You Ride Passed Acheron....
HADES
Hey folks! How ya doin'? I know Dromey's
suppose ta be givin' this tour and I know it's kinda rude to toot my own
horm but I HAVEN'T TALKED IN THE PASSED 5 MINUTES!!
IT'S DRIVING ME CRAZY!! <ahem> Ok.... Well heres a
bit about myself if any of you are curious, and I know you are... ;) Well
I'm gonna read to you guys what people have said about me. :D
<reading>As
Hades, the impish devil in the new, animated, Hercules, James Woods gives
his most sheerly entertaining performance since Salvador. Hades is a superb-looking
villain; <Aww...I'm Blushing>he's
like Woods redrawn as a Blue Meanie. He sports a hooked dagger of a nose,
<WHAT?!?!?>an
outsize version of Woods' sculpted Jewish-Roman lips, and, best of all,
hair made of blue fire that ripples and glows like the flame on a gas stove
- that is, until he gets mad, at which point the stove turns on high and
an orange inferno erupts out of his head. (Rage lights his fire.) If you
were just looking at him, Hades might be a scary villain for children.
<Hey! I like to think of myself as dareingly
different!>But Woods' performance is
an inspired piece off vaudeville. His dry jocularity is hilariously incogruous
- he's like a hostile, wisecracking salesman trapped in the body of the
Antichrist. Staging a coup on Mount Olympus, he slurps a green worm out
of a martini and dismisses the mighty Zeus, who's been hurling jagged flashes
of lightning downward, with a quick, derisive "I'm the one giving
orders here, bolt boy!" The way Woods plays him, Hades is funny and
evil. He's right in the spirit of this delightful Hercules, a Disney fable
savvy enough not to let its sincerity get in the way of its zippy multimedia
charm.
A Few of my Most Favorite Phrases.....
UPDATED!
"Two thumbs way way up for the
leading lady."
"So is this kid gonna screw up my hostile takeover bid or what?"
"Name is Hades, Lord of the Dead. Hi, how ya doin'?"
"I know....You know!"
"Let's get ready to rumble!!!!!"
"What d'ya know? It's a small Underworld after all."
"I only need a few seconds, but I'm a
fast talker, all right? See, I've got this major deal in the works, a real
estate venture if you will. And Herc, you little devil you, may I call
you Herc? You seem to be constantly getting in the way."
"Memo to me...Memo to me. MAIM YOU after
my meeting."
"My favorite part of the game....sudden death."
"What, is my hair out?"
"Meg, my little flower! My little bird! My little Nut..meg! What happened
here??"
"Wo, is this an audience or a mosaic?"
"Well, you know, a little dark, a little gloomy, and as always, HEY,
full of dead people, but, hey, what are you gonna do?"
"I wish you could see yourself. You look
fabulous. Did you cut your hair or something? You look like a fate worse
than death."
"Though I'd love to stay and chat, unlike
you all I have a JOB which YOU so generously bestowed upon me ZEUS."
"Relax, it's only half-time."
"I am about to rearrage the cosmos...and
the one schemiel...who can louse it up...is waltzing around...IN THE WOODS!!!"
"Uh, guys. Olympus would be that way."
"We took care of him. Dead as a doornail. Weren't those your EXACT
words?"
"I'm fine, I'm fine, I'm cool, I'm fine."
"Hehehe oh yea... Well maybe we haven't been throwing the right 'curves' at him.. Meg my sweet!"
"Ya see, he's gotta have a weakness, cause everyone's got a weakness! For Pandora it was the box thing. For the trogens, HEY, they got on the wrong horse."
"They couldn't handle him as a baby. I need someone who can.. handle him as a man.."
"Well hey, whaddaya say! It's happy ending time! Everbody's got a little taste of something but me! I GOT NOTHIN! I'm left here with nothin! HELLO! Is anyone listenin! what am I an echo here! Hello? HELLO! Am I talkng to what!? HYPERSPACE! Hello! It's me! nobody listens......"
bout to rearrage the cosmos...athone schemiel...who can losit up...is waltzing around...IN THE WOODS!!!"\
Here's a Little Interview With a few of my animators! :D <Reads>
Nik, what was your inspiration for Hades?
Nik: Hades was based on a Hollywood agent, a car salesman type. A lot of that came from James Woods's dialogue."
Where did you get the idea for his blue-flame hair?
Andreas: "Nik was drawing near the gas stove in his kitchen one night and he said, 'Wait a minute - there's my villain!'"
Nik: "Actually, the directors came up with that idea. I think they originally wanted his hair on fire, but the blue gas flame gave him a cooler look."
What was the hardest part of animating Hades?
Nik: "He wouldn't shut up! Every scene he's in, he's like [talks fast] 'Hey, how ya doin'? Lookin' good. Nice dress.' It took me two weeks to animate a one-second scene. He kept talking and talking. I don't know where he gets that from. [still talking fast and making fun of himself] I don't do that. Do you think I do that? Nooo." <HEY!! Talking alot burns calories!>
Voice: James Woods
Supervising Animator: Nik Ranieri
Animators: James Baker, Bolhem Bouchiba, Roger Chiasson, Eric Delbecq,
_________Juanjo
Guarnido, Dave Kuhn, Jamie Oliff, Sergio Pablos, Mike Polvani
Lead Key: Bill Berg
Key Assistants: Carl Phillip Hall, Javier Espinosa Banuelos, Eric Pigors
Assistants: Maria Angela Iturriza Freire, Gizella Gregan, Doug Post, David
Recinos
Breakdown: Dan Bond, Nicole De Bellefroid, Neal Stanley Goldstein, Denise
Meehan, Anne Pellerin
Inbetweeners: Erik Kuska, Luan Vu-Ba
Now it is clear to you all that I Hades, am a very much loved and magnificant Disney character and should be respected like thefast smooth talking joker that I am. But, as you all know, I am the DISNEY Hades..... The Greek Hades was much more different then me! CHECK THIS OUT!!
