Disney Heroes singing in their Native Languages

Background information about the characters: *DISCLAIMER* Since many of these heroes belong to movies which involve characters included in the official Disney Princesses franchise, they all have an official time and location provided by Disney itself. So, most of the information gathered regarding these characters comes from this official source, find here a video showing the pages of a book from the franchise, where time and location are displayed: brvid.net/video/video-yVhXIAhol_w.html However, in a couple of instances (namely Aladdin and Maui), I didn’t follow the official statement, because directors had given different or more specific indications, and since directors are the ones who shape the environment of a movie, I decided to give priority to their word instead. And yes, animals *DO* speak languages, because we are all Disney nerds and we all love a talking animal. *Simba* voiced by Ayanda Nhlangothi When “The Lion King” was released in 1994, a special Zulu dubbing was made on that occasion: it is the first and only Zulu dubbing made by Disney, as well as the only dubbing in any language spoken in Africa (other than Arabic), not to mention, the language sung by Lebo M. during the song “Circle of Life”. For this reason, Zulu is the only language that can be chosen for Simba. Given the impossibility to determine when the story takes place, I decided to put Simba first in this video. Full song: brvid.net/video/video-6PQJcvMRYQo.html *Hercules* voiced by Διονύσης Σχοινάς | Dionísis Shinás While the movie gives us a clear location (Thebes), establishing the exact point in time is a bit complicated. The story takes place during the so-called Greek Heroic Age, which spans roughly from 15th to 9th century BCE. It’s Herodotus to place the myth of Hercules in 1300 BCE. Full song: brvid.net/video/video-4zk_dcwdoSE.html *Maui* voiced by Piripi Taylor (Māori) & Elijah Kaʻikena Scanlan (Hawaiian) Official franchise places the story between 100 BCE and 100 CE. However, according to directors Clements and Musker, the movie gives a fantastic explanation to the causes and conclusion of the hiatus Polynesian people took from voyaging for still foggy reasons, which occurred about 3500 years ago and ended a thousand years later. We can therefore assume that the story takes place more or less 2500 years ago. The languages used in the video are two, but they actually represent one sole language: Proto-Polynesian, the common ancestor to all Polynesian languages, which subsequently spread and diversified across the Polynesian triangle. The story takes place somewhere in it, maybe even across the whole area. A Tahitian version of the movie also exists and was supposed to be featured in the video, but to this day, no high-quality audio in said language is available anywhere. Find here a LQ audio of the Tahitian version: brvid.net/video/video-hJRu1cfQLlc.html Full Māori song: brvid.net/video/video-cyiTbbDGKLA.html Full Hawaiian song: brvid.net/video/video-wJ02M64p67Y.html *Shang* voiced by 成龙 | Jackie Chan Official sources place the story between 206 BCE (beginning of Han dynasty) to 900 CE (end of Tang dynasty). I chose to reduce the interval to Han dynasty alone, as Xiongnu invasions (here identified as Huns, although a connection between these two populations is still debated) happened mostly during this dynasty. Several anachronisms can be easily spotted along the movie: the capital city is clearly the Forbidden City, which was built only in the 15th century, while fireworks were invented c. 8/9th century. Full song: brvid.net/video/video-w2Fox6v-L8k.html *Arthur* voiced by Rickie Sorensen, Richard Reitherman, or Robert Reitherman The hypothetic historical figure of -Wart- King Arthur is believed to have lived between the 5th and 6th century. Since he is a child in the movie, 5th for the win. *Aladdin* voiced by هشام نور | Hisham Nour I kept the time-lapse given by official franchise, but I decided not to go with the official given setting (Iran) for two reasons: 1. The movie opens with a song titled “Arabian Nights”, quoting the most notorious English title given to the collection “One Thousand and One Nights”, while Iran is not part of the Arab world (official language: Persian). 2. According to its filmmakers, the story was heavily influenced by the 1940 movie “The Thief of Bagdad”, and it was originally meant to take place in the same city, when the Gulf War burst out and directors were forced to change the setting: www.eonline.com/news/706200/disney-myths-debunked-by-ron-clements-and-john-musker-directors-of-the-little-mermaid-aladdin-and-hercules The name “Agrabah” itself was made up by Musker, playing with the name “Baghdad”. Note: the dubbing used is in Egyptian Arabic because it's the only official Disney dubbing in Arabic (like the vast majority of Disney movies). Full song: brvid.net/video/video-tu3Uw1jYURQ.html *Phillip* voiced by Olivier Constantin (1981 redub) The movie gives us a clear century: 14th. As for the location, the official franchise provides a generic “Western Europe”, though the location seems to fall somewhere in France or Belgium, probably in the region of Wallonia, so the French-speaking part. Full song: brvid.net/video/video-grJMal8W6z8.html *Quasimodo* voiced by Francis Lalanne Place and date are clearly specified: the story starts in Paris on the day of “la fête des fous” (January 6th) and ends two days later. The year is specified in Victor Hugo’s book. Full song: brvid.net/video/video-qkkprH_AO7w.html *Florian (Snow White’s prince)* voiced by Rolf Dieter Heinrich (1994 redub) Both date and setting are provided by the official franchise. Full song: brvid.net/video/video-aJ5JxmMymY4.html *John Smith* voiced by Mel Gibson “In *1607,* we sail the open sea For glory, God, and gold And The *Virginia* Company” brvid.net/video/video-Ne2tzfxQ6T4.html *Eugene* voiced by Manuel Straube Both period and location are provided by the official franchise. But while the given time is pretty clear (1650-1815), figuring out the _where_ is a bit more problematic. The location might be somewhere between Austria, Czech Republic or Slovakia. I went with German both considering the original fairytale and because, looking closely at the map, Austria looks to me like the most likely option out of the three. Full song: brvid.net/video/video-sxceCV0AFEs.html *The Beast* voiced by Emmanuel Jacomy The location is pretty clear, and it was confirmed that the story takes place in 18th century: brvid.net/video/video--I6zBWitMh4.html Full song: brvid.net/video/video-B-GHq2xrLTE.html *Mowgli* voice-actor unknown The period given is Kipling’s time, while for the language, even though several languages are spoken in India, I picked the one from which many of the characters’ names come: Hindi. e.g. भालू (“bhālū”) meaning “bear”, शेर (“śer”) meaning “tiger”, अकेला (“akelā”) meaning “alone”. Full song: brvid.net/video/video-k90yDFh7Ihs.html *Henri (Cinderella’s prince)* voiced by Michel Chevalier (1991 redub) All names of the girls announced at the ball are French and they’re addressed as “mademoiselle”, which confirms the location provided by the official franchise, which is also the source of the time. Full song: brvid.net/video/video-U1ExXZ4-R5g.html *Kristoff* voiced by Vegard Bjørsmo If we want to trust the map popping up at the end of Frozen Fever, Anna’s next birthday after the events of the first movie was in June 1840 (directors confirmed that Elsa and Anna were born on winter and summer solstice respectively). Since Oaken informs us that _Frozen_ takes place in July, 1840 must be the year after those events, while _Frozen 2_ takes place three years later, in 1842. Like the Northuldra people in the sequel, Kristoff is a Sami, although he comes from a different tribe. While he can probably speak fluent Norwegian, his native language is doubtlessly Sámi. Full song: brvid.net/video/video-ugRKi0uGp-Y.html *Pinocchio* voiced by Corrado Pani? Once again, time and place of the original story are the best source we were given. Full song: brvid.net/video/video-Y6cS3jMjSMY.html *Naveen* voiced by Bruno Campos A newspaper during “Down in New Orleans” reads: “New Orleans, Louisiana, Friday, April, 25, 1926” (though April 25 was actually on a Sunday in 1926). *Dimitri* voiced by Сергей Вещёв | Sergey Veshchov Tsar Nicholas II Romanov and his family were arrested on March 22, 1917, following the events of the first Russian Revolution occurred during that year (February Revolution). They will be executed on July 18, 1918. However, the movie uses even a song to let us know that prior events take place in December, month on which, in 1916, Grigori Rasputin was assassinated. As the movie takes place ten years after those events, we can probably count them starting from December 1916, instead of 1917, hence: December 1926. Dimitri is included in this video because 20th Century Fox was purchased by Disney on March 2019, and now on Disney+ the movie is included in the “Princesses” category. On a side note: Saint Petersburg was called Leningrad from 1924 to 1991. Full song: brvid.net/video/video-3EUdXMi1rkA.html *Miguel* voiced by Luis Ángel Gómez Jaramillo The story takes place in present days (2017 was its release date) in an imaginary town in Mexico. EDIT: in Rivera's workshop there's a calendar hanging on the wall with the date 2016, hence the story takes place in November 2016. Full song: brvid.net/video/video-oLrg2zA3poA.html Dubbers credits: disneyinternationaldubbings.weebly.com/heroes.html

Did you decide to go with Jacki Chan singing “Be a Man”?

All characters are DEAD😫, Miguel no Todos los personajes estan MUERTOS😫, menos Miguel

Pinocchio could've sung Bella Ciao and he missed it

Очень странно, но больше всего мне понравился как звучит саамский, хотя я никогда его не слушала ранее 6:25

Я которая только сейчас узнала что Рапунцель и Белоснежка немки?

Spanish Coco is my favorite

Hearing it in Saami: WORTH IT!!

4:04 This is me when i got something from my dad thats really good

El de maui fiel el mejor para mi

poo the bear in chinese ?

Дайте название предпоследнего мультфильма

Шенг как обычно краш

I’m telling I’m Hawaiian and I speak with my family in it everyday so no that is not Hawaiian that is just embarrassing

Viva México shingo :v

Просто смотрите все в оригинале с субтитрами, чтобы не терять атмосферу.

7:25 Лол, диснеевские аниматоры во время СССР туда не ездили, поэтому получилось не очень похоже

ГДЕ КАЗАХСТАН

I missed the ol'disney

Кстати интересный факт это видео само нашло вас)

Где русские?

I love them all, but I appreciate that the time spent on the English ones was much less than the clips in other languages- since we can all basically hear the English versions any time we want. 🤷‍♀️ ❤️

Prince Philip singing in French is the the best thing in the world

Ждала песню Дмитрия) Думаю, что песня самой Анастасии звучала бы более мелодично, но я все равно рада, что хоть где-то вспомнили о русских в контексте эстетики.

Arabic language very biutyerful

На французком песни очень красивые

Так даже лучше 😳

What is that Disney film set in Russia anyone explain please

0:58 sounded like he burned his tongue. Fsi-sfo-so-fo

Vamos mexico :bñv

Mulan took place way later than it says. They used gunpowder which wasnt invented till 850 AD so it had to be after that

Ха, Мулан очень легко узнаваемый голос Джеки Чана)))

This is fun since I'm learning German. I'm excited that I understood exactly what Flynn said before he started singing. In German, "Nein, nein nein. Tut mir leid, jungen. Ich singe nie." But it sounded like he said "junst" instead of "jungen." That wouldn't make sense to me though. The translation of what I wrote in English is, "No no no. I'm sorry, boys. I never sing." Very close to the English in the movie. In the movie, he says, "I don't sing." In German, that would be, "Ich singe nicht." He might be saying that with a very soft "t" at the end. It's hard to tell since I'm still very new to learning it. But, I'm excited that I could understand it. I usually can read the words better than interpret the spoken words. I understood a few other words he sang, so I'm very happy! Yay! Tut mir leid was the easiest for me since I had to repeat "es tut mir leid" several times to remember what it was when I was learning it. It was just so long compared to the English. Sometimes English is longer, but other times, German is longer. I'm still trying to grasp three different words for "the." I learned Spanish as a kid-early 20s, and I know they have el and la. Masculine and feminine. German has masculine (der), feminine (die), and "other" (das) which is the catch-all. That is throwing me off so much to try to remember which is which. I could kind of understand Florian too, but it's been years since I've seen "Tangled," and I saw "Snow White" 2 weeks ago, so that song is fresher in my head (I looked up the clip of Flynn in English to see how close I was when I was catching the spoken words). Anyway, this was fun.

Nunca sale chile

im mexcican :D soy mexicano y no me da miedo de admitirlo

I feel like the Princess And The Frog should have been sung in Creole

Thanatos prodosia

Pocahontas did not marry John Smith but they where close friends

I LOVE THIS

Isent quasimodo suppose to be in notradam it is actually a real place

Não tem português tão esquecendo o Brasil 😭 que droga

ok so this is going to sound weird, but i think prince naveen, from the princess frog, is from algeria. and the reason for that, is that the time period would be the 1920's, when most of europe was colonizing africa, france took over a large part of the north and west part of africa, which would explain his at the time strange skin color for a prince, and why he would understand french, since he would have to speak to the french regularly, since it was only during the time of the cold war that europe reversed its actions.

amigo te equivocaste con Dimitri el es de la fox original mente no de disney

Shouldn't the 'Princess and the frog' be in French Louisiana Creole?

wow the comments are just 40% saying that jackie chan sang the "I'll make a man outta u" song 30% making fun of the greek language 20% making memes about simba's/wall e's native language 10% others saying random things for example mexicans being proud of their homeland (maybe), arguing if anastasia is a disney movie etc

2:05 Fun fact that’s Jackie Chan singing

4:27 Я могу ошибаться конечно, но тут скорее испанский, чем английский подходит. Как минимум из-за формы типичной конкистадорам, да и конфликт индейцы/европейцы всё же ближе испанцам т.к. именно они устраивали глобальный геноцид коренного народа. Но в в любом случае я могу ошибаться.

Disney never created Anastasia, all dogs go to heaven, Banjo the the wood pile cat or land before time. They were a seprate group of animators that left that company to make cartoons on their own. Yes it true Disney bought fox but they don't get the credit for making those movies.

Que nasionalidad es Moana????????!!!!

No mames así cantan che?😶

I always thought Pincchio was german but now that I see this video the name does sound italian and I guess this is why the disney restaurant of pinocchio they sell pizza.

como decimos aca , lo mejor para el final 🤠😎😁🇲🇽

when I heard Hercules singing I thought of something, how do you identify a Greek with a tongue tied if the whole language already gives that impression?

Hércules habla como como si tuviera una papa en la boca

Never heard Norwegian outside of metal. Its actually a pretty cool sounding language

what for big hero?

ЗАЖИВЁМ

И в дисней русские хотят что-то спиздить)

I was watching this with my sister and she knew almost none of them. She’s 16........

Arriba México

А чё, прикольно. На родных языках звучит очень органично.

Māori when he sing your welcome in he native language sounds better

VIVA MÉXICO!!!!!!!!! Viva México cabrones!!!!!

Все языки красивые 😊 Но! Саамский... Ммм..это как райское пение для меня

2:28 sorry man but that would sound more German the furthers you can go back and understand English is 1650's

Qualcuno è italiano?

caraho, cade o brasil Disney, nem Portugal apareceu... preconceito em...

English, a boy who clean couldron... You serious?!

Híjole por qué de último México

Vergamota

3:34 What's the name of forgotten

Соряньте из головы вылетело 3:34 как называется

Очень красиво

Tô me sentindo ofendido porque a Disney não liga pro brasil

Хмм русский вариант лучше ха !

Простите, а все комментарии реально написаны людьми из разных стран?)

Балин, их родные языки звучат гораздо красивей, я тащусь!

Поздравляю, ты нашел меня. +250 очков тебе.

русский не ожидала услышать, класс)))

Странное ощущение.....

French language very beautiful

Arthur parlait BRETON pas anglais au 5e siècle ! C'est comme dire que les Gallo-romains parlaient Francique... Oui hélas il n'y a pas de doublage breton à ma connaissance... Sinon Gallois ?

Супер

5:05 кому знакома мелодия, лайк!

The Anastasia it is not Disney film.

Perdón pero balu debe ser tin tan por siempre

Послушал голос Шенга на китайском, пошёл послушал английский голос... И понял что в русском дубляже он куда мужественнее...

França e Alemanhã: *existem* Disney: Essa vai ser minha maior vigarice

Me gusta Miguel más que griego y que polinesio nuclear

Только один вопрос для каких дигинератов над о стоит ударение?

Simba should howling

Natural Masterpiece??!!! I s t a n

Sámi? you mean norwegian ?

Okay, but why only the male characters? Was it "heroes" and there will be a heroine version?

my face during this video 1:40

Coco is the best movie

7:30 what name the this film?

5:24 Mowgli

Disney must be crazy that lost only chance for a Russian princess.

I didn’t even know snowwhite was German that changed my whole life