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There’s something sweet and almost kind… I wonder why I didn’t see it there before
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Top 10 Disney guys ➜ Naveen
(in no particular order)
“ I am Naveen, Prince of Maldonia, and she is Tiana, the waitress. (Do not kiss her.)”
Sometimes I forget that not everyone watches Disney as much as I do...
- Teacher: Has anyone seen the Disney movie Hercules?
- Other students: Oh man, not since I was a kid.
- Me: Oh man, not since like...last week.
A bit of backstory on Belle, the opening song from Disney’s Beauty and the Beast (1991)
“[With ‘Belle’], we knew he wanted her walking through town, reading her book and people talking about her. [Lyricist Howard Ashman] told me to write the scene as if there was no song there. I was on the West Coast and they were on the East Coast, so I wrote it and sent those pages to Howard, and magically it came back as a song.”
– Beauty and the Beast screenwriter Linda Woolverton
“Howard was very concerned about ‘Belle’, whether it would work or not. He knew how risky it was to place a lengthy production number at the opening of an animated film and expect to hold attention. It just had never been done. For that reason, he worked very hard at structuring the song perfectly, with storytelling going on throughout the whole thing. When it worked so beautifully, I think he felt a great sense of accomplishment.“
– Howard Ashman’s longtime lover/partner/confidant, Bill Launch
“The first time I heard the demo, I got tears in my eyes. It was so beautiful and sophisticated.”
– Paige O’Hara, the voice of Belle in Disney’s Beauty and the Beast
someone: we both said some things we didn't mean
me, thinking about how i was right and absolutely meant everything i said: ......... sure did, pal