At Disney each time animators started exploring a new character assignment, it became very useful to do some research on the character's voice actor. Before animating Scar I looked at photos and watched film sequences with Jeremy Irons. You never know if you might find interesting expressions or gestures that could influence and benefit your animated performance.
I am certain that Milt Kahl did the same when he started animating Madame Medusa in The Rescuers. Milt mentioned that he had observed Geraldine Page for a little while during her voice recordings at the studio. I imagine that photos of the actress were available to him for further study. Of course I have no idea if Milt was inspired by these press photos shown here from previous films....but I wonder.
Here is a link to a previous post on Geraldine Page:
https://andreasdeja.blogspot.com/2013/09/geraldine-page-is-madame-medusa.html
Es gibt Charaktere, die ich aufgrund der äußerlichen Ähnlichkeit zweifelsohne den jeweiligen Schauspielern zuordnen könnte.😊
ReplyDeleteBei Medusa täte ich mich schwer. 😀
Das sich Milt Kahl an Cruella orientiert hat, ist sehr gut erkennbar. Finger wie Krallen, Augen, die im Verhältnis zum Kopf, aufgrund ihrer Größe eher an leere Augenhöhlen eines Totenschädels erinnern. Dabei nutze Kahl das dunkle Augenmake-up, um diese Wirkung zu verstärken. Bei beiden Figuren muss ich an Skelette denken. Aufgrund der Größe ihrer Augen und ihrer großen Münder, mit der daraus ergebenden besonders vielfältigen Möglichkeiten an Ausdrucksmöglichkeiten. ...Ich weiß nie, ob ich mich von den Figuren besser fürchten als über sie lachen sollte 😆
Gefühlt hat sich Milt Kahl stärker an Pages vokalen Ausdruck orientiert...
On this talk about Arcane, Alexis Wanneroy showed some comparisons of Medusa, as you said, Milt imprinted a lot more character and it's far from 1:1 copy, so it's hard to tell if he was really inspired by those or are just coincidence, but I add the clip just in case someone is interested.
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I'm still astonished that Milt Kahl animated 99% of Madame Medusa taking into account the character's screen time and the fact that Kahl was in his 60s at the time the movie went into animation production.
ReplyDeleteIt really is astonishing. For comparison, Marc Davis drew EVERY scene with Cruella. Milt ALSO drew scenes with Snoops, Penny and the alligators.
DeleteMedusa makes the whole movie....does Geraldine have n accent of some sort? What would that type of accent be called?
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