Brought to you by me watching one more Disney film due to having one month access to Disney plus.
Well, why not, given what Disney did to the Hunchback of Notre Dame and The Little Mermaid, both truly tragic stories in the original. And those are just the animated movies.
Funny animal sidekick: Biche, of course. (Sorry, other dogs.) Biche arrives several years too early, historical speaking, but never mind history, it's Disney. Folichon can come, too. Katte probably has his own funny animal sidekick, a horse.
"I want" song: Fritz early on, wanting music, travel, literature and not as much chicanery as a Disney movie will allow to be shown.
The villain: Sorry, Grumbkow and Seckendorf. This is Disney, which means Fritz' bio dad can't be so awful that the tearful reconciliation doesn't work. Therefore, FW's worst actions (those that survive into Disney-dom, that is) are retconned to be your actions, on behalf of MT's Dad the Emperor Charles, who gets transformed into an ominous shadowy supervillain hardly seen and out to destroy Prussia. Grumbkow & Seckendorf do most of the on screen villainous action by manipulating:
The ambigous character: FW, who of course does not have Katte executed but realises the truth at the last moment so Katte can be saved from beheading and Fritz freed by a valiant team effort, since the executioner works for G & S. Cue tearful "I love you, son!" reconciliation and all the Hohenzollern hugging and exclaiming "family is everything!". In the tag scene, we'll see young Fritz declaring he'll deal with the Evil Austrian Empire behind it all in the sequel.
Villain death by falling from somewhere high: Grumbkow and Seckendorf, in a duel with Fritz and Katte in the grand action finale on the walls of Küstrin
Love story: Disney's first movie with an official gay couple, if made today/slightly into the future. If we're talking golden age Disney, they'll probably go for Fritz/Doris Ritter and Katte/Wilhelmine.
Big action sequence other than the finale: Fritz' almost escape, beefed up to a hair-raising escape riding sequence only stopped at the very last minute by Grumbkow shouting they have Katte.
Big Villain song: G-S-Emperor trio "No power but mine/That boy must die!"
Big dance sequence: the Prussian soldiers exercising gets transformed into something like the opening sequence of West Side Story. FW looks on with a beaming smile.
Fritz: The Disney version.
Well, why not, given what Disney did to the Hunchback of Notre Dame and The Little Mermaid, both truly tragic stories in the original. And those are just the animated movies.
Funny animal sidekick: Biche, of course. (Sorry, other dogs.) Biche arrives several years too early, historical speaking, but never mind history, it's Disney. Folichon can come, too. Katte probably has his own funny animal sidekick, a horse.
"I want" song: Fritz early on, wanting music, travel, literature and not as much chicanery as a Disney movie will allow to be shown.
The villain: Sorry, Grumbkow and Seckendorf. This is Disney, which means Fritz' bio dad can't be so awful that the tearful reconciliation doesn't work. Therefore, FW's worst actions (those that survive into Disney-dom, that is) are retconned to be your actions, on behalf of MT's Dad the Emperor Charles, who gets transformed into an ominous shadowy supervillain hardly seen and out to destroy Prussia. Grumbkow & Seckendorf do most of the on screen villainous action by manipulating:
The ambigous character: FW, who of course does not have Katte executed but realises the truth at the last moment so Katte can be saved from beheading and Fritz freed by a valiant team effort, since the executioner works for G & S. Cue tearful "I love you, son!" reconciliation and all the Hohenzollern hugging and exclaiming "family is everything!". In the tag scene, we'll see young Fritz declaring he'll deal with the Evil Austrian Empire behind it all in the sequel.
Villain death by falling from somewhere high: Grumbkow and Seckendorf, in a duel with Fritz and Katte in the grand action finale on the walls of Küstrin
Love story: Disney's first movie with an official gay couple, if made today/slightly into the future. If we're talking golden age Disney, they'll probably go for Fritz/Doris Ritter and Katte/Wilhelmine.
Big action sequence other than the finale: Fritz' almost escape, beefed up to a hair-raising escape riding sequence only stopped at the very last minute by Grumbkow shouting they have Katte.
Big Villain song: G-S-Emperor trio "No power but mine/That boy must die!"
Big dance sequence: the Prussian soldiers exercising gets transformed into something like the opening sequence of West Side Story. FW looks on with a beaming smile.