When I first heard that there would be a special series of photos made specially for Disney, I wasn't entirely sure of what it was. I thought that it would be photos of Disneyland or something, but boy was I wrong.
The photos were taken by Annie Leboivitz, who is known to have a very cinematic style in terms of photography, and she had taken the Disney characters and breathed new life into them by having celebrities dress up as the famous and well-loved characters of the different fairytales.
It's definitely exciting to see how each photo would resemble the movie counterpart and seeing the transformation of the celebrity into the adaptation was something worth looking forward to.
Though they have started coming out with the Disney Dream Portraits
since 2008, they do manage to update with new photos each year.
"Where Memories Hold And Never Let Go"
Queen Latifah as Ursula
"Where Magic Speaks, Even When You Are Not The Fairest Of Them All"
Olivia Wilde as the Evil Queen & Alec Baldwin as the Magic Mirror
"Where A Moment Of Beauty Lasts Forever"
Penelope Cruz as Belle & Jeff Bridges as Beast/ The Prince
"Where Your Wish Is My Command"
Whoopi Goldberg as Genie
"Where You Are The Fairest Of Them All"
Rachel Weisz as Snow White
" Where Every Cinderella Story Comes True"
Scarlett Johansson as Cinderella
"Where a Whole New World Awaits"
Jennifer Lopez as Jasmine & Marc Anthony as Aladdin
"Where You Never Have to Grow Up"
Gisele Bunchen as Wendy Darling, Mikhail Baryshnikov as Peter Pan & Tina Fey as Tinkerbell
"Where You Are Always King Of The Court"
Roger Federer as King Arthur
"Where Dreams Run Free"
Jessica Biel as Pochahontas
"Where Imaginations Saves the Day"
David Beckham as Prince Philip
"Where Wonderland is Your Destiny"
Beyonce as Alice, Oliver Platt as Mad Hatter & Lyle Lovett as March Hare
"Where Magic Begins"
Julie Andrew as the Blue Fairy & Abigail Breslin as Fira
"Fantasea"
Julianne Moore as Ariel & Michael Phelps as a Merman
I really like the way the photography was edited and the whimsical feel it has to it. I'm excited to see what other portraits they'll come up with, but that would be in a while since they had just release three new additions (this would be the top three photos).
I hope they make one of the Princess and the Frog and Tangled soon. Those two movies are the newest additions to the collection of Disney fairytales.
Who else ?
Mulan, Milo and Kida from Atlantis, Jane and Tarzan from Tarzan, Esmeralda, Phoebus and Quasimodo from Notredame, Jungle Book.....So many possibilites. I hope they come up wiht new portrait soon.
From a Disney Baby.
~Krisan
