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Posted: 12/4/10 at 1:20am
He died wearing a BEAUTY & THE BEAST sweater. He never got to see the completed film.
I just finished watching the new documentary WAKING SLEEPING BEAUTY which chronicles the period of Disney history where the company went through its second Golden Age (dying from THE BLACK CAULDRON through soaring with THE LION KING). The film was just released onto DVD this past weekend and I highly recommend it.
I knew that Howard Ashman was a very talented writer. This film has now let us see that not only did he have talent, but he was a visionary as well as a man who inspired artists to do their best. Without his presence on the Disney films, not only would they be without the content he had written, but the films in their entirety would have been sourly different. He was a Walt Disney. Gone too soon.
In this film, there is a clip where Ashman instructs Jodi Benson how to sing "Part of Your World." Those few seconds are a witness account of a genius creating art.
I just finished watching the new documentary WAKING SLEEPING BEAUTY which chronicles the period of Disney history where the company went through its second Golden Age (dying from THE BLACK CAULDRON through soaring with THE LION KING). The film was just released onto DVD this past weekend and I highly recommend it.
I knew that Howard Ashman was a very talented writer. This film has now let us see that not only did he have talent, but he was a visionary as well as a man who inspired artists to do their best. Without his presence on the Disney films, not only would they be without the content he had written, but the films in their entirety would have been sourly different. He was a Walt Disney. Gone too soon.
In this film, there is a clip where Ashman instructs Jodi Benson how to sing "Part of Your World." Those few seconds are a witness account of a genius creating art.
"The Spectacle has, indeed, an emotional attraction of its own, but, of all the parts, it is the least artistic, and connected least with the art of poetry. For the power of Tragedy, we may be sure, is felt even apart from representation and actors. Besides, the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet."
--Aristotle
--Aristotle
