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Post #199906

Author
ocpmovie
Parent topic
The Thief and the Cobbler: Recobbled Director's Cut (Released)
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Date created
11-Apr-2006, 7:38 AM
The ironic thing is that now I have HUGE scans of beautifully designed logos for Once... and The Thief Who Never Gave Up ... and I'll soon have one for Princess and the Cobbler I'm sure ... I could even scan the Arabian Knight logo in all its "glory" ....

But the logo for The Thief and the Cobbler I only have as a screen grab. A wobbly, awful screen grab.

In my searching to date it's never, ever turned up in print, in any form.


....





Considering the film was always most known as that, this is a rather strange situation isn't it?


http://orangecow.org/thief/thieffromtherhorn/oncepostersm.jpg

Larger:
http://orangecow.org/thief/thieffromtherhorn/oncepostermedium.jpg

Insanely large:
http://orangecow.org/thief/thieffromtherhorn/onceposterbig.jpg

The semi-famous gatefold poster for Once ... seen at Cannes. This might look badly drawn and off model, and to a certain degree it is, but actually this was a testing ground for new character designs for the film ... Yumyum, Tack and Phido appear here in new designs which influenced how they appeared in the final film. Dick actually xeroxed these drawings and looked at them while redesigning the characters.

There is a mouse, brown here, white in the final film. The witch and the Thief are very much on model.

Roofless and the Brigands are taken from a drawing done for the Nasrudin film in the 1960s! Over twenty years later, the same drawing was used here. Funny how that works, isn't it?

Meemee and Bubba are nowhere in sight, despite their presence in the "Once ..." logo. They had just been excised from the film as Dick secured financing to finally go ahead with full production.






OH, AND ...


I asked Andreas what the name of the Ralph Vaughan Williams piece is that opens the film.

He said, "Fantasia on ... something." A friend of his bought it on CD, but he didn't.



This is as he was driving me and the Box home ... and out of the CD player I hear "Am I Feeling Love?" He'd popped in the Arabian Knight soundtrack CD as a gag.