# Live Action Disney Remakes: A Strategic Analysis Report

## Executive Summary

Disney's live action remakes of classic animated films represent a calculated business strategy that leverages nostalgia while adapting to contemporary market demands.

This report examines the key remakes from 2015-2023 and analyzes the strategic decision-making behind these productions.

## Why Disney Produces Live Action Remakes

Disney's extensive live action remake program serves multiple strategic purposes:

### Financial Security Through Familiar IP
Disney leverages "bankable" intellectual property - stories that have already proven their appeal across generations.

This reduces financial risk compared to entirely new properties while maximizing return on investment through built-in audience recognition.

### Nostalgia as a Revenue Driver
The remakes tap into powerful feelings of nostalgia among adults who grew up with the original animations.

This creates a dual audience: children experiencing the stories for the first time and adults revisiting cherished childhood memories.

This strategy has proven particularly effective in international markets

# Live Action Disney Remakes: A Strategic Analysis Report

## Executive Summary

Disney's live action remakes of classic animated films represent a calculated business strategy that leverages nostalgia while adapting to contemporary market demands.

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Content: Robert Zemeckis understands two things about Disney’s Pinocchio. First, he knows the 1940 animated film is ingrained in the entertainment behemoth’s DNA. It’s considered by many to be the best animated film from the studio’s early days. “When You Wish Upon a Star” is now the Walt Disney Pictures fanfare. The song’s promise of wishes fulfilled under starlight is part of Disney’s patented feel-good m.o. Heck, over the years Jiminy Cricket has become the company’s B-tier mascot, right behind Mickey Mouse.

But Zemeckis also knows that the ’40s Pinocchio is weird as hell. The stranger things that punctuate that seminal early Disney effort are hidden in plain sight, though they're often forgotten as people marvel at the film's artistry. Most other filmmakers would’ve bent over backwards to pay homage if given a chance to bring Pinocchio to life in 2022. Zemeckis is not the guy you hire to do that.

His new live-action Pinocchio adaptation gives you what you’d expect, but so, so much more. It’s as if Zemeckis wanted his adaptation to play like if Moulin Rouge-era Baz Luhrmann directed Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. The film is only as reverential as a Zemeckis film can be, which is not very reverential at all.

After Disney's years of uninspired retreads, like 2019’s The Lion King and 2017’s Beauty and the Beast, Pinocchio veers all the way in the other direction. The eye-popping Pleasure Island sequence alone has more personality than most anything Disney has done in this space recently. While the aggressive shift in artistic influence might alienate some Mouse House purists, anyone willing to take a walk on Zemeckis’ wild side might get a kick out of this one.

Take Tom Hanks, for example. As Geppetto, the screen legend channels the same cornball energy that made his portrayal of Col. Tom Parker in Elvis a glorious meme. Even when Hanks is hamming it up, he’s still credible and magnetic (kind of like Zemeckis as a director). Continuing with the irreverence, the film’s portrayal of Pinocchio is like if you made Ralph Wiggum out of wood and gave him Jacob Tremblay’s voice. Zemeckis gets in a few fun jabs at Pinocchio’s blissful ignorance (at times involving fire), which help keep the film from getting too saccharine.

Zemeckis’ Pinocchio doesn’t hew too closely to the preciousness and regality of the animated classic. It's more of a parking-lot carnival ride through an uncompromised vision, and the most enjoyable one of these live-action Disney flicks since 2016’s Pete’s Dragon.

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Disney infighting? "Aladdin" male star sings bad "mermaid" box office scolded
Disney 's new live-action version of "The Little Mermaid" is about to be released. Although the casting process has caused huge controversy, the current box office forecast is still optimistic that it will sell more than 115 million US dollars in the first weekend in the United States, more than 4 years ago, the live-action version of "Aladdin" North America's first weekend of 112 million US dollars. "Little Mermaid", and was surrounded by fans, so he had to empty his community account first, and ask for quiet.
In recent years, Disney has made a number of classic anime remakes into live-action versions, and several of them have been criticized for not being as good as the original, but still open a box office red plate, so Disney has not stopped shooting the live-action version of the animation.
"Little Mermaid" is because of the selection of black actress Holly Bailey as the main character, obviously and the animated version of the heroine's red hair, white skin, triggered a powerful controversy, but now about to be released, the sales are still popular, and even entertainment sites predict that the film will be this summer Hollywood film box office champion, there are opportunities like "Aladdin", "Beauty and the beast", "The Lion King" Like the remake, it sold over $1 billion worldwide.
But Menamasud doesn ’ t see it that way, writing on the social networking site: “Our film (Aladdin) is very special, and the audience has seen it again and again, which is the only reason why we have sold over $1 billion at the world ’ s premiere box office despite that. ”
“I guess ‘ Little Mermaid ’ won ’ t break $1 billion at the global box office, but there ’ s no doubt it will be a sequel. ”
"The original 'Little Mermaid' is about three times more popular than the original 'Aladdin', I think it will be reflected in the box office." $211.34 million, the original "Aladdin" alone in North American box office is already $217.35 million, the world broke $500 million)
Some people are quite venomous: "No offense, but I forgot that they filmed the real Aladdin."
Some people directly scolded: "Sir, you are too careful, because this film has not been released, it has already reacted better than" Aladdin ".
A word of repentance is a word of repentance, and a word of repentance is a word of repentance.
And Mena had caused trouble with his big mouth before, he had lamented that everyone thought that "Aladdin" sold so well all over the world, and he was sure to be popular.
There were not many films to find the door, and at that time, it also triggered a sense of polarization in the outside world, and now this storm can only prove: Don't mess with Disney fans.
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“Don ’ t look up. ”
A mockery of American decision makers.
Beirut - Salwa Yassin - Abstract follow-up: Any director, no matter how many years of experience he has accumulated on his shoulders, and his fame extended to the ends of the earth, must find himself confused amid this large number of famous stars “Hollywood ”, for whom to allocate the space more?
Who deserves to be a hero first?
And who's the assistant?
Who is the guest of honor?
And will all of them appear in the same scene steal from the story its luster?
Is it enough for the director to let the camera wander between them in one closed room to complete the creativity in the scene?
Anyone who watches the film, which has caused a stir since the beginning of its presentation on Netflix, “Don ’ t Look Up ” or“ Don ’ t Look Up ”, realizes that the task is difficult if the director is not a professional, and the text is creamy, and the production meets its due regardless of the wages of this number of stars, and realizes that the work is worth watching.
How can you enjoy in two hours and 18 minutes and “saturate ” the presence of all these stars at once, which naturally means that you are in front of fierce competition, everyone wants to highlight their abilities, excel and attract the audience and“ steal the camera ” as they say?
Meryl Streep, Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Lawrence, Kate Blanchett, Rob Morgan, Jonah Hill, Mark Relance, Tyler Perry, Timothy Chalamet, Ron Perlman, Ariana Grande and Scott Miscody.
Many great personalities, led by director Adam McKay, and it must be mentioned who helped him manage the artists Francine Maysler, and she took on a difficult task with these adults.
McKay is the author and co-author of the story with David Sirota.
“Don ’ t Look Up ” is a virtual reality film that you can describe as surreal, a black comedy that mocks all political systems, especially the American ones and the rampant corruption there, and intransigence and recklessness in ignorance and selfishness in decision-making, and how capitalism controls and controls the political decision and elections in America and everything according to its interests, and the dominance of the makers of technology and modern electronic technologies, especially mobile phones. Their secrets in the smallest detail, and their claim to know everything and their ability to control children and the future and manage the world, science and scientists according to their interests, not according to the general interests of humanity and to protect the earth and the future, putting scientists and their opinions in the back rows; they sometimes fight them and ignore them for the most part.
The film does not forget to touch on the absurdity of social media and the absurdity of television programs that try to amplify the trifles and the fateful and important events, and the people behind rumors and news of the divorce and marriage of artists and their personal lives, and the polishing of broadcasters and scrutinize them in the details of their lives and deliberately ask questions and curiosity, while they pass quickly on the scientific news. Two scientists blow up a scientific and dangerous fact in the same program and live.
Criticism
There are many criticisms faced by the film, considering that this huge budget that allowed the presence of such a large number of Hollywood stars, is supposed to produce work of the same magnitude in terms of techniques, direction, depth of scenario and dialogue, but what we see does not rise to this level.
It seems that McKay focused on the emotions of the actors, trying to give each of them the space they deserve on the screen, rather than using sophisticated ideas that give us the glamour that befits the idea of   the film and its stars. The basic idea is about a comet approaching the earth, which will destroy it or, rather, create a huge tsunami that will erase every trace of Ines and stone on the earth. The face of the globe.
The comet was discovered by Kate Dibiaski (Jennifer Lawrence), who took her name while conducting an astronomical research that entitles her to a PhD, in a team of astronomers led by Professor Randall Mindy (Leonardo DiCaprio), who is completing the scientific calculations to discover that the comet is headed directly to Earth and the impact will occur in 6 months and 14 days.
He calls Dr. Calder (Hetian Park) who calls Dr. Oglethorpe (Rob Morgan) at the Interplanetary Defense Coordination Office (an office already in America), asking to meet with the scientists, and to scrutinize the research and its results.
Because of the seriousness of the matter, the department is wide enough to inform the presidency, and the answer is to bring Professor Mindy and Kate Dibiaski to Washington.
They take them by military plane directly to the White House, where they wait with Dr. Oglethorpe and a Pentagon representative, General Thames (Paul Gilfoyle), in a narrow corridor in front of the Oval Office.
McKay makes fun of everything in the White House and those in it, even General Thames exploits the three “guests of the White House ” scientists and offers them fast food they eat after a long wait, and receives the price, only to discover later Dibiaski that he brought meals from the kitchen next door and they are free in an apparent reference to how much corruption.
President Orléans (Meryl Streep) and her assistant and adviser Jason (Jonah Hill) pass by scientists without paying attention to them, and the office closes without calling them because of an “emergency ” — a“ sexual ” scandal — for one of the candidates.
The wait is seven hours, then the scientists return to the hotel and the meeting with the president is postponed until the next day.
McKay focuses on the “triviality ” of the president, her adviser and all her staff, her preoccupation with the elections, her image and reputation, and her office was filled with pictures of her with former presidents such as Bill Clinton, as well as artists and celebrities.
She makes a mockery of the issue and asks them to “wait and assess ” and asks them,“ Do you know how many times we ’ ve had meetings to discuss the “end of the world? ”
“It ’ s either pollution, hunger, ozone or epidemic. ”
Provoking the president, and provoking everyone the scientists meet in an attempt to explain what is going to happen, its gravity and the need to move quickly to disintegrate the comet before it reaches Earth, even hosting Mindy and Dibiaski on the popular program “The Daily Reap ” turned into a farce, due to the presenters Bree Eventy (Kate Blanchett) and Jack Premiere (Tyler Perry) and their mocking the idea of the end of life. Planet Earth.
She is a model of the corruption of media women who have established relationships with presidents and prominent figures and achieved wealth and fame.
Details
The film is full of details, not only showing corruption in America ’ s domestic politics; it is presented by a dishonest competitor to other countries such as Russia, China and India, and the preference of its president and those behind it who finance and manage its election campaign, Peter Eshroel (Mark Rylance), founder of Bash, an electronic company that produces software, mobile phones and applications that enable it to spy on people, control leaders and decision. the entire globe.
“Do not look up ” is a clear condemnation of the corruption that is rampant in the world at various levels, and a condemnation of peoples for being driven like herds behind anyone without consciousness or thought, and indirectly pays tribute to science and scientists who do not get their due in terms of attention and appreciation.
The most powerful performance of Jennifer Lawrence, Leonardo DiCaprio and Cate Blanchett, the ending is the strongest part of the director, and the work as a whole is worth watching more than once, and the comedy is not for laughter; it is to wrap the tragedy with a painful smile.
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Content: Disney responds to Peter Dinklage’s criticism of the live-action adaptation

THE disney has been recreating several of its classic animations in live action over the years and, currently, one of the projects developed focuses on telling the story of snow White. Although the project does not have many details disclosed, the film has already become the target of criticism from Peter Dinklagethe Tyrion of game of Thrones. Now, it was the company’s turn to respond to the actor’s speech.

Actor Peter Dinklage.

In his comment, the actor noted that he was shocked that the company was proud to cast a Latin actress in the lead role while also looking to retell a “retrograde history”. THE The Hollywood Reporter contacted a representative of the disneywho offered a response to the actor’s comment, noting that the live action is taking care to avoid stereotypes present in the animated version. The statement says:

“To avoid reinforcing stereotypes from the original animated film, we are handling these seven characters differently and have consulted with members of the dwarfism community. We look forward to sharing more as the film enters production after a long period of development.” the representative said.

The report released by the website further states that the film has been in development for three years, and the dwarf characters are being reimagined from the early stages of development. Furthermore, snow White is not the first live action Disney to have cultural consultants, as this was also the case with Aladdinfor example.

snow White has the direction of Marc Webb (The spectacular Spider Man), having in its list Rachel Zegler (Love sublime love) in the role of the protagonist and Gal Gadot (Wonder Woman) as the Evil Queen. The production does not yet have a premiere date.

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Pixar Animation Studios, Disney ’ s world-renowned animation studio that makes classic films such as “Toy Story, ” suffered a long-rumored layoff Tuesday, leaving about 175 people with rice bowls, or about 14 percent of its workforce.
The layoff comes as Disney CEO Bob Iger, who returned to the role at the end of 2022, said the content will focus on quality rather than weight to reverse the film's box office woes.
High-level decisions about content and movie theater closures during the pandemic are the causes of the dilemma.
At that time, in order to help the fledgling streaming service Disney + enhance the content, the creative team was at a loss, and the film was delivered directly to the digital platform, creating a habit of parents to watch new Disney movies through streaming instead of going to the cinema, which was not conducive to returning to the big screen animation.
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Content: Magic is in the air as we wait for Disney’s live-action remake, Peter Pan & Wendy. The feature based on the classic fairy tale is a retelling of the story from Wendy’s eyes. It is set to take fans back to Neverland as well as enchant a new generation of moviegoers with magic, pixie dust, and the promise of never growing up. As we approach the release date, the marketing for the feature is in full swing and we are getting new look at various characters.

In a new clip released on Disney’s official Twitter account, we see Tinker Bell levitating Wendy out of her bed, but she's caught by Wendy’s brother, who thinks she's a bug. Peter intervenes, and we then see the Darling siblings meeting Peter Pan and Tinker Bell for the first time. Despite knowing the classic moments, there’s something fresh and joyous about the new footage.

What to Expect from Peter Pan & Wendy

The House of Mouse is on a spree to update its classic stories for contemporary times and audiences. Live-action remakes are a good place to start like the upcoming The Little Mermaid, which will tell the familiar tale of Ariel swapping her fins for feet. Peter Pan & Wendy is set out to accomplish a similar task as the cast and crew previously revealed in a featurette, “It’s really the story of Peter Pan through Wendy’s eyes.”

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The upcoming feature will see Wendy and the Darling siblings traveling to Never Land with Peter and Tinker Bell. Wendy encounters the dreaded pirate captain, Captain Hook, and embarks on a thrilling and dangerous adventure that will change her life forever. The previously released trailer showcases a thrilling swordfight between Wendy and Captain Hook, who we now know will come with his own backstory.

The movie features Jude Law as Captain Hook, Alexander Molony as Peter Pan, Ever Anderson as Wendy Darling, Yara Shahidi as Tinker Bell, Joshua Pickering as John Darling, Jacobi Jupe as Michael Darling, Molly Parker as Mary Darling, Alan Tudyk as George Darling, Jim Gaffigan as Mr. Smee, and many more. David Lowery directs from a screenplay he co-wrote with Toby Halbrooks based on the novel by J. M. Barrie and the animated film Peter Pan.

You can check out the new clip below and prepare for the adventure of a lifetime when the title begins streaming on April 28.

Compared to new franchises, what is the risk and return of remakes and sequels?

Lower risk but smaller long-term returns.

How has Disney leveraged nostalgia in recent years?

By turning classic animations into live-action films with major stars

Compared to new franchises, what is the risk and return of remakes and sequels?

Lower risk but smaller long-term returns.

How has Disney leveraged nostalgia in recent years?

By turning classic animations into live-action films with major stars

Compared to new franchises, what is the risk and return of remakes and sequels?

Lower risk but smaller long-term returns.

How has Disney leveraged nostalgia in recent years?

By turning classic animations into live-action films with major stars

Compared to new franchises, what is the risk and return of remakes and sequels?

Lower risk but smaller long-term returns.

How has Disney leveraged nostalgia in recent years?

By turning classic animations into live-action films with major stars

Compared to new franchises, what is the risk and return of remakes and sequels?

Lower risk but smaller long-term returns.

How has Disney leveraged nostalgia in recent years?

By turning classic animations into live-action films with major stars

Compared to new franchises, what is the risk and return of remakes and sequels?

Lower risk but smaller long-term returns.

How has Disney leveraged nostalgia in recent years?

By turning classic animations into live-action films with major stars

This report examines the key remakes from 2015-2023 and analyzes the strategic decision-making behind these productions.

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Disney + surpasses Netflix to become the leader of streaming platform! Netflix pushes back on low-priced advertising subscriptions to attack the Asia Pacific market?
Disney has announced that it has 221 million global subscribers across all its streaming platforms, surpassing Netflix ’ s 220 million.
What is Disney doing to get it to the top in just two or three years? Netflix has encountered growth bottlenecks in recent years, and now Disney has caught up with it, what strategies will be adopted to help it get out of this predicament?
Streaming services account for 23% of Disney ’ s revenue
In August 2022, Disney reported that its video streaming platform, led by Disney +, added 14.4 million new subscribers in the quarter, which not only exceeded market expectations, but also increased the global subscriber base of its three major streaming platforms (Disney +, Hulu, ESPN +) to 221 million, slightly more than Netflix's 220 million, making it the market leader.
Although Disney ’ s Disney +, ESPN + and Hulu streaming platforms surpassed Netflix in total subscriber numbers in the latest quarter, due to fierce competition on the platform and the loss of important copyright works, the official revised the expected number of subscribers in 2024 from an estimated 230 to 260 million, to 215 to 245 million. (Image: Hulu official website)
You know, Disney + has only been launched for three years, but it can surpass Netflix's 15 years of hard work, which is a miracle.
At the same time, Disney ’ s revenue from streaming services accounted for 23% of Disney ’ s revenue in the third quarter, indicating that the business has played a significant role within the group.
Disney ’ s streaming service, which includes Disney +, posted revenue of US $21.5 billion (about HK $167.7 billion) in the latest quarter, accounting for 23% of the group ’ s revenue. (Image: Disney + official website)
Rebecca Campbell, Disney ’ s global head of content and operations, points out that the key to Disney + ’ s ability to capture market share in a short period of time is strategic localization and content localization.
Depending on the market situation in different regions, Disney ’ s sales channel deployment will also be adjusted according to local conditions, and it will not start with the Disney + brand.
Content production and sales channels adapted to local conditions
In North America, Disney not only has Disney + for young and old, but also Hulu for adult audiences and ESPN + for sports fans; in Latin America, both Disney + and Star + with sports content, both services operate independently; in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, as well as parts of Asia Pacific (such as Hong Kong, Taiwan, Korea, Japan, etc.), through Disney +; in India and parts of Southeast Asia (such as Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, etc.) operates under the Disney + Hotstar brand.
Unlike Disney +, which focuses on movies and TV shows of all sizes, Hulu includes more avant-garde content for adults.
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ESPN + covers most sports events, including: U.S. College Athletics, Major League Soccer, PGA Championship, and Ultimate Fighting Championship. (Photo: ESPN + official website)
Take Hotstar, for example, which started streaming in 2015, much earlier than Disney + ’ s launch date (2019), and has accumulated a significant number of subscribers in India and Southeast Asia.
Therefore, while Disney is pushing Disney + worldwide, it still allows Hotstar to provide services independently, but it needs to be renamed "Disney + Hotstar".
As for content localization, Disney will also produce corresponding local content for each of the four major markets, with 210 local titles expected to be released by the end of 2022.
Because the company understands that even if Disney + has Disney, Marvel, Star Wars, Pixar and other pillar content, it may not have a global audience that will resonate with them once they are outside the United States.
For example, for the Indian market, Disney + Hotstar has secured exclusive rights to the latest season of Koffee with Karan, the country ’ s most popular TV talk show.
For Japanese audiences, Disney + ’ s original Japanese drama Gannibal will hit the shelves in the winter of 2022. The production team behind the production of “Drive My Car, ” the Oscar ’ s best foreign language film, will star Yoo Lok Yee.
Koffee with Karan is the most popular talk show in India and won the 2007 Indian Academy of Television Award for Best Talk Show.
As we head into 2022, Season 7 has moved from Indian pay-TV channels to the Disney + Hotstar streaming platform.
(Photo courtesy of Disney + Hotstar)
Korean drama, K-pop content production
Content production should not only strive for localization, but also pursue diversity.
Disney's content production will focus on the four themes of "Korean Drama", "K-pop", "Japanese Anime", and "Sports".
With Squid Games becoming Netflix ’ s most commercially successful series, bringing in more than US $900 million (about HK $7.02 billion) in value, Disney is certainly looking to develop Korean dramas.
Recently, the most topical Disney + Korean drama starring Lee Jong-seok and Lin Yun-e was originally only broadcast in limited areas, but later the drama brought considerable discussion at home and abroad, so Disney + decided to broadcast it globally.
In order to attract K-pop fans, Disney + has exclusive access to the BTS: PERMISSION TO DANCE ON STAGE concert documentary recorded in 4K Ultra HD, with the original BTS documentary expected to be released in 2023.
Disney said that the partnership with HYBE, BTS ’ s entertainment company, is an important part of the company ’ s deployment in Asia Pacific.
Starring Lee Jong-seok and Lin Yun-nae, The Battle of the Magnificent is the most popular Korean drama on the Disney + streaming platform in recent times.
(Image source: Disney + official website)
In order to please anime fans, Disney + will buy the co-broadcast rights of popular anime titles such as SPY × FAMILY Spy House Wine and My Hero Academy, and will launch exclusive anime content such as Four Halftime Light Machine Blues and Summer Time.
Bridging the gap with competitors through sports content
To cater to the needs of sports fans, Disney will also actively absorb local sports content, especially in India and Latin America, where live sports has become a key factor in subscriber growth.
In August 2022, Disney signed a partnership agreement with the International Cricket Council to acquire the rights to play both men ’ s and women ’ s international cricket matches, together with the already acquired rights to the local Indian Cricket League, meaning that most of the rights to the most sought-after cricket leagues in India are in Disney ’ s hands.
In Latin America, Disney ’ s Star + streaming platform has more than 10,000 hours of exclusive sports content.
Disney ’ s main rival, Netflix, has said in the past that sports content is not the company ’ s direction.
Therefore, Disney, which owns ESPN, is actively developing sports content to not only broaden the audience, but also to bridge the gap with its competitors.
However, at present, Netflix is facing a recession and trying to change to reverse the decadence. What it did not want to do in the past, it is now willing to put a low profile to do, so it cannot be ruled out that Netflix will launch sports content in the future.
Netflix launches low-price subscription with ads
According to Netflix ’ s second quarter earnings report, the world lost 970,000 paying subscribers, less than the original estimate of 2 million. Although the performance has been better than expected, it is indisputable that growth has slowed.
Netflix ’ s “family tradition ” has always been that in order to provide the best viewing experience, it insists on not selling ads and relying only on subscription fees to make money.
However, under the pressure of low performance, the company also had to "violate the ancestral teachings" and want to earn advertising revenue.
According to market rumors, the launch date of Netflix ’ s advertising subscription plan will be pushed forward from early 2023 to November 2022, in order to be a step ahead of its competitors.
Disney announced that the Disney + subscription plan will be officially launched in the United States on December 8.
It is estimated that the monthly subscription fee for Netflix ’ s ad-included plan could be between US $7 and US $9 (about HK $54.6 to HK $70.2), which is about half the cost of the top-tier plan of US $15.49 (about HK $120.8), which is equivalent to providing a disguised discount to consumers who choose the ad-included plan.
In the early days of the ad-included subscription plan, Netflix will not serve too many customized ads aimed at specific user groups, but will receive ads to all subscribers, so that a single subscriber will not often see specific advertising content repeatedly.
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Netflix hits the Asia-Pacific market at a low price
The aim is to attract more new subscribers, especially lower income consumers in Asia, with lower monthly fees.
In fact, Asia Pacific has become Netflix ’ s new hope for recovery.
When other major markets lost hundreds of thousands of subscribers, only the Asia Pacific region bucked the trend with 1.1 million subscribers.
In order to expand into Asia, Netflix has launched low price mobile only subscription plans in India and Southeast Asia, so that the average monthly subscription fee per subscriber in the region is much lower than in the European and American markets.
According to Backlingo, the average monthly fee for North American subscribers in the first half of 2021 was US $14.4 (about HK $112.3), US $11.61 (about HK $90.6) in Europe, Middle East and Africa, and US $9.72 (about HK $75.8) in Asia Pacific.
Therefore, if Netflix is to further drive subscriber growth in Asia and increase revenue, it is a good idea to launch a low-cost subscription plan with advertising.
Netflix, as a streaming platform owner, certainly has the ability to insert ads into any content, but it doesn ’ t actually have the power to do that for all shows.
Netflix is currently in contract talks with Sony, Paramount Global, and Warner Bros. Discovery on how to reprice the royalties.
Disney + Ad-free Premium Subscription
Disney + ’ s pricing strategy is different: ads will be imported directly into the existing standard subscription plan, and subscribers will have to pay a higher subscription fee if they want to be free from ads.
In other words, Disney + is positioning the ad-free viewing experience as a premium service, so there is an additional charge.
Starting from December 8, the monthly fee for the standard plan with advertising in the US is US $7.99 (about HK $62.3) and the monthly fee for the premium plan without advertising is US $10.99 (about HK $85.7).
Disney + will introduce 4 minutes of ads in every hour of programming, with 15 seconds and 30 seconds.
It is reported that Netflix will also broadcast advertisements at a frequency of 4 minutes per hour, which will be placed before the start of the program and in the middle of the video, but original movies and children's programs will not be inserted into the advertising, to ensure that the film fans and children will not be interrupted.
In fact, Disney +, Hulu and ESPN + are still at a loss, with losses of US $1.1 billion (about HK $8.58 billion) in the latest quarter.
Disney ’ s goal is to turn the streaming business into a profit by 2024, so it will launch an ad-included subscription plan to earn advertising revenue and increase the price of ad-free subscriptions to increase subscription revenue.
Free subscription with ads into the mainstream of the future
After the rapid growth of the past two years, the video streaming market is facing a number of challenges, including increased spending after the epidemic has slowed, increased competition between streaming platforms, and global warming, which has squeezed consumer entertainment spending and may no longer be willing to spend as much money on streaming media, and it is unlikely to pay for all the streaming platforms of interest.
As a result, more and more platforms are preparing to introduce low-cost subscription plans with ads, and some companies are already working on “Free Ad-supported Streaming TV ” subscription plans.
Streaming research firm TVREV predicts that in the future, streaming services may gradually evolve into three business models: ad-free premium subscription, ad-included low price subscription, and ad-included free subscription.
Subscription-based video streaming services may shift to a business model of both subscription and ad monetization, rewriting the rules of the game in the streaming market. (Credit: Pexels)
Warner Bros. Discovery announced earlier that it plans to merge Discovery + with HBO Max as a new streaming platform in summer 2023, offering ad-free subscriptions in addition to ad-free subscription plans.
The combined new streaming service will be launched first in the US, followed by Latin America, and is expected to enter Europe and Asia Pacific by 2024.
Discovery + and HBO Max ’ s new streaming platform will include almost all content from the first two, including HBO, CNN, DC Comics, Discovery Channel, Food Network, HGTV, Magnolia Network, OWN, TBS, and TNT. Consumers will be free to watch ads in the future. (Credit: Warner Bros. Discovery)
Once the new subscription plan explored by Warner Bros. can achieve certain results, there is a great opportunity for the turnaround Netfllix to follow suit, and Discovery + may launch a similar service to compete.
In this way, the rules of the market for streaming media operating on the basis of 3 subscription models will be roughly settled!
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Disney + released the thriller "No Escape", the director deliberately carved out the clear background of the protagonist, but did not explain the motivation behind the action of life, so that every plot turn is full of suspense.
Recently, Disney + released an American thriller film "No Exit", which translates into "No Escape", also known as "No Exit".
Like the usual thriller, the plot of "No Escape" is quite simple, describing a Chinese woman driving home, the road is closed due to a storm, she went to the rest area to escape, there are several passers-by who are also trapped by the storm.
The heroine accidentally finds a kidnapped girl parked in a van in the rest area, what should she do?
If the logic of a thriller is to give people the fear of the unknown.
The unpredictable unknown is mostly based on the reversal of the routine, such as good people eventually become bad people, so that the most unexpected people become murderers, or in daily life, there is an impossible situation.
The reason why it is not a horror film but a thriller is because most of the thrillers are linked to film noir and play psychological games, which are filled with horror without supernatural affairs. After all, the ghosts and demons that used to be common in the past have lost their freshness in the 21st century.
Horror movies also try to design monsters out of thin air in the routine to convey fear, but new stalemates are rare.
In contrast, thrillers are more capable of conveying fear in this era.
But the thriller also has limitations, because the killer is definitely a person, and can change the scene, identity, motivation, method, and goal.
The reason why "Soul Saw" will become a movie history classic is that the "escape from the secret room" combines the unknown background of the murderer and the cruel methods.
Together with the symbolism of the picture, this series has become almost the best routine of the century.
Most recent thrillers have similar elements and designs.
The return to the basic thriller is rare.
Inevitable is a thriller that goes back to basics and has been dealt with quite successfully.
The so-called "basic" are: people, scenes, motives, events, and solutions.
The script of this film does not play a lot of flipping, even contrary to the characteristics of ordinary thrillers, that is, do not explain the background of the protagonist and the villain too clearly, so that the audience has a cerebral imagination.
"There is no escape" is to clearly explain the background and ideas of the characters, in turn, let people do not understand.
A full opening, is the Chinese heroine in the drug treatment center.
She was notified that her mother was in critical condition, but the hospital refused to let her out.
Her sister also refused to go to see her mother, who had already been heartbroken for her.
But the heroine still escaped and was trapped in the storm.
In fact, as far as the plot line is concerned, this part is completely redundant.
Because the background of the heroine is not explained, it is not necessary to prevent her from being trapped in the rest station for reasons.
The usual practice is for an ordinary middle-class woman, on her way home from shopping or business, to be trapped in a storm and then encounter a kidnapping.
This story is created like this.
And the background of the director's handling of the heroine is to give her motivation.
However, the motive seems clear, but there is no absolute relationship with the development of the plot.
Generally speaking, if an ordinary girl finds that a little girl is kidnapped and locked in a car, and then because the Blizzard mobile phone can not reach the police, there are four other unidentified, three other men and a woman from all over the rest of the station.
According to the general American public morality, she just had to find out who might be the culprit and then try to save the little girl.
If this is the case, the plot should turn into a psychological battle.
It may be fully expressed through dialogue, until the end of the show is really fierce, see what is accidentally flipped, and then let the audience's heart beat faster.
But Damien Power didn ’ t do it, and he in turn let the killer be exposed halfway through the film, and then let the heroine manage to unite with the rest of the station to save the little girl.
This design can not be said to be too abrupt, can only be said to be a little special, but also very reasonable.
But this reasonable approach seems to be only to highlight the heroine, for unknown reasons, to take their own life to fight, try to save a little girl who has never met.
The rest of the rest station everyone else is also struggling (which also constitutes the flipping plot of the end), and will assess how far they want to go, and can take care of their own lives and sense of justice.
But the heroine fought her life against the gangster, she did not have a gun, and the other people who were united were also elderly and weak women and children.
Then she saw that she was beaten up like the protagonist of the Hong Kong film Kung Fu film, and she did not give up on the gangsters.
The audience will be wondering, why?
And the background only tells us that a drug addict wants to see his mother for the last time, but for a little girl, although he may only risk himself, he will not see his mother if he is delayed.
After the snow stopped, she received a message of her mother ’ s death.
Instead, it makes her want to fight the gangsters more fiercely.
The story did not tell the audience this sense of justice, where it came from, the only thing I want is that the heroine has not yet reached the rest station, those meaningless fragments.
If on the psychological analysis, the heroine may rely on drugs because of what stimuli, and then break with the family.
She disagreed with her sister, but thought of her mother, and continued to be seduced by drugs while driving.
It seems to be a struggle for Chinese people, for family relations and self-identity, and drugs symbolize external forces.
And to save the little girl, it was like a Libra.
This event is the heroine used to break through drugs and family, she will end up on which side of the third choice.
Her desperation is to find herself and reconcile with her family.
That ’ s my explanation, and the problem is, the script doesn ’ t say that ’ s how things are.
The director only objectively gave the information to the audience, and then the narrative deliberately spent a lot of space describing the drug treatment center, and then the identity of the gangster in the film was exposed, and then the heroine went through a lot of trouble to save the little girl.
This is a deliberately designed countermeasure.
Because other thrillers have to be clear on the key plot points that are necessary.
The background of the character can be fuzzy, but the motivation of the behavior in the suspense, must be logical, to be able to convince the audience.
Thrilling unknown fear, usually due to unexpected techniques and plot development, or clearly motivated, but the development of techniques and processes is unexpected.
(For example, Hannibal of The Silence of the Lambs, who has a clear motive for killing and cannibalizing people, but does not understand his complex psychological situation.)
Why does he want to kill people as a means, the film does not say)
And the suspense of "No Escape", on the contrary, is that the audience does not understand the motive of the heroine's action.
From the time she was in the drug rehabilitation center preparing to escape, the suspense of "what the hell is she going to do" did not stop.
Whether it is escaping from the drug treatment center, running to the rest station, rescuing the little girl, the point that catches the eyes of the audience is: "Then what?"
Because all the information is clearly in front of us, it seems no big deal, but without knowing the motivation of the behavior, it will make it impossible to predict the results.
It ’ s like all murder movies.
A group of people are locked in a secret room, and while the story and techniques can be boring, the audience will always want to know the result.
Who will die inside, or who will eventually escape?
The selling point of "No Escape" to attract attention is behind the motivation of the Chinese heroine's behavior.
Because I don ’ t know why she does this, so the plot changes, all kinds of flipping, will not even be more interesting than the motivation of her every action.
Instead, the film ’ s suspense falls on a very basic element: “I want to know what happened to her. ”
This is a somewhat classical thriller principle.
In terms of recent trends, it is a relatively rare film to watch.
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How red locs on The Little Mermaid shows the ways dolls move from mere representation to authenticity

Dolls aren’t just playthings. They tell a story about how children see themselves.

When the live-action remake of The Little Mermaid was released in theaters recently, there was a predictable, if disheartening, reaction from people upset that the title role was portrayed by a young Black woman. (Because, in real life, uh, cartoon mermaids are never Black?) Overshadowed by that predictable paroxysm of racism was an interesting development in the toy aisle.

To accompany the movie’s release, Disney and Mattel produced a series of dolls made in the likeness of the actress who took on the role of Ariel, Halle Bailey, right down to the head full of red locs cascading down her back.

It’s a small detail, but also one more step in decades of innovations to authentically showcase Blackness in children’s toys.

“I see Black dolls as historical objects,” said Sabrina Thomas, a dean at Duke University whose research focuses on material culture and childhood. “They provide a visual narrative of Black history in America by their presentation, not only their hair, but their coloring, their clothing, their presentation, and how that has evolved over time.”

Thomas’ collection of 900 dolls spans from 1900 to the present day. “When you think about the earliest Black dolls, they were [created] by Black people,” said Thomas. There are few remaining examples of those handmade dolls or rag dolls because their materials deteriorate over time.

There was little movement toward manufacturing Black dolls in the U.S. until after the famous doll choice study by psychologists Kenneth and Mamie Clark. The study was first performed in New York City in the 1930s, and an NAACP team suing to end school segregation asked the Clarks to repeat their study in the South in the 1940s. In a series of experiments, Black children were asked to choose between white and Black dolls. Most of the children not only preferred the white doll but attributed positive attributes to its skin color.

“[The study] catapulted the doll as an object into the consciousness of America as an everyday object that speaks to our racial anxieties in the sense that we can extrapolate children’s understanding of themselves as racial beings and their place in the world,” Thomas said.

“I think it gave a new level of consciousness to the object itself, but we’re still not talking about mastering representation.”

Representation started with two dolls: the Patty-Jo and the Saralee. The Patty-Jo, which was sold from 1947 to 1949, was based on a character created by cartoonist Jackie Ormes, whose work appeared in the Chicago Defender and the Pittsburgh Courier.

“In mid-20th century America, most black dolls represented stereotypes, like mammies, dolls advertised as ‘piccaninnies,’ and raggedy little boys and girls,” reads Ormes’ website. “Jackie Ormes said, ‘No more … Sambos … Just KIDS!’ and she transformed her attractive, spunky Patty-Jo cartoon character into the first upscale American black doll.”

The Saralee, made by the Ideal Toy Corp., was in production from 1951 to 1953. A color jury that included political scientist Ralph Bunche and author Zora Neale Hurston came together to determine the appropriate skin tone for the doll.

Thomas noted that Saralee is significant in doll history because this was the first time the White House got involved in doll production. Ideal agreed to produce the doll after first lady Eleanor Roosevelt advocated for it.

But the company viewed the project mostly as a publicity stunt. The doll’s debut was featured in Life magazine, photographed by Carl Van Vechten. It seems commonplace to think about marketing a doll like this now, but it was unheard of at the time.

Interestingly, Patty-Jo was more popular than Saralee. “I believe it’s because Saralee came out as an actual race doll, if you will,” Thomas said. “They were both Black, but the Saralee doll is making a political statement, and the Ideal Toy Corp. wasn’t that invested in her.”

“Saralee just had so much fanfare around her,” said Thomas. “A Black doll had never been produced with that amount of celebrity or political backing but Ideal didn’t didn’t promote her after that. But Patty-Jo, who’s around the same time, she’s very popular and what Patty-Jo did for Black dolls, I believe that she’s one of the first Black dolls that actually said Black people can be solidly middle-class.”

These dolls appealed to upwardly mobile Black folks looking to impart the idea to their children that, in a phrase that would become more prominent in the Sixties, Black is beautiful. It’s at this point that dolls stopped being simply playthings and became a symbol of progress.

Patty-Jo was advertised as having “playable hair, and the finest and most extensive wardrobe on the market, with all manner of dresses, formals, shoes, hats, nightgowns, robes, skating and cowgirl costumes, and spring and winter coat sets, to name a few.”

“Think of anything that said glamour, she came with it,” said Thomas. “It’s the first time in Black history where we see it so prominent.”

Skip ahead two decades, and another doll, Baby Nancy, reflected the state of Black America. Baby Nancy, a 13-inch baby doll, debuted at the American Toy Fair in 1968.

“Oftentimes when people spoke about Baby Nancy, they said she was the doll born from the ashes of the Watts Riots in 1965,” said Thomas. “The company that produced Baby Nancy, I would say, is a definite turning point in sort of the representation of Blackness in the toy industry.”

In the aftermath of the riots, Louis S. Smith II and Robert Hall worked with civil rights activists and community members to launch Operation Bootstrap, an organization focused on creating social and economic equity. Baby Nancy was designed by Shindana Toys, a start-up within Operation Bootstrap. Mattel provided Shindana Toys with a factory, business loans, and consultants.

Baby Nancy was introduced with a short Afro because Shindana Toys was focused on not just representation, but authenticity, creating dolls with a hairstyle that epitomized Blackness in the 1960s.

And, Thomas said, because Shindana Toys made it clear it wasn’t producing dolls from molds created for white dolls, by the time production shut down in 1983, the company had opened the way for representation for other racial groups and ethnicities.

“The impact they’ve had on the toy industry is that they essentially serve as a test model to prove that Black dolls could be sold, that consumers were interested in Black dolls and not just Black consumers,” said Thomas. “They reported many times that the majority of their dolls were being purchased by white customers.”

Bottom line, she said, it’s because of Shindana Toys that by the 1970s, every major toy company had at least one Black doll line. “This is important because prior to that they were having conversations in the boardroom about whether or not America was really ready for an integrated doll market,” she said.

Growing up, I didn’t want a Barbie or a Cabbage Patch doll. My mother bought me an Addy Walker, Pleasant Co.’s first Black American Girl Doll, which was introduced in 1993. In the accompanying books, 9-year-old Walker escapes slavery with her mother to start a new life in Philadelphia. Her skin looked like mine, her nose resembled mine, and, importantly, so did her hair texture.

When the company was acquired by Mattel in 1998, it was able to add depth to the diversity of American Girl’s offerings. “When I heard Pleasant Co. sold to Mattel, I said, ‘Oh, something is about to happen’ because one thing Mattel is exceptionally good at is accessorizing,” Thomas said, citing the brand’s “create your own” feature. “You can go into American Girl Place and order skin tone 003, request green eyes, and freckles creating a ginger if you want.”

“You can either take her home as-is or you can buy a wheelchair for her. Or you can buy glasses. You can buy a cochlear implant. You can make that doll whatever you need her to be where she represents people in the world.”

Mattel was involved in reimagining Disney Princesses, too. When Disney introduced its first Black princess, Tiana, in The Princess and the Frog in 2009, her character not only told an authentic story about another culture, it reimagined who got to be a Disney Princess.

Like Ariel, Princess Tiana was also brought to “life” in a doll.

A lot of the work that went into creating the Ariel doll started with The Princess and the Frog. Launi King, Disney’s global product design director, spent two years designing the Tiana Disney Ultimate Princess doll.

King said she was honored to work on Tiana because the character is Black and had a close relationship with her father in the film. Also, Princess Tiana’s story was different from some of the other princesses: She wasn’t waiting for her prince to show up before she could live her life. King wanted the work process with the doll’s designers to be different as well.

“I have a vision in my mind of who the character is and how I would like her to be designed but then I also needed to speak to them about when you’re designing a Black doll,” said King. “I needed to have that moment where you get to see the beauty of our curls and our culture and our texture. And so that was one of the first things that I asked for was to really showcase the hair.”

Re-creating Black hair is rarely done in mass-market dolls because of the expense involved in mimicking different hair textures on one head. For instance, the Princess Tiana doll wears her hair sleek and styled into an updo and the Ariel doll’s hair is styled with a mix of locs and straighter hair.

“There’s a machine and it can go in and it puts the hairs in individually into the scalp, but you’re not mixing [textures] because that drives the cost up, and you’re definitely not doing things by hand,” King said.

The next challenge with Princess Tiana was to showcase authentic skin tone and facial features. “African Americans have a colorization that’s beautiful. It has highlights and shadows in the skin,” King said. “So one of the things about us being browner is that the light actually has the opportunity to bounce off of our skin in a way that doesn’t necessarily happen when your skin is very light.

“It’s very important as well to focus on the shape of the nose,” King said but that drives up manufacturing costs: “It is very costly to do a different shaped head on an adult, a different-shaped anything, really, because you pay for a tool and that tool can be anywhere from $25,000 to $100,000 dollars just for you to do one doll.”

She said that the more manufacturing leeway given to create specific features on any particular doll, the higher it will retail. “We want to make sure that the dolls are at a price point where anyone can get it,” said King. “OK, so that could be from $14 to $150, but that $14 one should not feel cheap.”

Companies needed to amortize that cost, making sure they could turn a profit, and King says this is why there was such a lack of authenticity in the beginning. “They would do a Barbie doll and what was happening is she would just be made brown, which meant the color of the plastic changed but it didn’t change the fact that that’s not what our noses are normally shaped like and so we ended up with Caucasian-looking dolls with brown skin,” King said. “And this is where I think we’ve come a long way because companies are investing and making sure that we are represented in the most authentic way.”

Mattel’s latest crop of dolls, created in partnership with Black companies, is working to create the range in authenticity that Thomas mentions.

In 2020, Mattel’s The Black Panther: Wakanda Forever Fresh Fierce Collection by The Fresh Dolls from World of EPI won The Toy Association’s Doll of the Year in 2022. “To be recognized by the entire toy industry, was just … Oh, my gosh. It’s still surreal,” said Lisa Williams, founder and CEO of World of EPI, a multicultural doll company.

Williams didn’t play with dolls growing up — her sister did have “a Black fashion doll with European features, with, like a coat of a deeper, darker tan skin tone, right, which was by no means authentic.” But after seeing a 2010 CNN report that reexamined the conclusions of the doll test and found that many of the same attitudes were still prevalent, she decided she wanted to make authentic-looking dolls for Black children.

At the time, Williams was a professor at the University of Arkansas, teaching executive doctoral and MBA students.

“I’m watching this, thinking by this time, we have beautiful [Black] celebrities on the covers of magazines, we’re being voted most beautiful in the world. Barack Obama was president, we had all of that going on,” Williams said. “This is the advancement I thought I would see but I didn’t.

“Something in me broke because I realized we really hadn’t advanced as far as I thought. I just realized that there was a generation of children who were growing up that didn’t know the beauty and the brains of who they really are,” she said. “That day, sitting on my sofa, I vowed to make a change.

“We are mindful about making sure shades of eye color blend perfectly with the skin tone which blends in perfectly with the lip color and the hair color and the blush color all that has to match and be complementary to you to get a beautiful face,” said Williams.

She said she was naive getting into the toy business but has a compassion for and understanding of why true authenticity historically has not been truly represented. “You have to have a ‘why’ you’re doing it. Because if you don’t, you will kind of settle like, ‘Oh, this is good enough,’ right? And that’s what we’re seeing in the market. It was good enough. The dolls weren’t so horrible when we’d throw the dolls in the trash, right?”

The Walt Disney Co. approached Williams to re-create The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder cast as dolls to celebrate the reboot in February 2022 and in September 2022, this time with Marvel to recreate The Woman King cast in doll form.

“It’s such an honor and we worked very collaboratively. But they really did lean in if we said this isn’t quite accurate or I think we can do better,” said Williams. “Like for Nakia’s character [from The Woman King], she actually had locs, not braids, and locs did not exist in the mass-market before us. Clearly, we could have taken existing braids and just said OK, here it is, but we knew that that’s not authentic.”

Williams knows the difference between a braid and a loc, and she knows the community she’s serving knows the difference, too. “So we went to the drawing board, and we went to the fiber manufacturer to get both a fiber and a technique that’s now patent-pending.

“I’m always thinking about the little girl and little boy playing on the floor. What image do I want them to play with?” she said. “Who are they when they play with that doll? And I want them to see themselves and I want them to envision themselves achieving their dreams and they can only do that, in my opinion, when there’s a great connection with the doll that really resembles them.”

What Williams is saying is a nod to what Thomas sees as the future of doll production: moving beyond racial representation to creating real authenticity.

“That is going to require the toy industry to recognize that there is not just the presence of Blackness, but there is a heterogeneous Blackness out there that they have not figured out how to personify or create into an artifact,” said Thomas.

Channing Hargrove is a senior writer at Andscape covering fashion. That’s easier than admitting how strongly she identifies with the lyrics “Single Black female addicted to retail.”

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Through the test of a century, this world-sweeping fairy tale empire is celebrated in different ways everywhere in 2023!
Six Disney parks have launched innovative surprises, such as amusement facilities, parades, night light shows, food, peripheral products, and more, which continue until the Group ’ s 100th anniversary on October 16.
In Taiwan, the 2023 Penghu International Fireworks Festival (4 / 20-6 / 29), the world ’ s only sand sculpture exhibition with this theme, will be held at the 2023 Fulong International Sand Sculpture Festival in New Taipei (6 / 9-10 / 22), the Island Star Dream Disney Theme Train (now until 9 / 27), and the Disney Animation Exhibition (6 / 21-10 / 11).
Founder Walt Disney once said, “Adults are only kids grow up, anyway. ”
Since Disney Kingdom has a large number of members, let ’ s start the discussion on the role set to male. DailyView Network Thermometer surveyed the top 10 most discussed online in the past year (2022 / 7 / 1-2023 / 6 / 30) through KEYPO Big Data Key Engine.
No.10 Pinocchio
Pinocchio has also translated as "Pinocchio", many parents have said to their children: "If you lie, the nose will grow long!" The small puppet is often made into a sketch by netizens, and even a British graduate student who engaged in "funny experiments" has deduced that the small puppet can only say 13 lies, if exceeded, the nose will grow to make his neck break and kill.
Fortunately, the little puppet only lied three times in the original Italian book.
After the success of Snow White, Disney released its second animated feature film in 1940, and won the 13th Academy Awards for Best Original Music and Best Original Song, setting a precedent for animated films winning two awards in a row.
In 2022, Pinocchio launched a live-action version of “Pinocchio ”, and netizens praised“ Tom Hanks ’ interpretation of the old carpenter who cares about and cherishes Pinocchio ’ s father ”, “The story of Jiminy Cricket (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) is immediately brought into the classic story of childhood memories ”,“ No longer just copying the original story. ” I ’ m sorry, ” he said, even finishing the sentence:
"A conscience is that still small voice that most people refuse to listen to.
And that is the entire problem with the world today. ”
(Conscience is a tiny voice that most people won ’ t listen to.)
That ’ s the biggest problem in the world today.
“There isn ’ t a single thing I would change about you.
I am so proud of you.
And I love you so much. ”
I don't need you to change anything, I'm proud of you and I love you.
No.9 Genie
“You have three chances to make a wish … ” This is an opportunity that many people dream of!
Adapted from the Arabian folk story "Arabian Nights" "Aladdin and the Magic Lantern", in 1992 became Disney's 31st animated feature, less than US $100,000 paid Robin Williams (Robin Williams) voice, his wit, humor, enthusiasm, vulnerability and other characteristics, giving the "supporting actor" spirit beyond the charm of the protagonist, the global box office revenue of more than US $500 million; Mode, with mainstream stars acting as the usual voice, until now has Tom Hanks "Toy Story 3" up to $15 million, Vin Diesel "Star Trek" various emotions "I am Groot. (I am Groot) worth $13 million.
2019 Oscar winner Will Smith (Will Smith) interpretation is limited by the spirit of the lamp, although it is far from the animation image of 27 years ago, full of blue powder, optimistic and exaggerated interpretation of his unique "Friend Like Me", the spirit said to Aladdin, "I can only make your appearance into a prince, but can not change your inner."
"aroused heated discussion, netizens have a sense of growing up to see Aladdin," let me burst into tears "," no matter how clever the elves are, they can not control people's preferences. "
No. 8 High flying Goofy
Goofy, the English word meaning "stupid, silly", first appeared in the 1932 Mickey's Revue (Mickey's Revue), a small off-stage audience character, constantly peeling peanuts, and laughing, strange, piercing laughter soon to be remembered.
It turned out that Disney needed a happy pistachio that could always be happy, but also some sluggish elements, and in 1930 began to create a high-flying, amiable and easygoing fool, who looked a little confused, but he was not stupid, his personality was pure optimism, and liked; although he often messed things up, he also achieved unexpected success.
Since 1935, the calm Mickey Mouse, the angry Donald Duck, the stupid Gao Fei, these three people are called "Disney Golden Triangle", the three people can always screw things up, but in the process will make people laugh, three different styles complement each other, the happy ending of the solution, in the Mickey and good friends series, Gao Fei is a very competent comedy role, but also a real A good friend.
Mickey ’ s pet, Pluto, is a dog that doesn ’ t talk, doesn ’ t walk upright, doesn ’ t wear clothes, and is a pure dog.
Gao Fei is the opposite of it, he wears clothes and gloves, he talks, makes girlfriends, and does what everyone can do.
This caused many netizens to question, "Mickey is a mouse, Donald Duck is a duck, Broto is a dog, then what is Gao Fei?" Disney made an official response, Gao Fei replied, "Oh!
I'm just Goofy. "
No.7 Dumbo
Disney ’ s fourth animated film released in 1941, Dumbo, born with oversized ears, is often used as the object of ridicule, his mother is locked in a cage for protecting him; without the protection of his mother, he has become friends with rats and ravens, not because of his appearance, but find his own advantages. 78 years later, the director Tim Burton retains the core value of fairy tales. Decided that he was no longer limited to the mind of the "little flying elephant", he painted human nature and emotions more carefully; in the 2019 live-action version of "Dumbo", the good friend of the little flying elephant changed from an animal to a child of two circus, and the animals did not speak, and used the human perspective to highlight the uniqueness of the little flying elephant.
The screenwriter once said, “Dumbo is not just a Disney character, but a mythical character, and I want it to be real. ” Tim Burton, a director who is not very fond of circus, said,“ Dumbo is a symbol of people who can ’ t integrate into society, but can turn their flaws into advantages. ”
Many fans have described themselves as "I want to show up wherever there is a little flying elephant," and the collection has become a "little flying elephant museum," even some insist on having a little flying elephant tattoo.
No. 6 Chip 'n' Dale
The chipmunks are often misunderstood as “squirrels ”; the funny farce of the two brothers ’ different personalities first appeared in“ Private Pluto ” in 1943; after Broto, you can turn the old duck half dead, and later have your own series. Chip ’ s appearance is characterized by a black nose and a large front tooth in the center, and strange fur is darker.
Dale has a red nose and two tiger teeth, and a pinch of hairs on his head; alternatively, you can distinguish it by incisors. Brother Kitty is one incisor and brother is one incisor.
In 2023, Japan launched the Pink Pooh Friends series, which instantly sprung up, “It ’ s cherry blossom flavor, and it ’ s super cute. ”
(Pictured is the bar car of the Island Star Dream Disney themed train with unlimited drinks.)
No. 5 Peter Pan
Have you ever had a Peter Pan in your heart?
“All children grow up, except one person. ”
In Disney's 14th animated feature film, released in 1953, Peter Pan is a flying, naughty, and eternally young child who flies to Neverland against Captain Hook, and one night flies to Wendy's house, where Peter Pan takes her and his two younger brothers on an adventure to Neverland.
Wendy plays a role in the story as a symbol of "woman" and "mother".
At the beginning of the story, Peter Pan also invited Wendy to Neverland because she could tell a story.
Experts parse that Peter Pan is actually afraid of anything that will make him an "adult", and when Wendy refuses to stay and is ready to go back, she and Peter Pan say: "Sorry, I have to grow up!"
There are many versions of Flying Scotsman, including Robin Williams ’ s “Captain Hook ” and the 2023 live-action version of“ Flying Scotsman and Wendy ” on the streaming platform Disney +. Currently Rotten Tomatoes (media rating) is 67% fresh, audience rating is only 20% positive, and audience voting IMDb is only 4.4.
It is said to have been a "rewrite", a "rewrite", a "rewrite", a "rewrite" and a "rewrite".
No. 4 Aladdin
Shout "Sesame open the door!" to open the door of the robber's treasure chest; wipe the magic lamp, carefully make three wishes...
"A whole new world...", Aladdin overcomes obstacles, and finally happy Ending.
1992 Preparing Aladdin, the appearance was actually "Atom" Tom Cruise (Tom Cruise) as a model, the animator made a desperate reference to the Atom expression in various movies.
However, the 2019 live-action version was not first sung by the outside world, and netizens described Aladdin as "strong and tender". "Maybe it is a matter of plot setting. The air on the screen is often dragged away by the Elves and Jasmine in the front section." Out of their own value, but also let adults recall the simplicity of childhood, chasing dreams.
No. 3 Stitch
An experiment created to destroy everything and disrupt the Milky Way, the blue-colored alien monster created by genetic engineering research, codenamed 626, is sometimes fierce, but sometimes well-behaved. On his first visit to Earth, he meets Lilo, a Hawaiian girl, who hides an extra arm, tentacles and spines, disguised as a dog.
Seemingly harmless, but with super powerful power, Jumba said at the Star Council: "Stitch is bulletproof, fireproof, shockproof, and thinks faster than a supercomputer, and can also lift an object 3000 times its volume," the biggest weakness is that he can't swim, because he is set to be denser than water, he will sink when he encounters water, and he is a koala.
Netizens think that "obviously can rely on the ability, but rely on their own acting to eat, disguised as a stray dog he was adopted by Lilo," after getting along with the earth people, Stitch is willing to converge for Lilo to destroy the appearance, by the circle of fans of netizens moved: "The family word left a good impression, everyone is not willing to show the bad side in front of their own family, This is because your family is someone who has never abandoned you, someone who is willing to help you in any major way."
(Pictured is the Karaoke compartment of the Island Star Dream Disney themed train, a special Stitch punch spot.)
No. 2 Donald Duck
This duck, who never wears pants, first appeared in 1939's "The Wise Little Hen", similar to Mickey's hard-working, cheerful, and never fails to set, Donald Duck's impatience, love to lose temper, every time you encounter trouble, always learn not to stay calm, eager to open his big flat mouth, with its annoying big voice rattle. The sense of disconnection has exploded; the naughty Donald Duck will occasionally play tricks on others, and netizens describe the "EQ value is estimated to be zero."
With the ingenuity of opportunism, but every time he always encounters a miserable ending, Donald Duck's encounter actually caused Hong Kong netizens to discuss "is the epitome of many Hong Kong people", "compared to Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck can reflect the human nature of the real society."
The most powerful Green Leaf supporting actor, the number of cartoons and movies combined to surpass Mickey Mouse, and netizens commented that "his imperfection has made him popular for many years." In the 2022 Tainan Disney series, many fans expected the giant Donald Duck, and the result was a stacked tsum tsum, which caused the most discussion on the Internet.
No. 1 Mickey
This time, the "popular king" is Mickey! White gloves, red shorts, big ears, "Oh Gosh" mantra, everyone's acceptance of Mickey Mouse lasted for a century, and it was born with some twists and turns.
Universal Pictures commissioned Disney to produce a cartoon with the rabbit as the main character, born Oswald the Lucky Rabbit (Oswald the Lucky Rabbit), but the painter secretly traded, Universal took the rights to Oswald, Walt Disney, abandoned Oswald, the company was founded in the fifth year, launched a larger and more round ear "Mickey". Although the boss himself is afraid of mice, but Mickey He brought the first Academy Award (1932), and to date, Mickey remains the most Oscar winner in the world; he is also the first fictional character to be engraved on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
According to Time, 40% of Disney ’ s annual licensing fee comes from Mickey, which brings in at least $3.2 billion (about NT $100 billion) in annual revenue, not including the revenue from the Disney Parks stores.
Mickey and Minnie have been the elderly and old lady of the human level, Disney has decided not to let them both marry; the reason behind this is because Walt Disney once said that Mickey and Minnie live in a dream world, in which all dreams will come true, do not need marriage can live happily.
However, Mickey and Minnie ’ s voice actors Wayne Allwine and Russi Taylor are married in the real world! Mickey has a super adaptability, and even has a bag in Taiwan.
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Content: 15 Different Animation Styles That Can Be Used for Marketing

By Apeksha Ellena

Animation dates back to hundreds of years or more. Initially, it was just drawings on walls or caves, however now it’s a lot more different, due to various technological advancements that have taken place in the past few decades.

A variety of new methods are introduced which means animation studios can continuously evolve and grow the animation styles they develop.

Animation is a superb way to connect with an audience in an entertaining and impactful way. Animated videos are often used as explainers, product demos, etc. It engages the viewer while compelling them to take action.

However, different types of videos demand different animation styles. As specific videos may appeal to some marketing objectives, and some not. And with a vast range of animation styles it may be a bit confusing while picking the right one for your video.

Therefore, it becomes crucial for an animation production company to choose a particular style for a specific video. Different types of animation styles have different tones and suit various purposes.

So, here we are at your disposal helping you understand all the different styles of animation that you can opt for creating an animated or explainer video for your marketing goals.

Different Animation Styles To Choose From

The best animation style for your video will depend on your goals that you’re looking to achieve from it. Additionally, you’ll also have to consider the cost and timeline for your animated video.

1. 2D or Traditional Animation

One of the oldest animation styles, 2D animation refers to moving characters and objects in a two-dimensional space. It’s quite flexible as it’s used at a variety of places including cartoons, explainers, promotional ads, etc.

Initially, traditional animation meant hand-drawing each frame individually which was time-consuming. Today, it’s done with the help of various digital tools and methods to create the effect of 2D animation.

3. Whiteboard Animation

Whiteboard or doodle videos are widely used in the advertising industry as these are effective, entertaining and engaging too. It’s a minimalist and straightforward concept of a video showing a hand drawing illustrations or drawings to explain an idea or message to the audience. Whiteboard animation is ideal for internal training purposes.

3. 3D Animation

When it comes to 3D animation, we can assume it to be more realistic and immersive. The realistic factor comes from adding motion to objects & characters in a 3-dimensional environment. It is used in industries like architecture and medicine.

Furthermore, it’s applied in animated films, commercials, etc. However, it’s not a suitable option for creating simple explainers and similar videos as it requires time and labour as well.

4. Motion Graphics

It is a much popular type of animation in the marketing industry. The outlook may be simple, but motion graphics is interesting as it uses elements like lively music/sound and moving text. Motion graphics are mostly used for promotional and commercial purposes.

5. Kinetic Typography

Kinetic typography is all about moving alphabets and numbers. It expresses ideas in a way that it becomes easier to understand for the viewers. By smartly implementing this technique, you can outline specific messages and make them retained by the audience.

This type of animation is used in movies for creating credit segments and title screens. Moreover, it can be used to create explainer videos, presentations, training content, and the like.

6. Stop Motion Animation

This is also an old animation style that can be seen in many old animated movies. It is the technique of clicking pictures of static objects in a particular sequence and then playing the pictures together to create the illusion of movement.

Not only does it offer a unique aesthetic, it is fairly reasonable as it eliminates the need for hi-tech equipment or resources.

7. Digital Cutout Animatio

It is a refined version of traditional cutout animation. It includes bright colours, texture, improved shading, as well as layering and all those things that lack in a simple cutout animation. The advantage it provides is that you can change it anytime later, if you need.

8. Rotoscope Animation

This kind of animation traces live-action footage with rotoscope tools. It is used in situations where it’s important for the animated character to communicate realistically with the environment. It is much cheaper than 3D animation and works exceptionally well for movies and commercials.

9. Silhouette Animation

An old style of animation shows dark characters against a white background. Silhouette animation has great potential for the animation industry in the future.

10. Motion Capture

It is a modern style animation that allows animators to develop ultra-realistic animations in live-action scenes. It is mainly used in the gaming world to create realistic characters as well as life-like facial expressions. Use the best 2D animation Software for making effective animation.

The process involves dressing up characters in various suits and tracking their movements and interactions so that it can be recreated using computer graphics.

11. Claymation

Claymation or clay animation is a kind of stop motion animation where characters are created using clay and then their movements are photographed in a sequence.

An example of claymation is the popular children’s film ‘Chicken Run’. Claymation can also be used to create short films and commercials. However, it is time-consuming and suits smaller projects.

12. Live-Action with 2D Animation

In this type of animation, live-action footage has bits and pieces of animation to form a video. The idea is to develop a feeling of interaction between the video and the graphics, with added elements of visual display, rhythm, and dynamism. This animation style can be seen in a lot of TV commercials.

13. Mechanical Animation

This style breaks down the configuration and function of mechanical objects or products. It is a photorealistic representation of mechanical objects. The process includes drawing and animating all the mechanics and details of a machine to produce an informative visual.

Mechanical animation is highly used in the engineering industry to display the industrial process of any manufactured item such as food product. It is used to make modifications to products before their development. Besides, it also works great for creating product demos.

14. Screen capture

Screen capture animation is used to showcase a product’s UI design. Screen capture covers all the screen visual touchpoints that the user will use to navigate from A to B point. It enhances the overall customer experience while using several products.

15. HUD Animation

This is not something that we usually see in TV commercials or anywhere in the marketing world.

HUD animation began from the gaming industry, where Heads-Up Displays are used to convey information in a visual form. The background is mostly transparent so that the viewers are able to view the display without missing the game.

If you have never seen a video game or played one, you can see this type of animation in sci-fi films in which the data is visualized on a transparent screen.

HUD animation is sometimes used in creating explainer videos for showing tech-related products or services.

16. Animated Infographics

This style of animation is perfect when you’ve to show dense information to your audience. It’s much better than a regular presentation. Animated infographics are ideal for showing too many details in a short period of time, without boring the viewers.

17. Paper Cutout Animation

Have you ever made objects & characters out of paper and tried to move them around? Well, the process of making paper figures move to tell a story or an idea refers to paper cutout animation.

Factors To Consider While Making Different Types of Animated Videos

The style of animation solely is not responsible for the success of any animated explainer video.

While various types of animation or live-action videos can work differently with different target audiences, there are few important characteristics that all types of animated videos must consider for marketing purposes.

  • Quality – Online viewers measure the reliability of a product or service through the quality of its content, be it text or video. Having the best first impression using high-quality content becomes paramount.
  • Targeted Content – Generic content or videos will be easy to forget about. Creating attractive explainers keeping in mind the relevant target audience will go a long way.
  • Branding – It refers to logo placement, colour selection, jingles including other branding elements that are used correctly in different types of animated videos created for marketing or promotional purposes.
  • Message – Make sure you convey the message clearly or else you might not live up to your brand’s expectations.
  • Rhythm – Maintaining a rhythm and a pace is important in an animated video. You must time the action and the story correctly in order to keep your viewers engaged and entertained at the same time.

Final Words

Each type of animation fulfills various requirements, different types of videos appeal to different audiences or marketing goals.

With such a vast range of animation styles, it can be overwhelming to pick the right type to produce. But, as you must have already realized it all depends on the objective of making a video.

We hope that this overview of different animation styles will help you choose the one suitable for your next animation project.

About Author

Apeksha Ellena PatrickDigital Content Specialist at Video Production Company (Essencestudios). she hold a Bachelor’s & Master’s degree in Journalism & Communication from Manipal University, India. Passionate about creative writing, she love reading as well! Always keen to explore new places & opportunities. On a never-ending quest of pushing her boundaries as a writer & editor.

According to John Musker, why does Disney rely on live-action remakes rather than producing new stories?

As a risk-reduction strategy
As a safer option

Compared to new franchises, what is the risk and return of remakes and sequels?

Lower risk but smaller long-term returns.

How has Disney leveraged nostalgia in recent years?

By turning classic animations into live-action films with major stars

What motivates Disney to keep producing live-action remakes despite mixed reviews?

According to John Musker, why does Disney rely on live-action remakes rather than producing new stories?

As a risk-reduction strategy
As a safer option

Compared to new franchises, what is the risk and return of remakes and sequels?

Lower risk but smaller long-term returns.

How has Disney leveraged nostalgia in recent years?

By turning classic animations into live-action films with major stars

What motivates Disney to keep producing live-action remakes despite mixed reviews?

According to John Musker, why does Disney rely on live-action remakes rather than producing new stories?

As a risk-reduction strategy
As a safer option

Compared to new franchises, what is the risk and return of remakes and sequels?

Lower risk but smaller long-term returns.

How has Disney leveraged nostalgia in recent years?

By turning classic animations into live-action films with major stars

What motivates Disney to keep producing live-action remakes despite mixed reviews?

According to John Musker, why does Disney rely on live-action remakes rather than producing new stories?

As a risk-reduction strategy
As a safer option

Compared to new franchises, what is the risk and return of remakes and sequels?

Lower risk but smaller long-term returns.

How has Disney leveraged nostalgia in recent years?

By turning classic animations into live-action films with major stars

What motivates Disney to keep producing live-action remakes despite mixed reviews?

According to John Musker, why does Disney rely on live-action remakes rather than producing new stories?

As a risk-reduction strategy
As a safer option

Compared to new franchises, what is the risk and return of remakes and sequels?

Lower risk but smaller long-term returns.

How has Disney leveraged nostalgia in recent years?

By turning classic animations into live-action films with major stars

What motivates Disney to keep producing live-action remakes despite mixed reviews?

According to John Musker, why does Disney rely on live-action remakes rather than producing new stories?

As a risk-reduction strategy
As a safer option

Compared to new franchises, what is the risk and return of remakes and sequels?

Lower risk but smaller long-term returns.

How has Disney leveraged nostalgia in recent years?

By turning classic animations into live-action films with major stars

What motivates Disney to keep producing live-action remakes despite mixed reviews?

According to John Musker, why does Disney rely on live-action remakes rather than producing new stories?

As a risk-reduction strategy
As a safer option

Compared to new franchises, what is the risk and return of remakes and sequels?

Lower risk but smaller long-term returns.

How has Disney leveraged nostalgia in recent years?

By turning classic animations into live-action films with major stars

What motivates Disney to keep producing live-action remakes despite mixed reviews?

This reduces financial risk compared to entirely new properties while maximizing return on investment through built-in audience recognition.

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38 Days of Amazing Sale at Dubai Shopping Festival
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Dubai Shopping Festival (DSF) is back to impress the emirate ’ s residents with its 29th edition taking place from 8 December to 14 January. The festival will offer a huge range of exciting offers and discounts from local and international brands on a wide variety of products, as well as exciting entertainment events, including pop-up markets, unique dining experiences, and flying shows. Drones, art events, avant-garde sports events, raffles and huge prizes offer opportunities to win valuable prizes, including a luxury apartment, numerous cars, shopping malls and cash, as well as numerous gastronomic experiences throughout the city.
This year, the festival will feature a range of all-new events, including the new Canteen X event, the Dubai Police Carnival at City Walk, and the exclusive exhibition of Armani Privé luxury perfumes at the Dubai Opera Park.
The festival will also feature Anooki, a light work of art that premieres at Al Seef and Dubai Design District. Some of the city ’ s favourite events and experiences will also join the DSF calendar for the first time this year, including Sol DXB, the region ’ s most popular community cultural festival, and the Dubai Shopping Festival. Emarat Classic Cars 2023.
Proven program
Ahmad Al Khaja, Executive Director of the Dubai Festivals and Retail Foundation, said: “The Dubai Shopping Festival is the world ’ s favourite retail festival.
As we unveil the exciting programme for the 29th edition, we invite everyone to come together and enjoy a wide range of exceptional dining experiences, family adventures and activities, art performances and unique shopping experiences across Dubai, making the festival the best time to visit Dubai and shop.
He added: “The Dubai Shopping Festival plays a vital role in contributing to the vibrant cultural scene, reviving markets and driving the city ’ s economy by attracting visitors from around the world, stimulating domestic tourism, improving the lifestyle of the city ’ s residents and supporting local businesses.
During this year ’ s edition, we look forward to enabling residents and visitors to record unforgettable memories, as well as providing exceptional experiences for all. ”
Dubai Lights
Dubai Lights returns to give the city a great splendor of creative and artistic sculptures, featuring five unique works of art across the city from December 8 to January 14.
The festival showcases the best drone shows from Emirates Petroleum. The spectacular event is set to adorn the skies of Dubai every evening from 10 December to 14 January, and promises spectacular performances in the skies of Dubai over the course of 38 days.
This year ’ s shows will be presented in collaboration with The Beach and Bluewaters Island, with two spectacular shows featuring compelling stories that take viewers on a magical journey every night, adorning the sky with a symphony of colors and shapes presented by 800 drones that will amaze viewers with their ingenuity and sophistication.
“Lights Dubai ” will also present a huge mock-up of the characters of Madhesh and Dana, where they will light up City Centre Mirdif and spread happiness among all visitors to the mall.
Markets & Experiences
With the return of fresh and mild weather, Dubai comes alive with an array of outdoor markets and experiences not to be missed.
Highlights include The Bay B Social, the outdoor destination at Dubai Festival City Mall.
The festival will also see the return of free DSF markets that will bring the fun of outdoor shopping to popular locations across the city, while providing unparalleled opportunities to discover new brands and buy unique products. Etisalat MTB, the shopping destination of choice at DSF, is celebrating its 11th edition and has become a key event in Dubai Shopping Festival. The festival offers many delicious food experiences.
The Dubai Shopping Festival is not complete without incredible offers and discounts from some of the city ’ s most famous brands.
This edition of the festival offers many unmissable promotions for city residents and visitors in the run-up to the festive season, including discounts ranging from 25 to 75% on more than 800 brands in more than 3,000 locations across the city.
There are also many ways to earn points through loyalty programs and exclusive deals that you offer to members.
In addition, shoppers can follow the DSF sale season to make the most of the discounts and additional promotions.
Dubai Art
From 8 December to 14 January, you can enjoy Dubai Art performing and new concerts at some of the city ’ s best malls, which include a wide range of entertainment and spectacular parties, such as dance, music, acrobatics, beatbox, drums, theatre, air shows, water shows, and many more unique talents brought to you by a plethora of local and international stars alike.
For those looking for a variety of entertainment shows, there ’ s plenty waiting for them. During the opening week, Dubai Opera ’ s dancing masterpiece, Slava Snow Show, will take visitors of all ages into a world of fantasy.
Comedy fans will be on a date with Russell Howard ’ s brilliance at Dubai Opera and Michael McIntyre ’ s humor at the Coca-Cola Arena.
For music lovers, a variety of musical experiences await you with the Grammy Award-winning African band Tinariwen ’ s concert at Dubai Opera.
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President of the Year
As the year draws to a close, the Dubai Shopping Festival will culminate in massive New Year ’ s Eve celebrations at the Dubai Opera and Coca-Cola Arena.
The Dubai Opera is a night full of live music and amazing moments.
The festival extends far beyond theatres and shopping malls, offering many outdoor performances in the great winter atmosphere.
For the first time this year, on the opening weekend, the festival will feature a vibrant experience at the Soul DXB 2023 Festival in Dubai Design District.
This community cultural festival will feature a full schedule of live art, DJ performances, sports tournaments, talks and workshops, with a keynote presentation by artist Busta Rhimes.
Awards and raffles
The festival brings with it great opportunities to win valuable prizes from cars to cash, and from gold to a new luxury apartment.
There is a chance for anyone to become a millionaire instantly with the AED 2 million Dubai Shopping Festival Grand Prize draw. The DSF Grand Draw also offers an unmissable chance to win the all-new Nissan Patrol V6, amazing cash prizes, a chance to win 25kg of gold in the draw organized by Dubai Jewellery Group, and the chance to shop, play and win up to AED 1 million with a promotion. Digital raffle provided by Dubai Shopping Malls Group.
There are even more chances to win, as anyone can spend the minimum amount when shopping at any of ENOC ’ s outlets (Zoom), (Register) or (AutoPro) to get raffle coupons that enable you to win amazing prizes and vouchers worth over AED 100.
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Animation, Comedy, Adventure, Family 2013, USA
8.1
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54 Monsters on Vacation 3: The Sea Calls
animation, family, comedy 2018, USA
8.1
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55 The Secret Life of Pets 2
animation, comedy 2019, USA
8.1
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56 Megamind
comedy, family, animation 2010, USA
8.1
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57 Puss in Boots
fantasy, comedy, animation, adventure 2011, USA
8.1
Evaluate
58 Addams Family: Last Minute Tour
Animation, Horror, Comedy, Family 2021, USA / UK / Canada
8.1
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59 Brave in Heart
family, animation 2012, USA
8.0
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60 City of Heroes
Comedy, Action, Animation, Family 2014, USA
8.0
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61 Monsters on vacation
Comedy, Animation, Family 2012, USA
8.0
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62 Spirit: Soul of the Prairies
western, animation, adventure, family 2002, USA
8.0
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63 The Christmas Story
Drama, Fantasy, Animation, Family 2009, USA
8.0
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64 Grinch
animation 2018, USA
8.0
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65 Rango
family, adventure, animation 2011, USA
8.0
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66 Toy Story: The Big Escape
Drama, Adventure, Comedy, Animation, Family 2010, USA
8.0
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67 How to Train Your Dragon 2
Comedy, Fantasy, Animation, Action, Adventure 2014, USA
8.0
Evaluate
68 Guardians of Dreams
family, animation, adventure 2012, USA
7.9
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69 Rabbit Peter
animation, family, children 2018, USA
7.9
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70 The Incorrigible Ron
animation 2021, USA
7.9
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71 Angry Birds 2 in movies
animation, children 2019, USA
7.8
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72 Cars 3
children, animation, adventure 2017, USA
7.8
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73 Corpse of the bride
animation, fairy tale 2005, USA
7.8
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74 Despicable Me 2
animation, family 2013, USA
7.8
Evaluate
75 9
animation, military, fantasy, adventure 2009, USA
7.8
Evaluate
76 out of here.
family, comedy, animation 2006, USA / UK
7.8
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77 Tom and Jerry
animation 2021, USA
7.8
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78 Beast
musical, animation 2016, USA
7.7
Evaluate
79 Arthur and Miniputs
animation, fairy tale, family 2006, USA / France
7.7
Evaluate
80 House
animation, fantasy, adventure, fantasy 2015, USA
7.7
Evaluate
81 Addams Family
animation, fantasy 2019, USA
7.7
Evaluate
82 Cars 2
Animation, Comedy, Family 2011, USA
7.7
Evaluate
83 Puppy patrol in the cinema
animation, adventure 2021, USA / Canada
7.7
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84 Cloudy, possible precipitation in the form of meatballs
family, animation 2009, USA
7.7
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85 Puzzle
animation 2015, USA
7.7
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86 The Nightmare Before Christmas
family, fantasy, musical, animation 1993, USA
7.7
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87 Up
animation, family, adventure 2009, USA
7.7
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88 The Adventures of Tintin: The Mystery of the Unicorn
family, animation, adventure, mysticism 2011, USA / New Zealand / Belgium
7.7
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89 Mystery of the Red Planet 3D
Animation, Family 2011, USA
7.6
Evaluate
90 Princess and Frog
melodrama, musical, comedy, family, animation 2009, USA
7.6
Evaluate
91 Santa Claus Secret Service
animation 2011, USA / UK
7.6
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92 Forest Brothers
animation, family, comedy 2006, USA
7.6
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93 Storks
comedy, animation 2016, USA
7.6
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94 Horton
family, animation, adventure 2008, USA
7.6
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95 The Secret Life of Pets
animation, comedy 2016, USA
7.5
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96 Madagascar
comedy, animation, adventure, fairy tale, family 2005, USA
7.5
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97 Hunting Season 3
children, animation 2010, USA
7.5
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98 Hunting season
animation, adventure, family, comedy 2006, USA
7.5
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99 Smallfoot
animation, fantasy, comedy, family 2018, USA
7.5
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100 Enchanted
comedy, adventure, fairy tale, musical, family, animation 2007, USA
7.5
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According to John Musker, why does Disney rely on live-action remakes rather than producing new stories?

As a risk-reduction strategy
As a safer option

How has Disney leveraged nostalgia in recent years?

By turning classic animations into live-action films with major stars

What motivates Disney to keep producing live-action remakes despite mixed reviews?

According to John Musker, why does Disney rely on live-action remakes rather than producing new stories?

As a risk-reduction strategy
As a safer option

How has Disney leveraged nostalgia in recent years?

By turning classic animations into live-action films with major stars

What motivates Disney to keep producing live-action remakes despite mixed reviews?

According to John Musker, why does Disney rely on live-action remakes rather than producing new stories?

As a risk-reduction strategy
As a safer option

How has Disney leveraged nostalgia in recent years?

By turning classic animations into live-action films with major stars

What motivates Disney to keep producing live-action remakes despite mixed reviews?

According to John Musker, why does Disney rely on live-action remakes rather than producing new stories?

As a risk-reduction strategy
As a safer option

How has Disney leveraged nostalgia in recent years?

By turning classic animations into live-action films with major stars

What motivates Disney to keep producing live-action remakes despite mixed reviews?

### Nostalgia as a Revenue Driver
The remakes tap into powerful feelings of nostalgia among adults who grew up with the original animations.

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Inside Out 2 hits $500 million in global revenue
A statement released by Walt Disney said Pixar ’ s Inside Out 2 animated film has become the highest-grossing film of the year in the United States and has grossed more than $500 million worldwide.
The film was estimated to have grossed $155 million in ticket sales in the United States and Canada on its first weekend.
The results are a boost for cinema owners, with fewer films this year due to delays caused by strikes in Hollywood last year.
The first film, Inside Out, was released in 2015 and dealt with the thoughts of a young girl and was also a success.
In the new part, we re-enter the mind of the film's protagonist Riley, but this time as a teenager she experiences new emotions such as anxiety and envy.
The first film grossed $90 million in its first weekend of release in the summer of 2015.
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How has Disney leveraged nostalgia in recent years?

By turning classic animations into live-action films with major stars

How has Disney leveraged nostalgia in recent years?

By turning classic animations into live-action films with major stars

How has Disney leveraged nostalgia in recent years?

By turning classic animations into live-action films with major stars

How has Disney leveraged nostalgia in recent years?

By turning classic animations into live-action films with major stars

How has Disney leveraged nostalgia in recent years?

By turning classic animations into live-action films with major stars

This creates a dual audience: children experiencing the stories for the first time and adults revisiting cherished childhood memories.

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This July 2023 visit to Tokyo Disneyland (land) unprofessional Raiders score, if the content is wrong, please be familiar with friends to correct.
The word "blue" in the article can be directly linked!
The Disney Catalog:
1. Download and sign up for the official Disney app
2. Be sure to check the official Disney website (in Chinese) announcement, business hours
3. Number of people forecast
4. Buy tickets first https: / / reurl.cc / qLjakp
5. Disney Privilege Card & Priority Entry Card & Appointment Waiting Card (Must See)
6. Parade Performance
7. Must shoot the 40th anniversary pennant
8. Summer limited summer activities
What Disney has to do!
Be careful with milk!
11. Cold door small discovery
12. This free parent-child trip
13. Other Tours in Japan
1. Download and sign up for the official Disney app
Disney Privilege Card, Priority Access Card, Wait Time, Navigation, and Product Information are all available in the official App, available in English and Japanese.
There is no mobile phone to ask at the Passenger Service Center.
Download the suggestions and register a member first.
App Store (English version of the App)
Google Play (English version of the app)
The number of facilities in the park is displayed, depending on the details.
However, I think that this map should be better understood by people who know the location of Disneyland facilities first.
App shows wait times for facilities
The blue dot is my location, this time the selected egg shop.
Sell goods, indicating whether the store is selling.
In the restaurant that sells 40 years old, most of the products need to order one meal to buy one!
2. No matter how busy or lazy, be sure to personally see Disney ’ s official website (in Chinese) announcement, business hours
Operating Hours & Fares > > > https: / / www.tokyodisneyresort.jp / en / tds / monthly / calendar.html
Business hours are in principle 9: 00-21: 00, this time my mother arrived about 8: 00, about 8: 30 began to enter the park early (may be afraid that everyone is hot to the heat of the summer). There are exceptions to the business hours, so please be sure to check the official website to see the business hours of the day!
For example, on September 29, 2023, the ocean is only open until 18: 30, so be sure to check out the official website!!
Six days is even more expensive!
* * There are more strategies and lazy packages on the Internet, and there is absolutely no latest and most accurate and real-time official information.
3. Be sure to look at the number of people and be mentally prepared.
Tokyo Disneyland population forecast > >
http: / / www15.plala.or.jp / gcap / disney /
The page is Japanese, you can choose the translation function of the page to change to Chinese.
On the calendar page, remember to choose "Paradise" or "Ocean" first.
This calendar will display information such as weather, temperature, and opening and closing time (the time is recommended to be based on the official website).
In addition to holidays, you can see on the calendar, "Six Days One" will be more people in these three days.
The whole trip is very comfortable, and the amusement facilities will not wait too long, and the longest is about 70 minutes for the beauty and the beast.
In addition to the calendar, there is also information on whether the park facilities are open.
However, my brother and mother look at this website, usually only refer to the number of people forecast, other opening and closing times will see the official website
Weather Watch Japan Meteorological Agency, the weather hall can only see the weather forecast for seven days at most, usually full of accuracy, this is also the information that I will see when I play in Japan.
This time we waited in line for about half an hour, singing and dancing queuing very quickly.
Remember to buy tickets first!
Buy Disney tickets here https: / / reurl.cc / qLjakp
Now you have to buy tickets online first, there are no physical tickets sold on-site.
You can go to Disney official website to buy tickets, or buy tickets at kkday, scan the voucher to enter the park, the ticket price will float!
My brother is worried that there is a problem with the Internet or mobile phone, so it is printed out and can be used, and one person can brush all of it.
If you want to change your physical ticket, you can go to the Visitor Service Center on the left hand side of the entrance.
Buy Disney tickets here https: / / reurl.cc / qLjakp
5. Disney Privilege Card & Priority Access Card & Appointment Waiting Card
Remember these three patterns and three cards, you can start as soon as you enter the park!!!
If you want to smoke anything, you have to think about it!
[Disney Privilege Card] is paid and can be used in the facilities and the VIP viewing position of the parade.
Pleasure facilities can be used for the very popular and very new "Cup Noodle Fun Tour", "Beauty and the Wild Castle" and "Splash Mountain"
Official Website > > > https: / / www.tokyodisneyresort.jp / en / tdl / guide / disneypremieraccess.html (Please refer to the official website for any information)
There was no need to buy a Disney Privilege Card on that day, because the waiting time mentioned above was not long.
But then, suddenly we couldn ’ t see the wait time for Beauty and the Beast, and I became nervous, so I rushed to buy a time slot (remember to send the password button!).
Wait for me to buy and then look back, suddenly show the time, this is what trick I really woo price reference, please take the official website as the main!!
My mother used Chunghwa Telecom to roam abroad, and it was no problem to send and receive text messages online.
But in fact, at first, my younger brother Bu Ma has not received the password notification SMS. After I entered the information nearly 20 times and replaced four credit cards, I found that I have not pressed the "send password" button (crash!!!!!!)
With the "Disney Privilege Card" purchased by the app, there will be a staff at the door of Beauty and the Beast Castle to confirm your time and content, and then scan the QR code to enter the castle!
(This sensor is awesome!)
Thanks for taking the photo.
The 40th Anniversary Priority Admission Card will be implemented on July 26, the day after the trip, and no end date has been announced yet.
Official Website > > > https: / / www.tokyodisneyresort.jp / en / tdl / guide / prioritypass.html (Please refer to the official website for any information)
The biggest difference with Disney Privilege Card:
This is "free", "free", much like the previous use of fast customs clearance.
2. The amusement facilities used are different.
3. You cannot specify a time, you can only enter the venue according to the reservation time shown in the APP. If you do not go temporarily, you can cancel.
The facility can be used by the Ghost House Monster Power Company Hide Cruiser Buzz Lightyear Interstellar Adventure Space Mountain and so on.
【 Reservation waiting card 】 This is it!!
"Frontier Wood House" is recommended to smoke first products, on-site goods are not necessarily, no matter, smoke first!!
You can print your name on the jewelry, before the luggage tag, now the key ring.
Although the discussion on the Internet is very high, but like in tomorrow's world, the egg twister can be arranged without smoking, and there is no limited number of times.
If you want to smoke facilities, performances, luggage listing and egg twisting, in fact, there is no need to think too much, everything must be based on the time and place you smoke to plan.
The whole trip suddenly starts from the left, which means that there are a lot of dinosaur brothers on the left, and they don ’ t have to wait for a long time, including Donald Duck ’ s home.
"Jungle Playhouse" game can also be played live queuing, 700 yen a time, but unfortunately this time did not succeed in winning the prize.
But I will give you a consolation prize!
6. Must see parade performance
2023 Disneyland Summer Parade Guide: Cup Noodle Summer Quest, Disney Colorful Fusion, Dream Light, Parade Experience, Location Share! (2023.07)
If you want to see the parade, please be sure to check the time and pay attention to the broadcast on the official website.
https: / / www.tokyodisneyresort.jp / en / tdl / show / detail / 7800 /
Cup of Tea – September 6
Disney is full of colors (pay attention to the show time, the time is different every day!)
Official website)
Phantom Parade September 15 – October 31
Disney Christmas November 8 to December 25
Disney New Year Special Event January 1, 2024 – January 8, 2024
* * Disney Fireworks will not be cast in summer, and there will be no fireworks until 20: 30 on September 7!
7.40th anniversary pennant photo
See the staff who took the 40th anniversary pennant, you can borrow the pennant with them to take photos, but don 't expect to take photos of the technology.
Disney is hot in summer.
There are water spraying parades and water spraying facilities (the water is completely soft, it is water column grade!!), you can bring extra towels and small picnic pads, or buy on-site.
9. Disney Must Do!!
【 Chiba, Japan 】 What to do at Tokyo Disneyland: First Entry Certificate, Birthday Certificate, Cartoon Star Signature, Postcard Postmark Commemorative Stamp, 40th Anniversary Commemorative Goods
This time, the new product is this cabinet of hats and Mickey shaped glasses.
Summer cup noodles and Mickey modeling water spray fan, be sure to buy!!!
【 First Entry Memorial Sticker 】 Feel free to find a staff member!!
Show the photo to the staff, they will ask your name, you can give him English, or write directly to them in English.
【 Birthday Sticker OR Birthday Badge Necklace 】
The sticker is also free to find a staff, can not show the photo directly in Japanese!!
You can also buy birthday badges with Mickey and Minnie patterns, which can be seen in some stalls or shops!
【 Limited Edition 】 We need to send a letter!!
Send yourself a postcard from Japan!
Completely effortless and easy to get started!
【 Buy Popcorn Barrel 】
Popcorn barrels are limited, the latest styles, sales locations, tastes can be seen on the official website!!
【 40th Anniversary Commemorative Product 】 (Always new, please check the official website!!)
The 40th anniversary products in these two pictures are only available in the park!!
Photographs with Disney characters
If you see it, you can line up quickly. It's a pity that the old man and the old man didn't line up.
Earn a high-flying cuddle with a green Happy Birthday badge necklace

10. Be careful when soaking milk!!
Although Disney facilities almost all have water dispensers, note that it is a water dispenser that drinks directly from the mouth, which is inconvenient to soak milk.
"Cartoon City" baby center only hot water can soak milk, fool and so on cooling us....
If you want to fill the place with water, you can only sell the Three Eyes Mochi.
Can be filled with water (it is ice!).
If it is a diaper table, there is a comfortable air conditioner in the toilet.
11. Cold door small discovery
The turkey legs are back.
There is a new signature book for sale, in a green house selling stamps.
My brother and mother go to Disney from the opening of the park to the closing of the park, and the facilities and the surrounding shops will be closed during the closing time. However, the "World Market" that enters the park will open very late, every store is full of people, and the checkout is a long queue. "Shop can buy another wave!!
But to pay attention to the 40th anniversary most of the goods are not sold here, the brother mother should have aimed at the 40th anniversary and CONVERSE joint name of the shoes, see the price and silently put back...
There is also a small reminder, if there is no electronic payment or transportation card (watermelon card, etc.) to buy tickets on the spot, it is recommended to buy a return ticket first, we just queued to buy a return ticket for more than 20 minutes........
And...
This visit is on July 25, 2023.
Once again, if you look at the Raiders package anywhere, you must go to the official website to confirm the game information and business hours on that day!
Buy Disney tickets here https: / / reurl.cc / qLjakp
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Send yourself a postcard from Japan!
Completely effortless and easy to get started!
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Content: It’s possible that being an only child was one reason I was not exposed to the phenomenon of Disney princess worship during my youth. On the other hand, the lack of a coordinated merchandising effort during the 1970s probably had much more to do with the fact that the company’s princess lineup wasn’t yet emerging as a cultural trend.

In that decade, Disney focused most of its marketing on the so-called “Sensational Six” core characters, including Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse, Pluto, Goofy, Donald Duck, and Daisy Duck; along with product tie-ins to the 1977’s “The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh.”

Of course, Disney had only made three princess movies up to that time. Those included 1937’s “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs,” 1950’s “Cinderella,” and 1959’s “Sleeping Beauty.” Following the introduction of Aurora in 1959, Disney would make moviegoers wait 30 years for the next princess to arrive in a film that would herald the start of the Disney Renaissance.

And that film was 1989’s “The Little Mermaid.”

Written and directed by John Musker and Ron Clements, the 28th Disney animated feature film was very loosely based on the 1837 Danish fairy tale of the same name by Hans Christian Andersen. It boasted a string of memorable songs that brought imbued the production with Broadway panache. Alan Menken wrote the score, and collaborated with Howard Ashman on the songs. The film scored three Academy Award nominations, winning two for Best Original Score and Best Original Song for “Under the Sea.”

The animated film featured the voices of Jodi Benson, Christopher Daniel Barnes, Pat Carroll, Samuel E. Wright, Jason Marin, Kenneth Mars, and Buddy Hackett.

Buoyed by the success of “The Little Mermaid,” the Disney Renaissance ran from the late 1980s to the late 1990s and unleashed a series of critically and commercially successful animated films. Of the 10 films considered part of this period, five were Disney princess films. By 2000, the list of Disney princess included Snow White, Cinderella, Aurora, Ariel, Belle, Jasmine, Pocahontas, and Mulan. Andy Mooney, a former Nike executive who had been named president of Walt Disney Company's Disney Consumer Products division, saw an opportunity. He pitched the Disney Princess franchise line — and a generation of children became entranced consumers.

More than 20 years have gone by since the end of the Disney Renaissance and the official launch of Disney’s Princess Line. These days, Walt Disney Pictures is focused on making live-action adaptations of its animated films. The latest of these is “The Little Mermaid,” directed by Rob Marshall from a screenplay written by David Magee. The film was released theatrically on May 26.

When evaluating a remake, adaptation, or reinterpretation of a classic film, one must consider not only the quality of the new film, but also how it compares to the original. It’s not enough to ask if the film entertaining and well executed. One must also determine what makes the remake valuable in its own right.

“The Little Mermaid” is set in the 1830s in the Caribbean. Ariel (Halle Bailey), youngest child of King Triton (Javier Bardem), lives in an underwater kingdom. Disney wisely mentions in its synopsis of the film that Ariel is 18 years old — not 16, as she was in the animated version.

Unlike her older sisters, Ariel is defiant and rebellious. She is captivated by a world beyond her reach, defying her father’s orders to study humans and collect their possessions from shipwrecks. She is often joined in this endeavor by her aquatic companions Flounder and Sebastian (voiced by Jacob Tremblay and Daveed Diggs, respectively); as well as by the birdbrained Scuttle (voiced by Awkwafina), a seabird whose understanding of human culture is amusingly erroneous.

When a sailing ship she has been watching is destroyed in a storm, she rescues Prince Eric (Jonah Hauer-King). When Triton learns Ariel interacted with the surface world, he goes on an overprotective father rampage, destroying her collection of bric-a-bracs, baubles, and curios while reiterating his mandate that she should not indulge her inclination to learn, explore, or meet new people. Ironically, Prince Eric’s adoptive mother, Queen Salina (Noma Dumezweni) places similar constraints upon him because she is fearful of the outside world and of losing her son.

Desperate to be reunited with Prince Eric — who she is in love with despite the fact that the two haven’t even actually met at this point — Ariel turns to Triton’s evil sister Ursula (Melissa McCarthy), a scheming sea witch who sees this as an opportunity to oust Triton and take power over all the world’s oceans. Ursula strikes a deal with Ariel, giving her legs in exchange for her voice. There’s a catch: If Ariel fails to receive true love’s kiss from Eric before the end of three days, she will become Ursula’s property. To make sure Ariel fails, Ursula also causes her to forget about needing to score that kiss.

That’s just the setup. If it seems a bit drawn out, imagine how it feels watching it on the screen. With a runtime of 2 hours and 15 minutes — 53 minutes longer than the 1989 animated version — it sometimes feels like we’re treading water. One wonders if, in a post-pandemic world filled with ADHD brains, kids can manage to maintain focus on this narrative that meanders its way from scene to scene without a sense of urgency. Sebastian and Flounder know that there is a looming deadline, but in this version of the story, Ariel has been robbed of that knowledge. In the animated version, she at least had a specific objective. She actively worked toward that goal. In this version, she is a starry-eyed young woman crushing on someone she barely knows, drifting dreamily between infatuation and limerence.

Because it is both a retelling of a classic fairy tale and a redesign of a beloved Disney property, the film suffers from a pronounced scarcity of creativity and originality. There are updates to the story, changes in individual characters, and a few additional songs. Some of these facelifts work, such as the addition of Queen Salina. Some of these addendum fall flat, such as Eric’s song “Wild Uncharted Waters,” written by Lin-Manuel Miranda. Miranda’s song “The Scuttlebutt,” performed by Awkwafina and Diggs, is a more palatable add-on, despite that fact that it is jarringly different tonally from other music in the film.

All the film’s flaws and miscalculations can be forgiven by its most impressive saving grace: Bailey’s performance is as remarkable as it is enchanting. Bailey stands out again and again in the murky, sketchy CGI undersea sequences, glowing with charisma and agency. She brings the magic that is noticeably lacking in elsewhere in the film, balancing the nostalgia of childhood memories with a contemporary attitude. She carries this film on her shoulders, filling it with a sense of wonder and awe that will inspire children to seek out unexplored horizons and work toward achieving their dreams.

Mind you: I’d prefer Ariel did not have to literally transform — for a man — to be deemed successful. This version somewhat mitigates that theme. Personal transformation is fine when prompted by a desire to become a better person, while self-change enacted strictly to please an individual or a group is unwise and unhealthy.

The film also features recurring examples — both subtle and palpable — that show gender equity, diversity, and inclusivity are beneficial to society. These are the very same principled concepts extremist legislators and ultraconservative judicial officials currently vilify as “woke,” as if being socially aware, compassionate, and empathetic has somehow become objectionable. If you ascribe to that mindset, you should probably skip this movie.

The bottom line is “The Little Mermaid” may not be as artistically inspired as the animated version, but a standout performance by Bailey keeps the film afloat. It frequently captures the kinetic energy of a Broadway stage production, delighting audiences both with signature songs and newly added sequences that enhance the story and the characters. It is consistently entertaining, with sporadic moments of dazzling brilliance.

If you don’t trust an old curmudgeon to properly evaluate a Disney Princess film, I’ll share a few points my 16-year-old daughter made.

According to B.C. Zumpe, the film’s CGI could have been better. She particularly enjoyed a scene in which Ariel and Eric are dancing in a village near his castle, while a Caribbean band plays.

“Some people want all the characters to look exactly like the originals,” she said. “It wouldn’t be fair if Disney excluded Halle just because of her skin color. They chose her for her voice and her spirit. Even if you’re only upset because she looks different from the Ariel you grew up with, you can’t expect them to keep everything the way you want it.”

My daughter also felt that Awkwafina did a good job in voicing Scuttle. She appreciated how the film promoted the idea that it is good to interact with other cultures and be open to new ideas.

She’s a good kid.

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Halle Bailey stars as Ariel and Jonah Hauer-King as Prince Eric in “The Little Mermaid.”

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Melissa McCarthy stars as Ursula in “The Little Mermaid.”

This strategy has proven particularly effective in international markets