Trivia The first Disney animated film that's not a musical to not contain any songs, neither performed by characters nor in the background. Goofs Before the film was released, several scenes considered too "graphic" were cropped out of the film.
One particular cut involving a Cauldron Born killing a person by slicing his neck and torso created a recognizable lapse due to the fact that the removal of the scene creates a jump in the film's soundtrack. Quotes Eilonwy : I'm Princess Eilonwy. Crazy credits There are no opening or cast and crew credits.
Alternate versions The version of the film released to theaters omits numerous fully animated scenes that include shots of graphic violence as Taran fights his way out of the castle and shots of Eilonwy sporting ripped garments as she's hanging for her life with Taran and Fflewddur. The most well-known deleted scene, due to a clumsy jump that it left in the film's soundtrack and a cel of the infamous scene appearing online, is that of a man being mauled by one of the Cauldron-born.
Connections Edited from Fantasia User reviews Review. Top review. This is not your average Disney movie, which is full of happy characters and a long line of happy-go-lucky songs. One of few PG-rated Disney movies, this one contains no music, and truly scary characters age-depending, of course.
Although characters like the Horned King and his undead army, may frighten younger viewers, the movie's dark side may be appreciated by some children we forget that they too may appreciate the darker sides of things. The story is slow-moving for a Disney movie, but involving nonetheless.
Although it is not the best movie, it is different from their usual gooey-mess of a film, while still having a fantasy-theme and does not seem like a Disney movie whatsoever in a good way!
FAQ 1. What's the difference between the book vs the movie? Details Edit. Release date July 24, United States. United States United Kingdom. Over 1, different hues and colors were implemented and over 34 miles of film stock was utilized.
The sheer lavishness of the production, however, did not guarantee huge grosses, and the film was a box office failure. David W. Released on video in For fans of Alexander's Chronicles of Prydain , Cauldron 's particularly difficult to enjoy. The series—the final volume of which won the Newbery Medal in —is based loosely on Welsh folklore. With its young hero, its white-bearded wizard, and its faceless villain deep in the mountains, it sounds like tween Tolkien.
But in truth, it's an exceptional work for young readers, drawing from the same deep well of European myth as Tolkien but delivering its complex story with simple, elegant language that kids can immediately embrace. A great deal of the books' power comes from the development of Assistant Pig-Keeper Taran from callow youth to reluctant hero to lost soul to, in the end of the series, wise leader of men.
But at the time Disney opposed sequels, so the full, five-volume epic was merely grist for the Disney mill: Joe Hale plucked story elements from the first two books and discarded the rest. Even before it flopped, The Black Cauldron would always be the only Prydain movie; that it fumbled such terrific material just made it worse. But there's still a great deal to love in The Black Cauldron.
The untested animators Don Bluth left behind created some amazing sequences, including a dramatic scene of Taran's oracular pig, Hen Wen, being captured by pterodactyl-like gwythaints. The movie shares the novels' distrust of glory won in battle, and makes the peril Taran and his friends face feel very real.
The three witches who guard the Cauldron are as creepily funny as they are in the books. And despite the cuts that removed its goriest details, the Cauldron-Born sequence is still a glorious outlier in the Disney canon—loud, gross, and delightfully scary, with dramatic gouts of green flame and melting fiery skulls. By the time Cauldron made it to theaters, Eisner was turning Disney's corporate culture upside down.
Not that it didn't need it; according to James Stewart's Disney War , executives worked half-days and spent the afternoon visiting Bob Hope's masseur, a Disney employee. Katzenberg, though, after educating himself on Disney history, became convinced that animation was a key to the company's future success—but on his terms: cheap and fast. Cauldron 's flop could have killed Disney animation; instead, it gave Katzenberg an excuse to remake how the way the studio worked.
The Eisner-Katzenberg revolution was a success, at first. The animators stuck in that much-hated Glendale warehouse were responsible for a string of classics in the late s and early '90s, including The Little Mermaid , Beauty and the Beast , and Aladdin. But Bossert asserts that he never heard anything about that and assumes that it came from Imagineering, which following the completion of EPCOT Center and Tokyo Disneyland was facing a massive reduction in the workforce.
But there are some generally thrilling sequences, like an early moment where giant, dragon-like beasts come after the pig and anything involving The Horned King, malevolently voiced by the great John Hurt. Some moments, like the deadly goo released by the black cauldron and the shimmery swordplay, seem directly inspired by live action fare of the period, things like Raiders of the Lost Ark or Star Wars. Critically, the to The Black Cauldron was mixed.
Financially, it did much worse. And it seemed like the severe underperformance of The Black Cauldron could have signaled the end of Walt Disney Animation.
It came out on DVD, complete with special features including special features, but was never released on Blu-ray. While Hale later claimed that an unedited cut of the film existed ReleaseTheBlackCauldronGoreCut , in the early s, then-head of animation Peter Schneider tasked Hahn and editor Arthur Schmidt with delivering an improved cut of the film for home video. But we could only make it shorter.
Incredibly, a small cult movement grew for The Black Cauldron , even though it was incredibly difficult to find and, as a film, is pretty difficult to fully appreciate. Bossert did some screenings of the film at Walt Disney Animation in the late s — to packed houses. Looking back on the movie, most involved see it as a pivotal learning experience, even if ultimately they fell short on delivering the next Disney animated classic.
I think the studio would have been different without it. I think they had to go through that growth experience to get to the great work later on.
All those people are friends and I love them. Drew Taylor is an associate editor for Collider. Image via Disney. Image via Lucasfilm.
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