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==Production==

Co-director Ron Clements brought this up with Studio Chairman [[Jeffrey Katzenberg]], but he rejected it due to being too similar to the 1984 hit Splash, which had talks of a sequel at the time. After a repitch, Katzenberg gave the film the green light. He also planned to cut “Part of Your World,” despite John Musker, Ron Clements, Alan Menken, and Howard Ashman telling him it’s a bad idea. Katzenberg didn’t listen, and was ready to make the move, but Ariel animator Glen Keane convinced him otherwise, and it stayed in the film. Now, the song is recognized as one of the best Disney songs ever.

[[Walt Disney]] had plans to adapt The Little Mermaid as a short for MGM for a biopic on the original story’s author Hans Christian Andersen, but it never came to fruition. In the story, it would have been a lot closer to the Andersen version than the 1989 classic, but Walt himself came up with some changes. Most notable being how the mermaid saves the Prince. Instead of fleeing almost right away, she sings to him, and then leaves right when he starts to regain consciousness, and the Prince is now haunted by her beautiful vocals. Other changes include the desire for an immortal soul, the arranged marriage, and her genuinely not knowing she’d sacrifice her voice to be human. Directors and Screenwriters John Musker and Ron Clements even brought up when making their version that “So it was as if Walt was looking over our shoulders when we were developing this because it seemed like a lot of the things he was thinking we were thinking too.”

 

 

Clements brought this up with Studio Chairman [[Jeffrey Katzenberg]], but he rejected it due to being too similar to the 1984 hit Splash, which had talks of a sequel at the time. After a repitch, Katzenberg gave the film the green light. He also planned to cut “Part of Your World,” despite John Musker, Ron Clements, Alan Menken, and Howard Ashman telling him it’s a bad idea. Katzenberg didn’t listen, and was ready to make the move, but Ariel animator Glen Keane convinced him otherwise, and it stayed in the film. Now, the song is recognized as one of the best Disney songs ever.