Since its beginnings, Disney has dedicated a good amount of its productions to the fantasy genre. Not only because it is the closest to the children’s audience, the closest to the sensitivity of the studio. Also, because many of the great stories that made the company famous come from the realm of imagination and classic traditional stories. The result is a collection of films that extol the importance of fairy tales and at the same time, recreate an exciting and sensitive point of view about its arguments.
Over the decades, Disney has evolved in proposal and point of view. What has remained intact is his dedication to fantastic narratives of all kinds and especially those that celebrate goodness and the power of the will. From the great animators that made the company famous, to the current ones live action, a source of occasional controversy and debate. The truth is that the study grew in ambition but, at the same time, in the way it deepened its perspective on values and ideals. Currently, in the midst of the inevitable discussions about its permanence and legacy, your perspective remains one. That of building a world in which fantasy has a place.
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To celebrate the above, we leave you five recommendations of fantastic content that you can watch right now on Disney+. From the reinvention of a classic for a new audience to a reinvention of a story loved by generations. The selection tells the history of the company, as well as its concerns and great narrative findings. The most notable point of a plot evolution that is currently surprising.
Beauty and the Beast
Director Bill Condon took the 1991 animated classic and turned it into a live-action fantasy film of enormous quality and heart. The figure of Bella (Emma Watson) also received a necessary update.
Although in her flesh and blood version she continues to be a girl in search of a greater purpose in her life, now her aspirations are closer to her intellectual world. So this young woman, full of questions and curiosity, He wants to travel the world to find his place in it. At the same time, to satisfy your thirst for knowledge.
On the other side, Beast (Dan Stevens) suffers a sentence that could be eternal due to his arrogance and vanity. The once prince of a wealthy kingdom is a creature who spends his days in the confines of a castle frozen in time. So Bella’s arrival will not only change her perspective on the world and destiny. At the same time, it will move his heart and show him that magic can be a form of redemption.
Become a box office and critical success, the musical is now part of the favorite fantasy content of a good part of Disney+ subscribers. An achievement that makes it clear that the evolution of the studio takes new paths to honor to your most beloved stories.
The little Mermaid
Rob Marshall’s film was preceded by controversy. From the changes that substantially modified the tone and pace of the plot, to the selection of Halle Bailey as Ariel. The production had to face all kinds of pitfalls and inconveniences. Much more so, when the 1989 anime, from which it comes, is one of Disney+’s favorites. Not only because it is considered the success that revitalized the studio. At the same time, because it is one of the most endearing adaptations ever to the big screen of Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tale.
But the premiere of the film dispelled the public’s doubts. With some changes that modernized Ariel’s relationship with his father Triton (Javier Bardem), the film thrilled fans and the general public. At the same time, it showed all the possibilities of telling a well-known and loved story, from a new point of view and aimed at a new audience.
Marshall’s work is both a tribute to the film from which it comes and a sign of a future with new princesses, owners of their own lives. An optimistic advertisement that makes it clear that Disney It is capable of respecting its universe and at the same time, of growing in unprecedented directions.
Willow, in the land of enchantment
In 1988, Ron Howard directed a discreet classic that, over the years, has become one of the most beloved fantasy films in cinema. Especially, for managing to mix magic, a predestined destiny and the search for redemption in the same scenario. All in a journey that He was crossing a magical and unknown land, in the company of a charming group of characters.
It is likely that Willow, in the land of enchantment, not be particularly original. Nor, a story that surprises at its most exciting points. But what can be denied is that it is charming, in its ability to use humor and sensitivity to tell a familiar story. Beyond princesses and enchanted kingdoms, the plot explores friendship and love, from new points of view.
Proof of its permanence, it is the series with a single season that Disney+ premiered in 2022. It not only recovers the characters, but adds a few to the mythology of the plot. A vision of a rich world that still has a lot to tell.
‘Enchanted’ Saga
In 2007, Giselle (Amy Adams) traveled from the kingdom of Andalasia to New York in search of true love. And she found it. The very disbelieving divorce lawyer, Robert Phillip (Patrick Dempsey), became the great hero of the story. At the same time, in the man who gave Giselle the kiss of true love. Directed by Kevin Lima, it became a box office success, as well as the favorite of an entire generation in search of new princesses.
In 2022, Giselle’s journey continued. This time, as a mother of two and a loving wife, she had to face not an evil mother-in-law, but her disappointment in love. And although the movie Disenchanted: Giselle returns by Adam Shankman did not have the same impact as the original, it did manage to move the audience. And she made it clear that the princess who fought dragons would now have to fight to find her place in the world. Which he achieved, of course, with a touch of magic and love.
Cinderella
The British director Kenneth Branagh took the well-known story of Cinderella and He turned it into a splendid fantasy film that dazzled.
Starring actress Lily James in a role tailor-made for her, the story of the girl, with the smallest foot in the kingdom, is transformed into a splendid love story. Also, in a reflection about love — romantic and, on the other hand, paternal — that manages to move due to its sincere naivety.
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And although the ending is known to everyone, Branagh managed to make it a spectacle of light and color that moved the audience.A gift for the nostalgic and also for a more contemporary audience, lovers of fantasy.