''A Tale of Egypt'', Moses' mother lives to see him grow up and is the one who informs him that he's a Hebrew.
153	* UncreditedRole: In the series of videos depicting fairy tales, famous novels, and the like, none of the voice actors are credited, although animation fans can identify well-known voice actors like Creator/JeffBennett, Creator/CoreyBurton, Creator/CamClarke, Creator/{{Jim Cummings\|1952}}, Creator/DebiDerryberry, Creator/TressMacNeille, Creator/MonaMarshall, Creator/CandiMilo, Creator/RobPaulsen, and Creator/KathSoucie in the casts.
154	* UnrelatedInTheAdaptation: In ''Hercules'', Hera is neither identified as Zeus' chief wife nor his sister and Alcmene is never identified as his great-granddaughter.
155	* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: This studio has the habit of letting characters just disappear halfway through the movie, particularly villains, which leads to a lot of [[KarmaHoudini Karma Houdinis]].
156	** In Anastasia, Rasputin isn't seen again after he takes over Russia. However, it should be noted that he didn't know Anastasia wasn't killed.
157	* WhatTheHellIsThatAccent: Near the end of "Peter Rabbit" Peter and his new friends meet an orange kitten who appears to have a French accent or a Spanish accent. Which is difficult to tell since the kitten never mentions what country he/she is from.
158	* WickedWitch: One was randomly shoehorned into the first ''The Prince and the Pauper''.

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