Disney will be making a live-action gargoyles film?

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I have news for you today, dear guests, news of a film in the works, a Disney film. Some of you may recall a television show that was made by Disney and aired in the 90s. Allow me to further to refresh your memory.

It was only when I discovered clips of the show on YouTube that I recalled ever watching the show as a child. Now having re-watched many of the episodes, it is surprising just how good it is, especially the plot. This is often a comment that is made about the series, just how well the series was written. And now Disney is getting set to make a live action film about gargoyles. Here’s the catch, they’re not basing it on the TV series Wait, what?

This I do not understand. Why would Disney want to create a completely new story, when already there exists great source material and a fan base? This is the age of remakes and reboots! It is the perfect time for a live-action film based on the Gargoyles TV series to be made! Not to mention the technology is there. With films like Avatar being made with spectacular use of technology, this is the time for Gargoyles. Maybe there is something I am not seeing in all of this. I’m sure Disney has their reasons. They better be good. They are saying that they will be creating a mythology for the creatures, which should be interesting. I will be keeping my eye on this project.

Further more, another issue that needs to be addressed... So the thing is, what we all think a gargoyle to be, is not what a gargoyle really is. Yes, Disney lied to you, yet again.

If you look up the definition for gargoyle it says:

"In architecture, a gargoyle is a carved stone grotesque with a spout designed to convey water from a roof and away from the side of a building." ♠

In an interview with TheoFantastique ♠, Gary Varner author of Gargoyles, Grotesques, and Green Men: Ancient Symbolism in European and American Architecture says that:

"Gargoyles serve a very utilitarian purpose as water spouts. In fact, only these features constitute a true gargoyle—anything else is considered a 'grotesque.'" ♦

Water spout? That doesn’t sound like out Goliath.

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And that’s because it is not what he is. Then how is a grotesque defined?

"In modern English, grotesque has come to be used as a general adjective for the strange, fantastic, ugly, incongruous, unpleasant, or disgusting, and thus is often used to describe weird shapes and distorted forms such as Halloween masks. … More specifically, the grotesque forms on Gothic buildings, when not used as drain-spouts, should not be called gargoyles, but rather referred to simply as grotesques, or chimeras." ♥

So now you know, a small tidbit of information which I hope you all keep in mind the next time you are looking at Halloween decorations, or perhaps looking up at the carvings on an older building, with your friends and one draws your attention to the "gargoyle", I hope you will remember, and correct them, politely mind you, that it is really a grotesques. Let’s start a revolution and write this wrong!

What do you think my dear guests? Is this film a good or bad idea? Did you watch the Gargoyles series as a kid? Would you rather see Disney make a film based on the series or leave the series as is and make a start fresh for the film? And, be honest, did you know the difference between a gargoyle and a grotesque? I know for a very long time I didn’t know!

Stay Spooky,


Links:

If you would like to learn more about gargoyles (in architecture that is) I suggest you check out the full interview with Gary Varner, over at TheoFantastique ♠

Articles about the upcoming Disney film:

Disney Getting Back into the Gargoyles Game ♦

Disney Wants To Make A Movie About Gargoyles ♣

Disney Is Developing A Live-Action Gargoyles Film, Not Based On Animated Series ♥

RE: La Fille Damnee

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Good Friday to you Guests!

I have a belated post for you today, very late, very late indeed! I have an update to the post La Fille Damnee (♣), I now have the proper French-English translation. This is all thanks to Micheline. While it still might not be the exact translation because as Micheline explained to me in an email, her French is Canadian. The French in the song is from France. The two types of French are very close though, and will give a better understanding than the translation I provided you.

So once again, here is the translation of Cécile Corbel’s song “La Fille Damnee”

Dis moi combien, combien de deniers

Tell me how much, how much money

Forgeron, pour ferrer mon coursier

Blacksmith, to shoe my horse

C'est cinq sols, pour vous mon prince

It's five pounds, for you my prince

Seulement cinq sols et un dernier

Only five pounds and the last

J'etends chanter, j'entends chanter

I hear singing, I hear singing

La fille damnée, j'entends chanter

The damned girl, I hear singing

A la lune montante, j'etends l'oiseau chanter

To the rising moon, I hear the bird singing

Ma jolie, ma si jolie, file dans la nuit

My pretty, my so pretty, girl in the night

Au premier fer que tu mettras

With the first iron which you will put

Mon bon père, il va t'appeler

My good father, he will call

Au premier clou que tu poseras

With the first nail which you will pose

Il va t'appeler "mon père"

He will call "my father"

Qui est ce diable qui m'appelle père

Who is this devil which calls me father

Dis moi qui est-il sur le champ

Tell me who is in the field

C'est ta fille, ta chère fille Jeanne

It is your daughter, your dear daughter Jeanne

Ta fille, morte et enterrée

Your daughter, dead and buried

Dis moi, ma fille, qui t'a damnée

Tell me, my daughter, who your damned you

Là bas sur la lande et les blés

There low on the moor and in the wheat

C'est cet homme le long de la mer

It is a man along the sea

Chaque jour Il venait me trouver

Each day He came to find me

Prenez mon corps mon coeur et ma robe

Take my body my heart and my dress

Sous la lune il faut les brûler

Under the moon they should be burned

A la brune vous jetterez mes cendres

To the tide you will throw my ashes

Au vent, au vent vous les jetterez

To the wind, to the wind you will throw them

A big thanks once again to Micheline for the translation,
I hope you all enjoyed it

Wishing you cool breezes on warm summer days,


Links:
Cécile Corbel's Official Site (♥)
Cécile Corbel's Last.FM Profile (♥)

La Fille Damnee

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One of my new favourite artists is Cécile Corbel. Thanks to Ms Corbel, I think I am finally recovering from my hatred of the French language. Allow me to elaborate, living in the bilingual country of Canada, French is offered in school, and I was required to take it from grade 6 until the end of high school. I was not happy about this, and hence French has always been my enemy. Having been out of high school for some time now, I have had time to get over my dislike of the French language, just in time to enjoy the songs of Cécile.

Her instrument of choice is the harp, giving her songs a Celtic sound to them. She sings in both English and French. Her song “La Fille Damnee” is hauntingly beautiful. It is from her album, Songbook Vol 2. There is also a music video for the song, which can be found on YouTube (and I’ve posted it below). One of the things that irritated me about the comments for the video was that people kept asking for the lyrics and yet the lyrics were there in the comments section! This is why before you ask anything in a YouTube video check the video description and the comments section. Your question may have already have been answered. Such was the case in the music video for “La Fille Damnee”.

As for what the song is about, user PoirotAndCo (♥) explained in the comments: “Its the story about a [man] who goes to a blacksmith to shoe his horse. As the blacksmith starts working, the horse starts speaking with the voice of the man's dead daughter Jeanne. She tells her father that she was damned because she met every night with a strange man in the moor. She [begs] her father to take "her body, her heart and her dress", to burn them and to throw the ashes into the wind...”

User BugBug81 (♥) provided the French lyrics...