# Black Swan and Fantasia **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 30, 2011, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/black-swan-and-fantasia/580239 "2011-04-30T00:54:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![singular1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ba9def/32.png) [@singular1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/singular1)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2011, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/black-swan-and-fantasia/580239/1 "2011-04-30T00:54:41Z")
So today we were watching Black Swan, and the > [@](#): > Title performance is the crescendo of the film. Problem is, given that we are children of the sixties and huge animation fans, the musical crescendo of the film left us with visions of ostriches in tutus and alligators in muskateer garb, which is hardly what the filmakers had in mind. I’m sure our delight was hardly what they’d hoped for - did anyone else have this (really delightful but distracting) problem with this film? ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2011, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/black-swan-and-fantasia/580239/2 "2011-04-30T01:00:57Z")
I’m a child of the '50s, and I’ve always found _Fantasia_ boring. Dunno why, but it’s just never appealed to me. I find _Black Swan_ infinitely superior. The ending didn’t bring _Fantasia_ to mind for me. ---
**Author:** ![pinguin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ac8455/32.png) [@pinguin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pinguin)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2011, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/black-swan-and-fantasia/580239/3 "2011-04-30T01:33:10Z")
Fantasia boring? Come on! The part of the pastoral is amazing, and the part of the Wizard Apprentice is superb. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2011, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/black-swan-and-fantasia/580239/4 "2011-04-30T02:06:28Z")
Nope. Never cared for it. And I never could stand Mickey Mouse either. Even as a child, he made me want to puke. I was strictly a Warner Bros. / Bugs Bunny kind of kid. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2011, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/black-swan-and-fantasia/580239/5 "2011-04-30T02:13:11Z")
I thought the dance in Fantasia was Dance of the Hours, not anything from Swan Lake? ---
**Author:** ![Chef\_Troy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/85f322/32.png) [@Chef\_Troy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chef_Troy)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2011, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/black-swan-and-fantasia/580239/6 "2011-04-30T03:35:47Z")
> [@Freudian\_Slit](#): > > I thought the dance in Fantasia was Dance of the Hours, not anything from Swan Lake? You’re right, FS. The OP must have simply been reminded of it. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2011, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/black-swan-and-fantasia/580239/7 "2011-04-30T04:42:07Z")
Ah, okay, got it. ---
**Author:** ![singular1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ba9def/32.png) [@singular1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/singular1)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2011, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/black-swan-and-fantasia/580239/8 "2011-04-30T16:30:48Z")
Yup, just reminded. Ignorance fought, by the way. I would’ve sworn on my life it was the same music. It had the same sort of dance moves, though.