Fantasia 2000 - "The Steadfast Tin Soldier"

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6:01

YOU SMUG MOTHERFUCKER.

[grungetitis69]

the one legged hero ;D

[drumrgrl4him09]

Wait a minute...that's now how the story ends...

[sweetiegrl41]

I always fast forward Fantasia 2000 to this part! It's my favorite!

[danitiwa]

4:36-4:60 holy god such epicness

[general333333]

one of my favorite scenes from this movie

[BeondaPale]

is it just me, or does the jack in the box remind anyone else of John Lithgow

[Perid0tStar]

@BeondaPale thats Exactly what i always thought!!!!

[dang1709]

seriously the jack in the box scares me alot .

[SilentJ2602]

@comusnine technically if they had used the actual ending to this story you might have been satisfied, in the actual fairy tale the toy soldier is thrown into the fire upon being returned to the little boy and the ballerina jumps in rather than be with the joker and the toy soldier melts into the shape of a heart

[mynameisnterin]

What is this? The plot is totally messed up! This is not what Hans Christian Anderson originally wrote! At the end, the boy is supposed to throw the tin soldier into the fire, but the ballerina(who is made out of paper) gets blown into the fire also and both of them die. All that's left is the sash that the ballerina wore and the soldier gets melted into a heart. The music is fantastic, but why did they have to "sweeten" the story?

[Mad1Cow]

@mynameisnterin It's Disney, they do this all the time, hence why a lot of authors are dismayed when they're original works get "Disney-fied". See Bambi...

[fourzones]

@mynameisnterin my god, when you press this video, did you know that you were about to watch a DISNEY video?

[kaynanmg]

is it just me, or is the jack in the box really really creepy?

[atoafriend]

This is my absolute favorite piece to play on the piano. Every time I play it, I can see this playing in my head. Absolutely love it!

[viptim94]

@4:35



[viptim94]

@4:35



[1SupaDancer]

I luv that ballerina, I wanted to b just like her when I was 5!! I luv ballet

[tigerqueen007]

@1SupaDancer I do to! I want to see a real ballet now!

[Demojara]

that clown was freaky



[kfosho]

i loved this segment when watching fantasia (: always thought the ballerina was so pretty.

[SloppyxJoe]

You know when I was younger and used to watch these I thought that these songs were written for the movie. Now I just know that Disney is amazing.

[NancyDrewgal111]

This has always been my favorite part of Fantasia; the animation is so pretty and the song is fantastic. <333 I know the original story ends sadly, but I like the happier ending better. xD

[roboguy75]

you know what I'm surprised about, people are complaining that this story is not like the original a little, but, I don't hear anyone complaining about the hunchback of notre dame, where frollo died, but esmeralda and quasimodo lived

[SaharaGomez]

The music is from Shostakovich and it's beautiful, but lets not forget that the tale itself it's from Hans Cristian Andersen, same that wrote little mermaid or the ugly duckling. 

[TheHappyPeter]

Can somebody tell me what this song is called? Thanks.

[linda308]

aw.. :C this isnt the real version were the Tin soldier gets thrown in to the fire and all what is left the day after is a little heart of tin... i dont now why but i like that version better <3

[gelazso]

Thanx from Hungary

[Nilie]

No matter how much I look at this, it just feels like Woody and Bo playing a different role than from their original movie just for laughs. XD

The toy in the box reminds me of Clopin too :P

[mumei1]

I love this one!!! <3

[Tawnybmw]

Yeah, the original story is seriously sad. Some kid randomly throws the soldier into the fire and a gust of wind blows the ballerina in after him. To me, this is the better version. <3

[xXemilyblueXx]

i watched a very old cartoon of this when i was little, but that jack in the box freaked me out so much, i turned off the TV! effing bitch ass jack in the box...

[iwuvsweeney]

A friend of mine played this on the piano today, and even though the last time I saw this I was little, I instantly knew what the piece was from :D

[SonicRush123]

We wtched this in Orchestra and we where all laughing because we didn't know WHAT the crap was going on at frist. =))) But I really love the music. <333

[LadyShockbox]

The one person who disliked this was thrown into a fireplace.

[HinataElyonToph]

I loved this part. I'm not disturbed at all with the ending being changed. It's quite nice. Has anyone noticed other than me that the soldier looks a tiny bit like Woody from Toy Story? The face just looks similar. Who thinks that Disney should make a new one of these?

[Tron239]

I think I've actually read the short story this was based off of in the third grade. It was kind of a sad story, because if I remember correctly the soldier ended up burning in the fire too. Fantasia always has such amazing music :)

[GlitterCroft07]

Aw, I really love this story from when I watched it when I was younger. ^^

I really wish Disney would do more stuff like this. <3

[MrTristo99]

Hey! They cheated! They have sound at the beginning of this! They never should have sound in a Fantasia segment

[Victoria123236]

WOW what AMAZING fortune that soldier had to be that lucky that the fish was caught in that boat who got sent to his town to his HOUSE... i wish stuff happened like that with stuff I lost!!!! :\

[Bluemango123]

@Victoria123236

Fate has a weird way of bringing people and things back together eh? xD

[987654321SHAWN]

the same tale,but only a little different in the end,here is the happyending,the one i heard in my childhood was sad ,very sad,but one thing is the same :they are together forever.

[RhapsodyinStu]

You know, that Jack in the Box looks like the enemy in that Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep.

NO I am not an obsessive nerd. I love this music and just noticed that randomly when the hat came off of him.

[Zeanu]

Great stuff...

[mahogonywhisper]

I am reading it at the moment, it's a lobvely story, and Disney certainly portrayed it well. But the ending was all wrong, the tin soldier was meant to have been thrown in the flames, and the dancer was thrown in after him, and they smoldered together, in boundless love. And in the morning hThe maid servant found the tin soldier's ash all in a heart shape, and the golden wing of the dancer next to it.

Ah well... That's disney for yeh.

[TheStockwell]

Boy, do I agree! I'd love to see Disney do a "Romeo and Juliet" with a happy ending. Andersen and Shakespeare really knew how to ruin a story by making it deep and sad and meaningful. If only Disney would do historic epics. I'd like a happy ending to the American Civil War, one where Lincoln goes to Fords Theater with a double-barrel shotgun and blows John Wilkes Boooth's head off. Disney, are you listening?

[PixarShark]

That would have scarred the children. ^^;

[mahogonywhisper]

Pffft...

[RhapsodyinStu]

@mahogonywhisper Well, think about it. The only song that I know of that has a almost ominous ending to it is the Rite of Spring, but that's only because it's about sacrificing a virgin.

Not just that Disney is positive and kid friendly, it would be very hard to find an appropriate piece.

Of course, I doubt that's the reason for the end...

[ErryAndSims]

I WANT THE BALLERINA'S CASTLE. Dx

[tigerqueen007]

Me too!!

[mdimytsfi]

in 7 mins, already a complete story! bravo indeed! thank you.

^_^

[jacobflaschen]

So good

[SterlingUliso]

Awesome

[Levill91]

Maestro...

[pepperonl]

lol

[gagippa]

Brilliant.

[socaltrumpet83]

The music of Shostakovich was perfect for this part of the film. Shostakovich was an incredible composer whose music defines 20th century classical music, alongside prokofiev, debussy, poulenc, ravel, barber, ives, stravinsky, bratok, and others. I hope the kids(and their parents) paid attention to the music, and not just all the cool little pictures happening on screen.

[korszet]

yeaah, the jack itb burns in heeeell... The original ending was not this, was it?

[iloveLeenKakashi]

in the original one the soldier and the ballerina burned toghether D:

[JediXCorez]

Really? WAH! That's sad. D:

[chitchatsify]

Is that why Jack in the Box was out for a few months? :D [/joke]

[PapagenoJuan]

1:17

genius piano solo!! :)

[yearoftheraptor]

that jack in the box is a creep and a douchebag. if i were the tin soldier and a girl i like was the ballerina, i would so kick that jack in the box's ass. the jack in the box sure got what he deserved.

[bubblesbaby37]

i love it...though some part reminds me of the nutcracker...

[TheSS601]

i have the dvd but the cd is lost......ahhh i want it to watch it from the beginning can you tell order for me the names please?

[kiladra]

it would have been better if they fell into the fire like they were suposed to.

[chitchatsify]

Yeah but I bet the children of the audience would've cried their eyes out if that happened LOL

[TheAgar28]

bellissimo

[cackcack2]

This is my one favorite Piano concertos, and one of the more appropriate choices of story on Disney's part I feel. Better than that atrocious one for Beethoven's 6th on the first Fantasia film.

[bomberchicken]

I don't really feel it's the choice of music that makes it as good as it is, it's how the animation and the music gel together, and how the animation fits into the music.

[zephyrspromise]

so cute :)

[crazyanimeidiototaku]

I love this segment from Fantasia 2000

It's put together so well

[tigerqueen007]

That little ballerina is so cute!!!!!!!

[balrog13571]

I remember the first time I went to Disneyworld we went to a hotel that had that Jack in the box staring down at us!

[wickedfeylady]

This music is goregous. It's so layered, the mood and "story" of it keeps changing

[PapagenoJuan]

I love the piano solo at 1:20

[msangelicarod]

I lOVE the music;

the guy i have a crush on plays piano and I think of him when I hear songs like these and I daydream bout him

[kaylaxDYKE]

adorableee.

=)

[xn3v3r4g0tt3nx]

soo cute<3

[MidmorningCat]

Ah, how I adore the absolute ending. ^^ 6:53 to the very end.

I also love her last little bit of dancing and then the final image it leaves, her inches from him.

It's so cute XD

[ThaSchwab]

Love the ending, music and all.

[lillieflowers]

You know, in the original version of this story, the toy soldier and the doll both get thrown in the fire, and the nanny makes a locket out of their melted pieces. It's extremely sad.

[vcaro12]

i love this story, is just great. The old disney is a million times better than new disney.

[msangelicarod]

It was also much more educational than the camp rock, hannah montanah, and that unrealistic high school musical

[Drace90]

@msangelicarod

How can you compare these? This one is a classical animated fairy tale short movie and Camp Rock or HSM are musical movies for teen ages. They are just to different. Can't you think further than this stupid "The one is good, the other is bad"-thing?

Oh, and btw... you wouldn't believe me, how much HSM helped me in my life. I really wonder how one can say, this movie isn't educational.

[caviekim]

This is so cute! It's my favorite one!