“Under The Sea is the most complicated production number we’ve ever done. There is one live actor and everything else is digitally created. We thought, how do we do this? How do we begin? And I remember thinking about Fantasia (1940). I thought of Walt Disney and I remembered when he did Fantasia, the Nutcracker Suite sequence, he used the Ballet Russes as a template. He used their bodies to help him create the dancing flowers or the snowflakes or the mushrooms. I thought we should work with a dance company. So we brought the Alvin Ailey company over to London to work with them to create this musical number and we asked them to actually replicate these different sea creatures and how they moved. So that our CGI artists would have a body to work from and to mold from. It was insanity in a way. But I will say, at the end of the day, having that beautiful dance company there with us and being able to work with actual dancers was really the key. I think that was the key to getting into this [musical number] and figuring it out.” - Rob Marshall
THE LITTLE MERMAID (2023) Dir. Rob Marshall
the category is. alan menken deep emotional solos in disney remakes sung by the love interest who had none in the original movie but definitely deserved one cause they have their own story to tell and it really puts them on the same level as the main character
this picture your honor-
The way Ariel looks at Eric 🥹😭
i get how amazing ariel’s sparkly dress is at the end of the animation but ariel returning to eric in her blue dress is so much more significant in the live action. it means so much. it’s how eric knew ariel. it’s how he remembered her and the vision eric had of ariel in his head that he would think of constantly when she was gone. he found her blue dress in the ocean after the battle with ursula and put it back in the ocean because he thought she was gone forever but now here she stands in front of him in that very blue dress and she’s here to stay with him forever. ariel and her blue dress came back to him 😭😭😭😭
listen if the little mermaid 2023 did anything right it was ariel and eric... they were already a good couple in the original but fleshing him out and making him drawn to the ocean in a parallel to ariel being drawn to land is so good. and kind of increasing that human vs merfolk tension to make it this romeo & juliet love story. like sorry they kind of slayed there. eric sees ariel turn back into a mermaid in front of him and all he does is hold her tighter. they're both gigantic nerds. he's a foot taller than her. it's incredible.
the parallel of ariel dropping the green mermaid figurine that eric gave her into the water because she thinks eric has chosen vanessa (ursula) and doesn’t want to be with her / eric finding ariel’s blue dress in the water and him putting it back into the water because he feels she’s gone forever
vs
flounder, scuttle and sebastian finding the mermaid figurine and bringing it back to ariel (which she then tells them to keep it for her) / eric seeing ariel come back to him and standing there in her blue dress
🎵If the time is right and the time is tonight🎵Go on and kiss the girl🎵
THE LITTLE MERMAID (2023) dir. Rob Marshall
Eric's mom: you almost died!! you have to stay in the castle. no more going out on the ocean for you.
Eric, the immediate scene after that:
Together at last ⚓️🩵
*!feral!
THE LITTLE MERMAID (2023) dir. Rob Marshall
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THE LITTLE MERMAID (2023)
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