Video Games. Explore Wikis Community Central. Register Don't have an account? Pink Elephants. History Talk 0. Do you like this video? Play Sound. On their head. Scrapped concept art of an Pink Elephant-resembled enemy from Epic Mickey. Fan Feed 1 Encanto 2 Mirabel Madrigal 3 Now we see a pair of elephants dancing:. Presumably the large one is male, the small female. She poses for him:.
And then they ice skate and ski. These are leisure activities. Those two elephants, the man and the woman, are having fun together. No more funny farm follies. Now, think of Dumbo. His world must be rather scary. We could read the opening phases of this sequence, then, as depicting that mood. Those elephants shift shape and color.
Hot Elephant Juice. Hot hot hot! The tempo picks up Elephant Machines And the sequence is over. Elephants come down from above, transforming into pink clouds and dawn, and Dumbo and Timothy are up in a tree:. But the peppiness of that Latin music got the blood moving. Perhaps there IS something to look forward in this movie after all. In contrast, imagine that Disney had actually tried to depict however it is that Dumbo ended up in that tree.
It seems to me that that would entail real problems. It is one thing to show this cute big-eared baby elephant getting tipsy and blowing funny bubbles and seeing things, but do you really want to depict him bumbling around and somehow managing to fly without really knowing what he was doing? We see Dumbo stumble around in the circus, he somehow begins flapping his ears, takes to the sky, and ends up in a tall tree — all before our watchful gaze. How dull, but disillusioning.
Instead, Disney takes us into this marvelous surrealistic sequence of transmogrifying pink elephants. What that does is eradicate the circus world from out minds. And that circus world was a pretty cynical one.
Whatever it is that children have in mind when daydreaming about running off to join the circus, this is not the circus they dream about. The cynicism displayed by the animals in the opening day parade, for example, was marvelous, as was the nastiness of the clowns. With some crows.
And, while these crows mocked Dumbo initially, they ended up sympathizing with him and helping him. Here and now the point is simply that the world of the tree, and of the crows, is a different one from that of the circus.
Some raw notes on this sequence from a couple of months ago. Email This BlogThis! Labels: animation , art , cartoon , Disney , Dumbo , film , pop culture. Joel Bocko October 27, at AM. Bill Benzon October 27, at AM. Eric Noble October 30, at AM. Bill Benzon October 30, at PM.
Eddie Fitzgerald October 30, at PM. This Desert elephant though has eyes. Her full eyes comfort Dumbo as he can finally see she is a friendly being amongst this vision. She is going to be the one to get through to Dumbo to help him gain confidence in himself. From the first encounter we already know the Desert Elephant is a friendly soul. Knowing this, she takes on the form of a camel. A more simple approach compared to the giant. From this she demonstrates that an elephant can be more than what Dumbo expects them to.
Think of this as helping to get Dumbo's toes wet for the lesson they're trying to teach. She now shifts forms into a snake to the amazement of Dumbo. An elephant can be many things, Dumbo doesn't have to be the glamorous perfect Pink Elephant from the beginning. By transforming into a snake, she further shows that Dumbo can be something entirely different than an elephant. She then shifts forms into a belly dancer. By doing this she reveals her true form as one of the subconcious elephant with her hollow eyes.
This helps Dumbo realize that these elephants mean no harm. When the Desert Elephant shifts into a belly dancer, she shows that she is not trying to be this perfect ideal elephant that is expected of her.
She has fun with what she can be. This is demonstrated by how she makes the belly dance, a dance that is seen as a seductive performance, into something silly and lighthearted by exaggerating her movements and the size of her belly. She starts to disappear until she leaves an eye that opens. We have been looking at her, but now she is looking at us, Dumbo. Dumbo can see what she can do, but now by watching Dumbo, she is saying, "Now let's see what you can do.
Our next encounter has curtains made of elephants unfold and reveal a dance between a male and female elephant. Throughout this scene, the couple exhibits different colors and weird transformations, but they exhibit exquisite grace during their dance together. They show Dumbo that you can turn something seen as weird and unconventional into sight of beauty. The couple then starts to shift away from the ice skating waltz, now dancing to a more fun Latin beat. It's here where it's revealed that these elephants are not only figments that demonstrated beauty in the surreal, but that they are also Dumbo's mother and father.
At that point however, Dumbo was still filled with self hatred, embarrassed and ashamed of himself. The world kept telling him he was a mistake, a result of two elephants that were never meant to cross, which resulted in the elephants being built unnaturally and their comers not mixing.
But after his encounters with the elephants of guidance such as the Giant and the Desert elephant, Dumbo is starting to look at himself with more respect as he starts to see the positives of his unique attributes. Now with Dumbo starting to appreciate what makes him so different and not having to conform of what's expected of an elephant, he is shown a retelling of his conception that's now potrayed in an awesome way as a result of his boosting self esteem.
The scene prior with the couple ice skating wasn't just them showing how you can turn things seen as weird into something elegant, we were watching the love story of Dumbo's parents unfold.
The elephant curtains show that the two met at the circus and fell in love. After dancing together for a while, they join their trunks together, creating a lightning bolt. This is a metaphor for the electrifying spark that has now been created by and flows between his parents.
They play around with it until the male takes the lead and dances with the lightning bolt. He hurls it at his partner and she splits into a large ensemble of elephants. This is a metaphor for the conception of Dumbo. The large cast of elephants are a representation of Dumbo's never ending potential.
We zoom in on the original couple, Dumbo's parents, as they look directly at Dumbo in an endearing way. Through their expressions, they are telling him that they know Dumbo has the potential to do great and fantastical things.
All the elephants are now together quickly transforming into a large variety of things. This is the big climax. In a way they are challenging Dumbo. They have taken him on this journey of self discovery, but now is the time where Dumbo decides whether he will take the leap to be something great or recluse. Will he do it?
Will he back out? Dumbo's mind is racing as he is asking these questions to himself. The elephants explode, ending the dream. Dumbo has taken the great leap of faith. He has see all these elephants be different things, and now he has decided to be an elephant who can fly. The exact moment where the elephants explode is the exact moment where Dumbo takes his first flight. The snake then sways to the music, and morphs into a belly dancer. The belly dancer begins dancing, then she disappears, except her belly, which becomes a ball bouncing around, then opens up into an eye, and in a few seconds, the eye vanishes.
A group of elephants begin blowing their trumpets, and the camera pans down to reveal these elephants are a stage curtain. The curtains are then ripped apart, revealing a male and a female elephant that begin dancing. The female became annoyed with the male yanking her trunk and pulls back and swings him around, turning him into a staircase.
She climbs up the stairs and jumps into a lake. The male turns into a canoe and paddles around the lake, using his trunk as a telescope and a paddle. Meanwhile, the female elephant comes out of the lake and pretends to be a fountain. The male elephant spots her with his telescope and she squirts him with water, then runs away and starts ice skating. The male skates with her and nearly falls, but she catches him and they skate off.
They return on skis and ski down a slope, covering themselves with snow. They shake the snow off and touch their trunks, creating a bolt of lightning. The male grabs the lightning as the female continues dancing. He rubs it on his butt, then turns grabs it and hurls it at the female.
It hits her in the head and she explodes into many couples of dancing elephants. The elephants transform into vehicles and begin rampaging around until they all collide and cause an explosion.
They then transform into clouds as the alcohol wears off and Dumbo and Timothy recover from their hallucination. In the original storyboard, the Pink Elephants was planned to be one of many Beetleworx enemies in the Epic Mickey, but they were scrapped in the final storyboard. The Pink Elephants are the first set of characters Donald Duck encounters in the show. When they first appear before him, they perform a shortened version of the original Pink Elephants song. After this, Donald thanks them, and watches them exit.
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