Waking Sleeping Beauty
2009 · 86 MIN · IMDB 7.5 · 3,346 VOTES · DIR. Don Hahn
Overview
By the mid-1980s, the fabled animation studios of Walt Disney had fallen on hard times. The artists were polarized between newcomers hungry to innovate and old timers not yet ready to relinquish control. These conditions produced a series of box-office flops and pessimistic forecasts: maybe the best days of animation were over. Maybe the public didn't care. Only a miracle or a magic spell could produce a happy ending. Waking Sleeping Beauty is no fairy tale. It's the true story of how Disney regained its magic with a staggering output of hits - "Little Mermaid," "Beauty and the Beast ," "Aladdin," "The Lion King," and more - over a 10-year period.
Dialogue Timeline — 1,533 lines
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00:00:08 JOHN: Elton John, up at Pinewood on--
00:04:07 Good to see you. This is Randy. Great way to start the film.
00:07:23 wouldn't be caught dead near a Disney movie.
00:11:00 The Disney board of directors chose Michael Eisner
00:14:11 Hey, Minnie.
00:17:01 That day, Disney Animation hit bottom.
00:20:14 KATZENBERG: And I said, "Look, I'm here. I'm not going away.
00:23:27 It had this feeling of a freight train leaving the station at light speed.
00:26:24 It seemed like the right decision at the time.
00:30:02 he discovered that executives routinely made decisions by asking
00:33:27 So now there was a unit in Burbank and one in London.
00:36:52 He was born into a Jewish family in Baltimore
00:40:37 KEANE: I heard"Part of Your World," Jodi Benson singing that
00:43:51 ROY: So I just walked down the hall and stood there in Frank's doorway.
00:46:59 the first 20 minutes of the movie, and started all over again.
00:50:16 I didn't, or I didn't let myself. He said,"l guess you know.
00:54:38 Beauty and the Beast had thousands of drawings left to go.
00:57:59 You get it from the top and you get it from the bottom
01:01:08 I was sitting at what had to have been the furthest table from the stage
01:04:30 The rewards were pouring in, so we all kept trying to top ourselves.
01:07:54 It's a hit. It's got hit written all over it.
01:11:56 SCHNElDER: Frank was the peacemaker amongst all these tremendous egos.
01:15:28 First of all, we don't believe in research. I never have.
01:19:28 And how proud I am to have been a part of these movies with the best in the world.