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# Hans Christian Andersen [DVD]

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Hans Christian Andersen [DVD]

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Wonderful edition!
  

*by E***G on Reviewed in the United States on August 28, 2024*

I absolutely loved this movie growing up and this is a beautiful copy! I love the hardback book cover. The blu ray quality is excellent as well and came with lots of bonus features.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Nostalgic Classic
  

*by A***3 on Reviewed in the United States on July 17, 2024*

I loved watching this video as a kid at my grandparent's house. It was "vintage" then and a treasure now. They don't make movies like this anymore. This one reminds me of the style used in the 50's version of Babes in Toyland.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Hans Christian Andersen not quite, but very entertaining
  

*by R***N on Reviewed in the United States on March 17, 2000*

Hans Christian Andersen (1805-75) was an Ugly Duckling. He lived in the third largest town Odense, in Denmark. The son of a cobbler he was poverty ridden and a failure as an actor and it wasn't until he moved to Copenhagen  and won the patronage of Frederick VI, through his poetry, that he wrote  his fairy tales and developed into a swan. Like many artists he wasn't  particularly happy, and never did marry, although he was very fond of Jenny  Lind (1820-87) the Swedish Nightingale a soprano given the name by P.T.  Barnum during her tour of the United States between 1850-52.)  Charles Vidor's film does state at the beginning, This is not the story of  Hans Christian Andersen but a fairy tale about the great spinner of fairy  tales. The Danes objected to the way Hans Christian Andersen was portrayed  even though Goldwyn had rejected 21 previous manuscripts, so the film  company inserted this statement in the credits.  Danny Kaye with his  chiselled features does resemble H.C.Andersen when looking at his profile,  but apart from this facial feature that's where it stops. Kaye had dark  hair but Hollywood soon changed that and he became a blonde, Andersen also  had dark hair but he kept it that way.  Unlike some earlier musicals,  this film does have a strong story line with loads of songs written by  "Baby, It's Cold Outside", Frank Loessen, such as Thumbelina,  Ugly Duckling, No Two People, and of course Wonderful Copenhagen. The  scenery is very clever, the backgrounds look like illustrations from fairy  tale books, but as the camera zooms in to the foreground the buildings and  props become three dimensional similar to a pop-up-book.  There are  four ballet scenes that I probably found boring back in `52, but revisiting  them now, they are visually very interesting, technically I wouldn't know  if they are good or mediocre but for a Hollywood musical film, four ballets  must of taken an enormous amount of consideration seeing as the film is  really for kids. Once again the backdrops for the ballets also resemble  fairy tale illustrations and pop-up-books.  Instead of a soprano,  Andersen falls in love with a ballet dancer and here's a musical that  doesn't have a very happy ending because poor Hans gets mixed up with a  married woman. The ballet dancer Doro, is played by Zizi Jeanmaire, and is  married to Niels played by Farley Granger. During the last part of the  film, the audience is taken behind the scenes of the ballet company playing  at the Royal Theater in Copenhagen, but this isn't a film of a show  included in a show, similar to earlier musicals, but an uplifting musical  film with lots of music with catchy tunes helped by a ton of children.  The last ballet scene takes 17 minutes, quite long for a popular movie. In  the film Hans writes a story especially for his love Doro, unfortunately  Niels locks him in a cupboard so Andersen never sees her perform but has to  use his imagination.  The ballet takes place on land and under the  ocean. The surface waves are pop-up so that the dancers can be seen dancing  in between the swells, it's really very clever visually, and there's no  trickery here. Under the sea filled with monsters and witches, the heroine  is probably attached to a pulley so that she can be seen swimming for the  surface. There are no blue screens in this film, all effects are up-front  and work perfectly similar to a staged ballet. Once again the technicolor  process is used and this enhances the fairy tale effect with vivid  colors.  Hans Christian Andersen fairy stories are not violent when  compared to the Grimm brothers, but the themes usually have a lesson, and  in the story written for Doro's ballet, "The Little Mermaid," it  is saying that aiming for the stars does not always bring happiness, but  then of course Walt Disney hadn't yet arrived on the scene and he soon  changed that philosophy.

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