The Emperor`s New Groove (2000) |
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The Emperor`s New Groove (2000) was nominated for the following awards:
Academy AwardsGolden GlobesSatellite AwardsAnnie Awards
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Annie
2001
Outstanding Individual Achievement for Voice Acting by a Male Performer in an Animated Feature Production
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2001 Kids` Choice Awards, USAPhoenix Film Critics Society AwardsGrammy Awards
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Grammy
2002
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Grammy
2002 Las Vegas Film Critics Society AwardsBroadcast Film Critics Association Awards |
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 There are two inside jokes. When Yzma pours the "drink" into the cactus plant, after Kuzco`s neck transforms, the cactus turns into the shape of a llama. When Kronk is trying to hide in the background with Kuzco in the bag, when the scene pulls back, the painting is of two figures pointing at Kronk. David Spade usually has an overweight co-star. He worked with Chris Farley twice, with Artie Lange in Lost & Found (1999/I), and here with John Goodman. # When Tipo says, "You know, I really don`t believe you`re my great aunt, you`re more like my...", he says great 23 times.
David Spade and Wendie Malick have appeared together on the TV sitcom "Just Shoot Me!" (1997) for several years. The makers of the film originally wanted to get `Sting` to sing the opening song but he said he was too old, they need someone more hip and younger. So they went with Tom Jones. Sting is in his 50s, Jones is in his 60s.
In the dinner scene where Kronk lights a pair of candles the holder is of a small figure. This was a character from the early versions of the film. He was an advisor to the emperor that was later written out. Kuzco was named after the ancient capital of the Incas, Cuzco. (It`s still pronounced the same.) #
# Pacha`s wife, Chicha, is pregnant. According to the DVD Commentary, this is the first Disney Animated Feature to show a pregnant woman.
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# Like many other Disney films, this one contains a number of hidden Mickey Mouse images. One is in the bushes when Kuzco gets pulled from the water and another is Yzma`s head and earrings (upside down). #
# This film was originally planned to have been a dramatic, sweeping Disney musical named "Kingdom of the Sun", to be directed by The Lion King (1994) director Roger Allers and Mark Dindal, director of Turner`s Cats Don`t Dance (1997), with six original songs written by Sting, that was essentially an Incan re-telling of Mark Twain`s "The Prince and the Pauper." David Spade was the voice of the young emperor Manco, Owen Wilson was Pacha, a young peasant with a striking resemblance to the emperor, and Eartha Kitt was Yzma, the aged royal sorceress. The film involved Manco and Pacha switching places, except that Yzma finds out, turns Manco into a (non-speaking) llama, and makes Pacha do her bidding. Pacha also eventually was to fall in love with Nina (voice of Carla Gugino), the emperor`s betrothed. The resulting film tested very poorly, and the production was suspended, even though the film was 50% complete. Allers and Yzma supervising animator Andreas Deja both left the project and moved to Orlando, Florida to work on _Lilo and Stitch (2002)_. During the production hiatus, Dindal, producer Randy Fullmer, story man Chris Williams, and screenwriter David Reynolds completely overhauled the film, eventually throwing out Wilson, the "Prince and the Pauper" angle, the completed footage, and all but one of Sting`s songs. The story was rebuilt from the ground up, retaining Spade`s and Kitt`s characters and creating a new, wackier film that centered around Spade`s (talking) llama, Yzma, and two new characters: Pacha, now a middle aged man played by John Goodman and Patrick Warburton`s character Kronk.
To keep the animation team together as a crew during the production hiatus, former Disney animator Eric Goldberg was allowed to borrow the animation crew to help produce his independent film Rhapsody in Blue (2000), which Disney ended up inserting into Fantasia/2000 (1999) as one of the musical segments. The image on the back of the diner menus is a parody of the mascot of the Big Boy restaurant chain, which is popular in the Burbank, California, area where Disney`s studios are located. When Kuzco is being chased by the jaguars, some of the leaves in the background resemble skulls. In the diner where Kuzco and Pacha go to eat, the salt and pepper shakers on the table are shaped like llamas. In the scene where Kuzco and Pacha are searching through the various potions, Pacha says, "Lions, tigers, bears" then when they come upon the potion for humans, it is missing and Yzma says "oh my." Together this creates a line from The Wizard of Oz (1939). According to producer Randy Fullmer and director Mark Dindal, they were forced to use this joke, which they detested, by then-head of Feature Animation Thomas Schumacher. #
# Patrick Warburton improvised when Kronk hummed his own theme song when he was carrying Kuzco in the bag to the waterfall. Disney legal department had Patrick to sign all rights to the humming composition over to them. #
# The original ending was of Kuzco building his huge summer home on the hill next to Pacha. `Sting` noted that it looked like Kuzco destroyed some of the landscape so instead of the mansion Kuzco ends up with a hut. Pacha`s name means "earth" in the Incan Language. When the llama Kuzco is in the jungle, he hears a fly screaming "Help me, help me!" as it is about to be attacked by a spider. This was an homage to the famous scene from Kurt Neumann`s "The Fly" (1958).
Playwright David Mamet has said he considers the script for this film to be one of the most brilliantly innovative which Hollywood has produced in recent years.
Towards the end of the movie, Yzma turns into a cat. This may well be a reference to Yzma`s voice actor, Eartha Kitt`s role as `Catwoman` in the original "Batman" (1966) television series. | ||
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