"The Sweatbox", the documentary Sting's wife made, has been leaked online a few times. I watched it. Basically, the drama boiled down to this: Roger Allers, the director for "Kingdom of the Sun" (who also directed "The Lion King") wanted to make the movie a big, sweeping epic based on "The Prince and Pauper" as well as Inca mythology. The original story had the emperor and peasant, who looked alike and were the same age, switch places. The peasant began to fall for the emperor's betrothed, while she began to develop feelings for him and couldn't understand why "the emperor" had suddenly become a kinder, gentler man. Meanwhile, Yzma, the emperor's advisor, discovered the switch and planned to use the peasant as a puppet emperor so she could rule the kingdom. Oh, and also, she wanted to perform a spell that would make the sun disappear forever during an eclipse (she blamed the sunlight for her aging terribly, and also there are lots of legends in South American folklore about fear of the sun not returning). So, that's the story Allers wanted to make and Sting wrote a bunch of songs for it, including the song "One Day She'll Love Me", which was to be sung between the peasant and the emperor's betrothed (and which can be found on the soundtrack for "The Emperor's New Groove"). Most of the work of the film was complete, like you said, but when the higher ups at Disney saw it, they didn't like it. They come off as pompous in the documentary, as if to say, "Who cares about art? We're running a business, WE know what sells, and this won't." That's probably why Disney won't release the documentary to the public because God forbid their executives look like money-gobbling, arrogant assholes (even though they clearly are, given Disney's power in the entertainment industry). In short, that's what it came down to, artistic vision vs. business, and sadly, no one hears the artist when money speaks louder.
I'll watch Disney movies but I won't give them anymore of my money with any of that Disney season pass shit. Last time I went to Disneyland I was wildly disappointed at how expensive everything was and how I was left feeling empty the only reason I'll ever go back is to take my kids to experience it once, that will be the last time too, for me anyway. The money I spent there I could have used to travel a new country and really seen some magical and wondrous things.
"Right the poison, the poison for kuzco, the poison chosen specially to kill kuzco, kuzco's poison. That poision?" Probably my favourite kronk moment!!
ItsJustGabi Mine was, “My acorn is missing,” “Squeak squeakin’ squeak squeakity!” “Did you eat the acorn?” “Squeaker squeak squeak squeakin’?” “You owe me a new acorn!” “Squeak, squeak squeak, squeak squeakers...” “...Squeakin’.” “I’m so proud of you guys!”
ENG has an opposite effect on me as the end song brings me to tears because my daughter loved dancing with me to it when she was a little girl. So ENG has a special place for me.
HelloHolly “Okay. This is the real me. Not this. This. Not this. Winner. Loser! Okay, see this palace? Everybody in it is at my command. Check this out! Butler! Chef! Theme song guy!”
HelloHolly “D’OH!!! You threw off my groove!” “I’m sorry, but you’ve thrown off the emperor’s groove.” “SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!” “...You were saying?” “What’s his name?”
HelloHolly “Hehehe. Hi. Excuse me. Two seconds here. Um, I’m the one in the cart. Remember? This story’s about me. Not him! Got it? Okay. We’re gonna move ahead. Sorry to spoil it for you.”
I disagree with you - this movie was enormously significant for bringing about the end of the Renaissance. First movie since Rescuers Down Under to not be a musical. Also one of the first "buddy comedies" Disney did, a genre alive and well in today's Zootopia.
I think this movie is underrated in terms of comedy. Its definitely a funny movie haha And I think a lot of the early 2000s Disney movies are easily overlooked. I would love to see an episode about the Hunchback of Notre Dame.
I know you mentioned it at the bottom the screen already, but I was fortunate enough to see the Sweatbox before Disney removed it. I think there's a couple of reasons it was never released, both to protect "Disney's Image" one is there's some major swearing in it (the F word is at least used once by Sting).. the other is I think they are afraid people will think negatively of them because of what happened. However I don't think it paints them in a negative light, it just educates on the very complicated process of film making. changes like these happen all the time at Disney. I honestly much prefer the film we got to what KOTS seemed like it would have been.
Every time you do one of these, I am overcome with the driving need to watch the movie you talked about. Except Pinocchio, just can't handle that one. I guess I know what I'll be doing tonight, though! :)
"He ended up on the wrong team and probably doesn't even know it." haha love that! The Down to Disness videos are thee best, thanks for doing the research for us! ♥
The thing that stands out about this film, to me, is all the great one-liners! There are so many quotable quotes. Especially Yzma's lines - Eartha Kitt was so fabulous
I'm so glad you covered Emperors new groove this month! It's one of my all time favorites! I love Yzma and Kronk, my husband and I were them for Halloween last year. I've always heard it had a complicated production but never really knew many details, gonna have to check out that documentary!
This was one of my faves growing up and I still can’t get enough of it to this day. I would say a notable thing about it is that the main character doesn’t have a love interest. You could argue it wasn’t the first to do this. But I definitely remember realizing this as a kid and thinking it was so unique because it’s just a movie about two friends with zero love drama. Whereas most Disney movie up to that point (at least the most prominent ones) were about a princess and her prince or a hero and his lady.
Mary Poppins or The Aristocats would be great ones to do! And The Emperor's New Groove is one of the funniest movies ever I definitely don't watch it enough! These videos are amazing, please don't ever stop doing them haha!! :)
Along with Tarzan and Return to Neverland, Emperor's New Groove was one of my favorite and most watched Disney movies as a kid. I always watched the TV sequels and the show. It'll always be a treasured part of my Disney childhood.
Yay thank you for doing he emperors new groove !! Yzma is by far my favourite Disney villain ! So happy you have done my 2 favourite Disney movies now lilo and stitch and The emperors new groove
You should do a Disneyland meet up! I swear every time I'm at Disneyland I'm always hoping to run into you or someone from thingamavlogs. It's cool to know there's others out there who have the same obsession as me, DISNEY!
I've never watched this movie from beginning to end. Thanks to you I feel like Ive watched it now. The making of documentary really spikes my interests. I can't wait to watch it. Thanks!
+DE LA TORTURE It's SUPER interesting. I'm almost done with it and I wish I had a chance to watch it all before I filmed because there are some tidbits I'd want to add.
4 years late, but I’d say this movie is most notable for being the first full blown comedy in the Walt Disney Animation Studios lineup. Every movie before that maybe had comic relief characters and comedic moments, but Emperor’s New Groove is indisputably a comedy from beginning to end.
I remember I didn't even see this movie until it came out on dvd! I felt like it didn't even look very good. Boy, was I wrong! My mom bought it for me and I was very skeptical, but I've never laughed so hard! SO many one liners! I think this is definitely an underrated movie! :) Loved hearing all these fun facts, Sarah! Great video!
I LOOOVE your Disney bookshelf in the background!! Maybe do a video showing what's on there, cause I really want to do that in my room...But I live in Canada so some things may be hard to find😂😂
When you said Patrick had improvised some lines, I immediately thought of Kronk's little sneaking song. I was pleasantly surprised to find out it actually was improvised.
Love love love these videos! I always learn a bunch of new stuff each time. I would love to see you reveal some fantastic stuff about Mulan. You're a fantastic youtuber and I love your videos. Xx
But what about the line "Bring it on" or that scene in general? It's all over social media, it's even in Hot Topic as multiple types of merchandise. I personally think that scene and line is the most popular piece of the movie.
The Sweatbox used to be on TH-cam. If you dig hard enough I'm sure you can still watch it somewhere. I watched it a very years back, great documentary, so informative, and heartbreaking that they had to overhaul the entire film mid-production.
Could you please do Hunchback of Notre Dame or Hercules? They're two of my favourite Disney films and I think it would be really interesting to uncover the history behind them:) Love your videos:D
I love Emperors new groove! My niece and nephew love it so much, I feel like every time I go and see them, they always put on emperors new groove. We went to mickeys Halloween party 2015, my sister was planning on doing a family costume theme, my sister was going to be yzma, my brother in law was going to be pacha, and my nephew was going to be kuzco, but my niece didn't have a costume that fit in it's the theme so they ended up changing it. P.S I love you and your videos! P.P.S, please do a brother bear down to disness episode!😊💜
You forgot the fact about how the Secret Lab (which all the characters know about) was based on Michael Eisner's secret project, computer animated films (Dinosaur). All the 2D animators knew what it was but Eisner wouldn't let them see it the "secret" room it was being done in, so they threw in the joke about the Secret Lab
You honestly could do a video exclusively describing the making of Emperor's New Groove because it's crazy how much that film evolved and all the road blocks and struggles they hit with it. Also, WHY HASN'T DISNEY TRIED TO MAKE ANOTHER ANIMATED FILM WITH BARBRA STREISAND AT THE HELM?! That needs to happen. Like YES PLEASE. Also, PRINCESS AND THE FROG NEXT MONTH. Pretty please :) :) :)
How about a classic like Pent Trap or Freaky Friday? One of my favorite very little known Disney movies is North Avenue Irregulars. It had a great cast and a CRAZY story line!
"The Sweatbox", the documentary Sting's wife made, has been leaked online a few times. I watched it. Basically, the drama boiled down to this:
Roger Allers, the director for "Kingdom of the Sun" (who also directed "The Lion King") wanted to make the movie a big, sweeping epic based on "The Prince and Pauper" as well as Inca mythology. The original story had the emperor and peasant, who looked alike and were the same age, switch places. The peasant began to fall for the emperor's betrothed, while she began to develop feelings for him and couldn't understand why "the emperor" had suddenly become a kinder, gentler man. Meanwhile, Yzma, the emperor's advisor, discovered the switch and planned to use the peasant as a puppet emperor so she could rule the kingdom. Oh, and also, she wanted to perform a spell that would make the sun disappear forever during an eclipse (she blamed the sunlight for her aging terribly, and also there are lots of legends in South American folklore about fear of the sun not returning).
So, that's the story Allers wanted to make and Sting wrote a bunch of songs for it, including the song "One Day She'll Love Me", which was to be sung between the peasant and the emperor's betrothed (and which can be found on the soundtrack for "The Emperor's New Groove"). Most of the work of the film was complete, like you said, but when the higher ups at Disney saw it, they didn't like it. They come off as pompous in the documentary, as if to say, "Who cares about art? We're running a business, WE know what sells, and this won't." That's probably why Disney won't release the documentary to the public because God forbid their executives look like money-gobbling, arrogant assholes (even though they clearly are, given Disney's power in the entertainment industry).
In short, that's what it came down to, artistic vision vs. business, and sadly, no one hears the artist when money speaks louder.
I'll watch Disney movies but I won't give them anymore of my money with any of that Disney season pass shit. Last time I went to Disneyland I was wildly disappointed at how expensive everything was and how I was left feeling empty the only reason I'll ever go back is to take my kids to experience it once, that will be the last time too, for me anyway. The money I spent there I could have used to travel a new country and really seen some magical and wondrous things.
@Amazing Spiderman Fan 2002 We're still in a pandemic. Watch it yourself.
"Right the poison, the poison for kuzco, the poison chosen specially to kill kuzco, kuzco's poison. That poision?" Probably my favourite kronk moment!!
ItsJustGabi Mine was, “My acorn is missing,”
“Squeak squeakin’ squeak squeakity!”
“Did you eat the acorn?”
“Squeaker squeak squeak squeakin’?”
“You owe me a new acorn!”
“Squeak, squeak squeak, squeak squeakers...”
“...Squeakin’.”
“I’m so proud of you guys!”
Let me guess..._you_ have a great personality?
ENG has an opposite effect on me as the end song brings me to tears because my daughter loved dancing with me to it when she was a little girl. So ENG has a special place for me.
its always the best time of the month when these get uploaded
+Josaen Ronquillo Aw thank you for saying that!
I worked at the Disney Store when this movie was released...we repeated the lines all day long!
HelloHolly “Okay. This is the real me. Not this. This. Not this. Winner. Loser! Okay, see this palace? Everybody in it is at my command. Check this out! Butler! Chef! Theme song guy!”
HelloHolly “D’OH!!! You threw off my groove!”
“I’m sorry, but you’ve thrown off the emperor’s groove.”
“SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!”
“...You were saying?”
“What’s his name?”
HelloHolly “Hehehe. Hi. Excuse me. Two seconds here. Um, I’m the one in the cart. Remember? This story’s about me. Not him! Got it? Okay. We’re gonna move ahead. Sorry to spoil it for you.”
I disagree with you - this movie was enormously significant for bringing about the end of the Renaissance. First movie since Rescuers Down Under to not be a musical. Also one of the first "buddy comedies" Disney did, a genre alive and well in today's Zootopia.
i know i'm late to the game but sarah i love the ombre hair!!!! it looks so good on u. and i love emperor's new groove-- I quote it CONSTANTLY.
Plz do Hercules! I watch these every month!
or finding nemo
I think this movie is underrated in terms of comedy. Its definitely a funny movie haha
And I think a lot of the early 2000s Disney movies are easily overlooked.
I would love to see an episode about the Hunchback of Notre Dame.
At one point I had the Emperor's New Groove completely memorized. Gonna go watch it now!
I've been relentlessly checking my subscription box for a new down to disness....I need these videos every day!!!
I know you mentioned it at the bottom the screen already, but I was fortunate enough to see the Sweatbox before Disney removed it. I think there's a couple of reasons it was never released, both to protect "Disney's Image" one is there's some major swearing in it (the F word is at least used once by Sting).. the other is I think they are afraid people will think negatively of them because of what happened. However I don't think it paints them in a negative light, it just educates on the very complicated process of film making. changes like these happen all the time at Disney. I honestly much prefer the film we got to what KOTS seemed like it would have been.
Please do Hunchback of Notre Dame
+Mina Lovegood HUNCHBACK IS MY FAVORITE DISNEY MOVIE TOO!
One of my favourite movies, I was obsessed with it when it first came out xoxo
Every time you do one of these, I am overcome with the driving need to watch the movie you talked about. Except Pinocchio, just can't handle that one. I guess I know what I'll be doing tonight, though! :)
"He ended up on the wrong team and probably doesn't even know it." haha love that! The Down to Disness videos are thee best, thanks for doing the research for us! ♥
I love this series! I look forward to it every month.
currently binge watching these.... ridiculously addictive
This move is one of my faves. It is a very underrated Disney movie but I think once you watch it the humor gets you.
Oh Hercules would be an awesome one to do. It always astounds me how much of my favourite Disney movies are improvised, love it. x
I wish you did these more then once a month! I loved these videos. They're my favorite!!
The thing that stands out about this film, to me, is all the great one-liners! There are so many quotable quotes. Especially Yzma's lines - Eartha Kitt was so fabulous
i'm so excited for April's episode.Can't wait to find out what movie it will be about!!
I'm so glad you covered Emperors new groove this month! It's one of my all time favorites! I love Yzma and Kronk, my husband and I were them for Halloween last year. I've always heard it had a complicated production but never really knew many details, gonna have to check out that documentary!
This movie is so underrated. It's always been one of my Disney favorites!
This was one of my faves growing up and I still can’t get enough of it to this day. I would say a notable thing about it is that the main character doesn’t have a love interest. You could argue it wasn’t the first to do this. But I definitely remember realizing this as a kid and thinking it was so unique because it’s just a movie about two friends with zero love drama. Whereas most Disney movie up to that point (at least the most prominent ones) were about a princess and her prince or a hero and his lady.
YAAAY I asked for Emperor's New Groove, so happy to see you talk about it :DDD
One of my favorite films!
I love Emperor's New Groove! We watch it all the time and hope to cosplay from it sometime.
Mary Poppins or The Aristocats would be great ones to do! And The Emperor's New Groove is one of the funniest movies ever I definitely don't watch it enough! These videos are amazing, please don't ever stop doing them haha!! :)
One of my favorite underrated Disney movies 😍💕
Along with Tarzan and Return to Neverland, Emperor's New Groove was one of my favorite and most watched Disney movies as a kid. I always watched the TV sequels and the show. It'll always be a treasured part of my Disney childhood.
Yay thank you for doing he emperors new groove !! Yzma is by far my favourite Disney villain ! So happy you have done my 2 favourite Disney movies now lilo and stitch and The emperors new groove
You should do a Disneyland meet up! I swear every time I'm at Disneyland I'm always hoping to run into you or someone from thingamavlogs. It's cool to know there's others out there who have the same obsession as me, DISNEY!
YES!!!! I wait every month for this to be uploaded! I love them Sarah!!
I always look forward to these! Love to learn something new about Disney movies.
I've never watched this movie from beginning to end. Thanks to you I feel like Ive watched it now. The making of documentary really spikes my interests. I can't wait to watch it. Thanks!
+DE LA TORTURE It's SUPER interesting. I'm almost done with it and I wish I had a chance to watch it all before I filmed because there are some tidbits I'd want to add.
4 years late, but I’d say this movie is most notable for being the first full blown comedy in the Walt Disney Animation Studios lineup. Every movie before that maybe had comic relief characters and comedic moments, but Emperor’s New Groove is indisputably a comedy from beginning to end.
these are my favorite videos that you make!! and I love that you do all kinds of Disney movies, not just the super popular ones! :)
I would love to see a down to disness on Mary Poppins!!
I remember I didn't even see this movie until it came out on dvd! I felt like it didn't even look very good. Boy, was I wrong! My mom bought it for me and I was very skeptical, but I've never laughed so hard! SO many one liners! I think this is definitely an underrated movie! :) Loved hearing all these fun facts, Sarah! Great video!
Its famous for "pull the lever kronk"
This has always been one of my favorites next to A Goofy Movie! Such a great video, Sarah!
I LOOOVE your Disney bookshelf in the background!! Maybe do a video showing what's on there, cause I really want to do that in my room...But I live in Canada so some things may be hard to find😂😂
When you said Patrick had improvised some lines, I immediately thought of Kronk's little sneaking song. I was pleasantly surprised to find out it actually was improvised.
the most iconic and memorable thing i remember from emperor's new groove is WRONG LEVER
Love this movie! I still watch it in my classroom with my kids. Ps- voting on Twitter is great! Thanks Sarah for a great vlog
I would love too see a Down to Disness about The Aristocats! It's my favorite Disney movie! :)
My mom loves Yzma a lot because of her purple-ness and sense of humor. Also Kronk is awesome as always!!!
I love these videos! Always learn so much and Emperor's New Groove is one of my favorites!
I never knew there was a BTS documentary for this!! Thanks for tracking it down and sharing, Sarah :D
Love love love these videos! I always learn a bunch of new stuff each time.
I would love to see you reveal some fantastic stuff about Mulan.
You're a fantastic youtuber and I love your videos. Xx
Great video as always ❤️ would love to see Hunchback Of The Notre Dame next time 😊
more down to disness please!!! I'd love to see one about the rescuers or oliver and company :D
But what about the line "Bring it on" or that scene in general? It's all over social media, it's even in Hot Topic as multiple types of merchandise. I personally think that scene and line is the most popular piece of the movie.
It wins the "No one complains when you put this movie on" award.
Hi Sarah, I really enjoyed this and look forward to more in the series ^^
What is it famous for? It's one of the most quotable films Disney ever did! "Cheese me no likey!"
I'd love to see a Down to Disness about Oliver & Company or The Aristocats!
This movie was the first movie I ever saw in a movie theatre! So that's something important!
Love love loveeeee this movie. Is that my voice? Is that MYYYY voice? Oh well.
PRINCESS AND THE FROG PLEASEEEEEEEEEEE
Down to Disness for Tangle!
YESSSS MY FAVORITE DISNEY MOVIE!
Love the Down to Disness videos!
You should do Hercules or the little mermaid next
Hercules !!!! Love Meg 😍 your videos are amazing I'm obsessed !
Emperors new groove is the best I didn't know it was the first Disney movie to picture a pregnant woman
The Sweatbox used to be on TH-cam. If you dig hard enough I'm sure you can still watch it somewhere. I watched it a very years back, great documentary, so informative, and heartbreaking that they had to overhaul the entire film mid-production.
Yesss I was just about to request this! Love it!
I love this movie one of my favorites! You should do princess and the frog !!!
Could you please do Hunchback of Notre Dame or Hercules? They're two of my favourite Disney films and I think it would be really interesting to uncover the history behind them:) Love your videos:D
0:50 say what!? I didn't know that!
THANKS for the link to the doc! :D
I love down to Disness!
Sarah you are awesome!!!!!!! I love your down to disness videos.
I love this movie! I was just talking about it a few days ago!
Maybe you can do Hunchback Of Notre Dame. Or maybe Tangled. :) Love this series!
It's famous for some of its quotes!!!! my friends and I always quote this movie!!!!
Next movie, either Brother Bear (one of the best underrated Disney movies of all time) or Tangled.
I love Emperors new groove! My niece and nephew love it so much, I feel like every time I go and see them, they always put on emperors new groove. We went to mickeys Halloween party 2015, my sister was planning on doing a family costume theme, my sister was going to be yzma, my brother in law was going to be pacha, and my nephew was going to be kuzco, but my niece didn't have a costume that fit in it's the theme so they ended up changing it. P.S I love you and your videos! P.P.S, please do a brother bear down to disness episode!😊💜
I love this series! I think it would be cool if you talked about a Pixar movie next since you haven't done one yet.
These are always great :) Thanks for making them!
do Hunchback of Notre Dame next!
You forgot the fact about how the Secret Lab (which all the characters know about) was based on Michael Eisner's secret project, computer animated films (Dinosaur). All the 2D animators knew what it was but Eisner wouldn't let them see it the "secret" room it was being done in, so they threw in the joke about the Secret Lab
& the legacy today is that Paucha is a dank meme online. The meme was made "just right".
Please do a Brother Bear Down to Disness episode! ILYSM!💜💜💜💜💜
You honestly could do a video exclusively describing the making of Emperor's New Groove because it's crazy how much that film evolved and all the road blocks and struggles they hit with it. Also, WHY HASN'T DISNEY TRIED TO MAKE ANOTHER ANIMATED FILM WITH BARBRA STREISAND AT THE HELM?! That needs to happen. Like YES PLEASE.
Also, PRINCESS AND THE FROG NEXT MONTH. Pretty please :) :) :)
How about a classic like Pent Trap or Freaky Friday? One of my favorite very little known Disney movies is North Avenue Irregulars. It had a great cast and a CRAZY story line!
you know i want hunchback of notre dame lol. there's so much to say about it!!
+Amber Lucero although i would not oppose oliver and company.
It's famous for never allowing the documentary about the making of it - THE SWEATBOX, to never see the light of day.
I'm dying to learn more about Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Just the licensing hurdles alone would be interesting, plus the story about bumping the lamp ;)
I just watched the Emperor's New groove recently for the first time and it was SO CUTE. Can you do a down to disness on Mulan?
I had no idea it was loosely based on the Prince and the Pauper. I'd love to hear more about the goofy movie which I know is your fave!
To answer your question, it’s famous for Kronk.
I'm definitely going to re-watch Emperor's New Groove now but I'd love to see my fav, Beauty and the Beast on your next Down to Disness :)
Do Fantasia!! my personal favorite disney movie~
my fav and first representation of Peruvians I've seen in the media
Bella Beeco yassss!!!
love these videos soo much! please do one about hercules!
kronk is my fav
Hoping for Oliver and Company in the near future.