2010 19 Jan

Up Won Golden Globe Awards

Author: disneytalks Categories: History, Latest News, Movies, Music, Walt Disney

Congratulations for Walt Disney Pictures and Pixar Studio!!!

“Up” has won two categories of Golden Globe awards. In “The Best Animation Feature Film” category, “Up” has defeated its competitor such as “Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs”, “Fantastic Mr. Fox”, “Coraline”, and other Walt Disney movie, “Princess and the Frog”.

While in “The Best Original Score” category, Michael Giacchino as the composer of “Up” has defeated James Horner from the-best-movie-winner “Avatar”, and other composers in other movies; “The Informant!”, “A Single Man”, and “Where The Wild Things Are”.

Good job! Once again, congratulations! Well, the journey which has been done by Carl, Russel, Kevin, and Dug has brought them success, although it cost a house and a GPS (lol).

Once again, congratulations! We’ll always love your movies… Can’t wait to see your other movies…

Source of the Golden Globe Winners:
http://www.goldenglobes.org/nominations/

2009 24 Feb

Congratulations, Wall-E!

Author: disneytalks Categories: Characters, Disney in Me, Latest News, Movies, Walt Disney

walle2  Although it had six nominations for Oscar, an Pixar-Walt Disney animation Wall-E had won an Oscar for “Best Animated Film”. It was also nominated for Original Score, Original Song, Sound Editing, Sound Mixing, and Original Screenplay.

Wall-E , like I’ve discussed before here, is an animation created by Pixar Studio and Walt Disney Production in 2008. It doesn’t have many dialogues, but still, it’s interesting to watch. The story is fresh and it’s showing us how our Earth will be if we keep making it dirty. Wall-E is a robot which has to clean our Earth so human will be able to live in it again.

One thing I remember from Wall-E is M-O, the robot whose duty is to make sure everything is clean in Axiom (the space ship where people from Earth live). M-O is Microbe Obliterator, which obsess to clean the ship and inspects incoming shipments. Every time M-O sees Wall-E, he always makes Wall-E clean. Wall-E dirty trail (because he is from our dirty Earth) always makes M-O upset, but he still cleans it. I love him! One thing interesting about Wall-E and M-O, they have same person to be their voice. Benn Burtt voiced Wall-E and M-O.

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I feel pity that Wall-E didn’t get all the Oscars, but at least it won one. Besides Wall-E, Walt Disney was also nominated for Bolt. It is not 3D animation, but 2D animation with John Travolta and Miley Cyrus as Bolt and Penny.

Some interesting things related to Wall-E and friends


2008 12 Sep

The Incredibles 1.5

Author: disneytalks Categories: Movies, Walt Disney

I found on the Internet, just thinking that you will love to read it… ;) I love Incredibles!!!

Published by Jennifer Vineyard on Tuesday, August 12, 2008 at 1:57 pm.

'The Incredibles'It was inevitable, really — never just a movie, “The Incredibles,” what with its whole family of supers, belonged in the comic book world from the get go, and now, with Pixar’s deal with Boom Studios, they will be.

Mr. Incredible, Elastigirl (Mrs. Incredible), and their kids Violet, Dash, and baby Jack-Jack will continue their adventures in what writer Mark Waid calls “Incredibles 1.5,” a storyline that starts a little after the events of the movie, so that the family has had some time to let it sink in, but the characters are not any older. (And should there be an “Incredibles” sequel, the comic book stories won’t interfere). “This is Pixar’s tip on the Fantastic Four,” Waid said, “so while I get to play with their toys in the toybox, it can’t be so drastic that they can’t have a future.”

Which means Violet is still “delicately balanced” between being shy and having gained some confidence (“If she has too much, she’s no longer Violet”), Dash is still “thought to deed, single synapse theory,” and Jack-Jack still “can’t articulate what’s going on.” “He’s a wild card,” Waid said. “What are his powers now? You never can tell, and maybe he’d be great in a fight. But if I had a toddler that age, I wouldn’t even take him to the store, much less to fight a giant alien.”

In the first four-issue arc, starting in April, Mr. Incredible — Bob to his wife — is starting to lose his powers, his invulnerability and strength, but he doesn’t want to tell his family or go to the doctor. “You know the climax of the movie, with trying to control the giant robot? That was just their version of fighting over the TV remote,” Waid said. “You’re taking very familiar family dynamic problems and ramping up the superhero angle.”

So in this instance, when Mr. Incredible finds that his powers are fading (i.e. he’s feeling older and emasculated, every aging dad’s fear), he’s relegated to house husband status. “He feels terrible,” Waid said. “He’s calling them on the phone when they’re on missions, to give them advice, but what he really needs to do is get his powers back.” And just as there was an Edna on hand for costume problems, there will be a supers-doctor, too. “Where do you go to school to learn superhero medicine?” Waid pondered. “That’s something to think about.”

By issue four, this particular conflict will be solved – Waid’s currently writing the script for issue six, and hopes to keep the monthly comic going as long as possible (Darwyn Cooke is doing the covers, but no artist has been attached for inside art). Eventually other Pixar titles will start coming out next year as well as comics – “Toy Story” will be up next – to the point where six titles a month will eventually be in rotation. “There are people even at my office who would cut my brake lines in a heartbeat to write ‘The Incredibles,’” Waid said, “but ‘Wall-E’ would be just as fun to do. We’ve been talking to folks about writing ‘Toy Story,’ ‘Monster’s Inc.’ or whathaveyou, and when we say, ‘Dude, we’re a startup company, we can’t afford you,’ they say they don’t care. People want to write this stuff.”

What would you like to see explored in the ‘Incredibles’ comics? Should Violet go out on dates? Should Jack-Jack grow up? Who would you like to see write other Pixar comics? Let us know!

I joined a fans-club of Disney (especially Donald Duck). One of the members threw an interesting topic once.

“Perhaps we don’t realize that all these years Walt Disney has created such a wonderful and great female characters, such as:

  • Daisy Duck, a female duck who has active socialization, and she is pretty too.
  • Minnie Mouse, a female mouse, more less she is like Daisy, but sometimes she shows some courages when she has to fight Pete.
  • Grandma Duck, a strong and old woman, but still has spirit to maintain her farm. She is wise, and have great patience dealing with Gus Goose, the lazy goose.
  • Magica de Spell and Madam Mim, female witches who have dedicated themselves for magic, and choose not to marry, but to focus on the magic.

Who else?”

My answer is:

 

Dory

DORY
from Finding Nemo

Why am I saying that Dory is one of the greatest female Characters in Disney?

 

I know that Walt Disney’s Female characters are mostly princesses, such as Belle from Beauty and the Beast, Ariel from The Little Mermaid, Snow White, etc. They are great, surely. But I adore Dory.

 

You know, Dory has a weakness: SHORT TERM MEMORY. She easily forgets everything. For us, Dory’s weakness is funny, because that is the humorous aspect in this movie. But if we put ourselves as Dory, I think Dory feels frustrated because of that! She can forget about things which means a lot for her. Family, perhaps? Or someone she loves?

 

Do you remember when Marlin wants to leave her after they sees Nemo ‘dead’?
Dory feels that she has a friend. She has never had a real friend, she feels that she has a friend when she goes with Marlin.

 

Can you imagine living without any friend?
I can’t

 

But Dory, although she has such a problem like that, she doesn’t give up. She still can face her problems with her head’s up. We can say, “Don’t worry, be happy!”

 

I think it can be our reflection.

 

If we face problems in our life, don’t be ‘desperate people’, thinking that we are the only one who suffers in this world. Face them in courage! Don’t forget to ask GOD’s help. Because we have God, and He helps us through the ways we cannot imagine, and one of them is through friends. We still can remember our friends, not like Dory, so be grateful of that! Say thanks to your friends!

Just like Dory says,

Just keep swimming…
Just keep swimming…

By the way, if you like Finding Nemo like I do, check this out… It’s worth to be collected… ;)