of John Lounsbery, Wolfgang Reitherman, Art Stevens
'The Adventures of White and Bernie ' is the fifth film classic Disney to be produced after the death of Walt Disney himself, and, strange to say, to separate them from the works before and after there is an abyss. This is probably the most dark between the classical and animations could be exaggerating to say that a sense of death pervades all the work. To explain this we need to introduce another element fundamental to the whole movie: the environments, because if the people understood in common sense does not always convince, the environments are extremely incisors in both narrative and imagination. It 'somewhat atypical in that a film's animated Disney film, with an audience of only children ( cartoon commercial with the general public is much later) landscapes are predominant represented by a New York, extraordinary scenes in the daytime but somewhat bleak in much more important night scenes, and especially from the swamp (need a guide: The Devil's Swamp) devoid of the usual elements of nature reassuring, playful, fantastic (see Peter Pan), but inconvenient, running, scary. And 'the swamp the true protagonist of the film, a swamp that contains many negative elements, from the evil Medusa and cruel Brutus and Nero (crocodiles), the claustrophobic cave continually threatened by the oil in which are hidden sterile treasures, along with skulls and skeletons, in this context can only barely sketched out of tune's aides and White Bernie present here, but in the end good forced to live in a place evil, in a place death note.
throughout the whole story is the anxiety prevailed, interrupted briefly by comedians that do not help to find a balance, a false happy ending, at the end the good is only transient, never overwhelms definitely, this is Black is the only hope for a distant tomorrow, as the song says the main, 'Tomorrow is another day'.
From a technical standpoint, the excellent background drawings, which are predominant dark shades, not are equally good character animations, and even the audio sector, though acceptable, does not reach the excellence of Disney. The
Adventures of the White and Bernie is an anomaly in the Disney landscape, although one could argue the opposite recalling the most famous below (first sequel to a classic, most famous for the image of Satan), but the differences are abysmal: a swamp you go to Australia, earth sun, and you leave with a history of anxiety most heroic, funny and trivial: note that the character the dragonfly, which remains at the end of the first film with two mice, disappears mysteriously , as the authors have wanted to erase the memory of certain circles.
the end, to be reviewed.
Rating: 7.5 / 10
