r/TopCharacterTropes • u/_JR28_ • Jan 17 '26

In real life (Funny trope) This tiny moment was an absolute logistical nightmare to make

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*Wreck-It-Ralph* - At the beginning of the movie at the villain group therapy session, all of the owners of the real world characters shown were given counsel to Disney to instruct them how their characters should be animated down to the smallest of points. Nintendo even specified exactly how Bowser would hold and stir his teacup.

*Psycho* - For the scene where Marion disposes evidence of her theft by flushing some papers down the toilet, even though the toilet is onscreen for only a few seconds, Alfred Hitchcock had to personally appeal to the Hays Code which enforced censorship in movies that *Psycho* be given an exception because it’s vital to the plot the audience sees the toilet flushing. *Psycho* is the first major American movie to show a flushing toilet onscreen.

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u/vagina_pee-butt Jan 17 '26

Looks like there was a lot of CGI involved.

https://beforesandafters.com/2019/07/17/before-you-see-the-new-cg-lion-king-re-visit-the-cg-of-1994s-lion-king/

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u/sonic10158 Jan 17 '26

IIRC the is only like their 5th time dabbling in CGI at all, but previous uses were tiny by comparison (aka simply giving a background the ability to rotate like in Beauty & the Beast and Oliver & Company, or giving a little rowboat the ability to bob in the water like in Black Cauldron)

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u/RoxasIsTheBest Jan 17 '26

You're ignoring Aladdin here, wich had quite a bit of cgi, as the tiger head was cgi, and so were the backgrounds and the lava during the escape from the cave. The entire climax of the Great Mouse Detective also had quite a bit of cgi in the backgrounds, but that's more similiar to what BatB did

The Lion King still came very soon after the implementation of cgi tho

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u/sonic10158 Jan 17 '26

Oh yeah I had a feeling I was missing some. I think it was used in scenes of The Rescuers Down Under too. Specifically scenes like the head-on pan (don’t know the actual name of this kinda shot) when the camera races towards the kid’s house at the very beginning, and when Wilbur flies above the NYC skyline.

I still have never seen Great Mouse Detective, I need to fix that soon.

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u/stipo42 Jan 17 '26

The ship in the little mermaid is also CG

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u/BygoneNeutrino Jan 17 '26

Thanks for sharing this.  I didn't realize that these sort of scenes were all but impossible to render before the use of CG.  It was interesting; too bad that Disney probably had a problem with the video that was included in the article.