Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site dartvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!genrad!decvax!dartvax!betsy From: betsy@dartvax.UUCP (Betsy Hanes Perry) Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers,net.movies Subject: The Black Cauldron (spoilers!) Message-ID: <3301@dartvax.UUCP> Date: Thu, 27-Jun-85 14:58:26 EDT Article-I.D.: dartvax.3301 Posted: Thu Jun 27 14:58:26 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 29-Jun-85 00:25:00 EDT Distribution: net Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH Lines: 35 Xref: watmath net.sf-lovers:8235 net.movies:6783 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 UUCP: {decvax |ihnp4 | linus| cornell}!dartvax!betsy CSNET: betsy@dartmouth ARPA: betsy%dartmouth@csnet-relay "Ooh, ick!" -- Penfold