Is this the animated movie that I watched like 10 years ago on television or something and this girl was looking down at the lake? I remember just seeing that scene that long ago, but I didn't really know what it was nor did I see anything else of it back then.
shareYes, there actually IS a scene in this movie where Penny (the "girl" you're thinking of) is sadly looking down into the waters of the bayou she's held prisoner in. If you haven't seen/don't remember the rest of it, I strongly suggest you check it out. This has been one of my favorites for a fair few years now.
shareI LOVED this movie as a KID. When I saw it again around the late 90's before I got married, and I was like.... this is THE most depressing Disney movie I've EVER seen! I remembered Orville being the humor, and pretending to be him by flapping my arms and jumping into a lake yelling "Mayday!" from a pier as a little kid. And that part was SO small... I had made it bigger than it really was. Still, despite how depressing the movie is... yet it's still one of my favorite hand drawn animated Disney movies. And as a kid viewer, I really latched on to the mice Bernard & Bianca. My best friend even named his hamsters the same names (waaay back then). And it's one of the few GOOD non-"P.C." Disney movies in the last 40 years as well. Ok so what... I'm 44.
3rd generation American from a long line of Gottscheers... it was Drandul, dude!
Depressing? Somber, maybe. But depressing?
After having the same signature for, what, ten years? I'm not sure what to put here now.
And it's one of the few GOOD non-"P.C." Disney movies in the last 40 years as well.
Or perhaps some consider it politically "incorrect" because society has more or less become a bunch of wusses? I really don't know... Either way I LOVE this movie and Disney had BETTER do something grand scale to celebrate its 40th anniversary next year...
shareIt is not politically correct because they show red-neck like characters. And those characters (which I adore btw) make their OWN alcohol? AND they showed them 'drunk' and spewing fire from their mouths! And didn't Medusa's henchman also drink? And then there were the gators watching Penny. Yes it was depressing. A girl was taken from an orphanage for a woman's own ends by nearly killing her just for the sake of a diamond. She didn't care a wits end about Penny or her lackey(husband? business partner?). All Medusa wanted was the diamond to sell it and get the 'heck outta dodge'! Literally. In the end it took the animals to save her help her get the diamond for Medusa just to get her out of there. And forget the fact they lived on a derelict steamboat from the age of the 'ye old cotton age' of the South. Over all it is a charming movie... and Penny's main song is pretty depressing too, trying to keep full of hope to be saved from the grip of Medusa and have 'real' parents to care for her. And the artists made sure the whole movie itself was colored very darkly and in grays with very little use in light and coloring until the very end when she's finally saved. Probably all done on purpose of course. I remember loving the movie as a KID, but seeing it as an adult in my 30's... whoa. I kept thinking to myself... I liked THIS!? And all I remembered from the movie as a kid were the more colorful moments in the movie, Bernard & Bianca, and the one main funny part. "Mayday! Mayday!" That was literally all I remember from this movie from days gone by, not the music, not the other animals in Coon-A Country or anything like that, but what I just mentioned.
Plus there were stereotypical characters... that we just would NOT see today. Like the old-looking and old-ACTING characters (they were just animals...) but still. So many people take this kind of stuff the wrong way... whatever.
3rd generation American from a long line of Gottscheers... it was Drandul, dude!