Main Disney • Re: The Little Mermaid (Live-Action)

While I was watching the Little Mermaid remake, I saw it twice, something crystallized in my head. I think one of the challenges of bringing an animated film to live action is the budget. The "Under the Sea" sequence in the original Little Mermaid was a lavish, colorful, sumptuous sequence that had a lot of characters and fun. When I watched the live action one, I was aware they hit a limitation. They couldn't build enough unique characters and they couldn't populate the screen like we did. In our version, the screen was full of color and characters that were crossing and stuff like that. In the remake, they made a lot of jellyfish and a lot of brittle stars and they made a lot of sea turtles but the general population of that sequence was really low and so it didn't have that explosion of energy that the animated one did. So, they were really limited, frankly, by their budget.

Statistics: Posted by Sotiris — Tue Apr 22, 2025 2:43 am