Aladar the Dinosaur looks like Tarzan, Hercules and the Hunchback of Notre Dame
"Dinosaur". Walt Disney Studios. Directors: Ralph Sondag and Eric
Leighton. Producer: Pam Marsden. Screenplay: John Harrison, Robert Nelson
Jacobs. Music: James Newton Howard. Translation and voice processing:
Sfraira is eligible. Voices: Anat Waxman, Ido Mosari, Alon Ofir, Shirley
Wertheimer, Yoram Josefsberg, Danny Besen
This summer is all about dinosaurs. The week they started broadcasting on Channel 2
The British series "Dinosaurs", the Disney film was also released,
"Dinosaur". This prehistoric atmosphere will accompany the summer, and surely
Help the various marketing companies promote their lizards. pamphlets
The dinosaur is already distributed with the newspapers, and the stickers for the booklet are sold
In supermarkets in snack bags and in separate packages. Soon every drink
Chocolate, eating cereal or snacks will be accompanied by a movie advertisement. But there is nothing in it
Everything is new, it's one of the signs of summer. The encouraging thing here is, perhaps,
That this collection might push aside the Pokemon obsession. little knowledge
that can be accumulated by collecting cards about dinosaurs can contribute to education
The general - unlike the control of the Pokémon material, which takes up a lot
Brain hardware, for nothing.
Not that the Disney movie teaches much about dinosaurs. Because while the series of
The BBC aspires to be scientific, the Disney film, whose stunts are impressive
They, too, are nothing more than a Disney movie. Disney films
They work according to a precise formula, each of its components is visible here as well
– so prominent that it's disappointing. The truth is that we are tired of this formula. how,
Among all the dinosaurs (which are a bit scary), managed to make Aladar -
The dinosaur is the hero of the film - to look like Tarzan, Hercules and the hunchback
From Notre Dame, the heroes of the previous Disney films? and how is a caravan,
The evil tyrannical dinosaur, which is indeed an Iguanadon, looks exactly like
The evil lion Scar in "The Lion King" and the scary grasshopper in "Bug Life"?
A true wonder.
Apart from them there is also an ugly Kofif, Suri, who is Aladar's loyal friend
(Mulan had Moshu, Simba had the parrot, etc.), which provides the landing
the comedies Vishna is the object of Aladhar's love, a very secondary female role
(Like Jane in "Tarzan", and much less important than Esmeralda in "Hunchback"). this
An Iguanadonite named Nira, who through sophisticated technology equalized her
sexy walk
Not every Disney film was always such a clear copy of its predecessor. "Seal
and thieves", "Peter Pan", "The Jungle Book", "Beauty and the Beast",
"Cats at the top", each of them was a film in its own right. "Toy of
The latest "Story", from the Pixar studios that work with Disney, proved it
that the technology is only a tool to advance the story, which is still the main thing.
Since "Dinosaur" is not based on a folktale or a classic story,
Only the skeleton of the formula remains in it, which reminds of previous films - there is nothing unique
in his plot. At the beginning of "Dinosaur" there is a spectacular sequence of scenes, in which
A dinosaur egg is taken and passes, with constant risk, between animals
Different prehistories, until it gets very far from Cana and hatches in battle
A family of monkeys for teachers, who do not know such a creature. Until a meteor shower
Destroying their country, Aladar, the vegetarian dinosaur, grew up among his family
Monkeys, just like Tarzan (and like Mowgli in "The Jungle Book" with a band
the wolves). He plays with them and is accepted by them despite his obvious difference.
The grandfather of the monkey family objects to taking it as a name that the father of the family refused before him
The gorillas in "Tarzan", and thanks to the mother of the family he is convinced and finds out that he was wrong.
Later in the film, when Aladar (with the monkey family on his back) joins the herd
Dinosaurs making their way with great difficulty to the nesting area - a complete oasis
All good - he turns out to be a just leader, who is not afraid to go against Kron,
The leader of the totalitarian herd, hard-nosed and opinionated. Aladar
We fight him just like Simba in "The Lion King" and overcome him.
As in any good Disney movie, aside from the overwhelming music, the jokes and the tears -
Everything in a precise dose - there is also a didactic moral. Here we learn that
Abandoning the weak for the common good is a negative thing; Just a herd that considers everyone
Its details can succeed in fulfilling its purpose - survival. An amusing conclusion
Little considering that even the young people in the audience know that Gishah is also
This cooperation did not help these heroes in reality.
{Appeared in Haaretz newspaper, 4/7/2000{
Ruth Kupfer
