Disney The Little Mermaid: The Official Junior Novelisation (From the Movie)

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Criscitiello, Alexa (July 9, 2019). "Photo: Lin-Manuel Miranda & Alan Menken Get To Work On A New Song For THE LITTLE MERMAID". Broadway World. Archived from the original on September 7, 2020 . Retrieved September 20, 2019. Kroll, Justin (January 5, 2021). " 'The Undoing's Noma Dumezweni Joins Disney's Live-Action 'Little Mermaid' In Brand New Role". Deadline Hollywood. Archived from the original on January 5, 2021 . Retrieved May 27, 2023. The Little Mermaid" was written by Hans Christian Andersen in 1836 and first published by C.A. Reitzel in Copenhagen on 7 April 1837 in Fairy Tales Told for Children. First Collection. ( Danish: Eventyr, fortalte for Børn. Første Samling.), a collection of nine fairy tales by Andersen. Natalie Paris (June 1, 2023). "The surprising Italian filming location". Telegraph. Archived from the original on June 2, 2023 . Retrieved June 8, 2023. The show aired their adaptation of The Little Mermaid on 5 March 1961 as episode 22 during the show's second season. Shirley Temple herself played the mermaid. Unlike the original story, the mermaid does not give up her voice to become human, but she still fails to win the prince's heart when he falls in love with the princess who found him. In the end, when she cannot bring herself to kill the prince with the dagger, she prepares to throw herself into the sea. Neptune himself intervenes and says that for her selfless act, she has earned the right to become a mermaid again and rejoin her family, giving the story a happy ending.

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a b Scheps, Leigh (March 31, 2023). "How Alan Menken, Disney's Most Prolific Composer, Inspired a Generation of Songwriters". Vanity Fair. Archived from the original on March 31, 2023 . Retrieved April 2, 2023. Visual effects were provided by Industrial Light & Magic, Wētā FX, Moving Picture Company and Framestore. [77] DNEG also provided the stereo conversion. [78] For the " Under the Sea" sequence, Marshall called it a "big, massive musical number" and said that creating the underwater environments involved "a lot of work in advance with John DeLuca and myself creating these musical sequences, to prep it in advance from storyboards to something called pre-visualization, which is almost like a little mini-animated film, so we know how it flowed and how it worked ... You are creating a world, you're creating creatures, but it's very important to me that it feels real – you have to believe, you have to care about them, you have to follow their journey." [79] Suleiman, Nadine (September 12, 2023). "Movie Ranker - United States, September 8-10". Whip Media. Archived from the original on August 17, 2023 . Retrieved September 15, 2023. Harrison, Ellie (November 4, 2019). "Harry Styles reveals why he turned down role of Prince Eric in Little Mermaid". The Independent. Archived from the original on August 20, 2022 . Retrieved May 27, 2023. Hammond, Pete (May 22, 2023). " 'The Little Mermaid' Review: Rob Marshall's Live Action Take On Disney Animated Classic Is A Winner Both Above And Under The Sea". Archived from the original on May 24, 2023 . Retrieved May 23, 2023.Mermaids are a symbol of otherness. They are half and half. Neither this nor that. They can also represent the archetype of virgin, what with her sex sealed up inside her tail. She is half naked, and yet not available for romantic love. Again, she is a projection, often an erotic one. Look, but nothing else. Fairy Tales Told for Children. First Collection. Third Booklet. 1837. (Eventyr, fortalte for Børn. Første Samling. Tredie Hefte. 1837.) Kroll, Justin (July 3, 2019). "Disney's Live-Action 'Little Mermaid' Casts Halle Bailey as Ariel". Variety. Archived from the original on July 3, 2019 . Retrieved July 3, 2019.

Wang, Jen (April 24, 2023). "Making Waves: Halle Bailey On Reinventing The Disney Princess In The Little Mermaid". Vogue. Archived from the original on May 25, 2023 . Retrieved May 27, 2023. Art Malik as Sir Grimsby, the prime minister of Selina's kingdom and Eric's loyal confidant who acts as a father figure to him. [37] Michaelsen, Shannen (January 21, 2023). "Walt Disney World Hiring Ariel Character Look-Alikes to Portray Halle Bailey's Live Action 'The Little Mermaid' – WDW News Today". WDW News Today. Archived from the original on January 22, 2023 . Retrieved January 21, 2023.Geisinger, Gabriella (July 2, 2019). "The Little Mermaid cast: These stars in talks for the Disney remake – who will be in it?". Express.co.uk. Archived from the original on July 3, 2019 . Retrieved July 3, 2019. LISTEN: Alan Menken Talks THE LITTLE MERMAID, NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM Musical, New Upcoming Animated Film, and More!". Broadway World. February 19, 2021. Archived from the original on February 19, 2021 . Retrieved February 24, 2021. On February 17, 2022, during a podcast interview with Variety, Miranda revealed that one of the new songs for the live-action film, "For the First Time", will take place when Ariel is on land in her human form. He also revealed that star Daveed Diggs might rap in the film. This was confirmed later on March 31, 2023, by Menken, revealing the title of the new rap song as "The Scuttlebutt". He described it as a "harebrained" song for Scuttle and Sebastian "...trying to figure out what's going on because they hear rumors that the prince has decided to marry. They think it must be Ariel but of course it's Ursula in the form of Vanessa. It's all this delicious imagination. Lin's lyrics are to die for." [92] [93] [94] [95] In May 2010, it was moved from its Copenhagen harbor emplacement for the first time ever, for transport to Expo 2010 in Shanghai, where it remained until 20 November 2010. [27] The Little Mermaid statue in the Principality of Monaco [ edit ] The original story has been the subject of multiple analyses by scholars such as Jacob Bøggild and Pernille Heegaard, as well as the folklorist Maria Tatar. These analyses cover various aspects of the story, from interpreting the themes to discussing why Andersen chose to write a tragic story with a happy ending. It has been adapted to various media, including musical theatre, anime, ballet, opera, and film. There is also a statue portraying the mermaid in Copenhagen, Denmark, where the story was written and first published.