Mirror Sequences of Fantasia

It's certainly no coincidence that several sequences Bozzetto's movie mirror the ones in Fantasia

Debussy's 'Afternoon of a Faun' shows the opposite of Beethoven's 'Pastoral': instead of everyone falling in love with the help of the cupids, we have this old faun trying to get someone to love him.

Ravel's 'Bolero' goes further than Stravinksy's 'Rites of Spring': instead of just showing the natural extinction of dinossaurs, it shows the bloody battle of evolution and the role Mankind (apes in disguise) has had in killing many species.

Stravinky's 'Firebird' is a reply to Mussorgsky's 'A Night on Bald Mountain'. Instead of a simplistic battle between darkness and light, we see what would have happened if the devil had eaten the apple instead of Adam and Eve.

I love how the movie introduced these similar topics but subverted their simplicity with some moral question that Fantasia of course couldn't pose.

This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.