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Disney

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Victoria 2014

Contents

1.Argument..........................................................................................................................4

2.Introduction.......................................................................................................................5

3.The Characters..................................................................................................................6

3.1.Minnie Mouse............................................................................................................6

3.2.Mickey Mouse...........................................................................................................6

3.3.Pluto...........................................................................................................................7

3.4.Donald Duck..............................................................................................................8

4.The Princesses From Disney............................................................................................9

4.1.Cinderella...................................................................................................................9

4.2.Snow White.............................................................................................................10

4.3.Belle.........................................................................................................................11

4.4.Ariel.........................................................................................................................12

5.Movies............................................................................................................................13

5.1.101 Dalmatians........................................................................................................13

5.2.The Aristocats..........................................................................................................14

6.Conclusion......................................................................................................................15

7.Bibliography...................................................................................................................16

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Imagine the most beautiful, yet tiny world you

have ever seen; a world full of witchcraft which

invites you to dream you can be whatever you want!

It is a world dominated by funny characters, great

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movies, unexpected love stories and wonderful friends. This

is the world of Walt Disney!

1.Argument

“Believe is just the beginning”…in this way starts every dream, every hope, every

realization. You have just to believe in yourself and in your aspirations in order to

became reality your dreams. If you want you can built your own world, you can imagine

everybody is kind or you can make new friends-that’s Walt Disney!

I chose this theme: Walt Disney because I enjoy every time I see movies like 101

Dalmatians or The Lady and the Vagabond, because I love Mickey Mouse or Miss Piggy,

because I can dream at a love like the one between Cinderella and Prince Charming or

between Jasmine and Aladdin.

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2.Introduction

The Walt Disney Company is the third largest media and entertainment in the world.

Founded by brothers Walt and Roy Disney as a small animation studio, it has become one

of the biggest Hollywood studios and owner of eleven theme parks and several television

networks.

The most important aspect of Disney is the characters, which are multiple and funny.

Walt Disney began the move into features in 1934, pulling selected animators away from

the short subjects division that had previously been the whole of Walt Disney

Productions. The result was the first animated feature in English and Technicolor, Snow

White and the Seven Dwarfs. Beside successes like Snow White, Dumbo, and Cinderella,

Disney also directed the Feature Animation staff create experimental and stylized films

such as Fantasia and Sleeping Beauty which sustained losses and did not recoup their

costs until decades after their original releases.

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3.The Characters

3.1.Minnie Mouse

Minnie Mouse is the quintessential girl-next-door.

She personifies the very spirit of femininity with her kind

and caring style. She gracefully moves, speaks and acts

with a wholesome girlish charm. Guileless and innocent,

Minnie always retains the simple, down-to-earth spirit of a

sweet country girl. She is always polite and proper and

despite her shy nature, she maintains an air of

independence and self-warmth.

Fun-loving, Minnie enjoys life to the fullest. As a performer with great ability,

Minnie loves music, frequently singing or humming to herself. Sweet and demure but not

entirely naïve, she is intelligent, with a mind of her own. Secure and strong enough to

allow her partner to shine, Minnie graciously shares the spotlight with Mickey. Having

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like favourite phrases “Why, hello!” or “Yoo-hoooo”, ”Oh Mickey!” or “Aren’t you

sweet!”, Minnie Mouse manages to charm all people who see her.

3.2.Mickey Mouse

Mickey Mouse is arguably the most famous of the

Disney cartoon characters. Making his debut in "Steamboat

Willie" at the Colony Theatre in New York City on

November 18, 1928, Mickey went on to star in over 120

different cartoons. He also starred in "The Mickey Mouse

Club" television show of the 1950s.

Mickey Mouse’s original drawings used circles for his

head, body and ears.1939’s “The Pointer” saw a bold, new

design for Mickey as his body became more pear-shaped

and pupils were added to his eyes to increase his range of expression. Later, animators of

the 194`s would add a perspective aspect to his ears, giving them a three-dimensional

effect. The Mickey Mouse of today appears much as he did in the early days with the

exception of a costume change here and there.

Originally, Mickey was voiced by Walt Disney himself. Later, those duties were

assumed by Jim MacDonald and today Wayne Allwine provides Mickey’s distinctive

voice. Mickey Mouse has appeared on thousands of merchandise items and currently

holds the esteemed title of Chief Greeter at the Disney theme parks.

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3.3.Pluto

Pluto, also called Pluto the Pup, is a

cartoon character created in 1930 by Walt

Disney Productions. He is a golden-colored,

medium-sized, short-haired dog with black ears.

He is Mickey Mouse's pet.  Together

with Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse, Donald

Duck, Daisy Duck and Goofy, Pluto is one of the "Sensational Six"—the biggest stars in

the Disney universe. Though all six are non-human animals, Pluto alone is not dressed as

a human. Pluto debuted in animated cartoons and appeared in 24 Mickey Mouse films

before receiving his own series in 1937. All together Pluto appeared in 89 short films

between 1930 and 1953.  Pluto does not speak, walk upright, or wear clothing, but rather

acts like a normal dog. Pluto is generally a cheerful and adventurous dog, although he can

be given to sheer panic when confronted with something unknown.  In many of his

appearances with Mickey, Pluto will get himself into trouble and cause Mickey to get

angry at him. Mickey however, often cheers up quickly; often telling Pluto "I can't be

mad at ya."

3.4.Donald Duck

 Donald Duck is a funny animal cartoon character

created in 1934 at Walt Disney Productions.  He typically

wears a sailor suit with a cap and a black or red bow tie.

Donald is most famous for his semi-intelligible

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speech and his mischievous and irritable personality. Along with his friend Mickey

Mouse, Donald is one of the most popular Disney characters and was included in TV

Guide's list of the 50 greatest cartoon characters of all time in 2002. He has appeared in

more films than any other Disney character, listed as appearing in approximately 178

theatrical films compared to Mickey Mouse's 137, and is the fifth most published comic

book character in the world after Superman, Batman, Spider-Man, and Wolverine. His

distinctive voice was created by Clarence Nash, who performed the role for 50

years. Donald is also a bit of a show-off. He likes to brag, especially about how skilled he

is at something. He does in fact have many skills-he is something of a Jack of all Trades.

Amongst other things, he is a good fisher and a good hockey player. However, his love of

bragging often leads him to overestimate his abilities, so that when he sets out to make

good on his boasts, he gets in over his head, usually to hilarious effect.

4.The Princesses From Disney

4.1.Cinderella

Cinderella is a fictional character who

appears in Walt Disney Pictures' 12th animated

feature film Cinderella (1950) and its

sequels Cinderella II: Dreams Come True (2002)

and Cinderella III: A Twist in Time (2007). In the

original film, Cinderella is voiced by American

singer and actress Ilene Woods. For the sequels

and subsequent film and television appearances,

Woods was replaced by American

actresses Jennifer Hale and Tami Tappan, who

provide the character's speaking and singing voices respectively.

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Cinderella is 19 years old with shoulder-length strawberry-blonde hair , blue eyes

and a fair complexion. She is made a servant in her own home and is constantly

tormented by her evil stepmother , Lady Tremaine, and two stepsisters. Despite being shy

and romantic, she maintains hope through her dreams and always waits for her prince to

come to save her. She is hopeful that someday her wishes of happiness will come true.

When her evil stepsisters and stepmother prevent her from going to a royal ball for the

prince's hand, she is unhappy and fears that her dreams will never come true. However,

her Fairy Godmother appears, restoring Cinderella's hope, by transforming her torn

homemade gown into her iconic cyan ball gown with a glittering puffed overskirt and cap

sleeves. Her accessories are cyan opera gloves, a cyan headband, a black choker,

diamond earrings and glass slippers.

4.2.Snow White

Snow White is a fictional character and a

main character from Walt Disney Productions' 1st

animated feature film Snow White and the Seven

Dwarfs. The character of Snow White was derived

from a fairy tale known from many countries in

Europe, the best-known version being

the Bavarian one collected by the Brothers Grimm.

Snow White is the first Disney Princess and the first

fictional female character with a star on

the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Snow White is a 15-year old princess and is the

fairest in the land in the story. She has ivory skin

and a plump, round face with rosy cheeks. Her black

hair is wore in a bob, and she has pouty red lips. Her eyes are small, wide and a warm

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honey-brown color, with black, thick eyelashes. She is described by her stepmother's

Magic Mirror as having "hair as black as ebony, lips as red as the rose, skin as white as

snow".

Snow White is innocent, kind, gentle, sweet-natured and cheerful.Her generous, trusting

and helpful nature can cause her trouble, as other people might take advantage of it, such

as her vain and wicked stepmother, the Queen.  Although she is gentle and soft-spoken,

she can be energic and stern, such as when she told the Seven Dwarfs to wash their hands

or when she scolded the birds for "frightening the poor old lady [the Queen disguised as

an old peddler woman]". Snow White is motherly, compassionate and delights in keeping

house for the lovable Seven Dwarfs while she waits to meet her beloved prince again.

4.3.Belle

Belle is a Disney Princess, first introduced in Walt Disney Picture's 30th animated

feature film Beauty and the Beast (1991). Based on the heroine of theFrench fairy

tale by Jeanne-Marie Le Prince de Beaumont, Belle was created by screenwriter Linda

Woolverton  and originally animated by James Baxter and Mark Henn. Originally voiced

by Paige O'Hara, Belle is currently voiced by Julie Nathanson.

Introduced in Beauty and the Beast as the daughter of an eccentric inventor

named Maurice, with whom she lives in a small town in France, Belle, though

unanimously hailed as the village's most beautiful resident, is simultaneously ridiculed by

its inhabitants for both her love of reading and non-conformity. Romantically pursued by

a handsome but arrogant hunter named Gaston, in whom she has no interest, Belle longs

to abandon her provincial village life in exchange for adventure. When Maurice is

imprisoned by the Beast, she bravely sacrifices her own freedom in return for his,

growing to accept, appreciate and eventually fall in love with the Beast during her

incarceration, and ultimately bringing an end to his enchantment.

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4.4.Ariel

Ariel is a fictional character and the title character of Walt

Disney Pictures' 28th animated film The Little

Mermaid(1989). She subsequently appears in the film's prequel

television series, direct-to-video sequel The Little Mermaid II:

Return to the Sea  and direct-to-video prequel The Little

Mermaid: Ariel's Beginning. Ariel is voiced by Jodi Benson in

all official animated appearances and merchandise. She is 4th

in the Disney Princess lineup, and the only princess to become

a mother to her own child.

Ariel is the youngest and seventh daughter of King Triton and Queen Athena,

rulers of Atlantica, and has six older sisters.  She is often seen in the company of

Flounder, her best friend,

and Sebastian, her father's advisor

who is often assigned to watch over her.

In the television series and first film,

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Ariel has a fascination with the human world and often goes off to find human artifacts

that she displays in a secret grotto.  Ariel is often rebellious, wandering off on her own to

explore her surroundings, and frequently disobeys the orders of her father or Sebastian,

causing conflict between the characters. In The Little Mermaid she is depicted as being

willing to do anything to be with Prince Eric, even giving up her voice to become

human. Clements described her as a typical teenager, prone to errors of judgment.  She

also is incredibly curious, and her curiosity often leads her into dangerous situations.

5.Movies

5.1.101 Dalmatians

 The Series is an animated television series produced by the Walt Disney

Company based on the classic 1961 Disney animated feature of the same name and

its 1996 live-action remake.

The main characters in the series are Lucky, Cadpig, Rolly, and Spot. Originally

Patch and Penny were going to be the main characters alongside Lucky Rolly and

Cadpig, but Disney feared that there were would be too many characters so they removed

them and replaced them with Spot. Lucky is the most adventurous of the 99 puppies and

is unique in having his only spots in the shape of a horseshoe on his back. Cadpig is

another runt of the litter and the smallest of the 99 puppies but quite possibly the most

intelligent, if not deluded. She is unique in having long floppy ears, a big head, a kind

personality, and she's also quite strong for her size. Rolly is the very hungry one.

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5.2.The Aristocats

The Aristocats is an American animated feature film produced and released

by Walt Disney Productions in 1970 and features the voices of Eva Gabor, Hermione

Baddeley, Phil Harris, Dean Clark, Sterling Holloway, Scatman Crothers, and Roddy

Maude-Roxby. The 20th animated feature in the Walt Disney Animated Classics series,

the film is based on a story by Tom McGowan and Tom Rowe, and revolves around a

family of aristocratic cats, and how an alley cat acquaintance helps them after a butler has

kidnapped them to gain his mistress' fortune which was intended to go to them. It was

originally released to theaters by Buena Vista Distribution on December 11, 1970.

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The enchanting tale begins in Paris, when a kind and eccentric milionairess wills

her entire estate to her family-a family of adorable high-society cats. But when Edgar, the

greedy butler, overhears her plan, he catnaps Duchess, the elegant, soft-spoken mother,

and her three mischievous kittens and abandons them in the French countryside. Soon,

they’re being escorted home by the charming Thomas O’Malley, a rough-and-tumble

alley cat, who takes them to his “pad” along the way, where Scat Cat and his bang of

swingin’jaz-“Everybody wants to be a cat”.

6.C onclus io

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In a world dominated by violence and war, in which the people seem to be more

interested in having a big fortune, almost anybody has time to dream…but that’s why

Wall Disney exists: to introduce us in another world dominated this time by fun and

imagination, to teach us to dream, to remove our daily preoccupations. Because in fact

what would be our life without hope, only with certain and exact things?

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