#Allegro Non Troppo

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Allegro Non Troppo (1976)

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Finally got going on writing my Good Omens fic wooo!

Of course I've started in the middle so I can't post it lol, but getting some good momentum and getting a feel for how I'm writing The Lads in this one :D

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SO-8: THAT POOR DAMN CAT DESERVED A CAKE!

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Welcome to the Engagement Lounge, for Allegretto non Troppo (SO-8) an instalment! Short comments can go in the replies, but there's a 475 character limit. Longer ones will need a reblog. Remember to @asksoldieron if you're reblogging someone else's reblog, so I can see it too!

I am, of course, referencing this blameless little angel from Italy's answer to Fantasia.

JUST LET HIM HAVE A CAKE! FOR FUCK'S SAKE, HE'S APPARENTLY DEAD ANYWAY - WHAT DID HE DO TO DESERVE THIS?? *ahem* This almost got me to cry the first time I saw it, and I am not one to cry when I know someone is trying to wring tears out of me.

So there. I fixed it. I saved the cat, as one does. Misha gets bacon and tuna and he probably likes that better than cake. Still, we're missing a whole lot of people and we're not sure what they got.

"Allegretto non Troppo" as a musical direction, would mean "Very Happily but Not Too Much," which is rather nonsensical, but Ann often is too. I had this instalment in mind when I did my first Art Deco-style test...

...just to see if I could. As-written, Ann has a plate of sandwiches and she's wearing a coat, but that was too complicated for a proof of concept. And that's why the art looks like this now! I dunno what I'm going to do with Tin Soldier, but Soldier On is coming to you in colour!

Misha's rendered as a bit more cartoon-like in this instance, so as to resemble his predecessor. White cats with one blue eye are deaf on the blue-eyed side, so that's another broken, traumatized creature with a weird eye for us to fawn over and pet. Erik will be thrilled to meet him! Eventually.

I'm producing art and formatted posts in advance, so I can take some time to recover from an upcoming eye surgery and still get you instalments every week. I want that 12-pack, but I might have to content myself with six, and a break in the middle. It all depends on how long I take to heal, and how well I can see up close in the near future. I've done almost three illustrations in the last three days. I want to do eight before I gotta quit, but five will do it if I can't quite manage that.

My eyes are performing like goddamn champions, lemme tell ya. I hyperfocus and I do not let them rest like I should - but they're not hurting or going out of whack! When I'm tired, only when I'm tired and reading up close, the left one wanders off and doubles my vision like it always has. And that's like nothing! The other day, browsing through a nearby rural area with Google Street View and the fish-eye effect did not make me carsick. Maybe one of these days here I'll try playing Thief!

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Allegro non troppo (1976)

A film director comes up with a great idea of making a animated film to classical music but realises that some other company has done this before. To make this movie stand out he decided to have the orchestra made entirely of elderly woman and animated by a cartoonist locked in a dungeon.

The first segment is of a lonely satyr looking for love. Probably my least favourite of the bunch. I can't feel bad for the satyr since he's kind of a creep and is honestly boring compare to the later pieces.

The second segment is of a caveman creates a house but the rest of the caveman copies him so the first caveman feels the needs to constantly one up them. This is the shortest and most fast paced bit in the movie it's good for as a warm up to the other segments.

The third piece is basically your 'Rite of Spring' of Allegro non troppo except it also shows off evolution. The one is great while the first two didn't really match the music this one works very well with it. It just looks great, I love the grainy aesthetic and how weird some of these creatures look.

This one is definitely my favourite of the group with the evolution one being a close second. A stray cat lives in a abandoned building dreaming of the kind of home they could have. This is easily the most emotional part in the movie and works really well with the music they chose. It's in the same sketchy style as the last piece which I love. The cat feels so alive and moves very fluidly. If you don't want to watch this movie I'd still suggest watching these two segments as they are the best this movie has to offer.

The next one is of a bee just wanting to have her dinner in peace but is constantly interrupted by a couple of humans. They had a lot of fun with the perspective and is the comedy portion of the movie. It's fun not much else to say.

The last bit is a retelling of Adum and Eve but where the snake eats the apple instead. The poor snake experiences chaotic hallucinations of the future. I love the design of the snake he's really cute looking while still coming off as sneaky.

This was a fun time. It's very tongue and cheek while not being too cynical. The live action bits are pretty entertaining. Check it out if you're interested.

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Good Vibes Challenge: Allegro Non Troppo

Allegro Non Troppo is a 1976 parody of Disney's Fantasia, and it's not at all what I was expecting. It's much more cynical and satyrical than the Disney film. It can be quite depressing at times. The Italian title translates to "Not too Cheerful", so I guess that's what the movie's aiming to.

Claude Debussy's Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune is the first segment. In this segment, an elderly satyr tries everything to look younger and impress some local nymphs. The only thing I have to say about this short is horny. Horny, horny, horny. Everything about this animation is super horny. Don't trust any men who draw women like this.

Antonín Dvořák's Slavonic Dance No. 7, Op. 46 feels like an old strip made by a boomer in a newspaper that I read somewhere. A solitary caveman finds himself at odds when all the other cavemen copy everything he does.

Maurice Ravel's Boléro is the best segment in the whole film. Deeply misanthropic, but wonderful nonetheless. Astronauts leave a Coca-Cola bottle behind, and from it evolves all types of creatures that fight over survival in a changing environment. An evil ape then starts killing animal by animal, stealing from them to survive, until he transforms all the remaining creatures into construction devices to build his gigantic metropolis.

Jean Sibelius's Valse triste: A solitary cat in a soon-to-be demolished building remembers when the building was full of life and he was truly happy. I didn't feel a connection to this one.

Antonio Vivaldi's Concerto in C major, RV 559: A bee prepares to dine on a flower when a human couple interrupts her plans. This is the movie's version of The Sorcerer's Apprentice in my opinion. My second favorite segment.

Igor Stravinsky's The Firebird Suite: The serpent eats the forbidden fruit instead of Adam and Eve and experiences firsthand all the evils of capitalism and consumerism.

The film then ends with random animated snippets in search of a true finale.

The live-action sequences that link these animated sequences are shot in black and white, and it feels creepier than intended, at least for me.

It's not my cup of tea, but it's a good movie.

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I saw this when I was a small child and it stuck with me like a nail into wood, it still blows me away with how smooth and imaginative it is with its creature design and animation. I sincerely hope it gets more famous in the international scene, I barely ever hear about this movie (Allegro Non Troppo) even when talking specifically about italian animation.

@bogleech it feels like you might like this style.

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It's not the Bolero sequence. Favorite song they used in the movie though.

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Everyday i think about the snake eating the apple of knowledge and ending up in an extreme capitalistic and police state.

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Shostakovich Symphony No.8 in C minor op.65 - 3. Allegro non troppo

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Allegro non troppo (1976)

Allegro non troppo is a 1976 Italian parody of Walt Disney’s Fantasia. "Obscure" is the correct adjective considering it came 36 years after the film it's lampooning. Only die-hard animation fanatics are likely to seek it out but the effort is worth it. Even if you haven’t delved deep into the medium, this is a funny, clever - occasionally inspired film.

This musical anthology begins in a dingy theater where “The Presenter” (Maurizio Micheli) introduces “A new and original film” where “you will see music and hear drawings”, a feat which has never been done before… except by some American called Grisney, or Prisney or something like that. With his domineering orchestra master (Néstor Garay), an ensemble of old ladies playing the instruments and a frazzled editor, they bring the following pieces to life: Claude Debussy's Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune, about a randy elderly satyr who attempts to pass off as young and virile to get the attention of beautiful nymphs and dryads.

Antonín Dvořák's Slavonic Dance No. 7, Op. 46, in which a solitary caveman inventor gets tired of his brethren imitating him and leads them into war and dictatorship.

Maurice Ravel's Boléro, a direct parody of the Rite of Spring segment of Fantasia which shows the evolution of life on a strange planet from a discarded Coca-Cola bottle.

Sibelus’s Valse trise, a purposely dramatic segment that follows a lonely cat wandering through a now-abandoned house.

Vivaldi’s Concerto in C major for 2 Oboes, 2 Clarinets, Strings and Continuo RV 559, which follows the misadventures of a bee preparing to dine on a flower.

Stravinsky’s The Firebird, where the serpent in the Garden of Eden fails to tempt Adam and Eve with the fruit of knowledge and eats it himself instead.

This is a delightfully low-brow film. It knows it’s late to the game parodying Walt Disney so it pretends as though it has no idea what film it’s riffing on. Whereas Fantasia was targeted towards adults and aimed to do something new by using abstract imagery and (mostly) scientific theory to explain the beginnings of life on our planet, Allegro non troppo (whose title is a play on words and can mean either "Not So Fast!” or “Joyful, but not too much”) frequently throws cheap humor at the screen. Horny old goat men, fake-looking gorilla costumes, slapstick, trees whose fruits resemble engorged breasts, rear ends pointed at the screen, gratuitous violence... nothing is off limits. The visuals are nowhere near those found in the 1940 masterpiece, though those in Boléro are delightfully and weirdly beautiful. For that segment alone, the film is worth seeing. The whole thing is experimental and wonderfully varied in terms of style and tone but in the case of the first two stories, it can also look kinda crap. At least the jokes, mean-spirited as they may occasionally be, make you laugh. I wish they’d put a stronger opening number to avoid scaring away apprehensive viewers but who is tracking this film down except those determined to see it through?

Making this Bruno Bozzetto film particularly enjoyable is its willingness to go all-out. Just when you think it’s trying to say something serious the film will subvert everything it just showed you with a cheap joke. Damn you movie. I was so enraptured by your visuals and audio I’d forgotten what I was watching and you make fun of me for it! Got to hand it to you for finding something else to ridicule: the unsuspecting audience! Numerous segments can be interpreted as legitimate criticisms of society as a whole, and as long, elaborate gags with splendid punchlines. Some of the jokes are dumb, but smart people are behind them.

There are relatively few animated anthology films out there and although they’ve had a bit of a resurgence lately, most of them are used to promote video games or keep the masses invested in previously-established properties. Allegro non troppo is something else. It’s not classy like Fantasia but deserves, in a strange way, to be placed next to it on your shelf, and not just because seeing one after the other adds to your enjoyment of both. (Original Italian with typo-riddled subtitles on DVD, September 1, 2018)

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Allegro Non Troppo (1976)

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ㅤㅤ✿ ׄ name: merope eleutheria de valmont. ㅤㅤ✿ ׄ nickname: merry, rarely used, only by those close to her. ㅤㅤ✿ ׄ age: twenty two. ㅤㅤ✿ ׄ date of birth: january 1, 2002. ㅤㅤ✿ ׄ ethnicity: french-korean ㅤㅤ✿ ׄ place of birth: seoul, south korea. ㅤㅤ✿ ׄ gender & pronouns: cis woman, she/her. ㅤㅤ✿ ׄ sexual orientation: pansexual. ㅤㅤ✿ ׄ romantic orientation: demiromantic. ㅤㅤ✿ ׄ religion: agnostic. ㅤㅤ✿ ׄ occupation: senior music major, aspiring composer.

ㅤㅤㅤㅤ✿ ̸ PERSONALITY

ㅤㅤ✿ ׄ labels: the eternal perfectionist, the porcelain enigma, moonlit muse. ㅤㅤ✿ ׄ positive traits: composed, articulate, perceptive, and fiercely devoted to her craft. ㅤㅤ✿ ׄ negative traits: emotionally repressed, self-critical, distant, and bound by the fear of imperfection. ㅤㅤ✿ ׄ fears: failure, vulnerability, and becoming too deeply known. ㅤㅤ✿ ׄ habits: taps her fingers in rhythm to songs in her mind; journals obsessively, filling pages with thoughts she’ll never speak; collects old, annotated sheet music like relics. ㅤㅤ✿ ׄ goals: to compose a piece that can express all the emotions she hides, to understand herself beyond her family’s expectations. ㅤㅤ✿ ׄ alignment: true neutral, guided more by self-preservation and a need to maintain her equilibrium.

ㅤㅤㅤㅤ✿ ̸ HEADCANONS & AESTHETICS

ㅤㅤ✸ 𝑖 ֪ moonlight sonata plays softly in her dorm room as she writes, pages scattered around like echoes of thoughts she’ll never say aloud. ㅤㅤ✸ 𝑖 ֪ her silver-blonde hair is always meticulously brushed, each strand falling in place like the last note of a perfectly composed melody. ㅤㅤ✸ 𝑖 ֪ in love with the quiet spaces—empty libraries, midnight balconies, gardens at dawn; places where her thoughts can breathe. ㅤㅤ✸ 𝑖 ֪ feels a profound connection to the night; it’s the only time she allows her true self to slip past the barriers of expectation. ㅤㅤ✸ 𝑖 ֪ keeps old postcards from paris and seoul, weathered edges reminding her of the fragments of a life she’s tried to reconcile within herself. ㅤㅤ✸ 𝑖 ֪ perfume bottles and vintage jewellery inherited from her mother sit untouched in her room, pieces of a legacy that both weighs on and protects her. ㅤㅤ✸ 𝑖 ֪ merope is enchanted by the timelessness of hand-written letters. she keeps a bundle of letters from family in a satin ribbon, though she rarely replies directly. when she writes, she pours herself into her words, knowing few will ever read them. ㅤㅤ✸ 𝑖 ֪ hidden in her dorm room, merope has a collection of delicate music boxes, each one a relic of an era she feels strangely nostalgic for. on sleepless nights, she’ll wind one up and let the hauntingly tinny tune fill the silence. ㅤㅤ✸ 𝑖 ֪ to merope, love is like music—intangible, requiring patience, skill, and passion to truly understand. she fears that if she lets someone play her melody, they’ll either abandon her or find her too complex to handle. ㅤㅤ✸ 𝑖 ֪ she’s intrigued by the night sky, feeling a connection to its cold beauty, but she doesn’t understand the constellations or planets. there’s something comforting in not knowing it all, in allowing herself to be lost within the vastness.

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ㅤㅤㅤㅤ✿ ׄ music: beethoven’s moonlight sonata, debussy’s clair de lune, anything sombre and timeless. ㅤㅤㅤㅤ✿ ׄ books: french and russian classics, anything that speaks of solitude and introspection; anna karenina, the waves, and jane eyre are among her beloveds. ㅤㅤㅤㅤ✿ ׄ colours: silver, midnight blue, soft lavender—cool, subdued tones that match her inner world. ㅤㅤㅤㅤ✿ ׄ animal: the swan; beautiful and silent, an elegant creature that masks an underlying strength. ㅤㅤㅤㅤ✿ ׄ season: winter, with its quiet beauty, its shadows and secrets veiled in snow. ㅤㅤㅤㅤ✿ ׄ element: water—flowing, mysterious, both calm and turbulent.

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ㅤㅤ✸ 𝑖 ֪ “ i am rooted, but i flow. „ — virginia woolf. ㅤㅤ✸ 𝑖 ֪ “ but i have been too deeply hurt, sam. i tried to save the shire, and it has been saved, but not for me. „ — j.r.r.tolkien. ㅤㅤ✸ 𝑖 ֪ “ she was a phantom of delight when first she gleamed upon my sight; a lovely apparition, sent to be a moment’s ornament. „ — william wordsworth.

ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤ✿ ̸ AESTHETICS

ㅤㅤㅤㅤsilver-blonde waves falling past her shoulders, soft as moonlight; lipstick stains on crystal glasses; ink-smudged fingers on piano keys; a figure on a balcony at dusk, gazing over the city with quiet longing; the scent of old parchment and faded perfume; a porcelain doll, all grace and silence, with eyes that hide too much; the delicate rustle of silk robes at midnight; chandeliers and velvet, all elegance and alienation.

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