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Bonus Video! How One Disney Executive Nearly Ruined The Little Mermaid
🕑 Added 2024-07-28 16:00:15 +0000 UTCHello there! For this week's bonus video, Ollie and I have a story for you about the time Jeffrey Katzenberg nearly ruined The Little Mermaid, and how Howard Ashman fought tooth and nail to stop Disney execs from making one of the worst calls in movie history. Plus! A montage of New Yorkers absolutely HATING New York, as a treat.
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Delenn Irving
So I'm going back over the bonus videos I've missed out on, and honestly, I am floored that "Part of Your World" almost didn't make it into "The Little Mermaid"! I was the kid who would sing that song at the top of their lungs and could not get the idea of being this girl out of their head. I'm now an out and proud trans woman, so obviously my early identification with Ariel is pretty obvious, looking back. I absolutely wanted to be this beautiful girl with the long, gorgeous hair, swimming in the sea, singing with this absolutely beautiful voice. Trying to imagine my childhood without this song is just impossible. It's so much a part of me that I don't think I would be quite the same person without it, and the film would not have touched me nearly so much without it.
forthehonor-ofgayskull
Cutting an I want song from a musical seems like a very dumb decision smh. Glad they kept the song in. Also I love the little mermaid but I squirm during it too cause I got adhd so could be the same case here.
