Frog on the News

[tealin]

Hey look, They are talking about The Princess and the Frog! Talk about it some more!

Syndicated CNN Video Clip

I post it purely in case someone may be desperate for media coverage – it's only got footage from the teaser, some very predictable statements from talking heads, and narration by a perky yet aggressive woman in that extremely annoying content-light CNN kind of way.

36 days to proper trailer time!



OMG 36 DAYS WUT. [panics a little more]

Comments

[hobbitnat.livejournal.com]

Hey Tealin i have a question for you, i'm looking around old awesome art i use to look at when i was i jr high cause i'm silly that haha. Do you know what ever happened to Mirage? the girl who did the Clopin art? I noticed her starredgirl.com is down, but wasn't sure if she'd changed websites or something

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

Email please? :)

[hobbitnat.livejournal.com]

natticus54@hotmail.com :) (hah i'm guessing you wanted mine haha) p.s. in your adventures of working for Disney did you ever work with Steve Rabatich?

[bluejeans07.livejournal.com]

Wooow... they even just took it directly from the website. XD

Man, I don't remember if there was all this hoopla about Mulan being the first Asian character, but then she wasn't a princess (she was just kick ass~).

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

Yeah, Mulan is not a princess, but yet she's on the occasional princess merchandise (always in her matchmaker outfit, which ... yeah, way to 'get' the character) and Pocahontas, who ACTUALLY WAS a princess (for a given value of princess), gets left out. Go fig.

[bluejeans07.livejournal.com]

Really I like Mulan best in her practice outfit. And shouldn't Disney be encouraging that we all look for the "princess within ourselves" or something like that? XD

"princess within ourselves"

[noodledaddy.livejournal.com]

Well, maybe not ALL of us. After all, my wife for one might get a little nervous.

Re: "princess within ourselves"

[bluejeans07.livejournal.com]

Truth be told, I would be too, haha!

Re: "princess within ourselves"

[noodledaddy.livejournal.com]

And she would be doubly troubled if I found my "inner princess."

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

And I would be doubly amused!

Re: "princess within ourselves"

[fani.livejournal.com]

I can design some pretty gowns for you if your daughter refuses :P

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

Yeah, something like that anyway ... :P

(I agree, practise outfit FTW)

[canisdoofus.livejournal.com]

Eeeeeeeee!!! I haven't been this excited over a non-Pixar!Disney movie since like... Lilo & Stitch!

And for the record, females in leading Disney Movie roles that would either by birth or by marriage be considered 'princesses' through the term's technical definition are:

1) Snow White
2) *Faline
3) Cinderella
4) Aurora
5) Ariel
6) Belle
7) Jasmine
8) *Nala
9) **Pocahontas
10) Tiana

*Refers to animals. Bambi was consistently called "the Prince of the Forest", which would make his mate "the Princess". Nala was Simba's mate, however, she may have bypassed the role of Princess, since Simba became king before they were... mated(?) and gone straight to 'queen' status. :\ Nevertheless, since Sarabi was still alive when Simba became king, would Nala remain a "Princess" if Sarabi is still Queen, or would the latter now be "Queen Mother"? I digress. Since these characters are all wild animals, they don't technically marry and as such, do not have hereditary titles as humans do. But since Disney is all about equality, I vouch for both Nala and Faline to achieve Princess status!

**Pocahontas is the daughter of a tribal chief, which is not a hereditary title, but one achieved through merit (usually in warfare and/or hunting) in most aboriginal cultures. Nevertheless, since she is the daughter of a monarchial figure at the time when the story takes place, she is a princess when viewed through a European cultural lens.

[ardys-the-ghoul.livejournal.com]

I have to add that Megara was also a princess in the original story.

[canisdoofus.livejournal.com]

But not in the Disney movie. She was a commoner there.

[ardys-the-ghoul.livejournal.com]

True--I guess my point is that technically, one could put her on the Princess list.

You know, Disney loves princesses so much, it seems a little odd to me that they didn't go the Princess route with her--especially when she was already a "canonical" princess.

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

She didn't fit the marketable 'princess' personality type. I mean, how many soccer moms want their little darlings to have a sardonic and duplicitous femme fatale for a role model? The princess line would be so scandalized!

[karalora.livejournal.com]

She wasn't a leading lady, but what about Tiger Lily (Peter Pan)? She's in the same position as Pocahontas, and is even explicitly referred to as a princess in the film.

[beckychan.livejournal.com]

36 days? Damn, woman! I haven't heard anything about it, media-wise!

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

Well, trailers don't get much advance press, and I think they're kind of counting on everyone and their talking dog going to see Up. I can't wait to see it online, though, all FINISHED and IN COLOUR. :D

Except I can wait, because I don't actually want the end of May to come.

[beckychan.livejournal.com]

What's your job sitch looking like once P Frog is done?

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

NO EYE DEER! Welcome to animation. :)

[raddishh.livejournal.com]

Aww, there was a still I hadn't seen before. Exciting.

I'm waiting to give my verdict when I see the proper trailer! I am still SO IN LOVE with the concept art that's up floating around on the internet. New Orleans is such a great setting.

[wizardelfgirl.livejournal.com]

Some of Mexico's important newspapers recently talked about Princess and the Frog too, which hasn't happened in ages (a newspaper taliing about a Disney film) and made me really happy because people here will start to take notice of the film and its chances of success increase.

BTW that list of princesses is missing Kida, who if I recall correctly was also a princess, right? (or at least she was the daughter of the chief/leader of an empire, making her on par with Pocahontas).


I translated the Princess and the Frog trailer for Latin America. I can't wait to see it on the big screen!

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

Pah, we do not speak of Atlantis. (But yes, technically princess indeed, even if she is Princess of Annoying.)

ISN'T THE TRAILER AWESOME?! :D :D :D

[wizardelfgirl.livejournal.com]

In all honesty I can't tell if it's objectively awesome or if it's just endorphines at seeing so many colour scenes strung together...

...And the music. Don't forget the music. I still get goosebumps just thinking about it.

But I can honestly say, without giving anything away, that I feel they succeeded at linking PatF with the past Golden Age of 2D animation from the 90s, at the same time announcing with grandeur the beginning of a new Age (which I hope is full of 2D). Awesome.