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'The Little Mermaid' Director And Alan Menken Get Blunt About The Animated Prince Eric Very Much Needing Revising For The Live-action Version
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08/08/2023
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Eric had nothing, so it was such a simple, sort of wooden character from the original
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and anybody, I mean even Alan Menken would agree to that.
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They all would say, "Yeah, that wasn't developed."
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And so finding his journey, finding his story, creating his mother, the character of the
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Queen, understanding that he doesn't feel like he fits in either.
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There's these similarities between the two worlds.
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His parent isn't understanding what he wants in the world, limiting him to not being able
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to do what he wants to do.
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He sees something, a vision past his small world, so does Ariel.
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And then we realize, of course, he needs a song.
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Like what's his "I want?"
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What's his journey?
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So all these things, really, that felt like that whole portion of the story was that we
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were able to bring to life in a much fuller way.
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"A siren that guides me to royal uncharted waters."
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It starts in a really roiling, intimate place and then it builds and builds and builds.
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So it's really the build of it.
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"All I ever wanted."
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And by the end you're at the royal uncharted waters and he's just full tilt and it really
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introduces you to a whole other color of Prince Eric.
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He's so three-dimensional now.
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And in the original, he's a little bit of a, you know, he serves his function.
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And it's lovely, but this is really three-dimensional.
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dimensional.
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(upbeat music)
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