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Post by SpellWovenNight on Aug 11, 2009 16:36:37 GMT -5
Maybe, but the mood you would leave the theatre in one be totally different. It might have been a happy ending, in ways, but what kind of ending feels good if such a fun character dies in the end?
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Post by Briar Rose's Dark Knight on Aug 12, 2009 20:53:05 GMT -5
I think there are moments in a story where the death of a character serves to advance the story. The Lion King is the most prominent example of this, but I think Bambi is another one. Both of these movies leave you feeling happy because the death happens early enough in the story to give the audience time to accept the death and give the character most impacted the chance to recover.
In the case of Lady and the Tramp, had Trusty died, it would have made the ending bittersweet, but I'm not sure that it would have advanced the story enough. In some ways, the fact that he was injured achieved a similar result, but without the inherent tragedy.
This is not to say that death does not belong in stories, just that sometimes the death of a character does not serve the story as well as it otherwise could have.
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Post by SpellWovenNight on Aug 12, 2009 21:14:34 GMT -5
Yeah, but in all the stories you mentioned it did serve the story and it wasn't at the very end of the film. You were able to move on with Mufasa's and Bambi's mother's deaths with the characters instead of being painfully left with full thought on them and how life would be with out them. I'm not saying that a character can't die and have be happy, but I just don't think Trusty dying in this one would have gone too well.
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Post by Briar Rose's Dark Knight on Aug 12, 2009 22:47:32 GMT -5
I agree. It worked in Bambi and TLK because the deaths happened early in the story. It really wouldn't have worked at all in Lady and the Tramp.
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Post by Silver on Jun 24, 2015 1:56:08 GMT -5
On June 22nd, this film celebrated it's 60th anniversary. Holy moly! Thinking of all who were apart of the cast and creative team. Thank you for this wonderful film. You are with us every single time we turn this film on. "Ah but someday he is meeting someone different. Some delicate fragile creature who's giving him a wish to shelter and protect."
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Post by Briar Rose's Dark Knight on Jul 7, 2015 22:26:14 GMT -5
It's entirely possible that the most romantic scene in all of Disney's animated history is from this movie. Bella Notte is simply a magical scene. And later on the 90s spoof movie Hot Shots Part Deux parodies that very scene albeit with humans instead of dogs.
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Post by Butterscotch on Jul 18, 2015 16:56:14 GMT -5
I haven't watched this movie in ages... I really adore Lady and the Tramp. It's one of those movies that I watched as a child that really had an affect on my tastes as an adult.
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