WISH PODCAST.
Get ready to embark on a magical journey as we uncover the captivating world of Disney's animated film, Wish, which is a grand celebration of a century-long legacy in animation. Picture this: a young girl named Asha wishes upon a star, and a cheeky star descends to fulfill her wish. As awe-inspiring as it gets, right? Let's go on this odyssey together, where directors from different backgrounds join forces to craft an unforgettable experience.
We then shift our focus to the enchanting power of music in the Disney universe, specifically in the film, "Encanto." Join us as we converse with composer Dave Metzger and Ariana DeBose, the actress behind the character Asha. They open up about the emotional journey of integrating into the Disney family. Plus, you wouldn't want to miss our spotlight on the songwriting duo, Julia Michaels and Benjamin Rice, known for adding a contemporary twist to classic Disney melodies.
Finally, we take you backstage to unveil the magic of making Disney's Wish. Sharing their insights are directors Jennifer Lee and Allison Moore, who reveal the film's themes of hope, imagination, and courage. They explain how technology has been instrumental in crafting a classic yet fresh look that tugs at our nostalgia strings. From the challenges of production to the joy of creating magic, you'll find it all here. So, come, join us in this enchanting exploration of Disney magic and the journey of making a wish come true.
WISH PODCAST.
Get ready to embark on a magical journey as we uncover the captivating world of Disney's animated film, Wish, which is a grand celebration of a century-long legacy in animation. Picture this: a young girl named Asha wishes upon a star, and a cheeky star descends to fulfill her wish. As awe-inspiring as it gets, right? Let's go on this odyssey together, where directors from different backgrounds join forces to craft an unforgettable experience.
We then shift our focus to the enchanting power of music in the Disney universe, specifically in the film, "Encanto." Join us as we converse with composer Dave Metzger and Ariana DeBose, the actress behind the character Asha. They open up about the emotional journey of integrating into the Disney family. Plus, you wouldn't want to miss our spotlight on the songwriting duo, Julia Michaels and Benjamin Rice, known for adding a contemporary twist to classic Disney melodies.
Finally, we take you backstage to unveil the magic of making Disney's Wish. Sharing their insights are directors Jennifer Lee and Allison Moore, who reveal the film's themes of hope, imagination, and courage. They explain how technology has been instrumental in crafting a classic yet fresh look that tugs at our nostalgia strings. From the challenges of production to the joy of creating magic, you'll find it all here. So, come, join us in this enchanting exploration of Disney magic and the journey of making a wish come true.
Because we now have the Cinema Judge. Hello, hello, hello and welcome to the Cinema Judge. I hope my voice finds you well. To all my regulars out there, welcome back. If you're new to this show, welcome aboard. Now approaching the bench. Today we have the Disney film Wish. Now here's the tagline. Wish will follow a young girl named Asha who wishes on a star and gets a more direct answer when a trouble making star comes down from the sky to join her. Here's a trailer for Wish.
Speaker 2:Three, two, one, asha, I'm here, I'm here. Oh, just one second. Let me catch my breath.
Speaker 3:Once upon a time stood Roses, the most magical kingdom, founded by a king with the power to grant wishes.
Speaker 2:You are their handsomest, most beloved king.
Speaker 4:You're right, I am a handsome king.
Speaker 3:I'm so nervous I think I'm going to explode, my best friend, the king's apprentice.
Speaker 2:My mouth drooping, I feel like a stupid.
Speaker 4:Asha, come with me. The wishes of Roses. Wow, people give their wishes to me and I grant the wishes I am sure are good for Roses.
Speaker 3:Some of these will never be granted.
Speaker 4:Not some most.
Speaker 3:They deserve more than what I decide what everyone deserves.
Speaker 2:So I look about the stars to guide me. I wish and throw caution to every warning sign. Oh, you're spoilous with your magic. I didn't do it.
Speaker 3:What? Last night I made a wish on a star and the star answered.
Speaker 4:I'm talking. I am talking. Who knew my voice would be this low? I believe I've just been threatened.
Speaker 5:Who would dare threaten you?
Speaker 4:I have no response to that, so I look at that there is a traitor amongst us, oh my God.
Speaker 3:It's a dead end.
Speaker 4:With unsanded mahogany. Oh good find Valentino, my butt found it.
Speaker 3:I started this. I have to finish it.
Speaker 2:What are you hiding? Nothing and nobody. What is going on in there?
Speaker 4:Okay, ladies, your wings can't fly, but your voice is.
Speaker 1:Well, that was a trailer for Wish. Now, we all know Disney is a monster of a company, but here's the deal. Despite that, sometimes people just like you and me work your butt off. You do everything you can and you have a chance to work for your dream job and coming up next we're going to hear kind of two different ends of this. One is from somebody who was like I dreamt of this my whole life, and here I am. And from another director. He's been there for over 50 years. He got pretty much passed a baton by Walt Disney himself, by him and his co-creators. But here's the deal Both these people working together for the 100th film or anniversary, whatever it is that they're talking about here, bringing the past to the present.
Speaker 1:During the show you're going to hear a lot about tradition, color, animation, music, because we all know Disney has all these things. So many emotions back from the beginning, days of hand-drying, cell by cell, and we all know when we look at those old films it just feels so beautiful and I realize with technology you have to advance. I am not criticizing the new ways, the incredible artists that we have today, but sometimes I'm thinking, wow, what would happen if we tried to bring back that old style. Do them again. It would take forever to do, but in these next interviews you're going to hear from the directors talking about that.
Speaker 1:You're going to hear from Fon Vera Stunthorn and Chris Buck, again both from totally different aspects of filmmaking but working together to make a film so everybody today can enjoy it. And my goal in this show today is this I'm going to try to break down this monolith of a company, just everything that's involved in making this kind of film. I want to ground it because we could all get lost in everything it takes to make this kind of film, but in the end it's just a personal story, despite all the special effects, all the animation. My goal here is just to make everything accessible.
Speaker 6:What a great honor to get to tell this story of someone wishing upon the star and the journey she took, the ups and downs. I look at it as, like I have my own journey, wanting to work at Disney Animation. That was my wish, and getting to be here today is just incredible, and it's a proof that a wish can come true, no matter how wild or crazy or impossible it seems.
Speaker 7:I mean I look back at my career and I've been at the studio almost 50 years. I mean I started a while ago, so it's half of that and I do. Disney Studios is my home. I kind of grew up here. I was trained by Walt Disney's nine old men. I feel like the baton was handed down to our generation. So I just it's such a huge honor to be able to do this and to bring you know the magic that they brought, the magic that Walt Disney brought into the world, and to bring more of that.
Speaker 1:I mean, come on, guys, how cool is that? Two directors from two wildly different perspectives coming together to make this film on the 100th anniversary of Disney Animation? That kind of stuff is just so awesome. And speaking of that, we have a featurette coming up next and in this featurette they talk about that. You're gonna hear from Cast and crew and they're gonna talk about 100 years of animation and how this film draws from so many films and what they did to try to connect this film to the past. But yet, having a voice for tomorrow and today, walking that line for any film company, can't be easy For you and me. We all know what we want. We expect this, expect that, but yet you still gotta keep moving forward. You can't live in the past.
Speaker 3:This film is celebrating 100 years of Disney animation and it's so special to me.
Speaker 7:Starting off on Wish, we pinned a still for every single one of the movies we've done on a board. You could see the breadth of all the Disney animated features.
Speaker 5:And this concept of daring to wish upon a star that resonated for all of us Whoa, whoa.
Speaker 2:I have a few thousand questions, starting with how is any of this possible?
Speaker 5:So I look up at the stars to guide me. We have incredible music by Julia Michaels, bringing this really fresh edge and approach. I mean she's worked with Justin Bieber, Dua Lipa, Selena Gomez.
Speaker 3:When I first heard the music for this film, I was so moved. Every single song tells this story in a way that is so dynamic. Most of these wishes will never be granted. The people of Roses deserve more than one.
Speaker 4:I decide what everyone deserves.
Speaker 3:That's why I wished, and now you're here.
Speaker 4:Challenge accepted I'm talking. I am talking. Who knew my voice would be this low?
Speaker 7:So I make this wish to have something more for us than this the dream come true, to be able to celebrate the studio and do a film that really embraces our legacy but also is looking towards the future.
Speaker 3:Oh, good find, Valentino.
Speaker 1:My butt found it. Sometimes I think this Maybe we take these big companies for granted or just expect them to shoot out all these great classics. Making a classic isn't as easy as we think. They're classics for a reason because they stand out.
Speaker 1:And here's the difficult part how do you stay relevant, stay current, move forward, but still have the DNA, the fabric of what most of us grew up with? I don't care how old you are. You could be a young kid, you could be Many years older, but yet we all have that connection to some kind of Disney animation, from their villains to the music, to the color, and that must be immensely stressful to see if you, even if you're a new Filmmaker, coming in to help out or make your mark, but still even the ones that have been there for a while. You got to maintain that Success. You got to keep that engine chuckin and churnin, but keep it fresh and not just be redundant. And that's the difficult part. A lot of people resist change Because it's not what they expected or what they had in the past. But then what's the point? You have to keep moving forward or else you're standing still.
Speaker 1:So, speaking about that, we're gonna have co-director Fawn talk about that, the big screen, the tech of today, in implementing in it now but still making it feel like the old ones. And then we're gonna hear from a screenwriter, jennifer Lee, also talking about the score, the villain, the music, everything that it takes to put into this film. Immediately after that we're gonna play a feature at, and in this feature at they touch on some of things We've already talked about or you heard, but they talk a little bit more about the animation in a boat bringing all these elements in, and I just, I just love hearing about all this stuff. That really behind the scene stuff of this little part here referenced this movie from just a 1940 something or whatever. If you pay attention to this movie, there's a lots of Easter eggs. That's kind of some of the things they talk about and that feature it after the in the roost you made this specifically for the theatrical experience.
Speaker 6:We have a Cinema scope format, you know, gorgeous on the big screen, water color, storybook illustration style, combined with the new CG technology. That and there's something Uncomparable about being in the theater with your loved one and friends and experience the joy, the laugh, the songs together, I think we knew we wanted to make it for the big screen.
Speaker 5:Our what was really important to us was to celebrate that cinema scope of like sleeping beauty back in the past, that water color style that I mean. On the big screen you can see every layer of the beauty of the that the artist brought to this film. And then you have music and to be surrounded by the sound of music and that epic score, and then we have a very fun villain and I just think that villain on the big screen with his magic, it's just gonna be so fun. One of the things we talked about a lot and we thought about a hundred years and this concept of wishing upon a star that resonated for all of us.
Speaker 3:I made a wish on a star and the star answered.
Speaker 6:This is a hundred year. How do we celebrate our legacy? While looking forward to the future?
Speaker 5:a Huge inspiration for this film was sleeping beauty. We really want to celebrate that water color style.
Speaker 7:So that's where it started. Our incredible artists kept fine tuning in, came up with the center league quality to the film.
Speaker 2:This is crazy.
Speaker 7:Wish has quite a few nods to our legacy. Some will be in the background, some will be more obvious than others. Things for not eating me, john, don't mention it, bambi Wish in the theater.
Speaker 5:It's such a gorgeous movie to watch, to see that on the big screen, the rich water color style, the depth of it. It connects to our legacy beautifully, but it's something you've never seen before.
Speaker 1:Now I think every one of us knows one fact for certain it can't be a Disney animated film without Incredible original music, and this one is no different. This time they tapped Julia Michaels and Obviously she has a laundry list of credits to her name, but she's the one in charge, or tasked, if you will, to write these original songs. So we're gonna hear a couple interviews from her and then, immediately after that, we're gonna hear from producers Peter Delveco and Juan Pablo Reyes, lancaster Jones, and they both just sing the praises of Julia Michaels and how lucky they are to have had her Participate in this project. And then, right after their that interview, we have a feature at talking about the original music and with interviews with Julia Michaels and the instruments they got to use in this that she doesn't always get to use. And just a side note, later on in the show I'm gonna give you a site if you want to watch the TV version of this.
Speaker 1:I have a website for you because sometimes when they play this featureettes they give you behind-the-scenes footage of in the studio while they're making it. That doesn't sometimes Transfer over when you just listen into it here. It's great, but sometimes you being able to see it really brings you into and say, oh man, this is what they did. But it's not up right now because it's the weekend, but it's gonna let you know in advance if you want to watch the TV version of this. In next couple days It'll be on demand, ready to watch whatever you want, because there really is a lot of cool information in these featureettes, in visuals for you. But until then, here's those interviews and that featureette.
Speaker 8:It feels Unreal. I've been working on this film for almost four years, so to get to be here and celebrate with all these wonderful people that I made it with is is really spectacular. I was in Italy, actually, and I got the call from Tom McDougal, who's president of Disney, and he was like I just thought you should know that we love this song and we want to make it the end credit song, and I, the way I cried, oh my goodness, I just I couldn't believe it. This whole, I mean all of this, just Feels completely surreal.
Speaker 8:I grew up watching Disney films and the fact that I got to make A Soundtrack for my for I mean, this is a dream, it's an absolute dream. Well, I think the best thing about music, especially for a Disney film, is it really just helps enhance the color Of the world, of the characters, of the characters, feelings, emotions, and you get to just paint it in whatever way that you want, and that's so, it's so fun. I think Disney's legacy is about believing in something, believing in yourself, and I think this movie really signifies hope and courage and bravery and Selflessness, and I think those are things that we really need in this world today.
Speaker 9:Well, I think we really hit the jackpot with Julia Michaels. You know I we're all huge fans of her and she brings in that Disney energy because she's a super fan as well. Again, she also did this as a love letter to Disney, you know, and her and Benjamin Rice, who she co-wrote all of the songs with, Are just blew every song out of the park, you know.
Speaker 1:It's great is she has that love for classic Disney animation musicals, but she also brings that contemporary flair to it. So it feels both new but also reminiscent of many of the many of the songs that that we've all loved over the years three, two, one.
Speaker 8:Welcome to Rosas is the first song you hear from the movie. I've always loved Disney welcome songs like frozen and content. It really just sets up where you are and where you're going, so like we have this game named Magical and evil Rosas many years ago.
Speaker 2:We're lighting for hands and eyes that can glow. No, no, I'm totally getting buddy is powerful Ariana.
Speaker 7:She can't help herself because she's a dancer and she's doing these incredible moves, so the animators were able to use those kind of moves in there, too.
Speaker 10:That was fun, I like that one.
Speaker 3:I like that one a lot.
Speaker 8:We even actually had a flamenco Choreographer come in and do choreography to the song. We use a lot of instruments that I don't get to normally use in pop songs. We use accordions, castanets and taiko drums.
Speaker 11:One of the great joys I had was to be able to take that song and take it another step further into that world In a groove that is evocative of that style.
Speaker 1:Now, when it comes to these kind of films, you often hear from the singers, songwriters and all these incredibly talented people, but we don't always hear from is the composer, and we have that coming up next before we talk about more about the music itself. In ariana deboes, composer Dave Metzger. He's been in the business for years and years and years. In in this interview he talks about how now he's had his opportunity to helm a disney film and do all the composing. Just imagine you worked your whole life, because I think people like me we just assume, oh yeah, all these people have been doing this stuff for years. No big deal.
Speaker 1:No, this it's not the case, because that's a select, select few. You could work your whole life and maybe help out or assist or what have you, but be the official composer To a major film that doesn't come overnight. And he talks about that and I love hearing his gratitude in his voice. He's he doesn't take this lightly. He's not like, yeah, whatever, I'm the man I should be doing this. No, he's like this is amazing, I can't believe I'm here, because I know people always say, hey, it could be whatever you want and do whatever you want, and I hate to write on people's parade.
Speaker 1:That's not always the case, because there's so many other elements that fall into place in life. You could be really good and never get your shot, so that that fallacy of oh, you could be anything you want to be, yeah, you know. Again, I hate to be the one who throws water on the fire Sometimes. That's not gonna happen, but it happened for this guy, dave Metzger, and after that interview we're gonna hear from Ariana DeBose, who plays Asha and just talks about the music and singing, creating music for it, and then we're gonna have a feature ed Focusing on her and on the instruments and all these kind of things. It's just one of those feature eds that really sum it up pretty darn good.
Speaker 11:You know, I mean it's actually I'm very emotional at the moment. You know, it's just, it's the culmination of a lifetime, actually, for me of dreaming and wishing and to have it really Finally get to this point and know that it's gonna be on screens and that everybody's gonna have a chance to see it very soon. It's, it's overwhelming, honestly, and I'm I'm just doing my best to kind of hold my emotions and check here because I, I, I just couldn't be happier and I think it's a beautiful film and I, I just hope that it brings, you know, some, some joy to people in the world and that that people enjoy it. Unbelievable actually is what it is. I still am having a hard time believing that this has happened for me and you know it's I, I've kind of thought about it.
Speaker 11:It's like a been a 50 year journey, you know, from when I started writing music To finally now have this chance to be the composer on on a major film and and, as you know you've said, it's like the 100th anniversary Disney film too. It's, it's just Been an amazing experience and I couldn't be happier and I'm an incredibly thankful and and just on, words really don't capture my feelings, yeah, I can't capture my feelings on this. I hope that when people hear this music yet inspires them to to fulfill, you know, to chase, not chase, but to experience their wishes and and hope, you know, and to work towards their wishes Right to be inspired to do that. I think that that some would be the biggest takeaway that I and hope that I have for people when they hear these songs.
Speaker 3:Oh well, scores, everything in a Disney movie, and Julia Michaels and Benjamin Rice have done An incredible thing because they've made music that sounds like the music of today, but it moves this story along so beautifully. Every song is so different and dynamic and it just soars. It absolutely soars, and I'm I'm so proud. I'm proud of you know the way I became a better vocalist through this process and I'm proud of everything we've accomplished, but not only these characters, but the music and how we're moving Disney into a new chapter.
Speaker 5:It's really cool, it's concept of wishing upon a star that resonated for all of us.
Speaker 7:Disney has this very rich, deep legacy. If I want songs, and so we wanted that same fabric, but also looking towards something fresh and new, and our songwriters Julia Michaels and Benjamin Rice brought exactly that with this wish.
Speaker 2:So I look up at the stars to guide me.
Speaker 5:Asha is beautifully played by Ariana's bows.
Speaker 3:She's full of joy, full of life, but she's also like oh, squirrel.
Speaker 8:Exactly Ariana's amazing. She truly embodies the essence of Asha.
Speaker 7:She delivers everything.
Speaker 8:This wish is Asha wanting more for the people in her town. I was so inspired by that and I knew that this song needed to be this very big, very grand moment.
Speaker 5:There's so many aspects of the music that has the deep meaning of our classics, but also completely original.
Speaker 7:To me, disney songs. Those are things that live beyond the movie Now.
Speaker 1:You just heard a little bit about the character Asha, and coming up next we're gonna hear from screenwriter Allison Moore and she talks about working with these characters for two years every day, just finding the joy, and it's just really cool hearing her talk about that. But then she also talks about, kind of like, just a power of wish. No matter how young or old you are, you could still wish. And then right after that there's gonna be a featurette talking about the chris pine character, magnifico, and in this featurette they're gonna have him in the studio. You can hear him do his voice over and there'll be talking about the song that he kind of sings. Well, not kind of things, but he does sing.
Speaker 1:This is the things I get, so it's a little featurette on that. And then right away we're gonna bleed into the actual scene In the movie where he's running around the castle telling everybody I'm doing all this for you. And this is the things I get typical narcissistic, blind buffoon who thinks like, oh well, I'm the man you know, thinking that he's like the hero there, everything. But he's really Far from it. But that's what comes up. Next we're in here from the screenwriter. Then I have a featurette on pine's character, and then the actual song from the movie.
Speaker 10:It's pretty incredible, like it's.
Speaker 10:First of all, it's been so much fun over the past you know, a couple of years to be able to come into work and to work On telling the story and living with these characters and living in this world when there's so much joy and magic and fun and entertainment, and it's been really incredible, like to have that in your workplace, you know.
Speaker 10:Oh, I mean, I hope the biggest thing that they experience is that sense of possibility, right, like that's the thing that that asha and star, really, and that the whole movie really celebrates, is this sense of you know, sort of, if you have a wish and you carry it in your heart, you can make things happen, things, um, that you didn't imagine could be suddenly become Real, right. So it's it's really about that sort of sense of possibility and that it's never too late. It's never too late. You know, we have a character in the movie who's a hundred and who still Is out there striving for his wish, to make his wish come true, you know. So it's really it's that sense of possibility and and optimism that I hope people take from it.
Speaker 2:Yes, yes, yes.
Speaker 5:Yes For Magnifico. We wanted to take inspiration from classic disney villains.
Speaker 7:And my favorite movies are the ones that have those great villains that you know from the beginning.
Speaker 5:And every great villain needs a great song, and that launched into. This is the thanks.
Speaker 7:Our songwriters delivered something very special, are you?
Speaker 3:ready.
Speaker 2:They want a villain.
Speaker 8:You got one Brought to you by Chris Pine. Chris Pine is funny, charming and incredible. You're cute and strong and bold and brave.
Speaker 6:Thanks, Chris Brot. Gravitas and comedy, Just look.
Speaker 4:In wishes last year. Come on, that's a hard percent. And now you're questioning your king disrespect, I just underwent. You know I always got your back. Yeah, really, though, it's no sweat, since the day you were born and the day that we met. And this is the thanks.
Speaker 7:Chris has a beautiful range.
Speaker 4:He can really go there and he does a potion, a spell, a summon, a curse, anything to make that light reverse To this book? I don't want to be tethered, but desperate times call for desperate measures. Where was I? Oh yeah and this is the thanks.
Speaker 5:I give it's so classic, epic and fresh at the same time. This is the thanks.
Speaker 8:I give to see it fully animated. I cried because I was just like wow, there it is, it's alive.
Speaker 4:Keep the name. I'm magnificent. I put the eye and I'm nipotent. I'm passionate. I'm not petulant. Someone plays me for my benevolence. Um, just look, I give the clothes off Benito's back. If you really needed that, I'll be the first one to volunteer. Henry, if you're homework crumble or if you weren't trouble, I'll let you live here for free and I don't even charge you red. I clean up all your messes and I'm always there when you need to vent. I give and give, and give and give. You think they'd all be content, and all I really want is just a little respect, and this is the thanks I get. This is the thanks I get.
Speaker 2:This is the thanks I get. This is the thanks I get.
Speaker 1:And it's just typical of those types of individuals. I demand respect. Well, it's earned, buddy, you just can't put the fear of yourself into people. That's not respect. There's a world difference.
Speaker 1:Anyway, blah, blah, blah. You gotta love Chris Pine. Everything he does is so good. He could do the action, he could do the voiceover, he could do comedy. It's just so cool to see him do different things because obviously he could do it. Now coming up next, we're gonna hear from Ariana DeBose talking a little bit more about her character, but then we have a clip for you. In the clip we have her character talking to Chris Pine's character and she's confronting him about all these wishes that aren't necessarily being fulfilled and he's just kind of like I don't care, it doesn't mean anything to me, but she's like whoa, whoa, whoa, pump the brakes. It's just fun to see the dynamics and get the feel for the characters, what she's about, what he's about, how different he is and how confused and bewildered, that out of touch that people sometimes, like those folks, are, compared to the people out there, really just live in life. So that's coming up next.
Speaker 3:Wish is the film that is celebrating 100 years of Disney magic and Disney legacy, and I voice Asha, who is our leading lady of this film, and she lives in the magical kingdom of Rossa. She loves her community, but she discovers that things are not all that they seem to be and she makes this powerful wish, accidentally calling down the wishing star Star. And they go on this journey to take on a formidable foe in King Magnifico, voiced by the delicious Chris Pine. And it's this beautiful journey of what it is to step into a leadership role, to make mistakes, to learn from them, to hopefully ultimately find a beautiful solution for everyone.
Speaker 4:Well, you're young, you don't know anything really, whereas it is my responsibility to only grant the wishes I am sure are good for Rossa's.
Speaker 3:So most of these wishes will never be granted.
Speaker 4:Yet I still protect them, like all the others.
Speaker 3:Can't you just give them back instead? Excuse me. The wishes you're not going to grant. You could just give them back. Then I don't know. The people can try to pursue them themselves. You know, if they're dangerous then they can be stopped, but if they're not, You've completely missed the point.
Speaker 4:People come here because they know they can't make their own dreams come true. The journey is too hard, it is too unfair. They give their wishes to me willingly and I make it, so they forget their worries.
Speaker 3:You make it so they forget the most beautiful part of themselves and they don't know what they're missing. But you do, and now I do. It's not fair. My saba is good, the people of Rossa's are good. They deserve more.
Speaker 4:I decide what everyone deserves.
Speaker 1:Those two just work so good together. Now coming up next you'll hear from Juan Pablo Reyes Lancaster Jones, one of the producers of this film. First he talks about Ariana and just what energy she brings to this role, and then, right after that, we have a clip. In this clip her character is running through the forest and the trees and all these good things, just you know, belting out her great talent that she is singing a song. And then we're going to hear from Juan again talking about just this movie in general, what it might help people with that, maybe not being afraid, just trying to find that little inner strength.
Speaker 1:And in that vein-ish, if you will, we have a feature ed and in the feature ed there's a song that the whole everybody's singing together. You don't get the full presence of it unless you watch the video of it. So again, when it's up, you can see it. What they do is they play the video of everybody singing the song, but they have shots of everybody in the studio singing their part. So it's kind of fun to see these characters in studio doing that, but that's what it kind of all bleeds into.
Speaker 9:I mean, ariana is a ball of energy, you know she is charismatic, but she's also so approachable, and I think we need role models like that today People that are approachable but are also fearless, and that's what Ariana is.
Speaker 2:Make this wish to have something more for us than this.
Speaker 9:I hope it inspires them to dream and dream big and be unafraid. I know that the world can be scary for them, but they should know that hope is bigger than that we're doomed.
Speaker 10:Not if we fight.
Speaker 1:Not if we know now. Now coming up next we're going to hear a little bit more from Ariana and she's going to talk about who this movie speaks to and then we're going to have, like this, another one of those little featurettes. But this one is just a little brief character synopsis of the incredibly talented Alan Tudyk. This guy is amazing. He's done so much voice work. He's been in so many TV shows Firefly, rogue One, dune Patrol and just if you've never, ever seen the TV show Resident Alien, the guy is a marvel. The guy is out of this world talented. I think it's on the sci-fi network or who knows what other platforms it on. You know how things are all over the place. You have to see the show Resident Alien. It's funny, it's cute, it's so many things. But Alan just rips that character wide open. I can't sing enough praises about that show. It's kind of fine underneath the radar. It's very unique. It's not like any TV show you'll ever see. But Resident Alien, you gotta check it out.
Speaker 1:But then, after that little feature hit on him, then they go into another scene where everybody sings that song. I'm a Star, so you're just gonna hear another song play out. And then we go back to Ariana and she's gonna talk about what similarities she shares with her character. And then we go to another clip and in this clip she's pretty much the song's like Welcome to our town. And it's one of those feature hits too. So when it comes out and you can watch it, you'll see what I'm saying, where they have them doing the studio work and what have you, but it's just them going. Hey, here we are, welcome to the town.
Speaker 3:Oh well, this film speaks to young people. It speaks to, you know, every generation out there. Again it's celebrating 100 years of Disney magic and there are so many hidden gems and knots. So not only are you getting an original new musical comedy with our story and our characters, but there's so many knots and like echoes of all the different films that have come before. You know, one of my favorites is um, there's Grandmother Willow is hanging out in them and during I'm a Star in the Forest. But you gotta look for her. But she's there. And then I also love the. There's a gorgeous nod to Maleficent in Sleeping Beauty on King Magnifico's spell book. So look for him. It's really fun.
Speaker 4:It didn't work. When does the magic happen? Oh, something's happened. I'm talking, I am talking. Who knew my voice would be this low? Ha ha, ha, you don't have to look too hard.
Speaker 2:It's all around and not too far If you try to figure out just who you are.
Speaker 9:Oh, you're a star. Do you know?
Speaker 2:you're a work of art, even in the deepest dark, if you really want to know just who you are.
Speaker 4:I'm a star. Oh, did we just blow your mind? Uh huh. Well, I've known me entire time.
Speaker 9:When it comes to the universe, we're all shareholders. Get back to your system, solar See. We were all just little nebulae in a nursery from supernovas. Now we've grown into our history. We're taking wise-out out of mystery closure. Now we're taking in all the star exposure.
Speaker 2:We believe in you, the sun.
Speaker 4:See, that's where all the balls of gas come from.
Speaker 2:Hey, you still look like you're hanging on by a strand, but if you just see the mushrooms then you'll understand.
Speaker 4:So your dust is my dust, fantastic Woo.
Speaker 2:You don't have to look too hard. It's all around the world so far If you try to figure out just who you are.
Speaker 9:You're a star. Do you know? You're a work of art, even in the deepest dark. If you really want to know just who you, are.
Speaker 3:I'm a star, oh many. Jennifer Lee has said that. You know, I sort of inadvertently inspired Asha as we were moving forward in the process, so I share her empathy, her compassion, her you know ability and her want to take action when she's identified a problem. I'm very much that girl and I believe in solutions and, most importantly, I believe in wishing on stars and working hard to make your dreams happen. Welcome to Rosas.
Speaker 2:Come, on, come this way, where the greatest creations are all on display. There's no other place just as full of surprise, where your dreams and your reality can collide. You want to dance on the beat, or to have hair touched down to your feet? Go to outer space. Well, hey, you've come to the right place.
Speaker 1:Well, one thing you should have learned by listening to the show this movie is just loaded with song, music, just a whole bunch of joy and coming up. Next we're in here, from Jennifer Lee, the directors, and Allison Moore, just talking a little bit more about this film.
Speaker 5:It really is a bridge that we're trying to build between our legacy of the past and our future in a film that is a celebration of the things that Disney is for us. It is a place of escape, of imagination, wonder, joy, hope, epic fairy tales, and we just wanted to make this a big celebration of all of those things for us, but yet do it in a way that is this movie all its own and it's just one that I hope people come out of it and think about. Well, you know what is my wish? And we have a character, sabasabino, in the film who's 100 years old and he helps us remember it's never too late.
Speaker 5:I think the biggest thing for me really is this sense of the importance of that wish in your heart. It drives your heart and having the courage to pursue it. I think we can make a wish upon a star, but we know the bigger the wish, the harder the journey can be, and I hope through Asha's journey it says it's okay and to know there will be a little bit of folks out there who will help you. There is a little magic out there to help you, and that's kind of what Star symbolizes. So I hope it's just a lift for folks.
Speaker 6:There's a lot in this film that will remind you of your great memory of Disney films, watching this with your families and loved ones. So we put a lot of love in there with Disney fans ourselves. We're making this for the fans out there, to bring them joy, to bring them hope, to bring them a reminder that imagination can be alive and well in Disney fans' heart everywhere.
Speaker 7:Well, I'm with Vaughn. I mean really to experience that joy and the magic that Disney's always brought us and it's sort of a reminder of that and that's why we dipped back into our legacy to bring that. And with the look, the look is very. It's a, you know, it's a mixture of that, the older look, but also what we do today and the technology we have. So I've always said at the beginning of the movie I said I would love nothing more than for people to come out of the theater and say you know, that felt just like one of the classic Disney films, but it feels fresh and new enough today. So that's my wish.
Speaker 10:It's, the scope of it is just. You've got to experience, let it wash over. You feel the sense of community in the units, like you're getting a private eye view into what it's like to live in this magical kingdom. Right, and it's. You want to do that and be in the dark with other people, having that experience of delight and wonder and amazement. And the music is so incredible, like it's, I can't imagine not seeing it in the theater.
Speaker 1:Well, I hope you enjoyed our in-depth look at Disney's latest animated film, wish. Now, what do you guys think? It's something you want to see. Have you seen it? What do you think? Does my show compare? Does it give a good behind the scenes? Look at it. I would love your thoughts because I can't grow if I don't know. So feel free to leave me a message. Cinemajudgeathotmailcom or any of the other platforms. You go to Instagram. The cinema judge threads, the cinema judge. You go to YouTube.
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Speaker 1:You watch On Demand whenever you want, and they're there usually for a few months. Again, even there, sometimes, because of the time restriction, things are cut over there, comparatively to here. Here, I have free reign, so everything goes here. It's just sometimes, on there, I'm restricted to 29 minutes, so some things just have to go, no matter how great they are. In this particular episode, guys, I'm still not done with the TV version. I hope to finish it tonight or the next couple of days so I can send it off to that place so you can watch it, because there really is some stellar stuff that they gave me though Feature ads, interviews, the clips, top, top notch.
Speaker 1:It just I just couldn't get a grasp on it this week. No matter how I tried, I kept messing up, thinking the order was different. I switched things around there's a few times. I was halfway through it. I scrapped everything. I just deleted it. I got so irritated with myself and again it's all on me. The stuff that they gave me was spectacular.
Speaker 1:It just sometimes try to fit the interviews to fit right with the scene and because of recent strike they didn't give official, official interviews. Only interviews they have are from the red carpet and world premieres and things of that nature. So sometimes it's hard to match up a clip with anybody's interview. And again that's all on me. Again, this one just kicked my royal butt. I just I was having a heck of a time getting it right, so hopefully I'll get it right here and then the TV version will be out there so you can watch it and I'll. It's glory. But I digress. If you want to go visit me at tiktok or you could go to the metaverse, you could go to tumbler, you go to hide, you go Pinterest, wherever you want to go, I'm usually there just leaving a message. Or, like I said, if you're in the meta, meta world stuff, go to horizon worlds.
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Speaker 1:But to every one of you, I don't care if you're listening two weeks from now, two years from now, driving your car to work, sitting at home, relaxing Everybody listens their own way and I'm so grateful for that. So, wherever, whenever or whatever you're doing, this has been for you, and now it's time for the bourbon shout out. This week it goes out to the ear, nose and throat specialist of Minnesota. You guys, every solitary one of you, just kick butt. I can't thank you enough for all your patience. You're there standing and your, your knowledge just to put everybody at ease. So do you guys? Cheers.
Speaker 1:Now, if you're a regular listener, you know what I'm making the TV version of this. I'm cranking the tunes, and I already told you I had a massive, massively hard time making this one, which I'm still not done with. But what I have been listening to on this particular episode in my little happy place, I cranked out the new Dolly Parton album rock star, and no, don't say nothing, because it is awesome. She's so talented because there's a couple of original songs on here too. But it was all out of this thing of hey, she got inducted to rock and roll Hall of Fame. At first she said, no, I'm not rock and roll, I shouldn't be in there. But then they said, come on. You know, you're Dolly Parton, you got it, you got to join up. So she's okay, I'll do it. But if I'm gonna be in rock and roll Hall of Fame, I'm making a rock album.
Speaker 1:And she teams up with some amazing artists on this album and the variety is awesome too. It's not just your typical songs that she could do, which she does, but she also goes other places too that you go oh, wow, bold choice. And every one of them is awesome. You can just see why she's been around for all these years. She still has it. She has that personality. She has that spunk, this the intelligence.
Speaker 1:Listen to that album if you have a chance. I don't even care if you like that part, or rock, rock and roll music, I don't even care. Listen to it, it's really worth your time. That's Dolly Parton, rock star. There's some really good songs on there and, like I was saying last week, when I was doing last week's show, my radio device here, my music device, was all over the place. It wasn't playing, were squat and what I was trying to do, you know, last week, was play the recent Taylor Swift album, 1989 her version, but it kept stopping and going, stop and skipping tunes. It was so frustrating. So when I was listening to the Dolly one, after that got done, I threw on that one because I, you know, I Might as well do it right to listen to it properly. So that's what an additional album I listened to when I was doing this. Well, that is it. My glass awaits. I'm thirsty. So cheers to you into the movies. So until next time, be well, be good, and I'm gone. I'm Jeff. Thanks for listening to the Cinema. Judge you.