With the first cock song, the pigs will grunt, the burenki will mumble, the sheep will bleat, the pannochka will hide. The Chanticleer rooster is responsible for the sunrise with his rockabilly cry, which will wake up and set even the dog in the right mood. And the chickens will rush, and the artiodactyls will be milked, and the farming idyll will seem endless, as long as…
Creatures of the night cannot bear this sound of awakening, heralding the dawn. “Who is for careless joy, who is for endless night.” The Grand Duke of Owls proves to Chanticleer that the Sun will rise even without rooster trills, at the same time offering a contract in a Big City. The rooster, who decided that all his works were initially naive, agrees. A dreary drizzle covers the farm. The scenery is changing, and now a real boy on a real farm is calling Chanticleer for help. The Prince of Owls turns the boy into a kitten so that he no longer mumbles, at the same time involving him in his world and scary fairy-tale vicissitudes.
Don Bluth chose animation as his craft back in the mid-1950s, but what seemed to him a dream turned into hard labor: a frame-by-frame drawing required three hours to create three seconds. Disney directed the artists with an iron hand, the Blat was blown away after a year and a half. Everyone was blown away there, many much earlier. He returned to the Disney studio again in the early 1970s, having worked on several episodes of the Robin Hood cartoon.
Having accumulated enough money, ideas and like-minded people, at the end of the decade he left the “Mouse House”, starting his own production. The most profitable place to draw cartoons was in Ireland, whose government subsidized any major projects in this area. It is not known at what stage of Blat’s work Spielberg noticed him, but in the end Don received a resource, and the planet received “An American Story / An American Tail” about the fate of Jewish migrant mice from Little Russia, a film that only pretends to be childish. The next work, which was produced by Spielberg, was the hit “Earth before the Beginning of Time”, where a hungry and angry tyrannosaurus chases the herbivorous kids of stegosaurs, triceratops and … However, everything died out, the children liked it.
It is not known why Spielberg left Blat at the peak of his work. Steven took up the second feature film about mice gnawing, if possible, kosher grain, while Don gave out a piercing dog noir “All dogs go to Heaven.” The parents who tolerated the dinosaurs who tolerated T. Rex were not ready for a serious dialogue. The box office collapsed, barely justifying the cost of the film. The cartoon, animationally repeating the best works of Disney, raised topics that frightened parents. But Don Bluth was going to dig even deeper.
“Rock A-Doodle” formally follows the “Chanticleer” by Edmond Rostand, the romantic of the XIX century, whose teenage symbolism was easily reproduced by animation. But it’s also the story of Elvis, his “selling and falling,” as a fan of early rock and roll sees it. The role of the feathered King was voiced by Glen Campbell. Campbell has always been a great country singer who remembered his Scottish roots. His delightful “Mull Of Kintyre” was covered by Paul McCartney.
Glen Campbell – Sun Do Shine
02 We Hate the Sun – Christopher Plummer
03 Come Back to You – Glen Campbell
04 Rock-a-Doodle – Glen Campbell
05 The Bouncer’s Song – Don Bluth Players
06 Tweedle-Le-Dee – Christopher Plummer
07 Treasure Huntin’ Fever – Glen Campbell
08 Sink or Swim – Ellen Greene
09 Kiss ‘n Coo – Glen Campbell & Ellen Greene
10 Back to the Country – Glen Campbell
11 The Owl’s Picnic – Christopher Plummer
12 Tyin’ Your Shoes – Phil Harris & Toby Scott Ganger
Listen online or download OST Rock-a-doodle 1991 (mp3 128 Kbps, 28 Mb)
In real life, Glen was a fan of Elvis and in the songs for the cartoon, he, taking on the voice of Chanticleer, gave an amazing imitation of the King. Young Toby Scott Ganger in the role of the boy Edmond symbolized the youth, who, after listening to the early recordings of Elvis, could cultivate a taste and reverse the nefarious trends in show business. The great Christopher Plummer voiced the Grand Duke of Owls, who personified all the filth of American capitalism, not alien to mysticism, gnosticism and Satanism. The TV series “Twin Peaks”, released a little earlier, has already stated that owls are not what they seem. The cartoon “Rock A-Doodle” gave a new interpretation to this phrase.
The next work of Don Blat caused negative criticism in connection with its almost Gogol-like horror. Cretins, I’m sorry, critics didn’t know that children liked this horror – sales on cassettes have long justified all costs and made a profit. You can read more about the life and misadventures of Blat in his autobiography “Somewhere out There: my cartoon life/Somewhere Out There: My Animated Life“.
Summing up the line, we note: you pathetic parents, stop mengevat and let the children watch these wonderful cartoons. They will see them anyway, but better sooner. And look at the screen yourself, the stories of Don Blat work with any generation! That’s all, folks!
PS: All the symbolism buried in this “children’s” cartoon is enough for a separate book.
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