Dumbo
To celebrate the release of Tim Burton ’s live - actionDumboremake , Screen Rant ’s Ryan George takes us back to the 1940s to reveal what ( probably ) come about in thepitch meetingfor the animated original .
Dumbowas free in 1941 , superintend by supervising theater director Ben Sharpsteen , and mean as a simple and cheap motion picture that could recoup some of the studio ’s money afterFantasiaturned out to be a financial flop . Fantasiahad been years in maturation , but after yield got underway , something rather unfortunate happen : Adolf Hitler infest Poland . The result war in Europe naturally assume a bell on the box office that heavily impactedFantasia , and Disney require a straightaway , cheap film to turn things around .
link : Disney ’s Aladdin ( 1992 ) Pitch Meeting
What we ’re essay to say here is that the factual tar meeting forDumboinvolved a set of stern instructions from the studio not to spend too much money . The resulting flick was only 64 minutes long , but its simple tale of an elephant mother ’s love for her big - eared materialisation and a downtrodden babe elephant learning how to flee won audiences over , andDumbobecame Disney ’s biggest box seat office hit of the 10 . tight - forward to the 2010s , and Disney was dipping back into the pond of its most dear alive moving-picture show togive them the remake treatment .
Burton’sDumbofleshes out the story , introducing Michael Keaton as greedy amusement park mogul V. A. Vandevere , who persuades circus possessor Max Medici ( Danny DeVito ) to correspond to an accomplishment , only to then reveal he was only interested in Medici ’s flying elephant . Once the carnival has been merged into Vandevere ’s own attraction , Dreamland , Vandevere callously terminate all of the circus performers except for Dumbo . All of which is a littlebitawkward considering that Disney just bought twentieth Century Fox for $ 71 billion and is now in the process ofshutting down small label like Fox 2000and lay off employee . Whoops .
Still , even if Disney ’s live - activity remaking ofDumboisgetting mixed reviewsand has a secret plan that isaccidentally a vituperative critique of Disney ’s own business practices , we ’ll always have the 1941 master . WatchingDumbois a way to return to a sweet and more destitute time . As long as you disregard all the casual racism . And do n’t seek to unpick that nightmarish pink elephants on parade sequence .
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