The Da Vinci Code

Fantasia is remarkably crafted masterpiece and is one of the most unique videos in Disney History. The intense music and intriguing animation makes this film extremely interesting. The movements of the characters are fascinatingly coordinated with the sounds of the music. As you watch the film, every act is put together to perfection. The imaginable variety of animation and mysterious music is boldly noticeable. The scenes in this film can be analyzed in many different ways according to your imagination. In my opinion, this is about good and evil or hell and heaven. The two scenes that relate to this motto are: "A Night on Bald Mountain," and "Ave Maria." As the animation evolves itself by good and evil, so does the music. These two scenes from Fantasia are prime examples of how you can create a story without using dialogue. This movie is one of a kind and set a great example for different things to happen in the future. The music and animation of "A Night on Bald Mountain" and "Ave Maria" are connected in a various amount of ways.

In the first scene, "A Night on Bold Mountain," the music is a powerful and furious style of music. Bold Mountain is the meeting place for Satin and his worshipers. It is the place of darkness and evilness where the bad creatures and objects come and angrily dance around the mountain under Satin's control. The characters are very scarce and sick looking which in my mind reminds me of hell. There are skeletons, ghosts, and all different kinds of monsters. They used fire to make it intimidating and also mysterious blue flames. All different types of shapes were designed in the flames of the fire. Suddenly, a loud, crashing bell constantly rings and this kills and flees them away. They all begin to fly away into a small dark town. Everyone disappears and the only one left is the large winged monster. His body gets sucked in by the mountain and he vanishes. This scene represents hell or evil. The music and animation is perfectly connected to this and it puts a great picture into your mind. The loud and suspenseful music brings a scarce and evil mood to this scene. The music is very soft paced and grows louder. There are moments where the tone is calm and very creepy. It also sounds like striking of symbols as the furious creatures dance around the mountain. As the all of the monsters are chanting around the mountain, the music sounds like chanting almost as if you were at a professional football game. The tone gets calm when the monsters are vanishing and it is transforming into heaven or goodness.

In the second scene, "Ave Maria," the music is much more peaceful, nonviolent, and comforting. A soft melody is followed by a ringing church bell which signifies its purity. The lights begin to show on the horizon as the followers of Satin are driven out. This slow, calm music represents good or heaven. It also represents goodness, peace, and success which are over taking the death and misery of Satin and his followers. A drastic change in the pitch and style of music eventually takes over which shows the total transformation from evil to good. The music was fierce and was mixed