ENCHANTED

Directed by: Kevin Lima

Country: USA

Year: 2007

Running time: 1 hour 47 minutes.

Genre: Romantic Comedy,

Repart: Amy Adams (Giselle), Patrick Dempsey

(Robert Phillip), James Marsden (Prince Edward),

Timothy Spall (Nathaniel), Idina Menzel (Nancy

Tremaine), Rachel Covey (Morgan Phillip), Susan Sarandon (Narissa)

Written by: Bill Kelly

Production: Barry Josephson and Barry Sonnenfeld

Music by: Alan Menken

Songs by: Mr. Menken and Stephen Schwartz

Director of photography: Don Burgess

Hand-drawn animation supervisor: James Baxter

Edited by: Stephen A. Rotter and Gregory Perler

Production designer: Stuart Wurtzel

Released by: Walt Disney Pictures.

Vestuario: Mona May

Premiere on USA: 21 november 2007

SYNOPSIS

The story narrates the problems that the beautiful princess Giselle have to confront, she lives in Andalucia where also lives Prince Edward and the evil queen Narissa, who doesn't want that Edward mets the real love, but he mets Giselle and he fall in love and decided to married with her, at this situation, the evil queen decided to transported Giselle by a spell, from her magical world to the modern and chaotic New York, Inmersed in a world where the "Happy for ever and ever" doesn't exist, Giselle walks for New York and she mets Robert, a lawyer, charming but not perfect and he decides to help her thanks his child. She is confused because she fall in love with Robert but she is engaged in Andalucia with the Prince Edward who comes to New York searching for her. At this situation the princess needs to know if her vision of true love has a future in the real world.

KEVIN LIMA

"Born and raised in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, he first became interested in animation and he has been drawing for as long as he can remember. Since an early age he was interested in bringing characters to life and how to move them in an entertaining way that’s why Lima studied acting at Emerson College before enrolling in CasArts Animation Program. After graduating, he worked briefly at Disney providing animation for the Sport Goofy project. With limited job opportunities at the studio at the time, he took an assignment designing characters for the independently featured The Brave Little Toaster. He helped develop a project called Samurai Cat and animated on The Chipmunk Adventure before returning to Disney in 1987 to animate the character of Fagin for Oliver & Company. Following that, Lima worked in some capacity on each of Disney's next five animated features. In the next few years Lima worked on many features for Disney from designing Ursula and Flounder for The Little Mermaid, Jake and Frank, the frill-neck lizards from The Rescuers Down Under to playing a key role in creating the character of Lumière for Beauty and the Beast. For Aladdin and The Lion King. In 1992, he was offered a chance to direct A Goofy Movie. This film was both a critical and commercial success and breathed new life into the lead character".

Filmography:

Director---------- Avon Man (2010)

Director---------- Enchanted (2007)

Director---------- 102 Dalmatas (2000)

Director---------- Tarzan (1999)

Director---------- A Goofy Movie (1995)

CRITICS

"Tiene los ingredientes de un superéxito azucarado (...) Amy Adams es ese deseo que tu corazón te concede cuando quieres una historia eterna de princesas. (...) Puntuación: *** (sobre 4)." (Peter Travers: Rolling Stone)
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"Es básicamente, ya saben, para niños, pero los fans de los cuentos se divertirán un montón buscando sus referencias. Adams, por su parte, ofrece una de las interpretaciones cómicas del año. (...) Puntuación: *** (sobre 5)." (Olly Richards: Empire)

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"La viva definición de 'encantadora'. (...) inteligentemente escrita. Las situaciones son divertidas, y la historia resulta sumamente entretenida. (...) Puntuación: *** (sobre 4)." (Claudia Puig: USA Today)
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"Amy Adams y ver a Susan Sarandon como magnífica bruja casi cyberpunk son dos de las sugerentes sorpresas de este eficaz e inofensivo producto (...) simpática fabulilla (...) Puntuación: ** (sobre 5)." (Javier Cortijo: Diario ABC)

The critics of the movie are emphasized in how parody a different princess movies of Disney but at the end of the movie it ends on the same thing they tried to parody, is the same story about the princess searching for their prince but the interesting thing is that is an animated movie and also part of the story is with real personages and in the real world.

SOCIO-HISTORICAL BACKGROUND

“The work of producing animated section began 9 months before the shooting of the film, after the animated advisors were a year collecting images that would support the story that he would have to continue in reality. Therefore, after selecting houses and castles that were to appear in Andalasia (the imaginary country) and reminiscent of other houses and castles of Disney classics, Lima and his team opted for a decorative Art Nouveau and the American city where condenses most of this style: New York. This is the reason that New York Andalasia and work so well together: New York City becomes an almost unreal and Andalasia in a country closer to reality. The film fuses the classic fairy tale with a modern romantic comedy. That is, history shows the typical beautiful princess banished from her magical musical world by an evil queen”

The Art Nouveau is a movement on arts and architecture beginning in 1890-1910 is a modern movement and still being an important movement around the world, this style use curves and organic forms. The movie is nowdays and is interesting because in Andalasia, the imaginary world of Giselle, the castle and the houses use this style in their architecture. In the part of New York in the movie, the buildings are moderns and art nouveau is a modern movement.

Wardrobe

“From the clothing style of the seventeenth century French court in Andalasia, the more modern lines of the extras in New York to the huge amount of dresses that go through the shoulders of the protagonist”

This could be a type of socio-historical context because fashion begin since the necessity of being dressed and trough the years continue their evolution and in the movie we can see how in Andalasia they wear a seventeenth fashion style but when she arrive to New York, fashion is modern and they use less cloths.

INTERTEXTUALITIES

All of them are references an tributes to the Disney Princess movies like “Blancanieves, “La Cenicienta” and "La Bella Durmiente"

* The scene when Giselle and the prince Edward ride to the sunset, singing is exactly the same final scene of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

* Inside of the tree house there is a vase equal as the vase in the Beauty and the Beast

* When Giselle arrive to the castle,she meets an ald witch who brings her to a well and it is another direct reference to SnowWhite

* The poison apples are a reference of SnowWhite (This scene pass whe Giselle is in the real world)

* All the images repeated while is playing The Happy Working Song is a reference to Cinderella: The reflection of Giselle in soap bubbles and the apron made by birds.

* The kiss of true love to be to lift Giselle is a reference of SnowWhite and the Sleeping Beauty.