It’s about her “experiencing breathing air, experiencing a bath, experiencing this or that," Menken says. The result is “For the First Time,” where the audience gets to hear Ariel's internal song as she's introduced to the surface world. “We chose to do something in a cinematic way where you actually hear her inner thoughts musically.” There was a certain challenge involved, though, since by that point, Ariel has lost her voice because of Ursula’s spell to turn her human. “When she gets to land, what is she feeling?” he says. The young mermaid has her biggest musical moment early on, with the powerful ballad “Part of Your World.” Marshall thought she needed another song. And together they find each other as sort of kindred spirits.” Ariel and Eric have a chance to fall in love before he needs to ‘Kiss the Girl’Įric and Ariel spend a good amount of time sharing their sense of exploration and adventure – plus just get to know each other as he shows her his landscape where she’s a fish out of water – before the big romantic tune “Kiss the Girl.” “It's not just, ‘Oh, isn't she pretty? Isn't he cute?’ It's a deeper relationship,” Marshall says.Īdds Bailey: “It was really a beautiful thing to be able to show their kind of gravitation toward one another through the divide of the two worlds that they lived in.” Halle Bailey’s Ariel gets a second solo showstopper With Eric and his mom, “there's a feeling of misunderstanding one another and also not feeling that he belongs, like how Ariel feels like an outsider. Their relationship is similar to Ariel’s with her father King Triton (Javier Bardem), Marshall says. Unlike the ’89 film, Eric finally gets to musically shine with “Wild Uncharted Waters,” one of three new songs by Alan Menken and Lin-Manuel Miranda, and his backstory is revealed: He was a shipwrecked little boy adopted by the island kingdom’s Queen Selina (Noma Dumezweni). “The Little Mermaid” still centers on Ariel’s yearning to explore the surface world, her dastardly deal with sea witch Ursula ( Melissa McCarthy) and the blossoming romance between Ariel and Prince Eric (Jonah Hauer-King). Here’s what else is new and different in the "Little Mermaid" remake, from fresh songs to modernization: Prince Eric finally gets a ‘Little Mermaid’ character arc – and his own ballad! “For me, it was a real antidote to our divided world that we live in.” “That was very helpful because I saw immediately a very modern story about a young girl who feels displaced and is working to change her life and also break down barriers and walls between herself and the human world,” says Marshall, who leans into that conflict between mankind and merpeople in the new live-action revamp, starring Halle Bailey as mermaid Ariel. No, not the 1989 animated classic – he revisited Hans Christian Andersen’s 1837 fairy tale. Tackling a new take on Disney’s “ The Little Mermaid,” director Rob Marshall went all the way back to the original. Spoiler alert: The following post lightly discusses specific scenes and plot points in the new "Little Mermaid" movie, so beware if you'd rather dive in completely cold.
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