The Swan Princess
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Short description
The Swan Princess is an animated fantasy adventure about a princess named Odette, who is turned into a swan by the sorcerer Rothbart. Confined to an enchanted lake, she befriends a frog, a turtle and a puffin, while Prince Derek, to whom she was promised, tries to free her. The spell can only be undone by a lasting vow of love, so the prince must prove himself against the sorcerer.
The film was directed and produced by Richard Rich and written by Brian Nissen. It is the third of thirteen films Rich has directed, following The Black Cauldron and preceding The Swan Princess: Escape from Castle Mountain. The voice cast includes Jack Palance as Rothbart, Howard McGillin as Prince Derek and Michelle Nicastro as Odette, with Liz Callaway providing Odette's singing voice and John Cleese and Steven Wright as two of her animal companions. It runs 89 minutes.
Released in November 1994, it was made for about 20 million dollars and took roughly 10 million dollars worldwide, so it did not recover its cost in cinemas. On IMDb it holds 6.5 out of 10 from around 29,000 votes, and on TMDB 6.6 out of 10 from about a thousand votes; a critics' rating of 6 out of 10 from twelve reviews sits close to those audience figures.
What's left behind the scenes
- Director and screenwriter Richard Rich initially proposed the idea for this animated film to Walt Disney Studios, where he himself worked as a director and producer of animated films, but the idea was rejected there.
- This is the last animated film created using solely traditional animation. It took four years to make.
- Richard Rich was one of several animators who left Walt Disney Studios in the 1980s and founded their own animation studios. Don Bluth was the most well-known among them.
- During the performance of the song “No More Mr. Nice Guy,” the evil wizard Rothbart (voiced by Jack Palance) did a one-handed push-up, just as Palance did while accepting his Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in Ron Underwood’s comedy “City Slickers” (1991).
- Initially, in the scene where Bromley (voiced by Joel McKinnon Miller) shoots an arrow, and Derek (voiced by Adam Wiley and Howard McGillin) catches it, Bromley did not wear armor. However, news soon arrived of a teenager who had died trying to replicate a stunt he had seen in David S. Ward’s sports drama “The Program” (1993), and the animators redrew the scene, dressing Derek in armor so that no one would attempt the stunt without first wearing protection.
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