What is your favorite Fantasia segment

Odradek

Open question

Tachyon

Rite of Spring

my favourite from Fantasia 2000 is Pines of Rome

Toolsie

Never saw the original Fantasia, but I love The Firebird Suite from Fantasia 2000.

Odradek

Purple Shirted Eye Stabber said:

Never saw the original Fantasia, but I love The Firebird Suite from Fantasia 2000.

GO SEE IT NOW

Sredni Vashtar

It's been so long that I can't say.

Section42L

I hate to be obvious, but I have to say The Sorcerer's Apprentice. 

Anonus

The one with the dancing mushrooms

Tachyon

Boris Badenov said:

The one with the dancing mushrooms

The Nutcracker Suite

Salix Babylonika

never seen either

Princess Alice

0vvvv0 said:

It's been so long that I can't say.

glennmagusharvey

I only have a least favorite part, and that's the slow movement of the Pastoral Symphony.  It's good, but just less memorable.

The rest of them are all memorable and awesome.

buttercrispy

When I was little the nutcracker suite, nowadays it's the night on bald mountain one bc of the contrast they do

Odradek

For the first one, my favorite is Sorcerer's Apprentice.

For Fantasia 2000, you are all wrong because Rhapsody In Blue is objectively the best one.

Toolsie

Torgo said:

For the first one, my favorite is Sorcerer's Apprentice.

For Fantasia 2000, you are all wrong because The Firebird Suite is objectively the best one.

Tachyon

Rhapsody in Blue was pretty great, and i almost said it, but then i was like, what image from that film stuck in my mind as the most memorable and great, and i was like, definitely flying whales

Klinotaxis

I liked the dinosaur shit, as I recall

Tachyon

night on bald mountain was probably the best part of fantasia actually but when i was a kid it scared me

thenamelesssamurai

For the original, a tie between The Rite of Spring and Tocatta and Fugue in D minor. For fantasia 2000 definitely the Firebird Suite.

Odradek

rayman said:

I liked the dinosaur shit, as I recall

That's Rite of Spring.

Walt Disney was actually expressing coded antinatalist sympathies by using Rite of the Spring for a segment animating the beginning of life.

Imipolex G

Night on Bald Mountain

Odradek

Fun fact: At one point, there was going to be a segment set to part of Wagner's Ring Cycle that would have drawn from the then-recent children's book The Hobbit

thenamelesssamurai

Torgo said:

Fun fact: At one point, there was going to be a segment set to part of Wagner's Ring Cycle that would have drawn from the then-recent children's book The Hobbit

Now that I know this, I am infinitely disappointed that that was not included.

Imipolex G

Tolkien hated Disney, though

One-Winged Eagle

Firebird.

Odradek

 One review of the film in this manner, written by Dorothy Thompson for The New York Herald Tribune on November 25, 1940, was especially harsh. Thompson claimed that she "left the theater in a condition bordering on nervous breakdown," because the film was a "remarkable nightmare." Thompson went on to compare the film to rampant Nazism, which she described as "the abuse of power" and "the perverted betrayal of the best instincts." Thompson also claimed that the film depicted nature as being "titanic" while man was only "a moving lichen on the stone of time." She concluded that the film was "cruel", "brutal and brutalizing", and a negative "caricature of the Decline of the West". In fact, Thompson claimed that she was so distraught by the film that she even walked out of it before she saw the two last segments, Night on Bald Mountain and Ave Maria, because she did not want to be subject to any more of the film's "brutalization".^[126]

Klinotaxis

awesome

Odradek

The sad part is that's more artistic credit than the Oscars gives to animated films.

Sredni Vashtar

It's actually incredibly complimentary without meaning to be, and it certainly does give far more artistic credit to animated film than the Academy seems to.

Odradek

My first reaction was "But man IS a moving lichen on the stone of time"

Odradek

I like to believe she came to that conclusion while watching this

Imipolex G

^^me 2

Klinotaxis

this is somewhat less funny when I look up the person and she was in fact a reporter kicked out of the Reich for her journalism

I mean still a ridiculous comparison but

Odradek

https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1955&dat=19401125&id=9ZghAAAAIBAJ&sjid=c5oFAAAAIBAJ&pg=2876,4454958&hl=en

Here is the full text.

Odradek

rayman said:

this is somewhat less funny when I look up the person and she was in fact a reporter kicked out of the Reich for her journalism

I mean still a ridiculous comparison but

I'm not dismissing it so much as marvelling at it.

Klinotaxis

I'm definitely marveling

Tre

0vvvv0 said:

It's been so long that I can't say.

Same.

Salix Babylonika

I can quite confidently say I've never felt that way about anything, ever.