During the years of '86-'97, Disneyland was home to one of the greatest phenomenons to ever grace this planet. Captain EO was a 3D short film/musical starring Michael Jackson as the "hero" in this 80's-futuristic-changing-the-world-from-evil-to-good type of story. Directed by Francis Ford Coppola, executive-produced by George Lucas and music by James Horner, epic-radness was in this film's destiny from the moment of inception. Outside of all that, for every 80's child from SoCal, Captain EO has a special place in their hearts forever. I mean, MJ in 3D...before he went scary! Just awesome...
Since this was a Disney project and Disney funded, this short film is no where to be found to be purchased. It is locked away forever in Disney's vault with no intentions of ever being released to the public again.
But...
Someone knew that something of this much epic proportions cannot be hidden from the rest of the world and the generations to come. So, with much thanks to this fine human being and YouTube, we can now enjoy (not to the same extent as in 3D) Captain EO and how he changed the world. (It's in 2 parts, though, and the 2nd part is where MJ breaks it down)
- Mariko Marie
- grateful daughter/protective sister/committed friend/surrendered believer/adventure finder/hope seeker/servant-of-love
4 comments:
I'm glad you found this. It truly holds a special place in my heart. If they did an encore presentation at Disneyland for one day only, I would go.
i think i may have nightmares. your blog is pretty though!
Do you think if we created a Facebook group called "Bring Back Captain EO" Disney would listen to us? Honey I Shrunk the Audience kinda sucks.
Lena - I so created that group already. I think the 11 that joined are going strong :).
Pretty blog Mariko!!!
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