<![CDATA[The animation is dark]]>Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — The Little Mermaid

lorelei711-73-694918 — 9 years ago(November 15, 2016 09:10 PM)

The one complaint I have about the movie (and, I saw it when it first came out in the theater) is that the movie is dark. When they are underwater the colors are vibrant, but out of the sea they are shadowed and dark. I don't know if this was deliberate, but the scene of Ariel when she becomes human and is walking out of the water is too dark also.

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I guess there is less light underwater.

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Eh, I really didn't mind all of the darkness there. Made things a bit more realistic, TBH.

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I loved the dark lighting during the Part of Your World sequence.
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Despite being considered the beginning of the Renaissance period, this is still very much an 80s Disney film. Personally I love that darker look and it works quite well here. This film to me wasn't so much a beginning as much as it was the end of a grand artistic era of animation. Now Disney overall wasn't a key part of that, most of their 80s films are bad, but they still gave it an amazing final chapter.
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Could have been intentional The first scene with Eric's boat is a comparison w Wizard of Oz's Siennas filming to the colorfulness of OZ

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