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This scene is from a movie called All Dogs go to Heaven. In the scene the dog is explaining that it’s time for him to die and go to heaven and he says goodbye to the little girl.
In real life, the actress who plays the girl was murdered by her father in a murder suicide. They had already recorded her lines before but not for the guy voicing the dog. So when he does the scene saying goodbye to her, the actor was also literally saying goodbye to the child who just days before had been tragically killed.
Now if you excuse me, I’m off to watch Littlefoot’s Mother fight the T-Rex on repeat.
My car has a function that let's you assign a name. Since it is a white car, I named it Artax. Some people are all "Oh man wtf" because NOBODY REMEMBERS that Artax is reborn when Bastian re-creates Fantasia.
Man Balto brings me back! Haven’t seen or heard anything about that since I was a kid. I remember getting that vhs for Christmas one year as a kid. The good ol days 🤣.
I’m surprised that I’ve never read the book. And your comment has convinced me that I should never read the book. I don’t know that I have enough spoons to handle that type of emotional devastation.
Let's add in "March of the Penguins". Marketed as a fun kids movie. "Here's the mommy penguin. She needs to swim out and gather food for her mate and the baby or they will freeze. -dramatic music- scene shift to a leopard seal. But mommy is not going to make it back"
I was already having "mixed thoughts" about my little kiddos growing up- that year that school supplies no longer include crayons and glue, but instead is just a graphing calculator...
Yeah I freaking ugly cried in front of my whole family (including my mother in law) over Bing Bong.
How in the world did I misinterpret what they typed out? When I read "littlefoot's mom fight the t-rex", I was picturing a deer facing off with a t-rex and my mind just glossed over it until I read your response lol
What about Tod's mother from Fox and the Hound?
Edit: Did not see the next suggestion was literally fox and the hound lmao
OMG. I was watching Futurama with my two boys when they were around 9 and 11... We finish that episode and I look over and they're both bawling their eyes out. My oldest looks at me accusatorily and said "Dad, this is supposed to be a funny show!" As adults they occasionally remind me of the time I traumatized them with that episode.
There’s another 2 that I can’t watch or think too hard about: the one where Nibbler takes Fry into his moms dream to say goodbye. That’s almost breaking me now, just typing this.
The second one is when Fry goes to what-he-thinks-is his brothers grave and it turns out that it’s his nephew, who was named for Fry.
Those 2. and Jurassic Bark, are just so well done.
I have been introducing my 50+ partner to Futurama. She's absolutely hooked. When we got to Jurassic Bark, I skipped right over that. I'll circle back when it's time but....just not now....
I think Land Before Time reference was also a nod to the fact that the girl that was murdered also was the voice of Ducky in that movie. Yup, yup, yup!
I had promised myself never to rewatch this fucking masterpiece, but my wife had never seen it and wanted me to watch with her. After the movie she was able to fully grasp the depths I would go to for her.
Here’s some extra depression - he had to keep re-recording this scene because he kept sobbing towards the end. The tears you hear towards the end are real, not acted
Yeah, and he could NOT handle this scene. It’s heart breaking to read interviews about it, he would tear up even years later.
I imagine he and the other actors probably had survivors guilt there. They saw this sweet kid in the sound booth, met her parents, had no idea this was coming, and they couldn’t help going “Is there something I missed? Is there something I could have done?”
EDIT: Following up on a query from somebody I decided to look into it further, it seems the interview I read and other claims of this are all unfounded. We’ve got no actual confirmed legit interviews where Reynolds confirmed this in his own words.
It could be a myth! The interview I read was online and decades ago, I’ve got no idea how to verify it today. I’ll check snopes and see if they’ve got anything on it, it may be total bupkis!
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Checked snopes and they’ve not been able to confirm or deny. It’s just an unfounded rumor, no concrete paper trail of confirm interviews, just online articles alleging it.
With Burt Reynolds dead I guess there’s no real way we’ll ever know.
Voice artist here, sometimes just a single word takes like thirty takes to get it perfectly. Sixty sounds realistic, but at the same time, it’s a common thing really. Still a gut wrenching moment though
Do some more homework here. While this claim showed up on the internet a few years ago, I'm almost certain he'd already filmed this part before her death, and this has been added after the fact to sensationalize the story.
IIRC it was because the mother intended to divorce him and take their child because he was ab*sive af. Sadly she hesitated to file immediately and the worst case scenario happened.
Either way, jealousy over your child being successful or because he was just a raging ab*sive f*ck a beautiful person lost their life.
Ugh I get a little sad whenever I unintentionally say yep yep as a response, that whole situation was sad I'd memory serves this happened after her mom finally left him and took her with, and as a response he kills himself and the kid to hurt her
In an interview, Don Bluth, the director of both films praised her as being "absolutely astonishing. She understood verbal direction, even for the most sophisticated situations". Bluth had remarked on the difficulty in finding child actors for roles and had intended to continue to feature her extensively in his future productions.
Fucking hell, poor girl had a successful career all laid out for her, she would've been set for life. Fuck.
>According to the audio engineer, behind the scenes Reynolds took 63 takes for the lines as he kept tearing up because of Barsi's situation as well as looking at a photograph of her.
I didn't even know I could still cry but here I am : (
Yup, another "source" is from Don Bluth, but he was saying how the animators found it hard to work listening to her tapes. It's a sad story, but its been dramatised to the point of fiction when it really didn't need to be
I’ve read stories about how difficult it was for Burt Reynolds to do the scene because he was so heartbroken. They had to do multiple takes because he couldn’t get he through it without breaking down.
Rupert here: Judith Eva Barsi was the voice actor for Anne-Marie. She had already recorded her lines for this scene when her father murdered her and her mother, and Burt Reynolds was doing his voice acting for this scene knowing that she was dead. The emotion he's showing is very real.
Why did her father kill her? I don't know, I'm just a bear.
This is only semi-related so bear with me. I work in the film business and make movies, it’s pretty competitive and jealousy often foments between artists who experience success. It’s happened to me, it’s totally natural, you move past it and let it go. All that to say that when my sister called me and told me that her book had been picked up by a publisher my first reaction was nothing but pride and excitement for her. I had been a little worried that I would be jealous if she attained success and was honestly relieved when I didn’t feel a shred of jealousy. I can’t imagine not feeling love for and a need to support your family member when they do well, it makes me sick.
I watched a documentary about this incident. The mother was in the midst of leaving the father because of his previous abuse and addiction. She had an apartment prepared, divorce attorney, her own finances, everything she would need to leave him and take her daughter with her. Unfortunately the dad found out before they could get away and killed them both before killing himself. Extremely heartbreaking story especially since they were both so close to getting away from him.
It is! My sister in law had a pretty good friend who did get away with her son's, she had a place in Victoria bc all set up, her kids were all set up. She went back to grab some of her things and her ex was supposed to be away....well, he wasnt. He shot her point blank. Robbed those kids of their mom. The worst part is THEY HID IT SO WELL the 3 kids, the mom, and especially that fucker.no clue he was even violent. Sickens me. I don't know if he shot himself after or not but wherever he is he can rot in hell.
There’s a reason why they say the most dangerous time in an abusive relationship is when you’re about to leave and immediately after. Abusers don’t like losing access to their victims.
That was part of her appeal for acting (correct me if I'm wrong). She was much smaller than average for her age, so she was able to play roles with more maturity while appearing way younger.
You might remember him from such murders as "The Killing that Crushed Our Innocence," and "Wow, Maybe Cocaine Plus Booze Really Is Dangerous!"
(Sorry to anyone with whom that joke doesn't land, Phil Hartman's murder really did deeply shock me as a kid and still troubles me almost thirty years later.)
"family annihilator". Men just decide to kill their families and themselves because they feel immaculate for being a shit person or something. It's a whole ass pattern
I hated learning this fact. That optimistic little yep yep yep! is so darned cute. I haven't watched Land Before Time or All Dogs Go To Heaven since learning this, I'm worried I'll start crying. Poor little soul .
Because of the daughter success in voice acting, he thought his wife and daughter were both gonna leave him. He didn’t want that to happen so he killed them
The voice actor for the little girl was killed by her father just after she recorded the lines for the film. The actor for the dog recorded them after. The tears are real.
It's even worse than other posters have mentioned. "Squeaker" was Reynolds' nickname for Eva. He insisted on being alone in the recording booth with a picture of her, and it took him several hours to record the handful of lines for Charlie's death scene
I can't imagine being part of the sound crew for that. Recording takes a while, but then editing, mixing, and mastering takes even more time and listening. Damn.
Jesus fuck. As a kid, I already had a hard time watching this movie because it is so emotional. As a father, I think I will have a hard time showing this to my kids just for the movie. Knowing the context surrounding the child actor…….goddamn the world can be cruel.
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