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Funny Story About Recording for Disney's Hercules


https://www.denofgeek.com/movies/disney-s-hercules-and-the-challenge-of-casting/:

The pair threw themselves into the development of the movie, and [co-director John] Musker gave an insight into what they were up against. In particular, at the start of Hercules, Musker noted that “we wanted the film to open with very sober, stentorian narration as we panned through a Museum of Classical Antiquities, but then be interrupted by the informality of our muses as they come to life off Attic vases. When they want to take over the narration of the story, the narrator concedes and even exhorts Calliope in a manner a bit out of character for him: ‘You go, girl…’”

A call went in to the late Charlton Heston, who agreed to lend his voice to the film. He came in to record the lines of said narrator. The problem? He wasn’t happy with the grammar of what he had to say.

The directors checked if he was okay with the lines, and he questioned him having to say ‘you go, girl’. “He was insistent that rather than ‘you go, girl’ it should be said, ‘go ahead…young lady!” I don’t think Chuck was familiar with the colloquialism we were playing with,” Musker noted.

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Chuck was right. "You go, girl" is a lame saying, just like "Yeah boooooiiiii!" and the like. Modernish hollyweird is full of fools.

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