Dwarf and the King of Frogs
She is hit in the face with wine, and the king pushes her back. Hop-Frog, aghast, suddenly comes up with a costume idea for the king and his ministers, ''just after your majesty, had struck the girl and thrown the wine in her face. The king and his ministers are chained together, outfitted and tarred, and prepped for the masquerade.
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Hop-Frog prepares the ourang-outangs, and they enter the grand saloon. The room is dark, and the people are frightened. Hop-Frog leads the chained men to the center of the room, wherein which the chandelier hangs low enough for him to connect the gaggle to the lighting fixture.
The chandelier begins to rise, just as Hop-Frog takes his torch and swipes it around the crew. As they rise with the chandelier, the flames brim. Hop-Frog shimmies up the structure until he frees himself through an opening in the roof. He joins Trippetta, and they make their way back to their homelands. Poe uses the descriptions of the characters to foreshadow a David and Goliath -inspired tale. Hop-Frog and Trippetta are both small. Yet, they are both powerful. Trippetta is ''universally admired and petted; so she possessed much influence'', and Hop-Frog is dexterous with ''prodigious muscular power'' in his arms.
In contrast, the king and his seven ministers are ''large, corpulent, oily men''. The king's achilles heel is laughter and joking, and Hop-Frog recognizes that with a laugh, he can coerce the king into doing anything. Hop-Frog uses laughter, while quelling his own anger, to ease the tension after the king pushes Trippetta. Hop-Frog also recognizes the king's ''constitutional swelling of the head'' and his innate pleasure to see others suffer.
As Hop-Frog reveals his plan for the eight ourang-outangs, he emphasizes that the beauty of the plan, ''lies in the fright it occasions among the women. When the Goliath of the king and his seven ministers hang aflame from the chandelier and Hop-Frog escapes to the roof, he not only defeats the Goliath, but he also frees himself and Trippetta.
Hop-Frog and Trippetta are captured slaves bound to service the king. Yet, when the king and his ministers are bound together, literally, they become enslaved to the will of Hop-Frog. It is therefore ironic that they so willingly oblige to Hop-Frog's plan, all in the name of humor. The king and his ministers are despicable, and Hop-Frog and Trippetta are their pawns. This is, of course, until the plot unfolds and Hop-Frog devises a plan to put the king and his court on display. In the end, when humor and vengeance converge, it is Hop-Frog who gets the last laugh.
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Browse Articles By Category Browse an area of study or degree level. The story for the film began development by merging two projects in development at Disney and Pixar at the time, both based around " The Frog Prince " fairy tale. Baker 's The Frog Princess , in which the story's heroine Princess Emma kisses a prince turned frog Prince Eadric , only to become a frog herself.
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Musker and Clements thought that given all fairy tales were set in Europe, they could do an American fairy tale. The Princess and the Frog was originally announced as The Frog Princess in July , [15] and early concepts and songs were presented to the public at The Walt Disney Company 's annual shareholders' meeting in March The name "Maddy" was changed to "Tiana", [24] [26] and the character's occupation was altered from chambermaid to waitress. The head of story, Don Hall , described the plot as a fairy tale "twisted enough that it seems new and fresh", with a kingdom that is a modern city, a handsome prince that is a "knuckleheaded playboy" and a variation on the fairy godmother with Mama Odie.
Co-writer Rob Edwards also said The Princess and the Frog was "a princess movie for people who don't like princess movies". As the writers thought Tiana's character motivation of simply dreaming of having her own restaurant was not appealing enough, they expanded so it was her father's as well, with the extra philosophy of "food bringing people together from all walks of life".
Musker and Clements stated that while Tiana already starts as a sympathetic character, the events of the plot make her "understand things in a deeper level" and change people around her. Both protagonists would learn from each other—Naveen to take responsibilities, Tiana to enjoy life—as well as figuring from Ray's passion for Evangeline that the perfect balance is brought by having someone you love to share the experience. On December 1, , a detailed casting call was announced for the film at the Manhattan Theatre Source forum.
Clements and Musker had agreed early on that the style they were aiming for was primarily that of Lady and the Tramp , a film which they and John Lasseter feel represents "the pinnacle of Disney's style". The former trend in Disney's hand-drawn features where the characters and cinematography were influenced by a CGI-look has been abandoned. Andreas Deja , a veteran Disney animator who supervised the character of Mama Odie, says "I always thought that maybe we should distinguish ourselves to go back to what 2D is good at, which is focusing on what the line can do rather than volume, which is a CG kind of thing.
So we are doing less extravagant Treasure Planet kind of treatments. You have to create a world but [we're doing it more simply].
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What we're trying to do with Princess and the Frog is hook up with things that the old guys did earlier. It's not going to be graphic…".
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The character design tried to create beautiful drawings through subtle shapes, particularly for most characters being human. For the frog versions of Tiana and Naveen, while the animators started with realistic designs, they eventually went for cutesy characters "removing all that is unappealing in frogs", similar to Pinocchio ' s Jiminy Cricket. Toon Boom Animation 's Toon Boom Harmony software was used as the main software package for the production of the film, as the Computer Animation Production System CAPS system that Disney developed with Pixar in the s for use on their previous traditionally animated films had become outdated.
The character animators found some difficulty with this approach, and decided to use traditional paper and pencil drawings, which were then scanned into the computer systems, for The Princess and the Frog. The artwork was then enhanced to affect the appearance of painted strokes and fills, and combined with backgrounds, using Adobe After Effects.
The visual effects and backgrounds for the film were created digitally using Cintiq tablet displays. One of the first things we did was focus on producing shorts, to help us re-introduce the 2D pipeline.
It was a real plus for the effects department, so we went paperless for The Princess and the Frog. John singing, while slides of pre-production art from the film played on a screen. Supported by a music video by Melina , "Never Knew I Needed" was issued to radio outlets as a commercial single from the Princess and the Frog soundtrack. The film's soundtrack album, The Princess and the Frog: Original Songs and Score , contains the ten original songs from the film and seven instrumental pieces.
The soundtrack was released on November 23, , the day before the limited release of the film in New York and Los Angeles. The film premiered in theaters with a limited run in New York and Los Angeles beginning on November 25, , followed by wide release on December 11, The Squeakquel , scheduled for release the same day.
The Princess and the Frog was supported by a wide array of merchandise leading up to and following the film's release. Although Disney's main marketing push was not set to begin until November , positive word-of-mouth promotion created demand for merchandise well in advance of the film. A live parade and show called Tiana's Showboat Jubilee! The Disneyland version's actors actually partook in singing, while the Walt Disney World rendition incorporated lip-syncing. However, it returned to Disneyland from — as part of the "Limited Time Magic" family-fun weekends.
Disney announced on June 4, , that they would release a video game inspired by the film and it was released on November exclusively for Wii and Nintendo DS platforms. It has been officially described an "adventure through the exciting world of New Orleans in a family-oriented video game", featuring events from the film and challenges for Princess Tiana. The financial and critical success of The Princess and the Frog persuaded Disney to green-light at least one new hand-drawn animated film to be released every two years.
Disney animator Tom Sito compared the film's box office performance to that of The Great Mouse Detective , which was a step up from the theatrical run of the box office bomb The Black Cauldron. Looking back on the experience four years later, Catmull acknowledged that Disney had made a "serious mistake" in the process of marketing and releasing the film. Looking back seven years later, Lasseter told Variety: We dug into it and did a lot of research and focus groups.
It was viewed as old-fashioned by the audience. The film received largely positive reviews from critics, praising the animation, characters, music and themes. Lisa Schwarzbaum of Entertainment Weekly gave the film an "A" grade and applauded the film's creative team for "uphold[ing] the great tradition of classic Disney animation".
It's just plain pleasant, an old-fashioned little charmer that's not straining to be the next glib animated compendium of pop-culture flotsam. No extra ticket charge! No frantic frenzies of meaningless action! This is what classic animation once was like! Upon its release, the film created controversy among some Christians over its use of Louisiana Voodoo as a plot device.
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