Brother Bear is an animated 2003 animated animated film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released by Walt Disney Pictures. This is the 44th animated animation film. In the film, an Inuit boy named Kenai chases a bear for revenge for the battle he provoked in which his older brother Sitka was killed. He tracks down the bear and kills him, but the Spirit, angered by this unnecessary death, turns Kenai into a bear as punishment. To be human again, Kenai had to travel to the mountains where Northern lights touch the earth, and learn to see through the eyes of others, feel through the hearts of others, and discover the meaning of brotherhood.
The film is the third and final Disney animation feature produced primarily by the Studio Animation Feature at Disney-MGM Studios in Orlando, Florida; the studio closed in March 2004, shortly after the release of this film which supports computer animation features. The film received an Academy Award nomination for Best Animated Feature. The live sequel to the video, Brother Bear 2 , was released on August 29, 2006.
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Plot
The film is set in the post-ice age of North America, where local tribes believe all beings are created through the Spirits, which are said to appear in the aurora form. Three brothers (Kenai, the youngest brother; Denahi, the middle brother and Sitka, the eldest brother) returned to their tribe to Kenai to receive his totem, an animal shaped necklace. The special animal represented represents what he has to achieve to call himself a human. Unlike Sitka, who gets the guiding hawk, and Denahi, who acquires a wolf of wisdom, Kenai receives a bear of love. He objected to this, claiming that the bear was a thief, and believed that his point was a fact when the bear took some salmon. Kenai and his brothers pursued the bear, but the fight occurred in the glacier, where Sitka gave his life to rescue his brothers, even though the bear was still alive. Angry, Kenai came out to avenge Sitka. He pursued a bear to the mountain and killed him. The Spirit, represented by the Sitka spirit in the form of bald eagles, turns Kenai into a bear after the bear's body dies yawning. The den came, thinking Kenai was dead, and believing that his bears were responsible, swearing to repay Kenai by stealing him.
Kenai fell on several rapids, survived, and was healed by Tanana, a Kenai shaman. He does not speak bear language, but advises him to return to the mountains to find Sitka and return to normal, but only when he corrects his mistakes; he disappeared without explanation. Kenai quickly found wildlife able to talk, met two stag brothers, Rutt and Tuke. He was trapped in a trap, but was released by a bear boy named Koda. They make a deal: Kenai will go with Koda to the nearest salmon and then the boy will lead Kenai to the mountain. When the two finally form a bond like a brother, Koda reveals that his mother is missing. Both are hunted by Denahi, who is still determined to avenge Kenai, unaware that the bear he craved is actually Kenai. Eventually, Kenai and Koda reach the run of salmon, where a large number of bears live as families, including the leader of Tug, the grizzly bear. Kenai adapts to his surroundings and enjoys living with other bears. During the discussion between the bears, Koda tells the story of his mother against the human hunters, making Kenai realize that the bear he killed was Koda's mother.
Surprised and horrified at what he had done, Kenai escaped with guilt, but Koda soon found him. Kenai reveals the truth to Koda, who runs away, mourns. The apologetic Kenai goes to reach the mountain. Rutt and Tuke, after a fight, reformed their fraternity in front of Koda, prompting him to leave after Kenai. Denahi faces Kenai on the mountain, but their battle is distracted by Koda, who steals the spear of hunting Denahi. Kenai goes to Koda's help for love, prompts Sitka to show up and turn him back into a human, which makes Denahi and Koda surprised. However, after realizing that Koda needed it for his own fault, Kenai asked Sitka to turn it back into a bear with the support of the Divine. Sitka obeys, and Koda reunates with her mother's spirit, before she and Sitka return to Spirit. In the end, Kenai lives with the rest of the bear and gets his title as a man, by being a bear.
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Voice cast
- Joaquin Phoenix as Kenai, sister of Sitka and Denahi. After he does not have to kill a bear, Kenai transforms into himself to teach him to see the eyes of others, to feel the feelings of others, and to find the true meaning of brotherhood. John E. Hurst and Byron Howard served as animators who watched Kenai in human form and bear respectively.
- Jeremy Suarez as Koda, the grizzly bear kid who helped Kenai on his way to the Earth Touch Lamp. Alex Kupershmidt served as an animator who watched Koda.
- Rick Moranis as Rutt, a cute Canadian deer.
- Dave Thomas as Tuke, another Canadian comic deer.
- Jason Raize as a Divine, middle brother. This was the first and only film of Jasonayze's role before his death in 2004. Ruben A. Aquino served as the watchful animator for Denahi.
- D.B. Sweeney as Sitka, the eldest brother.
- Joan Copeland as Tanana, a Kenai witch doctor.
- Michael Clarke Duncan as Tug, the wise old grizzly bear.
- Greg Proops as Male Lover Bear
- Pauley Perrette as the Beloved Bear Lady
- Estelle Harris as the Old Lady of the Bear
- Bumper Robinson as a Chipmunks
- Angayuqaq Oscar Kawagley as Inuit Narrator
Production
Following the critical and commercial success of the The Lion King , Disney chairman and CEO Michael Eisner encouraged more animal-based animation features, and suggested a North American background, took special inspiration from the original landscape painting by Albert Bierstadt he bought. To trace the idea of ​​"king", the hero would naturally become a bear, the king of the jungle. At that time, the original idea inspired by King Lear centered around an old blind bear who scoured the forest with his three daughters. In 1997, veteran animator Aaron Blaise went into the project as a director because he "wanted to be tied up so I could live the bear", and soon joined the co-director Bob Walker. Because Blaise wanted a more naturalistic story, Blaise and producer Chuck Williams produced a two-page treatment of the father-son story in which the son turned into a bear, and eventually remained a bear. Thomas Schumacher, then president of Walt Disney Feature Animation, approved the revised story, stating, "This is the idea of ​​the century." The Murphy tab, which has written scenarios for Tarzan and Atlantis: The Lost Empire, came to write the script manuscript.
After the project was illuminated by the green light, Blaise, Walker and story artists embarked on a research trip in August 1999 to visit Alaska where they traveled in the Ten Thousand Smoke Valley and Kodiak Island, and traveled through Denali National Park and Kenai Fjords National Park, where they visited the Exit and Holgate Glaciers, and a year later, an additional journey rounds through Yellowstone National Park, Grand Teton National Park and Sequoia National Park. Around the year 2000, the story grew into a story where a young man was taken by an older bear, Griz, to be voiced by Michael Clarke Duncan. However, Blaise explains that "we struggled [with stories], trying to get some charm into the movie So we changed Griz into a boy named Koda", voiced by Jeremy Suarez. Because Blaise, Walker, and Williams enjoyed Duncan's vocal appearance, Tug, the de facto leader of bears in the run of salmon, was written into the film.
Casting
In March 2001, Joaquin Phoenix confirmed that he was cast in a movie that exclaimed, "Oh, but forget the Oscar nominees [for Gladiator.] The real highlight is that I play animated characters in Disney movies. I play a Native American who turned into a bear.It's called The Bears. Do not call me a top person.I do not care about that. "The main bear. After the filmmakers heard the audition tape for Finding Nemo, Jeremy Suarez acted as Koda.Similar to contemporary animated films where most cast members recorded their voices separately, Suarez and Phoenix voiced the role separately, although they both held recording sessions at least twice, voicing the Rutt and Tuke stags, Dave Thomas and Rick Moranis performed simultaneously during the recording process Angayuqaq Oscar Kawagley, a professor who taught the Alaska Native philosophy course at the University of Alaska , Fairbanks, claimed that he had never been given a script but instead was given "the dialogue they had written, said by the Natives." For the role of the Inuit Narrator, Kawagley translated the dialogue in written form to Yup'ik and sent his translation back to the studio Disney, and then recorded his translation in an Anchorage studio while being recorded for reference animation.
Design and animation
The film is traditionally animated but includes several CG elements such as "salmon run and cariejo trace". Armand Serrano's layout artist, talking about the process of drawing on the film, said that "we had to do a live drawing session with live bear children as well as drawing sessions and painting outside at Fort Wilderness in Florida three times a week for two months [...]".. In 2001, the background supervisor Barry Kooser and his team traveled to Jackson Hole, Wyoming and studied with Western landscape painter, Scott Christensen, where they learned: "Simplify the object by getting the space dimension to work first and working on the details later. "
According to Ruben Aquino, the animator for the Denahi character, Denahi was initially meant to be Kenai's father; then it was changed to Kenai's brother. Byron Howard, supervising an animator for Kenai in the form of a bear, said that earlier in the production of a bear named Grizz (which resembled Tug in the film and voiced by the same actor) should have a Kenai mentor role. Art Director Robh Ruppel states that the end of the original film shows how Kenai and Denahi gather together once a year to play when the northern light is in the sky.
Music
Following the success of Tarzan's soundtrack, Phil Collins was offered the chance to write a song for Brother Bear, and let him "write score". However, Collins explains, "Slowly, the bad news started dripping so I would not sing it all, it was a bit disappointing, because I [usually] wrote songs that I sang myself." While Collins composed six songs for the film, he shared a vocal performance task with Tina Turner, who has announced his retirement from the tour and has not released an album since Twenty Four Seven in 1999, who has signed the opening song, and Blind Boys Of Alabama and the Bulgarian Women's Choir, who performed the song, "Transformation." The lyrics of Collins were translated into Inuit Eskimo for the show, composed by co-composer scores Collins and Mark Mancina, and vocal arranger Eddie Jobson.
Release
Brother Bear was originally scheduled for Spring 2004 release, while Home on the Range is scheduled for release in 2003. However, Disney announced that Brother Bear will was released in the fall of 2003, while Home on the Range was pushed back for spring 2004 release. Contrary to speculation, news writer Jim Hill stated the release date button was not due to Home on the Range > suffered a rewrite of the story, but to promote Brother Bear in the Platinum Edition release of The Lion King. On July 15, 2003, Disney announced that its release date will be moved on one weekend from a slot previously scheduled on November 7, 2003. However, instead of opening on Halloween, the film will be released on Saturday, November 1, 2003..
On October 20, 2003, Brother Bear premiered at the New Amsterdam Theater where fellow participants included New York Governor George Pataki and cast members Michael Clarke Duncan and Estelle Harris. After the screening, Collins performed "No Way Out" before introducing Tina Turner to the stage where she performed the opening song, "Great Spirits".
Critical reception
The film received very mixed reviews from film critics, praised the animated film but criticized the story. The aggregate review of Rotten Tomatoes reports that 38% of critics gave positive reviews of films based on 125 reviews with an average rating of 5.5/10. The site's consensus is "Brother Bear soft and fun if the usual Disney fare course, with so-so animation and generic planning. " Metacritic, who delivers a normalized ranking of 100 of the top reviews from major critics, calculated a score of 48 based on 28 reviews, showing "mixed or average review."
The critics of popular American film Roger Ebert and Richard Roeper both gave positive film reviews, with Ebert saying that "it does not have a zowie factor from The Lion King or Finding Nemo USA Today critics the movie Claudia Puig gave a 3/4 star movie praising the movie for "a message of tolerance and respect for the hard and clear natural rings. And family audiences are treated with passionate eager movies with interesting characters. Writing for Variety , Todd McCarthy sums up that "Brother Bear" is a very light animated entry from Disney with a clear recycled feel [due to] the characters and the movie narrative failing to get involved. a strong interest, and this story may be too serious to bewitch the little ones in terms of better Disney titles. Kenneth Turan, reviewing for the Los Angeles Times praises his "visual richness and flexibility" and "satisfying endings", but derides that "Brother Bear" has an attraction that can not be denied. Too often, however, the film is less of a fresh dramatic approach and not a technique that makes it difficult to embrace as much as we want. "
Of note to many critics and viewers is the use of the film ratio aspect as a storytelling tool. The film starts at a standard 1.75: 1 widescreen aspect ratio (similar to the usual 1.85: 1 ratio in US cinema or a ratio of 1.78: 1 HDTV), while Kenai is human; in addition, the art direction and color scheme of the film are based on realism. After Kenai transformed into a bear for twenty-four minutes into the picture, the film itself also changed: to anamorphic aspect ratio of 2.35: 1 and to a brighter, more imaginary color and a slightly more caricature artistic direction. Brother Bear is the first feature since The Horse Whisperer makes a big screen shift. This is the only animated film featuring this technique, until The Simpsons Movie and Enchanted in 2007.
box office
In its limited release, Brother Bear only played in two selected theaters in Los Angeles, California, and New York City, fetching $ 291,940 for an average per screen of $ 145,970. This widespread release followed on November 1, 2003, growing to 3,030 theaters, the best-selling $ 18.5 million second behind Scary Movie 3 in the box office rankings. On the second broad weekend, the film continues to show strong grossing $ 18.6 million against new competing movies such as Elf and The Matrix Revolutions , accumulating $ 44.1 million in three weeks. The film earned $ 85,336,277 during its domestic theater show and then generated $ 164.7 million outside the United States, bringing its total worldwide to $ 250,383,219.
Home media
Brother Bear was released on VHS and DVD two disks on March 30, 2004. The DVD release features two movie versions, theatrical widescreen and anamorphic presentations. Also included in the DVD is a documentary film about film production, audio commentary tracks by Rutt and Tuke with options for visual modes, art galleries told by artists, three deleted, censored scenes, two games called "Find Your Totem" and "Bone Puzzle", and "Fishing Song" by Phil Collins. The home video release generated over $ 167 million in DVD and VHS sales and rentals. In April 2004 alone, 5.51 million copies of the film were sold.
The film was released in a Blu-ray special edition combined with its sequel, Brother Bear 2 , on March 12, 2013.
Awards and nominations
The film was nominated at the 76th Academy Awards for Best Animated Feature, but lost to other Walt Disney Pictures, Finding Nemo movies.
Legacy
The song "Welcome" written by Phil Collins was later used as the theme song for Walt Disney's Parade of Dreams during Happiest Homecoming on Earth, celebrating the 50th anniversary of Disneyland. For the parade, the song changed the lyrics slightly and performed by an ensemble.
Video game
Disney's Brother Bear was released in November 2003 for Game Boy Advance, mobile and Microsoft Windows. The story begins when two deer are telling the story of "Bear who says he is not a bear". The story follows a film in which Kenai is transformed into a bear by his brother Sitka and hunted by his brother Denahi.
See also
- Brother Bear 2 - the 2006 sequel
- List of Disney theatrical animation features
References
External links
- Official website
- Brother Bear on IMDb
- Big Brother at AllMovie
- Brother Bear in The Big Cartoon DataBase
- Big Brother at Rotten Tomatoes
- Brother Bear in Metacritic
- Big Brother at Box Office Mojo
- Brother Bear Online Archive
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