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From: betsy@dartvax.UUCP (Betsy Hanes Perry)
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Subject: The Black Cauldron (spoilers!)
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Date: Thu, 27-Jun-85 14:58:26 EDT
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I was in my local bookstore yesterday when I saw
"The Black Cauldron Coloring Book", a Disney tie-in to the movie
of the same name.  I skimmed it for clues as to how closely
the movie would follow the book.  Here follow some hasty impressions:
 
o  Visually, the movie owes far more to Sleeping Beauty than to the
original illustrations for the Alexander book.  That is to say, Prydain
is far cleaner and more wholesome than I'd imagined it.  It looks like
a Disney movie;  what can I say?
 
o  As an example of this, Gurgi is about knee-high and is clean.  (no
dirt and leaves in his fur.)
 
o  Eilonwy is a dead ringer for the Disney Alice.
 
o  The Prince who sacrifices his life to break the Cauldron has vanished
entirely.  Instead, the Dark Lord is knocked into the Cauldron by Taran.
(Somehow, I don't think they'll be making a sequel...)
 
o  Hen Wen is round, pink, and clean.  She looks rather like the
tidied-up Wilbur from Charlotte's Web.
 
o  The Dark Lord, however, is at least as scary-looking as the evil witches
in Sleeping Beauty and Snow White.  A definite seat-wetter.
 
Don't get me wrong;  I'll be in line, $5 in hand, as soon as the box
office opens.  I'll simply be expecting another charming Disney movie,
not a close approximation to the Lloyd Alexander books.
 
-- 
Elizabeth Hanes Perry                        
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