shoutout to Disney's Wish (2023) for completely spitting on the idea that wives help their husbands. like even if the pointy queen couldn't convince Chris Pine to turn good, you could have at least given us the evil power couple in the concept art
I'm sorry but I've read too many dystopias to believe this whole "King Magnifico kinda has a point" deal.
He is magically removing his subjects' ability to resist his rule in any meaningful way. He pulls out any ambitions or desires for anything greater and only returns them once he's cleared them of anything subversive. Old man playing the lute to inspire the younger generation is bad because he might inspire them to dangerous ideals like change or improvement or, god forbid, democracy.
"But some wishes are bad!" You know what else is sometimes bad? Emotions. But if you've got a society that says "someone could kill someone in anger so we're going to remove all emotion forever except for the elites that run everything", you'd still get why that is a bad thing and a con. I know the myth of the benevolent dictator has far too much hold on our culture, but the idea that the guy lobotomizing the entire population is definitely doing it for their own good and and it only happens to give him absolute power and control over them is ludicrous.
The problem isn't that Magnifico has a point, the problem is that Disney thought he'd need a magic book to be "really" evil rather than realizing that an absolute monarch running a system Brave New World would envy is already a terrifying villain. Stop trying to half-ass a sympathetic explanation and commit to the bit, Disney! Down with the king!
UGH, I really wanted that classic Disney villain. Not whatever they gave us. King Magnifico is still the best character in the movie, but I’m really disappointed where they took his character in general. The movie is just so, so lame.
Found a clip of the Wish story producers talking about how the first five minutes of the original series of boarded sequences had Magnifico being evil from the get-go. During the first five minutes, he’d been shown being vile. Actually DOING evil acts. That’s what I wanted and I’m sure plenty of other people wanted. Ugh, this movie makes me so mad. Here’s the clip for proof.
Also, the drawn frames you see in here aren’t a part of those first five minutes. Those are from the deleted scene titled “Valentino Is A Star” and in that scene, Mark Kennedy aka the Head of Story, said that scene took place right before the climax of the original story and script.
So they’re just using the frames from that deleted scene to visually show how Magnifico eats the wishes. What the people in the clip are talking about is the first five minutes of the original script. …Say first five minutes 3x in a row, ya’ll.
Anyways, gonna go continue dreaming about a better story than the one that we got.
Finally watching wish and i have to say, magnifico is such a genuinely interesting character and villain???
He's rly fun to watch, his witty remarks and overall demeanour remind me a lot of Hades, who's one of my fave disney characters of all time. I also think his backstory and motivations are fascinating
What do you think of the movie Wish? I do wish ( haha get it?) that the concept of Starboy was canon, I love Starboy x Asha
Girl, I've got stories.
I've never bothered to watch Wish and don't care to watch it any time soon with all the things that I've been hearing, and yet I'm still frustrated with missed potential.
We could have had a love story for the ages if Starboy was fully conceptualized. Actually, TWO love stories if Amaya and Magnifico were a villain couple. What a great parallel we could have had!
Think of all the inside jokes we could have made since Chris Pine voiced Magnifico and Jack Frost. Starboy would have been this generation's Jack Frost!
Also, have you seen this?
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I keep watching it over and over again. It's so good. I'm all for Asha being the Magnifico and Amaya's daughter. I would love to see Asha pull an Asami Sato—sticking her morals but still feeling heartbroken about betraying her parents.
I rewatched the deleted scenes and wanted to identify which music they used for them. They were used for the official film, too. These instrumentals can be found under the official Wish playlist on Spotify or Apple Music.
Btw have a little clip of the storyboard to “This Wish”.
• To Rosas Deleted Scene - “Guide Away!” | “The Plan In Action” | “Wish End Credits Score Suite” | “A Wish Returns” | “Everything The Light Touches” | “Wish End Credits Score Suite” (it continues)
• Magnifico’s Secret Deleted Scene - “The Corruption of a King” | “The Plan In Action” | “Consulting The Spellbook”
• Valentino Is A Star - “Sir Simon” | “Wish End Credits Score Suite” | “Magnifico’s Rise”
• The Wishing Tree Deleted Scene - “Wish End Credits Score Suite” | “We Did It!” | “Dinner Table” | “A Wish Returns”
• Finding Flazino Deleted Scene - “Everything The Light Touches” | “The Teens’ Question” | “Wish Granting Ceremony” | “A Wish Returns” | “A Disappointing Truth” | “The Journey Calls” | “A Promise And A Decision” | “Wish End Credits Score Suite”
That last one was a little tricky. Also, something that I noticed in “We Did It!”, when you go to timestamp 0:46 to 1:10(ish) it sounds like the song “A Wish Worth Making”! 💖