The Princess and the Frog
The Princess and the Frog is a 2009 American animated musical fantasy film produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures. The 49th Disney animated feature film, the film is loosely based on the novel The Frog Princess by E. D. Baker, which is in turn based on the Brothers Grimm fairy tale "The Frog Prince". Written and directed by Ron Clements and John Musker, the film stars Anika Noni Rose, Bruno Campos, Michael-Leon Wooley, Jim Cummings, Jennifer Cody, John Goodman, Keith David, Peter Bartlett, Jenifer Lewis, Oprah Winfrey, and Terrence Howard. Set in the 1920s New Orleans, the film tells the story of a hardworking waitress named Tiana who dreams of opening her own restaurant. After kissing a prince who has been turned into a frog by an evil voodoo sorcerer, Tiana becomes a frog herself and must find a way to turn back into a human before it is too late.
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| Running time | 97 minutes
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| Country | United States
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| Language | English
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| Budget | $105,000,000 USD
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| Box office | $104,000,000 USD
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Eudora: (telling a story to Tiana and Charlotte) "Just at that moment, the ugly little frog looked up with his sad, round eyes and pleaded, 'Oh, please, dear princess! Only a kiss from you can break this terrible spell that was inflicted on me by a wicked witch!'"
Young Charlotte: (to Tiana) Here comes my favorite part.
Eudora: "And the beautiful princess was so moved by his desperate plea that she stooped down, picked up the slippery creature, leaned forward, raised him to her lips, and kissed that little frog."
Young Charlotte: Aww.
(Tiana gags)
Eudora: "Then lo and behold, the frog was transformed into a handsome prince! They were married and lived happily ever after. The end."
- Animator Eric Goldberg supervised the animation of Tiana's "Almost There" fantasy sequence, which was based on the art of African-American painter Aaron Douglas, one of the major figures of the Harlem Renaissance. Goldberg had previously directed the stylized "Rhapsody In Blue" segment in Fantasia/2000 (1999), which was based upon the work of Al Hirschfeld. The fantasy sequence eschewed the Toon Boom Harmony pipeline of the rest of the film; the animators's line drawings were scanned into Photoshop and composited using Adobe After Effects.
- Beyoncé Knowles was considered for the role of Princess Tiana but lost out on the role because she refused to audition.
- Animator Bruce W. Smith described Dr Facilier as "the love child of Peter Pan (1953)'s Captain Hook and 101 Dalmatians (1961)'s Cruella DeVil."
- The colored symbols that float around during the song "Transformation Central" and that appear on the floor during Dr. Facilier's bargaining with his "friends on the other side" are based on actual vodou symbols called vévé. One main one is the voodu goddess of love, Eruzile's, heart vévé.
- When the Shadow Man is reading Prince Naveen's tarot cards, the last card he pulls is of the prince's future. It features the prince sitting on a lily-pad in a pond (with the money in hand), foreshadowing his later transformation.
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