"Fantasia" is one of only three Disney films that made the American Film Institute's list of the 100 greatest American movies of the 20th century, with the other two being "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" and (in the updated 21st-century list) "Toy Story." Beyond that, it's in the National Film Registry and is also one of the highest-grossing movies of all time when adjusted for inflation.
The film, overseen by Walt Disney himself, shortly throws down the musical gauntlet, as the live-action shadows of orchestra members against a blue background give way to hand-drawn, almost screensaver-like visuals, which flow to the tune of Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D minor. In 1957, Captain Nemo (James Mason) would play this same piece of music on the organ aboard the Nautilus submarine in Disney's "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea."
The effect, Deems explains, is to segue into the film with "the picture of various abstract images that might pass through your mind if you sat in a concert hall listening to this music." Suffice it to say, "Fantasia" does not follow the conventional Disney narrative patterns. That's what makes it appealing to anyone looking for a change of pace from princesses with animal sidekicks.
There are still plenty of animals in "Fantasia," but they're not the talking kind. In fact, outside interludes with Deem, there's not much talking in "Fantasia" at all.
It reminds me of that Alfred Hitchcock quote: "When the screenplay has been written and the dialogue has been added, we're ready to shoot." Mickey was not so far removed from the silent film era and his own first adventure in "Steamboat Willie," but his popularity had waned since 1928, and "Fantasia" was a kind of quasi-silent comeback for him, like Elvis in Las Vegas but with a broomstick instead of a microphone stand.
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