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Sting’s suppressed Disney documentary leaked online |
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A workprint of a lost documentary about the tumultuous making of Disney's 2000 animated The Emperor's New Groove appeared on YouTube some weeks ago, but was subsequently removed. The back story, via MousePlanet's Wade Sampson, prominently features Sting.
In 1997, musical performer and composer Sting was asked by the Walt Disney Company to write the music for a new animated feature called Kingdom of the Sun. It was to be directed by Roger Allers who was basking in the success of his work on The Lion King. Sting agreed, on the condition that his wife, filmmaker Trudie Styler, could document the process of the production with their own production company, Xingu Films.
The Sweatbox, whose title refers to the air-conditioning-bereft screening room Walt Disney set up to evaluate his employees' work, premiered at the 2002 Toronto Film Festival but has gone virtually unseen by the public ever since. Disney owns the rights and never officially released it.
It's basically a too-many-cooks-in-the-kitchen story about sensitive creative types and the people in charge who have to tell them, "No." Anyone who's been edited knows the story. And, spoiler alert, even Sting, who ends up the loudest voice of displeasure in the whole movie, comes around: "As much as I've bitched and moaned about having to write for a committee, and having a censor, an artistic censor, every time I've had to go back and work it, it's better...So, if I'm being honest, I have to say the process does work."
We watched and enjoyed it.
Note: The film "The Emperor's New Groove" received an Academy Award nomination for Best Song for "My Funny Friend and Me" performed by Sting, but lost against "Things Have Changed" by Bob Dylan from Wonder Boys.
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Posted on Apr 19, 12 | 3:12 pm
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Finally - can't wait to see it.
Posted by:
Pokersut on Apr 19, 12 | 6:51 pm
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Posted by: nleite on Apr 20, 12 | 9:34 pm
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Yeah well, Disney has to live with it from now on that Sting fans know what Disney always wanted to hide...;-))) the best would be that they just let it be shown in the net and that's it...it will be circled around anyway now! they should return the rights back to Trudie's company....;-)
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"The Emperor's New Groove" is an animated movie based on Inca's culture...names like "Cuzco", "Pacha", "Itzma", etc., and the design cartoons are based on the old Peru empire territory, in this side as a peruvian Police/Sting fan I only heard that Sting wasn't totally satisfied with the content of the movie... Is that true?
Here in Peru -specially on people from "Cuzco" city- (former Inca's main city) not liked, because by their perception it's a worst characterization of that historical period. Me like a Peruvian and someone who are involved on audiovisual works I think as a cartoon is a simply fiction and had the intention to offer fun to child's with the using of a story based into a different geographical place and culture than the main objective audience (western society of the 5 continents.)
Is good in a way for promoting a great culture, but on the other hand put some hard and strange stereotype to a whole culture that definitely build a great society organization in the past.
In which concept Sting dislike that movie? Where I could watch that documentary?
Thanks in advance,
Jose ;)
Posted by:
Jose_Peru on Apr 23, 12 | 11:43 pm
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eh download it here look above
Posted by: soulcage on Apr 24, 12 | 12:39 am
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