# Favorite Scene in Fantasia **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 14, 2004, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scene-in-fantasia/279877 "2004-12-14T23:40:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mudshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Mudshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mudshark)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2004, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scene-in-fantasia/279877/1 "2004-12-14T23:40:20Z")
What is your favorite scene in Fantasia? I would have to say that mine is Night on Bald Mountain. A close second is the Fall/Winter Fairy scene in the Nutcracker Suite. ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2004, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scene-in-fantasia/279877/2 "2004-12-15T00:10:27Z")
> [@Mudshark](#): > > What is your favorite scene in Fantasia? > > I would have to say that mine is Night on Bald Mountain. A close second is the Fall/Winter Fairy scene in the Nutcracker Suite. I did a scene breakdown/comparison of the two _Fantasia_s [here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=281542&highlight=fantasia), that kinda got buried. For your perusal… ---
**Author:** ![YellowTail](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/b5ac83/32.png) [@YellowTail](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YellowTail)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2004, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scene-in-fantasia/279877/3 "2004-12-15T00:38:49Z")
Definitely Night on Bald Mountain. Coincidentally, I’ve been listening to that soundtrack this week on my headphones at work. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Caprese](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9a28c/32.png) [@Caprese](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caprese)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2004, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scene-in-fantasia/279877/4 "2004-12-15T00:44:13Z")
Night on Bald Mountain freaked me out deliciously when I was a little kid. I always liked Beethoven’s Pastoral. I know it’s kinda cutesy and quite dated but I loved the centaur girls and guys and the adorable little Pegases, and merry Bacchus yucking it up with wine, women and song. The storm was cool too. ---
**Author:** ![Kilvert\_s\_Pagan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c37758/32.png) [@Kilvert\_s\_Pagan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kilvert_s_Pagan)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2004, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scene-in-fantasia/279877/5 "2004-12-15T00:48:14Z")
> [@Caprese](#): > > Night on Bald Mountain freaked me out deliciously when I was a little kid. > I always liked Beethoven’s Pastoral. I know it’s kinda cutesy and quite dated but I loved the centaur girls and guys and the adorable little Pegases, and merry Bacchus yucking it up with wine, women and song. The storm was cool too. Agreed, completely. [hijack]You folks ever seen _Allegro non Troppo_?[/hijack] ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2004, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scene-in-fantasia/279877/6 "2004-12-15T01:01:48Z")
Original: The dancing goldfish, especially the black ones. 2000: The flamingo with the yo-yo. That one just cracks me up. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2004, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scene-in-fantasia/279877/7 "2004-12-15T02:02:17Z")
I think the remake is, overall, better than the original. The three best sequences (Rhapsody in Blue, Carnival of the Animals (the flamingo), and The Pines of Rome (the whales) are in it, as is The Sorceror’s Apprentice, the best piece in the original. ---
**Author:** ![Selkie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbce88/32.png) [@Selkie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Selkie)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2004, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scene-in-fantasia/279877/8 "2004-12-15T03:23:57Z")
Original: Sorcerer’s Apprentice (sorry to be so conventional) 2000: Rhapsody in Blue (though Firebird was close) **tpayne** , I have much love for Allegro non Troppo, especially the homage to the original Fantasia’s Right of Spring performance. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2004, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scene-in-fantasia/279877/9 "2004-12-15T03:25:58Z")
From the original The Dance of the Hours is my fav. (Hippos and aligators) From the new one The Firebird sequence is the absoulte best. (for me anyway) I have mixed feelings about Donald Duck’s Pomp and Circumstance/Noah’s ark bit. I love the music but the film is a bit weak and we hardly get any good Donald Duck stuff. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2004, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scene-in-fantasia/279877/10 "2004-12-15T04:04:21Z")
_Night on Bald Mountain_ is definitely my favourite, too. I have a certain amount of appreciation for the Norman McLaren-like abstract animation for the _Toccata and Fugue in D Minor_ but it’s such an appalling arrangement that it’s a little hard to take. _Allegro non Troppo_ is fantastic. I think my favourite part is Ravel’s _Bolero_. Had the pleasure of seeing it in the theatre with my Uncle Sidney. _Fantastic_. ---
**Author:** ![K364](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k364/32/5_2.png) [@K364](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/K364)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2004, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scene-in-fantasia/279877/11 "2004-12-15T06:13:20Z")
The Shostakovich in 2000 was absolutely inspired, and as usual, an ear-opener for Dmitri’s brilliant music. The marriage of animation and music would fool anyone into assuming that the cartoon came first, and then the composer scored the music specifically for it. ---
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2004, 6:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scene-in-fantasia/279877/12 "2004-12-15T06:55:04Z")
The aerial shot in _The Rite of Spring_ showing an entire landscape of erupting volcanos. Every time I see it, I think of how it was only twelve years from _Steamboat Willie_ to this. ---
**Author:** ![Caprese](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9a28c/32.png) [@Caprese](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caprese)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2004, 12:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scene-in-fantasia/279877/13 "2004-12-15T12:15:01Z")
> [@Larry Mudd](#): > > - > > _Allegro non Troppo_ is fantastic. I think my favourite part is Ravel’s _Bolero_. Had the pleasure of seeing it in the theatre with my Uncle Sidney. _Fantastic_. Wow, that takes me back. I too had the pleasure of seeing it in the theater, with my then-boyfriend Al. Favorite has got to be the coke-bottle Bolero. ---
**Author:** ![DeVena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dec6dc/32.png) [@DeVena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeVena)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2004, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scene-in-fantasia/279877/14 "2004-12-15T16:14:32Z")
Hippos in tutus, baby! The Dance of the Hours is my favorite. ---
**Author:** ![Genghis\_Bob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/45deac/32.png) [@Genghis\_Bob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Genghis_Bob)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2004, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scene-in-fantasia/279877/15 "2004-12-15T16:18:31Z")
Ave Maria. It’s the one thing the Catholics have on us Protestants that makes me wistful. . . ---
**Author:** ![tremorviolet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e47774/32.png) [@tremorviolet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tremorviolet)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2004, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scene-in-fantasia/279877/16 "2004-12-15T16:55:41Z")
> [@tpayne](#): > > [hijack]You folks ever seen _Allegro non Troppo_?[/hijack] Yeah, the scene with the poor abandoned kitty makes me cry. Can’t remember what piece of music it’s set to tho’… As far as Fantasia goes, my favorite part was the dancing mushrooms and other flora. I was contemplating getting a dancing mushroom tattoo for a while… ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2004, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scene-in-fantasia/279877/17 "2004-12-15T17:01:11Z")
Gotta be the dancing hippos. Of course, Mickey as the sorcerer’s apprentice is another of my favorites. ---
**Author:** ![Rufus\_Xavier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@Rufus\_Xavier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rufus_Xavier)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2004, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scene-in-fantasia/279877/18 "2004-12-15T17:33:56Z")
I always loved the _Rite of Spring_ sequence. I guess I’ll pick that as number 1, although I do love the entire movie. Around 1978, when I was about 10, **Fantasia** was re-released in theaters, and in Los Angeles, it showed at the Cinerama Dome, which was one of the few great movie palaces still around in the 70s. I sat in the front row. I loved it so much, I stayed to see it again. It was even great the second time through. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2004, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scene-in-fantasia/279877/19 "2004-12-15T17:37:43Z")
> [@tremorviolet](#): > > Yeah, the scene with the poor abandoned kitty makes me cry. Can’t remember what piece of music it’s set to tho’… Beethoven’s _Pathetique_ sonata. Those big eyes! ---
**Author:** ![sqweels](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f19dbf/32.png) [@sqweels](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sqweels)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2004, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scene-in-fantasia/279877/20 "2004-12-15T19:24:32Z")
> [@Larry Mudd](#): > > Beethoven’s _Pathetique_ sonata. > > Those big eyes! Are you talking about the bit with the fish? That’s my favorite. Pretty trippy. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scene-in-fantasia/279877.md?page=2)