3 Voices for Arthur? - The Sword in the Stone (1964) Discussion

[–] teenbytch553 20 years ago

For all Disney movies, they have one person do the speaking voice, and one doing the singing voice. But for some reason, the person who was in charge of posting the cast list put down one of the voice actors (Richard Reitherman) twice.

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[–] cgflames 15 years ago

Not true, it was only recently that Disney started using speaking and singing voices rather than one person doing all the voice parts per character. As late as Beauty and the Beast and The Little Mermaid you can check the credits and see that the speaking and singing voices are one and the same per character.

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[–] TonyDood 20 years ago

The little boy who did Arthur's voice grew up during the making of the movie and his voice changed. They called in Reitherman's sons to replace him and I think it sounds awful! They did this in Jungle Book and Black Cauldron too. You could never get away with it now, tho, I bet. It actually makes the movie funny when his voice changes from shot to shot. Funny, or really irritating...

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[–] VixxieLou 20 years ago

I did wonder why during the fish scene Arthur's voice hasn't broken... Then when he's explaining it, it sounds 5 years older... And then it turns back again. As a child that kept me awake every night!

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[–] NikkiClare 20 years ago

I never noticed... i feel stupid now! lol

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[–] vlad_drac 20 years ago

was that the case when he was a squirrel and he was hanging on the branch shouting "help" ?
because at one point it was low then really high
i never payed much attention to it until now

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[–] k_dance28 20 years ago

I had always wondered why his voice sounded different so much. I never thought that it was different people. That's pretty funny.

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[–] cwr038 20 years ago

I had noticed the differences in Wart's voice, but I always just assumed his voice changed during production and they just kept going. It probably would've been better if they had, kind of like Charlie Bucket.

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[–] trisp 18 years ago

They did this in Jungle Book and Black Cauldron too.

Actually Taran's voice was done all the way through by one voice. It just broke that's all. The guy was 14 when he did it.

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[–] dbone828 14 years ago

They did this in Jungle Book and Black Cauldron too.

Thankfully, with The Jungle Book, they re-recorded all of Mowgli's lines with Bruce Reitherman after the original actor's voice changed.

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[–] chefz2 12 years ago

Granted, they can alter voices now to match. Maybe not perfectly, but not so drastically different.

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[–] defthomas 19 years ago

Sorry to ask this here. Someone must have pointed this out here already. I like the movie, but everytime the kid/bird/fish whatever falls down somewhere you get to hear that "hu?-what?!-whoah!!".
I found this very annoying. anyone else?

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[–] tealeewoo 19 years ago

Hah, I thought that maybe I was goin crazy, but I too noticed this forever, lol. It just came on tv and I wanted to look it up to see if there was more than one voice for it, and now I know...thanks :)

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[–] gcarras 8 years ago

THe old Menudo trick....when one grows up, replace them. 

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[–] roman2886 7 years ago

I think the voice of the first Arthur was breaking it could be the early signs of puberty.

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[–] DavidW1947 7 years ago

Rickie Sorenson, who did the voice of 12 years old Wart / Arthur, was born in August, 1946, and so by 1963, he would have been 16 going on 17. A very strange choice by Disney, as the boy was clearly too old for the speaking part.

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