the way it should be, famous songs from animated movies performed in the language of the place the stories are set in or the character’s mother tongue {listen}
i. hellfire (the hunchback of notre dame) - french; ii. once upon a december (anastasia) - russian; iii. a whole new world (aladdin) - arabic; iv. bare necessities (the jungle book) - hindi; v. i see the light (tangled) - german; vi. can you feel the love tonight? (the lion king) - zulu; vii. i’ve got no strings (pinocchio) - italian; viii. i won’t say i’m in love (hercules) - greek; ix. it’s tough to be a god (the road to el dorado) - spanish; x. under the sea (the little mermaid) - danish; xi. i’ll make a man out of you (mulan) - mandarin; xii. when you believe (the prince of egypt) - hebrew
this is so cool
but do you have it in ANCIENT greek
Also, Aladdin is a complicated one. It is incorperated into a Persian story collection based on Arabic tales by a French translator, it’s setting is Chinese, originally, though the movie makes it look Persian or Ottoman (Farsi/Turkish).
(via zoreta)
