Recently, a piece of news about when Disney's villain was beautified was on the hot search. Some netizens said that if the movie is less sinister than the villain, but only shows the kindness and beauty of the positive characters, then the whole story is very bland. Moreover, we may see more of the shadow of life in the villain than the happy life of the princesses and princes. Who do you think is Disney's most iconic villain? It has aroused heated discussion among netizens.
When Disney's villain is glorified after on the hot search! But did you know that the villain of "The Little Mermaid" is a real character? Below, let's talk about the realistic prototypes of some of the disney villains that everyone most unexpectedly.
The Prince of the Forest with the Beatles
The childhood memories of the post-80s and post-90s must be indispensable to Disney cartoons, and CCTV began in the mid-to-late 80s and introduced a series of disney's early classic animations. There is an anime that tells the story of a child raised by a pack of wolves, making friends with a black panther and a brown bear, and outwitting an evil tiger. I think everyone has already guessed, that is", "The Prince of the Forest".
Many people may think from the picture quality that this animation is the work of the year, but in fact the film was filmed in 1967. The theme of peaceful coexistence between man and nature in the film reflects the social trend of the 1960s in the United States.
At a time when countercultural movements were booming, hippies were a unique social phenomenon. Anti-Vietnam War, resistance to industrial civilization, return to nature is their demand. This led to the "Summer of Love" of 1967, and rock 'n' roll was one of their weapons. The most heavyweight rock idol of that year was the well-known Beatles.
Four Vultures with the prototype Beatles
Beatles' cloth agent Ryan Epstein has always wanted to have a collaboration with Disney, and the two sides "hit it off", so they have the image of four vultures in "The Prince of the Forest". On closer inspection, it is not difficult to find that the four beatles (pictured above), John Lennon (rear), Paul McCartney (front), George Harrison (right), and Ringo Starr (left) have been brilliantly distilled by Disney painters. Of course, cultural icons don't like this idea very much.
The Little Mermaid and the Drag Queen
Filmed in 1989, "The Little Mermaid" has become a classic in the history of animation thanks to the double blessing of Hans Christian Andersen's original book and Disney artists. Of course, the octopus sea witch Ursula inside has also become a childhood shadow of many post-80s and post-90s. What many people don't know is that Ursula has a real-life character archetype, and she is also a male!
Friends who are familiar with the american postmodernist trend will have a deep memory of pop-up in the 1960s and 1970s. Pop was a school of fine arts that used bright images of large color blocks, collages, and hand-printed plates to counter post-industrial civilization, and later spread to stage plays, films, and other fields.
As a result, one of the cultural phenomena in the United States, the stage performance art that originated in the 50s - "drag queen" (that is, men dressed as women performing dance and singing, somewhat similar to today's "anti-string") and Pop-upism collided with a spark, and a group of artists emerged, the best of which was Harris Green Millsted.
Ursula with the prototype Harris
Harris suffered from obesity all his life, but he had a unique artistic talent, a gentle singing voice, and a graceful dance, making him the brightest star in the center of the stage. However, due to the limitations of body type, he could only engage in some "fat woman" roles, but he did not think that he would be famous in the film world for starring in the independent film "Pink Flamingo" (1972).
Because the image is too classic, more than a decade later, Disney painters created Ursula based on it, and also invited the Hassans to voice it, and Harris is also very happy with adult beauty.
The diversity of civilizations has contributed to the collision of classics and later rises; and the inheritance of civilization has completed the baton of classics and backwards. While admiring the vivid images of the painter's pen, we may wish to try to study the archetypes of the characters that have left unique silhouettes in the long river of history, and experience the beauty of creation and the wonder of re-creation. (Zihua)