Frog Music
Dec. 23rd, 2009 03:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bloodyrosemccoyGod dammit, I can’t get The Princess And The Frog’s soundtrack out of my head.
I think it’s Tiana’s voice. I can take or leave Naveen, but Tiana—Anika Noni Rose—has a fantastic voice. And more to the point, she has one of those rare voices that my synesthesia has decided is multicolored, and it’s fascinating. Every time she sings I see purple—but it’s bordered. On the top is a big blue stripe, and on the bottom is a big red stripe, and between each of those stripes and the purple is a small strip of brown.
It’s hard not to be totally intrigued by this.
Anyway, as long as I’m on the subject, I’ve been talking with some people about how Facilier is not a very memorable villain, and I’ve been trying to figure out why, besides the fact that his song kinda peters out in the middle.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
chibicharibdys made a good point—he’s a bit all over the place, and doesn’t have a clearly stated goal until much later. I realized she’s right—all the really interesting Disney villains gave you a simple plan to root against. Hell, even Gaston, whose goal is not so much “I will rule the world” as “I will rule Carl Belle to feed my ego, destroying anything that gets in my way,” was pretty straightforward, and thus memorable.*
Facilier, however, seemed not to have thought his plan out very well, and so it wound up looking like:
1. Voodoo
2. ????
3. PROFIT!
Which is a little disappointing, because he was such a cool design. He coulda been a lot of fun.**
At least I got those shadows. That will make me happy forever.
*And also, I realized, rather alarmingly realistic.
**And for those of you worried that he was particularly scary for little kids, might I remind you that the first Disney movie I ever saw in theaters was the one with the giant too-forward octopus woman turning merfolk into barnacles, trying to take over the ocean and then getting STABBED BY A BOAT. After which she has death throes in which she TEARS HERSELF APART, and bits and pieces of her rain down upon the magical undersea kingdom while the merfolk celebrate their newfound non-barnacle status. Also, I hid from the Pink Elephants. Disney scaring small children is nothing new.
I think it’s Tiana’s voice. I can take or leave Naveen, but Tiana—Anika Noni Rose—has a fantastic voice. And more to the point, she has one of those rare voices that my synesthesia has decided is multicolored, and it’s fascinating. Every time she sings I see purple—but it’s bordered. On the top is a big blue stripe, and on the bottom is a big red stripe, and between each of those stripes and the purple is a small strip of brown.
It’s hard not to be totally intrigued by this.
Anyway, as long as I’m on the subject, I’ve been talking with some people about how Facilier is not a very memorable villain, and I’ve been trying to figure out why, besides the fact that his song kinda peters out in the middle.
chibicharibdys made a good point—he’s a bit all over the place, and doesn’t have a clearly stated goal until much later. I realized she’s right—all the really interesting Disney villains gave you a simple plan to root against. Hell, even Gaston, whose goal is not so much “I will rule the world” as “I will rule Facilier, however, seemed not to have thought his plan out very well, and so it wound up looking like:
1. Voodoo
2. ????
3. PROFIT!
Which is a little disappointing, because he was such a cool design. He coulda been a lot of fun.**
At least I got those shadows. That will make me happy forever.
*And also, I realized, rather alarmingly realistic.
**And for those of you worried that he was particularly scary for little kids, might I remind you that the first Disney movie I ever saw in theaters was the one with the giant too-forward octopus woman turning merfolk into barnacles, trying to take over the ocean and then getting STABBED BY A BOAT. After which she has death throes in which she TEARS HERSELF APART, and bits and pieces of her rain down upon the magical undersea kingdom while the merfolk celebrate their newfound non-barnacle status. Also, I hid from the Pink Elephants. Disney scaring small children is nothing new.
