Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas

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Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas is an animated film produced by DreamWorks SKG and released in 2003. It follows an Arabian sailor named Sinbad on a quest to find the legendary Book of Peace, a mysterious artifact that Eris, the Greek goddess of chaos, has framed him for stealing. If he fails on this quest, his childhood friend Prince Proteus of Syracuse will be killed. He is accompanied by a motley crew and by the Lady Marina of Thrace, a noble born (also Proteus's fiancee) who becomes very attached to Sinbad. This story takes the name Sinbad, the presence of a Roc, as well as the incident wherein Sinbad and Company encounter an island that turns out to be the back of some great sea-beast from the Arabian Nights; however, much of the setting is derived from Greek mythology, which includes a trip to Tartarus to recover the book and an encounter with the Sirens.

Sinbad the legend of the seven seas is folk literature that contains great mythology and the espect of friendship, gods/godessess, and the monsters of the sailing sea following the north star to the Ares palace.

[edit] Reaction and Box Office

The film was considered a commercial failure in the US, where it became the lowest earning film of 2003 to be shown at 3,000+ theatres. It would earn an estimated $26.5 million at 3,086 theatres in the US, though it managed to gross $74 million worldwide.[1] Because of this, it is the last traditionally-animated feature film made by DreamWorks, infamously proclaimed by Jeffrey Katzenberg that traditional animation was dead, feeling the American public were more interested in computer animation than watching drawings move. This led to much controversy with directors and animators who worked with the traditional format.

[edit] Trivia

Brad Pitt replaced Russell Crowe as the voice of Sinbad because Crowe was already filming another project.
Christine Baranski studied with English voice expert Patsy Rodenberg, in order to lower her register about an octave for the deep voice of Sinbad's villainess. But the role eventually went to the more bankable Michelle Pfeiffer.
Sinbad is a 2D/CG animated movie, much like The Prince of Egypt and The Road To El Dorado.
Sinbad is the first movie to be produced wholly using the Linux operating system.
Eris invokes the constellation Cetus to become a leviathan on Earth, as if to suggest that all stories of "sea monsters" are based on him. As a leviathan, Cetus resembles a kind of oarfish, but has a massive head framed by a white ring of skin, culminating in a spiked tongue which is rooted in a fanged mouth, surrounded by squidlike tentacles. Set in his head are two yellow eyes like balls of copper set with obsidian, that shift distrustfully and give the impression of being much larger and more bulbous than the slit eyelids betray.
Eris herself is portrayed as a female-analogue being, who would look human if she had not been, even at rest, visibly in motion. Her overall manner is similar to that of the Brides of Dracula, in that it is both predatory and seductive.