Thread:Hey1234/@comment-1672596-20160212003505/@comment-1672596-20160212014150

Hey1234 wrote: You bring up Ursula and her powers. The difference between Ursula's magic during Poor Unfortunate Souls and Ariel's wave during Part of Your World is that, Ursula exhibits having magical abilities outside of a song.

Sometimes you read a bit too much into things. Sometimes things happen soley for the use of dramatic filmaking and spectacle. You may not think so, but yes, the use of a wave crashing during the climax of a song is definitely spectacle and dramatic filmmaking. Flounder and the fishes emerging from the lagoon to sprout water from their mouths around Ariel and Eric's boat during Kiss the Girl was meant to add spectacle. Some of these choices are done just for the sake of the spectacle of a song. The song sequences are meant to be visually enticing; the Renaissance songs, in particular, are meant to echo Broadway spectaculars. Because of that, you get flashy bits of animation that don't occure during a casual scene of the movie. That's why the wave crashed at the end of Part of Your World. Not because Ariel has control over water. There was absolutely nothing matching up with Broadway musical numbers in The Little Mermaid, though. Probably the closest we've got to that is Under the Sea with the changing of colors, and even THAT was actually in-universe. In order for it to truly qualify as actually being spectacle, they'd have to have the characters entering dance routines and several special effects for absolutely no real reason at all (like, for example, the opening song for Beauty and the Beast, or how Gaston seems to randomly teleport or how villagers are dancing like on Broadway in his eponymous song, even by swinging from chandeliers, or having the various food act as fireworks and geysers in Be Our Guest. Or how about I Just Can't Wait to Be King with all the technocolor animals, the surreal environments, how overall the scenes shift erratically, among other things.).

If they wanted spectacle, they would have had fireworks occurring randomly and Sebastian and Flounder randomly entering a jig around the time of the reprise to Part of Your World, just like how those villagers randomly broke out into song and dance in the opening of Beauty and the Beast and then in a split second resumed normal duties when Belle snapped back a look in the ending. So yes, it actually WAS a demonstration of her abilities, NOT just spectacle (and besides, the NES, Game Boy, and Sega version, Sorcerer's of the Magic Kingdom, and even some of the PlayStation games and 3DS games had Ariel demonstrating similar abilities), and I also cited how she defeated Evil Manta as well. I'm fully aware of what spectacle is, and I even cited specific examples from Disney films that actually WERE purely spectacle and in no way meant to be in continuity in this post and the other post, so don't think I'm arguing about the wave bit because I don't know what using things for drama or spectacle is, because I do know what they are and in fact it actually acts as a very huge pet peeve of mine. I might as well add that The Little Mermaid is one of those films where the musical numbers actually ARE justified in-universe, so for that reason alone, we really shouldn't use spectacle as an excuse for removing it. Not to mention, technically, The Little Mermaid's closer to an opera than an actual Broadway musical since none of the characters actually acted randomly and erratically as if they were in a nuthouse where they randomly started singing and dancing for no apparent reason, while Beauty and the Beast is the first Disney film to actually ACT like they were on broadway, right down to erratic behavior.